Class 3 from this series was used in GCT Episode 364.
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Our brother Brian will now lead
us in our second session today,
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Our brother Brian will now lead
us in our second session today,
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which he has entitled.
He shall purify the sons of
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Levi, brother Brian, dear
brother Ron and my dear brother
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and sisters.
I’d like us to turn firstly to
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Psalm 78.
There’s a beautiful reference
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here about how David became.
King and it fits with wonderful
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a position alongside what we
have looked at in that last a
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few verses of First Chronicles.
It says in verse 70, in
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reiterating the story of Israel,
he chose David, also his
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servant, and took him from the
sheepfolds.
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Did he, from following the Ewes,
great with young, he brought him
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to feed Jacob, his people, and
Israel his inheritance.
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The shepherd became the shepherd
king.
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And verses 70 and 71 put it as
though he went straight from the
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fields of the shepherd to the
throne, and again using the
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terms of the shepherd, The Psalm
so beautifully says so He fed
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them according to the integrity
of his heart and with all the
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background of the shepherd, and
guided them by the skilfulness
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of his hands.
That’s a very beautiful
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description, my dear, but it’s
an actual fact that’s not
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chronologically quite correct is
that there was a number of years
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of exile from where he was a
shepherd before he became king,
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first of Judah and then of
Israel.
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But this very beautiful passage
at the end of of Psalm 78 is
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saying that David took the
qualities that he learnt as a.
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Shepherd.
He took those to the throne.
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That’s what it’s saying, isn’t
it?
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And as he tended the sheep that
was great with young or the
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ewes, or on a hot day, he cared
for them and provided them with
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defence and food.
So in that small environment, he
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had learnt how to look after
people after a great nation, an
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expanding nation, and he tended
to them with the skill point of
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his of his hands and he defended
them.
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It’s a very beautiful passage
indeed.
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It’s exceedingly beautiful.
And you might think, well, it’s
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sort of a pretty high gloss on
the story of David, but it’s not
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is it?
Because here in his own words,
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in a time of absolute crisis
with the the sword in the hand
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of the Angel and and above David
and Jerusalem threatened he says
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as we read in that verse 17.
Is it not I that commanded the
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people to be numbered?
Even I it is that have?
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Sinned and done evil indeed.
But As for these sheep, what
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have they done?
You know, that’s a very
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wonderful man, isn’t it?
There’s not many people in in
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life that will be able at the
end of their days to say my
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spirit is the same as when I was
a young man.
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You know, when we came out of
the waters of baptism, we were
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ready to give everything,
weren’t we?
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It’d be a lovely achievement in
life if on our last days of
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breath we’re able to say my
spirit is the same toward my God
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as when I came through those
waters of baptism.
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David’s spirit is the same.
Service, service, service for
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Israel.
That’s why he is, I’m sure,
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saved the life of that little
lamb.
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He took it out of the clutches
virtually of the lion
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threatening his own life.
Was he concerned?
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About the market value of the
land, wasn’t concerned about the
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market value of the land, was
it?
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But he clearly had seen in that
land that that was like a person
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in Israel and that he was going
to be the defender of that
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person, and therefore he put his
own life on the line on behalf
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of his people.
Magnificent man, wasn’t he?
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As a young boy he could see
that.
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And then when after that the the
the lamb having been saved, the
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the bear came, he stripped the
bear apart as well.
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Twice he would threaten his own
life.
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He wasn’t foolhardy.
That was wrought out of faith
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and defence of God’s people.
He’s the same man here, isn’t
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he?
Let me be offered, and my
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people, my family, my father’s
house, but let it not be upon
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these sheep.
But as we know, the sheep had
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some pretty unfortunate goats
among them.
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And God took, indeed, He made
the separation and took what he
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wanted.
Well then coming then on to the
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rest of this chapter.
We will deal with the Levites in
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time, but I wanted to complete
some of the very beautiful
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things that are in the rest of
this chapter.
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The Angel of the Lord, it says
in verse 18, commanded Gad to
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say to David that David should
go up and set an altar unto
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Yahweh in the threshing floor of
Ornan the Jebusite.
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This message came through Gad,
you might notice, and that a
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second time the Gad was David’s
seer.
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Now it’s quite an amazing
statement.
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Don’t just read it, my dear.
This is an astonishing.
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Statement isn’t it?
Is God saying that in a a
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Gentile’s backyard, in a
presently occupied threshing
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floor?
That’s what Ornam was doing with
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his four sons, we read in verse
2021.
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He was.
He was using the place then.
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Wouldn’t that have seemed to a
legalistic Jewish mind that that
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was the last?
Place on earth that God would
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choose to be a place of an
altar.
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And an altar that was going to
improve upon the altar that was
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in the Mosaic Tabernacle that
then was officiating at Gibeon.
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There were two tabernacles.
There was the Tabernacle of
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Moses that was at this time at
Gibeon.
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And the altar of burnt offering
was there.
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It was, it was officiating at
that time.
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So if God was saying this in
verse 18, it was clear that this
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was going to be a superior
alternative to that which was
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already in existence.
There was 2 tabernacles.
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There was the Tabernacle of
Moses, and as we said, that was
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a gibeon.
But it was without the ark,
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wasn’t it?
But in Jerusalem there was the
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Tabernacle of David that David
had set up.
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The Second Samuel chapter 6
tells us that when the ark came
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in, David constructed a
Tabernacle and became known as
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the Tabernacle of David.
It didn’t have an altar of
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offering, but it did have the
ark as it were, the presence of
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God.
It’s a really interesting stage
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in Israel’s history. 2
Tabernacles.
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Now there’s going to be two
altars in Israel.
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And that’s how David saw it.
He saw the whole import of verse
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18.
What God was saying was
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astonishing, absolutely
astonishing.
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There was already his official
altar.
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In giving and now God was saying
this to you and where in the
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threshing floor of on and the
Jebusite and that had it’s
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strange overtures.
You know Jesus was the last
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place in the whole of that land
then to be Sheba the last.
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Place to be rested from the foot
of the Gentile.
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You remember that?
Because David had been king,
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hadn’t he?
In Hebron for 7 1/2 years over
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Judah, and then he shifted the
capital to Jerusalem.
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Because Joe went up the gutter
and they overran the Jebusites.
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And that then became a suitable
place to make the capital of the
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United Kingdom.
The last place we might have
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thought was that that would
become the place of the altar of
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offering.
It might have been, you know,
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suitable plates for David
because it was more centrally
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positioned on the border between
that which was and that which
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was going to be his Kingdom.
But there was more than politics
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involved in.
That, and the intriguing thing
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is that there are still Gentiles
there.
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This ground is still owned by a
Gentile.
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It’s the threshing floor of Orn
and the Jebusite.
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And yet just underneath that
place is the capital of Israel.
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Just underneath the threshing
floor of Ornan the Jebusite is
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where you will see today the
Mosque of Omaha.
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And the big wall that goes
around it must be there because
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that’s where the temple was,
right?
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Solomon’s temple, Herod’s temple
were on, was on that site.
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The capital of David was on an
elongated piece of ground that
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went down to Siloam below that
area.
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That was the City of David, not
the walled city that we have
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today at all.
That was outside David City.
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The intriguing thing is, my dear
brother sisters, that that Ornan
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was still operating his property
in the area.
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Immediately adjacent to the
capital city, and he was a
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gentleman.
And that tells you a great deal
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about David and his relationship
with the Gentiles, doesn’t it?
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David did not have an antipathy
towards the Gentiles.
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He could have.
Immediately taken that property
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from Ornam in days of old.
But he didn’t.
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And being so close to the
capital city, it was a
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remarkable thing.
This man was still farming on
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the property.
And we’ll see a little bit more
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about the spirit of this man as
we go down.
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In fact, this whole section is
just filled with wonder, just
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absolute wonder that God should
have chosen that very place
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still being used by him and his
sons.
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David went up at the saying of
Gad.
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There’s 19 which he spake in the
name of the Lord.
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And Ornan turned back and he too
saw the Angel.
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Can you picture this amazing
scene and his four?
