Music
Song 504 When the Battle's Over
Let's sing it together on the first
Am I a soldier of the cross, a faller of the lamp?
And shall I fear to own his cause or blush to speak his name?
And when the battle's over we shall wear a crown, yes we shall wear a crown, yes we shall wear a crown
And when the battle's over we shall wear a crown in the new Jerusalem
Wear a crown, wear a crown, wear a bright and shining crown
And when the battle's over we shall wear a crown in the new Jerusalem
Must I be carried to the skies on flowery beds of ease, while others fought to win the prize and sailed through bloody seas?
And when the battle's over we shall wear a crown, yes we shall wear a crown, yes we shall wear a crown
And when the battle's over we shall wear a crown in the new Jerusalem
Wear a crown, wear a crown, wear a bright and shining crown
And when the battle's over we shall wear a crown in the new Jerusalem
Sure I must fight if I would reign increase my courage, Lord
I'll bear the toil, endure the pain supported by thy word
And when the battle's over we shall wear a crown, yes we shall wear a crown, yes we shall wear a crown
And when the battle's over we shall wear a crown in the new Jerusalem
Wear a crown, wear a crown, wear a bright and shining crown
And when the battle's over we shall wear a crown in the new Jerusalem
And when the battle's over we shall wear a crown, yes we shall wear a crown, yes we shall wear a crown,
I'll bear the toil, endure the pain supported by thy word,
I'll be preaching the first one tonight about David's rise to power.
And then I'll be preaching another sermon about David's mighty men next week.
And our sowing times are listed below.
We had sowing today.
Did anybody get a salvation?
I know that Brother Alex said no, but was there any?
Maybe perhaps?
Okay.
All right.
Well, thanks for going out.
I know we had a good group out there, so at least it was a nice day.
It wasn't pouring down rain so that everybody got some exercise.
You're still going to get rewards for that.
And you might have got some steps on your pedometer or whatever.
So that's good.
All right.
Our Praise Report.
You see the salvation, baptisms, attendance totals from not last Sunday but the week before.
And we had a good friends and family weekend.
I hope everybody had a good time at the pumpkin patch and had Brother Daniel come.
And he preached a great message for us.
And I hope you took those things to heart.
And I really liked the sermon a lot.
It was really good.
We had a good weekend, good attendance, and a lot of fun.
So this weekend we have another guest preacher coming.
It's Dr. Phil Stringer.
He's going to be preaching for us both services on Sunday.
So hopefully everybody shows up for church and nobody gets sick.
And so, yeah, if you're just let's wash the hands, all that good stuff.
Try to steer clear of people that have the plague, all right?
And you're not going to want to miss the preaching.
He's a very knowledgeable man when it comes to the King James Bible.
He's from the King James Research Council.
And he preaches with a lot of other men.
And he travels the world actually.
He's a very sought after speaker.
He goes all over the world preaching about this subject and other subjects too.
And he just happened to have a free weekend.
So we snagged him before anybody else could.
And so I'm glad to have him come.
We saw him scheduled for December at this point and also in May.
So I'm very excited to have him come.
So please be here if you possibly can be here.
Please be here this weekend for the services.
I'd really appreciate it.
And October 27th we have our Super Soul Winning Saturday.
It'll be from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.
And basically what that is is just a four hour block of soul winning.
We're going to meet on location.
And if you need to bring snacks, drinks for your kids, take a break after a couple hours,
or if you just want to come at two o'clock and just go to four, I understand if you have
families and you can't go for four hours straight, a lot of people can't do that anyway.
But it is designed to be a four hour block of soul winning.
I'm not saying don't take breaks.
I think everybody's probably going to take a break at some point, right?
But I completely understand if you just want to show up for the last hour, that would be
fine too.
But we're all going to eat together at four o'clock, we're going to be done, and we'll
find a place where we can all just sit down and have a meal together, and then that'll
be the end of the day.
And we're still going to hit those same maps that we were going to hit last week.
We'll find a place where we can all have a meal together.
So that'll be October 27th on Saturday, and then October 31st, which is the Thursday following,
is going to be the chili and cornbread potluck.
It's not just only Texas chili, you can put fillers in it, all right?
So just don't get too crazy.
It could be Cincinnati chili.
I like Cincinnati chili.
Who's had Cincinnati chili before?
All right, God bless you.
It's good stuff.
It's kind of like spaghetti, really, actually, but it's got chili on it, which is what Texas
chili kind of is, except for they just don't put noodles in it.
Anyway, I know the Texans would be mad if I said that, but it's just the truth.
All right, cornbread is also part of the menu.
You can bring other stuff if you want to bring some dessert or whatever, it's fine.
And then, so we're going to do that starting at 4 p.m. here at the church building.
And so we'll probably close down the food about 6 o'clock so we can get ready for the
church service.
But you are welcome to come a little bit early if you wanted to bring your board games and
stuff like that.
And then if you want to stay later, you're more than welcome to do that too.
But a lot of people probably have to go to work the next day.
So anyway, that's going to be October 31st.
Please don't dress up in some Halloween or Bible character costume, okay?
This is not Halloween.
So anyway, I should probably not have to say that, but you just never know.
And November 6th through 10th is the Faithful Word Missions Conference down in Tempe.
November 26th is the Pie Social after church.
So bring a good pie.
We're not judging.
I'm just not doing that.
Not everybody gets a trophy, but it just becomes too much.
So it gets too political and all that, but just bring your best pie and we'll all enjoy
it together.
And I just want to say this real quick, as far as whenever we have potlucks and stuff
like that, you don't have to worry about bringing enough for the whole church, but just bring
enough for a decent-sized family and then we all just share.
That's kind of how that works.
So I don't expect people to bring some crazy amount of stuff.
So also, of course, you all know kind of the rules.
Make sure your cell phones are silent.
The tithes and offerings stuff is there.
Family integrated.
Make sure you utilize the mom baby rooms, dad baby room, your convenience, and all that
good stuff.
And Anthony's birthday was, is it today?
It's actually today.
So if it's actually your birthday today and we already sang your birthday on Sunday, we're
still going to sing it on your birthday anyway.
Right?
How old are you again?
27.
Did you work today?
Sorry, man.
When you get older, you know, you actually have to work on your birthdays, kids.
Did you know that?
That's what sucks.
So when you're a kid, you're like, you get all your favorite meals and you get all this
stuff.
And when you're older, you're just like, just go to work and shut up.
So enjoy your youth while you have it.
We'll sing happy birthday to Anthony.
All right.
Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday, God bless you.
Happy birthday to you.
Three years older and he'll be an old man.
30 years old.
No, I'm just kidding.
All right.
I'm going to go through just the quick, quickly, the prayer request.
I don't know if it got completely updated, but I just saw, of course, the hurricane,
as far as I know, didn't get upgraded.
It wasn't a category five, it was like a three, right?
Which is still pretty bad, but I don't think, I think everybody's family was safe, right?
Amen.
Well, prayer works, right?
Let's see, Miss Ollie, you had a cousin pass away, right?
Is that what it was?
I'm sorry.
Your what?
I'm sorry.
My brother-in-law's cousin.
Brother-in-law's cousin.
Okay.
And so we're praying for the family there.
Let's see.
But yeah, everybody's family was safe.
That's great.
I'm still praying about Tony and Jazzy's house situation, Miss Sheila for Traveler's Mercies,
and Brother Nick was at the emergency room, and he's sick, so I just know that he had
to go there.
