Brian Luke - I Have Set My Affections To The House Of My God - Class 7 - Exhortation: I Have Set My Affection To The House Of My God

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   And do thy salvation all the day, for I know not the numbers thereof. Now that’s a marvellous statement, isn’t it? That was David’s mental preoccupation. My mouth shall show forth thy righteousness and thy salvation all the day. That’s what ran through his mind all the time. Verse 24 My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day. The Lord Jesus tells us that out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

2. 0:42

   And if this is David in his old age, as we indicated the other day, do you remember verse 17 and 18? O God, Thou has taught me from my youth and hitherto have I declared Thy wondrous works. Now also when I’m old and grey headed, oh God forsake me. Not so. It’s a it’s a Psalm of David’s old age, isn’t it?

3. 1:07

   I say it’s a Psalm of David’s old age. And you might say, well did David write this Psalm? Well, you’ll notice that it’s alongside Psalm 70 and Psalm 70 is a Psalm of David. It says that to the chief musician a Psalm of David is the heading to Psalm 70, and Psalms 70 and 71 are clearly the one and Psalm together in effect.

4. 1:31

   Because verses 1 and 2 of Psalm 70 Make haste to God to deliver me, Make haste to help me, O Lord, let them be ashamed and confounded. Is the same as verses 12 and 13 of Psalm 71. O God, be not far from me. O my God, make haste for my help. Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul. Let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.

5. 1:57

   That’s the same. That’s verses 1 and 2 of Psalm 70. As a matter of fact, Psalm 71 ends on the same note as well. Verse 24 the last half for they are confounded will they have brought unto shame that seek my hurt. So there’s a a refrain that is running through these two Psalms.

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   Verses 1 and 2 of Psalm 70 then set the the refrain which joins together these two Psalms. And so we can write rightly say that if Psalm 70 is of David, then Psalm 71 also is of David.

7. 2:38

   And it’s right, too, that it’s found here, because if we turn over to Psalm 72, it tells us this also is a Psalm of David’s growing years. In Psalms 72 and verse 20, it says that the prayers of David, the son of Jesse, are ended. That’s his final note, as it were, in praying.

8. 3:04

   So what we actually have here very beautifully is a little group of psalms of David’s old age. I think 69 is the same, but we’ll explain it in a moment. But 7071 and 72 are peculiarly related to this area of his life that we’ve been looking at. So if this was what David wrote in verse 15 and in verse 24, and we remember what God said of him in the very beginning, I have found David a man after mine own heart. We are privileged to see that that man has not changed his mind from his early days to his last start. What a beautiful thing that is, isn’t it easily said of David in verse 15, If of his youth, My mouth shall show forth thy righteousness and thy salvation all the day, my mouth also shall talk of thy righteousness.

9. 4:13

   That’s the thing he loved wasn’t in meditated, he says. In the law of God, day and night. It’s the same man, isn’t it, in his last few days or years. That’s a very wonderful thing, my dear. And sisters, as you go through life with its ups and downs, you realize that’s not an easy thing, is it?

10. 4:34

    As life goes along, you find in fact, that all sorts of things happen to you and they they happen to those with whom you travel in the truth. And we all have our ups and our downs. David had his ups and downs too, without a doubt. But it’s a beautiful statement, isn’t it, That if at the end it could be said that we were the same person with the same mind, despite the ups and downs, as we were in our youth, as we were in our later years.

11. 5:05

    And so that’s a very beautiful insight into the into the overall life of David, that it’s really the same boy that was sitting there by the sheep, the little still waters as he describes them, mining his sheep in such obscure, quiet little circumstances. But his mind was toward God. Absolutely. The Lord is my shepherd was his environment. As he looked over those sheep, he saw God was looking over him in every aspect of life.

12. 5:35

    David saw the God of Israel and saw that God was with him. The circumstances of his life exactly the same at the end. Fame, fortune, a name that spread upon many nations, has not changed his individual attitude toward God. It’s a very beautiful statement. Oh, that. That was how it might be said of all of us.

13. 5:59

    The king, the leader of the nation, was still the same individual person. I’d like just to make a few comments upon this Psalm before we go back to reading and Chronicles bring it forward. But did you notice actually some of the emphasis, emphasis of this Psalm? The phrase that keeps repeating is the righteousness of God in thee, O Lord, do I put my trust. Let me never be put to confusion. Deliver me in thy thy righteousness and cause me to escape.