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Sons with him hid themselves.
Now Ornan was threshing wheat.
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They were operating the site in
the midst of all this tragedy,
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he and his four boys.
And when Orna turned back and he
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saw the Angel above, and there
was the king of Israel.
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There was the elders of Israel
with him.
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So Israel and the Gentiles were
there together.
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He was a a Gentile man and his
sons.
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And the Angel above was
threatening the city.
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And David has been told to go
and see Orna and to make an
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altar on his land.
There was a time before, my
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dear, this is when an Angel of
death threatened Israel.
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And you mean remember at that
time he made a separation,
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didn’t he, between the Egyptians
and the Israelites?
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An absolute separation, so that
the Egyptians lost their first
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born and Israel’s were saved.
Here we have an Angel of death
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that is now over the over the
threshing floor that still
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remains to a Gentile trodden.
Down, as it were, of the
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Gentiles, but not really trodden
down, this man.
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Fully appreciates the
circumstances in which he is
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living.
And what we’re going to see come
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out of this is an offering
that’s that’s going to be
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salvation not only for Israel,
but also for the Gentiles, and
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an altar established that will
be not only for Israel but also
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for the Gentiles.
Just like the Tabernacle of
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David was for the same thing, a
most amazing circumstance.
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So David came to Ornan, verse
21, and Ornan looked and saw
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David, and went out of the
threshing floor and bowed
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himself to David with his face
to the ground.
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Great respect he had, didn’t he?
Like the sorrow Phoenician
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woman, and he had great respect
to the king of Israel.
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Then David said to Ornan.
Grant me the place of this
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threshing floor, that I may
build an altar therein unto the
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Lord Thou shalt grant it me for
the full price, that the plague
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may be stained from the people.
And Ornan’s response is really
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quite remarkable.
Ornan said unto David, Take it
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thee, and let my.
Lord the King, do that which is
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good in his eyes.
Hello, I give thee the oxen also
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for burnt offerings, and the
threshing instruments for wood,
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and the wheat for the meat
offering.
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He knew a few things, didn’t he?
He knew the kind of sacrifices
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that Israel had, and in effect,
He’s providing all that was
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necessary.
The oxen that were there for the
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threshing of the wheat.
The oxen for burnt offerings.
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The instruments of threshing
that can be provided as the
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wood.
And the wheat will be for the
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meal offering.
I give it all.
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There’s this amazing man.
And King David said to Ornam,
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Nay, he says, no doubt deeply
impressed by this remarkable
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man, Nay.
But I will verily buy it.
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For the full price, that’s the
second time he has said that,
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isn’t it verse 22?
And he says it again in verse
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24.
For the full price, for I will
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not take that which is thine for
Yahweh, nor offer burnt
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offerings without cost.
And so David gave to Ornan for
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the place 600 shekels of gold by
weight, which in our money would
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probably come today like
something like $100,000.
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It seems that he, he paid it
there and then.
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No, this man David and this man
Ornan are really remarkable
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people.
If you come back to Second
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Samuel chapter 24, just notice a
little detail that’s so
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intriguing.
I give it all he said.
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We read in Second Samuel 24
verse 22.
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And Alrana said unto David, Let
my Lord the King take and
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OfferUp what seemeth good unto
him.
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Behold he be oxen for burnt
sacrifice, and threshing
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instruments, and other
instruments of the oxen for
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wood.
All these things did all runner,
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as a king give unto the king,
and a runner said unto the king.
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Yahweh, thy God, accept thee.
Now he must have thought this is
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a strange day, that the Angel of
God, the Angel of the God of
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Israel, has told the King of
Israel to come to my property.
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Surely the most unclean sight in
Israel, in the view of a of a
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legal minded Jew, has come to my
property there to make an
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offering to stay the hand of the
Angel of death.
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And yet he takes it in as best
he can and says I give it all.
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Totally happy with that, even
though it was the last.
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Bit of land, no doubt, that was
owned by the Jebdusites.
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Why do you think in fact?
He had been allowed to retain
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it, surely, because perhaps
there’s his spirit.
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This man is like the Sarah
Phoenician woman, isn’t he?
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He’s in Israel, but he fully
appreciates the privilege of
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Israel and that he’s still to be
alive in that land.
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And no doubt that had a lot to
do, why he had been allowed to
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be retained.
Why didn’t David just clear him
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out and say, would you go where?
You might you’re.
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Not going to be around here by
the capital.
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You’re a gentile hanging around.
You know, he had some amazing
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precedent predecessors, didn’t
he?
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It says that he as a king gave
that to David, which is
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intriguing in itself because
there was a great king in
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Jerusalem before David.
In the times of Abraham, there
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was Melchizedek.
Later on there was another king
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in Jerusalem called Adi Adonai
Zaydek.
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Zaydek means righteousness,
Milky meaning king, King of
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righteousness.
Adoni Zaydek later in the times
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of the Judges, meaning Lord of
Righteousness.
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It.
Was the title of the king of
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that city the king of the
future?
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Jerusalem is going to be indeed
a Zaydek, isn’t it?
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The king of righteousness,
Yahweh, Our righteousness will
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be the name by which he will be
called.
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Jeremiah says that.
So there was that.
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A wonderful heritage in that
city, and perhaps, my dear
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brethren sisters, it may be that
Orrunner had some of the.
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Spirit of that former Kingdom,
the former Lion, and that David
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being the mind he was.
And seeing the.
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Character of Orrunner said,
look, this is the capital of
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Israel indeed, but that man
deserves to be here and I want
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him kept so now at a critical
moment when.
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David’s in one of the great
crises of his life and the
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thinking is intense before God
is as it was standing above him.
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There is another man, a Gentile,
in the line of Melchizedek,
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because he he was a king.
He was the remaining person of
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the line of the Jebusites.
And whilst they had despised
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David and he had loathed them,
hadn’t even remember how it says
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that Second Samuel 5.
They were despised in David’s
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mind because they ridiculed
Israel at that time, yet in fact
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he has preserved their king, and
now that king in the spirit of.
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In the spirit of a gentile that
accepts the hope of Israel says
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I give it all and David spares
him and and will pay him the
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full price.
What an amazing story.
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I verily will buy it for the
full price, for I will not take
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that which is thine for the
Lord, nor offer burnt offerings
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without cost.
What a mine, my dear brother and
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sisters, wouldn’t you with that
threat above you simply just
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take the fielder and run.
You know if he wants to give it
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to you, take it would OK, we’ll
have it.
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But he didn’t, did he?
What a presence of mine was
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David you see when Abraham in
earlier time.
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This just shows you where the
mind of David is when he was in
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a in a stage.
Where he wanted.
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Land to bury his wife.
You remember he went to The Cave
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of Machpelah and he would have
been given it, but he would not.
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Take that, would he?
He said, I’ll pay it for the
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full price.
And thus he buried Sarah.
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And later on, the other
patriarchs were buried in that
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play, or Jacob also in Genesis
chapter 33.
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And this is perhaps even more
relevant, Genesis chapter 33,
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verse 19, verse 18.
Jacob came, it should be in
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peace to Shechem.
It doesn’t mean he came to
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Shaylam, the city of Shechem.
There wasn’t such a thing as as
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Shaylam, the city of Shechem.
He came in peace to the city of
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Shechem, which is in the land of
Canaan.
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When he came from Pedenaram and
pitched his tent before the city
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and he bought a parcel of a
field.
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Where he had spread his tent at
the hand of the children of
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Hamor Shechem’s father for 100.
Pieces of money, And he erected
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there an altar and called it IO,
a Lower Israel.
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He bought the land on which he
would erect an altar.
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He would not do it for nothing.
There must be cost in our
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sacrifice.
And so, in the same spirit, an
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amazing.
Thing in this.
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Crisis, my dear, insist.
When you know, when you sort of
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grab anything that’s going,
don’t you just take whatever’s
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there and use it.
The crisis is enormous.
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The whole life of Jerusalem, of
your family and yourself all
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rests upon this.
If your if it’s their, take it.
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But he wouldn’t principle.
What an amazing man, my dear.
