Class 3 from this series was used in GCT Episode 364.
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And do thy salvation all the
day, for I know not the numbers
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And do thy salvation all the
day, for I know not the numbers
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thereof.
Now that’s a marvellous
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statement, isn’t it?
That was David’s mental
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preoccupation.
My mouth shall show forth thy
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righteousness and thy salvation
all the day.
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That’s what ran through his mind
all the time.
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Verse 24 My tongue also shall
talk of thy righteousness all
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the day.
The Lord Jesus tells us that out
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of the abundance of the heart
the mouth speaketh.
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And if this is David in his old
age, as we indicated the other
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day, do you remember verse 17
and 18?
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O God, Thou has taught me from
my youth and hitherto have I
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declared Thy wondrous works.
Now also when I’m old and grey
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headed, oh God forsake me.
Not so.
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It’s a it’s a Psalm of David’s
old age, isn’t it?
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I say it’s a Psalm of David’s
old age.
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And you might say, well did
David write this Psalm?
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Well, you’ll notice that it’s
alongside Psalm 70 and Psalm 70
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is a Psalm of David.
It says that to the chief
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musician a Psalm of David is the
heading to Psalm 70, and Psalms
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70 and 71 are clearly the one
and Psalm together in effect.
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Because verses 1 and 2 of Psalm
70 Make haste to God to deliver
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me, Make haste to help me, O
Lord, let them be ashamed and
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confounded.
Is the same as verses 12 and 13
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of Psalm 71.
O God, be not far from me.
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O my God, make haste for my
help.
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Let them be confounded and
consumed that are adversaries to
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my soul.
Let them be covered with
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reproach and dishonour that seek
my hurt.
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That’s the same.
That’s verses 1 and 2 of Psalm
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70.
As a matter of fact, Psalm 71
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ends on the same note as well.
Verse 24 the last half for they
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are confounded will they have
brought unto shame that seek my
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hurt.
So there’s a a refrain that is
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running through these two
Psalms.
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Verses 1 and 2 of Psalm 70 then
set the the refrain which joins
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together these two Psalms.
And so we can write rightly say
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that if Psalm 70 is of David,
then Psalm 71 also is of David.
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And it’s right, too, that it’s
found here, because if we turn
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over to Psalm 72, it tells us
this also is a Psalm of David’s
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growing years.
In Psalms 72 and verse 20, it
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says that the prayers of David,
the son of Jesse, are ended.
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That’s his final note, as it
were, in praying.
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So what we actually have here
very beautifully is a little
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group of psalms of David’s old
age.
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I think 69 is the same, but
we’ll explain it in a moment.
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But 7071 and 72 are peculiarly
related to this area of his life
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that we’ve been looking at.
So if this was what David wrote
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in verse 15 and in verse 24, and
we remember what God said of him
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in the very beginning, I have
found David a man after mine own
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heart.
We are privileged to see that
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that man has not changed his
mind from his early days to his
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last start.
What a beautiful thing that is,
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isn’t it easily said of David in
verse 15, If of his youth, My
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mouth shall show forth thy
righteousness and thy salvation
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all the day, my mouth also shall
talk of thy righteousness.
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That’s the thing he loved wasn’t
in meditated, he says.
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In the law of God, day and
night.
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It’s the same man, isn’t it, in
his last few days or years.
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That’s a very wonderful thing,
my dear.
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And sisters, as you go through
life with its ups and downs, you
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realize that’s not an easy
thing, is it?
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As life goes along, you find in
fact, that all sorts of things
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happen to you and they they
happen to those with whom you
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travel in the truth.
And we all have our ups and our
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downs.
David had his ups and downs too,
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without a doubt.
But it’s a beautiful statement,
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isn’t it, That if at the end it
could be said that we were the
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same person with the same mind,
despite the ups and downs, as we
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were in our youth, as we were in
our later years.
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And so that’s a very beautiful
insight into the into the
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overall life of David, that it’s
really the same boy that was
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sitting there by the sheep, the
little still waters as he
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describes them, mining his sheep
in such obscure, quiet little
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circumstances.
But his mind was toward God.
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Absolutely.
The Lord is my shepherd was his
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environment.
As he looked over those sheep,
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he saw God was looking over him
in every aspect of life.
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David saw the God of Israel and
saw that God was with him.
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The circumstances of his life
exactly the same at the end.
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Fame, fortune, a name that
spread upon many nations, has
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not changed his individual
attitude toward God.
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It’s a very beautiful statement.
Oh, that.
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That was how it might be said of
all of us.
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The king, the leader of the
nation, was still the same
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individual person.
I’d like just to make a few
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comments upon this Psalm before
we go back to reading and
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Chronicles bring it forward.
But did you notice actually some
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of the emphasis, emphasis of
this Psalm?
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The phrase that keeps repeating
is the righteousness of God in
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thee, O Lord, do I put my trust.
Let me never be put to
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confusion.
Deliver me in thy thy
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righteousness and cause me to
escape.
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Now this, as we said the other
day, is a very important Psalm
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because unquestionably it’s in
his old age and it opens to us a
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window that we wouldn’t
otherwise have into the
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circumstances of the palace and
of the Kingdom, into the
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circumstances of his later
years.
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He wasn’t sitting back as a as a
a king and all his opulence and
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power and physical strength and
piles of gold and silver that he
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in fact had.
He wasn’t sitting back there
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with all of his servants sit and
hit his back and call.
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He was a very ill man.
Remember the circumstances of
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Abishai.
That’s it’s a unique thing.
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And in that inability to be able
to take control of the of the
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empires really was others then
had come in to sort of say right
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he’s getting what he he he duly
deserved.
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God is now calling coming in
upon him and they were sitting
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ambush really about him in the
very palace itself.
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And so there isn’t these verses
a most amazing insight.
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Look at verse 2 caused me to
escape, Incline thine ear unto
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me and save me.
Be thou my strong habitation,
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where until I may continually
resort that has given
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commandment to save me, for Thou
art my rock and my fortress.
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They are the words of a man in
desperate life.
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What a man sitting back in, in
all the fortunes of life that
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float upon them.
Deliver me, Oh my God, out of
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the hand of the wicked, out of
the hand of the unrighteous and
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cruel man.
Joab must surely have been in
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his thoughts then, the
unrighteous and cruel man.
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But thou art my hope, O Lord
Yahweh, Thou art my trust from
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my youth.