He's not feeling real well, so you guys know who Brother Nick is.
He's been coming to our church for a long time.
So just pray for him, and that's all I have for, I'm just going to pray for that real
quick before we move on with our service, so let's go ahead and have a word of prayer.
Father, we just pray, Lord, that you would just …
All right, our next song is song number 482.
Let the sun shine again in my heart, song 482.
Song 482, let's sing it out on the first.
I remember the time when I first knew the Savior,
When the sunlight of blessing so flooded my heart.
Oh, the sweetness of first love with Jesus so near me,
And I thought such devotion would never depart.
Let the sun shine again, let the flowers bloom again,
Stir the embers of love in my heart.
Holy Spirit, reprove, then embrace me again,
Let the sun shine again in my heart.
Then how sweet were the Scriptures, they spoke to me daily,
How they guided my steps, but my zeal did not last,
And the sweet place of prayer where I met with my Savior,
I neglected and so soon my joys were all past.
Let the sun shine again, let the flowers bloom again,
Stir the embers of love in my heart.
Holy Spirit, reprove, then embrace me again,
Let the sun shine again in my heart.
Oh, I loved well to walk in the way with God's children,
When we met with that heart in a fellowship suite,
Full of the flesh and some worldly companions,
In the paths of sin's pleasure attracted my feet.
Let the sun shine again, let the flowers bloom again,
Stir the embers of love in my heart.
Holy Spirit, reprove, then embrace me again,
Let the sun shine again in my heart.
Lord, I come now again for forgiveness and blessing,
As Thy penitent child I am seeking Thy peace,
For the blood paid my debt and my spirit within me,
Bids become to my Father my wandering to cease.
Let the sun shine again, let the flowers bloom again,
Stir the embers of love in my heart.
Holy Spirit, reprove, then embrace me again,
Let the sun shine again in my heart.
Amen. Good scene.
Brother Alex, would you bless the offering for us?
Dear Father, thank you for our church here.
We thank you for all the people that came tonight.
We pray for those that are ill.
We ask you to bless this offering, Father, both the gift and the giver,
And put it to use to further your kingdom.
In Jesus' name, Amen.
Amen.
Thank you.
All right, it's good to see you this evening.
And, moreover, in time past, even when Saul was king,
Thou wast he that ledest out and broughtest in Israel.
And the Lord thy God said unto thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel,
And thou shalt be ruler over my people Israel.
Therefore came all the elders of Israel to the king, to Hebron,
And David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the Lord,
And they anointed David king over Israel,
According to the word of the Lord by Samuel.
And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem, which is Jebus,
Where the Jebusites were, the inhabitants of the land.
And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David, Thou shalt not come hither.
Nevertheless, David took the castle of Zion, which is the city of David.
And David said, Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites first shall be chief and captain.
So Joab the son of Zeruiah went up first, or went first up and was chief.
And David dwelt in the castle, therefore they called it the city of David.
And he built the city round about, even from Millo round about,
And Joab repaired the rest of the city.
So David waxed greater and greater, for the Lord of hosts was with him.
These also are the chief of the mighty men whom David had,
Who strengthened themselves with him in his kingdom,
And with all Israel to make him king,
According to the word of the Lord concerning Israel.
And this is the number of the mighty men whom David had,
Jashubim and Hakmonite, the chief of the captains.
He lifted up his spear against three hundred slain by him at one time.
And after him was Eleazar, the son of Dodo the Ahohite,
Who was one of the three mighties.
He was with David at Pasthamim,
And there the Philistines were gathered together to battle,
Where was a parcel of ground full of barley,
And the people fled from before the Philistines.
And they set themselves in the midst of that parcel,
And delivered it, and slew the Philistines,
And the Lord saved them by a great deliverance.
Now three of the thirty captains went down to the rock to David,
Into the cave of Adullam,
And the host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim.
And David was then in the hold,
And the Philistine's garrison was then at Bethlehem.
And David longed and said,
O that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem that is at the gate.
And the three break through the host of the Philistines,
And drew water out of the well of Bethlehem that was by the gate.
And David took it and brought it to David,
But David would not drink of it,
But poured it out to the Lord and said,
My God forbid at me that I should do this thing.
Shall I drink the blood of these men that have put their lives in jeopardy?
For with the jeopardy of their lives they brought it,
Therefore he would not drink it.
These things did these three mightiest.
And Abishai, the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three,
For lifting up his spear against three hundred,
He slew them and had a name among the three.
Of the three he was more honorable than the two,
For he was their captain,
Howbeit he attained not to the first three.
Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzael,
Who had done many acts,
He slew two lion-like men of Moab,
Also he went down and slew a lion in a pit in a snowy day.
And he slew an Egyptian, a man of great stature,
Five cubits high,
And in the Egyptian's hand was a spear like a weaver's bean,
And he went down to him with a staff,
And plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand,
And slew him with his own spear.
These things did Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada,
And had the name among the three mighties.
Behold, he was honorable among the thirty,
But attained not to the first three.
And David set him over his guard.
Also the valiant men of the armies were
Asahel, the brother of Joab,
Elhanan, the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
Shamoth, the Harorite,
Heles, the Pelonite,
Ira, the son of Ikesh, the Tekoaite,
Abiezer, the Antothite,
Sibakai, the Hushathite,
Eli, the Ahohite,
Maharai, the Netophathite,
Heled, the son of Baanah, the Netophathite,
Ithai, the son of Ribai of Gibeah,
That pertained to the children of Benjamin,
Benaiah, the Pyrrhothite,
Hurai, of the brooks of Gaash,
Abiel, the Arbethite,
Asmoveth, the Baharumite,
Eliabah, the Shaalbonite,
the sons of Hashem, the Gizanite,
Jonathan, the son of Shagi, the Harorite,
Ahim, the son of Sakar, the Harorite,
Eliphal, the son of Ur,
Hefer, the Mecharithite,
Ahijah, the Pelonite,
Hezro, the Carmelite,
Naarai, the son of Esbaai,
Joel, the brother of Nathan,
Mibhar, the son of Hagari,
Zelik, the Ammonite,
Naharai, the Barathite,
the Armorbearer of Joab, the son of Zeruiah,
Ira, the Ithrite,
Garib, the Ithrite,
Uriah, the Hittite,
Zabab, the son of Alai,
Adina, the son of Shiza, the Rubinite,
a captain of the Rubinite, and thirty with him,
Hanan, the son of Maakah,
and Josephat, the Mithnite,
Uzziah, the Ashtirithite,
Shammah, and Jehiel,
the sons of Hothan and Arathite,
Ararite,
Jediel, the son of Shimri,
and Joah, his brother, the Tizite,
Eliel, the Mahavite,
and Jeribai,
and Josephiah, the sons of El-Naam,
and Ithma, the Moabite,
Eliel, and Obed,
and Jasiel, the Mesobite.
Brother Sean, would you pray for us?
Brother, thank you so much for this day.
Thank you, Lord, that you come to your house
and make some work for us.
I'm so appreciative of Pastor Thompson's experience,
Lord, and for having a free semester
in this place.
Jesus, thank you.
Brother Eli, you're officially not allowed to get sick
at least until next week,
and I might actually have to have you
stand up here with me and read
while I go through the verses.
And I'm sure
Brother CJ's glad that
he wasn't here and you were.
Alright, so we're in
1 Chronicles 11
and I'm not going to go through all those names tonight
because I'm not going to get to the mighty men of David.
