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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hello, and welcome to the Westside churches
special Monday Morning Coffeepodcast on this podcast, our
preacher Mark Roberts will helpyou get your week started
right. With look back atyesterday's sermon so that we
can think through it furtherand better work the
applications into our dailylives . Mark will then look
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forward into this week's Biblereading so that we can know
what to expect and watch for.
And, he may have some extrabonus thoughts from time to
time. So grab a cup of coffeeas we start the week together
on Monday Morning Coffee withMark.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Good morning. Good morning. Welcome to the Monday
Morning Coffee podcast forMonday, March the 31st. I'm
Mark and I'm holding a sermonoutline. I'm holding my Bible
and a Bible reading schedule,but mostly I've got both hands
on a beautiful ember mug that'sholding some delicious coffee.
It's all about starting the daywith some coffee, isn't it? Or
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maybe in the middle of the day,or even at the end of the day,
that would be decaf I expect.
But somewhere in there, we'regonna have some amazing and
wonderful coffee. Let's work onit together. Pour that cup of
coffee. Let's get ready, let'sget set. Let's go. Yesterday in
the 10 40, I did q and a love qand a, just it's such a
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wonderful opportunity to thinkabout some, maybe, maybe some
issues that I would not wannapreach an entire sermon on or
to connect with where you aretalking with a friend or
talking with a coworker . Theconcerns, things that are
bothering you. I just,everything about q and a is
just a big win, and I love on afifth Sunday getting to bring
that into the 10 40. There arepeople maybe haven't been to
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the nine, they haven't thoughtabout going to the nine. This
gives them an opportunity, Hey,you know this happens in the
nine most months, so hey, giveus a try on the nine, and I am
gonna give you an extra thoughthere, like getting to do that
on the podcast. I'm gonna giveyou a little bit of history,
and if you're not a big historybuff like I am, don't shut this
out. Remember, those who don'tlike history are , yeah,
they're doomed to fail theirhistory test or that that's not
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exactly how that quote goes, isit? Let's think about the
history of the Pentecostalmovement, because yesterday I
talked about how to helpsomebody who thinks they're
speaking in tongues, doing thatecstatic gibberish, pouring out
all those nonsense syllablesthat Pentecostal and charisma
people do today. They thinkthat's the real deal. How do
you talk to somebody aboutthat? That's very difficult.
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And I did not mean in any wayyesterday to say, I've got five
step program and you just saythis and then they say this and
just follow the script. No ,no, no, no. That's a very
difficult conversation.
However, if you get into alittle deeper conversation and
the conversation can hold itand your relationship can take
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it, then I wanna give you anextra thought that might be of
some value to you, because itmay be, it may be helpful to
talk about the history ofPentecostal tongue speaking in
the United States. Now, thereare some random and obscure
references to some groups inthe far distant past who were
involved in these kinds offrenzied behaviors. But by and
large, that's very rare andvery unusual. Modern day
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Pentecostalism comes from a mannamed Charles Fox Parum about
the turn of the century in thelate 18 hundreds, early 19
hundreds, parem was aneccentric preacher in his moral
character, a little bit dubiousin some places. He was
infatuated with some weirdideas and aberrant theology,
and he taught all of that at aplace called Bethel College in
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Topeka, Kansas. And in 1901 onNew Year's Day, one of his
students, Agnes Osmond,reportedly spoke in random
syllables after Parumencouraged students to seek the
baptism of the Holy Spirit. Soshe's blurting these syllables
out and everybody who heard herconcluded that she was speaking
in tongues. Now, here's what'sinteresting about that. They
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all thought she was speakingChinese because none of them
knew Chinese. And for the restof the day, she seemed unable
to speak in English. And sheeven wrote, she scribbled some
things down and everybody saidshe's writing in Chinese. These
students were convinced thattheir prayers had been answered
for the baptism of the HolySpirit. And what they were
witnessing was the very samemiraculous phenomena that we
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read about in Acts chapter two.
Now, the hitch and the getalong here is that when the
scribblings were published inthe newspaper, it was found
that she was not writingChinese at all. It was just
random scribbles. But Parhamcontinued to push the she and,
and by this time now he andmany other students at Bethel
College could speak foreignlanguages. He even said this
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would be a boon to missionarywork. Here's a typical report
from the time. These are hisvery words. The students of
Bethel College do not need tostudy in the old way to learn
the languages. They have themconferred upon them.
Miraculously, different oneshave already been able to
converse with Spaniards,Italians, Bohemians,
Hungarians, Germans, and Frenchin their own language. I have
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no doubt various dialects ofthe people of India and even
the language of the tribes ofAfrica will be received during
our meetings in the same way.
Actually, he used kind of aracial purgative there about
Africa. So I edited him alittle bit. But can you see
that everybody knew that tonguespeaking was to speak in a
known foreign language?
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Everybody understood it thatway, and that's what they
thought they were doing. Ofcourse, when Palms missionaries
went abroad, it was a giganticand colossal failure and
embarrassment because they gotoff the boat and they'd start
speaking gibberish, expectingthe people in France or Italy
or China to understand thegospel. Hey , I'm speaking to
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you the gospel, and thesepeople, they, we don't know
what you're, it's gibberish tous. Oh , no, no, I'm speaking
Chinese. No you're not. Noyou're not. Now about that time
the movement began tometamorphs a little bit, began
to to evolve, and there was aearly disciple of Parem ,
William Seymour. He was anAfrican American holiness
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preacher who had been underparham's instruction. And in
1906 he was invited to lead aseries of meetings in
California and he was preachingin an old building on Azua
Street in the edge of downtownLos Angeles. And he began to
teach some of these distinctivedoctrines that he had heard
from Parum . He taught, forexample, that the only biblical
evidence of being baptized inthe spirit was the gift of
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speaking in tongues. And mm-hmm Within weeks,
dozens of people at the AzuaStreet revival were manifesting
tongues speaking in the fame ofthe Pentecostal movement just
spread from there. That's thegenesis of tongue speaking as
we know it today. And as itcontinued to spread, and of
course more people realizedthis was not any foreign
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language known to anybody onthe planet, then people began
to reinterpret biblical tonguespeaking and start talking
about how this is the languageof angels, or that Paul says,
you don't necessarily need tounderstand it as the speaker
that that this is really aboutwhat you experience, this
communion between you and God,this knowing that God accepts
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you by baptizing you with thespirit. And so the focus on the
personal encounter with theSpirit led to people being much
more open to this just being acoherent, an incoherent,
ecstatic utterance. And I wantsay again, it was about the
experience and what theexperience said about the
person who was doing thisbabbling and how it validated
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and verified their salvationand their standing with God.
