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\nwhich he has entitled.
\nHe shall purify the sons of <\/p>\n
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\nLevi, brother Brian, dear
\nbrother Ron and my dear brother <\/p>\n
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\nand sisters.
\nI’d like us to turn firstly to <\/p>\n
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\nPsalm 78.
\nThere’s a beautiful reference <\/p>\n
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\nhere about how David became.
\nKing and it fits with wonderful <\/p>\n
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\na position alongside what we
\nhave looked at in that last a <\/p>\n
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\nfew verses of First Chronicles.
\nIt says in verse 70, in <\/p>\n
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\nreiterating the story of Israel,
\nhe chose David, also his <\/p>\n
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\nservant, and took him from the
\nsheepfolds. <\/p>\n
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\nDid he, from following the Ewes,
\ngreat with young, he brought him<\/p>\n
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\nto feed Jacob, his people, and
\nIsrael his inheritance. <\/p>\n
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\nThe shepherd became the shepherd
\nking. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd verses 70 and 71 put it as
\nthough he went straight from the<\/p>\n
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\nfields of the shepherd to the
\nthrone, and again using the <\/p>\n
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\nterms of the shepherd, The Psalm
\nso beautifully says so He fed <\/p>\n
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\nthem according to the integrity
\nof his heart and with all the <\/p>\n
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\nbackground of the shepherd, and
\nguided them by the skilfulness <\/p>\n
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\nof his hands.
\nThat’s a very beautiful <\/p>\n
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\ndescription, my dear, but it’s
\nan actual fact that’s not <\/p>\n
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\nchronologically quite correct is
\nthat there was a number of years<\/p>\n
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\nof exile from where he was a
\nshepherd before he became king, <\/p>\n
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\nfirst of Judah and then of
\nIsrael. <\/p>\n
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\nBut this very beautiful passage
\nat the end of of Psalm 78 is <\/p>\n
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\nsaying that David took the
\nqualities that he learnt as a. <\/p>\n
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\nShepherd.
\nHe took those to the throne. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s what it’s saying, isn’t
\nit? <\/p>\n
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\nAnd as he tended the sheep that
\nwas great with young or the <\/p>\n
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\newes, or on a hot day, he cared
\nfor them and provided them with <\/p>\n
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\ndefence and food.
\nSo in that small environment, he<\/p>\n
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\nhad learnt how to look after
\npeople after a great nation, an <\/p>\n
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\nexpanding nation, and he tended
\nto them with the skill point of <\/p>\n
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\nhis of his hands and he defended
\nthem. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s a very beautiful passage
\nindeed. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s exceedingly beautiful.
\nAnd you might think, well, it’s <\/p>\n
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\nsort of a pretty high gloss on
\nthe story of David, but it’s not<\/p>\n
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\nis it?
\nBecause here in his own words, <\/p>\n
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\nin a time of absolute crisis
\nwith the the sword in the hand <\/p>\n
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\nof the Angel and and above David
\nand Jerusalem threatened he says<\/p>\n
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\nas we read in that verse 17.
\nIs it not I that commanded the <\/p>\n
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\npeople to be numbered?
\nEven I it is that have? <\/p>\n
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\nSinned and done evil indeed.
\nBut As for these sheep, what <\/p>\n
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\nhave they done?
\nYou know, that’s a very <\/p>\n
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\nwonderful man, isn’t it?
\nThere’s not many people in in <\/p>\n
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\nlife that will be able at the
\nend of their days to say my <\/p>\n
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\nspirit is the same as when I was
\na young man. <\/p>\n
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\nYou know, when we came out of
\nthe waters of baptism, we were <\/p>\n
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\nready to give everything,
\nweren’t we? <\/p>\n
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\nIt’d be a lovely achievement in
\nlife if on our last days of <\/p>\n
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\nbreath we’re able to say my
\nspirit is the same toward my God<\/p>\n
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\nas when I came through those
\nwaters of baptism. <\/p>\n
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\nDavid’s spirit is the same.
\nService, service, service for <\/p>\n
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\nIsrael.
\nThat’s why he is, I’m sure, <\/p>\n
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\nsaved the life of that little
\nlamb. <\/p>\n
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\nHe took it out of the clutches
\nvirtually of the lion <\/p>\n
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\nthreatening his own life.
\nWas he concerned? <\/p>\n
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\nAbout the market value of the
\nland, wasn’t concerned about the<\/p>\n
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\nmarket value of the land, was
\nit? <\/p>\n
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\nBut he clearly had seen in that
\nland that that was like a person<\/p>\n
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\nin Israel and that he was going
\nto be the defender of that <\/p>\n
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\nperson, and therefore he put his
\nown life on the line on behalf <\/p>\n
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\nof his people.
\nMagnificent man, wasn’t he? <\/p>\n
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\nAs a young boy he could see
\nthat. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd then when after that the the
\nthe lamb having been saved, the <\/p>\n
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\nthe bear came, he stripped the
\nbear apart as well. <\/p>\n
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\nTwice he would threaten his own
\nlife. <\/p>\n
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\nHe wasn’t foolhardy.
\nThat was wrought out of faith <\/p>\n
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\nand defence of God’s people.
\nHe’s the same man here, isn’t <\/p>\n
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\nhe?
\nLet me be offered, and my <\/p>\n
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\npeople, my family, my father’s
\nhouse, but let it not be upon <\/p>\n
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\nthese sheep.
\nBut as we know, the sheep had <\/p>\n
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\nsome pretty unfortunate goats
\namong them. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd God took, indeed, He made
\nthe separation and took what he <\/p>\n
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\nwanted.
\nWell then coming then on to the <\/p>\n
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\nrest of this chapter.
\nWe will deal with the Levites in<\/p>\n
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\ntime, but I wanted to complete
\nsome of the very beautiful <\/p>\n
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\nthings that are in the rest of
\nthis chapter. <\/p>\n
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\nThe Angel of the Lord, it says
\nin verse 18, commanded Gad to <\/p>\n
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\nsay to David that David should
\ngo up and set an altar unto <\/p>\n
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\nYahweh in the threshing floor of
\nOrnan the Jebusite. <\/p>\n
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\nThis message came through Gad,
\nyou might notice, and that a <\/p>\n
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\nsecond time the Gad was David’s
\nseer. <\/p>\n
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\nNow it’s quite an amazing
\nstatement. <\/p>\n
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\nDon’t just read it, my dear.
\nThis is an astonishing. <\/p>\n
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\nStatement isn’t it?
\nIs God saying that in a a <\/p>\n
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\nGentile’s backyard, in a
\npresently occupied threshing <\/p>\n
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\nfloor?
\nThat’s what Ornam was doing with<\/p>\n
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\nhis four sons, we read in verse
\n2021. <\/p>\n
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\nHe was.
\nHe was using the place then. <\/p>\n
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\nWouldn’t that have seemed to a
\nlegalistic Jewish mind that that<\/p>\n
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\nwas the last?
\nPlace on earth that God would <\/p>\n
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\nchoose to be a place of an
\naltar. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd an altar that was going to
\nimprove upon the altar that was <\/p>\n
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\nin the Mosaic Tabernacle that
\nthen was officiating at Gibeon. <\/p>\n
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\nThere were two tabernacles.
\nThere was the Tabernacle of <\/p>\n
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\nMoses that was at this time at
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\nAnd the altar of burnt offering
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\nIt was, it was officiating at
\nthat time. <\/p>\n
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\nSo if God was saying this in
\nverse 18, it was clear that this<\/p>\n
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\nwas going to be a superior
\nalternative to that which was <\/p>\n
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\nalready in existence.
\nThere was 2 tabernacles. <\/p>\n
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\nThere was the Tabernacle of
\nMoses, and as we said, that was <\/p>\n
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\na gibeon.
\nBut it was without the ark, <\/p>\n
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\nwasn’t it?
\nBut in Jerusalem there was the <\/p>\n
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\nTabernacle of David that David
\nhad set up. <\/p>\n
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\nThe Second Samuel chapter 6
\ntells us that when the ark came <\/p>\n
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\nin, David constructed a
\nTabernacle and became known as <\/p>\n
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\nthe Tabernacle of David.
\nIt didn’t have an altar of <\/p>\n
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\noffering, but it did have the
\nark as it were, the presence of <\/p>\n
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\nGod.
\nIt’s a really interesting stage <\/p>\n
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\nin Israel’s history. 2
\nTabernacles. <\/p>\n
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\nNow there’s going to be two
\naltars in Israel. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd that’s how David saw it.
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\n18.
\nWhat God was saying was <\/p>\n
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\nastonishing, absolutely
\nastonishing. <\/p>\n
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\nThere was already his official
\naltar. <\/p>\n
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\nIn giving and now God was saying
\nthis to you and where in the <\/p>\n
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\nthreshing floor of on and the
\nJebusite and that had it’s <\/p>\n
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\nstrange overtures.
\nYou know Jesus was the last <\/p>\n
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\nplace in the whole of that land
\nthen to be Sheba the last. <\/p>\n
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\nPlace to be rested from the foot
\nof the Gentile. <\/p>\n
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\nYou remember that?
\nBecause David had been king, <\/p>\n
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\nhadn’t he?
\nIn Hebron for 7 1\/2 years over <\/p>\n
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\nJudah, and then he shifted the
\ncapital to Jerusalem. <\/p>\n
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\nBecause Joe went up the gutter
\nand they overran the Jebusites. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd that then became a suitable
\nplace to make the capital of the<\/p>\n
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\nUnited Kingdom.
\nThe last place we might have <\/p>\n
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\nthought was that that would
\nbecome the place of the altar of<\/p>\n
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\noffering.