14. 6:38

    Now this, as we said the other day, is a very important Psalm because unquestionably it’s in his old age and it opens to us a window that we wouldn’t otherwise have into the circumstances of the palace and of the Kingdom, into the circumstances of his later years. He wasn’t sitting back as a as a a king and all his opulence and power and physical strength and piles of gold and silver that he in fact had. He wasn’t sitting back there with all of his servants sit and hit his back and call.

15. 7:14

    He was a very ill man. Remember the circumstances of Abishai. That’s it’s a unique thing. And in that inability to be able to take control of the of the empires really was others then had come in to sort of say right he’s getting what he he he duly deserved. God is now calling coming in upon him and they were sitting ambush really about him in the very palace itself.

16. 7:44

    And so there isn’t these verses a most amazing insight. Look at verse 2 caused me to escape, Incline thine ear unto me and save me. Be thou my strong habitation, where until I may continually resort that has given commandment to save me, for Thou art my rock and my fortress. They are the words of a man in desperate life.

17. 8:10

    What a man sitting back in, in all the fortunes of life that float upon them. Deliver me, Oh my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man. Joab must surely have been in his thoughts then, the unrighteous and cruel man. But thou art my hope, O Lord Yahweh, Thou art my trust from my youth. It’s two statements about his youth in this Psalm. That’s one in verse 5, and we had it also in verse 17. Just note.

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    Interesting, isn’t it? So this is a very reflective Psalm, a beautiful Psalm, one of the most beautiful psalms that David ever wrote, and it’s coming from this era of his life. I suggest as the, as the period of Adonitus usurpation was, was growing and the intrigue was developing around him, the net was being cast and there he was in all of his ineptitude physically and and it just seemed that this now was the time to move in and, and snap off his life. And David knows all that’s happening and he knows he can’t physically overcome that.

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    He’s looking back over all of his life. Look at verse 6. What a beautiful statement. By thee have I been holding up from the womb. That was true. It wasn’t the fluke that came upon Israel. It was by the hand of God that that they had this exceptionally wonderful man in the obscurity of little Bethlehem, least among the thousands of Judah, in the quietness of the hills for the few sheep with that insignificant family of Jesse, and the last of that family of eight sons by thee that I’ve been holding up from the womb.

20. 9:57

    Thou art He that took me out of my mother’s vows. What more tender expression and he felt that God had been within me all of his life. My praise shall be continually of Thee. Do you notice the reiteration of the word continuum? It was there in verse 3. It’s effectively there again in verse 15.

21. 10:23

    All the day. And it’s there at the end of the Psalm. My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day. The truth wasn’t a patchy thing where David wasn’t. It was his life went all through the web of his life. Same strain every minute, every day, every hour of his life, his thoughts were toward God.

22. 10:48

    What a beautiful thing, my dear written sisters, and that at the end of his life he could say that what a wonderful thing that is. What a a wonderful privilege and and blessing it would be that if our last few days of our life we were able to say that before God. My praise you’ll be continually at birth again.

23. 11:10

    His circumstances are enumerated in verse seven. I am as a wonder unto none unto many. What does that mean? Well, the next phrase implies the sense doesn’t. But thou art my strong refuge. In other words, to other people it looked like he was finished old, decrepit in obscurity. He’s finished and they’re just waiting for him to go. But he says, But Thou art my strong refuge, let my mouth be filled with Thy praise and with Thy honour all the day. Cast me not off in the time of old age. Forsake me not when my strength faileth for mine. Enemies speak against me.

24. 11:56

    They that lay wait for my soul. Take counsel together, saying God had forsaken him lust, it’s coming upon him what he deserved. Remember Uriah, Remember Bathsheba, God had forsaken him and persecute him and take him or there is none to deliver him. Now that was a very, very important Psalm really isn’t it? To put at the end of his life that opens it up like nothing else does helps us to see what happened in the case of Adonis. You could never see it otherwise, could you? Adonis records just sort of pops up out of the record. You think, oh, didn’t expect that, but this psalmist filling it out and saying that those those are politically minded and treacherous people like Jeb were, were numerous within that realm.

25. 12:40

    And that’s no doubt why that numbering of Israel was moved by God, that he might take that out of the nation before the new era should come. So it was just in that last single period of how many years, I don’t know, 2-3, three or four years that David had to prepare for the temple and to prepare the ground for Solomon to come through.