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Insisted That’s the man that was
in the bed just a few weeks
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before perhaps dying, but he
came out of that bedroom where
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people thought he was a write
off and in his mind was scotched
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the principles of God so that
even in this crisis event when
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he could just snap and he’d have
the whole thing in his hand, he
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would not do it.
I find that really breathtaking
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my dear brother and sister.
So it really isn’t.
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How many times in ecclesial life
do we act like that, where we
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will not be part of ecclesial
life unless there is give
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involved in what we make our
offering to be?
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Have we learnt?
Are we losing the sense of
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giving, of going the extra mile,
of making the extra time, of
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taking on the extra work, of
helping the person that really
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needs help down the line?
It’s going to put us out.
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But you know, there’s no
offering if there’s no price,
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isn’t it?
That’s what David thought, and
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he could think that in the
middle of the Was this the
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night?
I don’t know.
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I sort of imagine it was the
night with the Shining Angel.
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Perhaps it wasn’t.
But anyway, in the middle of
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this crisis, he could think like
that.
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That must be paid for, Jacob.
Paid for it, Abraham paid for
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him, and I’m not offering on
that unless I.
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Pay for that the.
Full price, no discount.
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Even though it’s a king to a
king.
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Wonderful man, absolutely
beautiful man.
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So in a collision of life where
there’s a call for service, if
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it’s going to put us out and
it’s going to mean you have to
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go home a different way, or you
have to get up early and do this
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or that, then always remember
that if there’s not some cost,
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then it’s not really a true
offering to God.
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You come now.
To the the next little picture
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which is given in verse 26.
And it’s astonishing.
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It’s a really astonishing
picture.
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Again, he’s paid the money.
He seems to have had the the
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forethought to bring it out with
him.
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He knew he was going to have to
buy that field.
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And so he’s taking the money
with him.
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He pays it on the spot.
And it says in verse 26 that
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David built there an altar.
Unto Yahweh, and offered burnt
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offerings and peace offerings,
and called upon the Lord.
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And he answered him from heaven
by fire upon the altar of burnt
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offering.
You know, sometimes we read a
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verse and we just take it for
granted.
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But that really is a most
amazing verse.
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Here is the king in this crisis,
and it says David built there an
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altar.
What?
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What did he build the altar out
of Here he was in all of his
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weakness, hobbling around with
large stones.
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This was an altar that he
constructed brass and have it
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made in the finest way.
This was a an immediate altar.
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He would have to therefore find
stones around that place.
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So here’s the king of Israel in
this great crisis and perhaps
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the elders of Israel with him
helping and the king is building
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the altar.
David, the man that came out of
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the bed, is now finding strength
to build that altar and he
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offered burnt offering.
He prepared them and laid them
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upon the altar and peace
offering.
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What an amazing.
Thing, wasn’t he the king?
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But he’s more than the king,
isn’t he?
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He’s also the priest.
We said before that perhaps
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Orana was in the the line of
Melchizedek, who was king priest
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of Salem.
In this environment there
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certainly is a king priest.
David is offering us both king
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and priest, and he, in the heat
of summer, carries the the large
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stones, prepares the wood, slays
the oxen.
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It was an incredible sight and
all underneath the eye of the of
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the heavenly Watcher.
And then there was the divine
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answer.
The Lord commanded the Angel,
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and he put up his sword again
into the cheek.
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After the fire had accepted the
offering, fire came down from
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the altar of upon the altar of
burnt offering.
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Now again, the significance of
that must be felt because there
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hadn’t been such a thing since
right back in Leviticus Chapter
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9.
Come back to Leviticus 9.
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In Leviticus Chapter 9, the
Tabernacle is all ready.
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Aaron conducts his son into his
sons, into offices, and makes
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offerings for himself and for
the people.
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And so the Tabernacle and all of
its pristine newness is now
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brought into office.
And there came, verse 24, a fire
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out from before the Lord, and
consumed upon the altar the
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burnt offering and the fat,
which, when all the people saw,
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they shouted and fell on their
faces.
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There has not been such an event
since the days of Leviticus
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Chapter 9, verse 24.
He answered him from heaven by.
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Fire upon the altar of burnt
offering.
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So you can see, my dear brethren
and sisters, that this is not
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just any old incident.
This is a new phase that has
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been introduced into Israel.
There’s going to be an increased
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teaching about the atonement and
the taking away of sin.
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Although you might notice in
verse 26 that it doesn’t
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actually say that David offered
a sin offering.
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He offered burnt offerings and
peace offering and called upon
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Yahweh in Psalm 51.
David learnt what the true
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offerings were in Psalm 51 after
his sin, for which there was no
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prescribed offering for adultery
or for murder, and there was no
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offering provided under the law.
But in Psalm 51, David, having
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been spared his life by the
mercy of God, says verse 16.
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Verse 15.
O Lord, open thou my lips and my
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praise shall show forth.
My mouth shall show forth.
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I pray for thou desirest not
sacrifice else.
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Would I give it?
Thou delightest not in burnt
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offering.
The sacrifices of God are a
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broken spirit, a broken and a
contrite heart, for thou would
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not despise.
So that smitten heart that he
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had before, as recorded in the
record, was the greatest and
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truest offering that he could
make for his sin.
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So here we have.
Now, my dear friend, sisters,
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another altar that is outside
the mosaic system.
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And David was outside the Mosaic
system.
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It was not right according to
the rules of Moses law that the
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king should be a king of Judah,
should be making the offering.
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00:28:45,160 –> 00:28:49,800
So it is a new system, isn’t it,
that is being portrayed here to
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Israel, up there in Gideon just
5 miles away, not a long way.
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The fire upon the altar was
still flicking the altar that
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00:28:59,000 –> 00:29:03,120
was given by Moses.
So we have two fires and two
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00:29:03,120 –> 00:29:09,480
altars, 1 Mosaic and 1 Davidic.
And in verse 30 David saw the
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whole point of that.
David could not go before it to
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00:29:12,600 –> 00:29:15,600
inquire of God, for he was
afraid because of the sword of
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the Angel of the Lord.
He said if God has in fact lit
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this altar, then I will no
longer be going to give in.
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00:29:24,280 –> 00:29:28,160
He has made a switch of altars
and so he could see the point of
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00:29:28,160 –> 00:29:30,960
that.
And driving home that point, he
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00:29:30,960 –> 00:29:34,160
says in chapter 22, verse one,
this is the.
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00:29:34,160 –> 00:29:38,520
House of the Lord.
God, and this is the altar of
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00:29:38,520 –> 00:29:45,800
the burnt offering for Israel.
Now in the second of Chronicles
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00:29:45,800 –> 00:29:49,400
chapter 3, it tells us exactly
where that site was.
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00:29:51,200 –> 00:29:53,400
But because there’s a nice
little echo to it, let’s
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00:29:53,400 –> 00:30:00,760
actually read the word Second
Chronicles chapter 3 and verse
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one.
Just pacing these little pieces
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together.
Brethren says it says David
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would have in his own mind.
I’m sure of that.
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It says Solomon began to build
the House of Yahweh at Jerusalem
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in Mount Moriah.
Mount Moriah.
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00:30:18,920 –> 00:30:21,280
Now where have we heard that
word before?
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Where the Lord appeared unto
David his father, in the place
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that David had prepared, in the
threshing floor of Ornan, the
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00:30:28,960 –> 00:30:36,240
Jeb Desire.
Mariah, of course, was the place
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00:30:36,240 –> 00:30:42,400
that Isaac was taken by Abraham,
and God said upon one of the
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00:30:42,400 –> 00:30:47,120
mountains in the land of Mariah,
there you will OfferUp Isaac.
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And don’t you think it possible?
Is it?
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It’s really impossible to think
the opposite, that when David
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00:30:54,640 –> 00:30:58,360
was told that he was to go to
the threshing floor, born in the
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00:30:58,360 –> 00:31:03,000
Jeb desire, which was such a
mountain in the land of Moriah,
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00:31:03,240 –> 00:31:08,200
that his mind would have been in
another place where there had
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originally been another altar
where Melchizedek had had
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00:31:12,480 –> 00:31:19,520
officiated, and where the Yaquid
of God, the beloved of God, the
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00:31:19,520 –> 00:31:23,480
beloved of Abraham and of God
was offered up all.