\nIt might have been, you know, <\/p>\n
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\nsuitable plates for David
\nbecause it was more centrally <\/p>\n
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\npositioned on the border between
\nthat which was and that which <\/p>\n
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\nwas going to be his Kingdom.
\nBut there was more than politics<\/p>\n
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\ninvolved in.
\nThat, and the intriguing thing <\/p>\n
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\nis that there are still Gentiles
\nthere. <\/p>\n
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\nThis ground is still owned by a
\nGentile. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s the threshing floor of Orn
\nand the Jebusite. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd yet just underneath that
\nplace is the capital of Israel. <\/p>\n
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\nJust underneath the threshing
\nfloor of Ornan the Jebusite is <\/p>\n
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\nwhere you will see today the
\nMosque of Omaha. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the big wall that goes
\naround it must be there because <\/p>\n
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\nthat’s where the temple was,
\nright? <\/p>\n
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\nSolomon’s temple, Herod’s temple
\nwere on, was on that site. <\/p>\n
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\nThe capital of David was on an
\nelongated piece of ground that <\/p>\n
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\nwent down to Siloam below that
\narea. <\/p>\n
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\nThat was the City of David, not
\nthe walled city that we have <\/p>\n
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\ntoday at all.
\nThat was outside David City. <\/p>\n
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\nThe intriguing thing is, my dear
\nbrother sisters, that that Ornan<\/p>\n
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\nwas still operating his property
\nin the area. <\/p>\n
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\nImmediately adjacent to the
\ncapital city, and he was a <\/p>\n
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\ngentleman.
\nAnd that tells you a great deal <\/p>\n
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\nabout David and his relationship
\nwith the Gentiles, doesn’t it? <\/p>\n
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\nDavid did not have an antipathy
\ntowards the Gentiles. <\/p>\n
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\nHe could have.
\nImmediately taken that property <\/p>\n
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\nfrom Ornam in days of old.
\nBut he didn’t. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd being so close to the
\ncapital city, it was a <\/p>\n
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\nremarkable thing.
\nThis man was still farming on <\/p>\n
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\nthe property.
\nAnd we’ll see a little bit more <\/p>\n
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\nabout the spirit of this man as
\nwe go down. <\/p>\n
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\nIn fact, this whole section is
\njust filled with wonder, just <\/p>\n
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\nabsolute wonder that God should
\nhave chosen that very place <\/p>\n
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\nstill being used by him and his
\nsons. <\/p>\n
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\nDavid went up at the saying of
\nGad. <\/p>\n
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\nThere’s 19 which he spake in the
\nname of the Lord. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd Ornan turned back and he too
\nsaw the Angel. <\/p>\n
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\nCan you picture this amazing
\nscene and his four? <\/p>\n
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\nSons with him hid themselves.
\nNow Ornan was threshing wheat. <\/p>\n
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\nThey were operating the site in
\nthe midst of all this tragedy, <\/p>\n
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\nhe and his four boys.
\nAnd when Orna turned back and he<\/p>\n
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\nsaw the Angel above, and there
\nwas the king of Israel. <\/p>\n
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\nThere was the elders of Israel
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\nSo Israel and the Gentiles were
\nthere together. <\/p>\n
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\nHe was a a Gentile man and his
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\nAnd the Angel above was
\nthreatening the city. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd David has been told to go
\nand see Orna and to make an <\/p>\n
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\naltar on his land.
\nThere was a time before, my <\/p>\n
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\ndear, this is when an Angel of
\ndeath threatened Israel. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd you mean remember at that
\ntime he made a separation, <\/p>\n
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\ndidn’t he, between the Egyptians
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\nborn and Israel’s were saved.
\nHere we have an Angel of death <\/p>\n
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\nthat is now over the over the
\nthreshing floor that still <\/p>\n
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\nremains to a Gentile trodden.
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\nGentiles, but not really trodden
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\nFully appreciates the
\ncircumstances in which he is <\/p>\n
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\nliving.
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\nout of this is an offering
\nthat’s that’s going to be <\/p>\n
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\nsalvation not only for Israel,
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\nan altar established that will
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\nJust like the Tabernacle of <\/p>\n
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\nDavid was for the same thing, a
\nmost amazing circumstance. <\/p>\n
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\nSo David came to Ornan, verse
\n21, and Ornan looked and saw <\/p>\n
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\nDavid, and went out of the
\nthreshing floor and bowed <\/p>\n
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\nhimself to David with his face
\nto the ground. <\/p>\n
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\nGreat respect he had, didn’t he?
\nLike the sorrow Phoenician <\/p>\n
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\nwoman, and he had great respect
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\nThen David said to Ornan.
\nGrant me the place of this <\/p>\n
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\nthreshing floor, that I may
\nbuild an altar therein unto the <\/p>\n
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\nLord Thou shalt grant it me for
\nthe full price, that the plague <\/p>\n
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\nmay be stained from the people.
\nAnd Ornan’s response is really <\/p>\n
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\nquite remarkable.
\nOrnan said unto David, Take it <\/p>\n
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\nthee, and let my.
\nLord the King, do that which is <\/p>\n
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\ngood in his eyes.
\nHello, I give thee the oxen also<\/p>\n
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\nfor burnt offerings, and the
\nthreshing instruments for wood, <\/p>\n
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\nand the wheat for the meat
\noffering. <\/p>\n
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\nHe knew a few things, didn’t he?
\nHe knew the kind of sacrifices <\/p>\n
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\nthat Israel had, and in effect,
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\nnecessary.
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\nthreshing of the wheat.
\nThe oxen for burnt offerings. <\/p>\n
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\nThe instruments of threshing
\nthat can be provided as the <\/p>\n
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\nwood.
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\nmeal offering.
\nI give it all. <\/p>\n
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\nThere’s this amazing man.
\nAnd King David said to Ornam, <\/p>\n
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\nNay, he says, no doubt deeply
\nimpressed by this remarkable <\/p>\n
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\nman, Nay.
\nBut I will verily buy it. <\/p>\n
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\nFor the full price, that’s the
\nsecond time he has said that, <\/p>\n
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\nisn’t it verse 22?
\nAnd he says it again in verse <\/p>\n
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\n24.
\nFor the full price, for I will <\/p>\n
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\nnot take that which is thine for
\nYahweh, nor offer burnt <\/p>\n
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\nofferings without cost.
\nAnd so David gave to Ornan for <\/p>\n
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\nthe place 600 shekels of gold by
\nweight, which in our money would<\/p>\n
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\nprobably come today like
\nsomething like $100,000. <\/p>\n
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\nIt seems that he, he paid it
\nthere and then. <\/p>\n
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\nNo, this man David and this man
\nOrnan are really remarkable <\/p>\n
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\npeople.
\nIf you come back to Second <\/p>\n
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\nSamuel chapter 24, just notice a
\nlittle detail that’s so <\/p>\n
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\nintriguing.
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\nWe read in Second Samuel 24
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\nAnd Alrana said unto David, Let
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\nOfferUp what seemeth good unto
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\nBehold he be oxen for burnt
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\nwood.
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\nas a king give unto the king,
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\nYahweh, thy God, accept thee.
\nNow he must have thought this is<\/p>\n
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\na strange day, that the Angel of
\nGod, the Angel of the God of <\/p>\n
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\nIsrael, has told the King of
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\nSurely the most unclean sight in
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\nlegal minded Jew, has come to my
\nproperty there to make an <\/p>\n
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\noffering to stay the hand of the
\nAngel of death. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd yet he takes it in as best
\nhe can and says I give it all. <\/p>\n
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\nTotally happy with that, even
\nthough it was the last. <\/p>\n
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\nBit of land, no doubt, that was
\nowned by the Jebdusites. <\/p>\n
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\nWhy do you think in fact?
\nHe had been allowed to retain <\/p>\n
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\nit, surely, because perhaps
\nthere’s his spirit. <\/p>\n
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\nThis man is like the Sarah
\nPhoenician woman, isn’t he? <\/p>\n
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\nHe’s in Israel, but he fully
\nappreciates the privilege of <\/p>\n
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\nIsrael and that he’s still to be
\nalive in that land. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd no doubt that had a lot to
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\nbe retained.
\nWhy didn’t David just clear him <\/p>\n
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\nout and say, would you go where?
\nYou might you’re. <\/p>\n
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\nNot going to be around here by
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\nYou’re a gentile hanging around.
\nYou know, he had some amazing <\/p>\n
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\nprecedent predecessors, didn’t
\nhe? <\/p>\n
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\nIt says that he as a king gave
\nthat to David, which is <\/p>\n
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\nintriguing in itself because
\nthere was a great king in <\/p>\n
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\nJerusalem before David.
\nIn the times of Abraham, there <\/p>\n
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\nwas Melchizedek.
\nLater on there was another king <\/p>\n
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\nin Jerusalem called Adi Adonai
\nZaydek. <\/p>\n
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\nZaydek means righteousness,
\nMilky meaning king, King of <\/p>\n
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\nrighteousness.
\nAdoni Zaydek later in the times <\/p>\n
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\nof the Judges, meaning Lord of
\nRighteousness. <\/p>\n
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\nIt.
\nWas the title of the king of <\/p>\n
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\nthat city the king of the
\nfuture? <\/p>\n
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\nJerusalem is going to be indeed
\na Zaydek, isn’t it? <\/p>\n
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\nThe king of righteousness,
\nYahweh, Our righteousness will <\/p>\n
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\nbe the name by which he will be
\ncalled. <\/p>\n
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\nJeremiah says that.