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    It may have been less than that. So this is a very helpful Psalm indeed. The other thing that in fact I’ve got off the track because I was mentioning, wasn’t I the righteousness of God? And it was in verse 2 that we found at first. It’s again in verse 15, God’s righteousness. It’s in verse 16, I will make mention of Thy righteousness. There’s no other Psalm that so emphasizes that. It’s again in verse 19, Thy righteousness also, oh, God is very high.

27. 13:44

    And it’s again in verse 24 in the final note, my tongue also shall talk of Thy righteousness all the time. Now that’s a very important emphasis. And isn’t that like an older man, David my earlier has spoken about his righteousness. In fact he did in Psalm 18 when he was in the full swing of his his delight in God’s ways.

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    He he wrote this Psalm 18, verse 20. The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands. Hath he recompense me? He can’t say that anymore, can he? He could never write those words again. He could walk. He could write about God’s righteousness. 24 Therefore hath the Lord recomvinced me according to my righteousness, according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight, Or verse 21, I’ve kept the way to the Lord, and have not departed wickedly from them. He can’t say that now because there was a time in his life when that wasn’t true.

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    So it’s an interesting thing to compare the early Psalm with the later Psalm in his life. And this one is full of the statement of the righteousness of God, beautiful things, a real insight into his life. At the end of that Psalm, there’s probably the clearest statement made by David about resurrection, and that in itself is a treasure in this Psalm.

30. 15:26

    Verse 19. Thy righteousness also, oh God, is very high. We can’t contaminate that. Man may come and man may go and he may sin them. Tragedy come, but God’s righteousness is very high. And if our trust therefore is in Him, it is in a safe place. Who has done great things, Oh God, who is like unto thee?

31. 15:57

    And in the comfort of that righteousness of God, that irreproachable righteousness of God, he says, thou which has showed me great and sore troubles, shall quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth. Thou shalt increase my grapes, comfort me on every side. Aren’t they beautiful words, my dear room, sisters, you think of David’s life behind those words, Thou which has showed me great and sorter.

32. 16:37

    How did he Face the Nation after his event with Bathsheba? How did he grieve when he thought of what he did to Uriah? And yet he he bore that, didn’t he? Bore it publicly? And when he put a list of the names of his mighty men, there was Uriah at the time. What I mean, OK, struggled with joy and have a shame.

33. 16:59

    Look how I’d been out in the exile for all those years, wandering around like a bird in the mountains as he described it’s Saul as a flea. The king of Israel was was seeking him as a as a flea upon the mountain. Great and sore troubles for all the shame that came upon him.

34. 17:18

    The loss of the child Bathsheba by his side, and another child born, and all the whispers and the loss of Absalom nor Amnon. First, in the King’s own family there was insurrection, fratricide. The Scat family was scattered. Then Absalom revolted against his own father. What a shame. Could you imagine a great issue?

35. 17:47

    And then there was a Dodger only so recent thou, which has showed me brave and sore thoughts, shall quicken me again, and shall bring me again from the depths of the earth. Beautiful things might even. Isn’t that that? Isn’t that our hope? It’s absolutely our hope, Isn’t it? That no matter what came upon him, his, his hope now was not upon the cleanness of his own hands, but was upon the righteousness of God that was irreproachable and very hard. And on that hope he knew that God would be able to take him in due time from the bowels of the earth and increase his blackness.

36. 18:28

    Verse 21 in immortality, and comfort him on every side. And there he was, an old and decrepit man, cold. His bones creeped when he moved. It’s set by many enemies out there. But now, despite a King’s wealth and a King’s power and the the great name that he had in all the Middle East is hope rested not in those things, but in the righteousness of God. You know, there’s some of the most beautiful things you could think about, aren’t they, as far as David is concerned and just shows us what a a truly remarkable person he was that these thoughts were his thoughts at that time. And so out of that, he then set to work in the chapters that we have read from First Chronicles 2221 through to Chapter 29. And he set his heart, didn’t he, his latter years in that spirit, towards the great work of leaving that that Kingdom in a good position that when his son should come along, it would be able to take on the reigns.

