1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,000 Season two of Love in Context podcast welcomes you. 2 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:10,600 Get ready for engaging unscripted conversations with your host, Ben and Spencer. 3 00:00:10,600 --> 00:00:17,120 Our mission remains unchanged to explore the Bible through the powerful lens of love. 4 00:00:17,120 --> 00:00:21,060 In this new season, we'll embark on a journey together, unearthing fresh insights and gaining 5 00:00:21,060 --> 00:00:25,440 deeper understanding of how we can love God and live out our faith in practical ways. 6 00:00:25,440 --> 00:00:30,200 So let's dive into this season of Love in Context, where love in the context of the 7 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:34,700 Bible intersect to transform our lives. 8 00:00:34,700 --> 00:00:36,720 Welcome back to the Love in Context podcast. 9 00:00:36,720 --> 00:00:37,720 Take two. 10 00:00:37,720 --> 00:00:38,720 Take two. 11 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:39,720 Yeah. 12 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:44,880 This is the second time we're recording this episode and the next episode because technical 13 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:45,880 difficulties. 14 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:46,880 Yeah. 15 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:50,600 I'm going to blame the Alaska gremlins. 16 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:51,600 Yeah. 17 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:52,600 Yeah. 18 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:56,480 We do have it set up in a room at our church and so like it's always possible somebody 19 00:00:56,480 --> 00:00:57,740 goes in and mess with the knobs. 20 00:00:57,740 --> 00:01:02,880 So we went and we saw my mic and my mic went from here to next to nothing. 21 00:01:02,880 --> 00:01:08,040 So when I went to go edit it, it sounded like I was mumbling under my breath. 22 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:14,640 I'm like, so if you're in your early to mid twenties and you're tech savvy and you want 23 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:16,940 a part time job, just give us a call. 24 00:01:16,940 --> 00:01:19,120 We probably won't hire you because we don't have any money. 25 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:21,200 But if you will pay you in chocolate chip cookies. 26 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:22,200 Yeah. 27 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:23,200 We don't want to volunteer. 28 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:24,200 Yeah. 29 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:28,400 We need tech savvy people to help us out because we are a couple of middle aged men who can 30 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:29,920 barely check our emails apparently. 31 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:33,120 So I got to tell you a funny story before we get into the Davidic covenant, which is 32 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:34,560 what we're talking about today. 33 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:36,240 I'm watching football, right? 34 00:01:36,240 --> 00:01:42,880 And so there is Matthew Stafford is a quarterback for the Los Angeles Rams and he made this 35 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:47,320 like escape like someone was going to tackle him and he escaped and they go, they go, oh 36 00:01:47,320 --> 00:01:51,360 my goodness, look at that maneuverability for the old man. 37 00:01:51,360 --> 00:01:54,400 And I'm like, Matthew Stafford, can you believe he's doing that at 36 years old? 38 00:01:54,400 --> 00:02:00,520 And I was like, you shut your mouth commentator. 39 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:05,600 But to be fair, the hit that he escaped also did look terrible. 40 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:10,040 So I totally get not wanting to hit like that even in your thirties. 41 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:13,840 When I watch football players that are in their thirties playing, I am like, okay, I 42 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:16,920 roll out of bed the wrong way and I'm done for the day. 43 00:02:16,920 --> 00:02:18,680 Like I'm stiff, I'm hurting. 44 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:21,280 And these guys are out there taking hits like that. 45 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:23,480 I'm like more power to you. 46 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:24,480 Yeah. 47 00:02:24,480 --> 00:02:27,920 We had that conversation one time where we were critiquing some game player at a game 48 00:02:27,920 --> 00:02:30,720 and then we're like, how long would we last? 49 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:31,720 Not long. 50 00:02:31,720 --> 00:02:33,520 And I was like half a play, half a play. 51 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:35,840 I think the first person would hit me and I'm done. 52 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:36,840 Yeah. 53 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:38,840 I get shoved to the ground and be like, ow, my back. 54 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:41,880 Are you sure we're wearing pads because this hurts? 55 00:02:41,880 --> 00:02:42,880 Yeah. 56 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:45,640 So they would be like, so, you know, they, I don't know if you know, they have like this 57 00:02:45,640 --> 00:02:48,400 guardian cap now it's meant to help reduce like concussions. 58 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:50,880 So I would be like, can I get two of them? 59 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:53,240 Like on both of them on my head, because does that work? 60 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:54,920 Cause you have a helmet. 61 00:02:54,920 --> 00:02:55,920 Yeah. 62 00:02:55,920 --> 00:03:01,800 It'd be one of those absurd, like just massive helmets, like you see in like, so, so we are 63 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:05,240 in week five of the covenant series. 64 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:12,080 So we've talked about the Adamic and the, um, the Noahic, the Abrahamic and the mosaic 65 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:13,200 covenant. 66 00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:16,240 And so now, uh, like, I don't know if you'd notice like with the covenants, it kind of 67 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:18,680 goes back and forth between like massive amounts of people. 68 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:22,360 And then it kind of like narrows in like, cause like Abraham is like a group of people. 69 00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:28,240 Mosaic is like for a group of people, but like Adamic and Noahic, they're for everybody. 70 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:29,240 Yes. 71 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:30,240 Right. 72 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:33,320 And, uh, spoiler alert messianic covenant is going to be for everybody too. 73 00:03:33,320 --> 00:03:34,320 Yep. 74 00:03:34,320 --> 00:03:37,520 Um, but the, uh, the Davidic covenant is really specifically talking to the line of David. 75 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:38,520 Yes. 76 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:39,520 Right. 77 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:42,560 And it's a covenant that pops up and it comes from, uh, first Samuel. 78 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:45,200 But before we get to that, and I actually go into the covenant, I want to talk about 79 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:46,600 David. 80 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:49,560 So how does David end up even end up on the scene? 