That's where the modern dayPentecostal denominations come
from. The Assemblies of God,the Church of God, the
Pentecostal Holiness Church,they come out of that Azua
Street revival in Los Angeles.
So when you're talking withsomebody about tongue speaking,
if you can get this far and ifthey're open and if your
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relationship can handle somepretty straight up talk about
what this is all about then,then maybe you might challenge
somebody to do some reading andsome research about where
charismatic tongue speaking,sometimes that's called glia
from the Greek word in the NewTestament for tongue speaking.
Where'd that come from? How didthat get started? What did
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everybody used to say that wasand how that changed and
shifted when it was revealed tobe fraudulent and fake? Finding
out that charismatic tonguespeaking started in Los Angeles
and in Topeka, Kansas, may mayopen some people's eyes when
they realize it didn't start inJerusalem. In Acts chapter two,
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hope that's helpful to you. Letme give you one more note.
Don't forget, in the nineyesterday I talked about
building connection, biblicalinsights on friendships and
friends. And at the end ofthat, I urged everyone to take
some initiative and dosomething to build a
connection, to build somefriendships to en , to enlarge
our social circle and to bemore socially fit. Go back and
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listen to that sermon and bereminded of that. Or if you
were not in the nine, go listento that sermon. What did you
plan to do when I was talkingabout all of that? Have you
done it? Have you done it? Partof the podcast is to encourage
us to take action on Mondaywith what we plan to do on
Sunday. Take that action today,build some connection. Once
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you've done that, get yourBible and let's think about
what's going on in SecondSamuel. It is Monday in
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Monday's reading in SecondSamuel chapter seven verses one
to 17 verses one to 17, twoSamuel chapter seven. This is,
this is one of the mostimportant chapters in all of
God's word . Sometimes I workwith a kind of scaffolding for
the Old Testament that I gotwhen I was a student back at
Florida College from wonderfulBible teacher. There are the
five key passages in the OldTestament and second Samuel
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seven is one of those five. Soanytime you have a list of five
out of everything that's inthat big Old Testament and
there's just, hey, these arethe big five, you know this is
a huge deal. And this chapterin its context here originally
serves as the conclusion to atrilogy of material about
Jerusalem. Chapter five. Davidtakes Jerusalem, chapter six,
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David moves the Ark of theCovenant into his capital .
There's some misadventures withthat, but it does get there.
And then in chapter seven, thatfinishes with David's desire to
build a palace for God, a housefor God. And that is the
emphasis in our reading today.
The term house occurs 15 timesin chapter seven. It's used a
number of different ways. Forexample, it means David's
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palace verses one and two, ifthen can reference a palace or
house for the Lord the templeverses five and six and seven.
But mostly it references aruling dynasty for David and
our friends in the UnitedKingdom would understand and
latch onto this immediately. Weprobably will need a little
help here because house in twoSamuel seven will not always
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mean a physical structure. Nowit does in verse one, but then
when God says in verse 11 thathe will build a house for
David, he's not talking about aphysical structure there, he's
talking about a dynasty. We maybe familiar with that kind of
thing over in England, thehouse of Windsor or the House
of Hanover. That's the royalfamily and their lineage and
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everybody who's part of thatfamily. So when the ruling
Monarch passes away, when QueenElizabeth died, they didn't
just go down the street andstart asking people, would you,
would you like to be the nextking? Would you like to be the
next? No. There's rules aboutwho can inherit the throne and
sit on the throne. And there'speople whose job it is to keep
charge of all thosegenealogical records and they
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make sure they get the rightperson who's of the right
ruling house. And sometimesthat's complicated. For
example, Mary Queen of Scotch ,she's a pretty famous ruling
monarch. She was not Scottishand she actually was in France
when it came her turn to ruleand they went and got her at
that time she didn't even speakEnglish and they made her the
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queen of England because shewas of the right dynasty, the
right reigning house. So Davidhas this great idea in the
first three verses that he'sgoing to build a house. And
I've used the term palace and Imean that a palace for God, a
place for God to live. And Godsays, I didn't need a house and
couldn't use a house whenIsrael was moving in the
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wilderness. And I've nevergiven a command for anybody to
build me a house, but this kindof extra thought for God is
rewarded here in verse five.
Please notice it's not gonnahappen. And Nathan should have
consulted God before justsigning off on this project.
But God is still impressed withDavid's heart, with his
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sincerity, with his desire todo something for God. And as a
result, verse five, Nathan istold to go and tell my servant,
David, my servant, is a veryrare expression in the Old
Testament. Servant of Jehovahis used of only a few people,
Abraham, Moses, Caleb , Joshua.
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So to say, you tell my servantDavid, I want him to do this .
And so puts him in pretty tallcotton and I don't think
there's a sense of rebuke here.
What do you think you're doing?
Tr ? No, there's none of that.
In verse five. Instead the Lordmakes great promises to David
in verses nine, 10 and 11.
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First the Lord will makeDavid's name great, which is a
clear echo of the Abrahamicpromises of Genesis chapter 12.
And he will provide a place forIsrael again that's out of the
Abrahamic promises of Genesischapter 12. And then the Lord
will give David rest. And we'vealready read some of the
battles in chapter five thatDavid had to fight largely
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against the Philistines and theAmite. All of that may be why
David is not to build thehouse. It's not time to build
the house. There's morefighting to be done Solomon in
in some ways here. My readingin two Samuel is, is crossing
my preaching through one kings.
