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Alright good evening everyone welcome to First Works Baptist Church
Let's all make our way inside and find a seat. Let's grab a song book and open that song book up to song number
288 I am resolved. Let's all stand together for this first song if you are able
Song number 288 I am resolved
Everyone all together nice and strong on that first verse
I am resolved no longer to linger, charmed by the world's delight
Things that are higher, things that are nobler, these have allured my sight
I will hasten to Him, hasten so glad and free
Jesus, greatest, highest, I will come to Thee
I am resolved to go to the Savior, paving my sin and strife
He is the true one, He is the just one, He hath the words of life
I will hasten to Him, hasten so glad and free
Jesus, greatest, highest, I will come to Thee
I am resolved to follow the Savior, faithful and true each day
Heed what He said, do what He willed, He is the living way
I will hasten to Him, hasten so glad and free
Jesus, greatest, highest, I will come to Thee
Amen. Let's open our service with the word of prayer. Father, thank you God
Lord for allowing us God to be here tonight dear Lord and hear your word
preach unto us God and sing these hymns unto you Lord
pray God that you would bless the evening Lord bless the preaching God
fill pastor with your Holy Spirit Lord as he preaches to us God and
give us ears to hear Lord and hearts to apply that which we hear to our lives
Lord that we would we've heard differently than when we came
in God and be edified Lord and we love you God and it's in Jesus name we pray
Amen. You may be seated. Song number 66 at Calvary.
Song 66 at Calvary.
Everyone all together nice and strong. Years I spent in vanity and pride
caring not my loot was crucified knowing that it was for me he died
at Calvary
mercy there was great and grace was free
and there was multiplied to me
at Calvary
by God's word at last my sin I learned then I trembled at the law I'd spurned
till my guilty soul and flooring turned to Calvary
mercy there was great and grace was free
pardon there was multiplied to me there my burdened soul found liberty
at Calvary
oh the love that true salvation's planned
oh the grace that brought it down to man oh the mighty gulf that God did spend
at Calvary
mercy there was great and grace was free
pardon there was multiplied to me there found liberty
at Calvary
now I've given to Jesus everything now I gladly own him as my king
now my raptured soul can only sing of Calvary
mercy there was great and grace was free
pardon there was multiplied to me there my burdened soul found liberty
at Calvary
all right great singing thank you for being here this evening just a few
announcements here before we sing our next song
which will be song number 19 there is a fountain
if you want to get that ready in your song books if you did not get a bulletin
go ahead and raise your hand one of the ushers can get one for you some
important information on there along with our prayer sheet our sunday
morning service is at 10 30 sunday evening at 5 pm and then we have
our thursday night bible study at seven o'clock
you see there the sony teams and times and of course we have the bar so sony
every other monday you can see brother elise's hernandez
if you'd like to participate in that we take the church van uh there
on every other monday and we meet here at the building
uh around 11 30 and we head out and then we
pretty much finish it's an all-day thing so we do have dinner out there
and then we come back right after that and so if you are interested in that you
can see brother elise's you see the expecting mothers list if
you can continue to pray for them and the important reminders our belize
missions trips coming up on saturday february 26th through sunday march 5th
please be in prayer over that that we'd see a great harvest of souls
pray for traveling mercies for those who are going and that we'd be able to
collect a lot of information and keep in contact there with the
converts so lord willing in november we can have a preaching service there
maybe some baptisms as well and so please be in prayer over that you
see the men's prayer nights coming up on friday march 3rd
and then lastly the ladies tea party is coming up on saturday
march 18th you see the regular reminders there at the bottom
please make sure you silence your phones during the preaching so as to not be a
distraction during the service going to pull out
your prayer sheet there we're going to go over that briefly and then
brother geo is going to come up and pray over the sheet here of course continue
to pray for our church corporately pray for god's favor in our
church for the soloing the teams that uh we'd be able to add
more people to the teams of course i think the teams have been very fruitful
and helping individuals learn how to preach the gospel and just disciple them
and obviously just build relationships and help people to
get established here at our church and pray that that continues to be a
success throughout 2023 that would get more people
integrated into that and also that we'd add new team leaders
so that people would be raised up to be leaders and lead a team and and
help others to become soldiers as well pray for our
missions program protection of our church
spiritual numerical growth of our church as well pray for more labors and for new
people and for the leadership pastors in
training and of course for those in authority that they would
uh leave us alone and you know just no matter what happens in the united states
whatever laws they pass that it wouldn't affect us as christians as
believers that we continue to be able to serve god
without distraction and so keep that in prayer and then you see the different
needs there for the church families of course everyone here has a family
member who is lost and prayed that their hearts would be
tenderized that god will give us an opportunity
to give him the gospel and then uh pray for uh miss suzy guterres who's just
recovering from a surgery if you can keep her in prayer as well
and then you see the different needs there if you want
uh your prayer request to be mentioned or to be placed on the bulletin please
put that at the bottom of the sheet cut that off and then put it into the
offering plate and we'll make sure it gets on there for the following week
right but the geo wants you coming up and pray over these needs
thank you
all right let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer dear lord heavenly father
thank you for this day lord thank you for bringing us all here safely
lord we pray for your continual favor on our church obviously we have been in a
time of peace lord and we pray that we continue to be in a time of peace
and that you continue just to bless our church lord and we also want to pray for
the soul winning uh we continue to see a lot of souls
saved here in our area in the neighboring cities lord
we pray that even for the soul winning teams that we
we get a lot more new people to to fill in on the teams lord
and that the teams continue to go out and get a lot of people saved
we also want to pray for the team leaders lord that they continue to
guide the new people and just guide their their members lord into becoming
better seasoned soul winners lord and that
we just uh get edified every day lord and we also want to pray for the mission
trips lord we pray that especially this mission trip coming up in
two weeks to belize we pray that it's uh remains fruitful
and that door remains open unto us lord and that we can get a lot of
contact with the Belizeans over there lord and that potentially in
november we can go back there and even have a church service lord so we just
pray that you make it a fruitful trip for us lord
and that you protect the soul owners as we travel out there
and that the time is uh very good for us lord
lord we also want to pray for the protection of our church and our church
families lord as we go to and from work and during
our day-to-day lives lord we just pray that you have a hand of protection over
us and that we remain safe so we can
continue to do the work for you lord we also want to pray for spiritual
numerical growth we pray that we continue to see a lot of new people
new visitors lord if it's our family or neighbors whoever it is lord we just
pray that they continue we continue to see new people and as
they get plugged into the christian life lord we pray that they
grow spiritually as well and they get plugged into a soul winning team
and they become a laborer for you lord and our teams continue to grow
and even potentially that we could even expand more team leaders
and give him bigger teams lord lord we also pray for the
the leadership we prayed for pastor mijia that you continue to be with him
lord you continue to bless him and his family and keep him safe lord
and we pray that you just continue to guide him
and as he follows you lord and that he leads our church as he's been and he
continues to be a very fruitful church for you lord
we also want to pray for the family salvations like pastor said lord there's
a lot of people maybe in our families that maybe
haven't heard the gospel or maybe they have and they rejected it
lord but we pray that you continue to soften their hearts lord and that
whatever it may be that's causing them to
