Matthew Blewett – Class 6: Coming Home

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Welcome back, roads and sisters.
Our third speaker, this morning

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is brother Matthew, Blewett of
the Westville, South Africa,

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Ecclesia, the theme for brother
blewett’s classes.

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This week has been on the road
with The Arc.

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Today’s class is entitled coming
home tonight.

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Good morning, brothers and
sisters.

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I’d like to take this
opportunity to just to start

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with on behalf of my wife sister
picture.

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I’m sure she’s in the room and
my children, which definitely

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aren’t just to thank everyone
for their wonderful love and the

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grace that we receive while
we’ve been here at Shippensburg,

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we haven’t had a chance to speak
to everyone but certainly we’ve

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met a lot of new faces and
Brethren and sisters who have

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become dear friends to us
already in the short space of

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time and it’s been an amazing
experience for all of us.

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And I just want to commend you
all for the care that you’ve

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shown for us and Catering for
our every need.

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And I was just thinking to
myself, surely there’s a verse

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that could better to scrub the,
the care that you’ve shown to us

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and our appreciation.
And I was sitting for a while

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thinking that it must come from
the lips of port, and I was

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happy to see that it comes from
Philippians and the reason for

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that is because we are near
Philadelphia.

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So I thought that that’s
appropriate.

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When poor said these words,
which I say to you because this

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is how we feel, not because we
designed a gift that we decide

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fruit that may abound to your
account.

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But I have all in a band and I
am full having received of you

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the things which were sent from
you and odor of a sweet-smelling

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sacrifice acceptable.
Well, pleasing to God and

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everything we have received from
you this week, has been

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something that has been very
well appreciated by us as a

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family.
So, You for your love and your

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care.
And we certainly will be

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bringing that back to South
Africa, to tell them about your

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care for us there as well.
So, thank you for that.

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He’d been on quite a journey
with The Arc.

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We just to summarize yet again.
Have spent the first two

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sessions, considering the
principles of the Ark, this

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principle of Salvation that was
bound up.

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God revealing himself,
manifesting himself to us as our

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savior who was going to bring us
to Redemption and finally to

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manifest his glory We then in
the third part store, the way of

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Salvation how God has said to
us, that we will be saved

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through the process of
Resurrection.

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Through the cutting off of death
and through being given a new

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laughs that is the laugh of the
Lord Jesus.

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And then we saw how this parable
of Salvation continued, finally,

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to the conquest of the kingdoms
of men, when the wars of Jericho

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fell down, but in the midst of
all of that judgment there was

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this overriding Mercy as a
harlot was saved.

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And then finally, yesterday we
came to understand that God’s

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salvation plan came with a cost
because of human Pride, human

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sin that the arc indeed in the
form of the Lord.

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Jesus Christ went into
captivity.

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That there was a bruising of the
heel, but through that process,

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there was a game because we who
were aliens from the

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Commonwealth of Israel were
given exposure to this master

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plan.
And we’re only in this room here

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now because they fell and we
were given opportunity to become

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a part of the Salvation offered
first to the people of Israel.

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And so we come now to our final
part, which is an exciting

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section of scripture for me that
I’ve considered on many

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occasions in second, Samuel,
chapter 6, as we watch the, the

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last major event associated with
The Arc, which is the bringing

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of the Ark to Jerusalem Through
The Gardens of King David.

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And it’s an event that not only
finishes, our considerations,

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but again, teaches us, more of
some of the key principles of

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Salvation that we’ve learned all
the way along.

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As we’ve considered the Ark of
the Covenant and here we find

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the ark.
After having been returned with

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the seven months, it had spent
in the land of the Philistines,

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it had been returned it.
As I said to you, it eventually

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ended up in the house of a man
by the name of it.

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But a Deb, it stayed there for
some years.

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Until finally, a man by the name
of David came to the realization

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and it’s very interesting to
immediately see the insight and

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I know that I haven’t I’ve been
able to attend the classes of

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brother Roger, but I’m sure he
is open to you the way in which

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David had this incredible
insight into the things of God,

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which made him such a special
man, a man after God’s Own

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Heart.
And here, we see this, this man

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who had an Insight that this Arc
needed to come home.

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And for us looking with
perspective, it would seem

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obvious that the ark should come
to Jerusalem to Zion, but in the

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time of David What history?
The Jerusalem have.

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What important is headed ever
had?

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The prophecy is and and the
Psalms that we read about

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Jerusalem was still to come.
But here was a man who had seen

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something in this place.
It was quite remarkable.

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And, and I’ve spent many many,
many times discussing this with

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brothers and sisters.
What is it that allowed David to

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see that?
Jerusalem was a place where he

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would bring the Ark of
initially.

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Of course, the Lord would
confirm this in the, in the

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occasion of the numbering where
the Lord would say this is the

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place, which, of course, had
been spoken about by Moses that

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when you come into the promised
land, God will show you the

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place where his name will be.
But David had a very good

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feeling that it would be in
Jerusalem.

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David wrote in the Psalms yet
have I set my king upon my Holy

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Hill of Zion.
I will Decay to declare the

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decree.
Yahweh has said unto me you are

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my son this day have I begotten
you and so we may consider this

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for a while and we may think
well perhaps there was a natural

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reason.
Perhaps when David saw

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Jerusalem, he knew it would be a
good Capital City.

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It was up on a hill and if
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it’s Remains fairly up on a hill
though.

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It’s been built up around it and
you can see that if you were a

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soldier or King, you would say
this is a good place to to

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defend from the enemy.
But knowing David could that

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possibly have been his reason.
Of course, the only history

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perhaps that he could have
associated with Jerusalem, was

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the history associated with
that, man Melchizedek.

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And here’s an interesting point,
is that Melchizedek is only

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mentioned in three places.
I use the word places because

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he’s mentioned obviously a
number of times in each of those

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places in the Bible, it’s in
Genesis and Hebrews that we know

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well, but of course Hebrews is
quoting a Psalm of David. so no

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doubt when pull brings to lat
all that we may not have seen in

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the record of Genesis concerning
Melchizedek, he is doing it on

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the basis that David had picked
up that they would be a priest

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after the order of Melchizedek
and for your reference.

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Of course, that is in the Psalms
Psalm 110 the Lord hath sworn

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and will not repent.
You are a priest Forever After

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the order of Melchizedek, what
did David see in Melchizedek?

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Well, of course, it was this
great event with Abraham, but I

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think we must not also lose
sight of what the Hebrew writer

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picks up in the sense that
perhaps just like the Hebrew

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writer picks it up, that this
Melchizedek as we see in Hebrews

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7, verse 3 was without father
without mother without any

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ancestry.
It’s the way the spirit reveals

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milk is it to us.
I remember for many, many years

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being.
So concerned about that passage,

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and then I’d rather Harry tenant
just showing us how the spirit

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Just to reveal Melchizedek to us
in that.

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Why?
Because he was to be off to the

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order of the spirit not of the
Flesh.

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And could it be the David have
seen this this Melchizedek who

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would be a priest after the
order of, not the flesh, which

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was a liberty call priesthood,
but of the spirit, And this is

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the kind of inside that David,
of course, had second Samuel,

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chapter 6 and verse 2 says he
arose.

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Therefore, with all the people
that were with them, from bale

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of Judah to bring up from
thence, the Ark of God, whose

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name is called by the name of
Yahweh of hosts that dwells

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between the Caribbean and, of
course, the word there, dwells,

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again is in another version.
I think that New International

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Version and many other versions.
The word is in throne and we’ve

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spoken about this before this.
Idea of the Ark of the Covenant

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representing.
God as a king saving as a king,

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it was his throne and it’s very
relevant.

