In 2 Samuel chapter number 7 we start out with David talking about building a temple
for the Ark of the Lord.
If you remember in the last chapter we read all about the Ark of the Lord being brought
back to Jerusalem and they put it on their shoulders the way they were supposed to because
originally they had done it wrong on the new cart and so forth.
So now that the Ark is there in Jerusalem, David says in verse number 1 of chapter 7
there, it came to pass when the king sat in his house and the Lord had given him rest
round about from all his enemies that the king said unto Nathan the prophet, see now
I dwell in the house of cedar but the Ark of God dwelleth within curtains and Nathan
said to the king, go do all that is in thine heart for the Lord is with thee.
Now when he talks about the Ark dwelling in curtains and just to make sure everybody's
clear what we're talking about here, the Ark is the Ark of the Covenant.
This was a box that God had told them to build back in the book of Exodus and it was a wooden
box that was overlaid with gold and in it, it had the stone tablets of the Ten Commandments
that came down from Mount Sinai.
It also had Aaron's rod that budded and it also had a golden pot with manna in it and
so these relics were inside of the Ark and it represented, you know, the presence of
God and it was called the mercy seat and it was in the Holy of Holies in the tabernacle.
So when he talks about the Ark dwelling in curtains, he's talking about the fact that
they kept the Ark of the Covenant in the most holy place or the Holy of Holies in the
tabernacle and the tabernacle was a giant tent that they built in the book of Exodus
according to God's exact specifications out of different curtains and things and this
was where they would go to worship the Lord.
They did not have a temple in the sense of a building that was in a fixed location but
it was a portable temple as it were of the tabernacle and it was something that they
would take it down and move it and set it back up somewhere else and in the Old Testament
that was the house of God.
Now in the New Testament we have no such building.
The Bible teaches really clearly that the house of God in the New Testament is the church
of the living God and so and when we say the church we're talking about the assembly.
Church means congregation or assembly of people.
So this building is not the church but we being assembled here are the church.
A lot of people mistake this and say well the church is the people so when I'm off by
myself I'm church.
No wrong.
Church means congregation.
When you congregate or come together so we are the church when we are assembled.
The people who actually show up and assemble here are members of this body, members of
the church and so that's in the New Testament whereas in the Old Testament you had a physical
building.
David has this idea of building a house of God in the sense of a permanent building,
a permanent temple instead of this portable tabernacle that God had given them in the
book of Exodus.
When he tells this to Nathan the prophet Nathan just answers him off the cuff and says you
know what God's with you do it sounds good man but then what happens is Nathan goes home
that night and God speaks unto Nathan that night and expounds on him a little more perfectly
what his will is and that's what we read here in verse 4 it says it came to pass that
night that the word of the Lord came unto Nathan saying go and tell my servant David
thus saith the Lord shout thou build me in house for me to dwell in whereas I have not
dwelt in any house since the time that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt even
to this day but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle and all the places wherein
I've walked with all the children of Israel spake I a word with any of the tribes of Israel
whom I commanded to feed my people Israel saying why build ye not me in house of cedar
now therefore so shout thou say unto my servant David thus saith the Lord of hosts I took
thee from the sheep coat from following the sheep to be ruler over my people Israel and
I was with thee whithersoever thou wentest and have cut off all thine enemies out of
thy sight and have made thee a great name like under the name of the great men that
are in the earth moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel and will plant
them and they may dwell in a place of their own and move no more neither shall the children
of wickedness afflict them anymore as before time and as since the time that I commanded
judges to be over my people Israel and have caused thee to rest from all thine enemies
also the Lord telleth me that he will make thee in house and when thy days be fulfilled
and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers I will set up thy seed after thee which shall proceed
out of thy bowels and I will establish his kingdom watch this he shall build and house
for my name and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever so he gave kind of
a long answer there but just to boil down what he said he first of all makes it very
clear repeatedly he says this over and over again as if to emphasize it I never said that
I wanted a house to be built I never asked you to but when did I ever say that from the
time that the children of Israel left Egypt to this day when did I ever say build me a
house he said what I instructed was the tabernacle what I instructed was a that's how I've always
done it that's what it is but he says at the end though after you die he tells him after
you sleep he means death there in verse 12 he says verse 13 that his son will build the
temple ok now if you would just to make sure we're clear on this flip over to second chronicles
chapter six this is Solomon speaking second chronicles chapter number six and this is
after David is dead and Solomon has built the temple and the temple's done and the temple's
actually being dedicated at this time look at verse seven now it was in the heart of