uh like whatever stronghold is holding them up lord we pray that you know that
that you soften their heart and you tenderize their heart to the
word of god lord and that they come to the foot of the cross
and understand how easy it is to be saved lord
lastly lord we want to pray for miss susie guterres for her recovery from
her surgery we pray that you have a hand of healing and protection
over her during this time we pray that you're with
her family as well that everything just goes well and that she has a speedy
recovery lord lastly we pray that you feel pastoring
here with your spirit that you could preach
his message that you prepared for us tonight and that you're with the
congregation tonight and you give us ears to hear
and that it's edifying for us tonight now we pray all these things in jesus
name amen so the third song you can turn to song
number 19 in your hymnals there is a fountain
all right song number 19 for our third song
there is a fountain
song 19 there is a fountain everyone all together nice and strong
there is a fountain filled with blood drawn from
emmanuel's veins and sinners plunge beneath that flood
lose all their guilty stains lose all their guilty stains
lose all their guilty stains and sinners plunge
beneath that flood lose all their guilty stains
the dying thief rejoice to see that fountain
in his day and there may i go
as he wash all my sins away
wash all my sins away wash all my sins away
and there may i go as he wash all my sins away
dear dying lamb thy precious blood shall never
lose its power amen till all the ransom church of god
be safe to sin no more be safe to sin no more
be safe to sin no more till all the ransom
church of god be safe to sin no more
air since by faith i saw the stream thy flowing wound
supply redeeming love has been my theme
and shall be till i die and shall be till i die
and shall be till i die redeeming love
has been my theme and shall be till i die
then in a nobler sweeter song i'll sing
thy power to save when this poor lisping
stammering tongue lies silent in the grave
lies silent in the grave lies silent in the grave
when this poor lisping stammering tongue lies silent in the grave
amen this time the ushers will collect the offering tonight we'll be in second
samuel chapter 19
so
good evening we are in uh chapter 19 of second samuel
this evening
and the bible reads and it was told joab behold the king
weepeth and mourneth for absolom and the victory that day was turned into
mourning unto all the people for the people heard
say that day how long how the king was grieved for his son
and the people gat them by stealth that day into the city as people being
ashamed to steal away when they flee in battle but the king
covered his face and the king cried with a loud voice oh my son absolom
oh absolom my son my son and joab came into the house to the king and said
thou has shamed this day the faces of all thy servants which this day have
saved thy life and the lives of thy sons and thy daughters
and the lives of thy wives and the lives of thy concubines
and that thou lovest thine enemies and hatest thy friends for thou has declared
this day that thou regardest neither princes nor servants
for this day i perceive that if absolom had lived and all we had died this day
then it but what it had pleased thee well
now therefore arise go forth and speak comfortably unto thy servants
for i swear by the lord if thou go not forth there will not tarry one with thee
this night and that will be worse unto thee than
all the evil that befell thee from thy youth until now
then the king arose and sat in the gate and they told
unto all the people saying behold the king doth sit in the gate
and all the people came before the king for israel had fled every man to his
tent and all the people were at strife
throughout all the tribes of israel saying the king saved us out of the hand
of our enemies and he delivered us out of the hand of
the philistines and now he is fled out of the land for absalom
and absalom whom we anointed over us is dead in battle
now therefore why speak ye not a word of bringing the king back
and king david sent to zadok into bithar the priest saying
speak unto the elders of judah saying why are ye the last to bring the king
back to his house seeing the speech of all israel has come
to the king given to his house you are my brethren you are my bones and
my flesh wherefore then are you the last to bring
back the king and say to emesa art thou not of my bone
that of my flesh god do so to me and more also if thou be
not captain of the host before me continually in the room of joab and
he bowed the heart of all the men of judah even as the heart
of one man so that they sent this word onto the king
return thou and all thy servants so the king returned and came to jordan
and judah came to gilgal to go to meet the king and conduct the king over
jordan and shimei the son of gara benjamite which
was a bahirim hastened and came down with the men of
judah to meet king david and there were a thousand men of
benjamin with him and zebath as a servant of the house of saul
and his 15 sons and his 20 servants with him
and they went over jordan before the king and there went over
a ferry boat to carry over the king's household and to do what he thought
good and shimei the son of gara fell down
before the king as he was come over jordan
and said unto the king let not my lord impute iniquity onto me neither do thou
remember that which thy servant did perversely that day that my lord the
king went out of jerusalem that the king should take it to his
heart but thy servant doth know that i have sinned
therefore behold i am come first this day of all the house of joseph to go
down to meet my lord the king but abishai the son of zariah answered
and said shall not shimei be put to death for
this because he cursed the lord's anointed
and david said what have i to do with you sons of zariah that you should this
day be adversaries unto me shall there any man be put to death to
stay in israel for do not i know that i am this day king
over israel therefore the king said unto shimei
thou shalt not die and the king swore unto him
and mahibosheth the son of saul came down to meet the king and had neither
dressed his feet nor trimmed his beard nor washed his clothes from the day the
king departed until the day he came again in peace
and it came to pass when he was come to jerusalem to meet the king that the king
said unto him wherefore when is thou not thou with me
mahibosheth and he answered my lord o king my serve
my servant deceived me for thy servant said i will saddle me and ask that i may
ride there on and go to the king because thy servant is lame and he hath
slandered thy servant unto my lord the king but my lord the king is an angel of
god do therefore what is good in thine eyes
for all my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king
yet didst set thy servant among them that did eat at thine own table what
right therefore have i to cry anymore unto the king
and the king said unto him why speakest thou any more of thy matters i have said
thou and zeba divide the land and mahibosheth said unto the king
yea let him take all for as much as my lord the king has come again in peace
unto his own house and barzillai the gileadite came down to
rogellum went over jordan with the king to
conduct him over jordan now barzillai was a very aged man even
four score years old and he had provided the king of
sustenance while he lay at manheim for he was a very great man
and the king said unto barzillai come thou over with me and i will feed thee
with me in jerusalem and barzillai said unto the king how long
have i to live that i should go up with the king unto
jerusalem i am this day four score years old
and can i discern between good and evil can thy servant taste what i eat or what
i drink can i hear any more the voice of singing
men and singing women wherefore then should thy servant be a burden unto my
lord the king thy servant will go a little way over
jordan with the king and why should the king recompense it me
such a reward let thy servant i pray thee turn back
again that i may die in mine own city and be buried by the grave of my father
and of my mother but behold thy servant chimham let him go
over with the lord the king with my lord the king
and due to whom what shall seem good unto thee and the king answered
chimham shall go over with me and i will do to him that which
shall seem good unto thee and whatsoever thou shall require of me
that will i do for thee and all the people went over jordan and when the
king was come over the king kissed barizillai and blessed
him and he returned onto his own place then the king went on to gilgal and
chimham went on with him and all the people of judah conducted
the king and also the half the people of israel and behold all the
men of israel came to the king and said onto the king
why have our brethren the men of judah stolen thee away
and have brought the king and his household and all david's men with him
over jordan and all the men of judah answered the
men of israel because the king is near of kin to us
wherefore then be angry for this matter have we eaten at all the king's costs or
hath he given us any gift and the men of israel answered the men of
judah and said we have 10 parts in the king and we
have also more right in david than ye why then did you despise us that our