But those are some pretty interesting stories
and I've got my work cut out
for me next week for that study
and especially reading their names.
Just to quickly recap,
and the title of the sermon
is David's Rise to Power.
So again, last week Saul was killed
and it was because
God had taken his hand off of Saul.
He had lost the Holy Spirit.
In the Old Testament you could lose the Holy Spirit.
In the New Testament we cannot lose the Holy Spirit.
But it's because of Saul's
disobedience and the final straw
was going to see the witch at Endor.
And the Bible specifically says
in 1 Chronicles 10 that the reason why
he killed him the final straw
was the fact that he went to go
and seek a familiar spirit
to inquire of it and not
inquire of the Lord.
So he did
inquire of the Lord
but he didn't.
He did ask but he wasn't
right with God and so he wasn't really
inquiring of God because
God wasn't going to answer him.
And so he was going about
things the wrong way
and Samuel told him
that he was going to die and his sons
were going to die with him and that's exactly what happened.
So he dies
and now we see the rise of
King David in this chapter
who's a man after God's own heart
to become the king.
And so remember the chronicles
are chronicling the kings of Judah
and just one thing to
understand about it, it's not going to really
paint the kings of Judah in negative
lights very often.
It's going to be very positive about the kings of Judah
and in the
book of 1 and 2 Kings
it's mainly focusing
on the kings of Israel which are the
ten
nations that kind of break
forth, the ten tribes that break forth
from the rest of them
and we'll see as we get further
well in the book of
1 Chronicles it's about
David but in 2 Chronicles it gets
into Solomon and the rest
and I'm sure a lot of you
that have read the Bible know that but
maybe if you're new to the Bible you might not understand how all that
works but essentially the other
tribes break off later on.
So anyway let's get into the story here
and we'll see David is anointed
as king. Look at verse number 1
the Bible says, then all Israel
gathered themselves to David unto
Hebron saying
behold we are thy bone and
thy flesh. Because of course
they are of the tribe of Judah.
Moreover in time past
even when Saul was king
thou wast he that let us out
and brought us in Israel
and the Lord thy God
said unto thee thou shalt feed
my people Israel and
thou shalt be ruler over my people
Israel.
So when Saul was the king
David was the one that was leading
those armies. Remember he killed
Goliath and after he killed Goliath
then he started to lead the armies
of course until Saul started trying to kill him
and then that kind of all changed but
while he was in good
graces with Saul, with king
Saul, David was the man
when it came to the battles and
defeating the Philistines and all that stuff so
but he said thou shalt feed my
people Israel so
this is what God said to David
so that's feeding them. Feeding them is not
just talking about actual
giving them food
but also
in the realm of feeding them
God's word. Making sure that God's word was
provided to them also and it says
and shall be ruler over my
people Israel.
Therefore came all the elders
of Israel to the king to
Hebron and David
made a covenant with them in Hebron
before the Lord and they anointed
king David over Israel
according to the word
of the Lord by Samuel.
So Samuel
is the one that prophesied these things
about David. Now
we're getting this story when it
says king over Israel here
this is jumping forward in
time also. So we have to
understand that again this is a
chronicle because David didn't become the king
of Israel until
later until seven and a half years
after the first time he goes up to Hebron
so don't be confused by that. Let's
look at
David's anointed three times in the
Bible. So you might not
realize that he's anointed by Samuel first
let's look at these different anointings
that David gets and
let's go ahead and look at 1 Samuel 16
verse 11. 1 Samuel 16
11. So
a lot of people if you look up how old was
David when he was anointed by Samuel
most scholars
will say that he was about
15 years old. I don't know
if that's true or not the Bible doesn't say
but he was
when he fought Goliath the Bible says he
was a stripling and that
a stripling is someone who
is between
like a teenager
and becoming a man when you're kind of just coming
into your man strength basically
so I would say he was probably like maybe
18 to 19 or something like that when that
happened but it doesn't really say
how old he was when he was anointed
and how much time passed between that
anointing and the time that he fought Goliath
so but he was Saul's armor
bearer so anyway let's look at the verses here
but it was probably
maybe 10 to 15 years
don't you're 10 to 15
years before he was anointed again after that so
anyway let's look at verse 11 it says
and Samuel said unto Jesse
are there are here
all thy children
this is when Samuel is going to anoint
David and it says
and he said there remaineth yet the youngest
and behold he keepeth the sheep
and Samuel said unto Jesse
send and fetch him for we will not sit down
till he come hither
and he sent and brought him in
now he was ruddy and with all of a beautiful countenance
and goodly to look at
and the Lord said arise anoint him
for this is he
then Samuel took the horn of oil
and anointed him in the midst of
his brethren which is a very interesting
thing for him to say because remember all
the sons came across I mean we
don't have time to look at everything we've already seen this
before but all the sons
of Jesse came
forth David's the youngest
he was out with the sheep
Samuel's like is there anybody else
and then David comes out
so they've
all been refused by God
David comes in this is
what happens Samuel took the horn of oil
anointed him in the midst of his
brethren and the spirit of the Lord
came upon David from
that day forward so
David gets the spirit of God at that moment
upon him and it doesn't
leave him the rest of his life
that's what it says from that day
forward so whereas Saul
got the Holy Spirit
upon him the day that
Samuel anointed him also
but the Holy Spirit leaves him
after that so
because he did not obey
the voice of the Lord it says
so Samuel rose up and
went to Rama and it came to
oh yeah let's see
now let's go to 2 Samuel chapter
2 and we'll look at the second
occurrence of David
being anointed so
what's he anointed for well to be the captain
of the Israelites
because remember Saul was refused
because he refused to kill Agag
and Samuel ended up having to do his job
and chop him up into little pieces
because Saul
refused to do the will of God and follow
the word of God look at 2 Samuel
chapter 2 verse 1 the Bible says
and it came to pass after this that
David inquired of the Lord saying shall I go up
into any of the cities of Judah
and the Lord said unto him go up
and David said
whither shall I go up and he said unto Hebron
so this is
after Saul's died
and he's like where
should I go and he's like what cities of Judah
should I go to he says unto Hebron
so in our story tonight
where is he going to Hebron
but he's anointed
twice in Hebron this is the first time
he's anointed it says so David
went up thither
and two wives also
Ahinoam the Jezrelites and
Abigail, Nabal's wife
the Carmelite and his men
that were with him did David bring
up every man with his household
and they dwelt in the cities of Hebron
and the men of Judah
came and there they anointed
David king over the house of Judah
so here he's anointed
the king over the house of Judah
he's not king over the whole
nation of all of Israel
he's just the king of Judah
now when he was anointed by Samuel
that was a special anointing that God gave him
the Holy Spirit and
he was going to be the future king
but that wasn't realized until
many years later
and this is when he's anointed
the king over the house of Judah
only but
there's another king which is one of
Saul's sons
Ish-bosheth right and it says
and they told David saying that the men of
Jabesh Gilead
where they that buried Saul
and David sent messengers
unto the men of Jabesh Gilead and said unto them
blessed be of the Lord
that you have showed this
kindness unto your Lord even unto Saul
and have buried him and now
the Lord show kindness and truth unto you
and I also will
requite you this kindness because you have done this thing