David my father to build an house for the name of the Lord God of Israel so whose idea
was this clearly David's idea clearly not something that God told him to do but the
Lord said to David my father for as much as it was in thine heart to build a house for
my name thou didst well in that it was in thine heart notwithstanding thou shalt not
build the house but thy son which shall come forth out of thy loins he shall build the
house for my name so I want to show you there that God did approve of David you know making
plans to build this house he says look it was in your heart to build me a house it was
good that it was in your heart though but you're not going to build it your son Solomon's
going to build it now why did it God let David build it if it was David's idea we'll go to
first chronicles 22 and we find the answer a lot of people have put forth different opinions
or ideas of why David was not allowed to build the house but the Bible gives us the answer
and not only that but the idea that I've often heard put forth is that well you know
David sinned with Bathsheba so therefore he couldn't build the temple because he committed
that sin but here's the thing this is before he committed the sin with Bathsheba because
he actually does not sin with Bathsheba until chapter 11 and we're in chapter 7 and God's
already telling him you're not going to build the temple actually your son is going to build
the temple here's why look at first chronicles 22 verse 6 then he called for Solomon his
son and charged him to build a house for the Lord God of Israel and David said to Solomon
my son as for me it was in my mind to build a house under the name of the Lord my God
but the word of the Lord came to me saying thou has shed blood abundantly and has made
great wars thou shalt not build an house unto my name because thou has shed much blood upon
the earth in my sight now is there any doubt as to why he was not to build the temple very
clear he says look you have shed much blood before me you have made great wars therefore
you're not going to build this house verse 9 behold a son shall be born to thee who shall
be a man of rest and I will give him rest from all his enemies roundabout for his name
shall be Solomon and I will give peace and quietness unto Israel in his days he shall
build an house for my name and he shall be my son and I will be his father and I will
establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever now not all of the fighting that David
did in his lifetime was wrong a lot of the wars that David fought the Bible says he was
fighting the Lord's battles and he was fighting against the enemies of the Lord he was obeying
what God told him to do but some of the battling that he did some of the blood that he shed
was not legitimate because if he had only just obeyed everything that God had told him
to do and only fought the battles that God would have sanctioned then God wouldn't be
telling him well you can't build the temple because you've shed all this blood before
me I'd be like well wait a minute you told me to that wouldn't really make any sense
but we know that if we read the story about David and all the different occurrences in
first and second Samuel you can see even just from face value that some of the warfare that
he carried out and participated in was not just and was not right and he did kill you
know some innocent people in the process you know it's pretty hard to be a major warrior
and not commit these type of sins and that doesn't justify it but it's just a fact of
life that David made a lot of mistakes in his life for example David had more than one
wife I mean that was also something wrong David did so even though David was a great
man of God and he was a man after God's own heart we could point to I could point to at
least 20 sins that the Bible records David committing I mean in first Samuel alone we
covered a lot of the sins of King David and then in second Samuel there are going to be
a lot more why because he's a human being okay and so it's not that David is just a
horrible person but number one he's human and the Bible says there's none righteous
no not one for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God and number two when you're
in a position of that kind of power you're going to be corrupted because no man is not
designed to have that kind of power God never wanted them to have any king in the first
place so even if David was a great king man should never be a king because that power
goes to his head no matter how good of a guy he is pride is going to lift him up and
he's going to get into sin and so he did things that were wrong in regard to bloodshed and
warfare and that's why God did not want him to build the ark it's that simple or build
the temple go back to second Samuel chapter 7 you say well what's the big deal about that
well first of all in Exodus God instructed the tabernacle the temple was never his idea
when somebody came up with that idea David he said hey I'm glad that was in your heart
your son will do it and he'll build a house for my name and so forth but when you go to
the book of Hebrews in the New Testament that book talks about the Old Testament and how
it all pictures Jesus and and he gives all the symbolism of the Old Testament and how
it represented things in the New Testament it's funny no mention of the temple he actually
deals with everything based on the tabernacle because the tabernacle was God's perfect plan
see the temple was not built according to God's perfect plan and God's perfect specifications
if you think about it the tabernacle God actually showed Moses a pattern of it God showed him
so he wasn't just going by verbal instructions of what we read in Exodus God literally showed
Moses a tabernacle that was the heavenly tabernacle he showed him the heavenly Ark
of the Covenant and there was no question as to how to make these things he told Moses