advice should not be first had in bringing back our king
and the words of the men of judah were fiercer than the words of the men of
israel let's pray thank you heavenly father for
this wonderful church you've given us your god we thank you for our pastor
we ask that you please bless him with your holy spirit tonight as he preaches
your word onto us in jesus name amen amen okay we continue this evening with
our bible study on the book
in chapter 19 let me just do a little bit of review from chapter 18 to get us
caught up on the events that are taking place here
in israel with david in chapter 18 we see the death of
absalom and of course what that picture is we
went over some of the parallels there that absalom in chapter 18 in regards to
his death did picture jesus christ we see that he
was caught up in a tree he was pierced through with darts we saw
that he was cast into a pit of course a great heap of stones was
placed upon him and how a lot of that paralleled the
death of jesus christ and then we also see a high man in kushai
running to give tidings unto the king just like peter
and john ran to the sepulcher to to confirm
that the christ was resurrected and so we saw a lot of that there
but from the actual story in and of itself we know that in chapter 18
basically that's essentially the end of absalom's reign
right his insurrection that he made there where he
sought to essentially dethrone his father for being the
true king of israel and he took over there and in chapter 19
we basically see that david is trying to get reinstated once again
and we go through different people that essentially accept him or reject him
now before i get into that actual part of the chapter
i want to uh talk a little bit about absalom before we leave off on chapter
and as i mentioned in chapter 18 or excuse me yeah chapter 18
his death obviously pictures jesus christ
but in general though when you look at his life and how
you know he took over the kingdom he also pictures the antichrist if you
think about it you say why is that well if you think
about it you know the when you think of the term christ
christ means messiah which means the anointed one right
and in the old testament especially in regards to the kings of israel
they were often referred to as the lord's anointed
and in fact anytime a king was a person was placed to be a king you
know a prophet would come and essentially anoint their head with oil
uh signifying that they have god's blessing on their life there are gods
chosen there are gods elect for this specific job here and so to a certain
extent you know the kings in israel were the lord's anointed right and if
christ means messiah messiah means anointed
and if david is essentially the anointed one of israel
to reign over israel then that would make absalom
essentially an antichrist right why because he's taking the place of
the anointed one he is essentially a fraudulent
king it doesn't he doesn't deserve that place
he doesn't deserve that position but he's coming in the place
of that king he's coming in the place of the anointed one
now how does he do it well if you remember a couple chapters back
he essentially you know starts off by standing in front of the gates
and waiting for people to come and he uses what he uses
flattery to get himself a position and to get essentially to steal the hearts of
the people and the bible says in daniel chapter 11
when prophesying of the antichrist it states that he shall obtain the
kingdom by flatteries and so just like the
antichrist will obtain the kingdom by flatteries when he goes forth conquering
into conquering the end times in like manner absalom did the same
exact thing he didn't take the kingdom by righteous
means he is a fraudulent monarch he's a
fraudulent king that obtained the kingdom
by flatteries and of course we also see that
in the end times when the antichrist takes over he essentially sets up the
abomination of desolation right well when it comes to absalom one of the
most abominable things that he does as he sets up a tent right on the top of
the roof and he essentially goes into his father's concubines
you know essentially committing that abomination before all people
and of course he goes to war with the actual king
just as the antichrist will go to war with jesus christ in revelation chapter
19 also known as the battle of armageddon
but then he's slain he's thrown into a pit just as the antichrist will be slain
and cast into the lake of fire along with the false
prophet so we see those parallels there with
absalom and the antichrist and it's interesting
that you know god chose his death to signify
the death of jesus christ but in general his bad acts
and you know his his reign so to speak unfortunately also parallels the
antichrist and uh you know essentially basically
confirms a lot of what we believe regarding end times
now look at verse number one we're going to get into a little bit of end times
prophecy tonight uh just regarding what we see here in
chapter 19 but in chapter 19 we see that first
and foremost joab begins to give david a really harsh rebuke
and why does he do that well because david is essentially
mourning the death of his son absalom and rightfully so it's his son
you know he didn't want his son to die he specifically commanded his men not to
touch his son joab of course being the self-willed
person that he is takes matters into his own hands and
kills absalom look at verse one it says and it was
told joab behold the king weepeth and mourneth for absalom and the victory
that day was turned into mourning unto all the people for the people heard say
that day how the king was grieved for his son the people got them by stealth
that day into the city as people being ashamed steal away when
they flee in battle so what people is he referring to he's
referring to the people of judah who followed david so the people who are
actually fighting you know alongside david against the
israelites who are against david under absalom's rule
they win to have this great victory but now they're kind of coming into the
kingdom kind of ashamed because of the fact that their leader
doesn't isn't celebrating he's not happy he's not giving a
victory speech he's kind of causing everyone to be ashamed of that which
took place okay and it says in verse four but the king
covered his face and the king cried with a loud voice
oh my son absalom oh absalom my son my son
and joab came into the house to the king and said thou has shamed this day the
faces of all thy servants which this day has saved thy life and
the lives of thy sons and of thy daughters and the lives of thy wives and
the lives of thy concubine so joab comes and he gives him a really
strong rebuke and he says you know you ought to be ashamed of yourself
because of the fact that we fought this war for you we fought
this war to save you your hide your concubines hide your
family's hide you know this is for you and later on he
even says you know it almost seems as though
like if we died and absalom lived you actually been happy about that
now what joab says is actually true right like this rebuke
is necessary but you know because of the fact that it just comes from joab
it just kind of rubs you the wrong way because you know we know
based upon joab's character he's not a he's not a righteous person right
i mean you disobey the king's commandment but obviously this is
something that king david needs to hear now what is the
principle that we can learn here because later on we see that
joab tells them hey you need to go to the gate and go address your people
stop mourning stop feeling sorry for what happened
all these people fought for you there's a lot of people that died
and you know you're you're essentially on your way to be reinstated to be king
but yet you're throwing this pity party and you're making everyone feel bad
around you okay so you should go make your proclamation
that you're officially the king and praise the people and let them know
that they officially have a legitimate leader now right
and this is all true and you know david actually does that he actually gets up
he goes to the gate and he begins to speak to the people and
really what we can learn from this particular
passage right here uh from a practical standpoint
is you know there's sometimes when it's hard to do right
when we're emotionally unstable right but the reality is this is that no
matter how emotional you are no matter how hard of a day you've had
it you still need to go to the gate amen
you still need to go to work you still need to read your bible you still need
to fulfill your responsibilities and not allow your
emotions to debilitate you and paralyze you from fulfilling that what you're
supposed to do that day you know david doesn't have the luxury
to wear his emotions on his sleeve and say well i'm depressed i'm not gonna go
out it's like well you sent us out to go fight
like you sent us out for this this is your campaign
we're trying to reinstate you as the king you know
what's going on here you need to you know
wake up you know kind of shake them a little bit
and you know david does you know and and it's a great thing because of the fact
that you know this is a great principle for
us to learn that you know there's gonna be times in our life when we
are emotional we're going through a difficult time you know maybe we