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00:31:23,480 –> 00:31:27,560
But except that there was
provision made in the ram that
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00:31:27,560 –> 00:31:31,280
was provided.
But there it says, doesn’t it,
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00:31:31,280 –> 00:31:35,960
that Abraham saw my day?
Jesus says that when he offered
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00:31:35,960 –> 00:31:39,160
up Isaac and he came away from
that time, he saw, he said that
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00:31:39,200 –> 00:31:41,040
I have seen what God is teaching
me.
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00:31:41,880 –> 00:31:46,760
There will be a Yaqui which
means an only one mine only
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00:31:46,760 –> 00:31:52,200
below the Hebrew word which goes
through the Septuagint to the
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00:31:52,200 –> 00:31:57,120
only begotten in John chapter
one verse 14, the only begotten
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00:31:57,120 –> 00:32:00,040
of the Father.
And that’s what the Hebrew word
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00:32:00,040 –> 00:32:02,440
yaqui which is used all through
Genesis 22.
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00:32:02,600 –> 00:32:07,560
I think it’s four times it is
used Yaqui the the only
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00:32:07,560 –> 00:32:10,920
begotten.
Abraham came away from that and
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00:32:10,920 –> 00:32:14,000
he could see that God was
telling him that there was
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00:32:14,000 –> 00:32:17,320
another Yaqui that was coming,
and he would be.
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00:32:17,320 –> 00:32:21,840
Offered to take away
transgression and it would be in
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00:32:21,840 –> 00:32:26,600
that place in the mountain of
the Lord.
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00:32:26,600 –> 00:32:31,120
It shall be seen and so he
called the place Yahweh Yarra in
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00:32:31,120 –> 00:32:33,440
the mountain of the Lord it
shall be seen.
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00:32:34,720 –> 00:32:37,440
Now David with this, with an
uncluttered mind wasn’t he
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00:32:37,440 –> 00:32:40,520
didn’t have all the stuff that
we’ve got today that to him was
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00:32:40,560 –> 00:32:42,880
ABC.
He had a clear picture.
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00:32:42,880 –> 00:32:45,480
Of all of that.
Here he is in exactly that
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00:32:45,480 –> 00:32:47,920
sight.
And I’m sure, my dear brother
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00:32:47,920 –> 00:32:51,560
sisters, that you know, God’s
saying, make, set up the altar
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00:32:51,560 –> 00:32:53,920
and make the offering.
David would have felt all of
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00:32:53,920 –> 00:32:57,640
that coming upon him as he
remembered the history of Israel
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00:32:57,640 –> 00:32:59,160
and what had happened in that
place.
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00:32:59,320 –> 00:33:03,760
And they’re the Yaquid, the
Yaquid of Abraham, which was
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00:33:04,160 –> 00:33:06,920
portraying the Yaquid of of the
Lord God.
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00:33:07,400 –> 00:33:10,240
That in that very place it was
going to be offered.
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00:33:10,240 –> 00:33:16,040
It was outside the camp, it was
beyond the Mosaic institution.
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00:33:16,880 –> 00:33:19,360
And you know, there a knife was
held back, wasn’t it?
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00:33:19,880 –> 00:33:24,000
As here the Sword of God was put
back in its sheet by the Angel.
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00:33:25,800 –> 00:33:29,920
And just nearby there had been a
king priest, Melchizedek, that
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00:33:29,920 –> 00:33:35,680
had had offered up acceptable
worship and provided provided
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00:33:35,680 –> 00:33:38,240
opportunities to even such as
Abraham.
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00:33:38,840 –> 00:33:41,720
And now he was the patriarch,
you know, the, the, the family
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00:33:41,720 –> 00:33:44,600
now was represented by the man
who was standing with him in
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00:33:44,600 –> 00:33:46,960
Orana.
Who was in the line of
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00:33:46,960 –> 00:33:50,400
Melchizedek?
What an amazing thing, you know,
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00:33:50,400 –> 00:33:52,280
a distant relative of
Melchizedek.
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00:33:52,280 –> 00:33:54,040
And now David has acted that
part.
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00:33:54,320 –> 00:33:57,600
And so all of Genesis chapter 22
and all of the things that
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00:33:57,600 –> 00:33:59,680
happened there.
Because remember.
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00:33:59,680 –> 00:34:03,240
Melchizedek couldn’t have been
very far away when Abraham
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00:34:03,240 –> 00:34:07,960
offered up Isaac.
He must have been very, very
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00:34:07,960 –> 00:34:10,639
close to the scene at that time.
All of that must surely have
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00:34:10,639 –> 00:34:13,480
come into David’s mind, as he
could see that God was
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00:34:13,480 –> 00:34:16,920
foreshadowing the offering of
something very much greater.
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00:34:16,920 –> 00:34:20,520
And when we.
Look at the picture.
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00:34:20,520 –> 00:34:24,000
Again, and we see David there
making that offering, accepting
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00:34:24,000 –> 00:34:28,239
that sin.
We see that in fact it it wasn’t
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00:34:28,320 –> 00:34:30,760
his sin with which God was
angry, was it?
525
00:34:32,280 –> 00:34:35,360
What he was going through was
really on behalf of the people.
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00:34:36,880 –> 00:34:41,719
He was a sin bearer.
So the whole picture of it, my
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00:34:41,719 –> 00:34:43,840
dear Vince, is, is exceedingly
remarkable.
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00:34:44,239 –> 00:34:47,760
The ironic priesthood is up
there in Gibeon and here now in
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00:34:47,760 –> 00:34:50,040
Jerusalem.
There’s all the portrayal of a
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00:34:50,040 –> 00:34:54,719
greater sacrifice by a king
priest who has been brought into
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00:34:54,719 –> 00:34:58,240
the problem he was.
Made sin for us soon, Unosi.
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00:34:58,760 –> 00:35:02,040
And he’s come and borne that,
and he’s taking it away.
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00:35:03,000 –> 00:35:10,080
And I’m sure, I’m really sure
that if Abraham saw my day, said
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00:35:10,080 –> 00:35:14,560
Jesus, that I’m sure that David
too, on this occasion would have
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00:35:14,560 –> 00:35:17,920
gone home from these
circumstances and seen also
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00:35:18,000 –> 00:35:23,760
Christ’s day to come.
Well, this incident then was
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00:35:23,760 –> 00:35:28,720
rightly, it was new life for old
bones, as we might put it in the
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00:35:28,720 –> 00:35:30,560
first two Chronicles, chapter
22.
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00:35:31,760 –> 00:35:37,440
David, seizing the whole
momentous event, says this is
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00:35:37,440 –> 00:35:41,960
the House of Yahweh Elohim.
And this is the altar of the
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00:35:41,960 –> 00:35:45,440
burnt offering for Israel.
And there’s this lowly altar,
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00:35:45,440 –> 00:35:49,520
just put together as best he
might with his weary arms and
543
00:35:49,520 –> 00:35:52,080
his limited ability, just put
hastily.
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00:35:52,080 –> 00:35:54,600
Together.
And in fact, he can see this
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00:35:54,600 –> 00:35:56,160
whole house now in front of his
eye.
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00:35:56,440 –> 00:35:59,920
This, he said, is the House of
Yahweh Elohim.
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00:36:00,360 –> 00:36:01,640
He’s standing in a threshing
floor.
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00:36:02,400 –> 00:36:05,480
What an amazing man he was.
But that was his mind.
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00:36:05,480 –> 00:36:08,680
And it shows us, doesn’t it, the
the depth and wonder of his
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00:36:08,680 –> 00:36:12,320
mind.
And it says David commanded to
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00:36:12,320 –> 00:36:15,240
gather together the strangers
that were in the land of Israel.
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00:36:16,160 –> 00:36:19,440
And he said Masons to hew
wrought stones to build the
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00:36:19,440 –> 00:36:22,560
House of God.
