Luke Whitehouse - In the Shadow of the Messiah - Class 4 - David's Covenant

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   The dynasty and the Davidic covenant of 2 Samuel chapter 7. David, you see, right now, as we open these pages, he's now weathered the storm of Saul. He's actually, at this point, conquered Jerusalem, and he's established his royal residency in that ancient city. He's also brought the ark of God back to Zion.

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   If you look at 2 Samuel 7 and verse 1, David now has found rest from his enemies. And the ironic thing is that although he's found rest from his enemies, David is rather restless. He really is. In fact, he tells us in Psalm 132. He tells us he couldn't sleep. Because David is vexed that whilst he resides in this opulent cedar palace, Yahweh's presence dwells within a tent.

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   That's the opening remarks of 2 Samuel chapter 7. You see, David, the beloved, wanted Yahweh, the God of Israel, to be exalted in the highest echelons possible. And thus, the story of the Davidic covenant begins. The code that was going to be presented to David. God, you see, in this divine covenant is going to provide him with a special seed that will begin a long and arduous process that will culminate not with David building a house, but with God building a house with humanity.

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   And if you look at verse 17 of 2 Samuel chapter 7, Nathan the prophet now has received a vision from God, and he sent them to the king to speak an accurate account of its revelation. Nathan the prophet. And in verse 11 of 2 Samuel chapter 7, Nathan then utters the phrase, and he speaks to the king, and he says to him, David, you're not going to build a house.

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   You're not building a house, David. In fact, Yahweh is going to make thee a house. Now that word house, you see there in 2 Samuel 7 verse 11, it's the word baith in the Hebrew. And it's not talking about a literal house. That very special word, if you follow the word through, it is related to households and families.

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   God is going to build David a house of families. Not a physical house. This is what type of house? A spiritual house. And as David was saying, I want to build God a house, so his presence may be exalted, David is told that the presence of God isn't going to live in a tent.

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   Oh no, it's not going to live in a tent, says Nathan the prophet. The presence of God will live with your family. In people. And now the ancient prophet known as Nathan is going to unleash what we know to be the Davidic covenant. Verse 12. I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.

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   A descendant, friends. A descendant. A son. A son that's going to contain your blood. A descendant. A son who will have your flesh. Your body. Your DNA, David. A son will be born. And I am going to produce a son out of your very flesh. And verse 14, look what it says. I will be his father, and he shall be my son.

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   Now where else in the Bible might we find the phrase, I will be. I believe it's in the flickering flame in Mount Horeb, where God revealed the very name to a man called Moshe. I will be whom I will be. And here the prophet Nathan is picking up on the divine name. I will be his father, and he shall be my son.

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    Can you see there in verse 14, you might have a little cross reference. Can you see what it says in he, I've almost given you the clue. I've almost told you the answer, to be honest with you. What is the reference in verse 12, verse 14? Where is it?

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    Hebrews 1 verse 5. In other words, the apostle is going to pick up that phrase in Hebrews 1 verse 5, and who does he apply it to? Does he apply it to Solomon? No, no, no, no. The apostle applies that phrase to whom? Jesus Christ. This is a covenant about the one who was to be in the expressed image of his father.

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    Now notice what it's going to say now in 2 Samuel 7 and verse 14. This particular son, that's going to have your flesh, your DNA, your body, your blood, a son out of your bowels. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him, says 2 Samuel 7 verse 14. Now, unfortunately, we're reading in different versions.

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    If you were to look in a Hebrew Bible, the word if, that you see there in verse 14, is not there in the original Hebrew. It should be in the passive state. What it should say, it should say, not if he commit iniquity, it should say, who being in his iniquity. It's more emphatic, isn't it?

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    It's more emphatic. He who being in his iniquity is this special son that contains your flesh. Now, the word iniquity that you see there in verse 14 is not what we might think it would mean. It's not the word that we would assume it means. If you look at the word iniquity, it's the word that means crooked, twisted, or distorted.

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    He being in his distortion. It's correctly rendered in his bearing of his distortion. Brother Thomas translates it, whom in being caused to bow down is the correct translation. So what might you think this special son born of David's flesh, of his DNA, his blood, child that would come out of his bowels, in which Yahweh would be the father, what might you think the bearing of his distortion means?