therefore now let your
hands be strengthened and be valiant
for your master Saul is dead
and also the house of Judah have anointed
me king over them
so in between
chapter
3 and 4
and into
so I think Ish-bosheth dies in
chapter 4 he's killed
by some guys
come and kill him while he's sleeping in his
bed at noon which so that's a
good thing to not sleep into your
bed at noon you know bad things
happen to you I guess if you're sleeping in your bed at noon
you know unless you're just like taking a power nap
or something you've already been up early or something
you just need a little power nap or something but like
yeah probably not a good idea
but anyway so David is
anointed in Hebron
by the men of Judah as just
the king of Judah just of that tribe
he's not the king of all of Israel
but now turn to chapter 5
2 Samuel chapter 5 verse
number 1 so
after Ish-bosheth
is killed and slain in his bed then Abner
goes and then basically
all of Israel comes
to make him the king
of all of Israel all the 12
tribes right this is
2 Samuel chapter 5 verse 1 the Bible says
then came all the tribes of Israel
to David unto Hebron and spake
saying behold we are thy bone
and thy flesh so
not just the tribe of Judah it says then came
all the tribes of Israel
and spake saying behold we
are thy bone and thy flesh
also in time past when
Saul was king over us thou was he
that led us out and brought us in Israel
see this is the same story we are
seeing in our text tonight
and the Lord said unto thee thou shall
feed my people Israel and thou
shall be a captain over Israel
so this is what we are seeing the parallel
of 1 Chronicles
chapter 11
same story here so
all the elders of Israel came to the king
to Hebron and king David made a league
with them in Hebron
before the Lord and they anointed David
as king over Israel so
he's anointed once by Samuel
when he's a young lad
then he's anointed
over the house of Judah
as the king of Judah
then he's anointed over the whole
house of Israel
that's about seven and a half years
after he's anointed the first time
in Hebron so this is
called a Bible study because this is Thursday night
Bible study just in case you guys were wondering
anyway verse 4
David was 30 years old when he began to
reign and he reigned
40 years so how old
was he he was 30 years
old when he began to reign how old was Jesus
when he began his earthly ministry
he was 30 years old
David is you know he is
pictures in a lot of
times he pictures the Lord
Jesus Christ Jesus Christ is
called the seed of David
and you know David is
prophesied
you know many times as you know he's the son
Jesus
excuse me Jesus is prophesied as being the
seed of David over and over in the
Old Testament so verse 5
it says in Hebron he
reigned over Judah seven
years and six months so that's
seven and a half years right
and in Jerusalem he reigned
30 and three years over
all Israel and
Judah so
David reigned a total
of 40 years and then you can
smash on that six months
so that's 40 years
six months
skip to verse 12 it says
and David perceived that the
Lord had established him king
over Israel that's a pretty good perception
I mean he put
the crownsman put on his head he's been anointed
three times that's a pretty good
perception there and he
had exalted his kingdom
for his people
for Israel's sake so David
also realizes this is not just because I'm some
great man or something that God's doing this
for his people also
and so leaders do need to understand that
they're not just being exalted
because they're just some
great guy or something this is where
you know leadership can go to people's head
and they start thinking they're better than everybody
else that they're leading and David
doesn't have this perception necessarily
maybe he does kind of get this way
at times in his kingdom
but David
understands that the reason
why his kingdom specifically
is being exalted is because
of the people
and David you know
sometimes he fails in his leadership
obviously and forgets about the
people but the
Bible also says that David's a man after God's own
heart so between
his first anointing maybe 10 to
15 years to the second
anointing again
you know people will say
if you just look it up people will say well how old was
David on his first anointing people
will say he was 15 I don't know
where they're coming up with that number I'm not sure
about that I don't know that
that can be proven but
when he fights Goliath
Saul says
find out whose son this
stripling is I don't understand
why he doesn't know who he is
because he has
him as his armor bearer I don't know if it's because
Saul's beginning to lose his mind at this point
maybe that's a good explanation
because he's already playing
songs for him at this point
he's already asked his
dad to have him in his court
he's you know I don't know
I don't get that but
you know Saul is kind of going mad
so he's coming
in and out of stuff but
I don't know that's kind of an unexplainable part
to me but anyhow
so then you have
between his second, third
and third anointing you have
seven and a half years
he's anointed
the king and then seven and a half years later
he's anointed again
so 40 years total is king
and he
is a great king
he's a bloody man though and God doesn't allow him
to build the temple that's all
way later on here so
David's waxing greater
and greater as
you know after Saul dies you see
David just rising to the top
here and
this picture is Christ
increasing until
his culmination as king
over all of Israel and of course
Jesus came lowly he didn't
come as the king
he already was the king from
eternity past
and he came as a
servant and even
though he is the king that's why
he was born to be the king of kings and lord of lords
but in his time here on earth
you know he was worshipped as a
child as an infant
but you know and when he came
into the triumphal entry of Jerusalem
when they're putting all the palms on the ground but
you know like 24 hours later
they're nailing him to a cross
and saying crucify him, crucify him so
you know he didn't
you know he got a
robe put on him and a crown of thorns
that's not exactly the kind of kingly treatment
that you know most people would
give a king of kings and lord
of lords but he did that for us of course
but
David's three anointings I was just kind of thinking about
it symbolically
picturing the trinity the fullness
of the godhead bodily
Jesus Christ was the fullness of the godhead bodily
and
the oil obviously
represents what?
The Holy Spirit so when we get
baptized you know Jesus got baptized
and when he came up out of
the water what happened? The Holy Spirit came
down and rested upon him
and he got the fullness of the Holy
Spirit without measure
and so
then you have you know
of course when he's anointed
by the people of Judah
you know that kind of
pictures the son
because what
Judah was a son of who?
Israel right?
So then you have the another anointing
by
all of Israel which
Israel is the father of
Judah right? So I mean you got the picture
there of the father the son
the Holy Spirit
I mean it's a picture okay?
Nothing's ever perfect but I think it's interesting
anyway so
and then his anointing
by
Samuel is a picture
of his baptism
and the Holy Ghost coming upon him
I mean you have
that picture also of John you know
pictures kind of John the Baptist
that prophet you know is the one
that baptized Jesus
so Jesus when his earthly ministry
started he didn't just
jump in the water and baptize himself
he got baptized by who?
By John the Baptist who was a
great man of God a great prophet
a great preacher and Samuel
was he was kind of a
special born son
Hannah went and prayed for him
and God said hey next year at this time you're
going to have a son and Samuel
was kind of like you know he was
a special prophet
he was a judge he was a prophet
and he was also a priest at the same time
and so he kind of pictures the Lord
Jesus Christ himself in that way
but you know he's John the Baptist
you know he
came before Jesus
Christ but you know
you have Samuel
coming and
anointing
you have
him anointing David
but also anointing Saul
so John the Baptist
when did he come? What time period did he
come in? Was he under the law or was he under
the New Testament? He was under
the law so
then you have John the Baptist dying
and
he had to decrease
while Jesus Christ had to increase
and he decreased all the way
because he got his head chopped off didn't he?