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I believe in second, Samuel six
as we see the story.

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Play out that the chapter begins
with an emphasis because I want

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to show you that as the story
plays itself out and we see

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David and we see the arc, we’re
going to see the great spiritual

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Insight.
That this man had of his

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position in relation to God.
Remember he was Was the king of

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Israel anointed sir.
And now he was going to bring

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the ark and what did he see in
that process of bringing the ark

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back to Jerusalem?
And I think as we read on, in

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the story, we will see.
It is a very clear in fact, in

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the whole life of David, I’m
convinced that he had a

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strategy, it was like his master
strategy and that was to

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re-establish in the eyes of
Israel, their true God.

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There’s much evidence for this,
we don’t have time to go into

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it, but as you look at the life
of David, there is a clear

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effort made by David to get
Israel to see beyond him as the

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visible King back to seeing who
their true king is, of course,

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is what Samuel had wanted, right
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And of course, if you think
about it, ultimately, this is

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the work of the greater son of
David.

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We often think of the Lord Jesus
Christ as a king, as an end in

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itself.
But of course, the letter to the

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Corinthians says these words, it
says then comes the end when he

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shall have delivered up the
kingdom of God.

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Even the father, when he shall
have, put down all Rule and all

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authority for.
He must Reign until he has put

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all enemies under his feet.
The Last Enemy that shall be.

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Destroyed is death and then it
says in verse 28, and when all

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things shall be subdued unto
him, that is Jesus, then shall

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the son, also himself be subject
unto A Hymn that is God that put

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all things under him that God
may be all in all.

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So even Jesus at the End of Time
reveals to the world.

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The true king of all the Earth,
just like, I believe David head

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as a strategy to try and teach
the children of Israel.

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And so, David was going to bring
the ark home.

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He was going to bring it to
Jerusalem and no matter what our

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his perception may have been of
Jerusalem.

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What he wanted to do was to
bring it into the center of

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Israel’s existence.
He had established Jerusalem now

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as the capital city, and he knew
the art needed to be there and

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and there lies a great lesson,
isn’t it?

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You see in the history of Israel
before they come into the

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promised land, the arcade always
be in the center.

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It had been in the center of the
highwomen.

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Of holies, which was in the
center of the Tabernacle, which

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was in the center of the
encampment of the children of

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Israel.
It had always been the central

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aspect of their Worship in their
life.

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If you were going to visit a
friend, you would always be

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Crossing almost past where the
ark was, you wouldn’t be able to

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see it but you would know it was
there.

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If you were going across to
another in Camp and on the other

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side of the Tabernacle, you
would need to go past where you

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knew the ark was, it was always
visible.

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It was in the center of their
dwelling, so David you he needed

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to bring the ark back to the
center of Israel’s dwelling.

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And of course, therein lies the
very first lesson for us.

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Is the ark, the center of our
living?

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Is it the center of our camp?
Do people who meet us perceive

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immediately that our
relationship with the Lord?

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Jesus Christ in, with his father
is Central to our lives.

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Or is it in some place?
In our lives.

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Yes.
But in the house of abinadab out

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there, not really having that
larger impact as it would have

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if it was in the middle of our
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The land of your life.
Where is the ark residing?

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Does?
It have pride of place?

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Is it at the center to be seen
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And so for Israel, this was not
the case and David was set to

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change it verse 3 and they set
the Ark on a new guard upon a

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new cart and brought it out of
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That wasn’t good beer and booze
and I ho a high.

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Oh, the sons of abinadab, drove
the new cart and they brought it

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out of the house of a bit of dad
which was a gibeah company, The

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Arc and a higher went before the
ark and David and all the house

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of Israel played before, Yahweh
and all manner of instruments

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made of fur would even on Harps
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Tim rules cornets and symbols.
They came to Nikon’s threshing

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floor and it was a put forth his
hand to to the Ark of God and

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took hold of it for the ox and
shook it.

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And the anger of Yahweh was
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God smote him there for his era
and there he died by the Ark of

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God.
Can you imagine the contrasting

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emotions of that day?
Here was a day of Celebration

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this day that I guess David had
prepared for not well enough as

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we shall see.
But this day of expectation and

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last there were going to bring
the ark away from from a man’s

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home where they’ve been hidden
for all these years now, they

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were going to bring it to the
center of Israel and there was

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Joy, the musical instruments
were playing the singing.

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Like we were here tonight was
was taking place to Celebration

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the festivity.
The ark was returning to its

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rightful place at the center of
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The tambourines, the castanets,
the symbols, The Return of the

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King to his rightful place.
The joy could hardly be

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contained.
And then the oxen stumbled.

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And the Ark begins to fall and
it was it does work.

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For all of us might seem like
the natural thing to do.

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It’s almost like a natural
reaction.

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He stretches his hand out of
bent, the arc from hitting the

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ground, in a flesh, in a moment.
Was, is lying dead on the

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ground, the Music Stops.
The Oxen are pulled to a halt.

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There is disbelief, there is
anger.

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Tears began to flow and the
project is aborted.

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What a contrast for a moment of
joy to a moment of sadness and

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devastation.
And as we have focused on

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throughout the series, what are
the principles of Salvation

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taught to us in that moment?
That that contrasting

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conflicting moment as we see
other lying Dead next to the Ark

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of the Covenant?
Well, first of all, this is

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true, is it not that God is
teaching us that with salvation

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as free and full as it is?
There is a way, there is a

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process as much as it abounds
with forgiveness and Grace, that

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the depth of which we saw the
saving of Rahab the Harlot.

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It can only be attained when a
man approaches God on his terms.

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God is ever approachable but
would never allow us to dictate

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the terms.
This is the failing point of

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many who will never come to
God’s solution as free and full

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as it is because human Pride,
the great enemy is it not means

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that they cannot accept God’s
processes.

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And I have met dear friends who
I work with who my I love.

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Who will never come to God,
because they will never accept

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his wife.
They understand all the

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principles, they love the
virtues.

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But not that way.
Not according to his way and his

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word just like the proudly to
Naaman who had a real lesson to

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learn hadn’t.
He win.

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God said, having been cursed to
death with Leprosy and he was

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offered salvation on such clear
terms was it not dip yourself

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seven times and Jordan but on of
the rivers where I come from of

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Assyria far more effective for
washing.

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They are larger.
They are cleaner.

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This does not make sense.
Washing Jordan seven times and

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you will be clean.
How many times do we hear people

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talking about?
God not wishing to follow his

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outdated, or archaic commands of
the Bible, but they believe in

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him, they worship in, but but,
but not all those funny rules.

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You have in the Bible.
I’m sure they were for another

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time.
They don’t make sense.

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Now, They don’t make sense to
me.

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Do we want to worship a God who
just makes sense to us?

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God wouldn’t require.
That of me it doesn’t make

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sense.
You see it made sense.

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Think about it.
It makes sense to use a sons of

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a bit of Deb to manage the
transportation.

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The are could be in there for 20
years.

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They had grown up with The Arc.
But it was an ERA, it made sense

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to put the Ark on a cart.
The Philistines had done exactly

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the same.
They had sent that the auction

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Israel like that.
But it was an ERA, it made sense

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to use oxygen for transport of
the arguments say, wow, well

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walking would have taken too
long.

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Israel needed to get its king in
the center, as quick as

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possible.
We sometimes feel like this, we,

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we need to make the things
happen as quick as possible.

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It was a matter of urgency.
But it wasn’t there.

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It made sense to stop the arc
from falling off the cart and

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smashing on the ground on this
occasion of great joy.

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What an embarrassment they would
have been a simple nudge Would

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Do no harm.
But it was an error.