37. 19:40

    I want to come to Chapter 28 because Sir, the organization has been accomplished, the renewing, the reinvigorating of the empire, as I call it the the great Kingdom with all of its dominions has been reinvigorated. Then chapter 28, Then in verse one, we have one of the longest verses in the Bible. David assembled all the Princess of Israel, the Princess of the tribes.

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    And the Princess of the companies that ministered, the king by course, and the Princess over the thousands, and the Princess over the hundreds, and the Princess over all the substance and possession of the king and of his sons, were the Princess, and were the mighty men. And with all the valiant men unto Jerusalem.

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    Can you imagine all that coming into Jerusalem? As big as whatever this assembly might have been, they were all great men of a great empire that had been established under him. Now you can imagine that was a very formal thing. It’s got nothing like the the time when he quickly anointed, when he quickly anointed Solomon in the days of Adonis, nothing like that at all. This is a call to all the principal people. It would be a formal invitation and a privileged interpretation to that went out to all the the great names in Israel and there were many as there is in a wealthy and expansive Kingdom. There are are great names that have done great things. And verse 2, my dear, and it says it’s hard to read that is it is it not without a tear in your eye as you think of all of that background and what we’ve read and his weakness and now his reorganization and now we’re right up close to his death. It says obviously with deep pathos. Then David the King, David the King stood up upon his feet, or where else Harrods, but it was an Anastasis, was out of the bed of cold and inactivity.

40. 22:02

    He stood up upon his feet for all that amazing life and spirituality, tame it that had touched the life of every Israel, old or young. He stood up upon his feet, said, Hear me, my brethren and my people, what a what a king, what a man, despite all the laurels of the chief, Hear me, my brethren and my people, the same man isn’t that looked after the sheep? Absolutely.

41. 22:46

    He always had himself in right perspective. Whether he was upon the field of battle or whether he was in the the throne of his glory or whether he was in his palace, he nevertheless always kept himself in right perspective and could say, hear me, my brethren and my people. He was fully aware of what God had done and of all the greatness that had been brought upon, but he was aware of the fact that he was one of his people.

42. 23:21

    As for me and he recounts the history so touching this must have brought must have brought tears flowing from the from the face of all of those men who were gathered to that ascent as he recounted these so well known things. I had in my heart to build a House of rest for the art of the covenant of Yahweh and for the footstool of our God and it made ready for the building. What God said unto me is he lifted his his elderly voice. Thou shalt not build a house for my name, because thou has been a man of war and has shed blood.

43. 24:01

    Howbeit, Yahweh, Elohim of Israel chose me before all the House of my father, an Eli. Eli was there, wasn’t it? No longer any resentment Abinadaben Shamir, they were there too. But he could say this because it was. It was what the Lord God of Israel did. It wasn’t David over them. It was what Yahweh Elohim of Israel had done, and everybody knew that. And it was right that it should be said because David was going to have a son.

44. 24:37

    And they, they all had to be reminded that that was where it should go because it was an election of God, not David’s choice. But as David, as Samuel had been sent with the horn of oil originally, so it should go to his son. And he was therefore preserving the continuity of the elected dynasty that God had made.

45. 24:59

    You know, beautiful thing, presence of mine didn’t have it clear the right words. Howbeit, the Lord God of Israel chose me before all the House of my father, to be king over Israel forever. For He hath chosen Judah to be the ruler of the House of Judah, the House of my father, and among the sons of my father. He liked me to make me king over all Israel and of all my sons, for the Lord hath given me many sons. And there was deep, deep echoes to those words, wasn’t there? All kinds of sons.

46. 25:42

    He hath chosen Solomon thy son, to sit upon the throne of the Kingdom of of Yahweh over Israel. Now, you know, in itself, that was the most amazing thing. It’s not the sort of choice that you and I would have made. Besides, Solomon was much younger than the other boys. It was like another family really, wasn’t it?

47. 26:03

    And yet he’s emphasizing that it was God’s choice. Was it God’s choice? It really was God’s choice. Just keep your hand there and come back to Second Samuel. He’s one of the most beautiful verses in our Bible. Second Samuel chapter 12 and verse 24.

48. 26:25

    You know that Nathan came in and you know that Nathan told him that he had done this thing. He told him the parable and David saw the point. He enunciated the judge. But Nathan said, Thou art the man. And David’s only response to that was, I have sinned against Yahweh. Rest 30 And immediately, immediately the next words no human being can understand this Nathan said unto David, Yahweh also has put away thy sin, thou shalt not die, howbeit this child will die.