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    What distortion, what crookedness, what twistedness did the son of David in his flesh bear? And I've given you the clue. His sinful nature, human nature, flesh, is going to be the doctrine of the Davidic covenant. This son will contain your flesh, but I, says Yahweh, I will be his father. And in fact, the apostle Paul in 2 Corinthians 5 and verse 11, 21 rather, confirms this for us and says of Jesus, who though sinless, was made to be sin.

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    This son is going to endure the condition of human nature before, before he becomes the conqueror. That's been expressed through the Nathan, through the prophet Nathan, articulated to a man called David. After all, in Isaiah 53 and in verse 6, it says, Yahweh will lay upon him the iniquity of us all. this son is going to bear the same crooked nature, that same twisted nature as David who exposed human nature in all of its weakness.

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    Would you agree with me on that one? David exposed human nature in all of his weakness and Nathan says, that son has that nature. Crookedness, twistedness, and he will bear it in his distortion. I love the way the book of Romans begins in its first chapter. I love it. Romans chapter 1, verse 3, it says there that Jesus was made of the seed of David according to the flesh, says Romans 1, verse 3.

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    It's almost as though the apostle is consistently reminding the reader that the son of David who would be the Messiah had the very same nature that David had. Your flesh, David, is the Messiah. And then in Romans 1, verse 4, the apostle says, yes, he contained David's flesh, but he was declared to be the son of God with all power.

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    When Paul wrote to Timothy in his second letter and his second chapter and his eighth verse, he writes to Timothy and he says, Timothy, you must remember, remember that Jesus was the seed of David in the flesh raised from the dead. Can you see how the apostle is persistently reminding that David and Jesus shared that very same nature?

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    Peter in his speech in Jerusalem was going to describe David as the progenitor. He calls David the patriarch. Now, if Abraham was the patriarch of the family, who might you think David was the patriarch of?

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    David is the patriarch of the kingdom. David is the father of a family, the first seed of the kingdom according to the flesh. The flesh. The patriarch was David. And David now, in 2 Samuel chapter 7 and verse 18 to 19, he can't quite believe this. It is like astounding. So he parks himself down, he sits right in front of the ark of God in verse 18 and 19.

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    He goes before Yahweh because now David recognizes that coded within his very DNA, in his own bloodstream, is the eternal decree. Established within his lineage, within his seed, is the oracle of God's salvation for humanity. and he begins to recognize this as he tries to fathom out the unfathomable. My loins will bring a son of God, is the question.

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    Do you know what David's conclusion was of this matter? David's conclusion, we're not told in 2 Samuel chapter 7, but we're actually told in the parallel passage in 1 Chronicles 17. David, in the 17th verse of 1 Chronicles 17, he goes before the ark of God. And he's talking to this ark. And he says to Yahweh, he says, thou hast regarded me according to the estate of a man held up high.

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    Now the word estate that you see there in 1 Chronicles 17 is the word an order, a word that means circlet. Now you've already got the answers before you, it's on the screen. What do other translations translate that word as estate as being? What did David regard himself as being? a type.

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    David recognizes that his entire life from birth to death is a type of the man who was yet to come. he recognizes as he's astonished and humbled that not only is he the progenitor, the forefather, the patriarch, but his very experiences are a proto-life as a shadow of one greater. David recognizes in a long story made short, I like to waffle,

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    verbose is the word. David here knows that he typifies in his life what Jesus would become in the flesh. David's life in the flesh is a shadow of Jesus' life in the flesh. David is making a prophetic statement here in the 17th verse of 1 Chronicles chapter 17, a prophetic statement that he knows that the son of God, the son of his loins, would live the same life as he did, but would be the son of God declared with power, and yet the son of David after the flesh.

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    He knew it and he believed it. You know in 2 Samuel chapter 7, David is not called king. You won't see him called king, I think, after verse 3. He's known in the 7th chapter of 2 Samuel as the servant.

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    So where else in the Bible do we have a prophecy in which the prophet proclaims Jesus and says, behold, my servant, stricken, smitten, afflicted, despised, and rejected.