\nSo there was that. <\/p>\n
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\nA wonderful heritage in that
\ncity, and perhaps, my dear <\/p>\n
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\nbrethren sisters, it may be that
\nOrrunner had some of the. <\/p>\n
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\nSpirit of that former Kingdom,
\nthe former Lion, and that David <\/p>\n
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\nAnd seeing the. <\/p>\n
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\nCharacter of Orrunner said,
\nlook, this is the capital of <\/p>\n
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\nIsrael indeed, but that man
\ndeserves to be here and I want <\/p>\n
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\nhim kept so now at a critical
\nmoment when. <\/p>\n
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\nDavid’s in one of the great
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\nis as it was standing above him.<\/p>\n
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\nThere is another man, a Gentile,
\nin the line of Melchizedek, <\/p>\n
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\nbecause he he was a king.
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\nAnd whilst they had despised <\/p>\n
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\nDavid and he had loathed them,
\nhadn’t even remember how it says<\/p>\n
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\nthat Second Samuel 5.
\nThey were despised in David’s <\/p>\n
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\nmind because they ridiculed
\nIsrael at that time, yet in fact<\/p>\n
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\nhe has preserved their king, and
\nnow that king in the spirit of. <\/p>\n
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\nIn the spirit of a gentile that
\naccepts the hope of Israel says <\/p>\n
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\nI give it all and David spares
\nhim and and will pay him the <\/p>\n
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\nfull price.
\nWhat an amazing story. <\/p>\n
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\nI verily will buy it for the
\nfull price, for I will not take <\/p>\n
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\nthat which is thine for the
\nLord, nor offer burnt offerings <\/p>\n
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\nwithout cost.
\nWhat a mine, my dear brother and<\/p>\n
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\nsisters, wouldn’t you with that
\nthreat above you simply just <\/p>\n
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\ntake the fielder and run.
\nYou know if he wants to give it <\/p>\n
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\nto you, take it would OK, we’ll
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\nBut he didn’t, did he?
\nWhat a presence of mine was <\/p>\n
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\nThis just shows you where the
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\na in a stage.
\nWhere he wanted. <\/p>\n
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\nLand to bury his wife.
\nYou remember he went to The Cave<\/p>\n
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\nof Machpelah and he would have
\nbeen given it, but he would not.<\/p>\n
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\nTake that, would he?
\nHe said, I’ll pay it for the <\/p>\n
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\nfull price.
\nAnd thus he buried Sarah. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd later on, the other
\npatriarchs were buried in that <\/p>\n
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\nplay, or Jacob also in Genesis
\nchapter 33. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd this is perhaps even more
\nrelevant, Genesis chapter 33, <\/p>\n
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\nverse 19, verse 18.
\nJacob came, it should be in <\/p>\n
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\npeace to Shechem.
\nIt doesn’t mean he came to <\/p>\n
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\nShaylam, the city of Shechem.
\nThere wasn’t such a thing as as <\/p>\n
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\nShaylam, the city of Shechem.
\nHe came in peace to the city of <\/p>\n
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\nCanaan. <\/p>\n
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\nWhen he came from Pedenaram and
\npitched his tent before the city<\/p>\n
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\nand he bought a parcel of a
\nfield. <\/p>\n
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\nWhere he had spread his tent at
\nthe hand of the children of <\/p>\n
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\nHamor Shechem’s father for 100.
\nPieces of money, And he erected <\/p>\n
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\nthere an altar and called it IO,
\na Lower Israel. <\/p>\n
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\nHe bought the land on which he
\nwould erect an altar. <\/p>\n
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\nHe would not do it for nothing.
\nThere must be cost in our <\/p>\n
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\nsacrifice.
\nAnd so, in the same spirit, an <\/p>\n
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\namazing.
\nThing in this. <\/p>\n
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\nCrisis, my dear, insist.
\nWhen you know, when you sort of <\/p>\n
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\ngrab anything that’s going,
\ndon’t you just take whatever’s <\/p>\n
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\nThe crisis is enormous. <\/p>\n
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\nThe whole life of Jerusalem, of
\nyour family and yourself all <\/p>\n
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\nrests upon this.
\nIf your if it’s their, take it. <\/p>\n
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\nBut he wouldn’t principle.
\nWhat an amazing man, my dear. <\/p>\n
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\nInsisted That’s the man that was
\nin the bed just a few weeks <\/p>\n
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\nbefore perhaps dying, but he
\ncame out of that bedroom where <\/p>\n
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\npeople thought he was a write
\noff and in his mind was scotched<\/p>\n
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\nthe principles of God so that
\neven in this crisis event when <\/p>\n
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\nhe could just snap and he’d have
\nthe whole thing in his hand, he <\/p>\n
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\nwould not do it.
\nI find that really breathtaking <\/p>\n
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\nmy dear brother and sister.
\nSo it really isn’t. <\/p>\n
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\nHow many times in ecclesial life
\ndo we act like that, where we <\/p>\n
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\nwill not be part of ecclesial
\nlife unless there is give <\/p>\n
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\ninvolved in what we make our
\noffering to be? <\/p>\n
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\nHave we learnt?
\nAre we losing the sense of <\/p>\n
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\ngiving, of going the extra mile,
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\ntaking on the extra work, of
\nhelping the person that really <\/p>\n
337
\n00:21:49,680 –> 00:21:53,680
\nneeds help down the line?
\nIt’s going to put us out. <\/p>\n
338
\n00:21:54,360 –> 00:21:57,080
\nBut you know, there’s no
\noffering if there’s no price, <\/p>\n
339
\n00:21:57,080 –> 00:21:59,000
\nisn’t it?
\nThat’s what David thought, and <\/p>\n
340
\n00:21:59,000 –> 00:22:00,640
\nhe could think that in the
\nmiddle of the Was this the <\/p>\n
341
\n00:22:00,640 –> 00:22:01,480
\nnight?
\nI don’t know. <\/p>\n
342
\n00:22:01,480 –> 00:22:04,040
\nI sort of imagine it was the
\nnight with the Shining Angel. <\/p>\n
343
\n00:22:04,040 –> 00:22:06,320
\nPerhaps it wasn’t.
\nBut anyway, in the middle of <\/p>\n
344
\n00:22:06,320 –> 00:22:08,680
\nthis crisis, he could think like
\nthat. <\/p>\n
345
\n00:22:09,880 –> 00:22:13,080
\nThat must be paid for, Jacob.
\nPaid for it, Abraham paid for <\/p>\n
346
\n00:22:13,080 –> 00:22:16,200
\nhim, and I’m not offering on
\nthat unless I. <\/p>\n
347
\n00:22:16,200 –> 00:22:19,120
\nPay for that the.
\nFull price, no discount. <\/p>\n
348
\n00:22:20,200 –> 00:22:21,760
\nEven though it’s a king to a
\nking. <\/p>\n
349
\n00:22:22,680 –> 00:22:24,840
\nWonderful man, absolutely
\nbeautiful man. <\/p>\n
350
\n00:22:26,240 –> 00:22:30,000
\nSo in a collision of life where
\nthere’s a call for service, if <\/p>\n
351
\n00:22:30,000 –> 00:22:32,480
\nit’s going to put us out and
\nit’s going to mean you have to <\/p>\n
352
\n00:22:32,480 –> 00:22:35,120
\ngo home a different way, or you
\nhave to get up early and do this<\/p>\n
353
\n00:22:35,120 –> 00:22:40,080
\nor that, then always remember
\nthat if there’s not some cost, <\/p>\n
354
\n00:22:41,040 –> 00:22:43,480
\nthen it’s not really a true
\noffering to God. <\/p>\n
355
\n00:22:52,600 –> 00:22:54,320
\nYou come now.
\nTo the the next little picture <\/p>\n
356
\n00:22:54,320 –> 00:22:59,320
\nwhich is given in verse 26.
\nAnd it’s astonishing. <\/p>\n
357
\n00:22:59,320 –> 00:23:00,680
\nIt’s a really astonishing
\npicture. <\/p>\n
358
\n00:23:00,680 –> 00:23:05,280
\nAgain, he’s paid the money.
\nHe seems to have had the the <\/p>\n
359
\n00:23:05,280 –> 00:23:07,400
\nforethought to bring it out with
\nhim. <\/p>\n
360
\n00:23:09,000 –> 00:23:11,560
\nHe knew he was going to have to
\nbuy that field. <\/p>\n
361
\n00:23:12,480 –> 00:23:14,240
\nAnd so he’s taking the money
\nwith him. <\/p>\n
362
\n00:23:14,760 –> 00:23:19,560
\nHe pays it on the spot.
\nAnd it says in verse 26 that <\/p>\n
363
\n00:23:19,720 –> 00:23:26,680
\nDavid built there an altar.
\nUnto Yahweh, and offered burnt <\/p>\n
364
\n00:23:26,680 –> 00:23:31,720
\nofferings and peace offerings,
\nand called upon the Lord. <\/p>\n
365
\n00:23:33,000 –> 00:23:36,040
\nAnd he answered him from heaven
\nby fire upon the altar of burnt <\/p>\n
366
\n00:23:36,040 –> 00:23:38,360
\noffering.
\nYou know, sometimes we read a <\/p>\n
367
\n00:23:38,360 –> 00:23:40,240
\nverse and we just take it for
\ngranted. <\/p>\n
368
\n00:23:40,720 –> 00:23:42,920
\nBut that really is a most
\namazing verse. <\/p>\n
369
\n00:23:43,360 –> 00:23:47,120
\nHere is the king in this crisis,
\nand it says David built there an<\/p>\n
370
\n00:23:47,120 –> 00:23:49,760
\naltar.
\nWhat? <\/p>\n
371
\n00:23:49,800 –> 00:23:53,800
\nWhat did he build the altar out
\nof Here he was in all of his <\/p>\n
372
\n00:23:53,800 –> 00:23:56,600
\nweakness, hobbling around with
\nlarge stones. <\/p>\n
373
\n00:23:58,160 –> 00:24:02,160
\nThis was an altar that he
\nconstructed brass and have it <\/p>\n
374
\n00:24:02,280 –> 00:24:05,560
\nmade in the finest way.