And David prepared iron in
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00:36:22,560 –> 00:36:25,800
abundance for the nails, for the
doors of the gates, and for the
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00:36:25,800 –> 00:36:29,360
joinings, and brass in abundance
without weight, and cedar trees
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00:36:29,360 –> 00:36:32,880
in abundance for the Dydonians.
And they of Tyre brought much
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00:36:32,880 –> 00:36:36,000
cedar wood to David.
Wasn’t this the old man was upon
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00:36:36,000 –> 00:36:40,760
his bed, worn out, finished.
There’s a new lease of life come
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00:36:40,760 –> 00:36:43,280
to this man.
He’s never going to be able to
560
00:36:43,280 –> 00:36:46,520
build this house himself, but
look at the the new infusion of
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00:36:46,520 –> 00:36:49,120
energy which he has.
I mean, who would want to be
562
00:36:49,120 –> 00:36:50,720
bothered with all of those
things?
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00:36:51,240 –> 00:36:54,040
People leave work and they say
it’s nice to have the pressure
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00:36:54,040 –> 00:36:58,200
off and they don’t want to come
home to a whole lot of busy
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00:36:58,200 –> 00:37:00,120
circumstances in their latter
years.
566
00:37:00,280 –> 00:37:02,120
But this?
Man is doing.
567
00:37:02,120 –> 00:37:06,160
Just that he’s involved in
tremendous preparations,
568
00:37:06,160 –> 00:37:09,600
determining how much iron might
be needed and how many nails and
569
00:37:09,600 –> 00:37:12,280
how many doors and joinings in
the brass.
570
00:37:13,000 –> 00:37:17,480
He’s involved with Masons in
verse 2, finding men that can do
571
00:37:17,480 –> 00:37:20,440
certain trades.
He’s got men right up there in
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00:37:20,440 –> 00:37:25,000
the mountains of of Lebanon.
Cedar trees are coming down
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00:37:25,320 –> 00:37:28,400
towards Jerusalem.
And he’s involved in all of that
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00:37:28,400 –> 00:37:30,360
organization, sending his
servants in all those
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00:37:30,360 –> 00:37:33,600
directions.
Oh man, that Abhishek once had
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00:37:33,600 –> 00:37:36,160
to warm up.
He was so inebriated, or he was
577
00:37:36,160 –> 00:37:38,080
so finished in life, one might
have thought.
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00:37:39,600 –> 00:37:43,960
And yet now he’s in full control
and he’s about that land, he’s
579
00:37:43,960 –> 00:37:47,200
about the side of the temple and
measuring it up and seeing what
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00:37:47,200 –> 00:37:50,360
needs to be done.
And it says so.
581
00:37:50,360 –> 00:37:53,520
David prepared abundantly before
his death.
582
00:37:53,520 –> 00:37:57,520
You know, there’s a great
inspiration of that to that
583
00:37:57,520 –> 00:38:00,320
story.
You know, many younger men are
584
00:38:00,320 –> 00:38:03,560
retiring at younger ages.
Aren’t we dumb of us?
585
00:38:04,560 –> 00:38:06,640
Or some of you I should say.
Because I’m not retired.
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00:38:08,280 –> 00:38:09,960
But it it.
The statement’s been made and
587
00:38:09,960 –> 00:38:14,280
it’s absolutely true that we
don’t retire in the truth, do
588
00:38:14,280 –> 00:38:15,560
we?
I mean, how can you retire in
589
00:38:15,560 –> 00:38:19,160
the truth?
I run it in retire, he said.
590
00:38:19,160 –> 00:38:22,680
I give it all.
You know, that was his, that was
591
00:38:22,680 –> 00:38:24,480
his superannuation package as it
were.
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00:38:25,040 –> 00:38:27,160
Whatever else he had left.
He said, I give it all.
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00:38:28,000 –> 00:38:30,880
There isn’t any retirement in
the truth really that we, we see
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00:38:30,880 –> 00:38:33,000
it through to the end.
Our master said it is finished
595
00:38:33,000 –> 00:38:35,880
and it and it was the finish
wasn’t anything left.
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00:38:37,440 –> 00:38:39,720
And that’s really how we should
be about our lives.
597
00:38:39,760 –> 00:38:43,720
In the truth.
We don’t retire, find our way
598
00:38:43,720 –> 00:38:46,880
down to the the fishing spot and
there we are frequently away
599
00:38:46,880 –> 00:38:52,520
from pleasial life or to be in
another place where we’re not
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00:38:52,520 –> 00:38:54,720
associated with the work of.
The truth.
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00:38:56,480 –> 00:38:58,920
And we all know that the the
frontiers of the truth are
602
00:38:58,920 –> 00:39:00,520
expanding on every side, aren’t
they?
603
00:39:00,520 –> 00:39:02,200
There’s more and more work to
do.
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00:39:03,960 –> 00:39:07,680
I saw just yesterday a pick a
depiction of, of where there are
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00:39:07,680 –> 00:39:10,280
ecclesias in the United States,
America.
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00:39:10,960 –> 00:39:13,680
And the thing that really
impressed me is that, you know,
607
00:39:13,680 –> 00:39:18,080
the the states out there without
ecclesias states, whole states,
608
00:39:19,840 –> 00:39:23,280
a vast increase in population.
I think when I last inquired
609
00:39:23,280 –> 00:39:26,080
about the population of America,
it was around the 220 mark.
610
00:39:26,440 –> 00:39:28,080
And you’ve got a census on the
day.
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00:39:28,080 –> 00:39:30,120
That was appropriate reading you
had this morning, wasn’t it?
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00:39:31,440 –> 00:39:33,960
You’re on a census on at the
present time and they say that
613
00:39:33,960 –> 00:39:37,000
it’s probably likely to be
something like 280 or 90 million
614
00:39:37,000 –> 00:39:38,760
people.
That’s a tremendous increase of
615
00:39:38,760 –> 00:39:43,960
people, isn’t it?
8090 thousand 80 and 90 million
616
00:39:43,960 –> 00:39:48,800
people since the last time that
I heard, which gives tremendous
617
00:39:48,800 –> 00:39:51,360
scope for work if Pomona for
example.
618
00:39:51,360 –> 00:39:54,320
Can have 400 people that come to
their seminars or want to get
619
00:39:54,320 –> 00:39:56,160
in.
I don’t know what kind of town
620
00:39:56,160 –> 00:39:59,640
hall Pomona’s got, but you kind
of need a big hall.
621
00:39:59,640 –> 00:40:01,840
I mean, if there’s that kind of
interest, then there’s no
622
00:40:01,840 –> 00:40:05,280
retirement in the truth.
We need a bit of this spirit,
623
00:40:05,280 –> 00:40:08,080
don’t we?
That says that before his death
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00:40:08,080 –> 00:40:10,920
He prepared abundantly for the
House of God.
625
00:40:11,040 –> 00:40:14,120
He said his.
Affection in that direction he.
626
00:40:14,120 –> 00:40:16,080
Channelled his energies.
And you know, there’s nothing
627
00:40:16,080 –> 00:40:21,120
more inspiration for US younger
men than to see an older brother
628
00:40:21,600 –> 00:40:26,080
who to the last bit of his life,
he’s steadfastly in his chair,
629
00:40:26,320 –> 00:40:27,920
terribly interested about the
truth.
630
00:40:28,160 –> 00:40:30,520
Talking to you about the signs
of the times, talking a bit
631
00:40:30,560 –> 00:40:34,080
about the old days, telling you
about when people really gave of
632
00:40:34,080 –> 00:40:36,640
their life and their time and
their substance.
633
00:40:37,120 –> 00:40:38,880
I find that tremendously
inspiring.
634
00:40:40,080 –> 00:40:41,960
There are people.
In this room, I can tell you
635
00:40:41,960 –> 00:40:44,880
that some of the most inspiring
people to me in my life.
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00:40:46,760 –> 00:40:50,440
His dedication is profound.
Every time I ever come, they’re
637
00:40:50,440 –> 00:40:53,280
there.
