Hard to believe,
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coming to the end of
12 presentations on David.
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And it's been a
journey began last January,
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but we've learned also
about Jesus along the way
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because the Bible
tells us that David was a man
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after God's own heart.
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And so as we are
studying the character of David,
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we're really finding
out a lot about Jesus.
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And he's a character that
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almost
everybody could relate to.
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You know, they
say different people
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can relate to
different characters,
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and soldiers can
relate to soldiers,
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and the rich
relate better to the rich,
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and the poor to the poor.
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But, you know,
David went through
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almost all of these
experiences in his life.
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He was poor, you
can relate to David.
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He was rich, at the end
I'm going to talk about today,
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fabulous wealth.
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He was a stranger,
David was forsaken by friends.
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He was attacked by family.
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He had to flee
to a foreign land,
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he was a refugee.
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He was a soldier, he
was an administrator.
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He was a creative
person. He was an architect.
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I mean, David was just,
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he did a little
bit of everything.
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And so just about everybody,
you can find something
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of themselves in life of
David and find a way to relate.
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Well, we're
going to pick up today,
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and our mission today really
is to get from 2 Samuel 20.
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Now, you find the life of David
not only in 1 and 2 Samuel,
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you also find
it in 1 Chronicles,
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they cover a lot
of the same territory,
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we've been using Samuel.
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And we'll go to 1 Kings 2:10.
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The period of time
we're looking at represents
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the last 10 years of his reign
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which is why we've
titled today's message,
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"The Sunset
Years of David's Life".
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And we remember
in our last study,
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he survived this
terrible rebellion
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where his son, beautiful
son who he loves so much,
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Absalom rebelled against him,
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wanted to even take
his father's own life
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and yet his father
was willing to forgive.
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We've learned from
that experience, I mean,
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the father is
willing to forgive us
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even though we, by our
sins, took the life of His son,
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but He loves us that much.
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Well, they invited
him back to Jerusalem
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to lead out on
the people of Judah,
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but there was a brief
rebellion that took place.
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And you read about
this in 2 Samuel 20,
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a man by the name of Sheba,
he blew a trumpet and said,
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"Who do we...
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we don't need to follow David,
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he was from the
tribe of Benjamin."
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You remember,
Saul was from Benjamin.
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The Benjamites were feeling like
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their tribe had been
slighted when Saul was slain
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that they really
deserved the monarchy.
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And so this rebellion went
on, maybe for a few months.
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And Joab took
things in his own hands.
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He should probably know,
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the general who
led under Absalom
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for the people to
attack David was named Amasa.
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David, trying to bring the
kingdom back together again
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and since Joab had
disobeyed a direct order
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and killed Absalom, God said,
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I should say David said to Joab,
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"You can't be
the general anymore.
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Amasa is going
to be the general."
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Well, Joab said, "Boy, David,
you're making bad decision.
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You're not only were
willing to let Absalom live
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who could be a constant
threat, now you want the general
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that tried to kill
you to be your general."
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And so after Sheba
rebelled, Joab killed Sheba
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and then he killed
Amasa, not in that order.
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Joab kind of did
his own thing sometimes.
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So that was taken care of.
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And then you get to 2 Samuel 21,
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and this is a story a
lot of people wonder about.
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It says, "Now there was a
famine in the days of David
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for three years,
year after year."
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And the famine after three years
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is not resolved
for another six months,
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you'll see.
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So it ends up being a famine
for three and a half years,
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now does that sound familiar?
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How long was a famine
in the days of Elijah?
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How long did Jesus teach?
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Three and a half years.
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You'll often find
this, three and a half years,
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even in the
prophecies of Revelation.
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So there's a
famine for three years.
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And David wants to
know what the problem is,
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and the Lord speaks
to David, and he says,
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"It's because of Saul..."
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Well, Saul's
been dead for years.
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"And his blood thirsty
house, meaning his sons,
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because they
killed the Gibeonites."
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And what's that all about?
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If you read your
Bible, you'll find in Joshua 9
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that the Gibeonites
tricked the Israelites
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into making a covenant
that they would spare them
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and let them live in the
land and not a victim like
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they did to other
nations, they said,
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"We'll be your
servants but let us stay."
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Joshua made a
covenant, and even after that
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people realized they've
been tricked, they said,
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"Let's just kill them."
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Joshua said, "We've
sworn in the name of the Lord,
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they are servants,
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we're going to let
them live in the land,
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we will protect them."
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That went on for
hundreds of years.
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But Saul decided, and his
sons probably persuaded him.
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The Gibeonites tricked
us, let's get even with them
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and they began to attack
and destroy the Gibeonites.
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Well, because they
broke, because Saul and his sons
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broke the covenant of God.
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Here you've got a
famine happening years later.
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Now does God
forget His promises?
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When somebody does
something right or wrong,
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does the
blessing or does the curse
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always come immediately?
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God told David,
"You're going to be king,"
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but didn't it take a few
years before it happened?
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And sometimes,
someone will misbehave
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like King Manasseh,
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but later when
Nebuchadnezzar came
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and destroyed the city,
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Manasseh had
been dead for years.
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He said, "It's because of
the blood that Manasseh shed."
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God keeps in the
accurate record of things
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and sometimes the
judgment comes later.
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Sometimes, He's so patient.
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Three or four generations
go by, then the judgment comes.
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Well, now years after
Saul was dead but his sons,
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these are the
sons of his concubines,
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because Saul not
only had his wife
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and he had three sons...
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four sons with his wife.
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But he ended up
having other sons
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through the concubines.
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And David said,
"What shall we do
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to end the famine
because they broke the covenant
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that we made
with the Gibeonites?"
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He said that those
seven sons must be executed.
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They conspired,
they were accomplices,
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encouraging their father
to attack the Gibeonites.
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And so finally, David
reluctantly does that.
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And then it says that
they prayed for the land
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and after the harvest came,
which is the other six months,
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the rains came.
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And so if you've ever
wondered about that story,
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that's where someone said,
"Why would you punish the sons
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for what Saul did?"
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Well, these were adult sons
who had encouraged their father
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to attack the Gibeonites.
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Now you read on now,
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you go to the
same chapter, verse 15.
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And here, you've got
the record of this final war
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with the sons of Goliath.
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David is still mopping up
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the last of his
enemies, you know.
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It's really interesting
after David killed Goliath,
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for while, he lived in Gath.
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Wouldn't that have been strange?
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And David is carrying
the sword of Goliath around
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while he lives in Gath.
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But Goliath had sons,
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they never quite
forgot what David had done.
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It says the
Philistines were at war.
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I'm in 2 Samuel 21:15
if you wanted to look.
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"The Philistines were
at war again with Israel
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and David and the
servants went down
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and fought
against the Philistines,
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and David grew faint.
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Then Ishbi-Benob
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who was one of
the sons of the giant,
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the weight of whose
bronze spear was 300 shekels,
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who is bearing the new sword,
thought he could kill David."
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And so David's
getting old, you know,
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when David was young,
you just couldn't stop him.
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I just saw it, I
haven't touched this thing
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for a while but
I think it's got...
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Yeah.
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Now, you read about
the sword of Goliath,
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and the Bible says the
sword of Goliath, you know,
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I could never get away
with this in a public school,
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they'd be
carrying me out right now
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but you could do
it in the church.
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Isn't that right?
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But these old swords were heavy.
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And here, David is
like 55, 60 years old
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and he starts
fighting these guys.
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And he got into a battle
with one of the sons of Goliath.
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Now you'll
notice, it talks about
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the size of his spear head,
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it's only half the
size of Goliath's spear head
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but it's still enormous.
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Average soldier
couldn't pick it up.
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So David is
trying to fight this guy
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and he's going faint.
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And the soldiers realize,
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he's losing for the
first time in his life.
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And so along comes Abishai.
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I like good old Abishai,
he was always at David side.
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Remember he is always the one
that said, "Let me kill him."
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He wanted to kill
Shimei, he wanted to kill Saul,
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but he was the
bodyguard of David.
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And Abishai saved his
life, killed the giant's son
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and they told David from
that point on, they said,
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"You shall," they swore by
the Lord, his soldiers said,
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"You will not go out to
battle with us any more,"
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up until this point,
and he's like 55, 60.
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David is going into the
battle on the frontlines
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with his soldiers,
fighting side by side with them.
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But finally, he's
getting weak and they said,
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"Otherwise you will
quench the lamp of Israel.
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You are our
prophet, you are our king,
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you are our judge, we
can't afford to lose you."
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And then you notice that
they not only killed this son,
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they kill these other
four sons of the giant.
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And from this point on,
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you can check on
me, in the Bible,
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you will not find the
word giant mentioned again.
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David and his soldiers,
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it talks about
David's mighty men,
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and it gives that interesting
chronicle of the mighty men.
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By the way, I just talked about
Adonijah who killed this giant,
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or Abishai rather
who killed the giant.
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He killed 300 at one time.
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You'll find that in Chronicles
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and he was
guarding a pass somewhere,
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and as the enemy
came, he killed 300 of them
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one at a time.
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And you can read about
where Abishai led his soldiers
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and they killed 18,000 Edomites.
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And he was a tremendous,
he was almost like Samson.
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And he has these 30 mighty men
that had incredible exploits,
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they were all just
outstanding soldiers.
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It tells about them,
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"They dispatched
the rest of the giants."
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Giants are not
mentioned again in the Bible.
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And David and his
mighty men represent Jesus
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and His servants,
and that's you and me.
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We are to be the servants
that fight alongside of Christ.
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Now at this point,
when you get to 2 Samuel 22,
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it's all dedicated to a psalm
of victory over the enemies.
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And you'll find that's
exactly the same as Psalm 18.
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So when you read 2 Samuel 22,
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this song of
deliverance and praise,
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it's telling when
David wrote Psalm 18,
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you'll find that
repeated in your Bible.
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Then a strange
story comes along.
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Well, I've got to cover a
lot, so I'm moving pretty quick.
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This is often talked about
as the other big sin of David.
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We all know about
the terrible debacle
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with Bathsheba and Uriah.
