Amen. We're in First Chronicles chapter 18 and let's look at verse number one and my first point,
I have seven points in the sermon, I'm going to try to go through them fast, but the first point
is, and you know the title of the sermon actually before I get started is David dominates his enemies
because that's basically what the whole passage is about, but point number one is David defeats
the Philistines. That's in verse number one it says, now after this it came to pass that David
smote the Philistines and subdued them and took Gath and her towns out of the hand of the
Philistines. So at the first, the first part of that verse though it says after this it came to
pass. So that kind of just tells you that it's continuing the story right after the last chapter.
So a lot of times the Bible, there will be years that go by or months or weeks, but
last chapter, you know I'm just going to kind of sum us up from to where we were at from last time
if you forgot. David brought the ark to Jerusalem. David desired to build the permanent dwelling
place for the ark besides the temporary tent that he made and he felt bad about the fact that he's
living in a house of cedar and God's ark is in curtains that he made and God makes it clear
that he's with David and establishes the Davidic covenant with his seed. Now a lot of people will
say David's literally going to be reigning, but the seed's talking about Jesus, okay.
When he reigns for a thousand years it's going to be Jesus reigning for a thousand years. When
Jesus reigns for all time it's going to be Jesus reigning for all time. If David has some position
of power, you know maybe he's going to have a position of power, but the king of kings is the
one who's going to be reigning. It's going to be Jesus. So when it says seed there you should always
consider the fact, you know we're not in that chapter now, but last chapter it said seed. So
when it says that with Abraham, when it says that with Jacob, when it says that with Isaac,
you know and then Paul in Galatians said it says seed not as of many but as of one that is Christ,
then it's talking about if you believe in Jesus, Jesus was the seed that was promised of Abraham,
he's actually promised from Genesis chapter 3 after the fall, if you believe in Jesus you are
in Christ and he was the seed that was promised. So and so David was told basically by God that
he's going to be that which is of the line of the Messiah going through his sons. Now David took
this literally you can tell by some of the things he said even in the last chapter and of course
you know there's shadow fulfillments of things, but the ultimate fulfillment is you know because
even even when when Jesus is talking to the Jews and they're trying and they want to kill him
and he's like I know you're Abraham's seed but you try you're trying to kill me this did not Abraham
and he says I know you're Abraham's seed so there is a play on words there but Jesus
said but this did not Abraham so yes they are Abraham's descendants they are Abraham's children
but Jesus Christ is the real seed so the the actual fulfillment of that. So David's not able
to build the temple though because he has shed much blood but his son Solomon is going to be
able to be the one that builds it. In this chapter we're going to see the beginning of
how he begins to store up and how he begins to plan for these things because immediately
you know he realizes hey you know and the thing that's cool about David though is that he doesn't
go well I'm the king I'm the one that God chose he's not he's not like well how come I can't do
it God I'm a bloody man but I've done all these things for you I'm the one that killed Goliath
he's not a proud man he's just like yeah okay cool well let me just start getting the ball
rolling so what's he do he starts subduing all these kingdoms and all these kingdoms are
surrounding Israel where they're kind of like in this spot it's like God just picked this spot
just to test Israel for all time or something because everywhere around them they're surrounded
by enemies they're like in this circle like let me I printed off a little map that's probably
going to be really hard to see but like Israel's kind of like right here you know and that their
enemies are on every side all around them so the Philistines are just knocking on the door
you got the Moabites the Edomites up above them you have the Syrians the Assyrians and then you
have the Persians way over to the other side they just and then you have Africa on the other side
you have the Egyptians you know anybody that's within shooting distance of them and even that
even the Ethiopians come up and try to mess with them so they just never run out of enemies to
fight but David it's very clear that God's so much with David that David just goes around
and everybody on his surrounding perimeter he just conquers and subdues them so where Saul was like
afraid of the Philistines David just is like I beat their their best champion straight up with
one shot knocked him dead with one shot and then cut his head off and carried it around for a
trophy for a while a big ginormous head I'm sure but anyway so let's move on with this verse here
so but David's just you know he's going to make this plan to to just store up things but he has
to conquer some people and get some gold so it says that Dave and so it came to pass that David
smote the Philistines and subdued them and took Gath and her towns out of the hands of the
Philistines so what does that word uh smote mean it's going to come up a lot in this chapter
it's the past term of smite to smite someone could mean to just hit them it could mean to
slap somebody it could mean to punch somebody it could mean to hit somebody with something
but it also could mean to kill them use some sort of a weapon or even your fist to kill somebody
smite can mean to kill or it could mean to just hurt somebody with something but in this case
he's killing people he's killing his enemies and I'm sure some people got wounded and lived through
it but that's just the the words that God's using here and then subdued means to conquer by force
or the exertion of a superior power to bring into permanent subjection to reduce under dominion
so and this is what he does if you if you were following along during the chapter he's not he's
conquering them but in a lot of cases people will get conquered and they'll let the the ruler stay
the ruler as long as they're not so wicked that they have to be destroyed he'll let them stay as
like you know a vassal or whatever as long as they give them tribute and they do it what that
other place want like it's kind of like Judea during Jesus's time was conquered but Pilate