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For actions brothers and sisters
that all made sense, floor for

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blatant contradictions of God’s
laws and terms as laid out in

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the commandant surrounding the
dealings.

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With the Ark of the Covenant and
the rules were simple.

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Number one, only the cathode
family of the Levites were

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permitted to carry the ark.
The ark must never be placed on

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a cart.
The ark must always be carried.

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The ark must never be touched
for rules.

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Very simple.
This is the way you work with my

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salvation.
Buy them, and you will have it

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full and free disobey them.
And there is no room, God’s

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salvation, friends, brothers and
sisters has nothing to do with

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common sense.
God requires us to

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unequivocally, and this is the
hardest part, isn’t it except

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his sins that we approached him?
According to Simple Rules.

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He has put in place even when
sometimes those rules.

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Make no sense to us at all.
He calls this motive approach

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faith.
Believing even when sometimes it

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doesn’t make any sense at all.
And this is what is required of

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us to come and worship God in
this way.

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And the anger, it says, in verse
7, of Yahweh was kindled against

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Bowser and God smote him.
There for his error and there he

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died by the Ark of God.
And the word of God is

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abundantly clear on this matter,
in the parallel reference in the

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first of Chronicles, 15 verse
13, it adds a little phrase and

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that supports what we’ve been
saying it is where David was was

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reflecting on the situation for
because you did it.

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Not at the first Yahweh, Our God
made a breach upon us for that.

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We sought him, not after the Jew
order, there was a Jew order.

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There was a way to work with
salvation.

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We didn’t follow it.
We were in error.

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The second principle is one that
we have visited before that.

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We see in this incident, the
hand that saves is the hand that

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destroys and and the record
places, I think almost an extra

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piece of detail by saying that
it was a fell down right next to

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the ark.
It creates this image in our

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mind, doesn’t it could have just
said that, he was struck down,

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but we get this image of Rosa,
lying Dead next to work.

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For all of Israel would have
been a Full of life.

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A dead man lying next to the
pattern of Salvation.

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The great juxtaposition, isn’t
it of the Ark of God saving?

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As we’ve said before at its
core, it was a coffin without

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the gold and the mercy seat and
the covering care of him.

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It was a coffin prepared and
ready to take was it off because

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without faith without the
covering of gold and all the

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other principles that we spoke
of.

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That’s all he was.
And that’s all it has become for

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Rosa.
Place of death.

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Without faith and unquestioning
commitment to obedience to our

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god.
The Arc is nothing more than

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that for us as well.
God’s plan for salvation can

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have no Effectiveness for those
who come to it without faith.

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By contrast, the same hand that
saves becomes the hand that

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destroys.
It is the great principle of

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God’s plan.
The water they’d saved Noah

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destroyed, all the people of his
time, the wars of crushed down

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the children of Jericho with a
people of Jericho, is the same

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wall that saved Rahab.
This is the goodness and

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severity of the God.
We worship.

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And one final principle that we
see taking place in the story of

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the movement of the Ark and the
failure in the occasion of the

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breach upon.
It was a Pair Azusa, is that the

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law of the Harvest is a is a
fundamental principle of

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Salvation.
And and and we see this

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happening over again, I’m not
just talking about bringing

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people to baptism here.
I’m talking about ultimately

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saving people which we are
working through, in our own

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lives at this time and I refer
to the law of the Harvest.

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Because there is this law that
God has in place, which is a

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process by which we are saved.
We live in a world where

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everything happens quickly,
isn’t it.

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And it’s getting quicker and
faster and faster, we have

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instant everything and being in
America for just over a week,

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they are fast food stores.
Wherever I look, I never have to

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even imagine where the fun
because if someone just has the

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thought that they would like
food, we need to place it in

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front of them.
That’s the world we live in.

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And so, of course, when it comes
to Salvation the Temptation, is

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that we can have the same But
you see God, taught what I

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believe is the Great Law to the
farmers of the time and and

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continues.
If any of you are farmers to

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teach us about the law of the
Harvest and that is that when it

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comes to Salvation, God works
with men and women through a

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slow and persistent development
of their faith through a process

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of endurance.
The farmer.

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You see?
He plows the field.

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That’s the first step and then
he waits for the right time just

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the right time to plant the
seed.

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And then he must wait and have
faith that the early rains will

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come and the early rains.
If by God’s grace come, then he

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will wait and see the saplings
begin to grow.

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And then he will have to wait
for the the next set of reins to

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come to ensure that those
saplings grow into into healthy

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plants.
And then he has to wait.

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In hope that those healthy
plants will produce the fruit

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for which he had started the
whole process in the beginning.

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And this is the law of the
Harvest.

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It is a slow.
But consistent process.

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You might say, well, what does
this have to do with a good

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point, brother?
Matthew, but what does this have

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to do with this Ark of the
Covenant lying on the floor?

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The point is this God said, you
will never take it on a cot.

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You’ll carry imagine how long it
would have taken to send me an

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all the way up to.
We have been Adair was to carry

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this fairly heavy item on their
shoulders from there all the way

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to Jerusalem.
God was saying, my art will move

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at a certain Pace, my salvation
will move at a pace.

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Perhaps not the pace that you
wanted it, but this is the way

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that I work with men and women.
And notice how, when David

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brings the art beggar, you must
have seen this before the second

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time.
It says, listen in verse 13.

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It was.
So, this is the second bringing

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back of the Ark.
It was so that when those Who

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Bore The Arc of Yahweh had gone
six Paces, he sacrificed an ox

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and effect and cough.
He slows it down even more than

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the commander that awful.
I believe.

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He’s got the list of this.
We’re not going to rush this.

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We will, we will take six
spaces, will have a sacrifice,

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and they will take another six
spaces and we’ll have a

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sacrifice.
The whole process has slowed,

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and there’s a list and there for
us.

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God is working in us, our final
salvation and sometimes

436
00:25:24,600 –> 00:25:26,400
especially in the midst of
trial.

437
00:25:26,500 –> 00:25:32,500
It is slow time just slows down
in Tribulation because all the

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routine of life goes, it’s the
routine of life.

439
00:25:34,900 –> 00:25:38,700
That makes things go fast.
The Monday is are the same and

440
00:25:38,700 –> 00:25:41,400
the Tuesdays are the same and
the Sunday’s are the same and

441
00:25:41,400 –> 00:25:43,200
God brings crisis into your
life.

442
00:25:43,200 –> 00:25:47,500
And all of that goes and time
slows down and there he works

443
00:25:47,500 –> 00:25:50,800
with us slowly.
Looking faith and salvation in

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US.
And so, it is here, there’s

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principle.
I believe of the law of the

446
00:25:55,700 –> 00:25:59,400
Harvest is being taught having
experienced.

447
00:25:59,400 –> 00:26:03,100
The tragedy of was a, The Arc is
brought to the house of one

448
00:26:03,100 –> 00:26:06,700
obededom, the gittite and David
returns to Jerusalem to reassess

449
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his plans.
It says, in verse 9, David was

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afraid of Yahweh that day.
And he said, how shall the Ark

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00:26:12,000 –> 00:26:15,200
of Yahweh come to me?
So David would not remove the

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Arc of Yahweh to him into the
city of David, but David carried

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it aside into the house of
obededom.

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The gittite, it’s an important
question.

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And it, how am I going to get
the Arc of Yahweh to me?

456
00:26:27,000 –> 00:26:30,200
How am I going to bring this
this message of Salvation to the

457
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center of Israel?
And of course, we’ve already

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found the answer, only through
the due process through the way

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that God had said it should be
done.