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It says, "When he numbered
Israel, it's listed as a sin."
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And you read in 1 Chronicles 21,
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it's also in 2 Samuel.
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"And Satan stood
up against Israel
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and provoked
David to number Israel."
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Now this is interesting
that for no other reason,
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because you only find Satan
mentioned a handful of times
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in the Old Testament.
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You find the
reference in Zechariah,
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you find the reference in Job,
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and you find this reference
here in the story of David.
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The word is
translated "the adversary"
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and that's what
the word Satan means.
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He stood up and he tempted David
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to number Israel.
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And he realized something
is going on here that is wrong
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because so what's
wrong with taking a census?
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He want to figure out, even
our government does a census.
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Moses once did a census to count
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how many
soldiers were in the army,
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so why was this
such a bad thing?
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Doesn't a good
shepherd count his sheep?
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I mean, how else does that
shepherd know he had 100 sheep,
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only 99 show up at the fold,
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he's got to go look
for one that's missing,
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got to count your sheep.
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But it depends on
why you're counting them.
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Now David was doing something
that he had never done before.
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Every other time in David's life
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when he went into
battle, did David trust
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how big the army was
or did he trust the Lord?
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When he went against
Goliath, what did he say?
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"You come against me with a
sword, a spear, and a shield
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but I come against
you with the Lord."
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And Jonathan said,
"There's no restraint
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for the Lord to
deliver by few or by many."
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And Moses had promised,
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"One of you will
chase a thousand."
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And several times
in the story of David,
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you can read where David
fought back to back with...
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one of his soldiers, I'm
trying to remember his name,
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his father...
Eliezer, that's it.
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Eliezer, the son of Dodo.
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I always remember Dodo
but that wasn't his name,
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that was his father's name.
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He fought with
David and they fought off
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the Philistine army, the
two of them back to back.
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I mean, so David's
always trusted the Lord,
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the numbers didn't matter,
but now he wants to know,
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"How big is my army?"
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And it's a question of
pride, and he tells Joab,
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"Let's see how big our army is.
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I bet we're bigger
than any other army."
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And Joab tells him, "No, David,
this is not the right spirit."
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I mean, even Joab
counsels him against this.
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Listen to what he says,
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Joab, verse 3, this
is 1 Chronicles 21:3.
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He said, "May the Lord
add to his people 100 times
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as many as they are,
are they not all, my Lord,
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the Kings all of
them thy servants?
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Why then should
my Lord require this?
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Why should this be a
cause of guilt for Israel?"
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Now if David was
counting because he was afraid
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some sheep are
missing, that'd be different
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but now he's counting
for a different reason.
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Good pastors need
to count the sheep.
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If someone's
missing, you need to know.
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We try to visit. You
try to stay on top of it.
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And that's why we need
elders and each of you to help.
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But when pastors get
together with other pastors
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and they say, "How many
church members do you have?"
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Well, this is how many I've got.
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That's not the Spirit of God,
that's the spirit of the devil.
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That's pride.
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And this is what was
happening with David,
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it's like Jeremiah 17:5,
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"Cursed is the
man who trusts in man
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and makes flesh his strength."
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And David wrote,
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"Put not your trust
in princes," Psalm 146,
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"or in the son of man
in who there is no help,
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his breath goes
forth in that very day,
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his thoughts perish."
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But David now was
thinking, "How big is my army?"
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So reluctantly, Joab goes
out, begins to number Israel.
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And he doesn't even
do some of the fringes
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because the whole thing
was kind of disgusting to Joab
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that they were doing it,
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because it wasn't
for the right reasons,
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the nation had been prospering.
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But the Bible
does give the number.
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David's army was 1,570,000.
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Now, if you
don't think that's big,
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there are 300 million
people in the United States
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and we have a standing
army right now in the US
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of 1,429,000.
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David's army was bigger
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than the United
States' standing army.
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I was not counting our reserves
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but talking about
the standing army.
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So that's a lot of soldiers.
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The Lord had really blessed him.
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But after David did it,
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he was convicted
by the Holy Spirit.
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He thought, "Man, why,
what came, I was so proud?
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What came over me?"
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And a curse, and
the people became proud.
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A plague was going to go
through the land of Israel.
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And matter of fact,
David was given a rough task.
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Prophet came to him, he says,
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"I'm going to give
you three choices."
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And he said, "Do you want
to be pursued by your enemy,
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"And I forget them, all
three choice, but one was,"
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or do you want pestilence
to come through the land.
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And David said, "I don't want
to fall into the hand of man.
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But God is merciful, let
me fall into your hands."
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So God sent three days
of terrible pestilence,
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went through the
land, and 70,000 people died
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through this plague
that went through the land.
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Now that's not uncommon.
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Sometimes they used
to have a bubonic plague
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or different plagues
that would sweep very...
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It was a pandemic of some
sort that went through the land,
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and 70,000 people died.
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He still had an army
of 1.5 million people
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if it was only soldiers
that died, I'm sure it wasn't.
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And so as this
angel of destruction,
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you ever heard
these stories and fables
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about the death angel
or the angel of death?
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Comes from a couple
of stories in the Bible,
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Passover, angel of
death went through Egypt.
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In the days of Hezekiah,
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the Assyrians were
about to attack Jerusalem,
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he prayed and the angel of death
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went through the Syrian camp
and killed 185,000 in one day.
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And now this angel of death
is coming through the land,
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David actually sees the
angel, he sees the angel
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after he's gone
through northern Israel.
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And there's been
this terrible plague
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and he's gotten
word of all these people
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that are dying
over this short period.
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He sees this
angel with a sword drawn
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in his hand over Jerusalem,
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and David prays and said, "Lord!
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Lord! Please spare your people.
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It was me, why are
they suffering for my sin?"
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Well, the answer
to that question is
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the people of Israel have now
twice rebelled against David.
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Once under Sheba
and once under Absalom,
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and so there's a plague
that's also coming on them.
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But David is pleading,
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he is interceding as Jesus
is our King, and our judge,
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and our intercessor, he
says, "Take it out on me."
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This is what David says.
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He said, "It's my
sin, take it out on me.
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What have these sheep done?"
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He's still
thinking like a shepherd.
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And God says, "All right,
you need to make an offering."
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He says, "Go to
the threshing floor
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of Ornan, the Jebusite.
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Now, the
Jebusite, still even though
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David conquered Jerusalem,
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some of them still
lived in Jerusalem.
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One of them was a
very noble gentleman,
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he is threshing wheat
on this big flat area.
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David can see this
angel with the sword drawn.
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And amazing thing, it
says, "Ornan looked up
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and saw the angel
with the sword drawn
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and he kept threshing
wheat, his sons went and hid."
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Here's a man who is
not afraid of very much.
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He figured, "Well,
God wants to take me,
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He'll take me but I've
got to finish with this wheat,
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if I'm going to
live, I'm going to live."
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And so he was working.
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And David goes up
to him and he says,
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"The Lord's told me, I
need to make an offering to Him,
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and He wants me to do it here.
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Sell me your threshing floor.
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A threshing floor
is a big flat area
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where they used to take
the wheat, it was up on a hill
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and they'd shovel the
wheat after they beat it,
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the chaff would blow away,
the good wheat would fall down,
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you needed a big flat area
with a smooth paved surface.
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And there was this big
corner area of Jerusalem
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and he owned this, he
was a very wealthy man.
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David said, "Let me buy it.
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I need to offer
to the Lord here,"
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because this is the spot
where Abraham offered Isaac,
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it's the same mountain.
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And this is the place
where Melchizedek brought out
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bread and wine to Abraham.
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Melchizedek, a type of Christ,
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Abraham offering his
son, a type of Christ,
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and now David
interceding for the people,
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same place, type of Christ.
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And Ornan says,
"I'll give it to the King.
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Not only will I give it,
I will give the instruments,
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I will give the
oxen for sacrifice."
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And it says that Ornan
dealt like a king with David.
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And David said, "No."
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And this is a statement
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you don't want
to quickly forget.
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David said, "I will
not give an offering
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to the Lord of something
that doesn't cost me anything."
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Is that a sacrifice?
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If I pick your pocket
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and put it in
the offering plate,
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is that a sacrifice?
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That's how the
government does things
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because really the
government is very generous
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with your money.
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And I kind of resent,
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I don't want to
get too political
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but I do kind of resent
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that because the
government has now taken it
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upon themselves to care
for the poor and everything,
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it's like they believe
that it's the right thing to do,
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but the people
cannot be good enough,
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they're not trusted to
be good enough to do it.
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And so what the
churches in America used to do,
00:21:08.96\00:21:11.97
the government says,
"We will take the money
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and we will do it."
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And what it's
done, it's taken it away,
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the love and the
giving has been taken away
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from the people and
it's become politicized.
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When King Saul got into trouble,
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you know what happened?
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He conquered the Amalekites,
he took the Amalekites,
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and he offered it to the Lord,
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and he was
supposed to destroy it.
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It's really easy
for me to steal from you
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and make an offering.
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Is that really a sacrifice?
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And so David said,
"I'm not going to give
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something to the Lord
that which doesn't cost me."
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If it doesn't cost you,
it's not really a sacrifice,
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is it?
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And he insisted, he
said, "I will buy it."
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And so he sold it to the King.
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I think,
probably at a good price.
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And the king then
made an offering there.
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And as a result of his offering,
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the angel of judgment,
the plague was stopped.
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And you can read
in 1 Chronicles 21:26,
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"And David build
an altar to the Lord
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and he offered burnt
offerings and peace offerings
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and called on the Lord.
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And He answered him from
heaven by fire on the altar
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of burnt offering."
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Now some of you
were at our dedication,
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I quoted this verse because
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it's a very significant passage.
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Most of the time when
people made an offering,
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the priest would build a fire.
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A few times in the Bible,
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they put the
sacrifice on the altar
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and in a
miraculous singular way,
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fire came from heaven.
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When Elijah
prayed on Mount Carmel,
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fire came down from God.
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When Moses dedicated
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the old
tabernacle in the wilderness,
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fire came down
from God out of heaven.