was the governor over it inherited was like this puppet king during the time he didn't have more
power than Caesar he they weren't like a sovereign nation at the time so this is kind of how they
would subdue people so the Philistines are the number one enemy of Israel at this time there's
no doubt about that I mean they're always just coming at them always trying to take stuff by
force from them they're public enemy number one hands down and Gath is where Goliath and his
brothers and sons are from so Goliath is called Goliath the Gitite which means he's from the city
of Gath and it makes sense strategically to take out your number one enemy first because if you
take out the big dog then everybody else is gonna be afraid because they're like okay well he easily
defeated the the toughest match so what are we gonna do you know but I mean they still these
other places will fight back but then they would get people and try to pay other people to help
them to fight with them and you know this this just is something that still happens to this day
where they'll get mercenaries from other places or whatever but it makes sense to take them out
David was smart he's like let's go for Gath because Gath is the capital city of their their the little
kingdom that they have they have what's called a pentapolis they have five cities they're the
cities of the Philistines the five cities that should be a question on Remy's trivia
little trivia game that he has but name the five cities of the of the Philistines so but Gath is
number one okay and David goes straight for Gath conquers it and it's it's kind of in that little
so like I know you can't see this but if you want to come up and look at it afterwards but
this is where they're at kind of in the in the Gaza area where Israel's you know just killing
everybody for no reason there right now well I mean they wouldn't say this for no reason they'd
say it's revenge but they're definitely killing women and children indiscriminately without
apologizing for it and posting it on the internet and laughing about it so it's pretty weird pretty
wicked but that's what David is doing with so I mean he just went straight for the toughest enemy
beat them took their took their best town and conquered the Philistines immediately so
I mean you don't even have to see that God's on his side you just know he is he already told us
in the last chapter God's gonna be with him whatever he's doing God's on David's side
basically as long as he's not sinning and straightening up and you know doing what he's
supposed to be doing number two David makes minced meat out of Moab David makes minced meat out of
Moab look at verse number two the Bible says and he smoked Moab and the Moabites became David's
servants and brought gifts so now you start seeing where you know he's this these are people that
are related these are related people to the children of Israel how are they related well
does anybody know how they're related to the children of Israel any any young men in here
any old men how the Moabites related to the children of Israel Lot's descendants that's right
the oldest daughter of Lot is the father of Moab and they made the nation of the Moabites
pretty weird way to start but yeah you wonder why they went bad but that's how the Moabites started
and Moab is settled east of the Jordan river in what is now called the country of Jordan
and there's a lot of a lot of cool things in Jordan archaeologically and they share a border
still to this day with Israel but it's not called Moab so they hired what else did they do they
hired Balaam to curse Israel in the book of Numbers and only succeeded in corrupting them
through fornication that's the only way Balaam was able to curse them Balaam was killed in one
of the battles with the Moabites and Moab is basically kind of like a lifelong enemy of the
children of Israel from that time forward now of course some of the Moabites end up getting saved
and Ruth is one of those people and Ruth ends up being David's great grandmother because she
marries Boaz Boaz and Ruth have Obed Obed has Jesse and Jesse has David so Ruth is a Moabitess
and so she you know is in the lineage of course of the line of Jesus Christ which is written in
the book of Matthew chapter number one but so David so he's he's conquered the Philistines
now he's gone and conquered the Moabites and they're giving him gifts so do you think that
they're just like you know boxes of chocolate or something no these gifts are probably stacks
of gold bars stacks of silver or whatever maybe it's just lots of herds of sheep because they
were sheep herders but whatever it is they're giving them gifts they're not and they became
David's servants so when that what that means is if I got work for you to do you're going to do the
work number three David zaps Zobah David zaps Zobah verse three the bible says David smote
had a rezer the king of Zobah unto Hamath and as he went to establish his dominion by the
river Euphrates so he's going all the way over to the river Euphrates which is part of the promised
land according to what Moses told the children of Israel so he's establishing borders already
that have not been established and he's doing it by attacking this this had rezer king of Zobah
and it says and David took from him a thousand chariots and seven thousand horsemen so he's
taking them what as captive they're his now so like it's kind of like if we just took like seven
thousand tanks from the Russians and said these are our tanks now that's kind of like the equivalent
of what that would be of course tanks are way more powerful but back then chariots were like
their tanks of the day so a thousand chariots seven thousand horsemen and twenty thousand
footmen so now they work for David these twenty thousand footmen David also ha hocked all the
chariot horses and I like the pronunciation brother Eli he pronounced it right it looks
like Hugh doesn't it but that's not how it's pronounced it's pronounced hocked
he is correct he probably looked at that and you're like what is Eli reading
but there's a school there's actually an elementary school and I used to call it Hugh elementary but
it's actually pronounced it should be pronounced hawk that is how it's pronounced I don't know
something some uh some Englishman somewhere spelled it wrong or something I don't know but
that's how it's pronounced it says but reserved of them and hundred chariots so he hocked all the
chariot horses but reserved of them and hundred chariots so he just so there's a thousand chariots
and he reserved in hundred of them so he took ten percent of the chariots and he hocked the the
chariot horses so all those chair all those chariots require a bunch of horses to carry
those chariots places and he hocked them well what does that mean well it means that he cut