suffered some sort of loss and we are on an emotional our emotional
tank is on empty so to speak right but that doesn't mean that we just
can't continue to operate on our day-to-day lives in fact we
have to operate as normal as usual the show must go on right and
you can't fall into this deep state of depression where you're just completely
debilitated incapable of reading your bible
incapable of praying incapable of going to work you know you might have a couple
days like that where you're feeling really bad but at the end of the day you
need to pick yourself back up and and and take care of business right
you know i think of and david is a great example of this
because there is a time where the people speak of stoning him if you remember
and the bible says that he encouraged himself in the lord
so instead of falling into a really deep state of depression
and not leading the people and not leading his family
and and and essentially regaining his family because they were kidnapped
he encouraged himself in the lord and he you know he essentially found the
courage to not only get back on his feet but
also you know get back all the families and
all the goods that were stolen from him by the amalekites
so this is a great example of what we as christians should do
and what we as christians should be and you know this doesn't mean that it's
gonna ease the pain of absalom's death but
you got to continue to move on and obviously
you know i'm not talking about if someone dies in your family you know
the next day you just got to be up you know just
everything's got to be hunky dory or something like that what i'm saying is
that whenever you go through a difficult time
you got to lead your emotions and not allow your emotions to lead you
okay and we do live in a society where it is the other way around
you know people don't do things because they don't feel like doing them
people don't fulfill the responsibilities because they just don't
feel like it but you know we don't have that luxury
as leaders as fathers as mothers as people okay as as god's people we need
to continue to get up and go forward you think of when saul
died and sam you had a hard time with that
he wept for saul and god told them like why are you crying
fill thine horn with oil and go find another leader
and that might sound kind of cold right like i can't mourn a little bit but god
is like you know it's just time to move on you
need to make sure you get filled with the spirit
and keep going forward not necessarily be cold-hearted but just understanding
you need to continue to operate as a person
and so you know joab gives them the truth
it's just that joab is not necessarily the most credible person to talk about
integrity or anything like that because this guy is really bad
okay he is a scoundrel okay in my opinion
but he says in uh well let's read verse six it says
and that thou lovest thine enemies and hatest thy friends so obviously joab is
exaggerating here he doesn't hate his friends he doesn't
even you know he doesn't even hate his enemies
you know he joab is just trying to make him feel
bad here okay he says thou lovest thine enemies and
hatest thy friends for thou has declared this day
that thou regardest neither princes nor servants for this day i perceive that if
absalom had lived and all we had died this day
then it had pleased thee well ouch now therefore arise go forth and speak
comfortably unto thy servants for i swear by the lord if thou go not
forth there will not tarry one with thee this
night and that will be worse into thee than all the evil that befell thee
from thy youth until now he's like if you don't get up and go speak
comfortably into these people we're going to leave you no we're going to
leave you and your condition of being just this
lone king with no servants and no soldiers
it's going to be worse than anything you've ever experienced he's obviously
exaggerating here um you know he just he's speaking to
him in such a way that he's trying to
essentially provoke him to get back on his feet obviously now i
will say this is that you know joab is probably not the guy for this
job though you know what i mean we obviously know that and and it seems
as though david also feels the same way because later
on he actually demotes joab and he gives amasa his job so amasa was
the commander of absalom's army right but once
absalom dies you know david takes over and he's like
amasa you're taking joab's job so it's kind of like you're gonna stick
it to me i'm gonna stick it to you too and now you're out of a job buddy you're
demoted but then of course because joab is such a scoundrel
such a wicked person he kills amasa in chapter 20 he ends up slaying him you
know on the road because you know amasa wasn't necessarily fulfilling the
job at the at the same rate that david
wanted him to so then joab comes and he's like it's
all well brother and he just like smites him under the fifth rib and he
kills him that's that famous story where he kills him
he's lying on the floor he's just like wallowing in his blood
and everyone's just like looking at him and he just kind of pulls you know he
just kind of grabs him he just pulls him aside
like off the road as if that even does anything you know
so joab you know he does get the job done
just not in the best way you know he's just not a righteous person
so he gets demoted later on you see in verse number eight it says then the king
rose and sat in the gate and they told unto all the people saying
behold the king that sinned in the gate and all the people came before the king
for israel had fled every man to his tent
so now there's there there's there arises this issue within israel
and they're kind of debating in the next couple verses
they're like should we reinstate him as king because this kind of looks bad like
we were we anointed absalom as king but now he's dead
and david is the one who kind of rescued us from all our enemies like
what are we going to do here okay now keep in mind we'll see later on at the
end of the chapter that this is referring to 10 tribes okay
so there's 10 tribes that collectively are referred to as israel
and then you have judah and then you kind of have this wild card benjamin
okay i want you to remember that uh towards
towards the middle of the sermon we're going to go over that in just a bit and
so 10 of them are just kind of like on the fence of
whether to reinstate them or not it says in verse number uh what verse
are we in verse number nine all the people that were strife throughout all
the tribes of israel saying the king saved us out of the hand of our enemies
and he delivers out of the hand of the philistines and now he's fled out of
the land of for absalom so they're kind of talking
trash on him they're like but now he's running from
his own son and absalom when he we anointed over
whom we anointed over us is dead in battle now therefore why
speaking not a word of bringing the king back
so then david goes to zadok uh and to abiathar the priest and he
basically says hey you need to go campaign for me
and try to win the people over again uh to my side
because of the fact that david's not going to force his leadership on them
okay now here's a great principle okay because david could easily just say look
idiots i'm the king now you it's either it's my
way or the highway but he chooses not to do that he says
look you have to accept me as your leader i'm
not going to force my leadership on you and in fact after saul dies if you
remember he basically did the same thing he was
ruling over judah he wasn't ruling over israel as of yet he
wanted them to essentially want him as their leader okay now why is this
a great principle well first and foremost it pictures
jesus christ perfectly because jesus doesn't force anybody to be
saved jesus doesn't force anybody to accept him
as the savior and as god they have to by their own volition
choose that right he's not gonna and even when they do
get saved he's not gonna force his lordship on you either
you have to choose to submit to him and choose to obey his rules choose to obey
his commandments choose to obey his law because he doesn't enforce that upon you
regardless of what the calvinists teach you know the calvinists have a doctrine
that basically teaches that you know we don't have a choice in the
matter you know there's this irresistible grace
and and you know the sovereignty of god we're all essentially puppets in the and
on the fingertips of god and you know when we do wrong it's like
god moved us to do that or you know god moves us to do
righteous things or something and obviously we know that god can move
within his people and provoke us into good works but at
the end of the day we have our own will my friends you
can't blame god for your lack of success in
spiritual matters or for your failure in spiritual
matters it's your choice and you know what no one
can blame god at the judgment seat of christ and say well you know i didn't
have a chance to be saved it's like you always have
your entire life is characterized by an opportunity to be saved
every day that you live yeah but i never had like an independent fundamental
baptist come up to me well here's the thing though you had a
couple witnesses you had creation as a witness
you had the law of god written in your heart
and then there's a millions of bibles everywhere in this world that you knew