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    Psalm 22, but it's also Isaiah 53. I think it's probably everywhere, isn't it? Jesus is declared as the servant of God just as David in 2 Samuel chapter 7 is pronounced as God's servant. And what we're going to find is in the life of David, and we've probably already found it, haven't we?

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    Because we've gone through quite a bit. God is going to teach David in his experiences the chastening and the struggles that Messiah is going to endure in his flesh. Christ would experience the struggles of David, and David knew it because he stated that he was a type of one to come. You remember Psalm 22, don't you?

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    How could we forget Psalm 22? Psalm 22 in verse 18, who's the author of the Psalms? Who's the author of Psalm 22? Go on. David, it's God actually, but yeah, we'll go with David.

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    Psalm 22 declares in the opening statement, this is a Psalm of David, but he was a spy by God. Now, Psalm 22 in verse 18, David in the first person, writing through the Holy Spirit, says, they parted my garments and cast lots. Is David writing in the first person or the third person?

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    They cast my garments or parted my garments and cast lots. First person or third? It's in the first person. Now, we know Psalm 22 in verse 18 was fulfilled in Matthew chapter 27 in verse 35, where it says that they parted his garments and cast lots, and then it says, which was spoken by the prophet.

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    So, David isn't just a king. He's a prophet. David. In fact, the Gospels don't just tell us he was a prophet. The apostle Peter is going to tell us in Acts chapter 2 verse 30. David, it says, was a prophet. It's pretty clear, isn't it? In fact, it's not just the Gospels who's going to tell us that he was a prophet, and it's not just Peter who's going to tell us a prophet.

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    In fact, David himself is going to tell us in 2 Samuel 23 in the second verse. David says that the spirit of Yahweh spake by me,

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    Psalm 14 verse 3. Yahweh hath put a new song in my mouth. In other words, friends, the utterances of the Psalms of David are anticipating Christ. Have we heard the phrase that the Psalms are the fifth gospel? Have we heard that before? The Psalms are the fifth. I would go along with that.

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    The Psalms are the fifth gospel because the Psalms are going to function as the prophetic thoughts of Jesus Christ in his flesh. They're the prophetic thoughts of Christ in the flesh. After all, didn't Jesus say in Luke chapter 24 and verse 44, he says, have you read the Psalms to the disciples? And they go, yeah, we've read the Psalms.

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    And Jesus says, they're all about me. All of them. Says Jesus, concern me. And when we come to the Acts and the epistles, the apostles saw the Psalms as messianic speech. speech of Christ. Jesus was what in John 1 verse 14? He was the word made flesh. What's the word word mean?

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    Mind the pun. It's the word logos. And what does logos mean? And don't say word. The word logos means the intention. It's the purpose of the spirit. Christ. And if Jesus is the word made flesh and he is the logos, the purpose of the spirit was who? Christ. It's all about Christ. John 1 verse 14 says Jesus was the word made flesh, but John 1 verse 18 tells us that he was declared by the Father.

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    Now, if you look at the word declared in John 1 verse 18, it's the word exegesis. Exegesis. Anyone heard of the word exegesis? Well, let me give you this one. Anybody heard of the word exposition? Ah, we all know that one. Jesus wasn't just the word, he was the exposition of the Father.

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    He was the embodiment of God's written expression and the expression was his son. The purpose and the intention was Jesus Christ. Let's have a little look at Psalm 40. Psalm 40.

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    Psalm 40 verse 6 and verse 7. David is now obviously the author through the spirit and he's writing in the first person. David says, mine ears hast thou opened. Then David says, then lo I come in the volume of the book it is written of me. Would you agree with me? David is writing in the first person here.

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    Just nod your heads and just agree. Like robots. Just agree with me. He is writing in the first person. Now the book he's talking about is the word of God. Is the word of God written about David? Is it? The portion of it is. But is the entire book written of David or not?

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    No it's not. So why is David here saying that the word of the book is written of me? Lo I come. Now have you got a cross-reference there in Psalm 40 verse 6 to 7? It will give you Hebrews. Hebrews chapter what?

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    Hebrews 10 and verse 5. And if we were to look at Hebrews 10 verse 5 the apostle says that the words you see there in Psalm 40 are Christ's words.