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It would be done through the
carrying of those who were from

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lever.
In the chronicle record, it

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says, in 1st of Chronicles 15
verse 1, which is the parallel

463
00:26:47,800 –> 00:26:51,300
record, and David made him a
houses in the city of David and

464
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prepared a place for the Ark of
God and pitched for a detent,

465
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and David said, verse To None or
two.

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00:26:56,800 –> 00:26:59,400
Carry the Ark of God, but the
Levites for them hath.

467
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Yahweh chosen to carry the Ark
of God and Minister unto him

468
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forever and David gathered, all
his real together to Jerusalem

469
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to bring up the Ark of Yahweh
and his place which he had

470
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prepared for it.
And so here is David with a

471
00:27:10,800 –> 00:27:14,000
different view completely.
He’s obviously gone back and

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00:27:14,000 –> 00:27:17,700
looked at the detail.
He slowed down, he’s prepared.

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00:27:17,700 –> 00:27:20,900
Now, you see, that’s the other
aspect of why we have to slow

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00:27:20,900 –> 00:27:23,400
down.
There is a sense of preparation,

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00:27:23,900 –> 00:27:28,400
you know what Amos says?
To Israel prepare to meet thy

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00:27:28,400 –> 00:27:30,300
God o Israel.
There’s a process of

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00:27:30,300 –> 00:27:35,300
preparation, he prepares a tent.
Everything is made really so

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00:27:35,300 –> 00:27:38,600
that the arc can be returned,
interesting detail there.

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00:27:40,100 –> 00:27:45,000
Interesting detail even though
David is slowing down, he may

480
00:27:45,000 –> 00:27:48,400
well have thought to himself,
maybe I should wait until we

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move on to the process of the
temple.

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00:27:50,300 –> 00:27:53,200
And that is completed.
Then bring the ark because

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00:27:53,600 –> 00:27:56,200
really speaking there was a
precedent for just a tent in

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which the ark should dwell, not
that I can find and perhaps one

485
00:27:59,200 –> 00:28:01,500
has been revealed to you and
then I’ll be shown by all of you

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00:28:01,500 –> 00:28:03,800
afterwards.
There was a real precedent by

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which he should just put a tent
and put the Ark in it.

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00:28:06,000 –> 00:28:09,000
But it’s an interesting Insight
that we learning here from David

489
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and perhaps So there’s this,
although the aren’t needed to be

490
00:28:12,900 –> 00:28:15,500
moved in the correct way, and
they needed to be there process

491
00:28:15,500 –> 00:28:18,500
of that, slow process.
It doesn’t stop us from doing

492
00:28:18,500 –> 00:28:20,700
things until everything, is
ready.

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00:28:22,000 –> 00:28:25,000
David knew how important it
still was to get the arc at the

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center of Israel’s worship.
And so although he was now going

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00:28:28,600 –> 00:28:31,700
to transport it in the creek way
he was prepared to still do it

496
00:28:31,800 –> 00:28:35,200
even though the temple was not
yet complete and I think that’s

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00:28:35,200 –> 00:28:38,000
a list and also for us on the
Other Extreme to balance these

498
00:28:38,000 –> 00:28:40,700
things.
That sometimes we want

499
00:28:40,700 –> 00:28:44,000
everything to be in place before
we move forward, we want

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00:28:44,000 –> 00:28:46,100
everything.
And and this often happens when

501
00:28:46,100 –> 00:28:49,000
you speak to people who are
preparing for baptism that they

502
00:28:49,000 –> 00:28:51,000
almost feel that they need to
reach the point that none of us

503
00:28:51,000 –> 00:28:53,900
will ever reach before.
I can be baptized before they

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00:28:53,900 –> 00:28:55,800
can bring Salvation into their
heart.

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00:28:57,200 –> 00:28:59,900
Of course, perhaps David is
teaching us that list of the

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temple would come.
But it was important that they

507
00:29:03,000 –> 00:29:07,700
are get into the center of
Israel’s dwelling, become the

508
00:29:07,700 –> 00:29:11,600
center of their hearts, the
center of their life.

509
00:29:11,900 –> 00:29:15,200
And so David studies, the
correct procedures he realizes

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00:29:15,200 –> 00:29:17,100
that the Levites must carry the
ark.

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00:29:17,200 –> 00:29:19,500
And, of course, as you are
well-schooled in the things of

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God, you will know that.
It was not only the Levites, but

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00:29:21,900 –> 00:29:24,500
it was the children of kohath
that were given the

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00:29:24,500 –> 00:29:27,200
responsibility.
And so I want to speak Few

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00:29:27,200 –> 00:29:30,800
moments on obededom because it’s
always worth a good discussion.

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00:29:31,700 –> 00:29:33,900
I think we have a slider.
Lets you always might be

517
00:29:33,900 –> 00:29:38,500
wondering why we have this up.
There’s a couple of verses and I

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00:29:38,500 –> 00:29:42,300
just got them up there that I
think put together quite a nice

519
00:29:42,300 –> 00:29:45,400
idea concerning obededom and I
know that there are number of

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00:29:45,400 –> 00:29:48,100
views that we can have of
obededom.

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00:29:48,400 –> 00:29:51,400
I think by stringing together, 1
Chronicles 26, first one, I’m

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00:29:51,408 –> 00:29:53,300
just going to read the verses.
They are up there for you,

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00:29:53,700 –> 00:29:57,300
concerning the divisions of the
porches of the core Hearts was a

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00:29:57,300 –> 00:30:00,400
whole bunch of interesting names
including their verse 4.

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00:30:00,600 –> 00:30:05,300
Moreover, the sons of obed-edom.
So in the first of Chronicles 26

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00:30:05,600 –> 00:30:10,100
obededom, it Seam is one of
those of the sons of Korah.

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00:30:11,200 –> 00:30:16,200
If we link that two numbers 16
verse 1, we find that Cora was

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00:30:16,200 –> 00:30:18,900
one of the sons of kohath.
So although we don’t learn a

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00:30:18,900 –> 00:30:22,000
directly in first of Chronicles,
26, we learned that the

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00:30:22,000 –> 00:30:25,300
obededom, our first of
Chronicles 26, would have been a

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00:30:25,300 –> 00:30:27,300
CO effort.
And then, of course, if you go

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00:30:27,300 –> 00:30:33,700
to numbers 4 and verse 15, we
learn that the porches those who

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00:30:33,700 –> 00:30:35,600
were to carry the ark as I’ve
said before.

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00:30:35,700 –> 00:30:39,900
Where the coitus So, those three
verses over there as first three

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00:30:39,900 –> 00:30:42,800
are going are quite nice in
themselves to show that the

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00:30:42,800 –> 00:30:47,000
obededom.
Our first Chronicles 26 is a KOA

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00:30:47,000 –> 00:30:49,100
thought, who would have been the
right person to carry the ark.

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00:30:49,100 –> 00:30:51,100
So God, a David had made the
correct choice.

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00:30:51,100 –> 00:30:54,200
Now, of course, the leap we’ve
had to make is that the obededom

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00:30:54,200 –> 00:30:57,700
our first Chronicles 26 is the
obededom of second Samuel

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00:30:57,700 –> 00:31:00,400
chapter six.
All right, so let’s consider

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00:31:00,400 –> 00:31:06,200
this for a moment and there are
a number of views we can take on

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00:31:06,200 –> 00:31:10,000
this.
First of all, this would seem

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00:31:10,000 –> 00:31:12,600
correct because there’s nine
obededom is quite a strange

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00:31:12,600 –> 00:31:13,900
name.
It’s not like it’s a common

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00:31:13,900 –> 00:31:18,900
name, used in Israel’s a naming
so it would be unlikely to me at

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00:31:18,900 –> 00:31:21,400
least that there are a number of
obededom is one who happens to

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00:31:21,400 –> 00:31:26,300
be a caliphate and another who
happens to be a guitar act as we

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00:31:26,300 –> 00:31:30,700
have this obededom described as
and so a number of suggestions

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00:31:30,700 –> 00:31:34,600
have come up to deal with the
one issue and that is that he is

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00:31:34,600 –> 00:31:40,300
cord obededom the gittite Well,
these are the possible

552
00:31:40,300 –> 00:31:43,300
explanations because if he’s a
cathode how can he be a guitar

553
00:31:43,300 –> 00:31:45,600
at 41?
You could ignore the other

554
00:31:45,600 –> 00:31:48,700
references, to obededom as I’ve
been suggesting and say that

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00:31:48,700 –> 00:31:50,000
this overdetermined second
Samuel.