I think the readings will catchup with where I am in my
preaching before very muchlonger. But last Sunday I ,
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eight days ago, I preached onone Kings five where Solomon
gets ready to build this houseand talked a little bit there
about Solomon saying my fatherwas a man of war. And that's,
that's not in any way to castaspersions on David's
character. God commanded him tofight these battles. It just
says it wasn't the time forthat kind of thing. So David
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won't build the house, verse13, but his son will build the
house and verse 14 makes apromise about that son, that
the throne will not be takenfrom him like it was taken from
King Saul. King Saul wasdisobedient and lost the right
to rule. Jonathan does notrule. Saul's grandsons do not
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rule. There is no house ofSaul. But even if David's sons
and grandsons are notrighteous, the dynasty will not
be taken from them. And Ishould add, there's going to be
some conditions about beingable to rule and we'll talk
more about that as the yearprogresses. But God makes a
covenant and this covenant willultimately be fulfilled in
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Jesus the Christ. He sits onthe throne of David, even now
king of kings and Lord ofLords. Yes on David's throne.
This is such a criticallyimportant part of the Messianic
credentials. If somebody jumpsup and down and says, you know
what, I'm the Messiah. Well Ineed to see their family tree
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because second Samuel sevensays, the Messiah will come
from the house of David. That'swhat second Samuel is all
about. And this is a placewhere scripture takes a real
bend. The river turns sharplyif you will, because from now
on what we do is we watch thehouse of David to see, to see
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when the Messiah comes. We'rewatching for that ruling king
who's part of this dynastypromised here in two Samuel
chapter seven, our readingtoday, Monday is Second Samuel
chapter seven verses one to 17.
Welcome to Tuesday, Tuesday's.
Reading is second Samuelchapter seven, verses 18 to 29.
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This is not a long reading, butit is a rich and full reading.
I'm looking forward to talkingwith you about this reading in
Zoom tonight. There's notnormally a zoom call on the
first Tuesday of the monthbecause normally the elders are
meeting but they are notmeeting tonight. And next week
I will be with the CampbellRoad Church in a gospel
meeting. So we'll not be ableto have a zoom call on Tuesday.
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So let's do one tonight andlet's talk about Second Samuel
seven verses 18 to 29. This isan amazing part of two Samuel
seven and it's something thatwe don't pay a lot of attention
to. We're so locked in on thosepromises we talked about
yesterday because they'reenormous and so important, this
covenant that God makes withthe house of David. But a huge
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question to ask is how willDavid react to being told no,
don't build it. You won't buildit. You're not to build it.
Kings don't often get told no.
And here's the incrediblereaction of King David to that
and just watch as you readthrough here, the emphasis on
the power in might andsovereignty. No one, no one
David says is like God. Verse19 has some difficulties in
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translation and depending uponwhich translation you're
reading from, and if you arereading from two different
translations, which is a reallygood practice, you may notice
some disparity in those two .
There's some very difficultHebrew terms there that the
translators have a hard timewith. But all of this is about
God is great, God isincredible, and it's good for
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us to just remember right herethat we are looking back on two
Samuel seven with Jesus on thethrone. So I don't have any
questions about God keeping hisword. I don't have any problems
with that. I I'm not worriedabout God keeping his covenant.
David is walking by faith.
David is walking by faith.
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David is saying, I trust God todo these amazing things that
he's promised to do. So this isa great place for us to stop
and think about what it meansto be a person after God's own
heart. Because second Samuelseven, yesterday's reading is
about what God does. We don'tneed to tell God what to do.
Hey, get busy. Hey, how aboutthat covenant with David? Don't
let that fall . No, no, God'snever gonna miss a beat, never
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gonna fall down. Never gonnamiss carrying out his word. And
of course he has not. How do werespond to God? How does a
person who's seeking God'sheart respond to the Lord?
Especially when the Lord hassaid no. That's worth thinking
about. That's worth thinkingabout in a huge way and I hope
that's helpful to you.
Westsiders, I will see youtonight on the Zoom call
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everyone else. I'll see youtomorrow on the podcast as we
move forward in Second Samuel,our reading for Tuesday, second
Samuel seven verses 18 to 29.
It is Wednesday. It isWednesday, and today we read
Second Samuel chapter eight.
This is an easy chapter to readexcept well, it's got some
grizzly details in it that makeus kind of uncomfortable, but
we need to remember that thesewere dangerous nations,
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dangerous people who couldattack and destroy you and
David needs to take care ofthese nations to secure his
kingdom. Maybe the thing toremember is what God said
yesterday in chapter seven inverses 10 and 11 about
providing rest from all yourenemies. Chapters now are
reading today in chapter eight,may be the response to that and
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show God blessing David withthose victories. This is a very
easy chapter to outline.
There's discussion of theenemies defeated in the West,
verse one, the enemies defeatedin the east. Verse two, the
enemies defeated in the northverses three to 12 and then the
enemies defeated in the southverses 13 and 14. And there's
some notes here as you go alongand read some of this. There's
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always, I should say, questionsabout Old Testament numbers .
That's very problematic andvery difficult. How many of
this and how many of that, theHebrew word for a thousand here
may denote a military unit or aclan, the actual size of which
could vary from time to time.
Don't get lost on all thenumbers that are going on here.
I do love verse five. Hey dad ,easer the king of Zoba . Wow ,
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there's all these complicatednames. How did , how did we
manage to misread that on thezoom call? That always is so
difficult. Last week we werereading all these names of all
the enemies and the men thatassassinated Ispo chef and we
ended up with the bananabrothers because we couldn't,
couldn't even hardly say allthese names. Well, how did
Easer , how did is the old namefor Baal ? And Easer means help
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here I raise my EBA Nier . Sohad Azer is Baal is my help.
And what the writer of Samuelis pointing out is he didn't
get any help. He didn't get anyhelp. He had to get some help
instead of from his gods. Hehad to get help verse five from
the Syrians. And yeah, theydidn't help him either. God
gives the victory to David andmaybe what second Samuel eight
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is doing for us today istelling us what David did
during his 40 year reign.
There's really not a lot ofdetail of everything that
happened while he was king for40 years. I suspect it took a
long time to deal with all ofthese nations and take all of
these battles, get 'em allfinished and take everybody
captive and all the things thatgo with all of that. Then
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verses 15 to 18 end withDavid's court. And there's some
things that we don'tunderstand, like verse 17, why
are there two priests? There'ssome possibilities. Maybe one
served under Saul, maybeanother one was with David
during the time that Saul wastrying to assassinate him there
. There's some ideas that arefloated about that, but we just
don't understand exactly what'sgoing on there. The cites and
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the pite in verse 18, the citescome from cre , the P fights
are Philistines. And so he'sgot that foreign mercenary
honor guard standing aroundhim. I think to this day, the
Pope in the Vatican City hasSwiss guards. So that idea of
bringing someone in from theoutside, they're not gonna be
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involved in palace intrigue andthe tensions in the court,
they're gonna be completelyloyal to the monarch. I think
that's what's going on there.