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When Solomon later dedicates
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the temple build
on this location,
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fire comes down
from God out of heaven.
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So this was a great and
a powerful demonstration
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of God's approval.
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When Abel offered the sacrifice,
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fire came down,
nothing came for Cain.
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And so this was a sign that
God had approved and accepted,
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the plague was
stopped but furthermore,
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this was the place
now that God was saying,
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He wanted the people
to bring their offerings.
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Up to this point,
they had all been waiting.
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When they enter the
promised land, God said,
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"I will tell you where but
I am going to choose a place
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where I want it to be
the ultimate city of refuge."
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Now around the land of Israel,
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they have these
places strategically,
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there are roads that
were different cities.
00:23:41.92\00:23:45.05
Where if a person got in trouble
00:23:45.09\00:23:47.22
and they wanted
to get a judgment,
00:23:47.26\00:23:49.16
if they killed
someone accidentally
00:23:49.19\00:23:50.93
rather than have the
avenger of blood kill them,
00:23:50.96\00:23:54.20
they could flee
to a city of refuge
00:23:54.23\00:23:56.10
and they'd be safe there.
00:23:56.13\00:23:57.47
And there were
six cities of refuge
00:23:57.50\00:23:59.50
around the land of Israel.
00:23:59.53\00:24:01.57
But there was
none near Jerusalem.
00:24:01.60\00:24:03.24
Jerusalem ended up
becoming a city of refuge.
00:24:03.27\00:24:06.54
If you want more about that,
I can give you some examples
00:24:06.57\00:24:09.44
where it was used that way,
but it also became the place
00:24:09.48\00:24:12.05
where they would later
come to celebrate their feasts.
00:24:12.08\00:24:15.32
It became the holy
city really at this point.
00:24:15.35\00:24:17.79
So when David prayed and
fire came down in Jerusalem,
00:24:17.82\00:24:21.09
this was the real
christening event of that city
00:24:21.12\00:24:25.39
being chosen by God.
00:24:25.43\00:24:27.96
Because up to that point,
you realize the tabernacle
00:24:27.96\00:24:30.63
wasn't always in
Jerusalem, it was at Shiloh,
00:24:30.67\00:24:33.34
and it was in the
House of Obed-Edom,
00:24:33.37\00:24:34.94
and the tent of Moses
was still moving around.
00:24:34.97\00:24:38.01
This is where God
said, "This is the place
00:24:38.04\00:24:39.81
that I've chosen."
00:24:39.84\00:24:41.34
And, but you
remember David said,
00:24:41.38\00:24:44.28
"Lord, I want to
build You a temple."
00:24:44.31\00:24:45.58
And David said, "You
can't build the temple for me
00:24:45.61\00:24:48.05
because you've
been a bloody man,
00:24:48.08\00:24:49.22
not only a man of war
and you shed a lot of blood
00:24:49.25\00:24:51.82
but you also are
guilty of innocent blood.
00:24:51.85\00:24:55.09
And what happened with Uriah,
00:24:55.12\00:24:57.09
I can't have
you build my temple,
00:24:57.13\00:24:59.23
but this is
where I want it built."
00:24:59.26\00:25:01.60
And so that was
the place from then on
00:25:01.63\00:25:03.43
where they sacrificed.
00:25:03.47\00:25:05.50
And you can read
here where at this point,
00:25:05.53\00:25:11.94
it tells us David is aging.
00:25:11.97\00:25:13.78
And you go to 1 Kings 1,
00:25:13.81\00:25:17.41
you've gotten to
the end of Chronicle.
00:25:17.45\00:25:20.15
By the way,
00:25:20.18\00:25:22.15
so who pays for the
threshing floor of Ornan?
00:25:22.18\00:25:25.99
David does.
00:25:26.02\00:25:27.99
Who pays for the
temple of the Lord?
00:25:28.02\00:25:32.73
Jesus pays for
you being a temple.
00:25:32.76\00:25:36.63
So you got a
couple of temples here.
00:25:36.67\00:25:37.97
Remember, Jesus one time
said in the Gospel of John,
00:25:38.00\00:25:40.80
"Destroy this
temple made with hands
00:25:40.84\00:25:42.67
and in three days, I
will make one without hands?"
00:25:42.70\00:25:45.37
But he spoke of his body.
00:25:45.41\00:25:48.01
And who is the cornerstone
in the spiritual body?
00:25:48.04\00:25:52.48
No other
foundation can any man lay
00:25:52.51\00:25:54.82
except that which is
laid which is Jesus Christ.
00:25:54.85\00:25:57.55
Jesus is the cornerstone.
00:25:57.59\00:25:59.62
Jesus laid down his life,
00:25:59.65\00:26:01.56
He paid the cost to
build the house of the Lord,
00:26:01.59\00:26:05.09
for the foundation
and the whole building.
00:26:05.13\00:26:07.00
So David, a type of Christ,
he pays for the foundation
00:26:07.03\00:26:11.20
for where the
temple is going to be,
00:26:11.23\00:26:12.87
and you'll see later, he
pays for the whole thing.
00:26:12.90\00:26:15.30
So David again
is a type of Christ.
00:26:15.34\00:26:18.27
Now 1 Kings, I
told you, Chapter 1
00:26:18.31\00:26:21.04
begins by telling us
David is getting old.
00:26:21.08\00:26:25.71
Now King David was
old and advanced in years,
00:26:25.75\00:26:29.22
and although they
covered him with clothes,
00:26:29.25\00:26:31.29
he could not get warm.
00:26:31.32\00:26:33.46
Now sometimes, you
get a fever temporarily,
00:26:33.49\00:26:35.96
and you go shaking,
they put covers on you,
00:26:35.99\00:26:37.73
you'll sweat it
out and you're okay.
00:26:37.76\00:26:39.66
But this was
something different,
00:26:39.69\00:26:41.13
David just couldn't get warm.
00:26:41.16\00:26:43.70
I called Dr. De Rose
the other day and I said,
00:26:43.73\00:26:46.23
"You know, I got
a couple of theories
00:26:46.27\00:26:47.30
but you're doctor.
00:26:47.34\00:26:48.70
And Sonny was in the car,
they're both medical people.
00:26:48.74\00:26:50.61
I said, "What could
possibly have caused this?"
00:26:50.64\00:26:54.21
Well, one thing could
have been hypothyroidism
00:26:54.24\00:26:58.11
and can leave you
cold all the time,
00:26:58.15\00:27:00.18
as you get older and
you lose muscle mass.
00:27:00.22\00:27:01.95
So you sometimes
could get a little colder,
00:27:01.98\00:27:03.89
if you got low blood pressure.
00:27:03.92\00:27:05.95
I'm cold all the time.
00:27:05.99\00:27:07.32
I've got very low
blood pressure actually.
00:27:07.36\00:27:09.36
And the doctor I go
in, last night I was in,
00:27:09.39\00:27:11.89
he said, "Are you a vegan?"
00:27:11.93\00:27:13.46
Doctor actually asked me that.
00:27:13.50\00:27:14.93
I said, "Why do you ask this?
00:27:14.96\00:27:16.10
Your blood pressure is really
low which is a good thing.
00:27:16.13\00:27:18.93
I'm cold but I'm healthy.
00:27:18.97\00:27:20.84
So, don't worry.
00:27:20.87\00:27:24.57
I'm not going to ask for
an Abhishag, you know what,
00:27:24.61\00:27:27.54
I haven't gotten into that yet.
00:27:27.58\00:27:29.71
They couldn't get him warm.
00:27:29.74\00:27:32.81
I thought that Dr. De Ros
was going to say the reason
00:27:32.85\00:27:35.02
David was cold
is because it became
00:27:35.05\00:27:36.95
a government health
care and that's why.
00:27:36.99\00:27:41.26
"He was old and
advanced in years
00:27:41.29\00:27:42.89
and although they
covered him with clothes,
00:27:42.92\00:27:44.66
he could not get warm
00:27:44.69\00:27:46.09
and so they sought for
a beautiful young woman."
00:27:46.13\00:27:49.66
Now in our home,
in the winter time,
00:27:49.70\00:27:51.93
Karen and I have
an electric blanket.
00:27:51.97\00:27:53.23
I think it's still plugged in,
00:27:53.27\00:27:54.84
we're not using it now
because it's warmed up.
00:27:54.87\00:27:56.30
We got an electric blanket,
it's kind of nice, you know,
00:27:56.34\00:27:58.64
when the house is
cold, you call in to warm.
00:27:58.67\00:28:01.34
Don't look at me
like that, how many of you
00:28:01.38\00:28:02.61
have electric blankets?
00:28:02.64\00:28:04.21
Okay, I know.
I'm not the only one.
00:28:04.25\00:28:06.58
Yes, even in Sacramento,
we do have a few cold days.
00:28:06.61\00:28:10.52
And so, but back then,
00:28:10.55\00:28:13.19
they didn't have
electricity, you all knew that.
00:28:13.22\00:28:16.52
And he was cold
and so, you know,
00:28:16.56\00:28:19.23
the Bible says
two lying together
00:28:19.26\00:28:22.86
are better than one
because you can stay warm.
00:28:22.90\00:28:25.20
You know, it
says that in Proverbs.
00:28:25.23\00:28:27.74
And so they said,
"Well, let there be a search
00:28:27.77\00:28:30.44
and let's find a
beautiful young woman,"
00:28:30.47\00:28:32.74
because you know, they're young,
00:28:32.77\00:28:34.34
you got great circulation.
00:28:34.38\00:28:37.18
"Through all the
territory of Israel,
00:28:37.21\00:28:39.31
and they found
Abhishag, the Shunammite.
00:28:39.35\00:28:42.58
Now, some of you remember,
00:28:42.62\00:28:43.95
Elisha stayed with a
great woman of Shunammite,
00:28:43.99\00:28:46.52
it's up in the north.
00:28:46.55\00:28:48.19
And they were a people,
00:28:48.22\00:28:49.32
they were not
regular Israelites,
00:28:49.36\00:28:50.59
but they had
adopted the God of Israel
00:28:50.63\00:28:52.33
and they were very bright
and very beautiful people.