81 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:53,920 So there's, uh, at coming out of the book of judges, uh, Israel, there's a recurring 82 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:57,800 theme there where they says Israel once again did evil in the sight of the Lord. 83 00:03:57,800 --> 00:04:01,160 Um, they could, you know, like, it kind of reminds me when I read that I'm like, once 84 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:04,600 again, James tried to grab a popsicle out of the freezer, right? 85 00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:07,320 It just happens every five to 10 minutes. 86 00:04:07,320 --> 00:04:10,280 Um, it's something that's going to happen. 87 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:13,040 It's not evil by the way, him grabbing popsicles in light. 88 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:17,920 And this isn't just like, oh, they, as you said, once again, they did evil in the side 89 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:19,040 of the Lord. 90 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:21,160 It's not like a one time occurrence, right? 91 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:22,160 Right. 92 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:25,840 It's well, we'll use the story from this morning that I just told you where we were running 93 00:04:25,840 --> 00:04:31,080 late getting my daughter to school and she's in the back with a, uh, it's a plastic bowl. 94 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:35,240 Um, and she's eating her breakfast out of it and she gets done eating her breakfast. 95 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:39,140 She starts taking a spoon and rubbing the inside of the plastic bowl. 96 00:04:39,140 --> 00:04:45,440 So it's like a type sound and, uh, and we're like, and we're like, Hey, you gotta stop 97 00:04:45,440 --> 00:04:46,440 that. 98 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:49,200 That's no, like this, that sounds just not happening in the car. 99 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:50,280 So she starts doing it softer. 100 00:04:50,280 --> 00:04:52,680 We're like, no, we said stop. 101 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:53,680 So then she hands us a spoon. 102 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:55,640 She's like, well, I can't do it if I don't have the spoon. 103 00:04:55,640 --> 00:04:57,520 They started doing it with her finger now. 104 00:04:57,520 --> 00:04:58,640 And I was like, that's it. 105 00:04:58,640 --> 00:04:59,680 Give me the bowl. 106 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:03,400 And then she takes the bowl and she dumps what's left in the bowl on my hand while I'm 107 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:06,760 reaching it, while I'm reaching in the back seat for the bowl. 108 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:10,000 And, uh, and it was one of those things where it's like, Nope, I told you what to do. 109 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:13,640 Uh, Nope, try again, try again, try again. 110 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:15,920 So like we have those moments with the Lord, right? 111 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:19,360 Where like, where he's like, no, this is what I expect of you. 112 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:23,320 And this is what goes on in the mosaic covenant in particular, where he's like, Hey, here's 113 00:05:23,320 --> 00:05:25,360 your side of the deal. 114 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:26,800 And Israel keeps falling short. 115 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:30,380 Well, and if you remember in the mosaic covenant, cause we talked about it last week or technically 116 00:05:30,380 --> 00:05:35,040 two weeks ago at this point, um, in the mosaic covenant, uh, God wants to make a covenant 117 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:36,680 with his people and he wants to interact with them. 118 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:38,400 And then they go, whoo, scary voice. 119 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:39,400 Right. 120 00:05:39,400 --> 00:05:43,120 And so they asked Moses to be like the intermediary for them, which is a problem. 121 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:45,560 And it continues to be a problem with them throughout history because they're not talking 122 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:46,560 to God. 123 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:47,560 Right. 124 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:48,560 Yeah. 125 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:51,240 And, uh, which is actually going to be a theme later in the divided covenant, which in life 126 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:58,000 of King David, but, uh, so we get into the time of judges and, uh, Israel will do something 127 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:00,820 that they're not supposed to do, but God's redemptive love always comes through and he 128 00:06:00,820 --> 00:06:02,720 redeems them back to himself. 129 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:05,920 He establishes the covenant, uh, with them and they, they start to live in the, sometimes 130 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:07,720 it's 40 years, sometimes it's 20 years. 131 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:11,640 Uh, but there's a cycle of judges that have to arise because every generation you hit 132 00:06:11,640 --> 00:06:14,680 the next generation and they're like, whoop, we didn't learn from our past, which by the 133 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:18,720 way, yeah, teach your kids, right? 134 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:20,180 Don't let them repeat the same mistakes. 135 00:06:20,180 --> 00:06:23,360 Let them make their own mistakes, but not the same mistakes. 136 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:28,880 Um, at the end of the book of judges and coming into the book of Samuel, the people come to 137 00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:36,880 God and they say, Hey, um, we want a King just like everyone else. 138 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:42,360 Problematic because God's actually given them the mosaic law to look different than everybody 139 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:43,360 else. 140 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:44,360 You're supposed to look different. 141 00:06:44,360 --> 00:06:48,680 If you put the Torah on display, then the entire world is going to know the name Yahweh 142 00:06:48,680 --> 00:06:50,160 and they're going to be drawn to him. 143 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:51,160 Right? 144 00:06:51,160 --> 00:06:53,680 Like the goal is to bless all nations because of you, right? 145 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:55,160 Through you, right? 146 00:06:55,160 --> 00:06:59,840 Not because of you, but through you, um, for you to be the, the, the story that is being 147 00:06:59,840 --> 00:07:01,800 put on display. 148 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:05,800 And so there's a guy that is anointed and God says, he says, well, I'll give you a King, 149 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:09,400 but you know, you're probably not going to like it. 150 00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:10,400 Yeah. 151 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:11,400 Yeah. 152 00:07:11,400 --> 00:07:16,240 And so, uh, he, he had select Saul and the thing about Saul is Saul physically looks 153 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:21,520 like you expect a King to look, but he's got issues internally. 