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    These are the words of Jesus written by the pen of David through inspiration. David isn't talking about himself. He's talking on behalf of Christ and he's doing so a thousand years before Jesus ever even arrived. Fascinating. He's using the words of Christ before Christ ever came. The words of the spirit. And he's writing in the first person.

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    Intimate access to Messiah's heart not accessible in the gospels. Thus the Psalms become the fifth gospel. And they're the words of Christ. They're the words of Christ. You remember in Acts chapter 8 Philip the eunuch. And in Acts chapter 8 verse 34 he's got the scroll of Isaiah. And he's reading the scroll of Isaiah.

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    Now what can anyone remember what the question of Philip was when he reads the scroll of Isaiah? He reads it and he says, does the prophet speak of himself or does he speak of another?

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    Philip can't quite work it out. The answer to Philip is it's about someone else? Written by a man who experienced the spirit of Jesus in himself.

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    Unfathomable questions of the Holy Spirit and how it works. David's trials, friends. Shall we boil it down? Shall I boil it down for you? Could blow my mind. David's trials and his struggles through God's words prefigured the conflict Jesus endured in the flesh. David carried the cross of Christ before Christ even carried it.

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    A thousand years before. God put David through the furnace to somehow experience Christ and put his words upon him so when Christ came the Psalms would sing in the heart of Jesus. David inspired Jesus. When Jesus arrived, in other words, I've said that a lot, haven't I? In other words, everything, absolutely everything is about Jesus, the Son of God.

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    I'm talking to our young brethren here. If you get up and you give exposition of the Word of God, if you are not talking about Jesus Christ, you are missing the point.

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    Jesus is the man who fills the hole in our heart. He rules on the throne of our heart and we have to talk about Jesus Christ because David was given the Holy Spirit to write about him and Jesus hadn't even arrived. That's how the Spirit worked and it should work with us. It is Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.

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    It was all for him, to inspire him. Let's have a little look at 1 Peter, 1 Peter chapter 1. Was David a prophet? Yes or no? Absolutely he was a prophet. Now look at verse 10 of 1 Peter.

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    It says, and we've gone through this before, that the prophets inquired and searched diligently. They prophesied of the grace that should come unto you, searching what or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify and when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glory that should follow.

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    In other words, what's happening here? David's life manifested the Spirit of Christ in himself. Peter the apostle is telling us that David and the prophets of old, they would write something down, they were guided by the Spirit, and quite frankly, they didn't have a clue what they were writing about.

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    They were writing down these words and the prophets reflected and searched. They discussed with, you know, like you and I, the end of anything. We open our Bibles and we discuss. The prophets did the same. They searched, they tried to discern who the Son would be, who the Messiah would be, anticipating he would come and David searched out his own writings.

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    He searched it out, he'd write a psalm and David would read and read and read and read. Who was it going to be? David tells us in 1 Chronicles 28 verse 19, God made me understand in writing by his hand. David's words. Do you know what David was writing the psalms for? Do you know why he wrote the psalms?

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    Well, he wrote the psalms because they were the prophetic thoughts of Jesus Christ. What do you think? Let me ask a better question than what I was going to say.

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    Who do you think David was taught about when he wrote the psalms? Who did God instruct him? God did. David knew Jesus Christ intimately like a friend as he searched his own words and he taught him Jesus. Look at verse 12. unto the prophets like David it was revealed which things the angels desire to look into.

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    What that's saying there is that when David and the prophets and specifically David here whenever he got his heart and he plucked those strings and he sang of the sufferings of Christ, he sang of the death of Christ, he sang of the ascension of Christ, as he sang the words and tried to grasp the magnitude of what he was actually singing about, the angels heard every single word he said.

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    The angels it says looked into the words and it is providing a little clue that not even the angels themselves fully understood who the Messiah would be. that even the angels were listening to the words of the Spirit and when he sang and when he plucked those strings those angels hanged on every single word the psalmist and the psalter sang about who would become the Son of God.

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    They stooped down to examine. They listened to every word. Psalm 22. How many times does the gospel in the crucifixion quote Psalm 22? Does anyone know?