What you get by the time we'redone with our reading today is
that David is established as aking. He has a court, he has a
palace. He is really a genuineking, not just kind of a tribal
leader, like during the time ofthe judges and and King Saul
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kind of making some progress inthat direction. But it's David
that really has established themonarchy and I think the big
emphasis here is that Godpromised to bless David. And
guess what God did exactly ashe said David's life took a
long time to get there, has nowreached the apex, that place
where it's exactly what he'dalways hoped and dreamed it
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would be. He would be God'sking serving God's people.
That's our reading forWednesday, two Samuel chapter
eight. It is Thursday. Welcometo Thursday, and our reading
today is a delightful reading.
Two Samuel chapter nine iswhere we are reading today.
This is about King David and itis all about his heart. That is
exactly what we wanna focus onin a year when we're talking
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about seeking after God'sheart. We want to be like
David, and I think this is justa good place to just kind of
get ahold of where we are inDavid's life. This is the place
where in David's life, he'sexperiencing the blessings of
God. Like I said yesterday,this is it. This is what David
had hoped for. This is whatDavid had been told it was
going to be. So in chapterfive, he unites Israel under
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his crown, and then in chaptersix he brings the art to
Jerusalem. Chapter seven. Hesays, God, I wanna build you a
house and there's that amazingMessianic covenant in the
promise of God. And then inchapter eight, David is blessed
with more victories. So here'sa great thing to ask. When your
life gets good, do you sit downand look around and say, wow,
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who can I be nice to? How can Ishare my good life with
somebody else? Who can I bekind to? That's exactly what
David does in this chapter. Inverses one to six, he launches
a search for someone to becoming to and what he's looking
for is anybody from the houseof Saul. And there's two things
that we need to see here.
First, this is about Davidkeeping his promise. David
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promised Saul and Jonathan ,especially Jonathan , that he
would not exterminate theirdescendants when he became the
king. And so Mephibosheth,Jonathan's son becomes the
person through whom he can keephis word. The other thing to
say here is this isridiculously unexpected. This
is not what you're supposed todo. I wonder how many advisors
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were shaking their heads andsaying, David, no, no, no, no ,
no, we're not doing this. Whenyou become king and you're not
part of the ruling house,you're starting a new dynasty.
What most kings do, we'llactually see this as we read
further in the Old Testament,wicked men do this. They gather
up all the descendants they canfind from the last ruling house
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and chop their heads off thatway nobody can say you are a
usurper, you are not therightful king. I am a
descendant of the rightfulking. You have no business
sitting on his throne. So whatDavid does here is absolutely
unprecedented. You're not gonnabe nice to Saul's grandson,
Jonathan's son. That guy mightmake a claim to the throne. You
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should kill this guy, not bringhim to the court. Which is why
Mephibosheth comes to the courtand he's terrified in verse
six. And David has to say tohim in verse seven, don't be
afraid. Don't be afraid. I'mgonna treat you great. I don't
treat you right. I'm going todo what I always told your dad
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I would do. Now me amphibiouschef, let's have a little
coffee here. Mephibosheth wasfive when Saul was killed. So
now he's probably in histwenties. He does have a young
son, verse 12. So he's not a7-year-old boy here, but he is
crippled in his feet. Andthere's mention of that made at
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the beginning of the text,verse three, and at the end of
the text, verse 13, which willprepare us for some later
events in Mephibosheth's life.
Also we're introduced to theZeba character here. But the
point of all of this is Davidis kind. David shows kindness
to other people. Talked aboutbuilding connections. You know
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in the 9:00 AM sermon onSunday, one of the ways you can
build connections with peopleis be kind to them. Be kind,
who can you be kind to Today?
We don't just read the Bible toget a bunch of data and
information. Bible readingbecomes Bible living, and
today's emphasis is onkindness. Find someone and be
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kind to them. That's one of theways you can be a person who
seeks after God's own heart.
See you tomorrow. We'll be inthe Psalms, our reading for
Thursday, second Samuel nine .
Hey, oh , it's Friday. It isFriday, and today our reading
is Psalm 55. Now this is alonger psalm, so I'm gonna try
to keep my remarks short sothat you have time to read the
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psalm. Maybe read the Psalm outof two translations. This is a
lament. In fact, it is one ofthe most lamenting of all
laments. It is a cry for helpfrom start to finish. It does
have a hinge point. If you lookat verse 16, there is some
change in the tone of the psalmbecause there the psalmist,
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David says, I call to God andthe Lord will save me. So we
start getting more of thatpersonal trust. But this is
very much about I need the Lordand I need the Lord to do
something. Now many peoplethink that this psalm comes out
of the rebellion of Absalom andwe will start reading about
that next week in our dailyBible reading. As we move
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forward, we'll begin to seesome of the pieces that come
into play that end up resultingin this terrible rebellion by
Absalom . So David hasterrifying troubles in verses
one to eight. He knowssomething about a painful
betrayal. In verses nine to 15,there'll be some things there
that you recognize. Verse 13,it is you a man, my equal, my
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companion, my familiar friend.
We used to take sweet counseltogether within God's house. We
walked in the throng. That'sprobably a oph fo . There's
just lots going on in thepsalm. It concludes with
David's personal trust inverses 16 to 23. And I love
verse 22. The promise is not toremove the burden but to
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sustain the person. And thatmay reflect Nathan speaking a
word from God to David. Soreally uncomfortable place in
David's life. And his answer tothat is, I need to talk to God,
and I love every bit aboutthat. You wanna talk about how
to be a person after God's ownheart. Psalm 55 is guiding us
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in a really good way. Ourreading for Friday then is
Psalm 55, and that concludesthe podcast for the week. I
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Hello, and welcome to the Westside churches
special Monday Morning Coffeepodcast on this podcast, our
preacher Mark Roberts will helpyou get your week started
right. With look back atyesterday's sermon so that we
can think through it furtherand better work the
applications into our dailylives . Mark will then look
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forward into this week's Biblereading so that we can know
what to expect and watch for.