49. 27:09

    But David knew your knew Bathsheba again he comforted his wife and she bare a son. Verse 24 And he called his name Solomon. Do you know who told him to call him Solomon? It was God that called, told him to call him Solomon. We’re told that in Chronicles, but he’s called Solomon. And the next phrase is look at this. And Yahweh loved him.

50. 27:37

    Why does it say that? Because surely through that empire, my dear, and says there were all kinds of people talking about David, you’d be involved in it yourself. So would I. What David had done was you come through this record and you could cry when you come to those chaps, couldn’t you? You just almost want to turn over the chapters if it didn’t really happen.

51. 27:58

    But it did happen, and everyone in Israel had to adjust to that, that it actually had happened. The person they looked to most in that Kingdom had fallen terribly, and two terrible things were both the wife and with the husband. The way he did it, the intrigue was just just beyond you to understand that he could possibly be so involved.

52. 28:23

    The Bathsheba is with him. Uriah’s wife, he’s dead. She is with him. The child is struck. Ah, they would have said yes, of course, the wrong thing, it was wrong. But another child is born and the record says Yahweh loved him.

53. 28:46

    That’s not like man, Yahweh loved him and that little child went through, people had to learn that God loved him. In fact, he changed his name. Well, he gave him a second name he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet, verse 25. Was Nathan when he stepped into the palace going to come with another message of doom? No, and he called his name Jedidiah because of Yahweh. What does Jedidiah mean?

54. 29:17

    The love of God. You know, there’s something exceedingly beautiful about those two verses. It helps us to prune sometimes our hard thoughts about others in their circumstances when we may not be yet touched by such circumstances. It says that Yahweh loved him as he ran around the palace. That little boy was growing up.

55. 29:39

    Solomon, little boy, intelligent, interesting little boy. Wouldn’t he have been an amazing little boy? Incredible child He was, and they all had to learn if his name was Solomon and God gave him that name and his name was Yahweh Loves him. So close your mouth. No whispering around the corridors of the palace about that little boy because God loves him. I know.

56. 30:05

    Never mind what you might think, but God loves him. That went up and down that nation. Nathan came again into David. What did he do? Oh, the child’s been Smith. And I suppose, yeah, bad marriage should never occur. Alas, they learnt that in fact God was saying he loves him and they had to accept that that was God’s judgement. Most amazing thing.

57. 30:32

    And he grew up with that little boy, grew up in that nation and people began then to look to him and here he was now what about 18 years of age? Josephus suggests. And so David now is with Sullivan alongside him, and he says, And of all my sons, for Yahweh had given me many sons, he hath chosen Solomon Bathsheba’s son, to sit upon the throne of the Kingdom of Yahweh over Israel.

58. 31:05

    And he said them to me, Solomon thy son, he shall build my house and my courts, for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father. What does that echo?

59. 31:20

    It’s the promise, isn’t it? The Messiah promise. I will be his father and he shall be my son. Second Samuel 7, verse 14. It’s almost a paraphrase, isn’t it? It is a paraphrase. So this little child that was going to grow up before them, son of Bathsheba, is nevertheless going to type Messiah to come. What an amazing thing David tells everyone those things. I will establish his Kingdom forever. Verse 7.

60. 31:55

    There’s the promise again, isn’t it? He’s going to be a prototype of the greater to come. Now therefore, in the sight of all Israel, the congregation of the Lord, and in the audience of our God, keep and seek for all the commandment of Yahweh, your God, that you may possess this good land and leave it for an inheritance for your children after you forever. That’s David’s wish.

61. 32:17

    Remember how he said in the Psalms, Psalm 71, until I have taught this generation thy, thy glory and thy strength. And here he is, He’s about it. That’s exactly what he’s about to convey to this generation, that they will never let this off this, this glow of understanding, this greater perception of their position under God and what Israel was that they would not forget. Forget it.

62. 32:39

    Keep in seek for all the commandments of the Abu, your God, that he may possess this good land. And turning to his boy in the face of the nation, he said, Did a son father ever speak more beautifully to a son? Thou, Solomon, my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind, for Yahweh searcheth all heart. He knows you, my boy, You’ll never put it over Him. Yahweh searcheth all hearts and understandeth all the imagination of the thoughts.