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    No? Take a guess. Three. Three times the crucifixion on the account of the crucifixion quotes Psalm 22. The rest of the links are allusions. Now would you believe that Psalm 22 is the language of the crucifixion? When you see they have pierced my hands I think that is the language of the crucifixion.

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    And what's ironic is that Psalm 22 has the language of the crucifixion before the method of crucifixion ever even existed. The Babylonians invented crucifixion. And the psalmist David is prophetically writing about the method of execution that would crucify the son of God. The son of David after the flesh. And how does David would you say David is writing in the first person again?

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    Just nod your head. You puppets. Yeah. He's writing in the first person. Now what does David call himself in verse six? It's rather unfortunate he calls himself this because he calls himself a worm. A worm and no man and a reproach of men. Now you will know that Psalm 22 and verse six when David is calling himself a worm as the Philip the eunuch questioned is he writing about himself or is he writing about another?

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    What do you think? He's writing about both. He's prophetically talking about Jesus Christ. Now why would you call the son of God after the flesh a little worm? Well if you look at the word worm in the Hebrew there it's the word tola and it's a little scarlet insect that was used to dye garments crimson and it's fascinating the life cycle of this little worm and anyone done a bit of research on it this little worm in its life cycle do you know what it does?

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    It first attaches itself to a to a tree and as it attaches itself to a tree it then forms a crimson shell and then when that crimson shell covers this worm it then has little hatchlings it lays multitudes of eggs and those little eggs burst open and those little hatchlings feed on its mother how many days might you think they're feeding for?

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    What would you like it to be? Three days and as those little larvae are feeding on its mother this little worm the mother bleeds a crimson scarlet dye as it protects its offering on a tree in a tomb in sacrifice so the question is why might you think David calls himself a worm?

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    Is this the prophetic spirit speaking of somebody else and just to make the point even clearer when that little worm that little mother is finished do you know what happens next? It turns white and flakes off the tree I think Revelation says dyeing your garment scarlet in the blood of the lamb that little worm is the entire gospel how would David know that?

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    Unless it was written through the spirit about somebody else in prophetic reality and fathomable made fathomable in Christ after all God says of David David has shed much blood upon the earth it says in 1 chronicles 22 verse 8 David you have shed much blood upon the earth and what blood did David shed?

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    He fought men on the outside didn't he and shed much blood and Jesus Christ was going to pick up that very phrase in Luke 22 verse 20 and say this is my blood which is shed for you now if David fought men on the outward where was Christ's war? Christ fought the inward man and shed much blood shall we look at another one Psalm 69 another psalm of the crucifixion and here you go Psalm 69 is pretty clear about the death of Jesus Christ okay look at verse 1 and verse 2 how does David start through the spirit writing Psalm 69 David says save me oh God for the waters are come into my soul I am come into deep waters where the floods overflow me now I've read 1 and 2 psalm you're quite a lot and I'm sure you have too can you find any time in David's life where he was drowning is there a moment in the life of David where he drowned yes or no I can't find it unless you're reading another version I mean I can't find it David not once does he drown in the floods so why then does David open up this psalm with the phrase I am coming to the waters and the floods overflow me the question is if David never drowned does he speak of himself or another he's speaking of another so who in whom he's writing about suffered in the floods who might you think it is did we know in Luke chapter 12 and verse 50 when talking about the crucifixion Jesus refers to his death as an immersion

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    he talks about him having a baptism to be baptized with now he's talking about his death how is it that in Jesus' death he suffered in the waters of the floods how is that possible he died in a crucifixion he didn't die in the sea ah but what does John 19 verse 34 tell us that when they pierced his side out came what blood and water and if you look at that word water it's the same word used for the waters of the seas and the waters of the rivers and we can identify through medical science how Jesus would have died we know how he died do you know how he died he died through suffocation and asphyxiation the death of Christ water filled his lungs Jesus literally drowned upon a tree and when they pierced him the proof of it that blood and water came out his lungs filled up with water Jesus drowned because the prophet told us 1000 years before it ever happened he drowned why is it that when we get baptized we use water now we could say that we are cleansed in the purification of those waters and we would be absolutely correct in saying that but why is it that we expressly say that we die in Christ in the waters of Sheol because in symbol we put ourselves into the drowning and the asphyxiation of Jesus Christ we die with him in water and we rise up in his resurrection the baptism we all go through is a profound prefigurement of Jesus upon a tree because he drowned and the Psalms tell us the Psalms are prophecies