And, he may have some extrabonus thoughts from time to
time. So grab a cup of coffeeas we start the week together
on Monday Morning Coffee withMark.
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Good morning. Good morning. Welcome to the Monday
Morning Coffee podcast forMonday, March the 31st. I'm
Mark and I'm holding a sermonoutline. I'm holding my Bible
and a Bible reading schedule,but mostly I've got both hands
on a beautiful ember mug that'sholding some delicious coffee.
It's all about starting the daywith some coffee, isn't it? Or
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maybe in the middle of the day,or even at the end of the day,
that would be decaf I expect.
But somewhere in there, we'regonna have some amazing and
wonderful coffee. Let's work onit together. Pour that cup of
coffee. Let's get ready, let'sget set. Let's go. Yesterday in
the 10 40, I did q and a love qand a, just it's such a
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wonderful opportunity to thinkabout some, maybe, maybe some
issues that I would not wannapreach an entire sermon on or
to connect with where you aretalking with a friend or
talking with a coworker . Theconcerns, things that are
bothering you. I just,everything about q and a is
just a big win, and I love on afifth Sunday getting to bring
that into the 10 40. There arepeople maybe haven't been to
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the nine, they haven't thoughtabout going to the nine. This
gives them an opportunity, Hey,you know this happens in the
nine most months, so hey, giveus a try on the nine, and I am
gonna give you an extra thoughthere, like getting to do that
on the podcast. I'm gonna giveyou a little bit of history,
and if you're not a big historybuff like I am, don't shut this
out. Remember, those who don'tlike history are , yeah,
they're doomed to fail theirhistory test or that that's not
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exactly how that quote goes, isit? Let's think about the
history of the Pentecostalmovement, because yesterday I
talked about how to helpsomebody who thinks they're
speaking in tongues, doing thatecstatic gibberish, pouring out
all those nonsense syllablesthat Pentecostal and charisma
people do today. They thinkthat's the real deal. How do
you talk to somebody aboutthat? That's very difficult.
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And I did not mean in any wayyesterday to say, I've got five
step program and you just saythis and then they say this and
just follow the script. No ,no, no, no. That's a very
difficult conversation.
However, if you get into alittle deeper conversation and
the conversation can hold itand your relationship can take
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it, then I wanna give you anextra thought that might be of
some value to you, because itmay be, it may be helpful to
talk about the history ofPentecostal tongue speaking in
the United States. Now, thereare some random and obscure
references to some groups inthe far distant past who were
involved in these kinds offrenzied behaviors. But by and
large, that's very rare andvery unusual. Modern day
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Pentecostalism comes from a mannamed Charles Fox Parum about
the turn of the century in thelate 18 hundreds, early 19
hundreds, parem was aneccentric preacher in his moral
character, a little bit dubiousin some places. He was
infatuated with some weirdideas and aberrant theology,
and he taught all of that at aplace called Bethel College in
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Topeka, Kansas. And in 1901 onNew Year's Day, one of his
students, Agnes Osmond,reportedly spoke in random
syllables after Parumencouraged students to seek the
baptism of the Holy Spirit. Soshe's blurting these syllables
out and everybody who heard herconcluded that she was speaking
in tongues. Now, here's what'sinteresting about that. They
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all thought she was speakingChinese because none of them
knew Chinese. And for the restof the day, she seemed unable
to speak in English. And sheeven wrote, she scribbled some
things down and everybody saidshe's writing in Chinese. These
students were convinced thattheir prayers had been answered
for the baptism of the HolySpirit. And what they were
witnessing was the very samemiraculous phenomena that we
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read about in Acts chapter two.
Now, the hitch and the getalong here is that when the
scribblings were published inthe newspaper, it was found
that she was not writingChinese at all. It was just
random scribbles. But Parhamcontinued to push the she and,
and by this time now he andmany other students at Bethel
College could speak foreignlanguages. He even said this
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would be a boon to missionarywork. Here's a typical report
from the time. These are hisvery words. The students of
Bethel College do not need tostudy in the old way to learn
the languages. They have themconferred upon them.
Miraculously, different oneshave already been able to
converse with Spaniards,Italians, Bohemians,
Hungarians, Germans, and Frenchin their own language. I have
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no doubt various dialects ofthe people of India and even
the language of the tribes ofAfrica will be received during
our meetings in the same way.
Actually, he used kind of aracial purgative there about
Africa. So I edited him alittle bit. But can you see
that everybody knew that tonguespeaking was to speak in a
known foreign language?
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Everybody understood it thatway, and that's what they
thought they were doing. Ofcourse, when Palms missionaries
went abroad, it was a giganticand colossal failure and
embarrassment because they gotoff the boat and they'd start
speaking gibberish, expectingthe people in France or Italy
or China to understand thegospel. Hey , I'm speaking to
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you the gospel, and thesepeople, they, we don't know
what you're, it's gibberish tous. Oh , no, no, I'm speaking
Chinese. No you're not. Noyou're not. Now about that time
the movement began tometamorphs a little bit, began
to to evolve, and there was aearly disciple of Parem ,
William Seymour. He was anAfrican American holiness
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preacher who had been underparham's instruction. And in
1906 he was invited to lead aseries of meetings in
California and he was preachingin an old building on Azua
Street in the edge of downtownLos Angeles. And he began to
teach some of these distinctivedoctrines that he had heard
from Parum . He taught, forexample, that the only biblical
evidence of being baptized inthe spirit was the gift of
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speaking in tongues. And mm-hmm
dozens of people at the AzuaStreet revival were manifesting
tongues speaking in the fame ofthe Pentecostal movement just
spread from there. That's thegenesis of tongue speaking as
we know it today. And as itcontinued to spread, and of
course more people realizedthis was not any foreign
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language known to anybody onthe planet, then people began
to reinterpret biblical tonguespeaking and start talking
about how this is the languageof angels, or that Paul says,
you don't necessarily need tounderstand it as the speaker
that that this is really aboutwhat you experience, this
communion between you and God,this knowing that God accepts
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you by baptizing you with thespirit. And so the focus on the
personal encounter with theSpirit led to people being much
more open to this just being acoherent, an incoherent,
ecstatic utterance. And I wantsay again, it was about the
experience and what theexperience said about the
person who was doing thisbabbling and how it validated
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and verified their salvationand their standing with God.