00:28:52.36\00:28:55.43
If you later read in the Bible,
00:28:55.46\00:28:57.97
Solomon in the Song of Solomon,
00:28:58.00\00:28:59.47
he talks about the Shunammite.
00:28:59.50\00:29:02.97
And there's some who theorize
00:29:03.00\00:29:05.17
that Abishag was
a very young woman,
00:29:05.21\00:29:07.71
she never knew David.
00:29:07.74\00:29:09.38
Her job was basically
to get into bed with him,
00:29:09.41\00:29:13.35
to cuddle him and try
to get him to stop shaking
00:29:13.38\00:29:16.12
because he was
cold all the time.
00:29:16.15\00:29:18.12
And she took
care of him, you know,
00:29:18.15\00:29:20.22
and she really
became an attendant to David
00:29:20.26\00:29:23.96
but, you know, was very personal
00:29:23.99\00:29:25.56
and that she would hug
him and try and get him warm.
00:29:25.59\00:29:29.76
And they
brought her to the king,
00:29:29.80\00:29:31.30
the young woman
was very beautiful
00:29:31.33\00:29:33.70
and she was of
service to the king
00:29:33.74\00:29:35.44
and attended to him,
00:29:35.47\00:29:36.71
but the king knew her
not, she was a virgin.
00:29:36.74\00:29:39.44
Now he might be interested
to know that the word Abishag
00:29:39.47\00:29:44.45
in Hebrew means pretty
little hot water bottle,
00:29:44.48\00:29:47.38
isn't that amazing?
00:29:47.42\00:29:49.25
I bet you would
never have known that.
00:29:49.28\00:29:52.39
You don't believe me.
00:29:52.42\00:29:54.22
No, but, you know, I
do think there's a very...
00:29:54.26\00:29:57.13
There's a very interesting
spiritual point here.
00:29:57.16\00:29:59.63
Here you've got...
00:29:59.66\00:30:00.66
Who does David
represent in our analogies?
00:30:00.70\00:30:02.63
Jesus.
00:30:02.66\00:30:04.07
And he has a virgin
that becomes his bride,
00:30:04.10\00:30:07.87
that remains a virgin.
00:30:07.90\00:30:10.24
And you sort of see those
parallels through history.
00:30:10.27\00:30:13.48
So that's interesting in itself.
00:30:13.51\00:30:16.78
Now, you know, I
was reading the book,
00:30:16.81\00:30:19.01
Patriarchs and Prophets.
00:30:19.05\00:30:21.38
What's happening with David,
00:30:21.42\00:30:22.48
because he's not
70 years old yet,
00:30:22.52\00:30:24.89
and here's this giant killer
and he goes faint in battle,
00:30:24.92\00:30:28.49
he can't get warm.
00:30:28.52\00:30:30.73
And you read there, it
says, "Many cares and wars
00:30:30.76\00:30:33.70
had sap the fountain of life."
00:30:33.73\00:30:36.87
Another commentator wrote,
00:30:36.90\00:30:38.67
"But David's
strength was impaired
00:30:38.70\00:30:40.67
and his natural force
abated by his many wars fatigues
00:30:40.70\00:30:44.51
by night and day in
campaigns and the many sorrows
00:30:44.54\00:30:48.31
and afflictions he met
from his family and his friends,
00:30:48.34\00:30:51.68
as well as his
enemies that exhausted him
00:30:51.71\00:30:54.18
aging him prematurely."
00:30:54.22\00:30:56.72
So David, look at
what he went through.
00:30:56.75\00:30:58.15
He spent years
running for his life,
00:30:58.19\00:31:00.42
he was the, you know,
he was living in caves,
00:31:00.46\00:31:04.36
he was, you know,
had problems at home.
00:31:04.39\00:31:08.13
He fought constant
battles with all the enemies,
00:31:08.16\00:31:11.20
he was victorious but it
drains you after a while.
00:31:11.23\00:31:14.17
And the constant stresses,
having his children rebel,
00:31:14.20\00:31:17.81
he had another child that
died and all these things,
00:31:17.84\00:31:21.61
it had just worn him out.
00:31:21.64\00:31:23.81
And that's
supported by the commentators
00:31:23.85\00:31:26.25
led by the Spirit of Prophecy
00:31:26.28\00:31:27.58
and so it kind of
prematurely aged him.
00:31:27.62\00:31:30.15
David is the one
who wrote that typically
00:31:30.19\00:31:32.49
our days are three score in ten,
00:31:32.52\00:31:34.89
and yet if by strength we
happen to live four score,
00:31:34.92\00:31:38.66
sometimes
there's aches and pains,
00:31:38.69\00:31:41.16
so I'm paraphrasing that.
00:31:41.20\00:31:44.50
Now as David is
weak and he's in bed
00:31:44.53\00:31:47.70
and he can barely
get up and get around,
00:31:47.74\00:31:50.87
one of his sons, Adonijah,
the younger brother of Absalom,
00:31:50.91\00:31:54.08
he thinks that
this is the moment.
00:31:54.11\00:31:56.51
Since no one's
been chosen as King,
00:31:56.54\00:31:58.35
rumor is that
Solomon is David's favor,
00:31:58.38\00:32:02.62
Nathan the prophet is
training Solomon to be king,
00:32:02.65\00:32:05.65
he was sort of the tutor.
00:32:05.69\00:32:07.29
And Adonijah, this
other handsome son of David,
00:32:07.32\00:32:11.66
the younger brother of Absalom,
00:32:11.69\00:32:15.46
probably also very handsome,
00:32:15.50\00:32:17.57
he's next in line
to reign as far as age
00:32:17.60\00:32:20.54
and he thinks to
take it upon himself.
00:32:20.57\00:32:21.97
He said, "Look, David
is kind of getting old,
00:32:22.00\00:32:23.54
I have to take
care of this myself."
00:32:23.57\00:32:25.24
So he gets together
with Joab, and he said,
00:32:25.27\00:32:27.18
"You want that young
bookworm Solomon, he's a poet,
00:32:27.21\00:32:29.74
he's righting proverbs,
you want him to be king?"
00:32:29.78\00:32:32.65
He said, "These other
kids, they're not prepared,
00:32:32.68\00:32:35.82
I'm the one
that should be king."
00:32:35.85\00:32:36.89
And then he goes to
Abiathar, the priest, he says,
00:32:36.92\00:32:38.79
"I should be the king,"
and he talks them into it.
00:32:38.82\00:32:42.32
He said, "David's getting
old, you know, look at him,
00:32:42.36\00:32:45.03
he's shaking all the time."
00:32:45.06\00:32:47.66
And somehow
Adonijah through his cunning
00:32:47.66\00:32:50.90
and through his
persuasion he gets Joab
00:32:50.93\00:32:53.84
and he gets Abiathar,
the priest to support him.
00:32:53.87\00:32:58.81
He prepares 50
horses to run before him,
00:32:58.84\00:33:01.38
does that sound familiar?
00:33:01.41\00:33:02.94
It's exactly what Absalom did.
00:33:02.98\00:33:05.18
He's starting to make himself
00:33:05.21\00:33:06.51
out to be the next
in line, to be the king.
00:33:06.55\00:33:09.02
He's got this
entourage running around,
00:33:09.05\00:33:10.69
finally he picks
a day and he says,
00:33:10.72\00:33:13.19
I'm going to send out
invitations, invite everybody,
00:33:13.22\00:33:15.39
I'm gonna sort of
have my own coronation.
00:33:15.42\00:33:17.33
Invites all these
people of the kingdom
00:33:17.36\00:33:18.89
and they're all
starting to sing,
00:33:18.93\00:33:20.90
"Long live, King Adonijah."
00:33:20.93\00:33:22.90
Now David is still
alive, he's in Jerusalem.
00:33:22.93\00:33:25.93
This is on the
outskirts of town,
00:33:25.97\00:33:27.60
they go to I think it's Gihon.
00:33:27.64\00:33:29.74
And they're all
celebrating Adonijah.
00:33:29.77\00:33:33.31
And pretty soon the
word reaches Bathsheba.
00:33:33.34\00:33:36.54
Everyone's invited,
00:33:36.58\00:33:37.95
all the king's sons
were invited except Solomon,
00:33:37.98\00:33:40.42
that's not a good sign.
00:33:40.45\00:33:44.42
And...
00:33:44.45\00:33:46.52
Nathan, the
prophet is not invited
00:33:50.06\00:33:51.56
because he's been
training Solomon to be king,
00:33:51.59\00:33:53.43
Bathsheba is not invited.
00:33:53.46\00:33:56.40
Abiathar, Zadok, the
priest is not invited,
00:33:56.43\00:33:59.43
there were kind of
two priests back then.
00:33:59.47\00:34:01.37
And they go into David,
Bathsheba goes into David
00:34:01.40\00:34:04.07
and she said,
"My Lord, the king,
00:34:04.11\00:34:06.57
did you say that
Adonijah should reign?
00:34:06.61\00:34:09.24
Didn't you say my son
Solomon should reign?"
00:34:09.28\00:34:11.38
David said, "Absolutely."
00:34:11.41\00:34:13.45
And she said, "But
Adonijah just had a party
00:34:13.48\00:34:15.15
and they're all saying,
"Long live King Adonijah."
00:34:15.18\00:34:17.82
And when you die if
you don't settle this,"
00:34:17.85\00:34:19.95
she says, "We're done for.
00:34:19.99\00:34:22.46
We've not been invited,
that's not a good sign."
00:34:22.49\00:34:25.89
And then Nathan,
the prophet comes in,
00:34:25.93\00:34:27.66
he says the same
thing to the king.
00:34:27.66\00:34:29.76
And David, all of a sudden
he sits himself up in bed,
00:34:29.80\00:34:33.10
and you remember when
Absalom tried to be king,
00:34:33.13\00:34:34.80
he ran for it.
00:34:34.84\00:34:36.07
David now knows
that God has said
00:34:36.10\00:34:38.14
Solomon should be king, he
doesn't have to run for it.