He died so
the law had to be
put away. The New Testament
had to be enacted
and so you know
I think that the fact that John the Baptist died
was a picture also
that the law
had to be put away that covenant had to
die and the New Testament had to be
brought in
so and then
so you have you know these great two
prophets you know picturing
the same thing and then
you have in the passage
where
Samuel is anointing
David
the Lord is speaking straight
to Samuel and he says this is the
one anoint him
and then Samuel
does that so you have the voice
of God they're telling
him who to do it and then like when Jesus
is baptized in the
New Testament the father's voice
is heard from heaven saying this is
my beloved son in whom I'm
well pleased and it's like you know
Samuel is told this is the one
you know when David finally comes
he's like this is the one and it's and what
who's it done in front of all
the in the midst of his brethren
is what it said in that passage right
so it's not like Samuel just
snuck and like pulled
David he like snuck in where the sheep
were and just like dumped it on his head and ran and
nobody saw it everybody
saw it when when Jesus was
baptized did he do it in front of like
was it just John and Jesus no it was
Jesus doing it in front of everybody
and people
hearing the testimony and people
seeing him baptized
and you know it was a public thing
now when
David's brother saw it
did David's brothers really
like David that much no they didn't
his brother when he came to the battle
where Goliath is just you know punk
and everybody he's like what are you doing
here you know you little punk and he's just like
you know he's mad that David's there
but Jesus's brothers treated him
exactly the same and
they actually tried to get him killed
in John chapter 7 if you've ever
paid close attention to that so
the baptism was public
in the midst of his brother remember
Jesus came to his own
and his own received him not
so you have David
you have Jesus Christ
having the spirit of God come upon them
after that first initial
day that
their ministry began
Samuel dumps
the horn of oil on him his
ministry begins
Jesus Christ is baptized
his earthly ministry begins
right so that's how
you can see those parallels right
now David
of course already showed a spiritual
ability before he ever got the
horn of oil dumped on his head
and he had already had
exploits of physical
greatness and the ability
to physically lead
now he's leading animals but he's
still leading and God trained
many men of God to
lead animals first before he let
them lead people
but he also protected
them David has a couple stories
that he's like hey I killed this
I killed this bear and I killed this
lion right but it just shows
that he you know even that
job he took so seriously that he went
and tracked them down and killed both of them
he killed the lion and the bear
so in
single combat by the way when he's
just like a teenager
right who's ever done that before
and
they didn't have guns back then by the way
so how did he do that
he didn't have the horn of oil
poured on his head yet at that time
so he was already a bad dude
you know he was already
a rough character
he was already tougher than everybody in this room
pretty much
except for maybe Anthony but
I'm just kidding
but you know
so do you understand what I'm saying so like
you see the picture
of the decreasing
of Saul the decreasing
of John the Baptist and you see the increasing
of Jesus Christ the increasing
of David after those characters
die there's you cannot miss those parallels
so let's
turn back to first Samuel chapter 16
again
first Samuel chapter 16
and look at verse 14
so we'll look
at some of the physical
and spiritual aspects of what
King David kind of brought to the table
here before he was even
anointed the first time
look at verse 14 it says
the spirit from God is upon thee
that he shall play with his hand
and thou shalt be well
and Saul said to his servants
provide me now
a man that can play well
and bring him to me
so he has Saul
the spirit of the Lord
so as David's anointed
and he starts
his rise
Saul starts his decreasing
right here and he is
the spirit of the Lord is taken from him
and an evil spirit from the Lord
it's not saying necessarily a demon
but it's saying that
this spirit is doing evil things
to him right
maybe it is a demon I don't know
but it's saying it's an evil spirit
from the Lord so I don't think
that God is just like hanging out with demons
necessarily right but he is still sending
something that's like just messing with
Saul and
it says and Saul said
to his servants provide me now a man
that can play well and bring him to me
then answered one of the servants
and said behold I have not seen
excuse me I have seen
a son of Jesse the Bethlehem mind
that he is
cunning and plain
so what does that mean he's really good
at playing music
and a mighty valiant man
how does he know this
I don't know but he's seen him
and he's already been anointed
right actually yeah he's been
anointed at this time I'm sorry he has
been anointed at this time and
he's a mighty man a valiant
man a man of war
and prudent in matters
and a calmly person
and the Lord is with him
how does he know all that
I mean he's keeping sheep
well maybe he's heard about
the bear story I don't know but how does he know he's a
man of war
how does he know that he's prudent in matters
well I mean these
aren't the only stories of David
there's probably other things that people just don't
know that happened in David's
life but this
person just happens to know somehow
that this
that David is all these things
and so
the cure to Saul's problems
is actually the one that's
going to replace him later on
verse 19 the Bible says
wherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse
and said send me David
thy son which is with
the sheep so
and here's the thing is that he's
just with the sheep
like how does it go from he's
a cunning player a mighty
valiant man a man of war prudent
in matters a calmly person
the Lord is with
him but he's just hanging out with
the sheep like how
does he know all these things I
don't know but
what this teaches me here is that
you can come from a very meek
and lowly spot
and God can rise you up
just like that
and so I would say this
you know be happy in the station that you're in
you know because you can still
be all these things
that he's already saying about David
and you're just doing something
that just seems like it's not that big of a
thing but
be a man of
character be a man of
of all these all you know
do all these great things and
it doesn't matter what station
you're in continue to do those things
and God will rise you up you don't have to
you know put yourself out as some
good some great thing
God's gonna rise your station up
he's watching he knows
when the time is right
we don't have to be so ambitious
and say hey I think I'm qualified
now or I think that I should be doing
this now God let God
rise you up like that
maybe some person's gonna go
hey that person's been doing a great job
doing this this and this and I think he's a valiant man
I think you know what I mean and then
let God do that
let God raise you up because
he wasn't just gonna let David
go to waste in some sheep coat
he allowed David to rise
up and be the man that he was meant
to be so
God will promote you in due
time and look at verse 20
it says and Jesse took an ass
laden with bread
and a bottle of wine and a kid and sent
them by David
his son unto Saul
and David came to Saul and
stood before him and he loved him
greatly and he became his
armor bearer so this
is before Goliath chapter 17
is David and Goliath this is chapter
16 so
he's already his armor bearer at this
time and Saul sent to Jesse
saying let David I pray thee stand before
me for he hath found favor in my
sight and it came to pass
when the evil spirit from God was upon
Saul that David took a harp and
played with his hand so Saul was refreshed and well
and the evil spirit
departed from him so David's
a blessing to Saul even though Saul's
not right with God but Saul
is still being
blessed by God
through David even though he's not right
with God and so David is
blessing a man who
is still you know at this point
not totally
deposed as the king he's gonna be deposed
but see how David's
blessing him anyway with
his talents and his spiritual
gifts his spiritual gift
obviously part of it was
writing psalms and
playing music right
turn to first Samuel chapter 17 verse
34 and so
with his gift
that God has given him of being
anointed and having the Holy Spirit
you know he then
kills in single
combat Goliath
who's this ten foot tall
giant verse 34
first Samuel chapter 17 says
and David said unto Saul keep
thy servant
unto Saul thy servant kept his father
sheep and there came a lion
and a bear and took a lamb out
of the flock and I went
out after him and smote him and delivered
it out of his mouth and when he
arose against me I
caught him by his beard and smote him and
slew him so he's telling Saul hey
I can kill the giant because I've
done these things before
and so he says
thy servant slew both the lion and
the bear and this uncircumcised
Philistine shall be as one
of them seeing he hath defied the armies
of the living God see David
is the only one that was not
afraid to fight him
not tall necessarily
probably just an average size guy
but he wasn't afraid
of a lion he wasn't
afraid to fight a bear I
would be
I mean
David was a fearless guy
and he took on a guy that was you know
was enormous
Saul was my size
a lot taller than David was
I'm sure head and shoulders above
everybody and he didn't want to fight Goliath
Goliath was a soldier
Goliath was a mighty man
of war and had been
a warrior
from his youth
so and then
in verse 49 go ahead
and skip to verse 49
it says and David
put his hand in his bag and took
thence a stone and slung it and smote
the Philistine in his forehead and the stone
sunk into his forehead and fell upon
and he fell upon his face to the earth
so David prevailed over the Philistine with
a sling and with a stone and smote
the Philistine and slew him
but there was no sword in the hand of David
therefore David ran and stood upon the
Philistine and took his sword and
drew it out of the sheath thereof and slew him
and cut off his head therewith
and when the Philistines saw their
champion was dead they fled
so David
you know he he's given
you know the Holy Spirit he's anointed
to be this powerful man of God
you know and he's barely
he's not even fully a man yet
so this just goes to show
you kids that you can still do great things
for God and you know
you don't have to wait
you can still do great things for God
now and you don't have to wait
until you're older you can
do it right now you can read your
Bible now you can know your Bible
now you can pray to God now
you can learn how to win souls now
you don't have to wait for these things
you don't have to wait until you're a grown up
your parents take you out so many right now
you probably know the gospel
better than most people do you probably
know the gospel better than 99% of Christians
that go to churches all over this city
and probably all over this country
there's nothing stopping you
from doing great things now
what was stopping David?