154 00:07:21,520 --> 00:07:22,520 Yeah. 155 00:07:22,520 --> 00:07:27,160 He's a really tall, handsome warrior, uh, you know, strong guy, exactly what you're 156 00:07:27,160 --> 00:07:28,160 thinking of. 157 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:30,880 If you want a King who goes off into battle, Saul is your man. 158 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:35,600 Uh, but the issue that Paul Saul keeps running, Paul, sorry, Paul, this issue that Saul keeps 159 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:40,640 running into is that every there's points in his, uh, in his life as he's going through, 160 00:07:40,640 --> 00:07:45,240 he doesn't trust God to be God and he doesn't trust the role for other people to step into 161 00:07:45,240 --> 00:07:46,240 the role. 162 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:47,240 He's really insecure. 163 00:07:47,240 --> 00:07:48,240 Yeah. 164 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:50,960 Um, probably the best example of this is when he's told to, he's told to put an entire city 165 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:55,080 to the sword and he spares the things and he says, Oh, well God, I left those for you. 166 00:07:55,080 --> 00:07:58,840 Well, if you really listened to me, you wouldn't have stuck your hand in the bowl. 167 00:07:58,840 --> 00:07:59,840 Yeah. 168 00:07:59,840 --> 00:08:00,840 Just going back to your story. 169 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:01,840 Yeah. 170 00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:06,480 Uh, and he's like, and, and, uh, he's supposed to wait for Samuel to come and offer the sacrifice 171 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:08,280 to God, but he gets impatient. 172 00:08:08,280 --> 00:08:13,640 He offers a sacrifice himself and, uh, and it's because of these things, because Saul 173 00:08:13,640 --> 00:08:18,560 doesn't trust God, doesn't understand the intent of what God is doing, that he ultimately 174 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:20,520 says you're actually not going to stay King. 175 00:08:20,520 --> 00:08:21,520 Yep. 176 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:25,760 And, uh, and then he goes and, uh, Samuel is led to go and find a guy by the name of 177 00:08:25,760 --> 00:08:26,760 David. 178 00:08:26,760 --> 00:08:28,800 Now you want to tell them a little bit about David's family. 179 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:29,800 Yeah. 180 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:30,800 So David is from Bethlehem. 181 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:35,640 Um, if you have read the gospels, you might recognize that town name. 182 00:08:35,640 --> 00:08:36,640 House of bread. 183 00:08:36,640 --> 00:08:37,640 Yep. 184 00:08:37,640 --> 00:08:38,640 House of bread. 185 00:08:38,640 --> 00:08:39,640 Yes. 186 00:08:39,640 --> 00:08:40,640 Uh, so David's from there. 187 00:08:40,640 --> 00:08:46,720 And so, uh, Samuel, uh, he goes to the house of Jesse and says, Hey, one of your sons is 188 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:47,720 going to be King. 189 00:08:47,720 --> 00:08:49,680 And Jesse just has a ton of kids. 190 00:08:49,680 --> 00:08:55,040 Jesse, uh, he's got five boys and probably some more kids too, but what we know is five 191 00:08:55,040 --> 00:08:56,040 boys. 192 00:08:56,040 --> 00:09:02,240 And, uh, so he brings the four oldest out, lines them up and Samuel, this is a Spencer 193 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:03,760 abbreviated version, goes down the line. 194 00:09:03,760 --> 00:09:05,680 He's like, Nope, Nope, Nope, Nope. 195 00:09:05,680 --> 00:09:08,640 And he's like, you got one more? 196 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:09,640 He's like, Oh yeah. 197 00:09:09,640 --> 00:09:11,020 He's like, that's just my youngest. 198 00:09:11,020 --> 00:09:14,200 He's out in the field watching the sheep, watching the sheep. 199 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:18,560 Like, like, um, David was, uh, in many ways the opposite of Saul. 200 00:09:18,560 --> 00:09:22,840 Like he wasn't physically, he didn't have this prowess to him. 201 00:09:22,840 --> 00:09:26,640 Like he was, he was kind of overlooked in many ways. 202 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:33,040 And so Samuel meets David and says, yes, this in anoints him to be a future King. 203 00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:34,040 Yeah. 204 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:36,520 Now, uh, that doesn't happen right away. 205 00:09:36,520 --> 00:09:37,520 Nope. 206 00:09:37,520 --> 00:09:38,520 Does not happen right away. 207 00:09:38,520 --> 00:09:42,200 There's a, there's a big, there's this big long journey that happens where you have the 208 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:43,840 story of David and Goliath. 209 00:09:43,840 --> 00:09:44,840 Yeah. 210 00:09:44,840 --> 00:09:47,360 Uh, you have, you have Saul being like, David, I love you. 211 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:48,760 Then David, I'm going to kill you. 212 00:09:48,760 --> 00:09:49,960 And then David, I love you. 213 00:09:49,960 --> 00:09:51,520 And then David, I'm going to kill you. 214 00:09:51,520 --> 00:09:52,720 David, I love you. 215 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:53,880 David, play your heart for me. 216 00:09:53,880 --> 00:09:54,880 Please. 217 00:09:54,880 --> 00:09:55,880 David, I'm going to check a spirit. 218 00:09:55,880 --> 00:09:56,880 Yeah. 219 00:09:56,880 --> 00:09:57,880 Right. 220 00:09:57,880 --> 00:10:01,200 Uh, so you have all these things and then David, uh, throughout all his, uh, time where 221 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:06,400 he's wandering, not King yet actually has a couple opportunities to kill Saul. 222 00:10:06,400 --> 00:10:07,400 Correct. 223 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:08,400 And doesn't do it. 224 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:10,280 And his men are almost frustrated that he doesn't do it. 225 00:10:10,280 --> 00:10:11,280 Yes. 226 00:10:11,280 --> 00:10:12,280 Yeah. 227 00:10:12,280 --> 00:10:13,280 But he's, he makes a statement. 228 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:14,600 He says, who am I to harm the Lord's anointed? 229 00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:15,600 Yep. 230 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:19,640 And his statement being is that if God is going to cause Saul's downfall, God can take 231 00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:20,640 care of it. 232 00:10:20,640 --> 00:10:21,640 Yeah. 233 00:10:21,640 --> 00:10:24,080 My job is to, uh, I'm going to use a Hebrew word. 234 00:10:24,080 --> 00:10:25,280 It's called Keduse Hashem. 235 00:10:25,280 --> 00:10:27,080 It means to hollow the name of God. 236 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:28,080 Yeah. 237 00:10:28,080 --> 00:10:30,600 Like wherever David is going, he's trying to make God's name great. 238 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:31,600 Yeah. 239 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:35,440 I think my favorite one of David's where he didn't kill Saul is Saul's pooping in a cave 240 00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:38,200 and David's like, I'm going to come kind of part of your robe off. 241 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:39,200 Yeah. 242 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:41,360 Like this is how close we are and you're going to know it. 243 00:10:41,360 --> 00:10:42,360 Yeah. 244 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:43,360 Type thing. 245 00:10:43,360 --> 00:10:49,280 So David then becomes king and when he becomes king, he doesn't do things perfectly. 246 00:10:49,280 --> 00:10:50,280 Correct. 247 00:10:50,280 --> 00:10:51,280 Right. 248 00:10:51,280 --> 00:10:56,080 Uh, he, he, uh, sees a beautiful woman has an affair. 249 00:10:56,080 --> 00:10:57,080 Yep. 250 00:10:57,080 --> 00:10:58,640 Uh, has her husband killed? 251 00:10:58,640 --> 00:10:59,640 Has her husband killed? 252 00:10:59,640 --> 00:11:02,040 Uh, he was not a particularly good father. 