their tendons in their back legs he cut you know like what would be the equivalent of our Achilles
tendons in the back of the horse's legs so that they'd be lame and not able to carry those chariots
I know all you horse lovers out there just David how could you do that bad bad bad David
were some of them unicorns I don't think so but it just says horses but why did he do this
well before we get to that who are who is who is the king of zoba like what where's this
where's this guy come from well he's said to be this place zoba is from the
from is also known as aram zoba and that was uh not not armenians but are are aram are aramean
kingdom so aram is one of the children of shem he's one of the direct lines so he's a shemite
so I don't hate aram I I'm okay with them but I don't hate shem either I you know so all these
children shem had many children so people always say we're anti-shemites or semites because we
preach against Jews or whatever so I always just like to say I like a lot of I like a lot
of semites but anyway so this is where zoba is he's from this line of aram and basically he had
like a northern aram a south aram and east aram so and basically what they are is syrians they
became the line of the syrians and so they're directly related to abraham and the children
of israel because shem is um you know related to aram because he was aram was his son so he's like
the uncle so arphaxad was where the line of of abram came from which was the brother of aram
so so they're brothers and then that line split off into so that's like when you see uh what's
his name ahab he's like he doesn't want to kill that king ben hadad he's like he is my brother
and it's like why would he say that well because they're related through family way back in the day
but anyway back to the huge horses here I just want to kind of give you a little so they're so
they're from basically where modern syria would be but in the north okay and then their kingdoms
also stretched towards the afraid so they had a big amount of land back then but the term hewing
comes from an old spelling of hawk or i said hewing see it's just it's just natural for me
to read it like that but hawking okay it looks like hewing though comes from an old spelling
of hawk and the hawk is the joint between the knee and the fetlock in the hind leg of the
quadruped and in humans the hawk is the back of the knee joint also known as the ham in time
times of war hamstringing an enemy's horses would prevent them from being used in fighting
so this is why he did it because he can't just leave all those horses there he probably didn't
want to kill him because i mean they could be useful for something you know and so he just
decides well i'm just going to make it to where they can't pull chariots anymore so they can't
use the things i'm leaving there because he's only taking a hundred of those chariots back with him
and so if he just leaves 900 there and all those horses healthy as a horse then they can just use
those things and come back after him again and attack him so he's gonna do the the smart thing
militarily and not do that but essentially so essentially david's just taking all the chariot
horses and hawking or hamstringing them to render them unusable for the purposes
of driving those chariots so why not keep them well i'm sure that resources are
limited on being able to feed 7 000 horses or whatever it was or all the horses for all those
900 chariots which would be probably two so like 1800 horses or whatever it was
so that's limited and also being able to pull those back i mean i don't i mean where are you
going to where are you going to put it all it's probably a logistics nightmare so i don't know
what the road conditions were like back then maybe they did i mean i'm sure they had the king's roads
and stuff like that but they definitely weren't roman roads or paved roads like we have now so
but the other thing is is that they would probably not do that because they don't want god doesn't
didn't want israel just stacking their armies to the point where they would start trusting in their
military might instead of trusting in god that's kind of a big thing with god he'll like say oh
you got 10 000 people let's just whittle it down to 300 how about that because god didn't want them
to get overconfident with the powers that they had turn to psalm chapter 20 verse 7 psalm chapter
20 verse 7 and this is the attitude that david had with this and i think that this goes directly to
what why he does this
and i'm sure the horses lived you know a lot of them so you know people girls could have
the ponies later on but um maybe all of them were given to daughters as ponies or something
i don't know but uh psalm chapter 20 verse 7 the bible says some trust in chariots and some trust
in horses but we will remember the name of the lord our god that's david's attitude i'm not
going to trust in their chariots i'm not going to trust in their horses i'm going to remember the
name of the lord i'm not i didn't i didn't get this all i didn't win this battle by all my
chariots and horses the first time so why do i care about keeping all of them he keeps some
of them and then he chops their hamstrings the hamstrings of all the other horses that's how he
that's how we that's how he operates they that are brought down and fallen or they are brought
down and fallen but we are risen and stand upright that's how the battle went right save lord let the
king hear us when we call that's his attitude hey when we call when we need you lord that's when we
need you to step in and help us win the battle we don't need all those stinking horses they poop all
over the place their their poop stinks and someone has to it's disgusting anyway turn to proverbs
chapter 21 verse 31 i respect horses i like the way they look from a distance but i don't like
getting close to them because they don't like me i think they can sense that i'm afraid of them
and so they want to kick me and bite me anyway only snowball will be he will be my only horse
that i ever have all right 20 proverbs 21 verse 31 the horse is prepared against the day of battle
but safety is of the lord right attitude again so the proverbs of solomon he kind of learned
something there from his dad that the horse yeah you can prepare the horse for the day of battle
but ultimately your safety is of god it's not going to be you know all the weapons that you
amass the caches you know and some of us have some pretty impressive uh caches but like ultimately
a little virus can go into your nostril and take you out and kill you and what good did your
ar-15 two for you there it didn't do much so or some kind of a gas i mean they can just shoot