It’s two statements about his
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youth in this Psalm.
That’s one in verse 5, and we
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had it also in verse 17.
Just note.
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Interesting, isn’t it?
So this is a very reflective
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Psalm, a beautiful Psalm, one of
the most beautiful psalms that
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David ever wrote, and it’s
coming from this era of his
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life.
I suggest as the, as the period
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of Adonitus usurpation was, was
growing and the intrigue was
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developing around him, the net
was being cast and there he was
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in all of his ineptitude
physically and and it just
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seemed that this now was the
time to move in and, and snap
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off his life.
And David knows all that’s
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happening and he knows he can’t
physically overcome that.
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He’s looking back over all of
his life.
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Look at verse 6.
What a beautiful statement.
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By thee have I been holding up
from the womb.
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That was true.
It wasn’t the fluke that came
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upon Israel.
It was by the hand of God that
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that they had this exceptionally
wonderful man in the obscurity
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of little Bethlehem, least among
the thousands of Judah, in the
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quietness of the hills for the
few sheep with that
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insignificant family of Jesse,
and the last of that family of
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eight sons by thee that I’ve
been holding up from the womb.
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Thou art He that took me out of
my mother’s vows.
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What more tender expression and
he felt that God had been within
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me all of his life.
My praise shall be continually
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of Thee.
Do you notice the reiteration of
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the word continuum?
It was there in verse 3.
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It’s effectively there again in
verse 15.
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All the day.
And it’s there at the end of the
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Psalm.
My tongue also shall talk of thy
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righteousness all the day.
The truth wasn’t a patchy thing
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where David wasn’t.
It was his life went all through
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the web of his life.
Same strain every minute, every
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day, every hour of his life, his
thoughts were toward God.
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What a beautiful thing, my dear
written sisters, and that at the
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end of his life he could say
that what a wonderful thing that
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is.
What a a wonderful privilege and
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and blessing it would be that if
our last few days of our life we
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were able to say that before
God.
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My praise you’ll be continually
at birth again.
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His circumstances are enumerated
in verse seven.
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I am as a wonder unto none unto
many.
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What does that mean?
Well, the next phrase implies
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the sense doesn’t.
But thou art my strong refuge.
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In other words, to other people
it looked like he was finished
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old, decrepit in obscurity.
He’s finished and they’re just
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waiting for him to go.
But he says, But Thou art my
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strong refuge, let my mouth be
filled with Thy praise and with
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Thy honour all the day.
Cast me not off in the time of
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old age.
Forsake me not when my strength
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faileth for mine.
Enemies speak against me.
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They that lay wait for my soul.
Take counsel together, saying
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God had forsaken him lust, it’s
coming upon him what he
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deserved.
Remember Uriah, Remember
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Bathsheba, God had forsaken him
and persecute him and take him
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or there is none to deliver him.
Now that was a very, very
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important Psalm really isn’t it?
To put at the end of his life
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that opens it up like nothing
else does helps us to see what
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happened in the case of Adonis.
You could never see it
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otherwise, could you?
Adonis records just sort of pops
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up out of the record.
You think, oh, didn’t expect
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that, but this psalmist filling
it out and saying that those
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those are politically minded and
treacherous people like Jeb
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were, were numerous within that
realm.
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And that’s no doubt why that
numbering of Israel was moved by
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God, that he might take that out
of the nation before the new era
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should come.
So it was just in that last
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single period of how many years,
I don’t know, 2-3, three or four
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years that David had to prepare
for the temple and to prepare
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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
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indeed.
The other thing that in fact
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I’ve got off the track because I
was mentioning, wasn’t I the
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righteousness of God?
And it was in verse 2 that we
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found at first.
It’s again in verse 15, God’s
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righteousness.
It’s in verse 16, I will make
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mention of Thy righteousness.
There’s no other Psalm that so
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emphasizes that.
It’s again in verse 19, Thy
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righteousness also, oh, God is
very high.
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And it’s again in verse 24 in
the final note, my tongue also
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shall talk of Thy righteousness
all the time.
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Now that’s a very important
emphasis.
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And isn’t that like an older
man, David my earlier has spoken
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about his righteousness.
In fact he did in Psalm 18 when
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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.
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The Lord rewarded me according
to my righteousness, according
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to the cleanness of my hands.
Hath he recompense me?
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He can’t say that anymore, can
he?
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He could never write those words
again.
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He could walk.
He could write about God’s
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righteousness. 24 Therefore hath
the Lord recomvinced me
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according to my righteousness,
according to my righteousness,
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according to the cleanness of my
hands in his eyesight, Or verse
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21, I’ve kept the way to the
Lord, and have not departed
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wickedly from them.
He can’t say that now because
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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
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later Psalm in his life.
And this one is full of the
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statement of the righteousness
of God, beautiful things, a real
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insight into his life.
At the end of that Psalm,
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there’s probably the clearest
statement made by David about
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resurrection, and that in itself
is a treasure in this Psalm.
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Verse 19.
Thy righteousness also, oh God,
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is very high.
We can’t contaminate that.
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Man may come and man may go and
he may sin them.
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Tragedy come, but God’s
righteousness is very high.
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And if our trust therefore is in
Him, it is in a safe place.
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Who has done great things, Oh
God, who is like unto thee?
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And in the comfort of that
righteousness of God, that
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irreproachable righteousness of
God, he says, thou which has
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showed me great and sore
troubles, shall quicken me
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again, and shalt bring me up
again from the depths of the
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earth.
Thou shalt increase my grapes,
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comfort me on every side.
Aren’t they beautiful words, my
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dear room, sisters, you think of
David’s life behind those words,
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Thou which has showed me great
and sorter.
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How did he Face the Nation after
his event with Bathsheba?
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How did he grieve when he
thought of what he did to Uriah?
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And yet he he bore that, didn’t
he?
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Bore it publicly?
And when he put a list of the
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names of his mighty men, there
was Uriah at the time.
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What I mean, OK, struggled with
joy and have a shame.
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Look how I’d been out in the
exile for all those years,
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wandering around like a bird in
the mountains as he described
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it’s Saul as a flea.
The king of Israel was was
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seeking him as a as a flea upon
the mountain.
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Great and sore troubles for all
the shame that came upon him.
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The loss of the child Bathsheba
by his side, and another child
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born, and all the whispers and
the loss of Absalom nor Amnon.