They’re the same people, exactly
638
00:40:53,760 –> 00:40:56,920
same type of person as you’ve
met before, same interests,
639
00:40:57,360 –> 00:40:59,720
absolutely the same fervor for
the truth.
640
00:41:00,680 –> 00:41:03,000
I love that.
I find it personally a great
641
00:41:03,000 –> 00:41:05,320
inspiration.
So do we all.
642
00:41:05,320 –> 00:41:07,120
That’s a Davidic type of spirit,
isn’t it?
643
00:41:07,360 –> 00:41:09,200
That here he could have put his
shoes up and say, well.
644
00:41:09,200 –> 00:41:11,640
If you don’t want me, well, I
I’m finished with the innings.
645
00:41:12,280 –> 00:41:15,240
But he didn’t.
He came right back into the
646
00:41:15,240 –> 00:41:18,400
front of that nation and he rose
and elevated that people.
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00:41:18,680 –> 00:41:21,120
And so they no doubt were all
busy at the end of his life.
648
00:41:21,840 –> 00:41:24,640
And when finally he passed off
the scene, I bet there was many
649
00:41:24,640 –> 00:41:28,280
and I that was filled with
moisture as they thought of the
650
00:41:28,280 –> 00:41:32,080
amazing life of this dedicated
person.
651
00:41:40,440 –> 00:41:44,960
Well, he speaks in verses 6 to
16.
652
00:41:47,080 –> 00:41:53,000
He speaks to Solomon as only a
father could speak and commands
653
00:41:53,000 –> 00:41:57,080
him to arise and build the House
of God, my son.
654
00:41:57,080 –> 00:42:00,600
As for me, it was in my house
verse 7 to build a house under
655
00:42:00,600 –> 00:42:04,800
the name of Yahweh my God.
But God didn’t have it for so to
656
00:42:04,800 –> 00:42:08,760
be He said another would come.
You might notice that in verses
657
00:42:08,760 –> 00:42:12,520
9 and 10 He has really sketched
Second Samuel 7.
658
00:42:12,520 –> 00:42:13,480
The promise hasn’t.
He.
659
00:42:14,360 –> 00:42:18,720
And he’s applied it in a primary
application undoubtedly to
660
00:42:18,720 –> 00:42:21,520
Solomon.
And so turning to Solomon, more
661
00:42:21,520 –> 00:42:25,320
particularly verse 11, he says,
now, my son, the Lord, be with
662
00:42:25,320 –> 00:42:27,760
thee, and prosper thou, and
build the House of the Lord thy
663
00:42:27,760 –> 00:42:32,080
God, as he had said of thee.
Only Yahweh give thee wisdom and
664
00:42:32,080 –> 00:42:34,280
understanding.
Give thee charge concerning
665
00:42:34,280 –> 00:42:36,600
Israel.
That thou mayest keep the law of
666
00:42:36,600 –> 00:42:38,920
Yahweh thy God.
It’s estimated that Solomon was
667
00:42:38,920 –> 00:42:41,880
about 18 years of age. 18 year
old boy.
668
00:42:41,880 –> 00:42:44,480
Imagine that one lad in your
Sunday school was 18 years of
669
00:42:44,480 –> 00:42:49,440
age and now he’s going to be
left behind with this enormous
670
00:42:49,440 –> 00:42:51,760
task.
Never has there been a brick
671
00:42:51,760 –> 00:42:55,720
building stone building made.
For God to be worshipped in and
672
00:42:55,720 –> 00:43:00,600
this young man is going to have
that auspicious responsibility
673
00:43:00,600 –> 00:43:04,640
laid upon his shoulders.
You know, parents, you don’t
674
00:43:04,640 –> 00:43:06,160
have to be too soft with your
children.
675
00:43:07,320 –> 00:43:09,560
It’s not a wrong thing to ask
them to get out and help with
676
00:43:09,560 –> 00:43:11,400
the garden.
Not a wrong thing to be asked to
677
00:43:11,400 –> 00:43:12,520
help with the chores in the
home.
678
00:43:12,720 –> 00:43:15,000
If they don’t learn that,
they’ll never be a Solomon.
679
00:43:15,600 –> 00:43:18,520
We’ve got to make sure that our
children are brought up to serve
680
00:43:19,920 –> 00:43:23,040
in every opportunity brought up
to serve, indeed cherished,
681
00:43:23,040 –> 00:43:25,840
indeed encouraged, but
nevertheless to learn to serve.
682
00:43:27,480 –> 00:43:29,360
There’s a lot of people out
there in the world know nothing
683
00:43:29,360 –> 00:43:31,880
about their about life except
their own interests.
684
00:43:31,880 –> 00:43:35,040
We’ve got to make sure that our
children know how to serve.
685
00:43:35,160 –> 00:43:39,880
Solomon didn’t get to this this
degree of responsibility except
686
00:43:39,880 –> 00:43:43,960
that his father had put upon him
weights of responsibility, not
687
00:43:43,960 –> 00:43:45,840
the not the fault that happened
with Absalom.
688
00:43:45,880 –> 00:43:48,680
He’s not going to repeat that or
Adonit you that had never been
689
00:43:48,680 –> 00:43:53,200
set back, never been turned back
from what they wanted to do.
690
00:43:53,960 –> 00:43:56,680
It says that of idolatry.
This young man has definitely
691
00:43:56,680 –> 00:43:59,280
been brought up differently and
he’s learnt to serve.
692
00:43:59,280 –> 00:44:01,160
Stolen didn’t say Oh dad, come
on this.
693
00:44:01,160 –> 00:44:02,520
Is a bit.
Bit too much for me.
694
00:44:02,520 –> 00:44:03,760
I’m only a lad.
Come on.
695
00:44:04,240 –> 00:44:06,160
I’m still surfing out there on
the on the beach.
696
00:44:08,560 –> 00:44:11,000
He didn’t say that, did he?
I’ve got to do my degree, got my
697
00:44:11,000 –> 00:44:13,440
study.
That’s more important.
698
00:44:13,520 –> 00:44:14,400
Now.
Look what I’m doing.
699
00:44:14,400 –> 00:44:17,880
He didn’t say that at all.
His degrees were in the things
700
00:44:17,880 –> 00:44:22,080
of God and he was steeped in
that and the young man was
701
00:44:22,080 –> 00:44:24,840
prepared to accept that and
beautifully he carried that
702
00:44:24,840 –> 00:44:27,360
responsibility on.
There’s inspiration for our
703
00:44:27,400 –> 00:44:30,120
parent who doesn’t or our
grandparents were dealing with
704
00:44:30,120 –> 00:44:33,200
our children.
Tell our children the things of
705
00:44:33,200 –> 00:44:36,840
old, Tell them the old way.
Tell them what service in Christ
706
00:44:36,840 –> 00:44:39,200
means.
And that’s to be done with a
707
00:44:39,200 –> 00:44:42,280
full heart and enjoy fullness of
spirit and wherever there’s
708
00:44:42,280 –> 00:44:46,560
opportunity to see it and do it.
Make their lives happy in
709
00:44:46,560 –> 00:44:49,840
service so that they know that
that’s what life is about.
710
00:44:50,440 –> 00:44:53,160
If it’s not like that, my dear,
how will they ever come to the
711
00:44:53,160 –> 00:44:56,960
truth?
If you just indulge our children
712
00:44:56,960 –> 00:44:59,160
and just give them everything
they want and send them off to
713
00:44:59,160 –> 00:45:01,760
some other place in the critical
time of their life, how will
714
00:45:01,760 –> 00:45:07,000
they ever come to Christ?
Very, very difficult.
715
00:45:07,000 –> 00:45:07,880
I.
Feel for them.
716
00:45:08,080 –> 00:45:11,160
Tremendously.
I think sometimes we put upon
717
00:45:11,160 –> 00:45:15,120
them circumstances that if it.
Were you and I, we wouldn’t make
718
00:45:15,120 –> 00:45:18,000
the truth.
And yet, because that’s what the
719
00:45:18,000 –> 00:45:20,040
world’s doing, we kind of walk
in with it.