\nThis was a an immediate altar. <\/p>\n
375
\n00:24:06,680 –> 00:24:09,520
\nHe would have to therefore find
\nstones around that place. <\/p>\n
376
\n00:24:10,120 –> 00:24:12,960
\nSo here’s the king of Israel in
\nthis great crisis and perhaps <\/p>\n
377
\n00:24:12,960 –> 00:24:16,680
\nthe elders of Israel with him
\nhelping and the king is building<\/p>\n
378
\n00:24:16,680 –> 00:24:20,080
\nthe altar.
\nDavid, the man that came out of <\/p>\n
379
\n00:24:20,080 –> 00:24:27,200
\nthe bed, is now finding strength
\nto build that altar and he <\/p>\n
380
\n00:24:27,240 –> 00:24:30,640
\noffered burnt offering.
\nHe prepared them and laid them <\/p>\n
381
\n00:24:30,640 –> 00:24:33,240
\nupon the altar and peace
\noffering. <\/p>\n
382
\n00:24:35,360 –> 00:24:38,080
\nWhat an amazing.
\nThing, wasn’t he the king? <\/p>\n
383
\n00:24:39,680 –> 00:24:40,920
\nBut he’s more than the king,
\nisn’t he? <\/p>\n
384
\n00:24:41,720 –> 00:24:46,560
\nHe’s also the priest.
\nWe said before that perhaps <\/p>\n
385
\n00:24:46,560 –> 00:24:51,360
\nOrana was in the the line of
\nMelchizedek, who was king priest<\/p>\n
386
\n00:24:51,920 –> 00:24:55,920
\nof Salem.
\nIn this environment there <\/p>\n
387
\n00:24:55,920 –> 00:25:00,640
\ncertainly is a king priest.
\nDavid is offering us both king <\/p>\n
388
\n00:25:00,640 –> 00:25:07,240
\nand priest, and he, in the heat
\nof summer, carries the the large<\/p>\n
389
\n00:25:07,240 –> 00:25:10,920
\nstones, prepares the wood, slays
\nthe oxen. <\/p>\n
390
\n00:25:10,920 –> 00:25:17,320
\nIt was an incredible sight and
\nall underneath the eye of the of<\/p>\n
391
\n00:25:17,320 –> 00:25:21,680
\nthe heavenly Watcher.
\nAnd then there was the divine <\/p>\n
392
\n00:25:21,680 –> 00:25:24,400
\nanswer.
\nThe Lord commanded the Angel, <\/p>\n
393
\n00:25:24,400 –> 00:25:26,480
\nand he put up his sword again
\ninto the cheek. <\/p>\n
394
\n00:25:27,080 –> 00:25:32,880
\nAfter the fire had accepted the
\noffering, fire came down from <\/p>\n
395
\n00:25:32,880 –> 00:25:35,640
\nthe altar of upon the altar of
\nburnt offering. <\/p>\n
396
\n00:25:36,440 –> 00:25:40,120
\nNow again, the significance of
\nthat must be felt because there <\/p>\n
397
\n00:25:40,120 –> 00:25:44,280
\nhadn’t been such a thing since
\nright back in Leviticus Chapter <\/p>\n
398
\n00:25:44,280 –> 00:25:46,520
\n9.
\nCome back to Leviticus 9. <\/p>\n
399
\n00:25:53,620 –> 00:25:57,860
\nIn Leviticus Chapter 9, the
\nTabernacle is all ready. <\/p>\n
400
\n00:26:00,620 –> 00:26:06,340
\nAaron conducts his son into his
\nsons, into offices, and makes <\/p>\n
401
\n00:26:06,740 –> 00:26:09,380
\nofferings for himself and for
\nthe people. <\/p>\n
402
\n00:26:10,780 –> 00:26:15,200
\nAnd so the Tabernacle and all of
\nits pristine newness is now <\/p>\n
403
\n00:26:15,320 –> 00:26:19,520
\nbrought into office.
\nAnd there came, verse 24, a fire<\/p>\n
404
\n00:26:19,520 –> 00:26:22,880
\nout from before the Lord, and
\nconsumed upon the altar the <\/p>\n
405
\n00:26:22,880 –> 00:26:26,240
\nburnt offering and the fat,
\nwhich, when all the people saw, <\/p>\n
406
\n00:26:26,320 –> 00:26:28,240
\nthey shouted and fell on their
\nfaces. <\/p>\n
407
\n00:26:29,560 –> 00:26:33,640
\nThere has not been such an event
\nsince the days of Leviticus <\/p>\n
408
\n00:26:33,640 –> 00:26:37,720
\nChapter 9, verse 24.
\nHe answered him from heaven by. <\/p>\n
409
\n00:26:37,720 –> 00:26:40,200
\nFire upon the altar of burnt
\noffering. <\/p>\n
410
\n00:26:41,000 –> 00:26:43,560
\nSo you can see, my dear brethren
\nand sisters, that this is not <\/p>\n
411
\n00:26:43,560 –> 00:26:47,280
\njust any old incident.
\nThis is a new phase that has <\/p>\n
412
\n00:26:47,280 –> 00:26:52,800
\nbeen introduced into Israel.
\nThere’s going to be an increased<\/p>\n
413
\n00:26:52,800 –> 00:26:57,360
\nteaching about the atonement and
\nthe taking away of sin. <\/p>\n
414
\n00:26:58,320 –> 00:27:02,120
\nAlthough you might notice in
\nverse 26 that it doesn’t <\/p>\n
415
\n00:27:02,120 –> 00:27:04,840
\nactually say that David offered
\na sin offering. <\/p>\n
416
\n00:27:05,920 –> 00:27:11,240
\nHe offered burnt offerings and
\npeace offering and called upon <\/p>\n
417
\n00:27:11,240 –> 00:27:17,760
\nYahweh in Psalm 51.
\nDavid learnt what the true <\/p>\n
418
\n00:27:17,760 –> 00:27:31,520
\nofferings were in Psalm 51 after
\nhis sin, for which there was no <\/p>\n
419
\n00:27:31,520 –> 00:27:38,880
\nprescribed offering for adultery
\nor for murder, and there was no <\/p>\n
420
\n00:27:38,880 –> 00:27:43,960
\noffering provided under the law.
\nBut in Psalm 51, David, having <\/p>\n
421
\n00:27:43,960 –> 00:27:49,520
\nbeen spared his life by the
\nmercy of God, says verse 16. <\/p>\n
422
\n00:27:49,600 –> 00:27:53,480
\nVerse 15.
\nO Lord, open thou my lips and my<\/p>\n
423
\n00:27:53,480 –> 00:27:56,600
\npraise shall show forth.
\nMy mouth shall show forth. <\/p>\n
424
\n00:27:56,600 –> 00:28:01,720
\nI pray for thou desirest not
\nsacrifice else. <\/p>\n
425
\n00:28:01,720 –> 00:28:03,840
\nWould I give it?
\nThou delightest not in burnt <\/p>\n
426
\n00:28:03,840 –> 00:28:07,720
\noffering.
\nThe sacrifices of God are a <\/p>\n
427
\n00:28:07,720 –> 00:28:13,480
\nbroken spirit, a broken and a
\ncontrite heart, for thou would <\/p>\n
428
\n00:28:13,480 –> 00:28:17,840
\nnot despise.
\nSo that smitten heart that he <\/p>\n
429
\n00:28:17,840 –> 00:28:21,160
\nhad before, as recorded in the
\nrecord, was the greatest and <\/p>\n
430
\n00:28:21,160 –> 00:28:24,360
\ntruest offering that he could
\nmake for his sin. <\/p>\n
431
\n00:28:27,240 –> 00:28:29,280
\nSo here we have.
\nNow, my dear friend, sisters, <\/p>\n
432
\n00:28:29,280 –> 00:28:32,560
\nanother altar that is outside
\nthe mosaic system. <\/p>\n
433
\n00:28:34,160 –> 00:28:36,640
\nAnd David was outside the Mosaic
\nsystem. <\/p>\n
434
\n00:28:36,640 –> 00:28:40,480
\nIt was not right according to
\nthe rules of Moses law that the <\/p>\n
435
\n00:28:40,480 –> 00:28:44,320
\nking should be a king of Judah,
\nshould be making the offering. <\/p>\n
436
\n00:28:45,160 –> 00:28:49,800
\nSo it is a new system, isn’t it,
\nthat is being portrayed here to <\/p>\n
437
\n00:28:49,800 –> 00:28:53,920
\nIsrael, up there in Gideon just
\n5 miles away, not a long way. <\/p>\n
438
\n00:28:54,840 –> 00:28:59,000
\nThe fire upon the altar was
\nstill flicking the altar that <\/p>\n
439
\n00:28:59,000 –> 00:29:03,120
\nwas given by Moses.
\nSo we have two fires and two <\/p>\n
440
\n00:29:03,120 –> 00:29:09,480
\naltars, 1 Mosaic and 1 Davidic.
\nAnd in verse 30 David saw the <\/p>\n
441
\n00:29:09,480 –> 00:29:12,600
\nwhole point of that.
\nDavid could not go before it to <\/p>\n
442
\n00:29:12,600 –> 00:29:15,600
\ninquire of God, for he was
\nafraid because of the sword of <\/p>\n
443
\n00:29:15,600 –> 00:29:19,160
\nthe Angel of the Lord.
\nHe said if God has in fact lit <\/p>\n
444
\n00:29:19,160 –> 00:29:23,000
\nthis altar, then I will no
\nlonger be going to give in. <\/p>\n
445
\n00:29:24,280 –> 00:29:28,160
\nHe has made a switch of altars
\nand so he could see the point of<\/p>\n
446
\n00:29:28,160 –> 00:29:30,960
\nthat.