see that thou make all things according to the pattern that was showed thee in the mountain
whereas the temple is man's design it has man's ideas man's architecture man's specifications
that was designed by David and by Solomon and by the cunning man that came down from
Tyre and so forth now I don't think that that makes the temple a bad building at all
because what we have to understand is that you know God is glorified by our obedience
unto him and that's what the temple rep or the tabernacle represents man obeying God
and the letter of the detail of obeying God's instructions whereas the temple represents
man worshiping God from his own heart from his own creativity with his own idea you know
God says you know David you had the idea to build a temple unto me good idea that was
good that that was in your heart and we often worship God even today using our own creativity
our own talents our own abilities for example we could worship God by singing the Psalms
directly out of the Bible and that would be a great thing to do that would be obedience
to the Bible or what if we were to write our own song where we write a song about doctrines
of the Bible for example the hymn book is filled with songs written by man that's man's
creativity but God is glorified when we sing blessed assurance and to God be the glory
and on Christ the solid rock I stand this even though these are man's design man's creativity
that glorifies God in a different way than when we sing the Psalms both are good in their
own way they're just two different ways of worshiping God now if the temple were in violation
of God's word then there'd be a problem you know if the temple were violating principles
in the Mosaic law or if David said hey I want to build a temple to God and God said I don't
want a temple and he said well I'm going to build it anyway well then we'd have a serious
problem wouldn't we because I'm not trying to say hey however you worship God's fine
just worship him however you want no Cain tried that and God did not respect Cain's
worship because it was not according to the instructions but here this is man with God's
permission expressing his own creativity and doing something out of his own heart which
is fine God made it clear that he approved of this okay now what's ridiculous though
is that today's Jews so-called Jews outward Jews the Bible says they're Jews outwardly
but they're not inwardly because they're not circumcised of heart and spirit they're only
circumcised in their flesh today's Jews do not perform any animal sacrifices even though
if you read Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers Deuteronomy there is a huge emphasis on animal
sacrifice I mean if you read Leviticus lately the first nine chapters are just sacrifice
after sacrifice after sacrifice and all throughout Exodus even in Genesis we see a lot of animal
sacrifices yet the Jews claim oh yeah we believe those first five books of the Bible don't
they the Torah the Torah is our most holy book and they sit there and they make sure
that the Torah is kept holy and they count the words on the page this way and they count
them this way and diagonal and make sure it's all preserved and in fact even to this day
they bring in scrolls of the Torah into their synagogue in the original Hebrew language
and and at the end of it they leave part of it unwritten and they leave I believe that
they leave the last you know 22 letters undone or what I forget how many letters and then
each person of the synagogue and it's a great privilege if you get to be one of the people
that goes up there and they hand write you know the last few letters of that Torah scroll
and oh the Torah scroll oh it's a and then they they take parts of the Torah and you
know how God told them hey put God's Word put it on the doorpost of your house you remember
that scripture in Deuteronomy 6 write it upon the doorpost of the house write it on the
walls of your house and and here's what they do with it they just take it all super literal
but instead of writing it on the doorpost here's they do they take little tiny scrolls
of the Torah like on microfilm and they roll it up and they put it in a little box and
put it on their front door so you can't even read it now obviously that's not what God
meant you know what God meant have you ever gone into a Christian home and you'll see
Bible verses on the wall as for me and my house we will serve the Lord you know for
God so loved the world that he gave that's what God's saying to do he's saying look write
it on the door of your house write it on the wall so that you'll see it and remember it
and read it and believe it okay but they just take it and they're following the letter
of the law and just missing the whole point oh let's roll it up in a scroll and put it
in a sealed container who's ever been out soloing and seeing these sealed containers
on the doors yeah all over Tempe excuse me you'll see it well not only that you know
how he says like to bind it on your hand and but you know bind it to the to your forehead
and everything they don't understand that he what he's saying is you know keeping in
front of your eyes all the time and get it in your mind and and you know have it right
there in your hand you know they they don't get it it all goes over their head because
the Bible says that even today in the reading of the Old Testament they're blinded because
they don't believe in Christ they don't believe in Jesus Christ there's no Holy Spirit there
and so they're blinded today so here's what they do they put a little box and strap it
to their head of the of the with with the Torah in it and they rock by all the Torah
the Torah you know and here's the thing about it though how can they say that they believe
the Torah when they don't sacrifice any animals they celebrate the Passover and they don't
even kill the lamb you know why we don't kill a lamb because Jesus is the lamb that take
it away the sin of the world slain once for all the Lamb of God that take it away the