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00:31:50,000 –> 00:31:52,700
Chapter 6 is not the same as the
one that we have here, but that

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00:31:52,700 –> 00:31:55,500
would seem to just break all the
types of the fact that David had

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00:31:55,500 –> 00:31:57,400
realized it needed to be carried
by the Levites.

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00:31:57,700 –> 00:31:59,400
I don’t think that’s a
reasonable suggestion.

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00:31:59,400 –> 00:32:01,600
So hopefully, with your
permission, we’ll put that one

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00:32:01,600 –> 00:32:05,000
out of the way.
The second suggestion that is

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00:32:05,000 –> 00:32:10,800
often given is this, that
obededom was a levite who happen

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00:32:10,800 –> 00:32:14,300
to live in a city called guess
he for in fact in the your

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00:32:14,300 –> 00:32:19,400
central margin needs to get I it
will refer you back to where the

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00:32:19,400 –> 00:32:23,800
Stan get here for is mentioned
as one of the levitical towns

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00:32:24,200 –> 00:32:26,700
and Anglers concordance
suggests.

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00:32:26,800 –> 00:32:29,900
They’re people that lived in the
town of gath, heathyr, may have

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00:32:29,900 –> 00:32:35,600
been called guitars Yes, this is
a possibility I put to you.

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00:32:36,100 –> 00:32:38,200
There is an output.
It’s a possibility only is

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00:32:38,200 –> 00:32:41,000
because when we find guitars
mentioned, other words, they

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00:32:41,000 –> 00:32:43,200
clearly seem to be the people
who have come from Death.

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00:32:43,300 –> 00:32:46,600
With the same phrase is used, so
it would seem awkward that this

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00:32:46,600 –> 00:32:49,700
phrase would be used on one
occasion, just to refer to a

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00:32:49,708 –> 00:32:52,400
leave out of the other cases to
refer to men who had come from

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00:32:52,400 –> 00:32:55,100
the land of philistia, as we
meet them later on in the

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00:32:55,100 –> 00:32:58,700
experiences of David.
And having said that, even if we

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00:32:58,700 –> 00:33:02,600
accept that that argument, which
may be true We would wonder why

578
00:33:02,600 –> 00:33:04,500
one of the cities that they
lived in was called get a three

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00:33:04,500 –> 00:33:06,600
month.
We would still question.

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00:33:06,600 –> 00:33:10,900
Why was a city that was to be a
populated by the, the Levites

581
00:33:10,900 –> 00:33:14,200
actually given the name, get 31,
where the nine gas as we know,

582
00:33:14,300 –> 00:33:15,800
was associated with the
Philistines.

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00:33:15,800 –> 00:33:18,700
It was a name of the Gentile
Nations.

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00:33:19,700 –> 00:33:22,300
I want to suggest you, of
course, a third option, which,

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00:33:22,300 –> 00:33:23,400
of course I think is the right
option.

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00:33:23,400 –> 00:33:28,300
Otherwise I wouldn’t have lifted
to last and that is coming be to

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00:33:28,300 –> 00:33:31,200
Joshua, 13.
Joshua 13, where we have the

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00:33:31,200 –> 00:33:35,800
guitar specifically mentioned.
Joshua 13.

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00:33:36,000 –> 00:33:40,500
Very interesting 9 obed-edom.
I already them.

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00:33:40,600 –> 00:33:51,700
Joshua. 30 verse 3.
There was some land that hadn’t

591
00:33:51,700 –> 00:33:55,100
been possessed.
It says, in verse 2.

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00:33:55,300 –> 00:33:58,400
This is the land that yet
remains Joshua’s message.

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00:33:58,400 –> 00:34:02,500
All the borders of the
Philistines and Olga Sherry from

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00:34:02,500 –> 00:34:05,500
sigh Hall, which is before
Egypt, even unto the borders of

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00:34:05,500 –> 00:34:09,000
ekron northward, which is
counter to the kale out, five

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00:34:09,000 –> 00:34:13,699
Lords of the Philistines, the
Gaza fats, the esto farts, the

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00:34:13,699 –> 00:34:18,800
ishkanani Arts, the guitar case,
and the extra nights, also the a

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00:34:18,800 –> 00:34:21,400
vice.
So the guitars were a part of

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00:34:21,400 –> 00:34:24,400
those Nations that had not been
conquered in the days of Joshua.

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00:34:26,199 –> 00:34:27,300
Now where do we come across
them?

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00:34:27,300 –> 00:34:30,400
Next.
Well, first of Samuel 6, the

602
00:34:30,408 –> 00:34:34,199
last reference on the slide, the
first of Samuel’s 6, you come

603
00:34:34,199 –> 00:34:48,699
across your first of Samuel’s 6.
Soon as yeah.

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00:34:50,600 –> 00:34:54,000
The five Lords of the
Philistines, all these are the

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00:34:54,000 –> 00:34:57,000
five Lords adjust should be
speaking of when they had seen

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00:34:57,000 –> 00:34:59,800
it, that is the ark.
They returned to occur on the

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00:34:59,800 –> 00:35:02,200
same day.
And these are the gold and

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00:35:02,200 –> 00:35:05,600
emeralds, remember they made
those five tumors and five mice,

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00:35:05,700 –> 00:35:08,000
which the Philistines returned
for a trespass, offering unto,

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00:35:08,000 –> 00:35:15,400
Yahweh for ashdod, 14, Gaza, 14,
Ashkelon, 1/4 Gap, 14 ekron,

611
00:35:15,400 –> 00:35:19,600
one.
So, here we have outside of the

612
00:35:19,600 –> 00:35:21,600
link that we’d Between.
Oh but even the guitar,

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00:35:21,600 –> 00:35:24,200
potentially with the car thought
salary completely separate.

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00:35:24,200 –> 00:35:26,100
We have now.
These guitars also been linked

615
00:35:26,100 –> 00:35:31,000
to the arc by coincidence.
We have them mentioned as

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00:35:31,000 –> 00:35:34,700
guitars as well as you remained
and now we have them being one

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00:35:34,700 –> 00:35:36,700
of those Lords.
One of those Nations that was

618
00:35:36,700 –> 00:35:39,200
exposed to the arc.
And this is the point that we

619
00:35:39,207 –> 00:35:41,800
were talking about yesterday.
And I suggest you that this

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00:35:41,800 –> 00:35:45,800
obededom the gittite Was a man
who had converted.

621
00:35:46,600 –> 00:35:51,100
Having been someone exposed as a
gentile to the things of God, to

622
00:35:51,100 –> 00:35:54,200
Yahweh and having seen the ark.
His interest was specifically in

623
00:35:54,200 –> 00:35:59,300
the ark That he became one of
those who became of the order of

624
00:35:59,300 –> 00:36:03,400
the levitical order and he
became a gentile grafted in

625
00:36:04,300 –> 00:36:06,200
that’s about the most proof I
can give you of that.