existed and you could have easily just gone and
just grabbed one and just looked at what the bible says
they could have essentially moved you to respond which is responding to god's
the light that god gives you and then in light of that god would have sent
someone to come talk to you to give you the gospel right well i don't
have access to a bible go to the dollar tree they sell they sell
king james bibles there as far as i know you still do right
yeah but i'm talking about one of those leather bound bibles look folks
it could be wrapped in paper you know it's still the truth and still
more valuable than all the silver and gold in this world
what i'm saying is that people in this world are without excuse
and it's just well i just want god to just appear and just show himself
and then i would believe no because he would be forcing himself upon you he
doesn't do that he's already provided everything you
need to essentially situate yourself where you would get saved because someone
would come and give you the gospel because you're responding to the light
that god gives you okay you know we have the law of god written
in our hearts we know that there is a creator we
have creation and folks let's just be honest just
aside from those three there's a bunch of other stuff that we have
that human beings have churches youtube with preaching
i mean we live in a day and age where truth is available to us
on all fronts and so if someone dies and goes to hell in this generation
i mean for sure that's their fault i mean
it's someone 2000 years ago that was their fault too
but i mean even so much the more now i mean think about people who go to
fundamental baptist churches who are not saved
and that exists people who go to fundamental baptist churches
they attend that church you know or or you have
kids and teenagers that grow up in independent fundamental baptist church
but they're just not saved right and they hear the preaching of god's word
three days out of the week they hear the gospel being preached
they hear the word of god and then they just reject the gospel they die and they
go to hell it's their fault my friends because god
doesn't force anything upon anyone we people have to choose
right and so king is the the king here king david is not
forcing himself his leadership upon anybody he's just like
they have to want me as their king understand
this isn't the calvinist god here that just programs everyone to be exactly the
same it doesn't work that way you know it's a false doctrine okay
and uh so he tells them like go go tell the people
and you know tell them to bring me through
as their king verse 12 says you are my brethren you're my bones and my flesh
wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king
so he's telling israel it's like hey i thought we were like family
why are you the last 110 tribes to bring me back
you know if we're you're my flesh and my bone
you're my family verse 13 says and say he to amasa
art thou not of my bone and of my flesh god do so to me and more also
if i'll be not captain of the host before me continually
in the room of joab you know just to kind of
get joab a little bit there he's just like hey i'm giving you joab's job
now why is he doing that well he's kind of showing
that he is a benevolent ruler because if amasa fought against david
in the war with absalom naturally you would think
now that david's the king all right amasa you know you're done for
you know king dave is about to murk you right now you're done
but instead he's just like you know what i'm gonna give you his job
even though joab has been there from the beginning
what is that picture well pictures the jews and believers amen
because of the fact that amasa came later and in fact the bible says
of gentiles that we were enemies in our mind
right since we're enemies in our mind of god
however when we believe on jesus christ when we have the true king as our savior
he basically almost puts us at the same level if not a greater position
than joab had right who's been there this whole time kind of thing
i don't want to spoil anything else because we still need to go over
more of these verses here it says in verse 14 and he bowed the heart of all
the men of judah even as the heart of one man so that
they sent this word unto the king return thou all thy servants so the king
returning came to jordan and judah came to gilgal to go meet the
king to conduct the king over jordan so he really touches the hearts of the
people of israel and they start realizing you know that
this is the guy you know we need to reinstate him again so we
obviously see that there's this debate that arises zeta goes to go
essentially negotiate to convince israel that um
you know david's the man and now look at verse 16 and shimmy had
to send vagira benjamite now who's shimmy i well if you've been
paying attention over the last couple of chapters
this is the guy who when david was essentially exiled
because of his son you know he's with all his men you know he's this annoying
little punk who's like on the hills and he's like
casting stones at david calling him a son of belial just saying
all manner of evil against him casting stones you know just just being
it's like a youtube troll or something right
this facebook youtube troll where they make channels
would they have like five subscribers or something like that but their their
life's purpose is to cast stones at the man of
god this is shimmy eye okay
and you know if you remember you know david's men were like
let me just go decapitate him real quick you know
i'll take care of him for you real quick let me just do it and david was already
humbled by the fact that he was being exiled so he's just like
the lord bade him just leave him alone and this guy is over here like
thou bloody man and son of belial and they're just he's just saying all manner
of evil and i'm assuming this guy is probably
like you know looks like a weenie he's probably really
thin probably has no muscular structure he
probably just looks very annoying right just has a loud mouth
nothing to back it up right oh how the tables have turned though
now this is shimmy eyes worst nightmare because when shimmy i was doing that he
thought oh absolom he's the king now david's out
david's gonna die and we're gonna be okay so so he had the boldness and the
confidence to do all that to david but all of a sudden david's back in town
so shimmy eye is the first one to come to david
it says shimmy had the son of gear a benjamite who was a bahirim
hasted yeah you better run and came down with the men of judah to meet king david
and there were a thousand men of benjamin with him and ziba the servants
of the of the house of saul and his 15 sons and
his 20 servants with him and they went over jordan before the king
they went over a fair boat to carry over the king's household
and to do what he thought good and shimmy i the son of gira fell down before
the king and he was come over jordan he said
unto the king let not my lord impute iniquity and to me
neither do thou remember that which thy servant did perversely the day that my
lord the king went out of jerusalem that the king should take it to his heart
he's like hey you know don't take it personal what i said unto you
now here's my opinion okay and obviously we don't know when we read
the stories we're kind of reading into the motives
we kind of you know speculate what the motives are
behind what people do i'm just gonna say shimmy is full of it
though okay i don't think he really i don't think he
likes david i don't think he's doing this because he just you know
oh man you are the king like you know no he's doing it because he wants to save
his hide okay and so he knows
you know he's he's about to get whacked he's probably gonna be one of the first
ones on the list because he called david a son of belial
okay this is basically like your atheist you know uh during the tribulation when
jesus christ comes he's hiding under a rock right
this is your atheist who's blasphemed god mocked god
invests all this time mocking the lord jesus christ and
and saying all manner of evil against him or whatever
and so how convenient you know uh shimmy i that all of a sudden now
you're for david okay it says in verse 20 for thy servant
doth know that i have sinned therefore behold i am come the first
day the first this day of the of the house of joseph to go down to
meet my lord the king he's like i'm the first one here you know
i'm just and by the way what is he doing he also
knows that david is merciful because david is merciful
he's a very gracious kind he's very um tender-hearted he's long suffering
and we know that david doesn't need his men to take out shimmy i david could do
it himself if it's strong enough he's very powerful
but you know what he doesn't have a short temper
and so he extends forgiveness to shimmy i
but here's the thing if you guys have read the bible
this is just an isolated incident here because later on david's like tell
solomon hey do you remember you tell solomon
hey do you remember shimmy i all that you did to me
welcome you know he's like
you know the solomon father okay he puts out this hit list of all of his
enemies right before he leaves right before he goes the way of all the
earth he's just like he's not like i want to
go to disneyland he's not like i want to do you know jump