sin of the world but the Jews don't have that lamb Jews don't believe in Jesus and so why
don't they sacrifice an animal the Bible says without the shedding of blood is no remission
he said in the Old Testament in the Torah the book that's in their forehead and on the
door it says the one that's read every Sabbath he says in there I've given the blood upon
the altar to be an atonement for your souls but where's the blood today in Judaism doesn't
exist and if you ask them this and I've asked this to hundreds of Jews they'll all tell
you the same thing now I it doesn't bother me when a Christ rejecting Jew tells me hey
here's why we don't sacrifice animals because we don't have the temple anymore you know
because I expect them to be blind and ignorant but the sad thing is when Christians defend
it and Christians say oh well of course they don't sacrifice animals anymore they don't
want the temple anymore of course they can't you know that's sad when Christians are repeating
this stuff that they did not learn in the Bible where does the Bible say you can only
sacrifice animals at the temple can somebody show me that in the Bible please the temple
that God didn't even tell you to build the temple that was not even God's idea but that's
the only place that you can ever sacrifice an animal can somebody show me that about
but it's sad when Christians repeat the line of these Christ rejecting Jews and in fact
some of these so-called messianics or Hebrew roots sacred name type Judaizer Christian
John Hagee types sometimes they'll even say this when they build that temple the animal
sacrifices are coming back and that's good and they even say that we Christians listen
to me this Hebrew roots movement is way more dangerous than you think they teach that we
as Christians should be sacrificing animal sacrifices and the only reason we're not doing
it is because the temple doesn't exist but that we should go offer it once the temple's
back at some point now go to Exodus 20 let me just show you how ridiculous this is Exodus
20 oh by the way this is in the Torah Exodus chapter 20 and here's the thing about this
you have to think to yourself what time period is Exodus 20 being given let me just get you
in the context here children of Israel have just come out of the land of Egypt okay they've
taken 40 days to get to Mount Sinai okay they get to Mount Sinai God's giving the law to
Moses now in this very same book of Moses Exodus in just a couple chapters virtually
at the same time chapter 20 is being given he's going to give them the instructions for
building the tabernacle in the same breath practically I mean the same you know Moses
up on the mount he's getting these teachings same event same trip to the mount he gets
Exodus 20 and he gets the instructions for building the tabernacle look what it says
in Exodus chapter 20 verse 24 an altar of earth thou shalt make unto me now an altar
of earth means an altar of dirt that's what we would say in modern vernacular earth means
dirt an altar of earth thou shalt make unto me and shalt sacrifice there on thy burnt
offerings and thy peace offerings thy sheep and thine oxen in all places where I record
my name I will come unto thee and I will bless thee and if thou wilt make me an altar of
stone thou shalt not build of it of huge stone for if thou lift up thy tool upon it thou
hast polluted it neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar that thy nakedness
be not discovered thereon so he's real clear here that the preferable altar the preferred
altar that he wants them to build is an altar of dirt build it of dirt but he says if you
want to make it of stones maybe you know you live in Arizona or something you can't dig
out much dirt very well but he says hey if you're going to make it of stones use whole
stones don't carve the stones don't make this little brick nice pretty altar pile of stones
is the altar pile of dirt is the altar is that not what the Bible says now a little
later same book he tells him to build a big brass altar that goes in the tabernacle but
the personal altars that they build are to be of earth or of whole stones and look you
say yeah but the temple blah blah blah show me in the Bible I'm showing you in the Bible
where you can also build it in all places where God records his name all places as long
as it's in the name of the Lord you can build this altar and worship the Lord in all places
is that not what it says I mean I don't know how to interpret this in all places where
I record my name and even if you say well where he records his name do you record his
name in Jerusalem yeah you know you record his name in Bethel yeah do you record his
name in Shiloh yeah I mean there's a lot of places they record his name so but any way
you slice it folks they should be offering the sacrifices that God commanded them to
offer if they think they're in the Old Testament which we don't we're in the New Testament
we just look to Christ but they should be offering these sacrifices now even just to
prove to you beyond any shadow of a doubt you don't have to turn there for sake of time
but in 1 Kings chapter 19 maybe it's 18 18 1 Kings 18 where he's where Elijah faces off
with the prophets of Baal and God has him build an altar God tells him to build the
altar and the temple is already there so why isn't he at the temple remember you can only
bring sacrifices to the temple okay well then why is Elijah building an altar of how does
he build it piles up stones and then God blesses it God brings fire down and consumes
the sacrifice and everybody I mean it's one of the most famous Bible stories in the history
of the whole Bible in Sunday school when Elijah calls down fire from heaven right I mean everybody
knows that story how did he do it on an altar that he built according to Exodus 20 so how
can you say we must be in the temple that God never told us to build or else we're just
going to ignore half the Torah instead we don't ignore half the Torah because we look