That's where the modern dayPentecostal denominations come
from. The Assemblies of God,the Church of God, the
Pentecostal Holiness Church,they come out of that Azua
Street revival in Los Angeles.
So when you're talking withsomebody about tongue speaking,
if you can get this far and ifthey're open and if your
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relationship can handle somepretty straight up talk about
what this is all about then,then maybe you might challenge
somebody to do some reading andsome research about where
charismatic tongue speaking,sometimes that's called glia
from the Greek word in the NewTestament for tongue speaking.
Where'd that come from? How didthat get started? What did
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everybody used to say that wasand how that changed and
shifted when it was revealed tobe fraudulent and fake? Finding
out that charismatic tonguespeaking started in Los Angeles
and in Topeka, Kansas, may mayopen some people's eyes when
they realize it didn't start inJerusalem. In Acts chapter two,
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hope that's helpful to you. Letme give you one more note.
Don't forget, in the nineyesterday I talked about
building connection, biblicalinsights on friendships and
friends. And at the end ofthat, I urged everyone to take
some initiative and dosomething to build a
connection, to build somefriendships to en , to enlarge
our social circle and to bemore socially fit. Go back and
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listen to that sermon and bereminded of that. Or if you
were not in the nine, go listento that sermon. What did you
plan to do when I was talkingabout all of that? Have you
done it? Have you done it? Partof the podcast is to encourage
us to take action on Mondaywith what we plan to do on
Sunday. Take that action today,build some connection. Once
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you've done that, get yourBible and let's think about
what's going on in SecondSamuel. It is Monday in
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Monday's reading in SecondSamuel chapter seven verses one
to 17 verses one to 17, twoSamuel chapter seven. This is,
this is one of the mostimportant chapters in all of
God's word . Sometimes I workwith a kind of scaffolding for
the Old Testament that I gotwhen I was a student back at
Florida College from wonderfulBible teacher. There are the
five key passages in the OldTestament and second Samuel
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seven is one of those five. Soanytime you have a list of five
out of everything that's inthat big Old Testament and
there's just, hey, these arethe big five, you know this is
a huge deal. And this chapterin its context here originally
serves as the conclusion to atrilogy of material about
Jerusalem. Chapter five. Davidtakes Jerusalem, chapter six,
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David moves the Ark of theCovenant into his capital .
There's some misadventures withthat, but it does get there.
And then in chapter seven, thatfinishes with David's desire to
build a palace for God, a housefor God. And that is the
emphasis in our reading today.
The term house occurs 15 timesin chapter seven. It's used a
number of different ways. Forexample, it means David's
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palace verses one and two, ifthen can reference a palace or
house for the Lord the templeverses five and six and seven.
But mostly it references aruling dynasty for David and
our friends in the UnitedKingdom would understand and
latch onto this immediately. Weprobably will need a little
help here because house in twoSamuel seven will not always
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mean a physical structure. Nowit does in verse one, but then
when God says in verse 11 thathe will build a house for
David, he's not talking about aphysical structure there, he's
talking about a dynasty. We maybe familiar with that kind of
thing over in England, thehouse of Windsor or the House
of Hanover. That's the royalfamily and their lineage and
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everybody who's part of thatfamily. So when the ruling
Monarch passes away, when QueenElizabeth died, they didn't
just go down the street andstart asking people, would you,
would you like to be the nextking? Would you like to be the
next? No. There's rules aboutwho can inherit the throne and
sit on the throne. And there'speople whose job it is to keep
charge of all thosegenealogical records and they
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make sure they get the rightperson who's of the right
ruling house. And sometimesthat's complicated. For
example, Mary Queen of Scotch ,she's a pretty famous ruling
monarch. She was not Scottishand she actually was in France
when it came her turn to ruleand they went and got her at
that time she didn't even speakEnglish and they made her the
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queen of England because shewas of the right dynasty, the
right reigning house. So Davidhas this great idea in the
first three verses that he'sgoing to build a house. And
I've used the term palace and Imean that a palace for God, a
place for God to live. And Godsays, I didn't need a house and
couldn't use a house whenIsrael was moving in the
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wilderness. And I've nevergiven a command for anybody to
build me a house, but this kindof extra thought for God is
rewarded here in verse five.
Please notice it's not gonnahappen. And Nathan should have
consulted God before justsigning off on this project.
But God is still impressed withDavid's heart, with his
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sincerity, with his desire todo something for God. And as a
result, verse five, Nathan istold to go and tell my servant,
David, my servant, is a veryrare expression in the Old
Testament. Servant of Jehovahis used of only a few people,
Abraham, Moses, Caleb , Joshua.
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So to say, you tell my servantDavid, I want him to do this .
And so puts him in pretty tallcotton and I don't think
there's a sense of rebuke here.
What do you think you're doing?
Tr ? No, there's none of that.
In verse five. Instead the Lordmakes great promises to David
in verses nine, 10 and 11.
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First the Lord will makeDavid's name great, which is a
clear echo of the Abrahamicpromises of Genesis chapter 12.
And he will provide a place forIsrael again that's out of the
Abrahamic promises of Genesischapter 12. And then the Lord
will give David rest. And we'vealready read some of the
battles in chapter five thatDavid had to fight largely
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against the Philistines and theAmite. All of that may be why
David is not to build thehouse. It's not time to build
the house. There's morefighting to be done Solomon in
in some ways here. My readingin two Samuel is, is crossing
my preaching through one kings.