\nAnd driving home that point, he <\/p>\n
447
\n00:29:30,960 –> 00:29:34,160
\nsays in chapter 22, verse one,
\nthis is the. <\/p>\n
448
\n00:29:34,160 –> 00:29:38,520
\nHouse of the Lord.
\nGod, and this is the altar of <\/p>\n
449
\n00:29:38,520 –> 00:29:45,800
\nthe burnt offering for Israel.
\nNow in the second of Chronicles <\/p>\n
450
\n00:29:45,800 –> 00:29:49,400
\nchapter 3, it tells us exactly
\nwhere that site was. <\/p>\n
451
\n00:29:51,200 –> 00:29:53,400
\nBut because there’s a nice
\nlittle echo to it, let’s <\/p>\n
452
\n00:29:53,400 –> 00:30:00,760
\nactually read the word Second
\nChronicles chapter 3 and verse <\/p>\n
453
\n00:30:00,760 –> 00:30:05,600
\none.
\nJust pacing these little pieces <\/p>\n
454
\n00:30:05,600 –> 00:30:07,200
\ntogether.
\nBrethren says it says David <\/p>\n
455
\n00:30:07,200 –> 00:30:09,920
\nwould have in his own mind.
\nI’m sure of that. <\/p>\n
456
\n00:30:11,240 –> 00:30:15,000
\nIt says Solomon began to build
\nthe House of Yahweh at Jerusalem<\/p>\n
457
\n00:30:15,000 –> 00:30:18,920
\nin Mount Moriah.
\nMount Moriah. <\/p>\n
458
\n00:30:18,920 –> 00:30:21,280
\nNow where have we heard that
\nword before? <\/p>\n
459
\n00:30:22,280 –> 00:30:24,920
\nWhere the Lord appeared unto
\nDavid his father, in the place <\/p>\n
460
\n00:30:24,920 –> 00:30:28,960
\nthat David had prepared, in the
\nthreshing floor of Ornan, the <\/p>\n
461
\n00:30:28,960 –> 00:30:36,240
\nJeb Desire.
\nMariah, of course, was the place<\/p>\n
462
\n00:30:36,240 –> 00:30:42,400
\nthat Isaac was taken by Abraham,
\nand God said upon one of the <\/p>\n
463
\n00:30:42,400 –> 00:30:47,120
\nmountains in the land of Mariah,
\nthere you will OfferUp Isaac. <\/p>\n
464
\n00:30:48,600 –> 00:30:50,640
\nAnd don’t you think it possible?
\nIs it? <\/p>\n
465
\n00:30:51,640 –> 00:30:54,640
\nIt’s really impossible to think
\nthe opposite, that when David <\/p>\n
466
\n00:30:54,640 –> 00:30:58,360
\nwas told that he was to go to
\nthe threshing floor, born in the<\/p>\n
467
\n00:30:58,360 –> 00:31:03,000
\nJeb desire, which was such a
\nmountain in the land of Moriah, <\/p>\n
468
\n00:31:03,240 –> 00:31:08,200
\nthat his mind would have been in
\nanother place where there had <\/p>\n
469
\n00:31:08,200 –> 00:31:12,480
\noriginally been another altar
\nwhere Melchizedek had had <\/p>\n
470
\n00:31:12,480 –> 00:31:19,520
\nofficiated, and where the Yaquid
\nof God, the beloved of God, the <\/p>\n
471
\n00:31:19,520 –> 00:31:23,480
\nbeloved of Abraham and of God
\nwas offered up all. <\/p>\n
472
\n00:31:23,480 –> 00:31:27,560
\nBut except that there was
\nprovision made in the ram that <\/p>\n
473
\n00:31:27,560 –> 00:31:31,280
\nwas provided.
\nBut there it says, doesn’t it, <\/p>\n
474
\n00:31:31,280 –> 00:31:35,960
\nthat Abraham saw my day?
\nJesus says that when he offered <\/p>\n
475
\n00:31:35,960 –> 00:31:39,160
\nup Isaac and he came away from
\nthat time, he saw, he said that <\/p>\n
476
\n00:31:39,200 –> 00:31:41,040
\nI have seen what God is teaching
\nme. <\/p>\n
477
\n00:31:41,880 –> 00:31:46,760
\nThere will be a Yaqui which
\nmeans an only one mine only <\/p>\n
478
\n00:31:46,760 –> 00:31:52,200
\nbelow the Hebrew word which goes
\nthrough the Septuagint to the <\/p>\n
479
\n00:31:52,200 –> 00:31:57,120
\nonly begotten in John chapter
\none verse 14, the only begotten <\/p>\n
480
\n00:31:57,120 –> 00:32:00,040
\nof the Father.
\nAnd that’s what the Hebrew word <\/p>\n
481
\n00:32:00,040 –> 00:32:02,440
\nyaqui which is used all through
\nGenesis 22. <\/p>\n
482
\n00:32:02,600 –> 00:32:07,560
\nI think it’s four times it is
\nused Yaqui the the only <\/p>\n
483
\n00:32:07,560 –> 00:32:10,920
\nbegotten.
\nAbraham came away from that and <\/p>\n
484
\n00:32:10,920 –> 00:32:14,000
\nhe could see that God was
\ntelling him that there was <\/p>\n
485
\n00:32:14,000 –> 00:32:17,320
\nanother Yaqui that was coming,
\nand he would be. <\/p>\n
486
\n00:32:17,320 –> 00:32:21,840
\nOffered to take away
\ntransgression and it would be in<\/p>\n
487
\n00:32:21,840 –> 00:32:26,600
\nthat place in the mountain of
\nthe Lord. <\/p>\n
488
\n00:32:26,600 –> 00:32:31,120
\nIt shall be seen and so he
\ncalled the place Yahweh Yarra in<\/p>\n
489
\n00:32:31,120 –> 00:32:33,440
\nthe mountain of the Lord it
\nshall be seen. <\/p>\n
490
\n00:32:34,720 –> 00:32:37,440
\nNow David with this, with an
\nuncluttered mind wasn’t he <\/p>\n
491
\n00:32:37,440 –> 00:32:40,520
\ndidn’t have all the stuff that
\nwe’ve got today that to him was <\/p>\n
492
\n00:32:40,560 –> 00:32:42,880
\nABC.
\nHe had a clear picture. <\/p>\n
493
\n00:32:42,880 –> 00:32:45,480
\nOf all of that.
\nHere he is in exactly that <\/p>\n
494
\n00:32:45,480 –> 00:32:47,920
\nsight.
\nAnd I’m sure, my dear brother <\/p>\n
495
\n00:32:47,920 –> 00:32:51,560
\nsisters, that you know, God’s
\nsaying, make, set up the altar <\/p>\n
496
\n00:32:51,560 –> 00:32:53,920
\nand make the offering.
\nDavid would have felt all of <\/p>\n
497
\n00:32:53,920 –> 00:32:57,640
\nthat coming upon him as he
\nremembered the history of Israel<\/p>\n
498
\n00:32:57,640 –> 00:32:59,160
\nand what had happened in that
\nplace. <\/p>\n
499
\n00:32:59,320 –> 00:33:03,760
\nAnd they’re the Yaquid, the
\nYaquid of Abraham, which was <\/p>\n
500
\n00:33:04,160 –> 00:33:06,920
\nportraying the Yaquid of of the
\nLord God. <\/p>\n
501
\n00:33:07,400 –> 00:33:10,240
\nThat in that very place it was
\ngoing to be offered. <\/p>\n
502
\n00:33:10,240 –> 00:33:16,040
\nIt was outside the camp, it was
\nbeyond the Mosaic institution. <\/p>\n
503
\n00:33:16,880 –> 00:33:19,360
\nAnd you know, there a knife was
\nheld back, wasn’t it? <\/p>\n
504
\n00:33:19,880 –> 00:33:24,000
\nAs here the Sword of God was put
\nback in its sheet by the Angel. <\/p>\n
505
\n00:33:25,800 –> 00:33:29,920
\nAnd just nearby there had been a
\nking priest, Melchizedek, that <\/p>\n
506
\n00:33:29,920 –> 00:33:35,680
\nhad had offered up acceptable
\nworship and provided provided <\/p>\n
507
\n00:33:35,680 –> 00:33:38,240
\nopportunities to even such as
\nAbraham. <\/p>\n
508
\n00:33:38,840 –> 00:33:41,720
\nAnd now he was the patriarch,
\nyou know, the, the, the family <\/p>\n
509
\n00:33:41,720 –> 00:33:44,600
\nnow was represented by the man
\nwho was standing with him in <\/p>\n
510
\n00:33:44,600 –> 00:33:46,960
\nOrana.
\nWho was in the line of <\/p>\n
511
\n00:33:46,960 –> 00:33:50,400
\nMelchizedek?
\nWhat an amazing thing, you know,<\/p>\n
512
\n00:33:50,400 –> 00:33:52,280
\na distant relative of
\nMelchizedek. <\/p>\n
513
\n00:33:52,280 –> 00:33:54,040
\nAnd now David has acted that
\npart. <\/p>\n
514
\n00:33:54,320 –> 00:33:57,600
\nAnd so all of Genesis chapter 22
\nand all of the things that <\/p>\n
515
\n00:33:57,600 –> 00:33:59,680
\nhappened there.
\nBecause remember. <\/p>\n
516
\n00:33:59,680 –> 00:34:03,240
\nMelchizedek couldn’t have been
\nvery far away when Abraham <\/p>\n
517
\n00:34:03,240 –> 00:34:07,960
\noffered up Isaac.