at that half the Torah and say yeah this is all pointing to Jesus these are all prophecies
of Jesus being that burnt offering that sacrifice for sins of mankind the propitiation upon
the altar for our sins and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world so
that's an important doctrine and you say well why is that important pastor and flip back
over to second Samuel why is that important because pastor Anderson you're just you're
just criticizing the Jews you're just an anti-semitic guy that just gets up and just preaches against
Jews and and they're God's people and all you know what I'll tell you why it's important
because we got a bunch of people running around right here this Hebrew roots movement that
have crept in unawares with damnable heresies even denying the name of Jesus himself and
trying to change the name of Jesus to Joshua okay when we go by the New Testament which
is written in Greek so it's Jesus not Joshua we call you know or Yahshua or however they
want to pronounce it Yeshua but I'm saying you know we would say Joshua right I mean
if you want to do the Old Testament version it's Joshua but can somebody show me where
this book ever calls him Joshua calls him Jesus okay yeah the whole Yahweh thing exactly
so we have this group that comes in with this and here they're talking about how we're going
to build that temple and have animal sacrifices once again now not all branches of it but
a lot of these branches of it be careful you're listening to on the internet here's the here's
the test of you say well how do I know who's a bad person on the on the internet to listen
to if their name starts with rabbi bad person because the Bible says Jesus flat out said
be not ye called rabbi anyone who is called rabbi is not a follower of Jesus because Jesus
said be not ye called rabbi and this is my pet peeve too when they say Jesus was a rabbi
no Jesus was not a rabbi Jesus was the rabbi Jesus is the only rabbi because he said this
be not ye called rabbi for one is your master even Christ so he says the only person who's
the rabbi is Jesus Christ so don't ever tell me Jesus was a rabbi that's like saying well
Jehovah is a god you know Jesus is a god Christianity is a way to get to heaven no he said I'm the
way the truth and the life no man cometh unto the father but by me okay so we see here
in this passage that David said in the first few verses I want to build a temple unto the
Lord Nathan says great idea but then he hears from God and God says you know what I never
asked for this I never told you this but but you're gonna build you're not gonna build
it but your son's gonna build it Solomon so David ends up getting all the materials together
getting the plans together but Solomon actually is the one who ends up building it okay and
he said I love what God says at the end of verse 11 also the second half of verse 11
also the Lord telleth thee that he will make thee an house so isn't it funny David says
I want to build the Lord a house and God says no I'm gonna build you a house right and when
he says I'm gonna build you a house he's not talking about a building he's saying I'm gonna
build you a family you know when the Bible says except the Lord build the house they
labor in vain that build it and then it says children are inherited to the Lord the fruit
of the womb is his reward so God builds our house meaning our family and when it talks
about the house and lineage of David talking about the descendants of David and he promises
in this passage that David's throne will go on forever now how can God say that David's
throne will go on forever because he's he's gonna raise up Jesus and Jesus is the son
of David he's called the son of David and he when he says David your kingdom will never
end David your seed will rule forever that seed of David is Jesus Jesus will rule and
reign forever and Jesus will basically rule on this earth from Jerusalem from the throne
from the throne of David but first is coming the Antichrist the imposter comes first doesn't
make any sense that the real Jesus would come and then the imposter the Bible is real clear
first the Antichrist comes claiming to be Jesus and the Jews are gonna love him he's
the Messiah that they're looking for right they're still looking for the Messiah right
he's coming the Antichrist because this is what the Bible says who is a liar but he that
denieth that Jesus is the Christ what's Christ in the in the interpretation Messiah the
Bible says Christ which being interpreted is Messiah so we could just interpret it as
who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Messiah that's what it says he is Antichrist
that denieth the father and the son so it's funny how people speculate and theorize so
much about you know what's the Antichrist gonna be like or who's the Antichrist gonna
be what's he gonna do what's he gonna be like you know it's not hard to figure it out
when you just look up every time the word Antichrist is mentioned so I mentioned a few
times in the Bible who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Messiah he's Antichrist
who are the people who deny that Jesus is the Messiah because the thing about in order
to deny that Jesus is the Messiah you have to believe that there's a Messiah you can't
deny Jesus is the Messiah if you don't even think there is a Messiah to deny that Jesus
is the Messiah if you say there's a Messiah but it's not Jesus who says that Judaism
so what is the Antichrist gonna be he's gonna be the fulfillment of the false Pharisee religion
of Judaism and so the Jews will receive him as their Messiah because they rejected the
real Messiah Antichrist shows up he'll be their Messiah and they'll believe on him and
if you talk to the Jewish rabbis even the Orthodox rabbis will tell you this he'll unite
all religions of the world they will all worship him sounds like somebody I know the Antichrist
let's bow your heads and have a word of prayer