out of an airplane before i die he's like i got three people i want you
to kill okay make sure these people you know just
die okay and you know what shimmy is one of
them so although we we learn here okay
that you know david is very merciful and kind
you know he's still human so he's still vengeful
but you know what this also pictures jesus christ because of the fact that
jesus has shown an incredible amount of mercy
to all those who mock him today okay you say well how well how about by
just letting them live right how about giving them
80 years on this earth
without honoring him just you know saying all manner of evil against him
cursing him in their hearts or mocking him
just choosing to just kind of do their own thing and mock
god he extends his mercy towards them and his long suffering by just allowing
them to live but you know at the end of the day
they're still being tossed into the lake of fire though okay
and so nice try shimmy eye but it's only going to last for so long
okay and this is kind of like what do they call the foxhole soldiers
is that what they call them you guys ever heard that term before
are all atheists in the foxhole become christians or something
haven't you ever heard a term something like that basically it's referring to
the fact that when you're near death it doesn't matter if you're an atheist
you become a believer right like everyone cries out to god
one day when it's just like they're they got cancer
you know we're talking about like people who are just not believers they get
cancer they're about to die they're in a car
accident the plane's going down or something
oh they'll call out to god at that point right which by the way you know if
they're sincere and they really do want to be saved like the thief on the cross
they'll be saved because whosoever shall call upon the name of the lord shall be
saved right but the majority of people who do that
probably are not sincere they're just really scared
because they just don't want to die they're like this individual right here
shimmy eye okay
uh verse 21 but abishai the son of zero i answered and said
shall not shimmy i be put to death for this because he cursed the lord's
anointed so he kind of clocks up you know they're
having this this emotional moment here of forgiveness and he's asking you know
for remission of his sins and abishai is just like hey shouldn't we
this guy deserves to die though remember or the rock he threw at you
or all the stuff that he said about you and he cursed you
this is basically the prophets okay the prophets are like
why are these atheists still allowed to live lord
and david said what have i to do with you you sons of zariah
that you should this day be adversaries unto me shall there any man be put to
death this day in israel do i not know that i am this day king
over israel so he's basically saying like you guys man
you guys stress me out like you sons of zero i no one's gonna die today
he's like this is a enough people have died
let this guy live i mean you think anybody's gonna convince me that i'm not
the king i'm the king this day
verse 23 therefore the king said unto shimmy i'm
thou shall not die of course we know yet thou shall not die and the king swear
unto him verse 24 so you have you know
uh shimmy i coming and now you have mephibosheth okay
who's the son of of jonathan the son of saul
ephibosheth the son of saul came down to meet the king and had neither dressed
his feet nor trimmed his beard nor washed his clothes from the day that
the king departed until the day he came again in peace and it came to pass
when he was come to jerusalem to meet the king that the king said unto him
wherefore when does not thou with me mephibosheth so if you remember a couple
chapters back mephibosheth's servant came to david and
slandered mephibosheth and said that mephibosheth had
essentially defected to absalom and was with absalom against
the king that's a complete lie okay and so king
when king david sees him he's just like why didn't you come to see me
mephibosheth says in verse 26 my lord o king my servant deceived me
for thy servant said i will saddle me and ask that i may ride there on and go
to the king because i serve in his lame and he hath slandered thy servant unto
my lord the king but my lord the king is as an angel of god
do therefore what is good in thine eyes now this is pretty interesting
because he says look he lied about me it's not true
i didn't defect you know he was waiting for the coming of the king
but this is his attitude but king david whatever seems good to you
do unto me which is a pretty amazing attitude
because if you remember david gives mephibosheth you know a portion of his
meat he gives him a portion of land along with his servant as well
and then here mephibosheth basically tells him like you can take whatever you
want you can do to me whatever you want i'm
just happy that you're the king again now this my friend is an amazing
attitude to have okay how do we apply this as christians
well you know he's mephibosheth it wasn't his fault
right and in fact later on in the story david basically says
okay well i believed your servant zeba and so now both of you are going to get
that portion the land that i gave you i'm also going to give to zeba as well
because i believed him so you know mephibosheth kind of gets the short end
of the stick here even though it was a complete lie against
him but you know what he's content with
whatever the king gives him he's happy with whatever the king
distributes unto him because he understands i don't deserve
anything so think about this you know mephibosheth could be like
well i got saved later on in life and i had some mistakes in my life that i
can't control you know my parents whatever abused me
or i was abused somewhere and i couldn't control any of the
misfortune that came upon me but lord whatever seemeth good unto you
to me to do do it if it if it if it pleases you to give me a family one day
to give me a spouse to to make me successful then so be it i'll take
whatever you give me i'm just happy that i have a savior that's like the
attitude because we we could look at mephibosheth
and say man that's my stuff his servant deceived him his servant
wronged him but you know on mephibosheth's end he's not dissatisfied at
all he's thankful that he that king david
is the king he's thankful to get whatever king david gives him
and let me say this after salvation whatever we get after that is like a
cherry on top right salvation is a gift it's freely
given to us if we get anything else on top of that
that those are just bonuses so what if i don't get them we still
have salvation and so you know you might be dealt a bad
hand in life so to speak where you know someone
might have had it better than you you were slandered you were lied about
someone wronged you defrauded you whatever may be
but at the end of the day if you have this attitude you still come out winning
because at the end of the day jesus christ is still your god
you're still a believer you have the word of god
and anything on top of salvation is a benefit and so you know it's just
like well you know i just wish i had but we don't deserve
anything though
now does god promises us a lot of things of course he promised to provide for us
to protect us and and and feed us and and even to a
certain extent give us all things richly to enjoy but we
need to put things into perspective that even if we
don't get those things we still come out winning and god's still been good to us
and that's the main point no matter what misfortune comes upon you
god has still been good to you if you're in this building if you're in this
church you're saved you have a bible god has
been good to you yeah but god has been better to that person though
so what you're not that person so stop focusing on them and in fact
they came up short on something else too so who cares
just be thankful for what you get just like mephibosheth
he says in verse 30 mephibosheth said unto the king
yea let him take all or let's look at verse 29
and the king said unto him why speakest thou any more of thy matters
i have said thou and zeba divided the land
and mephibosheth said unto the king yea let him take all
for as much as my lord the king has come again in peace
unto his own house he's like no matter what happens to me as long as god is
glorified as long as his word goes forth as long
as you're the king that's all that matters you know we
might come up short on this side of eternity and and you know
come out losing in the eyes of the world but you know what at the end of the day
if god is is still on the throne which he is then it doesn't matter
people still get saved the word of god thunders forth god uses our life in a
way that glorifies him then so be it because we don't deserve anything else
and so great attitude mephibosheth
he says in verse 31 and barzillai the gilead
gilead excuse me came down from aragelim and went over jordan with the king to
conduct him over jordan so here in these verses from verses uh 31
to 40 is this discourse between uh barzillai
and david and barzillai i mean i know who exactly who he is but
in the previous chapter when david or a few chapters back actually
when david is exiled he was there to feed him he brought him
food he brought him resources him and his men
very beautiful picture of matthew 25 where jesus tells his uh tells uh