gas that you're on your block and then you just die so but god can protect us through anything
you know so as long as we trust in him more than anything else it's not it's not bad to be prepared
in that way i don't think but uh the best thing to do is have god on your side like david did
number four david slaughters the syrians david slaughters the syrians you're like this is a pretty
pretty gruesome chapter pastor well i mean it's what's what he what it's about verse five when
the syrians and damasket the syrians of the damascus came to help had a reser king of zoba
david slew of the syrians two and twenty thousand men so that was a bad idea like oh you want to
help them how about we just kill 22 000 people and so david you know he he's not messing around here
he's he's dominating the landscape so someone tries to come and help him done he says then
david put garrisons in syria damascus and the syrians became david's servants and brought gifts
and again not boxes of chocolates probably a lot better stuff than that
thus the lord preserved david whithersoever he went any place david went he crushed his enemies
and this happens until he starts messing up later on right and and really we're not going to see a
lot of david's big mistakes because of the book of first chronicles and second chronicles doesn't
really show a lot of the bad mistakes that the kings make because it's just chronicling the
history of israel and so you're really going to see the kings in a positive light more than you
would in first and second kings where it just tells all their dark secrets basically because
i don't i mean that's just the way it is that's just the way the book rolls so um but it's not
like you're not going to get i mean obviously if you read first kings you're going to read
first second chronicles too so you're going to get all the bad stuff too but this is just a
chronicling of it so let's see the so so the syrians again are the line of aram who is a
shemite being the son of shem so number five so he already he so he whoops them number five david's
enemies get taxed to provide materials for the temple to come so this is really what what this
so i mean david's mindset build the temple god says you can't build he's like okay well let's
go conquer some people and get all their stuff and in the meantime i get to subdue my enemies
i don't have to worry about them attacking me all the time i'm going to dominate them
and then i'm going to lay up for god's temple so uh what happens verse seven and david took the
shields of gold that were on the servants of hadorezzar and brought them to jerusalem oh
shields of gold here we go likewise from tibhath and from from chun cities of hadorezzar brought
david very much brass where with salman made the brazen sea and the pillars and the vessels of
brass so like when you see that the temple being destroyed later on way way later on when
nebkenezer destroys it and how it says it's without weight all this stuff david is the one that
amassed most of that stuff david amassed you know all the stuff for the vessels and all the stuff
for the temple now of course salman you know he was getting stacks of gold sent to him too so
you know he was no slouch himself but ultimately david is the one that laid up everything
necessary and kind of set everything up for salman to really just easily get stuff done
but and so he did the pillars the vessels of brass but that brazen sea they had a hard time
getting that thing out of there they had to cut it up and take it out but it says verse nine now
when tow king of hamath heard how david had smitten all the host of hadorezzar king of zoba
he sent hadaram the son of king david to inquire of his welfare and to congratulate him so
apparently he's glad that king got beat up because he had fought against hadorezzar and smitten him
for hadorezzar had war with tow and with him all manner of vessels of gold and silver and brass so
he's like hey congratulations by the way here's some more gold some more silver some more brass
for the temple so david's not only conquering people he's making friends on the side
so he's just kind of just winning winning winning so who is this hadorezzar
who is what is hadorezzar well hadorezzar if you you can write this down you don't have to go there
i'm just going to read it for you genesis 1018 says and arvadite and the arvadite and the
zemurite and the hamathite and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad so
apparently this is a Canaanite this is a Canaanite area that tow this king tow is is a king of now
i'm not sure if they were still Canaanites at that time or if that they've been taken over
by somebody else but either way this tow david is still cool with some for some reason or another but
tow likes him and he likes tow so or tau or however you want to pronounce that i think
brother eli said tau but when i see tau i think of like how general tau sows chicken is spelled but
so it's just messing me up i'm on anyway it does look like tau
toe toe is t-o-w okay yeah all right tau let's say tau that sounds better
sounds chinese though anyway uh let's see so then them also king david dedicated unto the lord
with the silver and the gold that he brought from all these nations now he's going to add
some nations that he hasn't even it hasn't even talked about from edom and from moab you're there
to mention that and from the children of amman i hadn't mentioned that one yet and from the
philistines and from amalac so there's a few nations that he hasn't talked about but he
beat them down too he's already beat up amalac before and aman aman is the other child of law
through incest through the other daughter okay yeah lots of drama in the bible some weird stuff
edom of course is the brother of jacob who was the bad son basically or the rebellious son
and uh you know his children didn't really get along with the children of israel either
amalac is the son of edom uh one of the one of the dukes of edom or whatever and amalac
is kind of just this weird tribe that really hates israel too and so let's look at psalm
chapter 23 verse 4 so david just dedicates all this stuff to the lord
and he's storing up for solomon so at this point he's still probably a fairly young man
but maybe in this i mean he's he's been a king for a while he's i don't know i'm not exactly
sure how old he is at this point i didn't really calculate all that out but maybe middle middle
age or a little bit older um psalm chapter 23 verse 4 says yea though i walk through the valley
of the shadow of death i will fear no evil for thou art with me thy rod and thy staff they comfort
me thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies thou anointest my head with oil
my cup runneth over surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life and i will dwell