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00:36:06,300 –> 00:36:10,000
Suffice it to say, only one last
thing that when the true are

627
00:36:10,000 –> 00:36:14,700
came, the Lord Jesus Christ and
he was going up towards Calvary

628
00:36:15,700 –> 00:36:19,500
and he couldn’t bear the weight
of the burden of the Cross.

629
00:36:19,500 –> 00:36:22,300
And he fell down.
It was a gentile, was it not

630
00:36:22,900 –> 00:36:25,000
Simon of Cyrene.
He was caught.

631
00:36:25,600 –> 00:36:28,800
Help him Carry the Cross.
Maybe all these patterns were

632
00:36:28,800 –> 00:36:31,700
pointing together that even at
this stage, God was sending out

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00:36:31,700 –> 00:36:34,300
the message that there would be
a place for the aliens of the

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00:36:34,308 –> 00:36:37,500
Commonwealth of Israel.
This man obededom, the gittite

635
00:36:37,500 –> 00:36:39,300
echoing fart.
Oh yes.

636
00:36:39,400 –> 00:36:42,200
Because God can of these Stones.
Raise up a seed.

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00:36:43,300 –> 00:36:46,500
To Abraham because the children
of Abraham are the children of

638
00:36:46,500 –> 00:36:49,900
Faith, a man who shows Faith
Like Rahab showed can be grafted

639
00:36:49,900 –> 00:36:52,700
a rayon rayon was grafted right
into the Royal Line.

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00:36:53,300 –> 00:36:55,800
Do we think that obededom
couldn’t be grafted in to become

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00:36:55,800 –> 00:37:00,200
a of the order of the kohathites
course he could and here he is.

642
00:37:01,100 –> 00:37:05,000
Carrying the Ark of the Covenant
to the place, where it belongs

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00:37:05,700 –> 00:37:10,300
to the place, where God had
meant it to be verse 14 of

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00:37:10,300 –> 00:37:14,000
second.
Samuel six. and David danced

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00:37:14,300 –> 00:37:18,500
before Yahweh with all his
might, David was good with a

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00:37:18,508 –> 00:37:21,400
linen ephod.
So David and all the house of

647
00:37:21,400 –> 00:37:24,100
Israel, brought up the Ark of
Yahweh with shouting, with the

648
00:37:24,100 –> 00:37:27,800
sound of the trumpet.
You see for David this was a day

649
00:37:27,800 –> 00:37:30,900
of Celebration because this was
the king of Israel.

650
00:37:32,100 –> 00:37:35,400
Not him, it’s a great study.
We will talk a bit more about in

651
00:37:35,400 –> 00:37:37,700
a moment but this was the king
of Israel.

652
00:37:37,700 –> 00:37:42,100
And when that Ark was coming up
towards the Gates of Jerusalem,

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00:37:42,100 –> 00:37:45,000
I believe many of David’s Psalms
were spoken of reflecting on

654
00:37:45,000 –> 00:37:48,300
that occasion as for David.
He could see with the people

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00:37:48,300 –> 00:37:49,700
could see it.
There’s another story, but he

656
00:37:49,700 –> 00:37:53,000
could see the king returning
coming home.

657
00:37:54,700 –> 00:37:58,100
David says in Psalm 99 Yahweh
rains.

658
00:37:58,100 –> 00:38:01,000
That the people Trimble he sits
between the care of them.

659
00:38:01,100 –> 00:38:03,200
Oh, there’s this thoughts about
the ark.

660
00:38:03,200 –> 00:38:07,700
Let the Earth be moved, Yahweh
is great in Zion, he is high

661
00:38:07,700 –> 00:38:09,900
above all the people David’s
mine in.

662
00:38:09,900 –> 00:38:12,900
Psalm 99 is on the ark and the
fact that he’s enthroned between

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00:38:12,900 –> 00:38:15,500
the care of him and he’s coming
back to Jerusalem as king.

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00:38:16,500 –> 00:38:21,700
Look at Psalm 132 says this in
Psalm 132 verse 8 arise are

665
00:38:21,700 –> 00:38:26,000
Yahweh.
Into your wrist, you and the Arc

666
00:38:26,000 –> 00:38:29,000
of your strength, let your
priest be clothed with

667
00:38:29,000 –> 00:38:31,100
righteousness where we’re going
to see, they wearing the clothes

668
00:38:31,100 –> 00:38:34,600
of the priests and that you’re
saying, shout for Joy for your

669
00:38:34,600 –> 00:38:37,900
servant, David sake, turn not
away the face of your anointed

670
00:38:37,900 –> 00:38:43,000
for Yahweh has chosen Zion, he
has desired for his habitation.

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00:38:43,300 –> 00:38:46,700
This is my rest forever here.
I will dwell for, I have desired

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00:38:46,700 –> 00:38:49,200
it.
Of course, we know this this was

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00:38:49,200 –> 00:38:52,300
more a one of the songs that
Hezekiah had brought to be, but

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00:38:52,300 –> 00:38:55,900
the point is the same that the
ark would return to Jerusalem.

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00:38:56,400 –> 00:39:02,300
They would come as a king to
Jerusalem. and so we read as we

676
00:39:02,300 –> 00:39:06,300
continue in the episode of
second, Samuel and the joy and

677
00:39:06,300 –> 00:39:12,700
the excitement, but there is a
slight sad side.

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00:39:12,700 –> 00:39:16,100
Should we say to this incident
that teaches us a bit more about

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00:39:16,100 –> 00:39:19,900
the attitude of David and the
attitude of those surrounding,

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00:39:20,500 –> 00:39:24,100
we pick it up in verse 20.
Then David returned to bless

681
00:39:24,100 –> 00:39:26,700
this house sold in Michal.
The daughter of Saul came out to

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00:39:26,700 –> 00:39:31,800
meet David and said how glorious
was the king of Israel today?

683
00:39:32,300 –> 00:39:36,000
Who uncovered himself today in
the eyes of the handmaids of his

684
00:39:36,000 –> 00:39:39,700
servants as one of the vein
fellows, shamelessly and

685
00:39:39,700 –> 00:39:45,500
covereth himself.
Now, in a way, I’m glad Michael

686
00:39:45,500 –> 00:39:48,900
said these words because it
again teaches us about the mind

687
00:39:48,900 –> 00:39:51,700
of this man.
David, now, I know that there’s

688
00:39:51,700 –> 00:39:54,300
a lot we can draw from the fact
that when he took off his robes,

689
00:39:54,300 –> 00:39:57,500
it says that he was wearing a
linen ephod and there is

690
00:39:57,500 –> 00:40:00,600
certainly a relationship there
with with the priest but but I

691
00:40:00,607 –> 00:40:04,000
just want us to take a further
step back because when Michael

692
00:40:04,000 –> 00:40:07,400
Speaks to te David, she says how
glorious, not as a word.

693
00:40:07,400 –> 00:40:11,300
How glorious is the king of
Israel and the words there,

694
00:40:11,300 –> 00:40:15,200
which means Uncover in fact mean
disrobe it makes a lot more

695
00:40:15,200 –> 00:40:17,300
sense.
Here was Michal.

696
00:40:17,600 –> 00:40:20,900
The daughter of saw the man who
had exhibited Pride his whole

697
00:40:20,900 –> 00:40:23,600
life that had been his issue
between him and his God.

698
00:40:24,700 –> 00:40:28,500
And she sees David, all she can
see is that he’s the king and

699
00:40:28,500 –> 00:40:31,400
this was a very public moment
for David.

700
00:40:31,400 –> 00:40:34,100
This was a moment for him to
draw the support of all Israel

701
00:40:34,300 –> 00:40:36,700
and instead of doing that he
takes his Royal robe off.