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First, in the King’s own family
there was insurrection,
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fratricide.
The Scat family was scattered.
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Then Absalom revolted against
his own father.
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What a shame.
Could you imagine a great issue?
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And then there was a Dodger only
so recent thou, which has showed
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me brave and sore thoughts,
shall quicken me again, and
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shall bring me again from the
depths of the earth.
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Beautiful things might even.
Isn’t that that?
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Isn’t that our hope?
It’s absolutely our hope, Isn’t
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it?
That no matter what came upon
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him, his, his hope now was not
upon the cleanness of his own
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hands, but was upon the
righteousness of God that was
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irreproachable and very hard.
And on that hope he knew that
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God would be able to take him in
due time from the bowels of the
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earth and increase his
blackness.
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Verse 21 in immortality, and
comfort him on every side.
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And there he was, an old and
decrepit man, cold.
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His bones creeped when he moved.
It’s set by many enemies out
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there.
But now, despite a King’s wealth
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and a King’s power and the the
great name that he had in all
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the Middle East is hope rested
not in those things, but in the
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righteousness of God.
You know, there’s some of the
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most beautiful things you could
think about, aren’t they, as far
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as David is concerned and just
shows us what a a truly
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remarkable person he was that
these thoughts were his thoughts
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at that time.
And so out of that, he then set
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to work in the chapters that we
have read from First Chronicles
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2221 through to Chapter 29.
And he set his heart, didn’t he,
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his latter years in that spirit,
towards the great work of
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leaving that that Kingdom in a
good position that when his son
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should come along, it would be
able to take on the reigns.
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I want to come to Chapter 28
because Sir, the organization
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has been accomplished, the
renewing, the reinvigorating of
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the empire, as I call it the the
great Kingdom with all of its
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dominions has been
reinvigorated.
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Then chapter 28, Then in verse
one, we have one of the longest
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verses in the Bible.
David assembled all the Princess
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of Israel, the Princess of the
tribes.
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And the Princess of the
companies that ministered, the
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king by course, and the Princess
over the thousands, and the
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Princess over the hundreds, and
the Princess over all the
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substance and possession of the
king and of his sons, were the
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Princess, and were the mighty
men.
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And with all the valiant men
unto Jerusalem.
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Can you imagine all that coming
into Jerusalem?
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As big as whatever this assembly
might have been, they were all
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great men of a great empire that
had been established under him.
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Now you can imagine that was a
very formal thing.
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It’s got nothing like the the
time when he quickly anointed,
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when he quickly anointed Solomon
in the days of Adonis, nothing
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like that at all.
This is a call to all the
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principal people.
It would be a formal invitation
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and a privileged interpretation
to that went out to all the the
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great names in Israel and there
were many as there is in a
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wealthy and expansive Kingdom.
There are are great names that
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have done great things.
And verse 2, my dear, and it
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says it’s hard to read that is
it is it not without a tear in
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your eye as you think of all of
that background and what we’ve
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read and his weakness and now
his reorganization and now we’re
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right up close to his death.
It says obviously with deep
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pathos.
Then David the King, David the
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King stood up upon his feet, or
where else Harrods, but it was
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an Anastasis, was out of the bed
of cold and inactivity.
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He stood up upon his feet for
all that amazing life and
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spirituality, tame it that had
touched the life of every
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Israel, old or young.
He stood up upon his feet, said,
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Hear me, my brethren and my
people, what a what a king, what
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a man, despite all the laurels
of the chief, Hear me, my
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brethren and my people, the same
man isn’t that looked after the
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sheep?
Absolutely.
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He always had himself in right
perspective.
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Whether he was upon the field of
battle or whether he was in the
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the throne of his glory or
whether he was in his palace, he
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nevertheless always kept himself
in right perspective and could
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say, hear me, my brethren and my
people.
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He was fully aware of what God
had done and of all the
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greatness that had been brought
upon, but he was aware of the
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fact that he was one of his
people.
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As for me and he recounts the
history so touching this must
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have brought must have brought
tears flowing from the from the
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face of all of those men who
were gathered to that ascent as
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he recounted these so well known
things.
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I had in my heart to build a
House of rest for the art of the
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covenant of Yahweh and for the
footstool of our God and it made
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ready for the building.
What God said unto me is he
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lifted his his elderly voice.
Thou shalt not build a house for
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my name, because thou has been a
man of war and has shed blood.
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Howbeit, Yahweh, Elohim of
Israel chose me before all the
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House of my father, an Eli.
Eli was there, wasn’t it?
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No longer any resentment
Abinadaben Shamir, they were
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there too.
But he could say this because it
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was.
It was what the Lord God of
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Israel did.
It wasn’t David over them.
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It was what Yahweh Elohim of
Israel had done, and everybody
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knew that.
And it was right that it should
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be said because David was going
to have a son.
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And they, they all had to be
reminded that that was where it
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should go because it was an
election of God, not David’s
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choice.
But as David, as Samuel had been
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sent with the horn of oil
originally, so it should go to
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his son.
And he was therefore preserving
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the continuity of the elected
dynasty that God had made.
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You know, beautiful thing,
presence of mine didn’t have it
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clear the right words.
Howbeit, the Lord God of Israel
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chose me before all the House of
my father, to be king over
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Israel forever.
For He hath chosen Judah to be
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the ruler of the House of Judah,
the House of my father, and
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among the sons of my father.
He liked me to make me king over
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all Israel and of all my sons,
for the Lord hath given me many
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sons.
And there was deep, deep echoes
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to those words, wasn’t there?
All kinds of sons.
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He hath chosen Solomon thy son,
to sit upon the throne of the
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Kingdom of of Yahweh over
Israel.
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Now, you know, in itself, that
was the most amazing thing.
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It’s not the sort of choice that
you and I would have made.
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Besides, Solomon was much
younger than the other boys.
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It was like another family
really, wasn’t it?
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And yet he’s emphasizing that it
was God’s choice.
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Was it God’s choice?
It really was God’s choice.
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Just keep your hand there and
come back to Second Samuel.
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He’s one of the most beautiful
verses in our Bible.
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Second Samuel chapter 12 and
verse 24.
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You know that Nathan came in and
you know that Nathan told him
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that he had done this thing.
He told him the parable and
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David saw the point.
He enunciated the judge.
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But Nathan said, Thou art the
man.
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And David’s only response to
that was, I have sinned against
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Yahweh.