in the house of the lord forever david could truly write this because he really did have
his table set for him in the presence of his enemies he literally was surrounded by enemies
everywhere he talks about it in multiple psalms how you know he just had all these enemies
surrounding him all the time but god always take took care of him and always you know favored him
and even when he messed up even with the thing with abso long i mean was he wrong originally in
the whole thing with abso long he was but who was clearly the bad guy in that situation
it was abso long abso long took things too far abso long you know he just he was he was the villain
in that story and god allowed david to prevail in that story because um you know abso long just like
went nutso went full rep so but god will prepare the table for us also as his people
and allow us to live in an area like i mean think about where you live or just where we go to church
i mean what area we live in it's not we're called the left coast like when you look at what trump
won in the in the election like when you just look at those maps have you seen those maps that
shows all the places where trump won it's like the whole country is red except for like our part of
the country and then like a couple places in the northeast and like you know weird colorado or
whatever but most every other place is just completely red and you know we do kind of live
in a place where there's a lot of enemies of god a lot of god haters and god still blesses us in
the areas that we live in doesn't he he still blesses our church he still blesses our our
livelihoods our houses and you know he still allows us to be blessed amongst our enemies
look at proverbs chapter 13 proverbs chapter 13 verse 20 proverbs 13 20 says he that walketh with
wise men shall be wise but a companion of fools shall be destroyed evil pursueth sinners but to
the righteous good shall be repaid a good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children
and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just that's an interesting part that last part
there the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just so basically david just goes to all these
places and it's just like kicks all their their behinds and then takes all their money and uses
it to build the temple i mean the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just so god just uses
david and fulfills all the things the desires of his heart were to what build that temple for the
lord he's like okay well why don't you just go kick all these enemies behinds take all their
gold take all their stuff and then come and build this temple i'll make it happen for you
turn to psalms chapter 18 verse 37 psalm chapter 18 verse 37
psalms 18 37 the bible says i have pursued mine enemies and overtaken them neither did
i turn again till they were consumed i have wounded them that they were not able to rise
they were fallen under my feet for thou hast girded me with strength into the battle
thou has subdued under me those that rose up against me thou has also given me the necks of
mine enemies that i might destroy them that hate me they cried and there was none to save them
even unto the lord but he answered them not that's kind of crazy you know i mean they actually cried
some of these people that david conquered cried to the lord and they didn't answer them because
it's like too late reprobate you know you're gonna you're gonna cry out to the lord now
you atheists in the foxhole you you know they're like oh god okay i'll believe you or whatever it's
just like it's too late you know the wheels coming over them or whatever then did i beat them small
as the dust before the wind i did cast them out as the dirt in the streets wow that you're lower
than dirt buddy thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people thou hast made me the head
of the heathen a people whom i have not known shall serve me i mean that just doesn't that
just personify everything that's happened in this chapter it's like everything that david did but
then you can take these verses and apply them to christ because jesus christ of course is pictured
in the psalms and so you know obviously david parallels a lot you know christ parallels a lot
of the things that david did and vice versa right so number six tonight abishai eviscerates the
edamites abishai eviscerates the edamites look at verse 12 in our text it says moreover abishai the
son of zariah slew of the edamites in the valley of salt 18 000 and he put garrisons in edom and
all the edamites became david's servants thus the lord preserved david whithersoever he went so
saying it again and remember edom is esau what does what does edom mean red because edom came
out all red and hairy little ball of hairy red so um now abishai now zariah is david's sister
david's sister and so these are sons of david's sister and david has them all working for him
and there's some of the most bad dudes in the whole you know they're they're like overly bad
they're like they're guys you'd want on your side but they just kind of go over the top
a lot a lot where they're like murdering people sometimes and stuff like that do i think that
they were saved i do think that they were saved but i mean they obviously you reap what you sow
so i mean because there's times when joab is like resisting things that david is doing wrong
and saying hey david don't do this and david still does like joab is so mad that david's counting the
numbering the people that he stops numbering them and doesn't finish doing it and rides back and
then gives them the number and then god starts judging them and joab seems to listen to reason
you know he's going after shiva the son of bikrai the sob and he's chasing him to this town and then
he they're about to slaughter this whole town just to get to him because he hid in this town
and then this old lady starts you know bartering with him and she's like you're just you're just
gonna kill all these innocent people or whatever you know i'm paraphrasing and he's like he starts
talking back with her and she's just like throw his head over the wall and we'll leave you alone
she they throw the head over the wall and they leave them alone so joebo isn't an unreasonable guy
but when someone kills his brother it's a blood vendetta to him so abner kills his other brother
and even though abner said stop following me you know don't make me smite you and he kept following
him and then he's you know got him under the fifth rib with his spear and then later on abishai
helps joab murder him and he has become the captain see david's always trying to replace joab
as the captain of the host and every time he does that joab murders them and so he murdered abner