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    of Jesus' struggle in the flesh because David was a prototype of one who would be in his flesh Jesus and David in 2 Samuel 7 and verse 19 he sits there he's still there by the way we've been talking about David he's still there right now just sitting there in front of the ark because David says he says to Yahweh he says is this the law of Adam is this the mode of Adam is this the conduct of Adam David knows that Adam was meant to die he was destined to die from the dust of the earth said Yahweh you shall die thou shalt surely die and David is contemplating that this special son is his heir but the son of God Adam is supposed to die the question I'm proposing to you is the question that David asked which is how can a man born mortal in my flesh be immortal that's the conundrum that's the contradiction how can a man be born in my blood my flesh my body my bowels yet be the son of God and go from mortality to immortality you know what friends I think he worked it out I think David worked out the answer to that eternal question and he did so from the Psalms he was taught my question to you is how do you come from mortality to immortality what does it need what does it demand a resurrection and David found out the answer to the conundrum of mortality to immortality would you like me to prove it to you you don't have a choice Psalm 16 just turn to Psalm 16 David is of

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    course talking about himself in the first person through the spirit in the prophetic language of Christ now that's a mouthful isn't it and in verse 10 David says thou wilt not leave my soul in hell neither wilt thou suffer thine holy one to see corruption now you've got a margin in the margin where is that quoted thou will not leave my soul in hell neither wilt thou suffer thine holy one to see corruption I'll give you a clue it's in the book of Acts and chapter chapter 2 it's also quoted in chapter 13 Acts chapter 2 and those of you who are astute Bible students would know Acts chapter 2 is the speech of Peter and Peter quotes Psalm 16 and tells us that when David wrote that psalm and he wrote thou will not leave my soul in hell neither will thou suffer thine holy one to see corruption Peter confirms that David was speaking about Jesus Christ in other words he knew and understood and believed in the resurrection of the son after his own flesh not only that but Peter tells us in Acts chapter 2 that David foresaw him he foresaw him and the Lord Jesus Christ was always before his face let's have a little look at the words of Peter in Acts chapter 2 not many more references left let me just check maybe a couple more but let's have a look at Acts chapter 2 Acts chapter 2 the speech of Stephen sorry the speech of Peter therefore verse 30 therefore being a prophet this is David God had sworn that the fruit of his loins this is 2 Samuel 7

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    according to the flesh he would raise up Christ to sit upon his throne he seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ three times three times Peter states that David understood his offspring came to die but God's offspring came to live Peter confirms it for us David understood Jesus Christ from his own writings which are the Psalms and he knew it because of the experiences God put him through think about the three promises there are three promises the Edenic the Abrahamic and the pretty obvious the Davidic think about the three births in those three promises in Genesis chapter 3 Eve was told that she would have the seed of the woman now who is not involved in that relationship and naturally speaking has to be involved to conceive who's missing a man is not present in the seed of Genesis 3 the seed of the woman not man man is not involved it is the seed of the woman and then we come to the Abrahamic covenant in which we have a miraculous birth miracle birth for Abraham and Sarah were old and stricken in years and Sarah to make it worse was barren and yet there was a child born by divine intervention and then we come to 2 Samuel chapter 7 in which David is told that God Yahweh would be his father what might you think the conclusion was of David on that day what might you think David concluded that there was going to be a son in which man wasn't involved in which it would be a miracle birth and God would be the father would you agree with me