720
00:45:20,440 –> 00:45:23,440
We’ve got to see it clearly.
That child’s going to reach the
721
00:45:23,440 –> 00:45:26,000
Kingdom, has got to be made
sacrifices in his life.
722
00:45:26,760 –> 00:45:29,080
He’s got to see that that’s what
life is all about.
723
00:45:29,760 –> 00:45:33,760
It’s inspiring here to see this
old man standing for his son
724
00:45:33,760 –> 00:45:36,680
before all of this rather, and
laying upon his shoulders a
725
00:45:36,680 –> 00:45:41,120
tremendous responsibility.
He’s only an 18 year old boy so
726
00:45:41,120 –> 00:45:42,800
expect something of our
children.
727
00:45:44,200 –> 00:45:47,120
And when they’re young, expect
something of them, because it’s
728
00:45:47,120 –> 00:45:50,400
in their interest, their eternal
interest, and our joy and
729
00:45:50,400 –> 00:45:52,320
happiness.
Let that be so.
730
00:45:53,600 –> 00:45:56,800
Be strong and of good courage.
Dread not, nor be dismounted.
731
00:45:57,920 –> 00:46:01,520
And so verse 17, David also
commanded the Princess of Israel
732
00:46:01,520 –> 00:46:04,240
to help Solomon and his son.
Saying is not.
733
00:46:04,240 –> 00:46:06,920
Yahweh your God with you, and
have He not given you rest on
734
00:46:06,920 –> 00:46:09,480
every side?
We have given the inhabitants
735
00:46:09,480 –> 00:46:12,360
the land into mine hand, and the
land is subdued before Yahweh
736
00:46:12,640 –> 00:46:16,120
and before His people.
Well, if that’s the case, it
737
00:46:16,120 –> 00:46:18,680
hasn’t been given for us to sit,
sit back and lay back in the
738
00:46:18,680 –> 00:46:21,000
sun.
Now set your heart and your soul
739
00:46:21,240 –> 00:46:23,960
to seek the Lord your God.
Arise therefore and build you
740
00:46:23,960 –> 00:46:27,360
the sanctuary of the Lord God to
bring the ark of the Covenant of
741
00:46:27,360 –> 00:46:30,680
the Lord and the holy vessels of
God into the house that is to be
742
00:46:30,680 –> 00:46:33,480
built to the name of the Lord no
longer up there at Gibeon.
743
00:46:35,280 –> 00:46:36,520
The old is not going to be a
given.
744
00:46:36,520 –> 00:46:37,800
God’s not going to be somewhere
else.
745
00:46:37,800 –> 00:46:40,640
He’s going to be in the centre
of this nation and you can feel
746
00:46:40,640 –> 00:46:42,840
here, my dear, there’s all the
change that’s coming.
747
00:46:43,840 –> 00:46:46,680
There’s the days of the judges
weren’t there when there was no
748
00:46:46,680 –> 00:46:52,080
king in Israel, there was no
centralized authority whatever
749
00:46:52,080 –> 00:46:55,160
tribes might want to wander off
with Gideon, so they did and if
750
00:46:55,160 –> 00:46:56,600
it was with he would so they
did.
751
00:46:56,600 –> 00:47:00,320
It was never the whole nation,
but under David they had learnt
752
00:47:00,320 –> 00:47:05,360
to come as a nation together and
he eventually brought the two
753
00:47:05,360 –> 00:47:08,840
and the 12 together in a common
city, as it were, in Jerusalem,
754
00:47:08,840 –> 00:47:14,400
which was on the border between.
But the worship of God was still
755
00:47:14,400 –> 00:47:17,320
at a different place.
And so he brought the ark in
756
00:47:18,000 –> 00:47:19,920
because he wanted God to be in
that Kingdom.
757
00:47:20,000 –> 00:47:22,320
What was that Kingdom if God was
not in the centre of that
758
00:47:22,320 –> 00:47:25,520
Kingdom, What he to be the king?
God really was the king and he
759
00:47:25,520 –> 00:47:30,480
under God reigning for God.
And he came to see, didn’t he,
760
00:47:30,480 –> 00:47:33,720
that God had made him to prosper
under him?
761
00:47:34,800 –> 00:47:39,680
But now he really wants the
worship of God to be in that
762
00:47:39,680 –> 00:47:42,160
city.
That’s his concept.
763
00:47:42,160 –> 00:47:45,160
It always was.
Well, he’s not going to build
764
00:47:45,160 –> 00:47:47,560
the house, but this house is
going to be exceeding
765
00:47:47,560 –> 00:47:49,640
magnificent.
Nations are going to come and
766
00:47:49,640 –> 00:47:52,320
see this king, this, this, this
magnificent building.
767
00:47:52,800 –> 00:47:54,600
And they’re going to see
something that I’ve never seen
768
00:47:54,600 –> 00:47:57,080
before.
And so all Israel are going to
769
00:47:57,080 –> 00:47:58,560
come and they’re going to see
that.
770
00:47:59,040 –> 00:48:02,040
This is going to be a great
centre of of activity and
771
00:48:02,040 –> 00:48:04,920
interest and a drawing point of
the whole of that nation.
772
00:48:06,000 –> 00:48:08,760
And it rests.
Upon young Solomon and he says
773
00:48:08,760 –> 00:48:12,880
to the nation as a whole, don’t
let this down, look what God has
774
00:48:12,880 –> 00:48:16,320
brought you to.
Therefore, set your heart and
775
00:48:16,320 –> 00:48:19,160
your soul to seek Yahweh, your
God.
776
00:48:19,160 –> 00:48:22,760
Isn’t that beautiful?
He prepared abundantly, he said,
777
00:48:22,760 –> 00:48:24,560
His affection upon the House of
God.
778
00:48:24,840 –> 00:48:28,200
He wants everyone in Israel now
to pick up the spirit of that
779
00:48:28,840 –> 00:48:32,640
and to set their heart and their
affection upon the future that
780
00:48:32,640 –> 00:48:36,480
was coming.
So when David was old and full
781
00:48:36,480 –> 00:48:40,920
of days, 23 verse 1, he made
Solomon his son king over
782
00:48:40,920 –> 00:48:46,240
Israel.
Now if you turn to chapter 29,
783
00:48:50,520 –> 00:48:54,320
that was 23 verse one.
Keep keeping our hand in there
784
00:48:54,320 –> 00:49:02,360
because this is very important
little exercise in chapter 29 it
785
00:49:02,360 –> 00:49:08,760
says in verse 22 at the end of
two amazing chapters that we
786
00:49:08,760 –> 00:49:13,920
look at actually tomorrow, it
says they did eat and drink
787
00:49:13,920 –> 00:49:16,520
before the Lord on that day with
great gladness.
788
00:49:16,520 –> 00:49:21,480
They made Solomon the son of
David King the second time and.
789
00:49:22,840 –> 00:49:26,080
Anointed him unto the Lord to be
the chief governor and Zadok.
790
00:49:26,080 –> 00:49:31,160
To be priest, all right.
Then verse 23 Solomon sat on
791
00:49:31,160 –> 00:49:32,800
the.
Throne of Yahweh as king instead
792
00:49:32,800 –> 00:49:35,280
of David his father, instead of
David his father.
793
00:49:35,280 –> 00:49:38,880
Well, what do you make then of
chapter 23 verse one?
794
00:49:42,320 –> 00:49:44,960
So when David was old and full
of days, he made Solomon his
795
00:49:44,960 –> 00:49:50,360
son, king over Israel.
Obviously chapter 29 verse 22
796
00:49:50,360 –> 00:49:54,680
when it says the second time is
indicating that 23 verse one is
797
00:49:54,680 –> 00:49:58,480
the first time.
Happy with that?
798
00:50:01,040 –> 00:50:07,360
When was the first time?
Chapter 29 is a formal occasion
799
00:50:08,280 –> 00:50:10,640
in chapters 28 and 29.
David.
800
00:50:10,640 –> 00:50:13,600
Called all the principal people.
It was formal.