but it wasn't just because of that he murdered abner because abner killed his brother so but
abishai is the mightiest of those brothers so one of the brothers is already dead what was
his name again does anybody remember off the top of their head the one that abner killed i can't
remember anyway sorry bernie moment but um joe biden moment um but anyway abishai is you know
he's still alive and just abishai is is kind of bad to the bone himself he's like the the top
killer of all three of them now remember joab's claim to fame he's not even in the mighty men's
list his armor bearer is but he's not but joab climbs through the gutter and and and gets the
city of david he he he gets uh he gets the city of david for and that's why he became the captain of
the host and that's something he held on to with a fierce grip even unto death um all his days until
he ends up getting killed but um first chronicle chapter 11 verse 20 says and abishai the brother
of joab was the chief of the three talking about the mighty men for lifting up his spear against
300 he slew them and had a name among the three so he wasn't the top three of the mighty men
but he was among them of the three so and it says of the three he was more honorable than two
for he was their captain how be it he attained not to the first three so he wasn't top three
but he led he led that host but he did not attain to he was their captain but he wasn't
the top three of the mighty men so there's a pecking order in this mighty man thing so
there's like 30 what 30 something mighty men 30 mighty men or something like that
but uh so abishai was a a really tough warrior fourth of the mighty men killed 300 men by himself
that's a pretty it's a pretty tough feat with a spear no less but his low lights were he helped
in the murder of abner and well i mean i thought it was a pretty cool saying but uh you know
probably i'm wrong for feeling this way but when that guy's cursing david and he's kicking rocks
at him and stuff and he's like you know are you gonna let this dead dog talk about my lord the
king he's like just say the word and i'll i'll cut his head off or whatever i thought that was
pretty cool but i mean just because i felt bad for david you know it probably would have been
a fitting end for this guy he ends up getting killed anyway so you know might as well been then
but you know david's just always saying you men of zariah are too hard for me and so david's
attitude's the right attitude mine's bad so but uh he also wanted to kill saul when they had the
they had the drop on him he's like let me smite him i won't smite him twice i'll smite him to
the ground he'll be i'll get him and then he's like i'm not going to stretch forth my hand
and touch the lord's anointed so they're always trying to get david to go further than he should
so in that way they're not really good as counselors for him they're like not trying to
get him to be cautious and david's always just like no i'm not going to do that you know you
men of zariah are too hard for me but you know as far as the talent goes i mean he the bible
says he was fast as a row this i mean he was obviously faster than his brother his brother
got killed by uh by abner but he was extremely fast he was a talented fighter he was the best
of the three brothers but he was great in talent but his spiritual life was probably lacking
so um i'm not you know the bible doesn't say that he died in any way like joab or or anything like
that but you know the point is he subdued the edamites and david sent him because he's one of
the captains and the bible mentions him for this reason you know he was obviously a very courageous
and great leader in his own right i'm not trying to diminish that at all but he definitely wasn't
perfect and what i love about the bible and what makes the bible stand apart from other books a lot
of other holy books so called they don't they're not true to what people really are the bible will
show everything warts and all and just tell us what's wrong you know it's not just telling us
what's wrong with us it's not making them the ultimate heroes of the story and they've never
done anything wrong every person in this book has done something wrong except for jesus you can't
find a person in the bible that doesn't have some kind of problem with them even joseph was
i mean joseph is arguably one of the greatest guys in the bible but then he did buy all the
egyptians land and all their horses and animals and everything sold it all and gave it all to
pharaoh i mean it didn't really work out very well for the children of israel for the next 430 years
so i mean that wasn't very nice so all right last point um yeah so what's you know you can be
talented i just want to say this you can be really talented and good at a lot of things
but if you're poor in spirituality that's not what you want to aim for in this life
because there's a lot of people that have a lot of great talent they're physically talented
like this guy abishai but now obviously abishai was able to do a lot of talented things physically
but you don't really see a lot of spirituality out of him he's always hanging out with spiritual
people but you don't see the spiritual side of him i can't think of one thing that he does
in the bible that's spiritual number seven david's administration it's very important that
leadership has good people around them to administer all these things and to you know that
you have a good core in any kind of leadership so if you have a bunch of bad apples around you
it's not going to work out that's why these deacon led churches don't work out very well because the
pastor's always afraid to do something because the deacons are going to fire them you preach this oh
the deacons are going to have you come into the office and we're going to talk about what you've
been preaching lately pastor i don't like the way that you're going in this direction pastor
because if they wanted to even if they wanted to change on something they couldn't because they
got to squeak it past the moss back deacons that don't want to do anything except for hoard all the
money in the bank account and not do anything with it unless they need to make some repairs
or something but even then they do a special offering for that they do special offerings for
special offerings we got to have a special offering just so we can have a special offering
that's weird so first chronicles 18 14 says so david reigned over all israel
and executed judgment and justice among all the people another reason that god loved him so much
is because of how he administered everything he executed judgment he didn't just judge
and not execute it he judged and make sure the judgment got executed and justice among the people