702
00:40:37,900 –> 00:40:40,200
He dive this himself of his
kingship.

703
00:40:40,900 –> 00:40:43,200
How glorious did the king of
Israel up here?

704
00:40:43,500 –> 00:40:50,300
She says But the mind of David.
I’m not your king God, you see

705
00:40:50,400 –> 00:40:53,500
here comes your king and in the
presence of this King I take my

706
00:40:53,500 –> 00:40:57,200
robes off So that all can see
that it’s not me.

707
00:40:57,200 –> 00:41:01,200
I want you to watch, I want you
to see the ark, as the king of

708
00:41:01,200 –> 00:41:04,900
all the Earth, your true king
Israel is coming to Jerusalem to

709
00:41:04,900 –> 00:41:08,700
take up, its Throne to rule from
Jerusalem.

710
00:41:09,300 –> 00:41:13,600
And, of course, on Michael, this
whole point is lost.

711
00:41:14,300 –> 00:41:19,800
She has lost a point and David
says, to her, It was before

712
00:41:19,800 –> 00:41:20,500
Yahweh.
You see?

713
00:41:20,500 –> 00:41:22,900
This is where his mind is.
Which chose me before your

714
00:41:22,900 –> 00:41:25,400
father.
And before all his house to

715
00:41:25,400 –> 00:41:30,100
appoint, me isn’t there detailed
it ruler over the people of

716
00:41:30,100 –> 00:41:32,900
Yahweh over Israel.
Therefore, will I play before

717
00:41:32,900 –> 00:41:35,600
Yahweh?
It just in this one, verse

718
00:41:35,900 –> 00:41:39,800
doesn’t use the word milky or
Mela for King, which she had

719
00:41:39,800 –> 00:41:43,100
just use our glorious to the
king of Israel in the prison’s

720
00:41:43,100 –> 00:41:44,900
of the true king.
He was just a ruler.

721
00:41:45,700 –> 00:41:48,000
He was someone who was given the
opportunity.

722
00:41:48,100 –> 00:41:51,500
T to act on behalf of the king.
Not the king himself.

723
00:41:52,800 –> 00:41:57,400
Who is chosen me to be a ruler
instead of your father saw, but

724
00:41:57,400 –> 00:42:02,400
look at what he says here.
And I will be more vile than us

725
00:42:02,700 –> 00:42:06,200
and more bass in mine own site
and of the maid servants, which

726
00:42:06,200 –> 00:42:08,100
you have spoken of them shall
be.

727
00:42:08,100 –> 00:42:14,000
I head behead in on here is the
mind of a man who comes and

728
00:42:14,000 –> 00:42:19,100
understands the salvation of God
because it begins with this

729
00:42:19,100 –> 00:42:22,000
state of mind.
It begins with humility.

730
00:42:22,100 –> 00:42:26,300
None of us can begin.
Even to walk on the process of

731
00:42:26,300 –> 00:42:29,700
Salvation until we get to this
point of disrobing.

732
00:42:29,700 –> 00:42:34,200
Any Pride we may have Being able
to repeat these words of David,

733
00:42:34,200 –> 00:42:40,100
I will become more vile and I
will base myself. and the

734
00:42:40,100 –> 00:42:44,100
presence of God Almighty, when a
man comes to recognize his

735
00:42:44,100 –> 00:42:48,600
condition in the sight of God,
when a man, or a woman comes to

736
00:42:48,600 –> 00:42:52,700
Humble herself, then He can make
his Dwelling Place.

737
00:42:53,600 –> 00:42:56,600
Thus saith Yahweh.
The heaven is my throne.

738
00:42:56,600 –> 00:42:59,500
And the Earth is my footstool.
Where is the house that you were

739
00:42:59,500 –> 00:43:01,900
bored me?
Where is the place that I can

740
00:43:01,900 –> 00:43:05,300
rest?
For all those things, help my

741
00:43:05,300 –> 00:43:08,300
handmaid and those things that
have been said Yahweh.

742
00:43:08,400 –> 00:43:12,900
But to this man, well, I look
even to him, that is of a poor

743
00:43:12,900 –> 00:43:16,200
and of a contrite spirit and
trembles at my word.

744
00:43:17,300 –> 00:43:20,900
And there was David and beside
him Michal, the daughter of

745
00:43:20,900 –> 00:43:23,900
Saul.
A greater contrast, you could

746
00:43:23,900 –> 00:43:29,500
not have the one full of Pride.
Could not see the kingship or

747
00:43:29,500 –> 00:43:33,500
the Salvation, the other, the
man who had been made King.

748
00:43:34,000 –> 00:43:38,500
But never saw himself as a king.
It’s an interesting thing and I

749
00:43:38,700 –> 00:43:40,900
and it’s a little bit off the
topic but I cannot be enough to

750
00:43:40,900 –> 00:43:43,600
share with you is that when you
look at the life of David he is

751
00:43:43,600 –> 00:43:47,000
divesting himself.
Always of kingship to make sure

752
00:43:47,000 –> 00:43:48,800
that Israel knew who the true
king was.

753
00:43:49,000 –> 00:43:51,300
You will see this in a speech on
a number of occasions.

754
00:43:52,100 –> 00:43:55,200
And have you ever noticed?
This is the way God works.

755
00:43:55,400 –> 00:43:58,100
Have you ever noticed in Matthew
chapter 1 come with me to

756
00:43:58,107 –> 00:44:05,200
Matthew chapter 1 when the
genealogy comes to Bear the

757
00:44:05,200 –> 00:44:08,500
book, verse one of the duration
of Jesus Christ, the son of

758
00:44:08,508 –> 00:44:12,100
David, the son of Abraham,
Abraham begat, Isaac, Isaac,

759
00:44:12,100 –> 00:44:15,100
begat, Jacob, Jacob, begat
Judas, and his prison rather and

760
00:44:15,300 –> 00:44:18,900
Judas, begat, phares, and Zara
of Tamar, and phares, begat,

761
00:44:19,000 –> 00:44:22,600
esrom and esrom begat Aram and
Aram, begat aminadab, and

762
00:44:22,600 –> 00:44:25,500
aminadab begat, naasson and
naasson begat, Salman, and

763
00:44:25,500 –> 00:44:29,900
Salman baguette Boaz of Rahab
and Boaz begat Obed of Ruth and

764
00:44:29,900 –> 00:44:34,100
Obed begat, Jesse, and Jesse
begat David and date people and

765
00:44:34,100 –> 00:44:40,300
Jesse begat David the king, And
David the king begat Solomon of

766
00:44:40,300 –> 00:44:43,100
her that had been the wife of
Uriah and Solomon the king.

767
00:44:43,100 –> 00:44:44,300
No.
And Solomon.

768
00:44:44,300 –> 00:44:48,200
Begat rehoboam Andrea Bamba.
Get a buyer and a viable yet.

769
00:44:48,200 –> 00:44:49,700
Asaph.
They were all Kings.

770
00:44:51,800 –> 00:44:54,200
There’s only one.
King recorded in Matthew.

771
00:44:54,200 –> 00:44:59,700
Chapter 1 and his name is David.
The one man who didn’t want

772
00:44:59,700 –> 00:45:03,000
kingship, the one man who
recognized the true king of

773
00:45:03,000 –> 00:45:06,100
Israel, in the Royal line is
called King.

774
00:45:09,300 –> 00:45:11,600
How marvelous is God’s grace
towards us?

775
00:45:11,600 –> 00:45:14,500
When we choose to approach him
and humility and the way that he

776
00:45:14,508 –> 00:45:20,500
has given to all of us, And so
the arc is is brought back.