if you're saved you have the Holy Spirit just like
David did so there's nothing
stopping you and the Holy Spirit
cannot be taken from you
so you can live a Spirit filled life
you can live a Spirit filled Christian
life there's nothing stopping you from doing that
the only thing stopping you is yourself
nothing stopped
David from fighting the Philistine
look there's giant
battles to be fought in this
world and all that's lacking is
people that have the
courage to fight the battles
there's all kinds of
giant battles that we're going to face as Christians
and look there's a lot of people that are afraid
to fight those battles
there's churches that are afraid to put their
pastors that are afraid to put their sermons
online because they're afraid of the persecution
they're going to get from it
there's pastors that are afraid to preach sermons
because they're afraid the persecution they're going to get from their own
congregation
there's all kinds of battles that are going on
there's people that are afraid
there's pastors that are afraid to preach sermons to their
congregation because they're afraid they're going to lose the members
that there are tithing.
Because, you know, and look,
the day that we lose that battle,
that's the day that our church ends.
In spirit, anyway.
Because, look, God told me to, you know,
as a preacher, I'm supposed to preach the word,
in season, out of season,
reprove, rebuke, exhort,
with all long suffering and doctrine.
That's what the Bible says.
And, you know, the minute I just say,
you know what, I'm not gonna preach that.
That's the minute I just need to resign
and find something else to do
and let somebody else get up here.
But, kids, teens, anybody,
look, we can serve God, we can slay giants.
These things are in the Bible for us
to be an example unto us.
And King David, hey, you wanna be a man or a woman
after God's own heart?
Well, David shows us how to do that.
Jesus Christ shows us how to do that.
But David was a man just like we are.
I'm not saying that, you know, women are men, okay?
I'm just saying that he's showing us the faith.
Was David perfect?
I mean, David's mistakes are written in the Bible
to show us, hey, you can make some big mistakes,
but as long as you have the right attitude
and repentance towards the things
that you should be repentant towards.
You know, David, when he got caught doing stuff,
he just admitted it.
He didn't try to hide his sin.
He just took it and just said, hey, God, I'm sorry.
I've sinned, you're right.
What did Saul do?
Well, you know, I just, you know,
I was just gonna sacrifice this.
I was just like, but the people, he blames the people.
What did David do?
He said, I've sinned.
And that's the difference between Saul and David.
So here, you know, David is the one
that fought the Philistine.
Why isn't Saul fighting the Philistine?
He's the one that's the anointed captain
of the host of the armies of Israel.
Why isn't Saul fighting him?
Because the Spirit of the Lord departed from him
in the last chapter, in the chapter that we were just in.
So David has to do it.
So you see the rise of David here
up until the chapter that we're in tonight,
you know, is now David is taking over.
Now David is the king.
Now David is being anointed for the third time.
And now he's about to take over,
he's about to take his own city,
he's about to take his own castle,
he's about to have his own army of mighty men
that he's already been collecting.
See, we're seeing the chronicles of the king,
but all the story is in 1 Samuel and 2 Samuel.
So we're just seeing the chronicles,
and so I'm trying to, like, put the story in here, too.
So the Philistines are on the run because of David,
not because of Saul.
Now, then also you think about,
this is what got Saul upset,
is that David has slain, or Saul has slain his thousands,
David has slain his 10,000s.
That was the thing that flipped Saul over the edge.
Because he's like, oh, I've only slain my thousands, huh?
And do you think that David was slain 10,000 people?
I don't know, maybe he was,
but whether he was or not, he didn't like that.
Because, see, David's waxing greater,
and Saul's waxing weaker.
Who killed Goliath?
Everybody knows who killed Goliath.
David killed Goliath,
and it wasn't some other dude or whatever,
like you see in the modern versions.
But anyway, we're not talking about that now.
But David did not really fully increase until Saul was dead.
You see that in the story.
And David didn't put his hand forth
and try to make it happen early.
We saw that last week.
But the strength of the New Testament
could not be fully enacted until the death of the testator,
which was the Lord Jesus Christ, right?
So the fulfillment of the law had to happen by Christ.
He had to die.
The death of the testator, which is Jesus,
that's where the New Testament comes in.
He rises from the dead.
He sprinkles his blood on the mercy seat.
And then, now the New Testament
is in full effect after that.
But the law, we're no longer under the law.
The moral law, yes, we still should keep those commandments,
but whether we keep those commandments or not,
that does not stop us from being saved or not.
So you can see how that's a picture with David and Saul.
Anyway.
But,
of course, Jesus Christ is much different than David.
Jesus Christ never sinned.
And he did and doeth all things well,
but specifically did great things immediately
after his baptism and increased greatly.
I mean, David wasn't raising people from the dead
and healing lepers and healing blind people
and people that were maimed and all those things.
But even as a young man, well, before he,
as a tween, Jesus went back to Jerusalem
and he's like choppin' it up with the lawyers
and the doctors of the law.
And his parents went looking for him.
He's like, wisty not that I must be
about my father's business?
You know, he didn't say it all proud like that,
but they were like, me and your father
have sought you worrying.
And he's just like, my father's business.
But wise men came and worshiped him.
Nobody came and worshiped David when he was born.
So, of course, Jesus Christ is a million times
greater than David ever thought about being.
But the Bible says that Jesus increased in wisdom
and stature and in favor with God and man,
and that's at 12 years old.
But, of course, you know, David was fighting
bears and lions and keeping sheep the best he could.
He had his carnal things that he was doing great,
but he was also spiritual.
You know, that guy that was witnessing,
saying, hey, I saw this guy, Jesse the Bethlehemite,
he was doing some pretty good stuff.
And it wasn't just carnal things, it was things,
and it says, and he, you know,
he's blessed with the Lord or whatever it said.
Now, let's go back to our text
in First Chronicles chapter 11, verse four.
First Chronicles 11, verse four.
The Bible says, and David and all Israel went to Jerusalem,
which is Jebus, or Jebus, you can say it that way,
where the Jebusites were the inhabitants of the land.
And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David,
thou should not come hither,
nevertheless David took the castle of Zion,
which is the city of David.
So the castle of Zion is where?
It's at Jerusalem, isn't it?
And it was called Jebus at that time.