\nHe must have been very, very <\/p>\n
518
\n00:34:07,960 –> 00:34:10,639
\nclose to the scene at that time.
\nAll of that must surely have <\/p>\n
519
\n00:34:10,639 –> 00:34:13,480
\ncome into David’s mind, as he
\ncould see that God was <\/p>\n
520
\n00:34:13,480 –> 00:34:16,920
\nforeshadowing the offering of
\nsomething very much greater. <\/p>\n
521
\n00:34:16,920 –> 00:34:20,520
\nAnd when we.
\nLook at the picture. <\/p>\n
522
\n00:34:20,520 –> 00:34:24,000
\nAgain, and we see David there
\nmaking that offering, accepting <\/p>\n
523
\n00:34:24,000 –> 00:34:28,239
\nthat sin.
\nWe see that in fact it it wasn’t<\/p>\n
524
\n00:34:28,320 –> 00:34:30,760
\nhis sin with which God was
\nangry, was it? <\/p>\n
525
\n00:34:32,280 –> 00:34:35,360
\nWhat he was going through was
\nreally on behalf of the people. <\/p>\n
526
\n00:34:36,880 –> 00:34:41,719
\nHe was a sin bearer.
\nSo the whole picture of it, my <\/p>\n
527
\n00:34:41,719 –> 00:34:43,840
\ndear Vince, is, is exceedingly
\nremarkable. <\/p>\n
528
\n00:34:44,239 –> 00:34:47,760
\nThe ironic priesthood is up
\nthere in Gibeon and here now in <\/p>\n
529
\n00:34:47,760 –> 00:34:50,040
\nJerusalem.
\nThere’s all the portrayal of a <\/p>\n
530
\n00:34:50,040 –> 00:34:54,719
\ngreater sacrifice by a king
\npriest who has been brought into<\/p>\n
531
\n00:34:54,719 –> 00:34:58,240
\nthe problem he was.
\nMade sin for us soon, Unosi. <\/p>\n
532
\n00:34:58,760 –> 00:35:02,040
\nAnd he’s come and borne that,
\nand he’s taking it away. <\/p>\n
533
\n00:35:03,000 –> 00:35:10,080
\nAnd I’m sure, I’m really sure
\nthat if Abraham saw my day, said<\/p>\n
534
\n00:35:10,080 –> 00:35:14,560
\nJesus, that I’m sure that David
\ntoo, on this occasion would have<\/p>\n
535
\n00:35:14,560 –> 00:35:17,920
\ngone home from these
\ncircumstances and seen also <\/p>\n
536
\n00:35:18,000 –> 00:35:23,760
\nChrist’s day to come.
\nWell, this incident then was <\/p>\n
537
\n00:35:23,760 –> 00:35:28,720
\nrightly, it was new life for old
\nbones, as we might put it in the<\/p>\n
538
\n00:35:28,720 –> 00:35:30,560
\nfirst two Chronicles, chapter
\n22. <\/p>\n
539
\n00:35:31,760 –> 00:35:37,440
\nDavid, seizing the whole
\nmomentous event, says this is <\/p>\n
540
\n00:35:37,440 –> 00:35:41,960
\nthe House of Yahweh Elohim.
\nAnd this is the altar of the <\/p>\n
541
\n00:35:41,960 –> 00:35:45,440
\nburnt offering for Israel.
\nAnd there’s this lowly altar, <\/p>\n
542
\n00:35:45,440 –> 00:35:49,520
\njust put together as best he
\nmight with his weary arms and <\/p>\n
543
\n00:35:49,520 –> 00:35:52,080
\nhis limited ability, just put
\nhastily. <\/p>\n
544
\n00:35:52,080 –> 00:35:54,600
\nTogether.
\nAnd in fact, he can see this <\/p>\n
545
\n00:35:54,600 –> 00:35:56,160
\nwhole house now in front of his
\neye. <\/p>\n
546
\n00:35:56,440 –> 00:35:59,920
\nThis, he said, is the House of
\nYahweh Elohim. <\/p>\n
547
\n00:36:00,360 –> 00:36:01,640
\nHe’s standing in a threshing
\nfloor. <\/p>\n
548
\n00:36:02,400 –> 00:36:05,480
\nWhat an amazing man he was.
\nBut that was his mind. <\/p>\n
549
\n00:36:05,480 –> 00:36:08,680
\nAnd it shows us, doesn’t it, the
\nthe depth and wonder of his <\/p>\n
550
\n00:36:08,680 –> 00:36:12,320
\nmind.
\nAnd it says David commanded to <\/p>\n
551
\n00:36:12,320 –> 00:36:15,240
\ngather together the strangers
\nthat were in the land of Israel.<\/p>\n
552
\n00:36:16,160 –> 00:36:19,440
\nAnd he said Masons to hew
\nwrought stones to build the <\/p>\n
553
\n00:36:19,440 –> 00:36:22,560
\nHouse of God.
\nAnd David prepared iron in <\/p>\n
554
\n00:36:22,560 –> 00:36:25,800
\nabundance for the nails, for the
\ndoors of the gates, and for the <\/p>\n
555
\n00:36:25,800 –> 00:36:29,360
\njoinings, and brass in abundance
\nwithout weight, and cedar trees <\/p>\n
556
\n00:36:29,360 –> 00:36:32,880
\nin abundance for the Dydonians.
\nAnd they of Tyre brought much <\/p>\n
557
\n00:36:32,880 –> 00:36:36,000
\ncedar wood to David.
\nWasn’t this the old man was upon<\/p>\n
558
\n00:36:36,000 –> 00:36:40,760
\nhis bed, worn out, finished.
\nThere’s a new lease of life come<\/p>\n
559
\n00:36:40,760 –> 00:36:43,280
\nto this man.
\nHe’s never going to be able to <\/p>\n
560
\n00:36:43,280 –> 00:36:46,520
\nbuild this house himself, but
\nlook at the the new infusion of <\/p>\n
561
\n00:36:46,520 –> 00:36:49,120
\nenergy which he has.
\nI mean, who would want to be <\/p>\n
562
\n00:36:49,120 –> 00:36:50,720
\nbothered with all of those
\nthings? <\/p>\n
563
\n00:36:51,240 –> 00:36:54,040
\nPeople leave work and they say
\nit’s nice to have the pressure <\/p>\n
564
\n00:36:54,040 –> 00:36:58,200
\noff and they don’t want to come
\nhome to a whole lot of busy <\/p>\n
565
\n00:36:58,200 –> 00:37:00,120
\ncircumstances in their latter
\nyears. <\/p>\n
566
\n00:37:00,280 –> 00:37:02,120
\nBut this?
\nMan is doing. <\/p>\n
567
\n00:37:02,120 –> 00:37:06,160
\nJust that he’s involved in
\ntremendous preparations, <\/p>\n
568
\n00:37:06,160 –> 00:37:09,600
\ndetermining how much iron might
\nbe needed and how many nails and<\/p>\n
569
\n00:37:09,600 –> 00:37:12,280
\nhow many doors and joinings in
\nthe brass. <\/p>\n
570
\n00:37:13,000 –> 00:37:17,480
\nHe’s involved with Masons in
\nverse 2, finding men that can do<\/p>\n
571
\n00:37:17,480 –> 00:37:20,440
\ncertain trades.
\nHe’s got men right up there in <\/p>\n
572
\n00:37:20,440 –> 00:37:25,000
\nthe mountains of of Lebanon.
\nCedar trees are coming down <\/p>\n
573
\n00:37:25,320 –> 00:37:28,400
\ntowards Jerusalem.
\nAnd he’s involved in all of that<\/p>\n
574
\n00:37:28,400 –> 00:37:30,360
\norganization, sending his
\nservants in all those <\/p>\n
575
\n00:37:30,360 –> 00:37:33,600
\ndirections.
\nOh man, that Abhishek once had <\/p>\n
576
\n00:37:33,600 –> 00:37:36,160
\nto warm up.
\nHe was so inebriated, or he was <\/p>\n
577
\n00:37:36,160 –> 00:37:38,080
\nso finished in life, one might
\nhave thought. <\/p>\n
578
\n00:37:39,600 –> 00:37:43,960
\nAnd yet now he’s in full control
\nand he’s about that land, he’s <\/p>\n
579
\n00:37:43,960 –> 00:37:47,200
\nabout the side of the temple and
\nmeasuring it up and seeing what <\/p>\n
580
\n00:37:47,200 –> 00:37:50,360
\nneeds to be done.
\nAnd it says so. <\/p>\n
581
\n00:37:50,360 –> 00:37:53,520
\nDavid prepared abundantly before
\nhis death. <\/p>\n
582
\n00:37:53,520 –> 00:37:57,520
\nYou know, there’s a great
\ninspiration of that to that <\/p>\n
583
\n00:37:57,520 –> 00:38:00,320
\nstory.
\nYou know, many younger men are <\/p>\n
584
\n00:38:00,320 –> 00:38:03,560
\nretiring at younger ages.
\nAren’t we dumb of us? <\/p>\n
585
\n00:38:04,560 –> 00:38:06,640
\nOr some of you I should say.
\nBecause I’m not retired. <\/p>\n
586
\n00:38:08,280 –> 00:38:09,960
\nBut it it.
\nThe statement’s been made and <\/p>\n
587
\n00:38:09,960 –> 00:38:14,280
\nit’s absolutely true that we
\ndon’t retire in the truth, do <\/p>\n
588
\n00:38:14,280 –> 00:38:15,560
\nwe?
\nI mean, how can you retire in <\/p>\n
589
\n00:38:15,560 –> 00:38:19,160
\nthe truth?
\nI run it in retire, he said. <\/p>\n
590
\n00:38:19,160 –> 00:38:22,680
\nI give it all.