253 00:11:02,040 --> 00:11:03,040 Yeah. 254 00:11:03,040 --> 00:11:04,040 Um, his kids hated him. 255 00:11:04,040 --> 00:11:06,440 His kids actually tried to off him a few times. 256 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:07,440 Yeah. 257 00:11:07,440 --> 00:11:10,480 Um, and so there's some really interesting stories about him and Absalom. 258 00:11:10,480 --> 00:11:11,480 Yep. 259 00:11:11,480 --> 00:11:17,680 Uh, yeah, and, and not only, not only that it's, um, it wasn't just, just the thing with 260 00:11:17,680 --> 00:11:18,680 Bathsheba. 261 00:11:18,680 --> 00:11:21,840 One of the things that we see when we read Chronicles, when we look backwards at David's 262 00:11:21,840 --> 00:11:25,880 life, we see that David was also taken to senses of his might rather than trusting in 263 00:11:25,880 --> 00:11:26,880 God. 264 00:11:26,880 --> 00:11:31,040 And it seems to be a pivotal point is when he stops trusting God, he starts, stops talking 265 00:11:31,040 --> 00:11:36,780 to God, by the way, he starts having his priest talk to God or offer up, you know, a word, 266 00:11:36,780 --> 00:11:38,000 you know, to hear from God. 267 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:44,600 He stops talking to him and his, his, um, his, his life starts to go down really quickly. 268 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:45,600 Yeah. 269 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:47,280 Uh, it's almost like there's a key in there. 270 00:11:47,280 --> 00:11:48,280 Yeah. 271 00:11:48,280 --> 00:11:49,280 Yeah. 272 00:11:49,280 --> 00:11:51,560 I think I trust the listeners can figure out what that key is. 273 00:11:51,560 --> 00:11:52,560 Yeah. 274 00:11:52,560 --> 00:11:53,560 Yeah. 275 00:11:53,560 --> 00:11:57,700 Uh, and so the thing though, that makes David a man after God's own heart, right? 276 00:11:57,700 --> 00:11:59,760 He doesn't live life perfectly perfectly. 277 00:11:59,760 --> 00:12:01,000 He falls short. 278 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:05,780 All this stuff is the fact that when he did, does fall short and he's called out on it, 279 00:12:05,780 --> 00:12:06,780 he repents. 280 00:12:06,780 --> 00:12:07,780 Right. 281 00:12:07,780 --> 00:12:13,280 And so he had this humility about him where he said, okay, maybe I shouldn't have had 282 00:12:13,280 --> 00:12:15,760 that affair and had her husband killed. 283 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:16,760 Right. 284 00:12:16,760 --> 00:12:17,760 Maybe. 285 00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:18,760 Okay. 286 00:12:18,760 --> 00:12:19,760 Sorry. 287 00:12:19,760 --> 00:12:21,760 I shouldn't laugh at that, but just maybe, just maybe. 288 00:12:21,760 --> 00:12:22,760 Yeah. 289 00:12:22,760 --> 00:12:24,040 I mean, I said it a little tongue in cheek. 290 00:12:24,040 --> 00:12:27,460 So, but, uh, and then he repented, right? 291 00:12:27,460 --> 00:12:31,600 When the prophets, uh, confronted him, he, he repented. 292 00:12:31,600 --> 00:12:37,480 So that is the thing about David that is that we really need to take note of one and it 293 00:12:37,480 --> 00:12:42,160 should be noted that throughout Israel history after David, they always look at David's reign 294 00:12:42,160 --> 00:12:45,840 as like this golden time, like it was the golden era. 295 00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:46,840 Right. 296 00:12:46,840 --> 00:12:50,640 And so all Kings in the future are going to be compared to the, to David. 297 00:12:50,640 --> 00:12:56,240 Um, now that starts to show up as this, this Davidic covenant, this, this coming Messiah 298 00:12:56,240 --> 00:12:58,920 is going to be from the line of David, hence the Davidic covenant. 299 00:12:58,920 --> 00:13:01,600 Um, and it shows up, uh, where God actually makes the covenant. 300 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:08,760 It shows up in second Samuel seven 12, where he says this, um, when your days are over 301 00:13:08,760 --> 00:13:14,100 and you rest with your ancestors, I will raise up your offering to succeed you your own flesh 302 00:13:14,100 --> 00:13:15,100 and blood. 303 00:13:15,100 --> 00:13:16,440 I know I have trouble reading. 304 00:13:16,440 --> 00:13:19,680 I will establish, uh, and I will establish his kingdom. 305 00:13:19,680 --> 00:13:23,760 He is the one who will build a house for my name and I will establish the throne of his 306 00:13:23,760 --> 00:13:24,760 kingdom forever. 307 00:13:24,760 --> 00:13:27,400 I will be his father and he will be my son. 308 00:13:27,400 --> 00:13:31,100 When he does wrong, I will punish him with a rod wielded by men with floggings afflicted 309 00:13:31,100 --> 00:13:34,120 by human hands, but my love will never be taken away from him. 310 00:13:34,120 --> 00:13:38,320 As I took it away from Saul, whom I removed from before you, your house and your kingdom 311 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:40,200 will endure forever before me. 312 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:42,240 Your throne will be established forever. 313 00:13:42,240 --> 00:13:47,720 Now the Jewish belief of course is that Solomon right away became like this King that he was 314 00:13:47,720 --> 00:13:50,600 talking about because Solomon then went and built the temple. 315 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:51,600 Yeah. 316 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:53,240 Except then the temple is destroyed. 317 00:13:53,240 --> 00:13:55,880 So they're like, well, maybe that's not who God's talking about. 318 00:13:55,880 --> 00:13:56,880 Yeah. 319 00:13:56,880 --> 00:14:00,680 And, uh, now of course we get the benefit of living thousands of years in the future 320 00:14:00,680 --> 00:14:06,360 that we can actually read this, but, um, they, these are start to be like, um, attributes 321 00:14:06,360 --> 00:14:11,200 that they start to put on to, um, this Davidic messianic figure. 322 00:14:11,200 --> 00:14:14,920 Um, by the way, a Bible project has a great thing where they go through and they track, 323 00:14:14,920 --> 00:14:17,400 like talk about Messiah. 324 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:21,360 Other passages that mentioned this particular, um, covenant is there's going to be some in 325 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:24,720 second Chronicles, but also in Psalm 89, right? 326 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:29,960 Um, so what's the significance of this, of this covenant? 327 00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:31,880 It's an eternal kingdom, right? 328 00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:36,400 So there is, there is a King coming in the line of David who is going to establish a 329 00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:39,800 kingdom that never ends, right? 330 00:14:39,800 --> 00:14:44,080 That goes from this, that point and moves forward and it's never going to go away. 331 00:14:44,080 --> 00:14:45,080 Right. 332 00:14:45,080 --> 00:14:49,360 And you can completely see how with that thought, they immediately started applying it to messianic 333 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:51,040 figures who are going to take them out of captivity. 334 00:14:51,040 --> 00:14:52,040 Yeah. 335 00:14:52,040 --> 00:14:53,040 Right. 336 00:14:53,040 --> 00:14:56,760 Uh, when you start dealing with being a Syrian Babylonian, uh, Persian, and ultimately Roman 337 00:14:56,760 --> 00:15:01,040 control, they're going to be looking for this messianic figure who's going to rise up and 338 00:15:01,040 --> 00:15:04,880 just like completely bring them out of, um, their position and establish this eternal 339 00:15:04,880 --> 00:15:05,880 kingdom. 340 00:15:05,880 --> 00:15:06,880 Right. 341 00:15:06,880 --> 00:15:07,880 Yes. 342 00:15:07,880 --> 00:15:15,160 Um, now in, um, in, in Jewish perspective, they were definitely looking for a King that 343 00:15:15,160 --> 00:15:18,880 was going to come and overthrow a regime. 344 00:15:18,880 --> 00:15:19,880 Right. 