I think the readings will catchup with where I am in my
preaching before very muchlonger. But last Sunday I ,
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eight days ago, I preached onone Kings five where Solomon
gets ready to build this houseand talked a little bit there
about Solomon saying my fatherwas a man of war. And that's,
that's not in any way to castaspersions on David's
character. God commanded him tofight these battles. It just
says it wasn't the time forthat kind of thing. So David
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won't build the house, verse13, but his son will build the
house and verse 14 makes apromise about that son, that
the throne will not be takenfrom him like it was taken from
King Saul. King Saul wasdisobedient and lost the right
to rule. Jonathan does notrule. Saul's grandsons do not
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rule. There is no house ofSaul. But even if David's sons
and grandsons are notrighteous, the dynasty will not
be taken from them. And Ishould add, there's going to be
some conditions about beingable to rule and we'll talk
more about that as the yearprogresses. But God makes a
covenant and this covenant willultimately be fulfilled in
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Jesus the Christ. He sits onthe throne of David, even now
king of kings and Lord ofLords. Yes on David's throne.
This is such a criticallyimportant part of the Messianic
credentials. If somebody jumpsup and down and says, you know
what, I'm the Messiah. Well Ineed to see their family tree
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because second Samuel sevensays, the Messiah will come
from the house of David. That'swhat second Samuel is all
about. And this is a placewhere scripture takes a real
bend. The river turns sharplyif you will, because from now
on what we do is we watch thehouse of David to see, to see
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when the Messiah comes. We'rewatching for that ruling king
who's part of this dynastypromised here in two Samuel
chapter seven, our readingtoday, Monday is Second Samuel
chapter seven verses one to 17.
Welcome to Tuesday, Tuesday's.
Reading is second Samuelchapter seven, verses 18 to 29.
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This is not a long reading, butit is a rich and full reading.
I'm looking forward to talkingwith you about this reading in
Zoom tonight. There's notnormally a zoom call on the
first Tuesday of the monthbecause normally the elders are
meeting but they are notmeeting tonight. And next week
I will be with the CampbellRoad Church in a gospel
meeting. So we'll not be ableto have a zoom call on Tuesday.
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So let's do one tonight andlet's talk about Second Samuel
seven verses 18 to 29. This isan amazing part of two Samuel
seven and it's something thatwe don't pay a lot of attention
to. We're so locked in on thosepromises we talked about
yesterday because they'reenormous and so important, this
covenant that God makes withthe house of David. But a huge
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question to ask is how willDavid react to being told no,
don't build it. You won't buildit. You're not to build it.
Kings don't often get told no.
And here's the incrediblereaction of King David to that
and just watch as you readthrough here, the emphasis on
the power in might andsovereignty. No one, no one
David says is like God. Verse19 has some difficulties in
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translation and depending uponwhich translation you're
reading from, and if you arereading from two different
translations, which is a reallygood practice, you may notice
some disparity in those two .
There's some very difficultHebrew terms there that the
translators have a hard timewith. But all of this is about
God is great, God isincredible, and it's good for
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us to just remember right herethat we are looking back on two
Samuel seven with Jesus on thethrone. So I don't have any
questions about God keeping hisword. I don't have any problems
with that. I I'm not worriedabout God keeping his covenant.
David is walking by faith.
David is walking by faith.
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David is saying, I trust God todo these amazing things that
he's promised to do. So this isa great place for us to stop
and think about what it meansto be a person after God's own
heart. Because second Samuelseven, yesterday's reading is
about what God does. We don'tneed to tell God what to do.
Hey, get busy. Hey, how aboutthat covenant with David? Don't
let that fall . No, no, God'snever gonna miss a beat, never
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gonna fall down. Never gonnamiss carrying out his word. And
of course he has not. How do werespond to God? How does a
person who's seeking God'sheart respond to the Lord?
Especially when the Lord hassaid no. That's worth thinking
about. That's worth thinkingabout in a huge way and I hope
that's helpful to you.
Westsiders, I will see youtonight on the Zoom call
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everyone else. I'll see youtomorrow on the podcast as we
move forward in Second Samuel,our reading for Tuesday, second
Samuel seven verses 18 to 29.
It is Wednesday. It isWednesday, and today we read
Second Samuel chapter eight.
This is an easy chapter to readexcept well, it's got some
grizzly details in it that makeus kind of uncomfortable, but
we need to remember that thesewere dangerous nations,
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dangerous people who couldattack and destroy you and
David needs to take care ofthese nations to secure his
kingdom. Maybe the thing toremember is what God said
yesterday in chapter seven inverses 10 and 11 about
providing rest from all yourenemies. Chapters now are
reading today in chapter eight,may be the response to that and
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show God blessing David withthose victories. This is a very
easy chapter to outline.
There's discussion of theenemies defeated in the West,
verse one, the enemies defeatedin the east. Verse two, the
enemies defeated in the northverses three to 12 and then the
enemies defeated in the southverses 13 and 14. And there's
some notes here as you go alongand read some of this. There's
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always, I should say, questionsabout Old Testament numbers .
That's very problematic andvery difficult. How many of
this and how many of that, theHebrew word for a thousand here
may denote a military unit or aclan, the actual size of which
could vary from time to time.
Don't get lost on all thenumbers that are going on here.
I do love verse five. Hey dad ,easer the king of Zoba . Wow ,
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there's all these complicatednames. How did , how did we
manage to misread that on thezoom call? That always is so
difficult. Last week we werereading all these names of all
the enemies and the men thatassassinated Ispo chef and we
ended up with the bananabrothers because we couldn't,
couldn't even hardly say allthese names. Well, how did
Easer , how did is the old namefor Baal ? And Easer means help
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here I raise my EBA Nier . Sohad Azer is Baal is my help.
And what the writer of Samuelis pointing out is he didn't
get any help. He didn't get anyhelp. He had to get some help
instead of from his gods. Hehad to get help verse five from
the Syrians. And yeah, theydidn't help him either. God
gives the victory to David andmaybe what second Samuel eight
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is doing for us today istelling us what David did
during his 40 year reign.
There's really not a lot ofdetail of everything that
happened while he was king for40 years. I suspect it took a
long time to deal with all ofthese nations and take all of
these battles, get 'em allfinished and take everybody
captive and all the things thatgo with all of that. Then
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verses 15 to 18 end withDavid's court. And there's some
things that we don'tunderstand, like verse 17, why
are there two priests? There'ssome possibilities. Maybe one
served under Saul, maybeanother one was with David
during the time that Saul wastrying to assassinate him there
. There's some ideas that arefloated about that, but we just
don't understand exactly what'sgoing on there. The cites and
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the pite in verse 18, the citescome from cre , the P fights
are Philistines. And so he'sgot that foreign mercenary
honor guard standing aroundhim. I think to this day, the
Pope in the Vatican City hasSwiss guards. So that idea of
bringing someone in from theoutside, they're not gonna be
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involved in palace intrigue andthe tensions in the court,
they're gonna be completelyloyal to the monarch. I think
that's what's going on there.