And who lived there?
The Jebusites, who are prophesied in the Old Testament
to be taken out by God's people.
They're talked about in Genesis,
they're talking about in Exodus,
but they never conquered them yet.
This is the time when this is fulfilled,
is they're conquered by David himself.
And it says, well not himself, with his people,
but it says, this is the first place that David goes.
He's like, come on Israel, let's go to Jebus.
And it says in verse six, it says,
and David said, whosoever smiteth the Jebusites first
shall be chief and captain.
So Joab the son of Zeruiah went up first and was chief.
So, remember, Joab is his nephew.
Uncle, yeah, okay, you're right.
I was gonna, for some reason, I was like, is it his uncle?
Yeah, so it's his uncle.
So his, yeah, so his, yeah.
Huh?
I think Zeruiah is his mom.
Oh, is Joab's mom.
Yeah, I could be wrong.
I don't think it's his uncle.
Is it his nephews?
Because I felt like Zeruiah, anyway,
I thought Zeruiah was his sister and they were his nephews,
but I think, I think that's what it is.
Anyway, yeah, I'm having a mind flash here,
a Biden moment.
Anyway, where am I?
Anyway, so Joab the son of Zeruiah went up first,
so he, Zeruiah is, I believe it's the sister of David.
I'm pretty sure about that.
Somebody fact check me right now,
well before I go on with this story.
So, Remi says I'm right, the prodigy has spoken.
Just kidding.
Okay, I'm right.
So, all right, Joab was trying to confuse me.
All right, let's see, that's okay brother Joab.
I confused myself at that moment too.
I was like, am I wrong?
So anyway, he said who's, so yeah,
so that's his nephew, so Zeruiah is his sister,
and so he has three nephews, and Joab is one of them.
So he's like, whosoever goes up,
he's the captain and the chief, so of his army.
He's like the general of the army, right?
Because he does this, and it says,
and David dwelt in the castle,
wherefore they called it the city of David.
So the castle of Zion, Jerusalem,
it's called what, the city of David.
So look, this right here is gonna tell you,
when they say it's the city of David,
what is it talking about?
It's talking about Jerusalem, isn't it?
And when it's talking about Zion,
what is it talking about?
It's talking about that same spot.
It's kinda giving you all the names right here
of the same place, so that you know.
What's Jebus?
It's Jerusalem, okay?
So, that should help you.
This should always take you,
if you wanna know what it's talking about,
just go right here, it defines it for you right here.
It says, and he built the city roundabout,
even from Mylo roundabout,
and Joab repaired the rest of the city.
So David waxed greater and greater,
for the Lord of Hosts was with him.
So that's what the whole chapter is basically about,
I mean, at least this part of the chapter
is how David rises to power,
he's waxing greater and greater,
God's building his kingdom,
and it starts with him being anointed for the third time,
basically, and then he takes Jerusalem.
He takes that castle, the stronghold of Zion,
and this is the Lord of Hosts was with him,
which means, of course, the Lord of Armies.
So, now let's go to Second Samuel chapter five or six,
we have a little bit more time left,
but I'm almost done here.
Second Samuel chapter five or six,
it says, and the king,
so this is kinda the rest of the story,
like Paul Harvey would say,
because there's some more detail here
that we're not getting right here
from Second Samuel chapter five.
And it says, the king and his men went to Jerusalem,
unto the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land,
which spake unto David,
saying, except thou take away the blind and the lame,
thou shalt not come in hither,
thinking David cannot come in hither.
What does that mean?
Except thou should take away the blind or the lame,
thou shalt not come in hither.
Some people have different interpretations of this,
I'll tell you what I think here in just a minute,
but what does it say?
Thinking David cannot come in hither.
They're saying, there's no way David can take the castle,
nobody else has been able to take it,
in the time of the judges they haven't been able to take it,
because God told them to go take this land
and take all this stuff and to destroy the Jebusites,
but they could not take them.
So, a lot of people think that even,
that it's saying basically that even the blind and lame
could stop David from coming and taking the castle.
And, you know, because that's how well defensed it is,
that even blind people and people that can't walk right
or are handicapped could defend the castle against them,
there's no way they're getting in.
That's kind of the way I looked at it,
but it could be that they're using them as human shields,
I mean, I think that some people have that thought about it,
I'm not exactly 100% sure,
but it kind of seems like that's,
that he's kind of taunting them,
it's kind of like schoolyard, you know,
David can't come in, not even the blind people,
you couldn't even get past the blind people
to get in here or whatever, you know,
he's just taunting, I think he's just taunting them,
and it pisses David off.
So, hold your finger right here, go to Judges 1.19,
just hold your finger in this chapter, Judges 1.19,
we're gonna come right back here, Judges 1.19,
just hang with me here, I know you're tired,
you're tired of turning your Bible,
but just bear with me just for a couple more minutes here.
Judges 1.19, and the Lord was with Judah,
and he drove out the inhabitants of the mountain,
but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley
because they had chariots of iron,
and they gave Hebron unto Caleb,
so Hebron is what, the place where David got anointed,
right, both times, this is a great city of Judah,
and unto Caleb, Caleb was not naturally born of Judah,
he was what, a Kenite that got assembled into,
if you remember those sermons,
Caleb was not a natural born, he's a Kenite,
but anyway, as Moses said, and he expelled thence
the three sons of Anak, which were giants,
and the children of Benjamin did not drive out
the Jebusites that inhabited Jerusalem,
but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Benjamin
in Jerusalem unto this day.
So, now go back to Second Samuel chapter five.
So, in the book of Judges, they still had not gotten rid
of the Jebusites, they had not conquered this castle,
they have not destroyed Jebus because it was just
too tough for them, the Benjaminites were supposed
to be there, but it's kind of like the border
of Judah and Benjamin right there,
it's kind of like a no man's zone at this point,
and David was like, I'm gonna take this spot,
nobody's claimed it, Benjamin couldn't do it,
it's gonna be mine, right?
And so at this point, he goes back,
remember he said all of Israel went with him,
like we're going to Jebus.
So, now let's go back to verse seven,
where I had you hold your finger,
it says, nevertheless, David took the stronghold of Zion,
the same is the city of David.
Now, if you're reading the First Chronicles 11,
it seems like Joab is the one that took the city,
but what does Second Samuel say?
David took the stronghold of Zion.
It's not called the city of Joab,
it's called the city of David,
it's because David's directing them what to do.
David is the one with the plan to take the city,
read on further, it says in verse eight,
and David said, David said that day,
whosoever getteth up to the gutter,
and smiteth the Jebusites, and the lame,
and the blind, that are hated of David's soul,
he shall be chief and captain,
wherefore they said, the blind and the lame
shall not come into the house.
So this kind of seems like David's hating
on handicapped people, doesn't it?
But that isn't really the case.
It seems like they are putting handicapped people out there,
they are putting blind and lame people out there,
and they're taunting him with them.
So he is kind of pissed off about it.
And so he's saying that they're hated of David's soul.
But I don't think that David just hates
special needs people or something.
Because think about this, who did he have
sitting at his table for the rest of his life?
Mephibosheth, who was lame in his feet
for the rest of his life, which was the son of Jonathan.
David didn't just hate people
because they were lame and blind.
But I do think that this is a picture,
and I'll explain to you why I think that
here in just a minute.
But what's David's plan?
Whosoever getteth up to the gutter.
Everybody in this room probably knows
what a gutter is, don't you?