777
00:45:21,800 –> 00:45:25,000
The ark is brought into the
Tabernacle, the David have

778
00:45:25,000 –> 00:45:27,500
pitched, verse 17 and sit in his
place in the midst of the

779
00:45:27,500 –> 00:45:30,200
Tabernacle, the David, a pitch
for it and David offered burnt

780
00:45:30,200 –> 00:45:32,200
offerings and peace offerings
before Yahweh.

781
00:45:32,900 –> 00:45:36,300
And then as we know in the
record, we meet the arc again

782
00:45:36,300 –> 00:45:39,500
and the time of Solomon, when
the ark is brought finally after

783
00:45:39,500 –> 00:45:43,200
the temple is prepared and verse
6, it says the priest brought

784
00:45:43,200 –> 00:45:45,800
the Ark of the Covenant after
all those years of building the

785
00:45:45,800 –> 00:45:48,400
Temple.
Finally it’s brought into it

786
00:45:48,400 –> 00:45:51,300
into a home of stones
represented.

787
00:45:51,500 –> 00:45:55,200
Of the final occasion.
The Ark of the Covenant of

788
00:45:55,200 –> 00:45:58,700
Yahweh into its place, into the
Oracle of the house. 1 Kings 86

789
00:45:58,700 –> 00:46:01,300
to the most holy place, even
under the wings of the caribou.

790
00:46:01,800 –> 00:46:04,100
And it came to pass when the
priest would come out of the

791
00:46:04,100 –> 00:46:06,200
Holy place.
After having placed the ark that

792
00:46:06,200 –> 00:46:08,600
the cloud fooled, the whole
house of Yahweh.

793
00:46:09,000 –> 00:46:11,800
So the priests could not stand
to minister because of the house

794
00:46:11,800 –> 00:46:15,000
because of the cloud for the
glory of Yahweh had fooled the

795
00:46:15,000 –> 00:46:20,200
house of the Lord.
And so we bought almost at this

796
00:46:20,200 –> 00:46:21,800
wonderful conclusion of the
pattern.

797
00:46:22,000 –> 00:46:24,800
The ark had been brought home
and finally put in the temple

798
00:46:25,400 –> 00:46:27,800
and the cloud comes in at a
Fool’s the temple.

799
00:46:27,800 –> 00:46:32,900
And it says, the glory of Yahweh
fooled the house and in pet and

800
00:46:32,900 –> 00:46:35,400
of course it’s the end of the
Plan of Salvation.

801
00:46:35,400 –> 00:46:37,900
Again we have returned back to
that point.

802
00:46:38,300 –> 00:46:40,300
We’d all the Earth shall be
filled with the glory of the

803
00:46:40,300 –> 00:46:42,400
Lord as the waters, cover the
sea.

804
00:46:42,500 –> 00:46:45,500
The cloud is filled the house
and the Earth is filled with

805
00:46:45,500 –> 00:46:50,800
God’s Salvation And His glory
Can I bring you to our last

806
00:46:50,800 –> 00:46:54,300
reference, concerning the Ark of
the Covenant and it’s in the Old

807
00:46:54,300 –> 00:46:56,400
Testament.
We have, of course, been to the

808
00:46:56,400 –> 00:46:58,000
final reference in the New
Testament.

809
00:46:58,000 –> 00:47:02,400
But in the Old Testament,
Jeremiah chapter 3, and I think,

810
00:47:03,700 –> 00:47:06,100
in a way this sums up all we’ve
been saying about this

811
00:47:06,100 –> 00:47:13,900
incredible pattern Jeremiah 3.
It’s a prophecy of the future

812
00:47:15,400 –> 00:47:18,900
and it includes mention of the
Ark of the Covenant.

813
00:47:18,900 –> 00:47:22,400
This incredible symbol that
we’ve considered together this

814
00:47:22,500 –> 00:47:27,900
these few days.
Did you come to pass when you be

815
00:47:27,900 –> 00:47:29,500
multiplied and increased in the
land?

816
00:47:29,500 –> 00:47:34,200
And those days saith, Yahweh.
They shall say no more the Ark

817
00:47:34,200 –> 00:47:36,600
of the Covenant of Yahweh.
Neither shall a come to, my

818
00:47:36,600 –> 00:47:37,800
neither, shall they remember?
It neither.

819
00:47:37,800 –> 00:47:39,600
Shall they visit?
It, neither shall there be done

820
00:47:39,600 –> 00:47:45,700
anymore?
Why not verse 17 at that time?

821
00:47:45,700 –> 00:47:49,200
They shall call Jerusalem.
The Throne of Yahweh and all the

822
00:47:49,200 –> 00:47:52,100
nations shall be gathered unto
it to the name of Yahweh to

823
00:47:52,100 –> 00:47:54,300
Jerusalem.
Neither shall they walk anymore?

824
00:47:54,400 –> 00:47:57,600
After the imagination of the
evil heart, when that which is

825
00:47:57,600 –> 00:47:59,300
real has come brothers and
sisters.

826
00:48:00,200 –> 00:48:05,000
The patent is no longer required
when ultimately, God is all in

827
00:48:05,000 –> 00:48:07,000
all.
And the reality of his dwelling

828
00:48:07,000 –> 00:48:11,200
is with us here.
They shall no longer Talk of the

829
00:48:11,200 –> 00:48:14,000
pattern.
All the copies.

830
00:48:14,000 –> 00:48:18,700
All the Shadows can disappear.
In the light of the true

831
00:48:18,700 –> 00:48:21,000
salvation of God.
Revealed from Heaven.

832
00:48:21,900 –> 00:48:25,300
The coffin has taken us all the
way from an understanding of

833
00:48:25,300 –> 00:48:29,700
human flesh to this point of
great salvation.

834
00:48:30,600 –> 00:48:34,400
The pattern must and will always
give way to the Heavenly reality

835
00:48:34,600 –> 00:48:36,600
and therein lies an important
lesson for us.

836
00:48:37,000 –> 00:48:39,900
And it’s sometimes so difficult
for us to understand this, even

837
00:48:39,900 –> 00:48:43,200
when we think of the all, and
all that these cats It has been

838
00:48:43,200 –> 00:48:47,700
so relevant to us will finally
give way to the spiritual

839
00:48:47,700 –> 00:48:50,700
reality.
How we better with even the

840
00:48:50,700 –> 00:48:53,000
words of the Lord Jesus when he
speaks of the pattern of

841
00:48:53,000 –> 00:48:57,700
marriage and says that at that
time ye shall neither marry nor

842
00:48:57,700 –> 00:48:59,700
are given in marriage, there’s
great pettin.

843
00:49:00,600 –> 00:49:03,900
What he’s saying at the time of
the final reality, when the

844
00:49:03,900 –> 00:49:06,900
reality of their pattern?
The Lord Jesus Christ has

845
00:49:06,900 –> 00:49:10,100
finally been married to her
church and all has been brought

846
00:49:10,100 –> 00:49:13,300
together.
Is no need for the path.

847
00:49:13,300 –> 00:49:15,500
That’s difficult for us to
understand, but that’s the

848
00:49:15,500 –> 00:49:19,400
point.
The pattern will always give

849
00:49:19,400 –> 00:49:22,900
really give way to the spiritual
reality.

850
00:49:23,800 –> 00:49:28,700
Now, my dear brothers and
sisters is come salvation and

851
00:49:28,700 –> 00:49:33,400
strength and the kingdom of God,
and the power of Christ.

852
00:49:34,500 –> 00:49:39,800
The Ark is replaced by this
marvelous spiritual reality. and

853
00:49:39,800 –> 00:49:45,400
this my dear brothers and
sisters is Our Hope and this is

854
00:49:45,400 –> 00:49:47,200
our vision, our me