00:34:38.17\00:34:41.08
He becomes very
lucid and he said,
00:34:41.11\00:34:43.68
"Here's what you need to do,"
he says, "I'm swearing to you
00:34:43.71\00:34:46.41
that your son is gonna be king.
00:34:46.45\00:34:47.82
God has told me so I
know it's going to happen."
00:34:47.85\00:34:49.58
Just like God promised
Abraham and Abraham believed
00:34:49.62\00:34:53.29
and it gave him confidence,
00:34:53.32\00:34:54.96
David knows he doesn't
have to worry about this.
00:34:54.99\00:34:57.69
He says, "I'm gonna do it
right now, I'm still king.
00:34:57.73\00:35:00.63
I'm still alive,"
00:35:00.66\00:35:02.16
he said, "I want you to
put Solomon on my mule,"
00:35:02.20\00:35:05.40
and it was a very unique white
beautifully decorated mule,
00:35:05.43\00:35:09.04
everyone knew David's mule.
00:35:09.07\00:35:12.21
"I want you to go down
to Gihon, blow the trumpets,
00:35:12.24\00:35:17.18
get Benaiah," the
leader of the army.
00:35:17.21\00:35:19.31
He had sort of
taken over for Joab.
00:35:19.35\00:35:22.05
"I want you to
get Zadok, the priest,
00:35:22.08\00:35:23.52
I want you to
pour the anointing oil.
00:35:23.55\00:35:25.85
No one's anointed Adonijah,
I want you to anoint Solomon.
00:35:25.89\00:35:30.56
Put the law in his
hand and then announce that
00:35:30.59\00:35:32.79
he's king and there everyone's
gonna see that I'll sit up
00:35:32.83\00:35:35.43
and all raise my
hands and I'll praise God
00:35:35.46\00:35:36.97
and I will endorse Solomon."
00:35:37.00\00:35:39.70
So they do that
00:35:39.73\00:35:40.94
and pretty soon word
spreads through Jerusalem
00:35:40.97\00:35:43.37
that Solomon has
been chosen by David
00:35:43.41\00:35:45.51
and everybody is
singing and the priest is there
00:35:45.54\00:35:47.28
and they put the oil
on his head and that was,
00:35:47.31\00:35:49.88
that was the important thing.
00:35:49.91\00:35:51.98
And it says the city was rant
00:35:52.01\00:35:53.62
with the sound of
everybody celebrating.
00:35:53.65\00:35:55.98
Well, the party pavilion
where Adonijah is celebrating,
00:35:56.02\00:36:00.09
they said, "We hear
noise, what's the noise?"
00:36:00.12\00:36:02.29
And the messenger comes
in and Adonijah just says,
00:36:02.32\00:36:04.26
"Oh, you brought
good news, is it?"
00:36:04.29\00:36:05.79
"No, I haven't."
00:36:05.83\00:36:07.76
And the city's in an uproar
00:36:07.83\00:36:09.00
because David has
chosen Solomon to be a king
00:36:09.03\00:36:11.77
and everybody is
celebrating and saying,
00:36:11.80\00:36:13.50
"Long live, King Solomon.
00:36:13.54\00:36:15.77
And may the reign of
Solomon be even greater
00:36:15.80\00:36:18.04
than the reign of David."
00:36:18.07\00:36:19.47
And everybody who had
come to Adonijah's party,
00:36:19.51\00:36:23.91
you just say the party was over.
00:36:23.95\00:36:26.31
They realize they are
going to be seen as rebels
00:36:26.35\00:36:29.25
by this new king and
they all very quietly left.
00:36:29.28\00:36:34.52
Adonijah then, he
goes to the temple
00:36:34.56\00:36:37.59
where the tent was,
00:36:37.63\00:36:39.66
he gets a hold of
the horns of the altar
00:36:39.69\00:36:41.20
and he stay in
there and they said,
00:36:41.23\00:36:42.73
"Adonijah, your
brother go to Solomon's,"
00:36:42.76\00:36:44.43
and Adonijah, your brother's
00:36:44.47\00:36:46.20
clinging to the
horns of the altar
00:36:46.23\00:36:48.40
and he said,
"Please, don't slay me."
00:36:48.44\00:36:50.94
And Solomon said...
00:36:50.97\00:36:52.17
He proves himself
to be a worthy man,
00:36:52.21\00:36:53.78
"Not a hair of his head
will fall to the ground."
00:36:53.81\00:36:55.41
He probably had
thick hair like Absalom,
00:36:55.44\00:36:56.98
that's why he said that.
00:36:57.01\00:36:59.71
And Solomon dealt
with Adonijah later
00:36:59.75\00:37:04.25
because he's
conspired one more time
00:37:04.29\00:37:06.69
and he was executed
00:37:06.72\00:37:08.72
but, that ends up
with the four sons
00:37:08.76\00:37:11.76
that David loses
that was foretold.
00:37:11.79\00:37:15.00
So David gets to see
Solomon sitting on the throne
00:37:15.03\00:37:18.33
and David lifts his
hand, he praises Lord, he says,
00:37:18.37\00:37:20.60
"Praise God,
who's allowed me to live
00:37:20.64\00:37:23.07
and see your promise fulfilled,"
00:37:23.10\00:37:25.97
'cause God had promised David,
00:37:26.01\00:37:27.31
"You will not fail to
have a man sit on the throne
00:37:27.34\00:37:30.11
until the Messiah comes."
00:37:30.15\00:37:32.05
And he sees the
next in succession
00:37:32.08\00:37:34.92
and he's encouraged by that.
00:37:34.95\00:37:36.22
Now Solomon, we're not sure,
00:37:36.25\00:37:37.92
he may have been 25 to 30
years of age at this time,
00:37:37.95\00:37:41.86
so he's still
comparatively young.
00:37:41.89\00:37:43.69
You remember when he
begins to reign, he says,
00:37:43.73\00:37:45.33
"I'm just a child, I
don't know how to go out
00:37:45.36\00:37:47.30
or to come in."
00:37:47.30\00:37:48.83
So Adonijah's
rebellion is put down
00:37:48.86\00:37:52.10
but David's not done yet.
00:37:52.13\00:37:53.37
He still had a few good days
00:37:53.40\00:37:54.64
where he get up and move around,
00:37:54.67\00:37:56.37
maybe in the summertime
it was a little warmer.
00:37:56.40\00:37:59.57
And you read in 1 Chronicles 29,
00:37:59.61\00:38:01.61
he gets all the elders together.
00:38:01.64\00:38:04.51
And he says, "This is the
most important thing on my heart
00:38:04.55\00:38:08.28
is the building
up of God's kingdom."
00:38:08.32\00:38:11.92
He says, "Now for
the house of my God,
00:38:11.95\00:38:14.09
I have prepared
with all of my might.
00:38:14.12\00:38:17.26
Gold for the things of
gold to be made of gold,
00:38:17.29\00:38:20.13
silver for the things of silver,
00:38:20.16\00:38:22.10
bronze for the things of bronze,
00:38:22.13\00:38:23.57
iron for the things of iron,
wood for the things of woods,
00:38:23.60\00:38:25.93
onyx stones, stones to be set,
00:38:25.97\00:38:28.67
glistening stones
of various colors,
00:38:28.70\00:38:30.87
all kinds of precious stones
and marble slabs in abundance."
00:38:30.91\00:38:34.04
Now, why is he got
all this equipment?
00:38:34.08\00:38:36.51
He is getting all
the materials together
00:38:36.54\00:38:39.31
to build a house for
God, a beautiful house.
00:38:39.35\00:38:42.25
He looks out the
window and he sees
00:38:42.28\00:38:43.55
the ark of God is in a tent,
00:38:43.59\00:38:46.25
and he wants to build up
a beautiful house for God.
00:38:46.29\00:38:49.82
"I have given to the
house of my God over above
00:38:49.86\00:38:52.53
that I prepare for
the house, the holy house
00:38:52.56\00:38:54.93
of my own special
treasure of gold and silver."
00:38:54.96\00:38:58.67
And he so inspirers them.
00:38:58.70\00:39:00.77
And when he saw that ended up,
00:39:00.80\00:39:02.50
he literally gave,
I'm not exaggerating,
00:39:02.54\00:39:04.81
tons of gold and silver and gems
00:39:04.84\00:39:09.51
to be put into
the temple of God.
00:39:09.54\00:39:11.28
I've always wondered
why, when they talk about
00:39:11.31\00:39:13.21
the ancient
wonders of the world,
00:39:13.25\00:39:14.52
they don't list
the temple of Solomon,
00:39:14.55\00:39:16.58
because the
temple that Solomon built
00:39:16.62\00:39:18.12
had so much precious
metal and gold in it,
00:39:18.15\00:39:20.59
it was phenomenal.
00:39:20.62\00:39:22.56
I mean, it does comment,
when Nebuchadnezzar destroyed
00:39:22.59\00:39:24.83
Solomon's temple that
they couldn't even tally
00:39:24.86\00:39:27.46
all the bronze that
had been put into it.
00:39:27.50\00:39:30.77
So after David
does this, he says,
00:39:30.80\00:39:32.90
"Look, I've taken everything
I've amassed over the years
00:39:32.93\00:39:36.60
by conquering these nations,"
whenever he'd conquer them,
00:39:36.64\00:39:38.71
it said talk about the
treasure and the revenue
00:39:38.74\00:39:40.51
and the taxes that came in,
00:39:40.54\00:39:42.04
and there was just
warehouses full of riches.
00:39:42.08\00:39:45.31
David said, "I want this to
go to build up the house of God.
00:39:45.35\00:39:48.48
All these other pagan nations
00:39:48.52\00:39:49.82
have their gods
that aren't gods.
00:39:49.85\00:39:51.09
We're going to have a house
00:39:51.12\00:39:52.19
dedicated to the service of God
00:39:52.22\00:39:53.92
that's gonna be
unlike anything else."
00:39:53.96\00:39:55.52
That was his passion.
00:39:55.56\00:39:56.93
What's the passion of Jesus?
00:39:56.96\00:40:00.00
Didn't Jesus...
00:40:00.03\00:40:01.60
What was Jesus' job?
00:40:01.63\00:40:03.43
Carpenter.