\nYou know, that was his, that was<\/p>\n
591
\n00:38:22,680 –> 00:38:24,480
\nhis superannuation package as it
\nwere. <\/p>\n
592
\n00:38:25,040 –> 00:38:27,160
\nWhatever else he had left.
\nHe said, I give it all. <\/p>\n
593
\n00:38:28,000 –> 00:38:30,880
\nThere isn’t any retirement in
\nthe truth really that we, we see<\/p>\n
594
\n00:38:30,880 –> 00:38:33,000
\nit through to the end.
\nOur master said it is finished <\/p>\n
595
\n00:38:33,000 –> 00:38:35,880
\nand it and it was the finish
\nwasn’t anything left. <\/p>\n
596
\n00:38:37,440 –> 00:38:39,720
\nAnd that’s really how we should
\nbe about our lives. <\/p>\n
597
\n00:38:39,760 –> 00:38:43,720
\nIn the truth.
\nWe don’t retire, find our way <\/p>\n
598
\n00:38:43,720 –> 00:38:46,880
\ndown to the the fishing spot and
\nthere we are frequently away <\/p>\n
599
\n00:38:46,880 –> 00:38:52,520
\nfrom pleasial life or to be in
\nanother place where we’re not <\/p>\n
600
\n00:38:52,520 –> 00:38:54,720
\nassociated with the work of.
\nThe truth. <\/p>\n
601
\n00:38:56,480 –> 00:38:58,920
\nAnd we all know that the the
\nfrontiers of the truth are <\/p>\n
602
\n00:38:58,920 –> 00:39:00,520
\nexpanding on every side, aren’t
\nthey? <\/p>\n
603
\n00:39:00,520 –> 00:39:02,200
\nThere’s more and more work to
\ndo. <\/p>\n
604
\n00:39:03,960 –> 00:39:07,680
\nI saw just yesterday a pick a
\ndepiction of, of where there are<\/p>\n
605
\n00:39:07,680 –> 00:39:10,280
\necclesias in the United States,
\nAmerica. <\/p>\n
606
\n00:39:10,960 –> 00:39:13,680
\nAnd the thing that really
\nimpressed me is that, you know, <\/p>\n
607
\n00:39:13,680 –> 00:39:18,080
\nthe the states out there without
\necclesias states, whole states, <\/p>\n
608
\n00:39:19,840 –> 00:39:23,280
\na vast increase in population.
\nI think when I last inquired <\/p>\n
609
\n00:39:23,280 –> 00:39:26,080
\nabout the population of America,
\nit was around the 220 mark. <\/p>\n
610
\n00:39:26,440 –> 00:39:28,080
\nAnd you’ve got a census on the
\nday. <\/p>\n
611
\n00:39:28,080 –> 00:39:30,120
\nThat was appropriate reading you
\nhad this morning, wasn’t it? <\/p>\n
612
\n00:39:31,440 –> 00:39:33,960
\nYou’re on a census on at the
\npresent time and they say that <\/p>\n
613
\n00:39:33,960 –> 00:39:37,000
\nit’s probably likely to be
\nsomething like 280 or 90 million<\/p>\n
614
\n00:39:37,000 –> 00:39:38,760
\npeople.
\nThat’s a tremendous increase of <\/p>\n
615
\n00:39:38,760 –> 00:39:43,960
\npeople, isn’t it?
\n8090 thousand 80 and 90 million <\/p>\n
616
\n00:39:43,960 –> 00:39:48,800
\npeople since the last time that
\nI heard, which gives tremendous <\/p>\n
617
\n00:39:48,800 –> 00:39:51,360
\nscope for work if Pomona for
\nexample. <\/p>\n
618
\n00:39:51,360 –> 00:39:54,320
\nCan have 400 people that come to
\ntheir seminars or want to get <\/p>\n
619
\n00:39:54,320 –> 00:39:56,160
\nin.
\nI don’t know what kind of town <\/p>\n
620
\n00:39:56,160 –> 00:39:59,640
\nhall Pomona’s got, but you kind
\nof need a big hall. <\/p>\n
621
\n00:39:59,640 –> 00:40:01,840
\nI mean, if there’s that kind of
\ninterest, then there’s no <\/p>\n
622
\n00:40:01,840 –> 00:40:05,280
\nretirement in the truth.
\nWe need a bit of this spirit, <\/p>\n
623
\n00:40:05,280 –> 00:40:08,080
\ndon’t we?
\nThat says that before his death <\/p>\n
624
\n00:40:08,080 –> 00:40:10,920
\nHe prepared abundantly for the
\nHouse of God. <\/p>\n
625
\n00:40:11,040 –> 00:40:14,120
\nHe said his.
\nAffection in that direction he. <\/p>\n
626
\n00:40:14,120 –> 00:40:16,080
\nChannelled his energies.
\nAnd you know, there’s nothing <\/p>\n
627
\n00:40:16,080 –> 00:40:21,120
\nmore inspiration for US younger
\nmen than to see an older brother<\/p>\n
628
\n00:40:21,600 –> 00:40:26,080
\nwho to the last bit of his life,
\nhe’s steadfastly in his chair, <\/p>\n
629
\n00:40:26,320 –> 00:40:27,920
\nterribly interested about the
\ntruth. <\/p>\n
630
\n00:40:28,160 –> 00:40:30,520
\nTalking to you about the signs
\nof the times, talking a bit <\/p>\n
631
\n00:40:30,560 –> 00:40:34,080
\nabout the old days, telling you
\nabout when people really gave of<\/p>\n
632
\n00:40:34,080 –> 00:40:36,640
\ntheir life and their time and
\ntheir substance. <\/p>\n
633
\n00:40:37,120 –> 00:40:38,880
\nI find that tremendously
\ninspiring. <\/p>\n
634
\n00:40:40,080 –> 00:40:41,960
\nThere are people.
\nIn this room, I can tell you <\/p>\n
635
\n00:40:41,960 –> 00:40:44,880
\nthat some of the most inspiring
\npeople to me in my life. <\/p>\n
636
\n00:40:46,760 –> 00:40:50,440
\nHis dedication is profound.
\nEvery time I ever come, they’re <\/p>\n
637
\n00:40:50,440 –> 00:40:53,280
\nthere.
\nThey’re the same people, exactly<\/p>\n
638
\n00:40:53,760 –> 00:40:56,920
\nsame type of person as you’ve
\nmet before, same interests, <\/p>\n
639
\n00:40:57,360 –> 00:40:59,720
\nabsolutely the same fervor for
\nthe truth. <\/p>\n
640
\n00:41:00,680 –> 00:41:03,000
\nI love that.
\nI find it personally a great <\/p>\n
641
\n00:41:03,000 –> 00:41:05,320
\ninspiration.
\nSo do we all. <\/p>\n
642
\n00:41:05,320 –> 00:41:07,120
\nThat’s a Davidic type of spirit,
\nisn’t it? <\/p>\n
643
\n00:41:07,360 –> 00:41:09,200
\nThat here he could have put his
\nshoes up and say, well. <\/p>\n
644
\n00:41:09,200 –> 00:41:11,640
\nIf you don’t want me, well, I
\nI’m finished with the innings. <\/p>\n
645
\n00:41:12,280 –> 00:41:15,240
\nBut he didn’t.
\nHe came right back into the <\/p>\n
646
\n00:41:15,240 –> 00:41:18,400
\nfront of that nation and he rose
\nand elevated that people. <\/p>\n
647
\n00:41:18,680 –> 00:41:21,120
\nAnd so they no doubt were all
\nbusy at the end of his life. <\/p>\n
648
\n00:41:21,840 –> 00:41:24,640
\nAnd when finally he passed off
\nthe scene, I bet there was many <\/p>\n
649
\n00:41:24,640 –> 00:41:28,280
\nand I that was filled with
\nmoisture as they thought of the <\/p>\n
650
\n00:41:28,280 –> 00:41:32,080
\namazing life of this dedicated
\nperson. <\/p>\n
651
\n00:41:40,440 –> 00:41:44,960
\nWell, he speaks in verses 6 to
\n16. <\/p>\n
652
\n00:41:47,080 –> 00:41:53,000
\nHe speaks to Solomon as only a
\nfather could speak and commands <\/p>\n
653
\n00:41:53,000 –> 00:41:57,080
\nhim to arise and build the House
\nof God, my son. <\/p>\n
654
\n00:41:57,080 –> 00:42:00,600
\nAs for me, it was in my house
\nverse 7 to build a house under <\/p>\n
655
\n00:42:00,600 –> 00:42:04,800
\nthe name of Yahweh my God.
\nBut God didn’t have it for so to<\/p>\n
656
\n00:42:04,800 –> 00:42:08,760
\nbe He said another would come.
\nYou might notice that in verses <\/p>\n
657
\n00:42:08,760 –> 00:42:12,520
\n9 and 10 He has really sketched
\nSecond Samuel 7. <\/p>\n
658
\n00:42:12,520 –> 00:42:13,480
\nThe promise hasn’t.
\nHe. <\/p>\n
659
\n00:42:14,360 –> 00:42:18,720
\nAnd he’s applied it in a primary
\napplication undoubtedly to <\/p>\n
660
\n00:42:18,720 –> 00:42:21,520
\nSolomon.
\nAnd so turning to Solomon, more <\/p>\n
661
\n00:42:21,520 –> 00:42:25,320
\nparticularly verse 11, he says,
\nnow, my son, the Lord, be with <\/p>\n
662
\n00:42:25,320 –> 00:42:27,760
\nthee, and prosper thou, and
\nbuild the House of the Lord thy <\/p>\n
663
\n00:42:27,760 –> 00:42:32,080
\nGod, as he had said of thee.
\nOnly Yahweh give thee wisdom and<\/p>\n
664
\n00:42:32,080 –> 00:42:34,280
\nunderstanding.