345 00:15:19,880 --> 00:15:24,320 Um, I have a little note here that I want to share cause I think this is really, um, 346 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:26,040 really helpful for understanding. 347 00:15:26,040 --> 00:15:30,280 So in the time of Jesus and really the 300 years between the old Testament and the new 348 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:36,200 Testament, there were, uh, a few major, uh, sects of Judaism that really showed up and, 349 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:39,800 uh, and, um, it came to here. 350 00:15:39,800 --> 00:15:46,480 That's the page I'm looking for and really, really showed up and started to, um, diverge 351 00:15:46,480 --> 00:15:47,480 in their thoughts. 352 00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:50,160 Not that we would ever know about that in Christianity with the nominations, right? 353 00:15:50,160 --> 00:15:51,160 No. 354 00:15:51,160 --> 00:15:55,400 So there was the Pharisees, the Sadducees, the Essians and the zealots, and they all 355 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:58,720 had different thoughts about who this Messiah was going to be. 356 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:01,960 So like the Pharisees, they, they were focused on strict adherence to the law. 357 00:16:01,960 --> 00:16:05,880 So they anticipated a Messiah, anticipated a Messiah who would bring about spiritual 358 00:16:05,880 --> 00:16:09,080 renewal and uphold religious traditions. 359 00:16:09,080 --> 00:16:10,560 And they were right about some of that. 360 00:16:10,560 --> 00:16:15,240 A lot of it though, Jesus comes in as like, not quite right. 361 00:16:15,240 --> 00:16:19,400 Uh, the Sadducees more politically aligned, they were less focused on Messianic hopes. 362 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:23,360 They were emphasized, they were focusing on, uh, temple worship and stability. 363 00:16:23,360 --> 00:16:27,760 Now once again, Jesus establishes a temple, which is what they're expecting. 364 00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:29,400 It's just not a temple that they're expecting. 365 00:16:29,400 --> 00:16:30,400 Yeah. 366 00:16:30,400 --> 00:16:34,600 The temple is much different than they anticipated because rather than being brick and mortar, 367 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:36,240 it's made of hearts and souls. 368 00:16:36,240 --> 00:16:37,240 Right? 369 00:16:37,240 --> 00:16:41,600 Uh, the Essians were this group that went off into the middle of the desert to try to preserve 370 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:43,160 the true way of the text. 371 00:16:43,160 --> 00:16:44,160 Right? 372 00:16:44,160 --> 00:16:48,480 And they, uh, they waited a priestly and a kingly Messiah, right? 373 00:16:48,480 --> 00:16:53,600 Using the imminent return of, uh, and divine interventions to establish a righteous community, 374 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:55,520 which Jesus absolutely does. 375 00:16:55,520 --> 00:16:56,520 Right? 376 00:16:56,520 --> 00:16:59,960 Stepping into this Davidic Messiah world, but not quite. 377 00:16:59,960 --> 00:17:00,960 Yeah. 378 00:17:00,960 --> 00:17:01,960 Right. 379 00:17:01,960 --> 00:17:05,200 And then there were the zealots who thought, Hey, this is going to be a military Messiah. 380 00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:09,440 He's going to lead a revolt against Roman occupation and restore Jewish independence. 381 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:11,000 Yeah. 382 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:12,000 Kind of. 383 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:13,000 Right. 384 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:17,400 And, and we're going to talk about a lot more about that next week, but, uh, you hear how, 385 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:21,960 if you know the life of David, you start to hear like in all of these sects of Judaism, 386 00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:26,160 their idea of Messiah is going to carry one of these characteristics of David. 387 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:29,960 One of the things we find through Jewish history in like the Dead Sea Scrolls and the writing 388 00:17:29,960 --> 00:17:35,040 in the Talmud and the Mishnah and commentary from sages throughout the years is this idea 389 00:17:35,040 --> 00:17:37,760 of this Davidic role, right? 390 00:17:37,760 --> 00:17:41,680 This Davidic covenant that is going to usher in the kingdom to come. 391 00:17:41,680 --> 00:17:42,680 Right? 392 00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:43,680 Yeah. 393 00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:50,640 And so the, the covenant of David can really be seen as a covenant of hope expectation. 394 00:17:50,640 --> 00:17:51,640 Yeah. 395 00:17:51,640 --> 00:17:52,640 Right. 396 00:17:52,640 --> 00:17:57,240 That, uh, you're in the middle of the garbage now, but there is coming a day when we're 397 00:17:57,240 --> 00:17:59,840 going to go back to the way that things are supposed to be. 398 00:17:59,840 --> 00:18:00,840 Yeah. 399 00:18:00,840 --> 00:18:03,000 Which sounds a lot like the Adamic idea too, right? 400 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:05,520 We want to go back to the way things are supposed to be. 401 00:18:05,520 --> 00:18:09,920 And uh, and so the message of the Davidic covenant and we learned from the life of David 402 00:18:09,920 --> 00:18:14,880 is, is like that there is God is bringing hope back to his people. 403 00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:16,680 He is, he does have a plan. 404 00:18:16,680 --> 00:18:18,320 It's not just chaos. 405 00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:20,040 We're actually going somewhere specifically. 406 00:18:20,040 --> 00:18:21,040 Yeah. 407 00:18:21,040 --> 00:18:22,040 Right. 408 00:18:22,040 --> 00:18:25,440 And it's really important that the person who would actually fulfill the Davidic covenant 409 00:18:25,440 --> 00:18:27,560 would be a person of hope. 410 00:18:27,560 --> 00:18:28,560 Yeah. 411 00:18:28,560 --> 00:18:29,560 Absolutely. 412 00:18:29,560 --> 00:18:33,880 So the Davidic covenant closely mirrors messianic covenant. 413 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:34,880 Right. 414 00:18:34,880 --> 00:18:39,400 And we're going to talk about that next week, but you need to understand that the Davidic 415 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:41,560 covenant is really the prelude. 416 00:18:41,560 --> 00:18:42,560 Yeah. 417 00:18:42,560 --> 00:18:45,960 It's really God saying hope is coming. 418 00:18:45,960 --> 00:18:47,760 Hope is on the way. 419 00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:48,760 Yeah. 420 00:18:48,760 --> 00:18:52,840 In the, in the book of Matthew, uh, he's going to be doing the genealogy of Jesus and some 421 00:18:52,840 --> 00:18:58,760 people, some scholars, um, who don't understand Jewish writing have looked at the, the genealogy 422 00:18:58,760 --> 00:19:00,680 and Matthew and Luke and been like, Oh, they're different. 423 00:19:00,680 --> 00:19:03,800 So clearly that's not what the problem is. 424 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:07,480 Like they wrote them that way on purpose because they're actually making a point. 425 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:08,480 Yeah. 426 00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:11,000 And that's not uncommon in Jewish literature. 427 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:14,840 It's not how we would do it as Westerners, but it doesn't mean that it's wrong. 428 00:19:14,840 --> 00:19:15,840 Right. 429 00:19:15,840 --> 00:19:19,920 Um, but one of the things that he focuses on and when he talks about and, and the genealogy 430 00:19:19,920 --> 00:19:24,440 of Jesus is he says he's a son of, uh, he's a son of Adam. 431 00:19:24,440 --> 00:19:26,240 He's a son of Abraham. 432 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:27,880 He's a son of David. 433 00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:29,000 Right. 