believers you know i was hungry and he fed me
i was thirsty and he gave me to drink i you know i was
sick and he visited me i was in prison and all that and and he says
as much as you have done it to one of the least of these my brethren
you have done it unto me right so in like manners like barzillai was that
person because he fed david he fed his men he was a blessing to
him so david recompenses barzillai and says
hey you're with me you can eat at my table
i'm gonna be a blessing to you and he's just like i have everything i need
do it to my son okay you know bless my son
what's his name here uh chimham what's up with these names barzillai
whatever happened to just like joe and bob no i'm just kidding
you know chimham he said do it to chimham which potentially might be a son
he said do it to him give everything to him so then chimham is blessed of david
okay and the picture that we can learn there is that parents
when we obey the lord when we walk with god
when we serve him all the days of our life
the blessing is we become so saturated with god's blessing
that it actually overflows into the next generation as well
so that's a motivation for you and i to just be all in for the lord
because we want that cup to run over and spill over into the next generation
you know spill over into our kids you say like what though like what kind of
blessing well just the blessing of having christian virtues
i mean that's a blessing in and of itself raising children who know the
bible who respect their elders who obey
who love the lord i mean that's a major blessing
okay people of integrity and so obviously
because he was kind unto the king and he served the king
chimham benefited from that relationship
all right let's move on here
verse 39 says and all the people went over jordan and when the king was come
over the king kissed barzillai and blessed him and he returned into his own
place then the king went on to gilgal and
chimham on with him went on with him and all the people of
judah conducted the king and also half the people of israel
and behold all the men of israel came to the king and said unto the king
why have our brethren the men of judah stolen thee away
and have brought the king and his household and all david's men with them
over jordan all the men of judah answered the men of
israel because the king is near of kin to us
wherefore then be angry for this matter have we eaten at all at the king's cost
or have hath he given us any gift so now
this little civil war starting to brew here okay
you can never just have just like a peaceful reconciliation
there's always someone who's got to mess everything up right there's always
someone who has to complain about something
has to murmur about something has to bring something up
you know caught offended at something they're bringing the king over
and israel is just like well why did you do it why
basically they're saying like why aren't we invited to this why aren't we a part
of this procession of bringing the king back you
know and they're like well you know he's near
of kin to us so like why not like we were with him throughout this
whole time so you know we're being honored by
allowing us to honor him by bringing him in
but either way he says you know uh have we eaten at all the king's cost
like you know we haven't done anything other
than that he says in verse 43 and then men of
israel answered the men of judah and said
we have 10 parts in the king and we have also more right in david than ye
why then did he despise us that our advice should not be first
had in bringing back our king the words of the men of judah were fierce in the
words of the men of israel so now you have this
civil war that's about to break out in chapter 20 now i want to mention a
couple things here uh in closing i don't know how long this
is going to take so we'll see okay so what do we see here
there's 10 tribes collectively known as israel
then you have judah and then you have this wild card benjamin
right and the problem here is that israel
who by the way was against king david now they're complaining and saying like
we want an inheritance with judah like why is judah allowed to do this
they're they're haters basically right they're hating on judah
okay now i think this picture something in the
end times prophecy in the sense that of course we
we obviously understand that king david pictures jesus christ
but let me just mention a couple things here to kind of set the stage for why i
think this kind of picture is something in the end times
when we talk about end times we're referring to you know the seven year
period right mentioned in in the book of daniel
that's highlighted in the book of revelation not seven year tribulation
just a seven year that the bible would refer to as
daniel's 70th week okay made up of three and a half years of
tribulation you know the 75 days of great tribulation
and then three and a half years of god's wrath culminating to essentially
the battle of armageddon which is the major war between
jesus christ and the antichrist that essentially
establishes jesus christ as being the king of this world
right you know establishes his millennial reign okay
now there's a false doctrine that's taught by
a lot of people unfortunately independent fundamental baptists
included known as the pre-tribulation rapture
that essentially works in tandem with zionism okay
dispensationalism zionism and the the major thing with this teaching is
essentially that these seven years that are highlighted
in the bible in the book of revelation is all geared for the jews
okay and they'll say they'll call it the time of jacob's trouble
jacob referring to israel it's a phrase that you find in the book of jeremiah
that has nothing to do with end times prophecy
it's just like they're just like yeah that's good you know
the time of jacob's trouble okay and what they teach is that these seven
years are geared towards the jews unbelieving jews that essentially
will put them through the fire tribulation because they don't think
it's you know they essentially kind of
intermingle tribulation and wrath they think it's one and the same
whereas the bible is very clear that they're separate things you know
tribulation is just what we experience on a day-to-day basis persecution etc
and then wrath of god is you know the wrath of god okay
but they believe it's all tribulation and it's all for the jews
that all believers at the beginning of those seven years will be raptured away
it's it's the naked rapture right we're just clothes fall to the ground
and we just disappear or whatever and they're gonna say it's aliens and you
know all this stuff or whatever which they're saying that now apparently
aliens are being discovered like every week now apparently
but yeah you know marco's like you know we have all these
great phones all these great cameras and we can't get like a legitimate like
video here like this is 2023 why can't we ever get bigfoot
an unpixilated version of bigfoot of a lochness monster
of ufos it's like good night we can see black holes my friend
pictures of black holes and stars and planets
that are light years away but we this massive dinosaur right there you can't
get it you can't get a good picture of that why
i don't even know how i got into that so anyways there's gonna be your the
pre-trip rapture teaches that the rapture takes place prior to those
seven years and then all the seven years are geared towards the jews okay
and they believe that basically at the end of seven years
is the second coming of christ so we believe that the second coming of jesus
christ is essentially a little after the midpoint three and a
half years in because at the midpoint is where you have
the abomination of desolation where the antichrist makes war with the saints
75 days thereafter is the rapture and then you have the wrath of god
okay but they don't consider that to be a rapture they don't believe there's a
rapture there at all they believe the rapture is at the end
of seven years at the battle of armageddon okay and
that when jesus christ comes on a white horse
all these jews are going to be like oy vey
yeshua yahashua or whatever you know and then just
because they see him and they're just like this is it you know now and then
they get saved and so they'll use romans 11 to teach
to to confirm this and say that you know all israel shall be saved so
just this this entire nation of just christ rejecting
jews who adhere to the to the talmud just
at the drop of a hat because they see jesus christ coming
uh you know on a white horse they're gonna see them be like oh yeah it's for
sure even though they saw him riding on ass
and still rejecting him you know and obviously you know it just boggles
the mind how you can justify that that's even true
or you know because of the fact that nowhere in the bible does it say that
people looked upon jesus and believed they have to believe by faith right
so obviously that's that's a really stupid doctrine
that's not what's going to happen and i preach many sermons of that most of us
know end times prophecy to a certain extent
that we know that the rapture is after the tribulation etc
however let me say this is that just because
the preacher rapture teaches that all israel shall be saved
obviously that's wrong it doesn't mean that some jews
are not going to get saved during that time because there are going to be jews