00:40:03.47\00:40:04.73
What did He build? A temple.
00:40:04.77\00:40:07.50
You are that temple.
00:40:07.54\00:40:09.14
We are living stones
in the temple of God,
00:40:09.17\00:40:11.27
isn't that what the Bible says?
00:40:11.31\00:40:12.77
Christ is a foundation stone.
00:40:12.81\00:40:14.61
He said, "We're part
of the body of Christ."
00:40:14.64\00:40:17.51
Jesus came to build a house.
00:40:17.55\00:40:19.41
You and I are the
house that Jesus built.
00:40:19.45\00:40:22.15
And so the passion of
David was to build up the house,
00:40:22.18\00:40:24.75
the passion of Jesus
was to build up the house
00:40:24.79\00:40:27.26
to give glory to God.
00:40:27.29\00:40:28.69
That's why He's
working in our lives every day,
00:40:28.72\00:40:30.83
so we might become
like Him and give Him glory.
00:40:30.86\00:40:33.83
Amen? Amen.
00:40:33.86\00:40:35.66
And then after he gives,
it says in 1 Chronicles 29:6,
00:40:35.70\00:40:40.30
"The leaders of
the father's house
00:40:40.34\00:40:42.24
and the leaders of
the tribes of Israel
00:40:42.27\00:40:43.81
and the captains of
thousands and hundreds
00:40:43.84\00:40:46.24
with the officers
offered willingly."
00:40:46.27\00:40:49.28
They were so
inspired by David's sacrifice
00:40:49.31\00:40:52.21
that they also gave.
00:40:52.25\00:40:53.92
And so this
warehouse is full of treasure
00:40:53.95\00:40:56.62
to build up the house of God.
00:40:56.65\00:40:58.59
1 Chronicles 29,
David then praise,
00:40:58.62\00:41:01.99
"Now therefore
our God, we thank You
00:41:02.02\00:41:04.06
and we praise
Your glorious name,
00:41:04.09\00:41:06.46
but who am I and
what are my people
00:41:06.49\00:41:09.03
that we should be able to
offer so willingly is this,
00:41:09.06\00:41:11.97
for all things come from You
00:41:12.00\00:41:14.47
and of Your own
we have given You.
00:41:14.50\00:41:16.77
Oh, Lord, our God,
00:41:16.81\00:41:18.17
all this abundance
that we have prepared
00:41:18.21\00:41:20.18
to build You a
house for Your holy name
00:41:20.21\00:41:22.68
is from Your hand
and it is all Your own."
00:41:22.71\00:41:26.48
Now I'd be a miss
00:41:26.51\00:41:27.52
if I didn't use this
opportunity to remind you,
00:41:27.55\00:41:29.52
that's something
we're involved in now,
00:41:29.55\00:41:31.65
trying to build
up the house of God,
00:41:31.69\00:41:33.19
to get the
message in all the world.
00:41:33.22\00:41:34.49
Amen?
00:41:34.52\00:41:35.56
And when we give to God,
are we giving Him our stuff
00:41:35.59\00:41:38.83
or we just
returning what's already His?
00:41:38.86\00:41:42.16
Isn't that what David said.
00:41:42.20\00:41:44.30
Now, we get to the
last words of David.
00:41:44.33\00:41:46.47
You can find this
in both Chronicles
00:41:46.50\00:41:48.34
and 2 Samuel 23:1.
00:41:48.37\00:41:52.31
"These are the
last words of David,
00:41:52.34\00:41:54.48
thus says David,
the son of Jesse,
00:41:54.51\00:41:56.78
thus is the man
raised up on high,
00:41:56.81\00:41:58.88
the anointed of the God of Jacob
00:41:58.91\00:42:01.12
and the sweet
Psalmist of Israel..."
00:42:01.15\00:42:02.55
He's talking about himself,
00:42:02.58\00:42:03.69
but he knew that
God spoke for him,
00:42:03.72\00:42:05.75
through him.
00:42:05.79\00:42:06.86
He says, "The spirit
of the Lord spoke by me
00:42:06.89\00:42:10.16
and His word was on my tongue.
00:42:10.19\00:42:12.29
The God of Israel said,
the rock of Israel spoke to me.
00:42:12.33\00:42:16.83
He... "And here's what he says,
00:42:16.87\00:42:18.07
"He who rules over men must be
just ruling in the fear of God
00:42:18.10\00:42:23.00
and He will be like
the light of the morning
00:42:23.04\00:42:25.27
when the sun rises, a
morning without clouds,
00:42:25.31\00:42:27.98
like the tender grass
springing from the earth,
00:42:28.01\00:42:30.71
like the clear
shining after the rain."
00:42:30.75\00:42:34.62
So some of his final words,
he gives the charge to Solomon.
00:42:34.65\00:42:38.65
He tells Solomon in what
was a private meeting probably
00:42:38.69\00:42:42.06
that was later recorded,
00:42:42.09\00:42:43.76
"There's some
things you need to mop up
00:42:43.79\00:42:45.33
after I'm gone.
00:42:45.36\00:42:47.30
There are some people who
are still guilty out there
00:42:47.30\00:42:48.96
that are going to
be a threat to you,
00:42:49.00\00:42:50.10
you need to take care of."
00:42:50.13\00:42:52.00
And David tells Solomon
how to deal with those things
00:42:52.03\00:42:55.37
and you can read
about it, and Solomon does
00:42:55.40\00:42:57.94
and he ends up with 40
years of a peaceful kingdom.
00:42:57.97\00:43:01.48
And then he goes on
and says in 1 Kings 2,
00:43:01.51\00:43:04.68
"David rested with his fathers
00:43:04.71\00:43:06.88
and was buried
in the City of David
00:43:06.92\00:43:09.35
and the period that David
00:43:09.38\00:43:10.55
reigned over
Israel was 40 years."
00:43:10.59\00:43:14.09
Jesus said this
generation will not pass away
00:43:14.12\00:43:17.56
till all these
things be fulfilled.
00:43:17.59\00:43:19.59
Jesus talks about a
40 year period of time.
00:43:19.63\00:43:22.33
And it goes on to say,
00:43:22.36\00:43:23.47
"He was 33 years in Jerusalem,
seven years in Hebron."
00:43:23.50\00:43:27.44
How old was Jesus when He
died? Thirty three and a half.
00:43:27.47\00:43:32.61
"And Solomon sat on the
throne of his father David
00:43:32.64\00:43:35.24
and the kingdom was
firmly established."
00:43:35.28\00:43:38.51
You know, in conclusion
of our series on David,
00:43:38.55\00:43:41.58
the thing that I
think we should remember
00:43:41.62\00:43:44.52
is the Bible tells us
00:43:44.55\00:43:45.69
that David was a man
after God's own heart.
00:43:45.72\00:43:48.22
I'm actually quoting
Paul in the New Testament.
00:43:48.26\00:43:51.39
"After removing Saul
He made David their king.
00:43:51.43\00:43:54.93
He testified concerning him,
00:43:54.96\00:43:57.17
I have found
David, the son of Jesse,
00:43:57.20\00:43:59.40
in him a man after my own heart.
00:43:59.43\00:44:02.77
And he will do
everything I want him to do."
00:44:02.80\00:44:05.77
Now I thought that was strange.
00:44:05.81\00:44:07.08
You would say that,
00:44:07.11\00:44:08.08
"How could David be a
man after God's own heart,
00:44:08.11\00:44:09.91
didn't he blow it a few times?"
00:44:09.94\00:44:12.71
But you know, the
Bible record is, He says,
00:44:12.75\00:44:14.85
"David kept my commandments."
00:44:14.88\00:44:17.72
Look at 1 Kings 14:8,
00:44:17.75\00:44:20.22
"You have not been
like my servant David
00:44:20.26\00:44:22.32
who kept my
commandments and followed me
00:44:22.36\00:44:24.36
with all of his heart
00:44:24.39\00:44:25.83
doing only that which
was right in my eyes."
00:44:25.86\00:44:27.93
What's the great
commandment that God gives us?
00:44:27.96\00:44:30.27
Thou shall love the
Lord thy God with all...
00:44:30.30\00:44:33.50
It's in the Old Testament,
Jesus repeats it in the new.
00:44:33.54\00:44:36.37
David loved the Lord
with all of his heart.
00:44:36.40\00:44:38.47
It's good to know
David's life is not being judged
00:44:38.51\00:44:41.88
by that serious defect
00:44:41.91\00:44:43.98
in numbering
Israel or with Bathsheba.
00:44:44.01\00:44:47.98
God's looking at
the panorama of his life
00:44:48.02\00:44:51.02
and did he end with
the love for the Lord.
00:44:51.05\00:44:54.19
You know, I
wondered, why does it say
00:44:54.22\00:44:56.29
that David was a man
after God's own heart?
00:44:56.32\00:44:58.63
And I started to itemize
00:44:58.66\00:44:59.96
some of the
characteristics of David.
00:45:00.06\00:45:03.03
David was
forgiving, Jesus is forgiving.
00:45:03.06\00:45:06.20
I mean, Saul tried to
kill him several times
00:45:06.23\00:45:07.77
and David kept forgiving.
00:45:07.80\00:45:09.00
He was willing to
forgive his own son.
00:45:09.04\00:45:10.24
He was forgiving, you all agree?
00:45:10.27\00:45:11.91
Yes. David was obedient.
00:45:11.94\00:45:14.68
Psalm 119, "Give
me an understanding
00:45:14.71\00:45:17.15
and I will keep your law
and obey it with all my heart."
00:45:17.18\00:45:21.25
David was humble. He
let Shimei curse him.
00:45:21.28\00:45:26.25
Psalm 62, "Lowborn men are
00:45:26.29\00:45:29.79
but a breath and
highborn are just a lie."
00:45:29.82\00:45:32.66
David understood
that power can corrupt.
00:45:32.69\00:45:37.00
He was a generous man,
00:45:37.03\00:45:38.63
donates most of his vast wealth
to build the house of God.
00:45:38.67\00:45:42.97
He says in Psalm 54,
00:45:43.00\00:45:44.24
"I will freely
sacrifice to you."