434 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:33,960 And, uh, Matthew writing to a Jewish audience, they know exactly what he's saying. 435 00:19:33,960 --> 00:19:34,960 Yeah. 436 00:19:34,960 --> 00:19:38,400 Hey, you know, these covenants that God's made throughout history. 437 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:40,760 He, he's proclaiming him to be Messiah. 438 00:19:40,760 --> 00:19:44,600 He's complaining, uh, commenting on him being, uh, the second Moses. 439 00:19:44,600 --> 00:19:45,600 Yeah. 440 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:46,600 Right. 441 00:19:46,600 --> 00:19:48,520 He's talking about him being like, Paul's going to say later, the second Adam. 442 00:19:48,520 --> 00:19:49,520 Yeah. 443 00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:50,520 Right. 444 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:52,040 Uh, it's not an accident that Matthew's writing it this way. 445 00:19:52,040 --> 00:19:56,360 Um, by the way, there is conversation in scholarly circles about whether or not Matthew was originally 446 00:19:56,360 --> 00:19:58,160 written in Hebrew or not Greek. 447 00:19:58,160 --> 00:20:01,160 Um, there's a, I think it's Eusebius or its origins. 448 00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:06,200 I can't remember which of the people it is, but they write that, uh, there it's an offhanded 449 00:20:06,200 --> 00:20:12,840 comment in their writings where they talked about Matthew writing his, uh, his Testament 450 00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:15,800 to the, to the Hebrew people in their original language. 451 00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:16,800 Yeah. 452 00:20:16,800 --> 00:20:18,400 And so it's kind of like this weird statement. 453 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:22,780 Now all the manuscripts that we have are all in Greek and they seem to be like as far back 454 00:20:22,780 --> 00:20:26,920 as they can go, but there is a lot going on in the book of Matthew that there's people 455 00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:32,800 who think that it was originally in Hebrew and then translate it into Greek, which would 456 00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:36,560 totally track because Matthew would have originally written it to Hebrews, right? 457 00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:38,720 To Jews, uh, people who understand Hebrew. 458 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:45,040 But as the message became more about more than just the Jewish people and became about 459 00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:48,800 all the world, it became important to have a language that most people would speak. 460 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:49,800 Yeah. 461 00:20:49,800 --> 00:20:50,800 Right. 462 00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:51,800 Yeah. 463 00:20:51,800 --> 00:20:54,840 So this, this, uh, declaration in, in the new Testament where it says, you know, from 464 00:20:54,840 --> 00:20:59,960 the line of David, um, from the, uh, from the line of Abraham, from the Hellenic, you 465 00:20:59,960 --> 00:21:02,240 know, these, these things mean something. 466 00:21:02,240 --> 00:21:04,340 They're not just off-handed statements. 467 00:21:04,340 --> 00:21:05,840 It's not literally listing. 468 00:21:05,840 --> 00:21:10,600 Well it might, it is, yes, literally listening to genealogy, but it's not just listing a 469 00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:11,600 genealogy. 470 00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:12,600 Yeah. 471 00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:15,440 You have Matthew saying like, look at the promises that God made. 472 00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:16,440 Yeah. 473 00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:19,280 Here they are being fulfilled in the man of Jesus. 474 00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:25,080 Well, if you want to talk about like, like David was flawed, look at the genealogy of 475 00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:26,840 genealogy of Matthew. 476 00:21:26,840 --> 00:21:30,080 He points out the flaws in the genealogy. 477 00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:34,060 We talked about that in the, in the, um, women throughout the Bible. 478 00:21:34,060 --> 00:21:38,200 We talked about the stories like Tamar and about the stories of Bathsheba, right? 479 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:39,200 Yeah. 480 00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:40,200 Actually, Rahab. 481 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:41,200 Yeah. 482 00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:43,760 All these people who you normally want to bury and like, you know, quietly make go away. 483 00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:47,120 Not that anybody in political circles, whatever, make those things go away. 484 00:21:47,120 --> 00:21:51,520 Like Matthew's like, Hey, you know, those people that are considered to be on the outside, 485 00:21:51,520 --> 00:21:55,080 they're in, they're in, like he's here for them. 486 00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:59,680 Those people who, uh, in fact, like that actually ends up showing up in the, just the, the sermon 487 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:00,680 on the Mount. 488 00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:01,680 Yeah. 489 00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:06,920 Blessed are the people who you think don't matter because the kingdom is about them. 490 00:22:06,920 --> 00:22:08,880 And you're being invited into this kingdom. 491 00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:09,880 All of you. 492 00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:10,880 Yeah. 493 00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:16,160 So back when, um, before my wife and I were married and, and we were in that dating relationship, 494 00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:18,440 there was, there's a few people in my extended family. 495 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:21,320 I was like, Oh, it's going to be really fun if she meets them. 496 00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:22,320 Yeah. 497 00:22:22,320 --> 00:22:23,320 Right. 498 00:22:23,320 --> 00:22:26,240 Um, and you do one or two things and like kind of hide it, right. 499 00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:31,160 And be like, okay, all right, let's not meet the crazy uncle right away type thing. 500 00:22:31,160 --> 00:22:32,160 Right. 501 00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:33,400 Or he can be like, this just who we are. 502 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:38,120 Like, this is just, this is crazy uncle Ivan or whoever. 503 00:22:38,120 --> 00:22:39,880 And uh, and embrace it. 504 00:22:39,880 --> 00:22:40,880 Right. 505 00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:41,880 And that's what Matthew's doing. 506 00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:44,000 He's like, he's like, look, the story's messy. 507 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:45,000 Here's the players. 508 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:48,720 Like, yeah, like there's drama that unfolded. 509 00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:49,720 Yeah. 510 00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:54,360 Like Jesus is literally born of a virgin and I bet you, nobody believed it in the day. 511 00:22:54,360 --> 00:22:55,360 Right. 512 00:22:55,360 --> 00:22:58,600 So like his mom's walking around with like shame from the community. 