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    that David would have no doubt to come to the conclusion that the son after his flesh the son of God would be born by a virgin a virgin birth conceived by the father who would die and rise again and accomplish what the law could never prevail the condemnation condemnation of sin in the flesh breaking the power of sin that rules humanity and David figured it out he worked it out he was elevated David elevated Jesus Christ greater than his own son where in the Bible might we find that shown and proven where in the Psalms and here's a clue it's the most quoted Psalm in the New Testament where does David elevate himself or his son greater than his own son Psalm what Psalm 110 Yahweh said unto my Lord sit now at my right hand would you agree that David refers to his very seed as his Adon his Lord he does David calls his son which would be Jesus Christ his Lord now who's going to use that particular Psalm in a debate against the Pharisees and I'll give you a clue it happens to be the son after his own flesh it's Jesus Christ Jesus Christ in Matthew chapter 22 oh I love this Jesus was a master he was just amazing he goes to the Pharisees in Matthew 22 in verse 42 and he says to them who do you think the Messiah is to the Pharisees and they say he's the son of he's the son of David so Jesus then quotes Psalm 110 in verse 1 and he says to them right if Messiah were only the son of David

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    why then does David call him his Lord ah the implication is that the son the Messiah transcended the origins of David the implication is that Jesus was greater than David's son Jesus was David's son in the flesh but Jesus is also God's son in the spirit and David figured it out he knew it after all God had said to him I will be his father and you know what those Pharisees on that day could not answer that question who could he'd got them checkmate right he'd got them hook line and sinker they were done and you know what they never spoke to Jesus again after that moment it tells us they asked him no more questions and the ironic thing is that in Matthew chapter 26 they crucified Jesus on the basis of that very question whose son are you are you the son of God or you're the son of David and Jesus was both two more passages to go you know what you guys have been amazing seriously the coffee here is quite sensational isn't it dear me we're going to go to two more passages does anybody know what God titles the covenant of David he gives it a special title it's one of those questions you can't guess you either know it or you don't it's in Isaiah 55 and it's in verse 3 there is a special title for the covenant of David it's called the sure mercies of David we call it the Davidic covenant don't we we shouldn't really call it the Davidic covenant it should be called the sure mercies of David that's a a thing we've come up with

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    because it sounds nice the Davidic covenant no no it is the sure mercies of David why is it called the sure mercies of David well Acts 13 is going to tell us and verse 34 concerning he who was raised up from the dead now no more to return to corruption he said on the wise I will give you the sure mercies of David what really is being taught to David in 2 Samuel 7 he's been taught what he's been taught the resurrection he's been taught about the resurrection the covenant the sure mercies is the guarantee the absolute guarantee of the resurrection so why call it the sure mercies of David what mercies come from the resurrection what might you think it is what mercy comes from the resurrection well the apostle is going to tell us in verse 38 where is it why not call it the sure mercies why specifically is it named after David. What do you think David was most infamous for? What are we going to find out in the very next few chapters after he's been taught about the sure mercies of David?

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    O God, according to thy mercies, blot out my transgressions. It was called the sure mercies of David because of David's sin with Bathsheba and Uriah. David understood that forgiveness came from the resurrection and it was named after his sin. Blot out my transgression. The resurrection of the Son, the Lord, the Son of God was based upon the sin of David.

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    You know, Acts chapter 2, when it quotes Psalm 16, David, when he was taught this, this very doctrine, David says, therefore did my heart rejoice and my tongue was glad. Moreover, also my flesh shall rest in hope. And the apostle in Acts is quoting Psalm 16, David foresaw the death and resurrection of Christ and he was overjoyed. Why? Because of the mercy that was given to him in Christ Jesus. You know, John chapter 8, verse 56, Jesus says of Abraham, your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day and saw it and was glad. It's the same words use of David in Acts chapter 2 and verse 26. David foresaw Jesus Christ and he was glad and rejoiced over it. David didn't die in ignorance. David didn't die in ignorance. He died in faith.

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    He died in faith of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. And he was taught it in the Psalms and in his experiences. And we know this because in 2 Samuel 7 and verse 12, God said to David, when you sleep with your fathers. When you sleep with your fathers. Now, why does that not make sense in the time period of David? How could David be asleep if the resurrection of Christ wasn't yet to commence in a thousand years later? 1 Corinthians 15 tells us only in Christ does one sleep. And yet God told David, you're going to sleep. For a thousand years before Christ came, David was dead under the rulership of death with no hope. Under death's dominion did David lie.

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    But God said to him, you're going to sleep. You're going to sleep. This is the guarantee resurrection. And when Christ woke up out of that tomb, those who slept or those were dead suddenly were quickened in the spirit and they slept. And a thousand years before that happened, God says to David, you're going to sleep. The guarantee of the resurrection. You know, when you're young, when you're young, the resurrection's a doctrine. That's all it is.