00:45:44.27\00:45:47.44
And then I started looking
at the characteristics of David
00:45:47.48\00:45:49.74
and it made me go to Galatians.
00:45:49.78\00:45:51.68
You know what Galatians
says the fruit of the Spirit is?
00:45:51.71\00:45:55.12
Love, joy, peace, patience,
kindness, goodness, faith,
00:45:55.15\00:45:57.92
self control, gentleness.
00:45:57.95\00:46:00.46
Was David loving?
00:46:00.49\00:46:01.96
David said, "I love
you, Lord, my strength."
00:46:01.99\00:46:04.83
It's showing you,
he loved Jonathan,
00:46:04.86\00:46:06.09
he loved his son.
00:46:06.13\00:46:08.40
Did David have joy?
00:46:08.43\00:46:10.63
He danced before the Lord.
00:46:10.67\00:46:12.90
He knew about joy.
Read some of the psalms.
00:46:12.93\00:46:16.47
Did David have peace?
Have you read Psalm 23?
00:46:16.50\00:46:19.84
"He makes me to lie
down in green pastures,
00:46:19.87\00:46:22.88
He leads me
beside the still waters."
00:46:22.91\00:46:26.01
Did David have patience?
00:46:26.05\00:46:28.12
He waited for years for God
00:46:28.15\00:46:29.52
to fulfill His
promise that he would be king.
00:46:29.55\00:46:31.45
He did not take it
ahead of time, he waited.
00:46:31.49\00:46:34.12
He could have
killed Saul, he said,
00:46:34.16\00:46:35.96
"No, it's not God's timing."
00:46:35.99\00:46:38.19
Did David have kindness?
00:46:38.23\00:46:40.56
Remember he
thought about Mephibosheth,
00:46:40.60\00:46:42.23
this cripple of an enemy king
00:46:42.26\00:46:45.73
that he brings into his
house and he shows him mercy.
00:46:45.77\00:46:49.24
Did David have goodness?
00:46:49.27\00:46:50.97
Again, Psalm 23,
00:46:51.01\00:46:52.17
"Surely goodness
and mercy will follow me
00:46:52.21\00:46:54.78
all the days of my life."
00:46:54.81\00:46:57.15
Did he have faithfulness?
00:46:57.18\00:46:58.85
When he made a covenant,
did he keep his promise?
00:46:58.88\00:47:01.85
He did. Did he have gentleness?
00:47:01.88\00:47:04.72
Psalm 18:35, "Your
gentleness has made me great."
00:47:04.75\00:47:08.22
What does it say about
Jesus? "I am meek and lonely."
00:47:08.26\00:47:11.63
Jesus was gentle.
00:47:11.66\00:47:13.33
Did David have self control?
00:47:13.36\00:47:15.90
When they brought him
water and he was thirsty,
00:47:15.93\00:47:17.97
because they risked their lives,
00:47:18.00\00:47:19.07
he poured it on the ground.
00:47:19.10\00:47:21.34
He was a man that had
these gifts of the spirit.
00:47:21.37\00:47:25.17
David was
respectful, he was reverent,
00:47:25.21\00:47:27.91
he was trusting,
00:47:27.94\00:47:29.54
and when he did
sinned, he quickly repented.
00:47:29.58\00:47:32.51
Whenever he was
shown that it was wrong,
00:47:32.55\00:47:34.85
he repented.
00:47:34.88\00:47:35.95
He was a man
after God's own heart.
00:47:35.98\00:47:38.09
And so, you know, in the Bible
00:47:38.12\00:47:39.29
we see that in the
life of David we see Jesus,
00:47:39.32\00:47:42.42
but we also see
somebody that was very human,
00:47:42.46\00:47:45.86
that we can all relate to,
00:47:45.89\00:47:47.66
that God took
from a very low place
00:47:47.66\00:47:50.47
and brought him
to a very high place.
00:47:50.50\00:47:52.73
You know, we started out
00:47:52.77\00:47:54.30
poor like David
and God is calling us
00:47:54.34\00:47:56.34
to the palace
which is, of course,
00:47:56.37\00:47:58.71
the story of the Bible.
00:47:58.74\00:47:59.74
God takes us from
poverty and He gives us riches,
00:47:59.77\00:48:04.68
and we go from this
low station in life...
00:48:04.71\00:48:06.72
David wasn't even
invited to the supper
00:48:06.75\00:48:08.88
when he ends up being
the one that's anointed,
00:48:08.92\00:48:10.95
they didn't even
think to invite him,
00:48:10.99\00:48:12.05
"Oh, he's out there
following the sheep."
00:48:12.09\00:48:14.26
And God takes him
and He makes him king
00:48:14.29\00:48:16.32
and he ends his life in glory.
00:48:16.36\00:48:18.13
And God is
calling us to those lives.
00:48:18.16\00:48:21.86
It's like the 23
Psalm, you know how it ends?
00:48:21.90\00:48:26.47
"I would dwell in the
house of the Lord for ever."
00:48:26.50\00:48:29.87
Amazing facts changed lives.
00:48:33.84\00:48:36.98
You know, we grew
up in a neighborhood
00:48:42.35\00:48:43.59
up in the Midwest
00:48:43.62\00:48:45.39
that was pretty
bad neighborhood.
00:48:45.42\00:48:47.29
And when I became a teenager,
00:48:47.32\00:48:50.19
I started using
drugs, I was on...
00:48:50.23\00:48:52.16
I started using
meth when I was like,
00:48:52.19\00:48:54.03
I think 16, 15
something like that.
00:48:54.10\00:48:56.77
I was having some
problems in my life,
00:48:56.80\00:48:58.27
I really didn't
know how to deal with.
00:48:58.30\00:49:02.34
The only thing I
really knew was violence.
00:49:02.37\00:49:05.41
So this night here I was going
to inflict violence on myself.
00:49:05.44\00:49:09.18
I was really high
and really depressed
00:49:09.21\00:49:12.15
so I took, you know, I had this.
00:49:12.18\00:49:13.62
40 caliber, so I remember
00:49:13.65\00:49:15.12
I put one in the
chamber and I stuck it
00:49:15.15\00:49:16.75
to the side of
my head like this.
00:49:16.79\00:49:20.66
And that gun had a hair trigger,
00:49:20.69\00:49:23.63
you known, I
remember I was tapping it
00:49:23.66\00:49:26.73
'cause a part of me said,
"No, I don't want to do this."
00:49:26.76\00:49:31.33
But there was something
very evil present there saying,
00:49:31.37\00:49:33.80
"Do it."
00:49:33.84\00:49:34.84
I just said to myself, I said,
00:49:34.87\00:49:37.57
"God, if you're real
show yourself to me."
00:49:37.61\00:49:43.18
My mother took me to
church when I was a little kid.
00:49:43.21\00:49:47.12
And we used to
sing, 'Jesus loves me'
00:49:47.15\00:49:49.32
and I remembered that song.
00:49:49.35\00:49:51.59
It started playing in my mind.
00:49:51.62\00:49:54.62
And almost had like a
vision of me as a little kid.
00:49:54.66\00:49:57.06
You know, in Sabbath school
00:50:00.43\00:50:02.56
we used to bang
those sticks together.
00:50:02.60\00:50:08.30
And sing, 'Jesus loves me'.
00:50:08.34\00:50:11.04
And I heard that in my mind.
00:50:11.07\00:50:15.68
So I said, "Wow."
00:50:15.71\00:50:19.85
So I just kind of,
like, put the gun down
00:50:19.88\00:50:21.78
and I kind of fell
on my bedside there
00:50:21.82\00:50:23.75
and I said, "Lord."
00:50:23.79\00:50:26.82
I just basically just
prayed this crazy prayer.
00:50:26.86\00:50:29.22
I says, you know,
I told Him everything
00:50:29.26\00:50:31.03
that was wrong with me.
00:50:31.06\00:50:32.46
And I remember one
day I was driving around,
00:50:32.49\00:50:34.23
I kind of felt lost
and I drove by this church
00:50:34.30\00:50:37.30
and I've seen Tom out there.
00:50:37.33\00:50:38.87
Tom was just out there
watering flowers, you know.
00:50:38.90\00:50:42.74
So I caught a vision
of the side of my eyes,
00:50:42.77\00:50:46.31
this big husky guy with tattoos
00:50:46.34\00:50:49.44
walking up and said, hello.
00:50:49.48\00:50:53.45
So I asked him
if I can help him.
00:50:53.48\00:50:57.02
And he told me that he drives
by the church occasionally.
00:50:57.05\00:51:02.99
Every time he goes by,
00:51:03.02\00:51:04.39
he's thinking
that he should stop in.
00:51:04.43\00:51:06.29
After he showed me
around the church...
00:51:06.33\00:51:10.53
You know, I was like,
00:51:10.57\00:51:11.60
"Okay, man, it's
nice meeting you,"
00:51:11.63\00:51:13.87
and this and that.
00:51:13.90\00:51:15.04
So I jumped in my car
00:51:15.07\00:51:16.84
and I started
heading down the driveway.
00:51:16.87\00:51:19.71
And the next thing, you know,
in like my peripheral vision,
00:51:19.74\00:51:23.11
I see him coming
around the corner
00:51:23.14\00:51:26.21
like Jerry Rice
run in a football.
00:51:26.25\00:51:28.62
No, not that fast but, you know,
00:51:28.65\00:51:30.75
he was taken off
after me and he says,
00:51:30.79\00:51:33.69
"Hey, hey, hey,
hold on, hold on."
00:51:33.72\00:51:35.96
I asked him if he would
like to have some Bible studies
00:51:35.99\00:51:38.09
and he said, "Yeah."
00:51:38.13\00:51:40.03
He would come by the
house, we'd all start,
00:51:40.06\00:51:41.80
we'd start hiding a beer cans
00:51:41.83\00:51:43.57
and trying to air
out the weed smell
00:51:43.60\00:51:46.87
and there was a
presence that came with Tom
00:51:46.90\00:51:50.27
that was comforting.
00:51:50.31\00:51:52.31
You know what I mean?