801
00:50:13,600 –> 00:50:16,800
It was done with time, it was
done from priority and they all
802
00:50:16,800 –> 00:50:19,920
came down.
But the first time wasn’t like
803
00:50:19,920 –> 00:50:22,200
that.
Wasn’t the first time.
804
00:50:22,200 –> 00:50:25,000
Was that the usurping by
Adonager in First Kings?
805
00:50:25,200 –> 00:50:27,720
Let’s have a look.
First Kings chapter 1.
806
00:50:32,040 –> 00:50:36,800
This is a very helpful little
picture in First Kings chapter 1
807
00:50:45,260 –> 00:50:48,780
and verse 28.
Then Tidings came to Job, where
808
00:50:48,780 –> 00:50:52,420
Job had turned after Adonager,
though he turned not after.
809
00:50:52,420 –> 00:50:54,700
Absalom and Job fled into the
tabernet.
810
00:50:54,740 –> 00:51:01,880
Sorry in chapter 2 in first
kings chapter 1 Adonijit usurps
811
00:51:01,880 –> 00:51:12,120
the throne and we read in verse
6 his father had not displeased
812
00:51:12,120 –> 00:51:15,160
him at any time in saying.
Why has thou done so?
813
00:51:16,120 –> 00:51:19,680
And verse 7 he conferred with
Jarab the son OF0Y and with the
814
00:51:19,680 –> 00:51:21,360
birth of the priest, and they
followed.
815
00:51:21,600 –> 00:51:26,520
Following Adonijit helped him,
but Zadok the priest and Benaiah
816
00:51:26,560 –> 00:51:33,160
did not, and so they anointed A
Donaghet to be king, and they
817
00:51:33,160 –> 00:51:34,680
had a great feast.
Verse 9.
818
00:51:34,680 –> 00:51:38,040
Johnagers through sheep and oxen
and fat cattle, by the stone of
819
00:51:38,120 –> 00:51:41,720
Zoeleth, which is by Enrogu, and
called all his brethren the
820
00:51:41,720 –> 00:51:45,000
King’s sons, and all the men are
due to the King’s servants.
821
00:51:45,160 –> 00:51:49,680
It was a pretty general revolt.
But Nathan the prophet, and Ben
822
00:51:49,680 –> 00:51:52,600
and I the mighty men, and
Solomon his brother, he called
823
00:51:52,600 –> 00:51:55,520
not.
And so Bathsheba became aware of
824
00:51:55,520 –> 00:51:58,960
that when Nathan spoke to her in
verse 11.
825
00:51:59,480 –> 00:52:03,480
And Bathsheba verse 15 went into
the king, and the king said in
826
00:52:03,480 –> 00:52:06,560
verse 28, Call me Bathsheba.
And she came into the King’s
827
00:52:06,560 –> 00:52:09,320
presence, and stood before the
king and the King’s square, and
828
00:52:09,320 –> 00:52:12,440
said, As Yahweh liveth, that
hath redeemed my soul out of all
829
00:52:12,440 –> 00:52:16,640
distress, even as I swear unto
thee by the Lord God of Israel,
830
00:52:16,640 –> 00:52:20,040
saying, assuredly Solomon thy
son shall reign after me, and he
831
00:52:20,040 –> 00:52:23,600
shall sit upon my throne in my
stead, Even so will I certainly
832
00:52:23,600 –> 00:52:26,200
do this day.
And a hasty assembly was called,
833
00:52:26,400 –> 00:52:30,080
and Solomon was anointed.
That’s nothing like First
834
00:52:30,080 –> 00:52:33,560
Chronicles 20. 8 and 29 if you
look in chapter. 28 verse one.
835
00:52:33,560 –> 00:52:37,560
It’s probably the longest verse
almost in Chronicles, and it
836
00:52:37,560 –> 00:52:40,280
tells you of all the people that
came and who were invited.
837
00:52:40,360 –> 00:52:45,240
It was very formal, very proper,
but here over in First Kings
838
00:52:45,240 –> 00:52:51,240
one, it’s hasting there’s a time
of rebellion involved in it.
839
00:52:51,640 –> 00:52:53,320
Some people are there and some
people are not.
840
00:52:53,320 –> 00:52:55,080
Some people are down at a
donagers feast.
841
00:52:55,680 –> 00:52:57,440
It’s a totally different
environment, isn’t it?
842
00:52:58,360 –> 00:53:02,840
So that’s the first time and
First Chronicles 29 verse 22 is
843
00:53:02,840 –> 00:53:04,280
telling you about the second
time.
844
00:53:05,200 –> 00:53:09,040
So it’s reasonable, therefore,
to say that first Kings one and
845
00:53:09,040 –> 00:53:12,520
two equate with.
What we have here in Chronicles
846
00:53:12,520 –> 00:53:16,720
23, verse one, as he made
Solomon his son king over
847
00:53:16,720 –> 00:53:20,160
Israel.
Now is that clear?
848
00:53:20,240 –> 00:53:23,840
I want that little concept to be
clear because it’s very helpful.
849
00:53:24,400 –> 00:53:27,480
It it puts the whole background
behind what was happening at the
850
00:53:27,480 –> 00:53:32,360
time of the numbering of Israel.
It was not an easy time for
851
00:53:32,360 –> 00:53:34,320
David.
There was rebellion in the
852
00:53:34,320 –> 00:53:37,680
environment and therefore the
circumstances were very
853
00:53:37,680 –> 00:53:42,280
difficult for him.
Is that all clear?
854
00:53:42,280 –> 00:53:46,200
And what also now it makes very
clear to us is this.
855
00:53:46,240 –> 00:53:50,760
When things are going hard, when
things are going difficult and
856
00:53:50,760 –> 00:53:53,480
everything’s not, again, not in
favour of you might be a
857
00:53:53,480 –> 00:53:55,200
Clichelean.
You feel there’s lots of people
858
00:53:55,200 –> 00:53:58,200
in the meeting that perhaps
think you’ve done this or think
859
00:53:58,200 –> 00:54:01,280
you’ve done that or why you did
this.
860
00:54:01,280 –> 00:54:02,960
They think of this reason why
you did that.
861
00:54:02,960 –> 00:54:05,840
They think of that reason and
you feel really in the Blues,
862
00:54:06,960 –> 00:54:10,240
the best thing to do is to do
what David did, isn’t He kept
863
00:54:10,240 –> 00:54:14,880
his faith through all of that.
He never swerved his course, but
864
00:54:14,880 –> 00:54:17,680
he picked up and worked in the
things of God.
865
00:54:18,440 –> 00:54:21,840
He increased his activity before
God.
866
00:54:22,400 –> 00:54:24,760
He admitted his sins without a
question.
867
00:54:25,000 –> 00:54:28,560
But he picked his ball up and he
ran with that in the things of
868
00:54:28,560 –> 00:54:31,440
God.
What a wonderful person he was.
869
00:54:32,360 –> 00:54:35,400
He didn’t sit around moping and
bemoaning his life.
870
00:54:36,280 –> 00:54:37,960
He said there’s a great work to
be done.
871
00:54:38,000 –> 00:54:41,760
I’m going to get on with it and
encourage the rest of Israel to
872
00:54:41,760 –> 00:54:44,360
come behind that word.
What an inspiring person.
873
00:54:44,360 –> 00:54:47,280
My dear Britton sisters.
It’s the same boy, isn’t it?
874
00:54:47,280 –> 00:54:50,240
If we might say so, that ran
down the slope of the valley of
875
00:54:50,400 –> 00:54:53,480
Elah and went toward Goliath.
There was Goliath with all of
876
00:54:53,480 –> 00:54:55,920
his difficulties.
David went against all of his
877
00:54:56,040 –> 00:54:57,720
his enemies, all of his
problems.
878
00:54:57,920 –> 00:55:01,480
He treated the same as if they
were Goliath from the time he
879
00:55:01,480 –> 00:55:04,360
was a boy to the time he died.
That’s how he treated his
880
00:55:04,360 –> 00:55:05,560
problems in.
God.
881
00:55:05,880 –> 00:55:09,280
He went against those problems
and in that way he conquered.
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