so and those two things are different if someone gets wronged he made sure that the justice was
done for those people and you know it's a really important thing for god that judgment and justice
are met out you know if someone does something wicked that judgment is met out to those people but
god is also merciful and long-suffering i mean david could have been killed for what he did with
bashiba but he chose to give him mercy why i don't know but one thing i do know is that
it's god it's up to god to make that judgment call he's the one that judges the anointed king
that's his job it wasn't the people's job date i mean that's very clear that it was up to them
so proverbs chapter 20 go ahead and turn to isaiah 42 i'm going to read proverbs 21 verse 3 proverbs
21 verse 3 says to do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the lord than sacrifice i'll
read that again to do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the lord than sacrifice
see all these holly weird stars and all these people out there they just think that
no i'll just give something i'll just i'll do you know some soul winner some guy yells at us when
we're out soloing a couple weeks ago and he gives me a card to smooth it over i think i was with
brother temo the guy just walks up to me and i don't know what happened i don't know who he was
yelling that was probably brother alex was it your brother alex oh he was yelling at somebody
for cramming it down my throat or whatever but it's just like nobody's cramming it down your
throat we just ask you a question he's anyway he gave us a he gave us a gift card to just
because he felt bad for what he did he must have been really ragging on somebody but
you know people just they want to give something and sacrifice for something that they did wrong
is my point but to do justice and have judgment is better it's more acceptable
god would rather see that be the case and you're in isaiah 42 1 it says behold my servant this
talking about jesus behold my servant whom i uphold mine elect in whom my soul delighteth
i will put my spirit upon him he shall bring forth judgment to the gentiles he shall not cry nor lift
up nor cause his voice to be heard in the street a bruised reed shall he not break and the smoking
flax he shall not quench he shall bring forth judgment and truth he shall not fail nor be
discouraged till he has set judgment in the earth and the aisles shall wait for his law
now judgment doesn't always mean a bad thing judgment can mean good things but judgment is
something that we use all the time and people are like oh you're not supposed to judge people and
you just get tired of hearing that from people it's just the dumbest parroted thing that the
non-christians want to say and even christians say it oh don't judge you know they they do
their little parrot parroting of um you know thou shalt not judge you know don't judge me
they'll even put tattoos of themselves you know only god can judge me and stuff like that
well you know be careful what you wish for because you just might get it
because the bible says that god will judge you so be careful what you do before that judgment
happens because he is going to judge you and the judgment that i give is not going to be as bad as
the judgment that god gives trust me because i really can't do anything so um so but christ
has a lot of the same attitude that david i mean this is what david's like too he executes just
justice he executes judgment and christ is just like you know that's why david pictures christ
because he's like that matthew chapter 23 verse 23 says woe unto you scribes and Pharisees hypocrites
for you pay tithe of mint and anise and cumin and of omitted the weightier matters of the law
judgment mercy and faith these are you have to have done and not to leave the other undone
their problem was is that all they they care about you know making sure the tithe oh i better make
sure to put one more mustard seed in there and they don't care about loving people they're
looking at jesus as he heals somebody with a withered hand and he's jesus is angry because
he knows what they're thinking like how dare you heal somebody's hand on the sabbath day
what a weird thing to think how dare you raise somebody up from the dead on the sabbath day
and they're that's what they're mad about how dare you not wash your hands before you had supper
and that's as bad you know and that's just not even in the law it's not even in the bible
they get mad about things that aren't in the bible but we have a lot of modern day
you know what they like to call us pharisees they like to say oh you guys are pharisees
well the pharisees added things to salvation we don't add things to salvation we say
salvation is by faith alone in christ alone and there's nothing you can do to lose it
pharisees say wash your hands before supper pharisees say you must be circumcised and keep
the law of moses pharisees say oh you got to blow this stupid shofar in church every time you come
to church pharisees say you got to keep the sabbath day no you don't that's what pharisees
do they add works and they add men's commandments that are not in the bible that's what a true
pharisee is a pharisee will say no it's okay to get divorced for any reason but the bible says
that if you divorce and marry another then you're committing adultery that's what the bible says
and then you're like oh you're such a pharisee no you're the pharisee you're an idiot and you
don't know the bible you need to be stop being an ignoramus and get your face in a book and hey
if you don't like matthew chapter 19 you don't like matthew chapter oh i don't like that's the
old testament how about matthew chapter 19 how about matthew chapter 5 on divorce oh i don't
like that well tell me a chapter you do like let's turn to it i don't like your preaching about the
sodomites let's turn to jude yep it's in there too how about how about revelation chapter 22
without her dogs where can you escape the judgment show me a chapter where's your unicorn
chapter of all love and peace and white dove and all that kind of stuff
hug the trees and pet the dogs and all that stuff look i like animals too but people have a real
problem with worshiping them in this country i can't even get on the next door app i just want
to puke that's all people talk about is their stupid dogs and where they saw the last coyote
there's not a social media that i can even survive on anymore
because i just can't help myself i'm always getting banned or censored
the fireworks on the 4th of july shut up and love america
so annoying anyway turn to second timothy chapter four one i don't know where this is coming from
but just it's rylan talked to me about something before the service and he got me fired up anyway