What you get by the time we'redone with our reading today is
that David is established as aking. He has a court, he has a
palace. He is really a genuineking, not just kind of a tribal
leader, like during the time ofthe judges and and King Saul
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kind of making some progress inthat direction. But it's David
that really has established themonarchy and I think the big
emphasis here is that Godpromised to bless David. And
guess what God did exactly ashe said David's life took a
long time to get there, has nowreached the apex, that place
where it's exactly what he'dalways hoped and dreamed it
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would be. He would be God'sking serving God's people.
That's our reading forWednesday, two Samuel chapter
eight. It is Thursday. Welcometo Thursday, and our reading
today is a delightful reading.
Two Samuel chapter nine iswhere we are reading today.
This is about King David and itis all about his heart. That is
exactly what we wanna focus onin a year when we're talking
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about seeking after God'sheart. We want to be like
David, and I think this is justa good place to just kind of
get ahold of where we are inDavid's life. This is the place
where in David's life, he'sexperiencing the blessings of
God. Like I said yesterday,this is it. This is what David
had hoped for. This is whatDavid had been told it was
going to be. So in chapterfive, he unites Israel under
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his crown, and then in chaptersix he brings the art to
Jerusalem. Chapter seven. Hesays, God, I wanna build you a
house and there's that amazingMessianic covenant in the
promise of God. And then inchapter eight, David is blessed
with more victories. So here'sa great thing to ask. When your
life gets good, do you sit downand look around and say, wow,
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who can I be nice to? How can Ishare my good life with
somebody else? Who can I bekind to? That's exactly what
David does in this chapter. Inverses one to six, he launches
a search for someone to becoming to and what he's looking
for is anybody from the houseof Saul. And there's two things
that we need to see here.
First, this is about Davidkeeping his promise. David
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promised Saul and Jonathan ,especially Jonathan , that he
would not exterminate theirdescendants when he became the
king. And so Mephibosheth,Jonathan's son becomes the
person through whom he can keephis word. The other thing to
say here is this isridiculously unexpected. This
is not what you're supposed todo. I wonder how many advisors
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were shaking their heads andsaying, David, no, no, no, no ,
no, we're not doing this. Whenyou become king and you're not
part of the ruling house,you're starting a new dynasty.
What most kings do, we'llactually see this as we read
further in the Old Testament,wicked men do this. They gather
up all the descendants they canfind from the last ruling house
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and chop their heads off thatway nobody can say you are a
usurper, you are not therightful king. I am a
descendant of the rightfulking. You have no business
sitting on his throne. So whatDavid does here is absolutely
unprecedented. You're not gonnabe nice to Saul's grandson,
Jonathan's son. That guy mightmake a claim to the throne. You
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should kill this guy, not bringhim to the court. Which is why
Mephibosheth comes to the courtand he's terrified in verse
six. And David has to say tohim in verse seven, don't be
afraid. Don't be afraid. I'mgonna treat you great. I don't
treat you right. I'm going todo what I always told your dad
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I would do. Now me amphibiouschef, let's have a little
coffee here. Mephibosheth wasfive when Saul was killed. So
now he's probably in histwenties. He does have a young
son, verse 12. So he's not a7-year-old boy here, but he is
crippled in his feet. Andthere's mention of that made at
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the beginning of the text,verse three, and at the end of
the text, verse 13, which willprepare us for some later
events in Mephibosheth's life.
Also we're introduced to theZeba character here. But the
point of all of this is Davidis kind. David shows kindness
to other people. Talked aboutbuilding connections. You know
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in the 9:00 AM sermon onSunday, one of the ways you can
build connections with peopleis be kind to them. Be kind,
who can you be kind to Today?
We don't just read the Bible toget a bunch of data and
information. Bible readingbecomes Bible living, and
today's emphasis is onkindness. Find someone and be
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kind to them. That's one of theways you can be a person who
seeks after God's own heart.
See you tomorrow. We'll be inthe Psalms, our reading for
Thursday, second Samuel nine .
Hey, oh , it's Friday. It isFriday, and today our reading
is Psalm 55. Now this is alonger psalm, so I'm gonna try
to keep my remarks short sothat you have time to read the
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psalm. Maybe read the Psalm outof two translations. This is a
lament. In fact, it is one ofthe most lamenting of all
laments. It is a cry for helpfrom start to finish. It does
have a hinge point. If you lookat verse 16, there is some
change in the tone of the psalmbecause there the psalmist,
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David says, I call to God andthe Lord will save me. So we
start getting more of thatpersonal trust. But this is
very much about I need the Lordand I need the Lord to do
something. Now many peoplethink that this psalm comes out
of the rebellion of Absalom andwe will start reading about
that next week in our dailyBible reading. As we move
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forward, we'll begin to seesome of the pieces that come
into play that end up resultingin this terrible rebellion by
Absalom . So David hasterrifying troubles in verses
one to eight. He knowssomething about a painful
betrayal. In verses nine to 15,there'll be some things there
that you recognize. Verse 13,it is you a man, my equal, my
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companion, my familiar friend.
We used to take sweet counseltogether within God's house. We
walked in the throng. That'sprobably a oph fo . There's
just lots going on in thepsalm. It concludes with
David's personal trust inverses 16 to 23. And I love
verse 22. The promise is not toremove the burden but to
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sustain the person. And thatmay reflect Nathan speaking a
word from God to David. Soreally uncomfortable place in
David's life. And his answer tothat is, I need to talk to God,
and I love every bit aboutthat. You wanna talk about how
to be a person after God's ownheart. Psalm 55 is guiding us
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in a really good way. Ourreading for Friday then is
Psalm 55, and that concludesthe podcast for the week. I
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Thank you so very much. That isso helpful. Well, until next
week then, when we'll open ourBibles together. Again, I'm
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Mark Roberts and I want to goto heaven, and I want you to
come to see you on Monday witha cup of coffee.
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