513 00:22:58,600 --> 00:23:00,960 No, I mean like maybe, no, probably not. 514 00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:01,960 Yeah. 515 00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:02,960 Like just be real. 516 00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:03,960 I probably wouldn't believe it. 517 00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:05,960 Um, I, I would at least question it. 518 00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:09,480 I, I'm like, okay, did they get, did they get brainwashed or something? 519 00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:10,520 Did you believe in this? 520 00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:15,000 You know, like I would ask today is like a little more plausible with like artificial 521 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:16,760 insemination and stuff like that. 522 00:23:16,760 --> 00:23:20,040 But, but still like if someone's like, oh yeah, I'm a virgin and I'm pregnant, I would 523 00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:23,200 be like an angel came and told me that the Holy spirit was going to come on me and I 524 00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:27,160 was going to birth a birth a child and I'll be like, I would be like, I feel like we need 525 00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:29,160 to test this. 526 00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:30,160 Yeah. 527 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:31,160 Yeah. 528 00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:37,320 And, uh, and so like between, uh, Joseph and Mary, Jesus grew up in a very scandalous, uh, 529 00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:39,840 very, very scandalous, uh, like history. 530 00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:40,840 Yeah. 531 00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:43,720 Now, of course, the vindication of time, right. 532 00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:47,280 But in the moment they're walking through the chaos and yet Jesus is the very definition 533 00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:51,320 of hope coming to these people and coming from the craziest background you can imagine. 534 00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:52,320 Right. 535 00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:59,240 Um, with this covenant though, it's, it's really God saying, Hey, hope is coming. 536 00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:00,240 Yeah. 537 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:03,600 And this covenant is taking place in a time where things are looking good. 538 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:04,600 Yeah. 539 00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:05,600 Right. 540 00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:06,600 Israel is in a good spot. 541 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:07,600 They got a good King. 542 00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:11,240 They're out there, uh, probably the most wealthy they've ever been. 543 00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:12,240 Yeah. 544 00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:13,240 They don't know the chaos that's coming. 545 00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:14,880 They don't know the chaos that's coming. 546 00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:17,920 Um, but the Lord does. 547 00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:20,640 And so it's kind of the timing of this message. 548 00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:25,120 It kind of seems weird a little bit because the Lord's like, Hey, hope is coming. 549 00:24:25,120 --> 00:24:27,640 And there's going to be people who hear that and they're going to end that day and age 550 00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:29,640 and be like, what are you, what are you talking about? 551 00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:31,760 This is the best we've ever had it. 552 00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:32,760 Right. 553 00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:35,560 But it doesn't matter like how good you think you have it. 554 00:24:35,560 --> 00:24:37,200 There's still hope, right? 555 00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:41,080 We still have the hope of Jesus who is here, who's here now. 556 00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:43,840 But at the time hope is on the way. 557 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:44,840 Right. 558 00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:49,660 I was thinking about in my life, um, I had a prophetic word for somebody long before 559 00:24:49,660 --> 00:24:51,040 it actually came to fruition. 560 00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:56,200 I gave it to them in a time of like that their life was solid and I felt weird about giving 561 00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:57,200 them the message. 562 00:24:57,200 --> 00:24:58,200 Right. 563 00:24:58,200 --> 00:24:59,200 And so I just shared it. 564 00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:02,600 I said, Hey, you know, I believe that God has laid something on my heart for you. 565 00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:03,920 And I was like, I want you to hear it. 566 00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:05,040 And if it has weight, carry it. 567 00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:08,240 If not, then feel free to set it aside. 568 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:12,720 Um, it meant nothing to them until their life fell apart. 569 00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:14,120 Yeah. 570 00:25:14,120 --> 00:25:16,920 And then in that moment, God brought this word back. 571 00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:17,920 Yeah. 572 00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:21,360 One of the things that God does in our lives is he often gives our word, the word that 573 00:25:21,360 --> 00:25:25,760 we need to hear before we need to hear it. 574 00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:30,240 And as we allow that to like sit and work in our lives, then as, as the chaos comes 575 00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:31,760 around it, so does this word. 576 00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:32,760 Yeah. 577 00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:33,900 And we're like, Oh, this isn't forever. 578 00:25:33,900 --> 00:25:34,900 Hope is coming. 579 00:25:34,900 --> 00:25:36,240 Hope is God does have a plan. 580 00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:37,240 Yep. 581 00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:40,880 I think the other thing that the Davidic covenant really kind of helps us understand because 582 00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:42,960 the whole thing is about it's King David. 583 00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:43,960 Yeah. 584 00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:48,160 And one of the things we struggle with, I think in American Christianity, I'm specify 585 00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:52,600 American, is understanding that we serve a King. 586 00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:53,800 Yes. 587 00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:58,000 We're not in a, the United States is, is a constitutional Republic. 588 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:00,000 I get that. 589 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:01,280 Right. 590 00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:03,800 But we as believers in Christ serve a kingdom. 591 00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:04,800 Yes. 592 00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:05,800 We live in a kingdom. 593 00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:06,800 We serve a King. 594 00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:11,320 Now we live in a constitutional Republic, but we serve a King. 595 00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:12,320 Yep. 596 00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:17,600 So it's way different when the King says to do something, you do it right. 