Because we live in a place where it rains.
And rain goes off the roof into the gutter,
and goes down to the downspout and into the other gutter,
which is that thing that runs along the curb
and goes into the drainage, into the sewer system,
and reclaims somewhere in the water system.
Now, when it says get up to the gutter,
up is that way, right?
So I'm not sure exactly what this is talking about
necessarily, but I know he's telling them to go up.
So whatever the plan is, I don't know,
some people think that there's some,
you know, that he's asking them to go into the sewer system,
and then go up that way, but that's not what it says.
Whatever it is, he's telling them to go up.
I don't know if he's just like,
has to make this daring raid and climb up the gutter,
and then get in there and just start killing
all the blind and lame people or whatever that are,
but that kind of seems like what he's saying for him to do.
Whatever it is, David has the plan,
Joab's like, I'm gonna be the first to do it,
I wanna be the chief, I wanna be the captain,
I'm gonna do it, but that's kind of the theories.
Some people say, yeah, there was the Springs of Gihon
were there, and they took this secret channel
into this secret cave and got it, I don't know.
Look, the Bible doesn't say that.
It just says get up the gutter,
and a gutter is a place where water comes down.
So the Bible doesn't explain much more than that,
but it does tell you a little more about the plan though,
doesn't it, in here, and it does say
that David took the city.
He had the plan, he was the captain,
he was the general, and Joab was underneath him.
David's the king.
Says, so David dwelt in the fort
and called it the City of David,
and David built roundabout from Milo and inward,
and that's basically where we're gonna stop tonight,
but I just wanna kind of make a couple applications here.
Again, not sure about the whole blind and lame thing
about David hating the handicapped,
but I don't believe that he just hated blind people
and people that were lame, right?
I don't think that that really fits the personality
of somebody that's a man after God's own heart,
but again, maybe he just hated
that they were being used in that fashion
and trying to make them feel bad for attacking the castle.
I don't know.
That's kind of a theory.
I'm just not 100% sure about that,
but I do know that he did help Mephibosheth
and took care of him all the rest of his days.
He aided his table, which was in the City of David,
in the same place that he lived for 40 years or whatever,
33 more years after this.
So the spiritual obligation though is
a lot of us had strongholds that Christ had to tear down
for us to get saved too.
So a way for us to spiritually apply this
is that we had some hard things
that we had to be torn down to.
I don't know how many times someone had to come to you
with some kind of gospel message
or how many times you had to hear the gospel
or maybe God had to send somebody special to you
or maybe you had to hear certain things
before you would actually hear it.
There were certain things that you grew up
and then there's times you could look back and say,
hey, that was God working in my life.
That was some Navy seal that God was sending in
to climb up the gutter of my heart
to try to get me to understand the gospel and believe.
But I definitely know that that happened in my life.
I know that God spent a lot of time
and waged war against my strongholds and my heart
before I would finally get saved.
I was a tough one to win over.
I definitely had some strongholds in my heart.
And some cases are just hard cases.
But I'm glad the Lord Jesus Christ that he came after me,
he dug in, he set up the bulwarks, he set up the ramparts,
and he sent in the Calvary and he sent in the Marines,
he sent in the Rangers, he sent in the Navy Seals
and the Ninjas and the Samurai
and whatever else he had to send in
to come and rescue my blind and lame spirit
from the blindness that I had to the gospel
to the lameness I had in my character to save my soul.
And so if you wanna apply the lameness and the blindness,
yeah, there's a lot of lame and blind people
out there spiritually that need someone
to come in and rescue them.
And the only person that can do that
is the person that David personifies.
Jesus Christ has the rescue mission, he has the people,
but the people need to be able to go and get it done.
And everybody needs that special person in their life
to bring the gospel to them.
But the cool thing is that now that we're saved,
we don't have that blind and lame spirit about us
where we can't see these things where we're being attacked.
We're never gonna have that because we have a new spirit
taken up in residence in us.
We have the Holy Spirit of God who's built a new stronghold.
Because see, David, he's like, I've taken residence
in the castle of Zion now and he's cleared out
and won't let the lame and the blind reside there anymore.
And so he's not gonna allow that to happen to us either
as long as we're walking the path, right?
But we can never lose our salvation.
The devil can never take that stronghold down.
There's no weapon formed against us that can hurt us.
There's no way we can ever lose as Christians
regardless of what happens to us we're going to heaven.
And we have the Holy Spirit,
we have the seed of David, we have the Lord Jesus Christ,
we have the Messiah, and yeah, Sam Gipp, he's my Messiah,
so I don't care what you think about that,
but I know he's my Messiah.
And he's my captain.
And he built a stronghold and he resides in my heart
and there's nothing anybody can do about that.
And he's cast out that lame and blind spirit
that I had before and made me a child of the king.
Amen.
Let's not forget how hard that some of us,
how hard it was for some of us to be reached
because I don't know about you, but I was a hard case.
And we run into hard cases out sowing all the time.
You know, and I thank God for people
that don't just give up right away.
I mean, sometimes we go a little too long.
But I know why people do.
Because we want to reach that person.
We think, hey, if we gotta just give one more verse,
that person will get it and they'll get saved.
I get it because, you know, I was a hard case myself.
So I understand.
Anyway, that's all I got for tonight.
Let's pray.
Lord, we thank you so much for the Bible
and for the great truths that it teaches, Lord.
I pray that you'd help us to strengthen our stronghold, Lord,
and to make sure that we're walking the straight path
and, Lord, that we're walking in the ways of the Lord,
or that we wouldn't be distracted by all the drama
and all the stuff that just doesn't really matter.
And, Lord, we would just have our eyes focused
on the things that are lovely and true
and just all the things that we should be focused on
and not just all the negative stuff.
Pray, Lord, that you would just bless our church,
help us to just be in our, Lord, be in our Bibles,
be in prayer.
Lord, help us to focus on the good things
and help us to think about how much we love souls
and pray that we would just be focused on the things
that really matter and rescuing people
and tearing down strongholds so that we can win them
to the Lord Jesus Christ.
In Jesus' name we pray.
Amen.
All right, the last one, song number 445.
Set My Soul Afire, song 445.
Song 445.
Song 445, let's sing it together on the first.
Set My Soul Afire, Lord, for Thy holy Word.
Burn it deep within me, let Your voice be heard.
Millions grope in darkness in this day and hour.
I will be Your witness, fill me with Thy power.
Set My Soul Afire, Lord, set My Soul Afire.
Make my life a witness of Thy saving power.
Millions grope in darkness, waiting for Thy Word.
Set My Soul Afire, Lord, set My Soul Afire.
Set My Soul Afire, Lord, for the lost in sin.
Give to me a passion as I seek to win.
Help me not to falter, never let me fail.
Fill me with Thy Spirit, let Thy will prevail.
Set My Soul Afire, Lord, set My Soul Afire.
Make my life a witness of Thy saving power.
Millions grope in darkness, waiting for Thy Word.
Set My Soul Afire, Lord, set My Soul Afire.
Set My Soul Afire, Lord, in my daily life.
Far too long I've wandered, in this day I've been.
I will be Your witness as You live in me.
Set My Soul Afire, Lord, set My Soul Afire.
Make my life a witness of Thy saving power.
Millions grope in darkness, waiting for Thy Word.
Set My Soul Afire, Lord, set My Soul Afire.
Amen. Good singing.
Brother Jeremy, would you close with a prayer?
Amen.