Rest 30 And immediately,
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immediately the next words no
human being can understand this
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Nathan said unto David, Yahweh
also has put away thy sin, thou
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shalt not die, howbeit this
child will die.
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But David knew your knew
Bathsheba again he comforted his
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wife and she bare a son.
Verse 24 And he called his name
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Solomon.
Do you know who told him to call
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him Solomon?
It was God that called, told him
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to call him Solomon.
We’re told that in Chronicles,
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but he’s called Solomon.
And the next phrase is look at
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this.
And Yahweh loved him.
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Why does it say that?
Because surely through that
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empire, my dear, and says there
were all kinds of people talking
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about David, you’d be involved
in it yourself.
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So would I.
What David had done was you come
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through this record and you
could cry when you come to those
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chaps, couldn’t you?
You just almost want to turn
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over the chapters if it didn’t
really happen.
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But it did happen, and everyone
in Israel had to adjust to that,
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that it actually had happened.
The person they looked to most
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in that Kingdom had fallen
terribly, and two terrible
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things were both the wife and
with the husband.
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The way he did it, the intrigue
was just just beyond you to
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understand that he could
possibly be so involved.
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The Bathsheba is with him.
Uriah’s wife, he’s dead.
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She is with him.
The child is struck.
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Ah, they would have said yes, of
course, the wrong thing, it was
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wrong.
But another child is born and
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the record says Yahweh loved
him.
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That’s not like man, Yahweh
loved him and that little child
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went through, people had to
learn that God loved him.
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In fact, he changed his name.
Well, he gave him a second name
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he sent by the hand of Nathan
the prophet, verse 25.
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Was Nathan when he stepped into
the palace going to come with
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another message of doom?
No, and he called his name
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Jedidiah because of Yahweh.
What does Jedidiah mean?
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The love of God.
You know, there’s something
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exceedingly beautiful about
those two verses.
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It helps us to prune sometimes
our hard thoughts about others
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in their circumstances when we
may not be yet touched by such
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circumstances.
It says that Yahweh loved him as
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he ran around the palace.
That little boy was growing up.
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Solomon, little boy,
intelligent, interesting little
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boy.
Wouldn’t he have been an amazing
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little boy?
Incredible child He was, and
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they all had to learn if his
name was Solomon and God gave
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him that name and his name was
Yahweh Loves him.
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So close your mouth.
No whispering around the
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00:30:00,040 –> 00:30:02,400
corridors of the palace about
that little boy because God
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00:30:02,400 –> 00:30:04,840
loves him.
I know.
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00:30:05,080 –> 00:30:07,120
Never mind what you might think,
but God loves him.
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00:30:08,040 –> 00:30:09,480
That went up and down that
nation.
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00:30:10,960 –> 00:30:13,160
Nathan came again into David.
What did he do?
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00:30:13,880 –> 00:30:16,560
Oh, the child’s been Smith.
And I suppose, yeah, bad
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00:30:16,560 –> 00:30:21,320
marriage should never occur.
Alas, they learnt that in fact
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00:30:21,320 –> 00:30:26,440
God was saying he loves him and
they had to accept that that was
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00:30:26,440 –> 00:30:31,640
God’s judgement.
Most amazing thing.
437
00:30:32,120 –> 00:30:34,640
And he grew up with that little
boy, grew up in that nation and
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00:30:34,640 –> 00:30:39,040
people began then to look to him
and here he was now what about
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00:30:39,040 –> 00:30:41,600
18 years of age?
Josephus suggests.
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00:30:43,320 –> 00:30:48,040
And so David now is with
Sullivan alongside him, and he
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00:30:48,040 –> 00:30:53,800
says, And of all my sons, for
Yahweh had given me many sons,
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00:30:55,320 –> 00:31:02,240
he hath chosen Solomon
Bathsheba’s son, to sit upon the
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00:31:02,240 –> 00:31:04,840
throne of the Kingdom of Yahweh
over Israel.
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00:31:05,080 –> 00:31:09,880
And he said them to me, Solomon
thy son, he shall build my house
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00:31:09,880 –> 00:31:13,800
and my courts, for I have chosen
him to be my son, and I will be
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00:31:13,800 –> 00:31:16,480
his father.
What does that echo?
447
00:31:20,640 –> 00:31:24,560
It’s the promise, isn’t it?
The Messiah promise.
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00:31:26,480 –> 00:31:29,000
I will be his father and he
shall be my son.
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00:31:29,080 –> 00:31:32,560
Second Samuel 7, verse 14.
It’s almost a paraphrase, isn’t
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00:31:32,560 –> 00:31:35,920
it?
It is a paraphrase.
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00:31:36,920 –> 00:31:39,440
So this little child that was
going to grow up before them,
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00:31:40,000 –> 00:31:43,480
son of Bathsheba, is
nevertheless going to type
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00:31:43,480 –> 00:31:47,720
Messiah to come.
What an amazing thing David
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00:31:47,720 –> 00:31:52,920
tells everyone those things.
I will establish his Kingdom
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00:31:52,920 –> 00:31:54,000
forever.
Verse 7.
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00:31:55,040 –> 00:31:56,400
There’s the promise again, isn’t
it?
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00:31:56,440 –> 00:31:59,480
He’s going to be a prototype of
the greater to come.
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00:31:59,480 –> 00:32:02,800
Now therefore, in the sight of
all Israel, the congregation of
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00:32:02,800 –> 00:32:06,880
the Lord, and in the audience of
our God, keep and seek for all
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00:32:06,880 –> 00:32:10,080
the commandment of Yahweh, your
God, that you may possess this
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00:32:10,080 –> 00:32:13,320
good land and leave it for an
inheritance for your children
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00:32:13,320 –> 00:32:16,680
after you forever.
That’s David’s wish.
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00:32:17,280 –> 00:32:20,400
Remember how he said in the
Psalms, Psalm 71, until I have
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00:32:20,400 –> 00:32:23,880
taught this generation thy, thy
glory and thy strength.
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00:32:24,400 –> 00:32:27,240
And here he is, He’s about it.
That’s exactly what he’s about
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00:32:27,720 –> 00:32:30,440
to convey to this generation,
that they will never let this
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00:32:30,440 –> 00:32:34,240
off this, this glow of
understanding, this greater
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00:32:34,240 –> 00:32:37,520
perception of their position
under God and what Israel was
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00:32:37,520 –> 00:32:39,000
that they would not forget.