that get saved during that time just like anybody else okay now let me
say this is that i believe it'll be a very small minority obviously
okay it's not going to be all israel
you know i doubt anything's just i don't know i just i from when i look
at the bible it doesn't sound like a very many jews
are going to get saved during that time there might be a remnant though that
does okay now hold your place there and go to
the book of zechariah the very obscure book known as the book
of zechariah if you go to the book of malachi which
is the last book of the old testament you make a left it's the next book right
over okay zechariah chapter 13 if you would go to
zechariah chapter 13 now zechariah is a book that teaches a
lot about end times bible prophecy extensively but it's very obscure
you know a lot of dark parables and so you know we don't get necessarily our
doctrine from the book of zechariah when it comes to end times prophecy but
it does reinforce some end times teaching okay now i know
this is very exciting for you right now and this
is exactly what you need on a thursday night
that's why i'm delivering it to you okay
now look down at your bibles at verse number
where are we at here
look at verse number eight it says and it shall come to pass
that in all the land saith the lord two parts therein
shall be cut off and die but the third shall be left therein
now this is referring to israel okay and it is in reference
to the end times so here the bible is quantifying israel
as parts and more specifically three parts why does it do that
i don't know he just does it that way okay he says there's three parts
two of them die okay and one of them is left therein now what
happens to that third one that's left look at verse nine and i will bring the
third part through the fire and will refine them as silver israel
is refined and will try them as gold is tried okay
now when you look up those phrases it's often very much synonymous with
tribulation okay we see that in the book of revelation
so i believe this is actually referring to
the tribulation so that third part that is left therein is that part that
is experiencing that tribulation you say yeah but are you saying like
they're gonna see jesus and believe no because look what it goes on to say
they shall call on my name and i will hear them and i will say it is my people
and they shall say the lord is my god so based upon this verse we can speculate
that there will be a third part a little
remnant that does call upon the name of the lord in the end times
which would explain a lot when looking at matthew 24
mark 13 luke 21 more specifically matthew 24
then when it addresses believers it's addressing those who are in israel to
flee from the abomination of desolation you know we're not going to be there i
mean i'm not planning to take a trip to israel anytime soon
especially during the tribulation right like that's the last place i want to be
you know because that's where the antichrist is gonna essentially
proclaim himself to be king it's just like i already know what's going to
happen so why even go over there like it's going to reach us you know over
here sooner or later i don't know i i you know i have faith that it's there
okay so this would mean that there's going
to be a certain segment of jews that do get saved
okay because they call upon the name of the lord
and they do get saved okay now how do the other ones die though
because this is obviously a cluster of verses
that can essentially covers a lot here right talk about the fire and those who
call upon the name of the lord and all that
well here's the thing at the end of the seven years when jesus christ sets up his
millennial reign there's a parable in the book of luke the gospel of luke
that implies that when jesus christ establishes a millennial reign what does
he say you know he basically says those my
enemies that would not have me rule over them
bring them before me and slay them
well in second samuel chapter 20 you have sheba the son of bikrai
who creates this faction with the israelites
against david and you know what happens to sheba the son of bikrai
he gets decapitated because he refused to have david rule over him
so here's the thing is that during chapter 19
you essentially have those three parts you have
the 10 tribes collectively known as israel
you have judah who actually have king david as their king and then you
have this wild card benjamin who the bible doesn't really
talk a whole lot about okay but here's the thing you know two
parts of them die right well a lot of the israelites die in that
war with absalom because the trees devoured a
lot of them but also the uh sheba the son of bikrai
dies because he's decapitated he said what
about benjamin well who represents benjamin in this story
shimiai who's the benjaminite who eventually gets decapitated
the only ones who are really there backing david up
is judah they're the ones who legitimately have king david as
their king and doesn't this make sense that you have
sheba the son of bikrai creating this faction against david
even though he's a part of israel and the bible says they are not all of
israel they are of israel right and the bible
says israel has not obtained that which he
seeketh for which is exactly what we see in second samuel 19 they're seeking to
be honored by the king israel has not obtained that which he
seeketh for but the election hath obtained it and the rest were blinded
that's what it says in roman chapter 11 go back to the second samuel if you
would so i think what this pictures here is
and times where you have these three groups these
three parts ten representing israel one and the
other two representing judah and benjamin
and of course king david representing jesus christ himself
now what happens after sheba the son of bikrai dies his kingdom is established
he's good to go just as when the millennial reign takes place
and you know luke 21 talks about the days of vengeance
it comes upon israel who rejected jesus christ what happens after that
well at the end of the seven years you have the millennial reign where the
where king david's millennial reign is established
and yeah you might have some unbelieving jews coming into that millennial reign
but hold on a second i mean this is jesus's reign this is his kingdom
so they gotta abide by his rules however sheba doesn't make it though
so sheba doesn't get to see all that just as in the end times there's gonna
be people who even when jesus christ is sitting on the
throne they're gonna be rejecting his authority
and his kingship and they're not gonna want him and he's like all right
well off with his head you look like sheba the son of bikrai
off with his head now and obviously i gave a spoiler or what happens in
chapter 20 let me just say this you know he doesn't
survive okay in fact they lop it the old lady
takes his head you know joab goes there and he's like
i'm not trying to destroy this whole city so just give me the head of sheba
the son of bikrai she's like say less they
decapitate they throw it over the wall and it's just like right
that was easy and so we see here how this pictures even in times because
of the three parts and how zechariah chapter 13 you say
man it sounds like you're teaching like what the preacher teaches
no the preachers take what the bible says and twist it
they see the remnant that's being saved and they say well all israel shall be
saved therefore we should worship the jews
and have zionism in our church and pray for israel
you know god told jeremiah pray not for this people
romans 11 has elijah who is of israel praying against israel tell me how that
works you know romans 11 has david saying of
israel let their back bend over all the way let
their eyes be blinded i mean he's saying all these imprecatory
things towards israel according to the flesh
which is funny because he told david tells his people
hey aren't you my flesh and my bone yet you're not coming to bring me over
jordan as your king it's like hey jews aren't you
you know of israel from which salvation comes from
aren't you my flesh and my bone you should be the ones who are believing on
jesus christ you should until you were committed to
the oracles of god but yet they rejected the lord jesus
christ and so uh that's pretty much it
great chapter here and you know just another thing that we see that the bible
has so many layers a lot of biblical truth there let's
pray father we thank you so much for your word
and thank you for the layers lord i pray that you bless us and help us to have
more understanding of the bible and uh to confirm that which we believe
lord and help us to be like mephibosheth help us not to be like shemiai
but to be like mephibosheth lord and to be like barzillai as well
i pray that you help us to be people of integrity to serve you all the days of
our life and help us to be like the men of judah
who uh stick it out with the king no matter what happens
and we love you we thank you pray this things in jesus name amen
all right song number five for our fourth song
song five when i survey the wondrous cross
everyone all together nice and strong when i survey
the wondrous cross
on which the prince
and for contempt on
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sacrifice
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wonderful singing