00:51:52.34\00:51:53.91
Even though I wasn't
taking the Bible studies
00:51:53.94\00:51:55.88
as serious as I should have,
00:51:55.91\00:51:57.85
looking back there was
just a presence about him
00:51:57.88\00:52:01.25
being there in the
house that was comforting.
00:52:01.28\00:52:05.15
I told Tom, I said,
00:52:05.19\00:52:06.19
"Tom, you know you
can't win everybody."
00:52:06.22\00:52:08.19
I looked at him and
I knew, I said to him,
00:52:08.22\00:52:11.66
"Rueben, I never get anybody."
00:52:11.69\00:52:14.83
I said, "The Holy
Spirit will do that."
00:52:14.83\00:52:19.17
And I kind of in my heart knew
00:52:19.20\00:52:21.20
that the Holy Spirit
was gonna work on Reuben.
00:52:21.24\00:52:23.74
So then Tom, kind of,
left the picture for a while
00:52:23.77\00:52:27.58
and then I think, one
day at my mother's house
00:52:27.61\00:52:29.14
they were watching
00:52:29.18\00:52:30.21
the final events
of Bible prophecy,
00:52:30.25\00:52:32.71
so I watched that and...
00:52:32.75\00:52:36.72
I remember the scene
00:52:36.75\00:52:39.09
where they had the
hellfire and stuff.
00:52:39.12\00:52:42.42
You know,
they're outside the city
00:52:42.46\00:52:44.13
and it showed the
hellfire coming down
00:52:44.16\00:52:47.76
and burning people and stuff.
00:52:47.83\00:52:49.23
And I remember saying to myself,
00:52:49.26\00:52:53.17
"That's where I
will be right there."
00:52:53.20\00:52:55.60
After the hellfire scene,
I saw the saints in the city,
00:52:55.64\00:53:01.98
in the New Jerusalem and
Jesus recreating the earth.
00:53:02.01\00:53:06.82
And I said...
00:53:06.85\00:53:07.92
"I want that to be
my... me and my family."
00:53:10.99\00:53:14.19
There was something
about the way Doug preached
00:53:14.22\00:53:16.02
and things that I
felt that touched me.
00:53:16.06\00:53:19.59
Because he's kind of
like myself, you know, he's...
00:53:19.63\00:53:23.80
He didn't grow up
like that, you know.
00:53:23.83\00:53:26.30
He'd done drugs and things.
00:53:26.33\00:53:29.37
So I kind of found
these common grounds
00:53:29.40\00:53:31.07
that I have with him.
00:53:31.11\00:53:33.01
And I liked how
he just kind of like
00:53:33.04\00:53:34.51
kept it real with his preaching.
00:53:34.54\00:53:35.94
And then Pastor Rod
Lee came to the church
00:53:35.98\00:53:39.85
and I got to know him very well.
00:53:39.88\00:53:42.45
And we started doing
some finishing studies.
00:53:42.48\00:53:45.99
He wanted to make sure I
understand what I was doing
00:53:46.02\00:53:49.42
and things and baptized
me, my wife, my brother.
00:53:49.46\00:53:54.36
No matter what you've
done, where you come from,
00:53:54.36\00:53:59.03
where you've been,
00:53:59.07\00:54:00.34
no matter how bad of a
sinner you think you are,
00:54:00.37\00:54:04.61
the Lord Jesus loves you
no matter what you've done.
00:54:04.64\00:54:08.34
Friends, it's
because of God's blessing
00:54:08.38\00:54:10.75
and your support,
thousands of others
00:54:10.78\00:54:13.08
just like Reuben
00:54:13.11\00:54:14.35
have found Jesus
and eternal life.
00:54:14.38\00:54:16.75
Friends, are you
afraid of heights?
00:54:38.31\00:54:39.87
If so, you might want
to look away right now.
00:54:39.91\00:54:42.84
One of the most
famous attractions
00:54:42.88\00:54:44.45
in the San Francisco Bay Area
00:54:44.48\00:54:46.28
is the iconic
Golden Gate Bridge.
00:54:46.31\00:54:49.02
While this world
famous bridge was named
00:54:49.05\00:54:51.12
as one of the Seven
Wonders of the modern world,
00:54:51.15\00:54:53.69
few people know the
story of the brave men
00:54:53.72\00:54:55.69
who were involved
in its construction
00:54:55.72\00:54:57.59
and also known as The
Half Way to Hell Club.
00:54:57.63\00:55:01.63
Designed by a group
of visionary engineers
00:55:01.66\00:55:03.97
at 4200 feet from end to end,
00:55:04.00\00:55:06.40
the Golden Gate
Bridge was at one time
00:55:06.43\00:55:08.50
the longest
suspension bridge in the world.
00:55:08.54\00:55:11.44
During its
construction from 1933 to 1937
00:55:11.47\00:55:15.28
the Golden Gate Bridge
00:55:15.31\00:55:16.44
had one of the
best safety construction
00:55:16.48\00:55:18.25
records of any
project during that time.
00:55:18.28\00:55:21.05
Keep in mind,
00:55:21.08\00:55:22.12
they would
factor in and calculate
00:55:22.15\00:55:23.62
that one man would die
00:55:23.65\00:55:25.12
for every million
dollars that was spent.
00:55:25.15\00:55:27.19
So with a budget of
$35 million dollars,
00:55:27.22\00:55:29.86
they knew that loss of
life would be unacceptable.
00:55:29.89\00:55:32.63
This is why the chief
engineer Joseph B. Strauss
00:55:32.66\00:55:35.53
was absolutely
adamant about using
00:55:35.56\00:55:37.47
the most rigorous
safety precautions
00:55:37.50\00:55:39.70
that had ever been
used in bridge building.
00:55:39.73\00:55:41.97
He had a local manufacturer
of safety equipment,
00:55:42.00\00:55:44.84
design special headgear
00:55:44.87\00:55:46.14
that he insisted
be worn on every job.
00:55:46.17\00:55:48.41
This became the prototype
for the modern hard hat,
00:55:48.44\00:55:51.21
worn for the first time ever,
00:55:51.25\00:55:52.88
but the safety
precautions went even farther.
00:55:52.91\00:55:55.48
Strauss provided a
special hand and face cream
00:55:55.52\00:55:58.25
to protect their skin
from the cold biting wind
00:55:58.29\00:56:01.26
and glare free
goggles to protect their eyes.
00:56:01.29\00:56:03.89
In addition they
also ate a special diet
00:56:03.93\00:56:06.46
to help ward off dizziness
00:56:06.49\00:56:08.10
when they were
working at those epic heights.
00:56:08.13\00:56:10.40
But the most
conspicuous safety precaution
00:56:10.43\00:56:12.80
was a gigantic net
00:56:12.83\00:56:14.44
that was
suspended from end to end
00:56:14.47\00:56:16.34
under the entire construction
area of the Golden Gate Bridge.
00:56:16.37\00:56:20.54
In fact during construction
00:56:20.58\00:56:22.81
this net saved
the lives of 19 men
00:56:22.84\00:56:25.98
who later became known
as The Halfway to Hell Club.
00:56:26.01\00:56:29.78
Now you need to keep in mind,
00:56:29.82\00:56:30.85
these were some of the
most dangerous construction
00:56:30.89\00:56:33.12
conditions you can imagine.
00:56:33.15\00:56:34.99
The wind was constantly blowing,
00:56:35.02\00:56:37.46
they were walking around on iron
00:56:37.49\00:56:39.26
that sometimes had
ice from the freezing fog.
00:56:39.29\00:56:42.43
In places, they
were over 700 feet
00:56:42.46\00:56:45.03
above the icy waters,
00:56:45.07\00:56:47.30
yet the men coming
from all walks of life
00:56:47.34\00:56:49.60
were willing to take these risks
00:56:49.64\00:56:51.41
because it was
during the Great Depression,
00:56:51.44\00:56:53.61
and they would get
paid up to $11 a day
00:56:53.64\00:56:56.24
which was a fortune back then.
00:56:56.28\00:56:58.81
One of the other
benefits of the net
00:56:58.85\00:57:01.38
was they discovered that the men
00:57:01.42\00:57:02.75
were much more courageous
00:57:02.78\00:57:03.85
even though they
were walking high
00:57:03.89\00:57:05.59
on those slippery surfaces
00:57:05.62\00:57:07.36
because they knew
there was a mechanism
00:57:07.39\00:57:08.99
to protect them
if they should fall.
00:57:09.02\00:57:11.19
This gave them the confidence
and the courage to press on
00:57:11.23\00:57:14.10
and get the bridge
built in record time.
00:57:14.13\00:57:16.50
You know, friends, as Christians
00:57:16.53\00:57:17.77
we have a great work to do.
00:57:17.80\00:57:19.53
The Bible tells us that we
get to participate with Jesus
00:57:19.57\00:57:22.77
in building a bridge that
connects heaven and earth.
00:57:22.80\00:57:25.91
And there are
dangers along the way.
00:57:25.94\00:57:27.91
The devil would like
to paralyze us with fear
00:57:27.94\00:57:30.41
that we might
fall or make a mistake
00:57:30.45\00:57:32.65
but we know that Jesus
00:57:32.68\00:57:33.82
has provided a safety net for us
00:57:33.85\00:57:35.78
and we don't have to be afraid.
00:57:35.82\00:57:37.29
We can press on with confidence
00:57:37.32\00:57:39.02
because the promises
in the Book of Jude 24,
00:57:39.05\00:57:41.86
"He is able to
keep us from falling."
00:57:41.89\00:57:44.33
But sometimes we make mistakes,
00:57:44.36\00:57:46.33
still don't be
discouraged, friends,
00:57:46.36\00:57:48.06
if you read in 1
John 2:1, the Bible says,
00:57:48.10\00:57:51.67
"If we fall, if we sin,
00:57:51.70\00:57:53.70
we have an advocate with
the Father, Jesus Christ."
00:57:53.74\00:57:56.54
So let's press on together
00:57:56.57\00:57:57.87
and build that
bridge with Christ.
00:57:57.91\00:57:59.84
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