63. 33:20

    If thou seek Him, He will be found of thee, but if thou forsake, He will cast thee off forever. Did a father ever speak more beautifully publicly to His Son? Take heed now, or Yahweh hath chosen to build in house for the sanctuary. Be stronged, I like to think my dear and sisters, perhaps were wrong.

64. 33:45

    I like to think that at the last era of Solomon’s life those words may have yet come back to his ears. They’re exceedingly beautiful words, aren’t they? Serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing knock. And then in verses 11 onwards, he, he gave to him formerly all the scrolls on which the, the architectural plans of the house were inscribed. And we went through this section, didn’t we? We found that it, it gave all the details not just of the building of the temple, but of the, the rooms around it and how the thing would operate.

65. 34:27

    Verse 13 courses of the priests and the Levites and so on. And so that’s all the the earlier chapters that told us about those courses. And so because of that, he was able to determine all the amounts of metals and other materials that he needed. And in that long list that runs right through there to verse 18, it’s clear that David had a had built this all up in his mind. He’d sat there at his desk and said, well, if it’s going to be this and that furniture, then it’s going to require this amount of gold and that amount of silver. And so I’ve got to get these things got to accumulate this. It’s got to be ready.

66. 35:03

    That was his concentration of mine on the House of God. All this said David. Yahweh made me understand verse 19 in writing and David said to Solomon be strong and of good courage. You know where these words come from. He he had an ear for the moment, didn’t he? Moses stood and said these words to young Joshua. It was the change of the God one generation onto another and now it’s the change of the guard again. Solomon will take on from David.

67. 35:41

    Be strong and of good courage and do it. Fear not, nor be the Spain for the Lord God. Even my God, the God of your Father will be with them. He will not foul of the sake. David, Solomon, look at my life. Look at all the things that have happened, the ups and downs, but God has been with them, and He’ll be with you if you are with Him. Furthermore, David the king, verse 1 of chapter 29, said unto all the congregation, Solomon, my son, whom alone God hath chosen as yet young and tender, and the work is great, for the palace is not for man, but for the Lord God. Now that word congregation is worth observing. It first occurred in verse 8 of chapter 28. Now therefore, in the sight of all Israel, the congregation of the Lord, it’s one of the words of the moment. In chapter 29 again, and verse 10 it occurs again before all the congregation.

68. 36:52

    And in chapter 20, verse 20, it’s there twice. David said to all the congregation, and all the congregation bless the Lord God of their founders. If you think of David’s life, this is the great congregation, isn’t it? There was never a time in his life when there was a congregation like this. And here he is virtually taken out of the bed of death as people thought, and he has now been able to stand again on his feet and address that nation and bring them together.

69. 37:32

    It’s a kind of standing against thou which has showed me great and sore troubles shalt quicken me again. And in a sense, David is, is is breathing the the sense of resurrection. And here’s the great congregation and here’s all the people of Israel. And here’s a new start and a new king and a new era.

70. 37:54

    It’s like the two phases of Messiah’s life. He’s gone down into the depths and now he’s he’s coming up again. But to take control of the Kingdom. There is a Psalm, my dear and sisters, that has those two phases. What is that Psalm? Is it not Psalm 22? Come and have a look at her. When was Psalm 22 written?

71. 38:26

    Look at the echoes involved in this Psalm to the era of this era of David’s life. Verses 1 to 21 are about the Messiah in great extremity. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Why hath thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? He could not get better no matter what He did.

72. 38:52

    Oh my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not in the night season and not silent. It’s a sound of David, but as we know, it’s Messianic. It’s telling of the greater 1 to come. Look at the echoes again in verse 9 and 10. But thou art he that took me out of the womb. Thou didst make me hope.

73. 39:15

    When I was upon my mother’s breath. I was cast upon thee from the womb. Thou art my God from my mother’s family. There’s no other words like that than what we found in Psalm 71.

74. 39:27

    Nothing in all the record of Psalms apart from those words in Psalm 71, which was a Psalm of his older. What about verse 22? I would declare thy name unto my brethren. It’s in first in in First Chronicles chapter 28 that he calls them my brethren. There were two phases in his life.

75. 39:55

    There was the phase of of passion and almost death. He felt death. He’s been taken out of the bed of death. And he stood upon his feet in Anastasis a standing again. I would declare thy name unto my brethren in the midst of the congregation. Will I praise thee? And that’s exactly what he did.