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    But I'm telling you, when you get a bit older, it becomes a reality. And David lived that reality. Because when that man is going to wake up, he's going to see an everlasting kingdom before his face. An everlasting kingdom. The title David uses in 2 Samuel 7 is the phrase Adonai Yahweh. All the way through 2 Samuel 7, he uses Adonai Yahweh, Adonai Yahweh, Adonai Yahweh.

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    Anyone know what that title is? Anyone know what Adonai Yahweh is? He So who are the rulers that David is talking about when he cries out, Adonai Yahweh, Adonai Yahweh, when God teaches in the resurrection? Who is he calling to? Who are, who's Adonai Yahweh? Who are those who will be rulers?

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    The saints. He's talking to you and I. In the kingdom. With a son. He's talking about the family. God says, I will build you a house. And at the end of the chapter, he knew the house would be you and I with him in the kingdom. Reigning with his son in the flesh.

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    And the son of God after the spirit. Now I told you there was one more passage to go. And there is. And I'm done. So the last one is in 2 Samuel chapter 23. I'm going to give you a strong suggestion here. That David tasted the kingdom of God before he fell asleep.

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    I believe he saw it. And I believe God the Father presented him in it. Because in 2 Samuel 23, this is the last prophecy of David. More to the point, it's not just the last prophecy of David. These are the last words of David. He concludes his life with these words. So who might you think he's going to talk about in the final words of David?

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    Who's he going to talk about? He's going to talk about Jesus, of course. But who else? He's going to talk about you and me. The house. The dynasty. The family. Now these are the last words of David. I'm using a multitude of translations here. So forgive me to get the spirit of it.

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    These are the last words of David. The oracle of David. The son of Jesse. The affirmation of the warrior who was raised on high concerning the anointed of the God of Jacob. The pleasant one of the songs of Israel. Is he talking about himself or another? What's the answer? He's talking about another.

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    He's talking about Jesus here. Jesus was the Psalms and they're all applied to Jesus and David now finally realises it. This is the final words about the pleasant one of the songs of Israel. The warrior raised upon high and in the last prophetic Psalm of David he talks about the kingdom of God.

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    This is a prophecy of the kingdom of God where it all began with God dwelling with man. David wanted to build God a house and God says here's the house. The kingdom of God. And I'm going to tell you this David knew how Jesus Christ would die. He knew. Shall I give you one final proof?

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    Just nod your head there's no choice. It's in verse 7. This is the last words. He says but the great man who's the great man? Is he talking about himself or another? He's talking about another. But the great man that brings judgment must be fenced with iron and the staff of a spear.

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    Can you see the word fence there? What does your margin tell you that should be correctly translated as? Filled. So the final words of David is about a great man who brings judgment but before judgment commences he must be filled with a spear. So where else in the Bible might we find a great man raised upon high filled with the staff of a spear?

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    The last words of David just so happen to be John 19 verse 34 where Jesus Christ was to be crucified the son after David's flesh in which he was pierced by what? They're almost rhetorical these questions in fact they are rhetorical aren't they? A spear and though a thousand years apart David bore in his sorrows the shadow of Messiah's suffering and he took comfort he took comfort that when Messiah came even Messiah himself would share in his grief.

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    Jesus it tells us in Hebrews sympathizes with our infirmities. Who do you think inspired him to sympathize with you and I? who motivated Jesus Christ to sympathize with you and I and our problems in this flesh? It was David. David inspired Jesus and Jesus inspired David and they were a thousand years apart.

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    Well David was inspired by Jesus because he experienced Jesus within himself and he wrote about him prophetically and he motivated him to get to the kingdom and he rejoiced at the end of his life that he would be and David was inspired by Jesus and Jesus sorry was inspired by David because he saw a man who believed in his resurrection who believed that he was the son of God and the son after his flesh and it inspired Jesus Christ for David had already trod that path as the angel says to John weep not behold the lion of Judah hath prevailed the root of David who prayed who prayed who prayed who prayed who prayed !

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    who prayed !