597 00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:20,360 Because you exist in his entire realm. 598 00:26:20,360 --> 00:26:22,360 Yeah. 599 00:26:22,360 --> 00:26:25,920 And I want to think of the Davidic covenant reminds us is that we step in when we say 600 00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:29,960 yes to Jesus and he, and he takes possession of our life and he brings his kingdom into 601 00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:31,520 us, right? 602 00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:37,240 Is that we now are not stepping into a, into a democracy. 603 00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:42,300 We're stepping into a monarchy where we, we serve King Jesus and allow his will, his reign 604 00:26:42,300 --> 00:26:46,680 and his kingdom to be present in our lives and to go everywhere that we go. 605 00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:47,680 Right. 606 00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:48,680 Yep. 607 00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:54,200 And I think that's really hard for, I know that there's a number of people that I know 608 00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:59,320 and at times for myself is really hard to remember that I'm not the boss. 609 00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:02,080 We're so used to putting things to a vote, right? 610 00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:08,080 Like I mean, we got election season coming on where people are going to be out voting. 611 00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:13,800 Even, even in some school settings I've worked at, there's, they put things to vote. 612 00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:17,040 A lot of the churches use voting. 613 00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:20,080 They use voting to like when they're doing something specifically. 614 00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:21,840 And by the way, we're not saying the voting is bad. 615 00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:23,720 No, like actually I would argue the opposite. 616 00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:28,120 I think that the voting and using your, what God has given you, like absolutely use your 617 00:27:28,120 --> 00:27:29,120 voice. 618 00:27:29,120 --> 00:27:30,120 Yeah, it's good. 619 00:27:30,120 --> 00:27:32,240 It actually helps keep power in check. 620 00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:33,240 Correct. 621 00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:35,800 And so it is a really good thing. 622 00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:41,560 But the difference between how we run things in this world and how Christ runs things is 623 00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:45,400 that his power doesn't need to be kept in check. 624 00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:46,400 Correct. 625 00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:47,400 Right. 626 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:50,400 In fact, the more power that runs rampant, the better for us. 627 00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:51,400 Right. 628 00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:55,240 And then I think that's the piece where we can kind of get hung up a little bit was where 629 00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:57,840 people are like, well, we do it this way to keep power in check. 630 00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:01,800 And I was like, okay, so if you're applying that to your relationship with Jesus, are 631 00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:03,520 you trying to keep his power in check? 632 00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:04,520 Yeah. 633 00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:07,240 And if you're doing that, you actually want the opposite. 634 00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:09,880 You want his power to run rampant in your life. 635 00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:12,560 And I don't think anybody would verbally say that. 636 00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:13,560 Yeah. 637 00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:17,080 But when you actually are honest with yourself and ask, why am I, why am I trying to, you 638 00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:20,880 know, like treat this as, as a democracy between me and God? 639 00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:21,880 Yeah. 640 00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:22,880 Right. 641 00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:24,680 You actually realize that you're trying to check God's power in your life. 642 00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:25,680 Right. 643 00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:29,800 And you're falling prey to the exact same blender that happens in Genesis three, which 644 00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:34,080 is that I think God's holding out on me and I could do better. 645 00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:37,680 And spoiler alert, there's lots of pages of that not working out well. 646 00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:38,680 Yes. 647 00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:39,680 Yeah. 648 00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:40,680 Yes. 649 00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:43,880 I like that you say in his power running rampant through us, right? 650 00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:47,600 If there's one place you want unchecked power, it's Jesus power running through you. 651 00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:48,600 Yes. 652 00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:49,600 Yes. 653 00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:51,200 Because when that happens, you love people. 654 00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:57,040 Well, miracles abound, kingdom comes and people call in the name of Jesus. 655 00:28:57,040 --> 00:28:58,040 Amen. 656 00:28:58,040 --> 00:28:59,040 And it's awesome. 657 00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:00,040 Amen. 658 00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:03,040 So we're going to pause there and that's going to be the Davidic covenant. 659 00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:07,880 We'll be coming back in like 15 minutes, our time and one week, your time to talk about 660 00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:08,880 the Messianic covenant. 661 00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:09,880 It's going to be great. 662 00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:12,760 Until next time. 663 00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:15,780 And that's a wrap for today's episode of Love and Context. 664 00:29:15,780 --> 00:29:19,700 We hope you enjoyed this engaging conversation and gained valuable insights into the powerful 665 00:29:19,700 --> 00:29:21,700 message of love within the Bible. 666 00:29:21,700 --> 00:29:24,800 We'd love to hear from you and continue the conversation. 667 00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:31,180 Connect with us by sending us your questions, thoughts, and suggestions to loveandcontext.gmail.com. 668 00:29:31,180 --> 00:29:35,800 We greatly appreciate your feedback and ideas for future episodes. 669 00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:40,120 Stay connected with us on social media for updates, behind the scenes content, and additional 670 00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:41,120 resources. 671 00:29:41,120 --> 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