Forget it.
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00:32:39,640 –> 00:32:42,320
Keep in seek for all the
commandments of the Abu, your
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00:32:42,320 –> 00:32:44,760
God, that he may possess this
good land.
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00:32:45,880 –> 00:32:51,680
And turning to his boy in the
face of the nation, he said, Did
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00:32:51,680 –> 00:32:54,200
a son father ever speak more
beautifully to a son?
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00:32:54,920 –> 00:33:03,920
Thou, Solomon, my son, know thou
the God of thy father, and serve
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00:33:03,920 –> 00:33:09,240
him with a perfect heart and
with a willing mind, for Yahweh
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00:33:09,240 –> 00:33:11,880
searcheth all heart.
He knows you, my boy, You’ll
477
00:33:11,880 –> 00:33:16,640
never put it over Him.
Yahweh searcheth all hearts and
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00:33:16,640 –> 00:33:19,240
understandeth all the
imagination of the thoughts.
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00:33:20,080 –> 00:33:25,240
If thou seek Him, He will be
found of thee, but if thou
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00:33:25,240 –> 00:33:28,320
forsake, He will cast thee off
forever.
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00:33:30,360 –> 00:33:33,760
Did a father ever speak more
beautifully publicly to His Son?
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00:33:34,760 –> 00:33:39,840
Take heed now, or Yahweh hath
chosen to build in house for the
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00:33:39,840 –> 00:33:42,880
sanctuary.
Be stronged, I like to think my
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00:33:42,880 –> 00:33:44,480
dear and sisters, perhaps were
wrong.
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00:33:45,120 –> 00:33:49,720
I like to think that at the last
era of Solomon’s life those
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00:33:49,720 –> 00:33:51,760
words may have yet come back to
his ears.
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00:33:52,680 –> 00:33:54,640
They’re exceedingly beautiful
words, aren’t they?
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00:33:56,320 –> 00:33:59,400
Serve him with a perfect heart
and with a willing knock.
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00:34:00,520 –> 00:34:05,840
And then in verses 11 onwards,
he, he gave to him formerly all
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00:34:05,840 –> 00:34:12,920
the scrolls on which the, the
architectural plans of the house
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00:34:12,920 –> 00:34:16,080
were inscribed.
And we went through this
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00:34:16,080 –> 00:34:19,520
section, didn’t we?
We found that it, it gave all
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00:34:19,520 –> 00:34:23,360
the details not just of the
building of the temple, but of
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00:34:23,360 –> 00:34:27,239
the, the rooms around it and how
the thing would operate.
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00:34:27,280 –> 00:34:31,199
Verse 13 courses of the priests
and the Levites and so on.
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00:34:31,480 –> 00:34:34,679
And so that’s all the the
earlier chapters that told us
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00:34:34,679 –> 00:34:38,480
about those courses.
And so because of that, he was
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00:34:38,480 –> 00:34:41,480
able to determine all the
amounts of metals and other
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00:34:41,639 –> 00:34:45,760
materials that he needed.
And in that long list that runs
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00:34:45,760 –> 00:34:49,480
right through there to verse 18,
it’s clear that David had a had
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00:34:49,480 –> 00:34:51,960
built this all up in his mind.
He’d sat there at his desk and
502
00:34:51,960 –> 00:34:54,840
said, well, if it’s going to be
this and that furniture, then
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00:34:54,840 –> 00:34:57,320
it’s going to require this
amount of gold and that amount
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00:34:57,320 –> 00:34:58,840
of silver.
And so I’ve got to get these
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00:34:58,840 –> 00:35:01,840
things got to accumulate this.
It’s got to be ready.
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00:35:03,480 –> 00:35:06,120
That was his concentration of
mine on the House of God.
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00:35:06,480 –> 00:35:09,920
All this said David.
Yahweh made me understand verse
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00:35:09,920 –> 00:35:16,000
19 in writing and David said to
Solomon be strong and of good
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00:35:16,000 –> 00:35:17,800
courage.
You know where these words come
510
00:35:17,800 –> 00:35:23,920
from.
He he had an ear for the moment,
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00:35:23,920 –> 00:35:27,240
didn’t he?
Moses stood and said these words
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00:35:27,240 –> 00:35:33,320
to young Joshua.
It was the change of the God one
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00:35:33,320 –> 00:35:36,960
generation onto another and now
it’s the change of the guard
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00:35:36,960 –> 00:35:39,920
again.
Solomon will take on from David.
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00:35:41,400 –> 00:35:43,600
Be strong and of good courage
and do it.
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00:35:43,680 –> 00:35:46,880
Fear not, nor be the Spain for
the Lord God.
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00:35:46,880 –> 00:35:51,320
Even my God, the God of your
Father will be with them.
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00:35:52,840 –> 00:35:56,800
He will not foul of the sake.
David, Solomon, look at my life.
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00:35:57,120 –> 00:36:00,160
Look at all the things that have
happened, the ups and downs, but
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00:36:00,160 –> 00:36:03,560
God has been with them, and
He’ll be with you if you are
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00:36:03,560 –> 00:36:08,680
with Him.
Furthermore, David the king,
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00:36:08,800 –> 00:36:14,400
verse 1 of chapter 29, said unto
all the congregation, Solomon,
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00:36:14,400 –> 00:36:19,000
my son, whom alone God hath
chosen as yet young and tender,
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00:36:19,320 –> 00:36:23,560
and the work is great, for the
palace is not for man, but for
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00:36:23,560 –> 00:36:27,280
the Lord God.
Now that word congregation is
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00:36:27,280 –> 00:36:32,320
worth observing.
It first occurred in verse 8 of
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00:36:32,320 –> 00:36:35,960
chapter 28.
Now therefore, in the sight of
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00:36:35,960 –> 00:36:42,480
all Israel, the congregation of
the Lord, it’s one of the words
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00:36:42,480 –> 00:36:46,760
of the moment.
In chapter 29 again, and verse
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00:36:46,760 –> 00:36:51,680
10 it occurs again before all
the congregation.
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00:36:52,640 –> 00:36:56,960
And in chapter 20, verse 20,
it’s there twice.
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00:36:57,600 –> 00:37:00,280
David said to all the
congregation, and all the
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00:37:00,280 –> 00:37:02,800
congregation bless the Lord God
of their founders.