second timothy chapter four verse one verse was his dad now hand while you're turning there i'm
going to read psalm chapter 60 verse 12 psalm 60 verse 12 says through god we shall do valiantly
for it is for it is for he it is that shall tread down our enemies you know we only do valiantly
because of god he's the one that actually treads down the enemies it says and david did this and
david did that and it is true but if he didn't have god on his side he wouldn't have been doing
any of that stuff if do you think that it was it was david's true aim that really brought
goliath down i think it was probably god helping him with that true aim because he hit him right
between the eyes i mean that's one in a million shot past this the shield bearer that was in
front of him past all the armor and the helmet that he had on i'm sure he had a helmet on
that one piece of the armor that wasn't covered right there that dead god is the one that leads
us to our victories you're in second timothy chapter four look at verse one it says i charge
thee therefore before god and the lord jesus christ who shall what's it say judge the quick
and the dead that is appearing and his kingdom so the quick or the alive right the dead are the ones
that have to go to hell so jesus is going to judge jesus is a judge yes jesus judges and we
have to judge things every day you have to judge how far in front of you that car is you know how
far you have to put your how far is 50 feet before you start putting your blinker on well apparently
nobody in this in this state knows because nobody uses them it seems like how far is the distance
between where i have to merge on how fast do i have to start going well apparently nobody knows
in this state because nobody knows how to merge here either when they say yield it just means keep
going don't stop anyway why am i talking about this i don't know i was around washington drivers
recently anyway so but here's the thing so just like david is dominating jesus is going to dominate
too and you know when jesus comes back it's not going to be the hippie that everybody thinks he is
he's not going to be wearing a dress he's not going to be a hippie he's going to be in a garment
that is blood red and he's going to be riding on a white horse that's going to be a striking image
and he's going to have eyes that are flaming fire he's not going to look like he looked when
he was on this earth he's going to be very terrifying looking and you know the bible
says that at the name of jesus every knee shall bow and the bible says that he will dash them
in pieces as a potter's vessel have you ever taken a piece of iron and smashed clay pots with them
probably not but you could imagine what it would do because clay pots aren't very strong he says
he said god the father of jesus says ask me and i will give thee the heathen as thine inheritance
and he must have asked because we're gonna he's gonna inherit everything right
so last verse last i think the last of our yeah last four three verses here let's go back to our
text in verse 15 it says and joab the son of zeruiah was over the host and jehoshaphat the
son of eliud recorder that's not the same as king joshaphat obviously but maybe that's where
the name came from i don't know but um so so the recorder that's probably the ones recording
all these events possibly i don't know it says and zadok the son of ahiatob and abimelech the
son of abiathar were the priest and shavsha was scribe so as far as zadok being named first zadok
is the one that is going to continue on and be the high priest ahiatob or excuse me abimelech
is going to not continue after the rebellion against solomon then he's going to be deposed
and it's just going to be the line of zadok after that fulfilling the promise against eli the priest
where he said that your line's going to be cut off from being the priest the high priest
but for now there's two high priests that's kind of what's going on there and it says and benaniah
the son of jehoiada was over the charathites and the pellethites and the sons of david
and were chief about the king so you know a lot of people would say that's controversial
because david did have some some dumb kids one of them was um absolem with the long hair
and what was the other one that was bad i don't know he had a couple bad ones but
not all his kids were bad he had some that lived on and had other kids and made it through
back to from babylon so anyway i don't have time to get into that um maybe we'll cover that again
some other time but uh again having the right people in the right place of administration is
important but um david knew that he made a mistake with joab he's like whoever get whoever you know
conquers this city you know they'll be my my captain but he didn't realize maybe he should
have just thought that one through i don't know because joab i mean he was a great he was a great
leader he was a great captain but he just david had some you know he had something on david
that he held over his head that letter to his uh the death the death letter that he had
that he knew and he pulled back the troops and allowed your ride to hit tight to be killed
he he was he was always able to hold that over david's head i think and that's why david never
got rid of him while he was alive but he said you know what he told his son you know what you need
to do let his don't let his hoary head go down to the grave without blood so he's like kill joab
because joab murdered abu uh who'd he murder
he murdered two the two generals amasa amasai or amasa and um
no oh he did marry yeah he did murder him he murdered his son so that was probably one of
the other things he's mad about but yeah i forgot about that yeah he was just a murdering son of a
gun so anyway that's all i got for tonight um but you know david does get a lot of credit but don't
forget that david couldn't do it without his team so anyway let's pray lord we thank you so much for
this chapter of the bible and the total victory of david and lord how it's a picture for us for
the lord jesus christ and lord no one's gonna get victory like him and uh pray the lord that day
would come for us we know it will but lord sometimes it just feels like it's gonna be
forever but we know it won't be we pray lord that you would just help us and prepare us for the
battle lord ours is a spiritual one and it's nothing like the ones that we see in this book
but i'm thankful for that but lord i pray that you'd help us in the spiritual battle because
in some ways it can be more treacherous i pray that you just bless our people help them to get
feeling better soon the ones that are sick and that you would
take us home safely tonight in Jesus name we pray amen