76. 40:20

    He had all this role gathered together, and he praised the name of God as he always had been in a superlative way in First Chronicles 28 and 29. My praise, verse 25 shall be of thee in the great congregation. I will pay my vows before them that fear Him. The meat shall eat and be satisfied. They all went away on that occasion with a portion that they had received from the king.

77. 40:46

    They shall praise the Lord, that seeking your heart shall live forever. The Kingdom is the Lord’s verse 28 and He is the governor among the nations. So 2 phases are in that Psalm. And it’s my strong suggestion that that most beautiful of all the Psalms, surely which actually epitomises the very words of Messiah.

78. 41:06

    It’s not in third person like Isaiah 53, it’s in first person. The person that expressed it was given their privilege to have the Spirit of Christ, as it were, speaking the words of Christ in the hour of his death. What a privilege it seems to be given to David to speak those words at this era of his life.

79. 41:28

    Isn’t that a beautiful thing? What even says? How God Forgives and absolutely forgives that such a privilege was given to the old David and the last days or hours of his life back then. The first comic was 29.

80. 41:48

    If we’re going to build this house, there’s got to be great preparations and great generosity. And so David inspires by his own example. I have prepared with all my night for the House of my God. Verse 2 Gold for things of gold and silver and brass and ironwood and Onyx stones and stones to be set, blistering stones and divers colours of all manner of precious stones and marble stones in in abundance. Look at all the things he had thought about. My dear brethren.

81. 42:24

    Sisters, sometimes you run up a little list and it’s, oh, never get it all done today, don’t we? I never get it done, you know, and we think life’s very busy. But he’s a, he’s a great man. He could have sat back and just let everybody be at his beck and call. He’s out there with his walking stick, looking after all these things.

82. 42:41

    We’ve got enough Onyx stones. We’ve got enough this. What about stones to be set? What about the gold silk? How’s it going out there? Other men bringing down the wood from the other hewers ready. All these things upon his mind. And he’s an old man. He’d been in a bed of death. It’s an amazing story, isn’t it? Moreover, I have set my affection to the House of my God.

83. 43:04

    He must have had tears streaming down their faces as they listened to this amazing man, a man of God indeed. And I have therefore made a personal donation of my own proper gold, good of gold and silver, which I have given to the House of my God over and above all that I have prepared.

84. 43:25

    It was a personal donation, not related to the national treasures, but of the personal family. Wealth of day even. 3000 talents of gold, of the best of the gold of Oprah, 7000 talents of refined silver, gold for things of gold, silver for things of silver. And who then he said, verse 5, is willing to consecrate his service this day unto the Lord? Well, what would you do if you’d open your pockets, wouldn’t you, with such inspiring example?

85. 43:56

    And they did. Then the people rejoiced, verse 9, happy to be involved in fellowship with such a spirit. The people rejoice for that. They offered willingly, and that’s the Word, isn’t it? Willing in verse 5, Willingly in verse 6, willing in verse 21 of the previous chapter, willing mind in verse 9 of chapter 28. And they caught the spirit on it. The people rejoice for that.

86. 44:23

    They offered willingly because with perfect heart they offered willingly to Yahweh. The people rejoice for that. They saw one man person doing it, and they did it themselves and others did it and they thought this is a glorious thing. There’s a spirit of giving here and they rejoiced in it together. There were Princess and great men of the realm.

87. 44:43

    And now it was pouring out of their pockets. All of them had large checkbooks, so to speak, and they poured it into the treasuries and loved to do it. So David had inspired them. And David saw it all. And it says in verse 9. And David the king also rejoiced with great joy. Imagine the old man imagined seeing his his joy at that time and the impression of that upon all of his great administrators. And then with his heart full, he came before God. And you know, these words have to be some of the most beautiful words in our Bible.

88. 45:19

    Do you know why our Lord Jesus came through here and he picked up these words? Listen carefully. He was asked how to pray once and he gave us an example of how to pray. Where do you think it came from? Well, it came from him, but listen carefully. And David said, Blessed be thou, Lord God of Israel, our Father, forever and ever Thine, oh Lord, is the greatness, the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heaven and the earth is thy thine is the Kingdom, oh Yahweh, and thou had exalted his head above all.