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00:37:04,120 –> 00:37:08,800
If you think of David’s life,
this is the great congregation,
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00:37:08,800 –> 00:37:10,760
isn’t it?
There was never a time in his
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00:37:10,760 –> 00:37:13,840
life when there was a
congregation like this.
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00:37:15,120 –> 00:37:19,280
And here he is virtually taken
out of the bed of death as
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00:37:19,280 –> 00:37:25,400
people thought, and he has now
been able to stand again on his
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00:37:25,400 –> 00:37:29,120
feet and address that nation and
bring them together.
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00:37:32,200 –> 00:37:36,640
It’s a kind of standing against
thou which has showed me great
541
00:37:36,640 –> 00:37:39,400
and sore troubles shalt quicken
me again.
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00:37:40,280 –> 00:37:45,880
And in a sense, David is, is is
breathing the the sense of
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00:37:45,880 –> 00:37:48,680
resurrection.
And here’s the great
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00:37:48,680 –> 00:37:51,200
congregation and here’s all the
people of Israel.
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00:37:51,400 –> 00:37:54,120
And here’s a new start and a new
king and a new era.
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00:37:54,920 –> 00:37:57,160
It’s like the two phases of
Messiah’s life.
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00:37:57,320 –> 00:38:00,280
He’s gone down into the depths
and now he’s he’s coming up
548
00:38:00,280 –> 00:38:02,440
again.
But to take control of the
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00:38:02,440 –> 00:38:06,160
Kingdom.
There is a Psalm, my dear and
550
00:38:06,160 –> 00:38:07,920
sisters, that has those two
phases.
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00:38:08,400 –> 00:38:11,680
What is that Psalm?
Is it not Psalm 22?
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00:38:12,720 –> 00:38:18,720
Come and have a look at her.
When was Psalm 22 written?
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00:38:26,520 –> 00:38:30,880
Look at the echoes involved in
this Psalm to the era of this
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00:38:30,880 –> 00:38:37,000
era of David’s life.
Verses 1 to 21 are about the
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00:38:37,000 –> 00:38:43,480
Messiah in great extremity.
My God, my God, why hast thou
556
00:38:43,480 –> 00:38:47,160
forsaken me?
Why hath thou so far from
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00:38:47,160 –> 00:38:49,320
helping me, and from the words
of my roaring?
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00:38:49,320 –> 00:38:51,840
He could not get better no
matter what He did.
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00:38:52,560 –> 00:38:56,200
Oh my God, I cry in the daytime,
but thou hearest not in the
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00:38:56,200 –> 00:39:02,920
night season and not silent.
It’s a sound of David, but as we
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00:39:02,920 –> 00:39:05,400
know, it’s Messianic.
It’s telling of the greater 1 to
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00:39:05,400 –> 00:39:08,400
come.
Look at the echoes again in
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00:39:08,440 –> 00:39:12,600
verse 9 and 10.
But thou art he that took me out
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00:39:12,600 –> 00:39:15,640
of the womb.
Thou didst make me hope.
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00:39:15,640 –> 00:39:17,120
When I was upon my mother’s
breath.
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00:39:17,920 –> 00:39:19,640
I was cast upon thee from the
womb.
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00:39:19,840 –> 00:39:21,960
Thou art my God from my mother’s
family.
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00:39:22,680 –> 00:39:25,680
There’s no other words like that
than what we found in Psalm 71.
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00:39:27,960 –> 00:39:31,640
Nothing in all the record of
Psalms apart from those words in
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00:39:31,640 –> 00:39:34,800
Psalm 71, which was a Psalm of
his older.
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00:39:37,360 –> 00:39:42,640
What about verse 22?
I would declare thy name unto my
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00:39:43,600 –> 00:39:48,840
brethren.
It’s in first in in First
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00:39:48,840 –> 00:39:52,280
Chronicles chapter 28 that he
calls them my brethren.
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00:39:53,520 –> 00:39:55,160
There were two phases in his
life.
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00:39:55,320 –> 00:39:58,560
There was the phase of of
passion and almost death.
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00:39:59,160 –> 00:40:02,320
He felt death.
He’s been taken out of the bed
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00:40:02,320 –> 00:40:04,440
of death.
And he stood upon his feet in
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00:40:04,440 –> 00:40:11,320
Anastasis a standing again.
I would declare thy name unto my
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00:40:11,320 –> 00:40:14,960
brethren in the midst of the
congregation.
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00:40:16,720 –> 00:40:19,320
Will I praise thee?
And that’s exactly what he did.
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He had all this role gathered
together, and he praised the
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00:40:23,120 –> 00:40:28,880
name of God as he always had
been in a superlative way in
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00:40:29,120 –> 00:40:33,520
First Chronicles 28 and 29.
My praise, verse 25 shall be of
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00:40:33,520 –> 00:40:37,800
thee in the great congregation.
I will pay my vows before them
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00:40:37,800 –> 00:40:40,320
that fear Him.
The meat shall eat and be
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00:40:40,320 –> 00:40:42,440
satisfied.
They all went away on that
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00:40:42,440 –> 00:40:46,160
occasion with a portion that
they had received from the king.
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00:40:46,680 –> 00:40:49,680
They shall praise the Lord, that
seeking your heart shall live
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00:40:49,680 –> 00:40:52,680
forever.
The Kingdom is the Lord’s verse
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00:40:52,680 –> 00:40:55,480
28 and He is the governor among
the nations.
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00:40:56,200 –> 00:40:59,600
So 2 phases are in that Psalm.
And it’s my strong suggestion
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00:41:00,400 –> 00:41:03,440
that that most beautiful of all
the Psalms, surely which
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00:41:03,440 –> 00:41:06,040
actually epitomises the very
words of Messiah.
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00:41:06,040 –> 00:41:10,320
It’s not in third person like
Isaiah 53, it’s in first person.
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00:41:10,960 –> 00:41:14,400
The person that expressed it was
given their privilege to have
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00:41:14,400 –> 00:41:17,280
the Spirit of Christ, as it
were, speaking the words of
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00:41:17,280 –> 00:41:23,000
Christ in the hour of his death.
What a privilege it seems to be
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00:41:23,000 –> 00:41:28,120
given to David to speak those
words at this era of his life.
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00:41:28,520 –> 00:41:30,440
Isn’t that a beautiful thing?
What even says?
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00:41:30,720 –> 00:41:36,480
How God Forgives and absolutely
forgives that such a privilege
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00:41:36,480 –> 00:41:42,120
was given to the old David and
the last days or hours of his
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00:41:42,120 –> 00:41:46,000
life back then.
The first comic was 29.
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00:41:48,840 –> 00:41:52,640
If we’re going to build this
house, there’s got to be great
604
00:41:52,640 –> 00:41:55,400
preparations and great
generosity.
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00:41:56,680 –> 00:42:01,440
And so David inspires by his own
example.
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00:42:02,320 –> 00:42:05,320
I have prepared with all my
night for the House of my God.
607
00:42:05,320 –> 00:42:10,720
Verse 2 Gold for things of gold
and silver and brass and
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00:42:10,800 –> 00:42:15,800
ironwood and Onyx stones and
stones to be set, blistering
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00:42:15,800 –> 00:42:19,720
stones and divers colours of all
manner of precious stones and
610
00:42:19,720 –> 00:42:23,280
marble stones in in abundance.
Look at all the things he had
611
00:42:23,280 –> 00:42:24,480
thought about.
My dear brethren.
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00:42:24,480 –> 00:42:27,320
Sisters, sometimes you run up a
little list and it’s, oh, never
613
00:42:27,320 –> 00:42:31,520
get it all done today, don’t we?
I never get it done, you know,
614
00:42:31,960 –> 00:42:34,600
and we think life’s very busy.
But he’s a, he’s a great man.
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00:42:34,600 –> 00:42:37,840
He could have sat back and just
let everybody be at his beck and
616
00:42:37,840 –> 00:42:39,840
call.
He’s out there with his walking
617
00:42:39,840 –> 00:42:41,200
stick, looking after all these
things.
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00:42:41,360 –> 00:42:43,040
We’ve got enough Onyx stones.
We’ve got enough this.
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00:42:43,200 –> 00:42:45,280
What about stones to be set?
What about the gold silk?
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00:42:45,400 –> 00:42:48,960
How’s it going out there?
Other men bringing down the wood
621
00:42:48,960 –> 00:42:51,920
from the other hewers ready.
All these things upon his mind.
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00:42:51,960 –> 00:42:54,240
And he’s an old man.
He’d been in a bed of death.
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It’s an amazing story, isn’t it?
Moreover, I have set my
624
00:42:59,400 –> 00:43:02,560
affection to the House of my
God.
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00:43:04,440 –> 00:43:07,880
He must have had tears streaming
down their faces as they
626
00:43:07,880 –> 00:43:12,040
listened to this amazing man, a
man of God indeed.
627
00:43:12,720 –> 00:43:16,440
And I have therefore made a
personal donation of my own
628
00:43:16,640 –> 00:43:21,440
proper gold, good of gold and
silver, which I have given to
629
00:43:21,440 –> 00:43:24,400
the House of my God over and
above all that I have prepared.
630
00:43:25,000 –> 00:43:28,520
It was a personal donation, not
related to the national
631
00:43:28,520 –> 00:43:31,720
treasures, but of the personal
family.
632
00:43:31,720 –> 00:43:37,800
Wealth of day even. 3000 talents
of gold, of the best of the gold
633
00:43:37,800 –> 00:43:42,160
of Oprah, 7000 talents of
refined silver, gold for things
634
00:43:42,160 –> 00:43:44,240
of gold, silver for things of
silver.
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00:43:45,040 –> 00:43:48,800
And who then he said, verse 5,
is willing to consecrate his
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00:43:48,800 –> 00:43:52,520
service this day unto the Lord?
Well, what would you do if you’d
637
00:43:52,520 –> 00:43:56,480
open your pockets, wouldn’t you,
with such inspiring example?
638
00:43:56,480 –> 00:43:59,560
And they did.
Then the people rejoiced, verse
639
00:43:59,560 –> 00:44:03,560
9, happy to be involved in
fellowship with such a spirit.
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00:44:04,080 –> 00:44:07,480
The people rejoice for that.
They offered willingly, and
641
00:44:07,480 –> 00:44:10,680
that’s the Word, isn’t it?
Willing in verse 5, Willingly in
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verse 6, willing in verse 21 of
the previous chapter, willing
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mind in verse 9 of chapter 28.
And they caught the spirit on
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it.
The people rejoice for that.
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They offered willingly because
with perfect heart they offered
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willingly to Yahweh.
The people rejoice for that.
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They saw one man person doing
it, and they did it themselves
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and others did it and they
thought this is a glorious
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thing.
There’s a spirit of giving here
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and they rejoiced in it
together.
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There were Princess and great
men of the realm.
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And now it was pouring out of
their pockets.
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All of them had large
checkbooks, so to speak, and
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they poured it into the
treasuries and loved to do it.
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So David had inspired them.
And David saw it all.
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And it says in verse 9.
And David the king also rejoiced
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with great joy.
Imagine the old man imagined
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seeing his his joy at that time
and the impression of that upon
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all of his great administrators.
And then with his heart full, he
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came before God.
And you know, these words have
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to be some of the most beautiful
words in our Bible.
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Do you know why our Lord Jesus
came through here and he picked
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up these words?
Listen carefully.
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He was asked how to pray once
and he gave us an example of how
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to pray.
Where do you think it came from?
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Well, it came from him, but
listen carefully.
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And David said, Blessed be thou,
Lord God of Israel, our Father,
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00:45:51,120 –> 00:45:59,000
forever and ever Thine, oh Lord,
is the greatness, the power and
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00:45:59,000 –> 00:46:03,520
the glory and the victory and
the majesty, for all that is in
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00:46:03,520 –> 00:46:10,480
the heaven and the earth is thy
thine is the Kingdom, oh Yahweh,
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and thou had exalted his head
above all.
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Yes, that’s the Lord’s prayers
basis, isn’t it?
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It’s a very beautiful thing,
more beautiful than words can
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00:46:20,680 –> 00:46:26,600
express that one time our Lord
Jesus in no doubting Nazareth or
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00:46:26,600 –> 00:46:28,320
somewhere like that in a quiet
spot.
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Read those words, my dear bird
sisters.
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And with all the emotion that’s
involved in these beautiful
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chapters, He let it flow into
his heart and mind and he was
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impressed.
Never forgot that impression.
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And when he was asked about
prayer, he said, I’ll, I’ll tell
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you how to pray.
And his his words are couched in
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the words of David.
In the end of his life.