89. 46:14

    Yes, that’s the Lord’s prayers basis, isn’t it? It’s a very beautiful thing, more beautiful than words can express that one time our Lord Jesus in no doubting Nazareth or somewhere like that in a quiet spot. Read those words, my dear bird sisters. And with all the emotion that’s involved in these beautiful chapters, He let it flow into his heart and mind and he was impressed. Never forgot that impression.

90. 46:41

    And when he was asked about prayer, he said, I’ll, I’ll tell you how to pray. And his his words are couched in the words of David. In the end of his life. That’s what he thought when he, like you and I now read these words, That’s what he thought of that prayer. It touched him to a point that he never forgot it.

91. 47:05

    Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all. In thine hand is power and light Give us this day, our daily breath. Now therefore our God, we thank thee and praise thy glorious name. But who am I and what is my people that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? For all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee. It was true, and it always is true. But he saw it at that time, didn’t he? But we are strangers before these sojours, as were all our fathers.

92. 47:40

    Old Abraham comes up in the in the background of the mind as and Isaac and Jacob sojourns and strangers. We pass our days as a shadow. There’s none abiding, O Lord our God, of all this store that we have prepared to build in house. For thine holy name cometh of thine hand, and is all thine own. And the birds that follow just so, so beautiful. He’s still praying to God.

93. 48:11

    I know also, my God, that thou tryst the heart, and has pleasure in uprightness. As for me, this is David speaking into the uprightness of my heart. I have willingly offered all these things. He said he believed that God Forgives, doesn’t and another season opens. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things, and now have I seen with joy Thy people which are present here to offer willingly unto Thee. They’ve caught the spirit of the whole occasion. Heavenly Father, let this never be lost in their intelligence, in their remembrance.

94. 49:03

    Keep it in their minds. O Yahweh, God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers have received covenant with whom you made a special people. Keep this forever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of Thy people, and prepare their heart unto Thee. But this may never be lost upon their conscience. They may never think of themselves as an as another ordinary people.

95. 49:34

    But if people called and separated Solomon, give unto Solomon, my son, a perfect heart to keep thy commands by testimonies and thy statues, and to do all these things and to build the palace for the which I had made provision. I don’t think there’s anything more beautiful, my dear brother, sisters in Scripture really, than that is them prayer of David as he brought that nation together and he wanted to preserve that moment. You know, here we are in all of our orderliness in 19 No year 2000, isn’t it?

96. 50:17

    But it’s the same with us, isn’t it? We come and we see beautiful things, beautiful things. And what we need to say to each other and to our God is that He might preserve that in our hearts. And we go back into the ordinary highways, driving along with our cars and back into our families, and there’s all the same furniture and back into our eclesial life and there’s the same ordinariness as it was there.

97. 50:38

    We want to remember that, not let that moment go because that’s what David wanted. You know, he, he kept it up even after this. He went back home to his palace. The day was finished and he prayed. You know what he prayed? Psalm 72, I’m sure it was prayed at this time. Remember what it says.

98. 51:01

    Give the king thy judgement so God and thy righteousness unto the King’s Son. Solomon is now upon the throne. And there was going to be a continuity. It was like a type of the Kingdom, wasn’t it? But he prayed that God might give to Solomon the King’s judgements. And that’s exactly what he has here, that the heart that he had toward these things might go into his son. His son might see it in all that same fervency and and clarity and live in that spirit in the days of his king. Give the King thy judgement, O God, and thy righteousness under the King’s Son.

99. 51:47

    That’s how we feel, don’t we, with our next generation. We’ve got to fight for our next generation to put into their hearts with all the same intensity that we have felt and loved this weekend together to put into their hearts. There won’t be the TV or or the novels or the evolution they learn at school, or all the ungodliness they might hear in this society all the placarding of advertisements and books and and Internet and all the rubbish that goes with it.

100. 52:14

     All that that may not be in their hearts and being burrowed into their hearts and burrowing into their hearts. But these things might be there. And in our homes we preserve that. We realized that we too, like David’s people, are of the fathers of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, strangers and sojours, and hoping for the same fulfilment as they hoped for the same fulfilment that David hoped for. Thou which has showed me great and sore trouble, shall quicken me.

101. 52:48

     We are a separate people, my dear young sisters, and let us preserve the heritage that God has given us. Thank you.