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That’s what he thought when he,
like you and I now read these
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words, That’s what he thought of
that prayer.
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It touched him to a point that
he never forgot it.
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Both riches and honour come of
thee, and thou reignest over
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all.
In thine hand is power and light
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00:47:12,600 –> 00:47:14,680
Give us this day, our daily
breath.
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00:47:15,840 –> 00:47:19,120
Now therefore our God, we thank
thee and praise thy glorious
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name.
But who am I and what is my
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people that we should be able to
offer so willingly after this
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sort?
For all things come of thee, and
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00:47:27,360 –> 00:47:30,720
of thine own have we given thee.
It was true, and it always is
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00:47:30,720 –> 00:47:32,640
true.
But he saw it at that time,
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00:47:32,640 –> 00:47:36,160
didn’t he?
But we are strangers before
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00:47:36,160 –> 00:47:39,200
these sojours, as were all our
fathers.
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00:47:40,360 –> 00:47:43,840
Old Abraham comes up in the in
the background of the mind as
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and Isaac and Jacob sojourns and
strangers.
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00:47:49,040 –> 00:47:53,040
We pass our days as a shadow.
There’s none abiding, O Lord our
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God, of all this store that we
have prepared to build in house.
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For thine holy name cometh of
thine hand, and is all thine
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00:48:02,840 –> 00:48:06,600
own.
And the birds that follow just
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so, so beautiful.
He’s still praying to God.
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I know also, my God, that thou
tryst the heart, and has
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pleasure in uprightness.
As for me, this is David
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00:48:24,680 –> 00:48:28,400
speaking into the uprightness of
my heart.
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00:48:29,480 –> 00:48:32,440
I have willingly offered all
these things.
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00:48:33,200 –> 00:48:36,920
He said he believed that God
Forgives, doesn’t and another
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00:48:36,920 –> 00:48:41,000
season opens.
As for me, in the uprightness of
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00:48:41,000 –> 00:48:45,600
my heart I have willingly
offered all these things, and
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00:48:45,600 –> 00:48:49,440
now have I seen with joy Thy
people which are present here to
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offer willingly unto Thee.
They’ve caught the spirit of the
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whole occasion.
Heavenly Father, let this never
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be lost in their intelligence,
in their remembrance.
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Keep it in their minds.
O Yahweh, God of Abraham, Isaac,
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and of Israel, our fathers have
received covenant with whom you
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made a special people.
Keep this forever in the
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imagination of the thoughts of
the heart of Thy people, and
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prepare their heart unto Thee.
But this may never be lost upon
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their conscience.
They may never think of
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themselves as an as another
ordinary people.
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But if people called and
separated Solomon, give unto
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Solomon, my son, a perfect heart
to keep thy commands by
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testimonies and thy statues, and
to do all these things and to
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00:49:53,000 –> 00:49:57,000
build the palace for the which I
had made provision.
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I don’t think there’s anything
more beautiful, my dear brother,
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sisters in Scripture really,
than that is them prayer of
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David as he brought that nation
together and he wanted to
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00:50:07,600 –> 00:50:10,200
preserve that moment.
You know, here we are in all of
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our orderliness in 19 No year
2000, isn’t it?
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But it’s the same with us, isn’t
it?
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00:50:18,880 –> 00:50:21,800
We come and we see beautiful
things, beautiful things.
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And what we need to say to each
other and to our God is that He
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might preserve that in our
hearts.
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00:50:26,880 –> 00:50:30,120
And we go back into the ordinary
highways, driving along with our
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cars and back into our families,
and there’s all the same
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furniture and back into our
eclesial life and there’s the
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same ordinariness as it was
there.
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We want to remember that, not
let that moment go because
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that’s what David wanted.
You know, he, he kept it up even
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after this.
He went back home to his palace.
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The day was finished and he
prayed.
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You know what he prayed?
Psalm 72, I’m sure it was prayed
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00:50:57,280 –> 00:50:58,960
at this time.
Remember what it says.
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00:51:01,600 –> 00:51:09,400
Give the king thy judgement so
God and thy righteousness unto
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the King’s Son.
Solomon is now upon the throne.
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And there was going to be a
continuity.
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It was like a type of the
Kingdom, wasn’t it?
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But he prayed that God might
give to Solomon the King’s
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00:51:23,960 –> 00:51:26,200
judgements.
And that’s exactly what he has
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00:51:26,200 –> 00:51:29,560
here, that the heart that he had
toward these things might go
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00:51:29,560 –> 00:51:33,320
into his son.
His son might see it in all that
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00:51:33,320 –> 00:51:38,800
same fervency and and clarity
and live in that spirit in the
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00:51:38,800 –> 00:51:42,120
days of his king.
Give the King thy judgement, O
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00:51:42,120 –> 00:51:45,440
God, and thy righteousness under
the King’s Son.
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00:51:47,080 –> 00:51:49,480
That’s how we feel, don’t we,
with our next generation.
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00:51:49,520 –> 00:51:52,560
We’ve got to fight for our next
generation to put into their
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00:51:52,560 –> 00:51:56,640
hearts with all the same
intensity that we have felt and
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00:51:56,640 –> 00:51:59,840
loved this weekend together to
put into their hearts.
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00:52:00,320 –> 00:52:04,640
There won’t be the TV or or the
novels or the evolution they
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00:52:04,640 –> 00:52:07,400
learn at school, or all the
ungodliness they might hear in
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00:52:07,400 –> 00:52:11,520
this society all the placarding
of advertisements and books and
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00:52:11,840 –> 00:52:14,120
and Internet and all the rubbish
that goes with it.
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All that that may not be in
their hearts and being burrowed
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00:52:17,360 –> 00:52:19,760
into their hearts and burrowing
into their hearts.
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But these things might be there.
And in our homes we preserve
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00:52:24,000 –> 00:52:29,040
that.
We realized that we too, like
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00:52:29,040 –> 00:52:33,600
David’s people, are of the
fathers of Abraham, Isaac and
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00:52:33,600 –> 00:52:38,960
Jacob, strangers and sojours,
and hoping for the same
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00:52:38,960 –> 00:52:43,120
fulfilment as they hoped for the
same fulfilment that David hoped
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for.
Thou which has showed me great
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00:52:45,600 –> 00:52:47,760
and sore trouble, shall quicken
me.
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We are a separate people, my
dear young sisters, and let us
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preserve the heritage that God
has given us.
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Thank you.
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