\nGive thee charge concerning <\/p>\n
665
\n00:42:34,280 –> 00:42:36,600
\nIsrael.
\nThat thou mayest keep the law of<\/p>\n
666
\n00:42:36,600 –> 00:42:38,920
\nYahweh thy God.
\nIt’s estimated that Solomon was <\/p>\n
667
\n00:42:38,920 –> 00:42:41,880
\nabout 18 years of age. 18 year
\nold boy. <\/p>\n
668
\n00:42:41,880 –> 00:42:44,480
\nImagine that one lad in your
\nSunday school was 18 years of <\/p>\n
669
\n00:42:44,480 –> 00:42:49,440
\nage and now he’s going to be
\nleft behind with this enormous <\/p>\n
670
\n00:42:49,440 –> 00:42:51,760
\ntask.
\nNever has there been a brick <\/p>\n
671
\n00:42:51,760 –> 00:42:55,720
\nbuilding stone building made.
\nFor God to be worshipped in and <\/p>\n
672
\n00:42:55,720 –> 00:43:00,600
\nthis young man is going to have
\nthat auspicious responsibility <\/p>\n
673
\n00:43:00,600 –> 00:43:04,640
\nlaid upon his shoulders.
\nYou know, parents, you don’t <\/p>\n
674
\n00:43:04,640 –> 00:43:06,160
\nhave to be too soft with your
\nchildren. <\/p>\n
675
\n00:43:07,320 –> 00:43:09,560
\nIt’s not a wrong thing to ask
\nthem to get out and help with <\/p>\n
676
\n00:43:09,560 –> 00:43:11,400
\nthe garden.
\nNot a wrong thing to be asked to<\/p>\n
677
\n00:43:11,400 –> 00:43:12,520
\nhelp with the chores in the
\nhome. <\/p>\n
678
\n00:43:12,720 –> 00:43:15,000
\nIf they don’t learn that,
\nthey’ll never be a Solomon. <\/p>\n
679
\n00:43:15,600 –> 00:43:18,520
\nWe’ve got to make sure that our
\nchildren are brought up to serve<\/p>\n
680
\n00:43:19,920 –> 00:43:23,040
\nin every opportunity brought up
\nto serve, indeed cherished, <\/p>\n
681
\n00:43:23,040 –> 00:43:25,840
\nindeed encouraged, but
\nnevertheless to learn to serve. <\/p>\n
682
\n00:43:27,480 –> 00:43:29,360
\nThere’s a lot of people out
\nthere in the world know nothing <\/p>\n
683
\n00:43:29,360 –> 00:43:31,880
\nabout their about life except
\ntheir own interests. <\/p>\n
684
\n00:43:31,880 –> 00:43:35,040
\nWe’ve got to make sure that our
\nchildren know how to serve. <\/p>\n
685
\n00:43:35,160 –> 00:43:39,880
\nSolomon didn’t get to this this
\ndegree of responsibility except <\/p>\n
686
\n00:43:39,880 –> 00:43:43,960
\nthat his father had put upon him
\nweights of responsibility, not <\/p>\n
687
\n00:43:43,960 –> 00:43:45,840
\nthe not the fault that happened
\nwith Absalom. <\/p>\n
688
\n00:43:45,880 –> 00:43:48,680
\nHe’s not going to repeat that or
\nAdonit you that had never been <\/p>\n
689
\n00:43:48,680 –> 00:43:53,200
\nset back, never been turned back
\nfrom what they wanted to do. <\/p>\n
690
\n00:43:53,960 –> 00:43:56,680
\nIt says that of idolatry.
\nThis young man has definitely <\/p>\n
691
\n00:43:56,680 –> 00:43:59,280
\nbeen brought up differently and
\nhe’s learnt to serve. <\/p>\n
692
\n00:43:59,280 –> 00:44:01,160
\nStolen didn’t say Oh dad, come
\non this. <\/p>\n
693
\n00:44:01,160 –> 00:44:02,520
\nIs a bit.
\nBit too much for me. <\/p>\n
694
\n00:44:02,520 –> 00:44:03,760
\nI’m only a lad.
\nCome on. <\/p>\n
695
\n00:44:04,240 –> 00:44:06,160
\nI’m still surfing out there on
\nthe on the beach. <\/p>\n
696
\n00:44:08,560 –> 00:44:11,000
\nHe didn’t say that, did he?
\nI’ve got to do my degree, got my<\/p>\n
697
\n00:44:11,000 –> 00:44:13,440
\nstudy.
\nThat’s more important. <\/p>\n
698
\n00:44:13,520 –> 00:44:14,400
\nNow.
\nLook what I’m doing. <\/p>\n
699
\n00:44:14,400 –> 00:44:17,880
\nHe didn’t say that at all.
\nHis degrees were in the things <\/p>\n
700
\n00:44:17,880 –> 00:44:22,080
\nof God and he was steeped in
\nthat and the young man was <\/p>\n
701
\n00:44:22,080 –> 00:44:24,840
\nprepared to accept that and
\nbeautifully he carried that <\/p>\n
702
\n00:44:24,840 –> 00:44:27,360
\nresponsibility on.
\nThere’s inspiration for our <\/p>\n
703
\n00:44:27,400 –> 00:44:30,120
\nparent who doesn’t or our
\ngrandparents were dealing with <\/p>\n
704
\n00:44:30,120 –> 00:44:33,200
\nour children.
\nTell our children the things of <\/p>\n
705
\n00:44:33,200 –> 00:44:36,840
\nold, Tell them the old way.
\nTell them what service in Christ<\/p>\n
706
\n00:44:36,840 –> 00:44:39,200
\nmeans.
\nAnd that’s to be done with a <\/p>\n
707
\n00:44:39,200 –> 00:44:42,280
\nfull heart and enjoy fullness of
\nspirit and wherever there’s <\/p>\n
708
\n00:44:42,280 –> 00:44:46,560
\nopportunity to see it and do it.
\nMake their lives happy in <\/p>\n
709
\n00:44:46,560 –> 00:44:49,840
\nservice so that they know that
\nthat’s what life is about. <\/p>\n
710
\n00:44:50,440 –> 00:44:53,160
\nIf it’s not like that, my dear,
\nhow will they ever come to the <\/p>\n
711
\n00:44:53,160 –> 00:44:56,960
\ntruth?
\nIf you just indulge our children<\/p>\n
712
\n00:44:56,960 –> 00:44:59,160
\nand just give them everything
\nthey want and send them off to <\/p>\n
713
\n00:44:59,160 –> 00:45:01,760
\nsome other place in the critical
\ntime of their life, how will <\/p>\n
714
\n00:45:01,760 –> 00:45:07,000
\nthey ever come to Christ?
\nVery, very difficult. <\/p>\n
715
\n00:45:07,000 –> 00:45:07,880
\nI.
\nFeel for them. <\/p>\n
716
\n00:45:08,080 –> 00:45:11,160
\nTremendously.
\nI think sometimes we put upon <\/p>\n
717
\n00:45:11,160 –> 00:45:15,120
\nthem circumstances that if it.
\nWere you and I, we wouldn’t make<\/p>\n
718
\n00:45:15,120 –> 00:45:18,000
\nthe truth.
\nAnd yet, because that’s what the<\/p>\n
719
\n00:45:18,000 –> 00:45:20,040
\nworld’s doing, we kind of walk
\nin with it. <\/p>\n
720
\n00:45:20,440 –> 00:45:23,440
\nWe’ve got to see it clearly.
\nThat child’s going to reach the <\/p>\n
721
\n00:45:23,440 –> 00:45:26,000
\nKingdom, has got to be made
\nsacrifices in his life. <\/p>\n
722
\n00:45:26,760 –> 00:45:29,080
\nHe’s got to see that that’s what
\nlife is all about. <\/p>\n
723
\n00:45:29,760 –> 00:45:33,760
\nIt’s inspiring here to see this
\nold man standing for his son <\/p>\n
724
\n00:45:33,760 –> 00:45:36,680
\nbefore all of this rather, and
\nlaying upon his shoulders a <\/p>\n
725
\n00:45:36,680 –> 00:45:41,120
\ntremendous responsibility.
\nHe’s only an 18 year old boy so <\/p>\n
726
\n00:45:41,120 –> 00:45:42,800
\nexpect something of our
\nchildren. <\/p>\n
727
\n00:45:44,200 –> 00:45:47,120
\nAnd when they’re young, expect
\nsomething of them, because it’s <\/p>\n
728
\n00:45:47,120 –> 00:45:50,400
\nin their interest, their eternal
\ninterest, and our joy and <\/p>\n
729
\n00:45:50,400 –> 00:45:52,320
\nhappiness.
\nLet that be so. <\/p>\n
730
\n00:45:53,600 –> 00:45:56,800
\nBe strong and of good courage.
\nDread not, nor be dismounted. <\/p>\n
731
\n00:45:57,920 –> 00:46:01,520
\nAnd so verse 17, David also
\ncommanded the Princess of Israel<\/p>\n
732
\n00:46:01,520 –> 00:46:04,240
\nto help Solomon and his son.
\nSaying is not. <\/p>\n
733
\n00:46:04,240 –> 00:46:06,920
\nYahweh your God with you, and
\nhave He not given you rest on <\/p>\n
734
\n00:46:06,920 –> 00:46:09,480
\nevery side?
\nWe have given the inhabitants <\/p>\n
735
\n00:46:09,480 –> 00:46:12,360
\nthe land into mine hand, and the
\nland is subdued before Yahweh <\/p>\n
736
\n00:46:12,640 –> 00:46:16,120
\nand before His people.
\nWell, if that’s the case, it <\/p>\n
737
\n00:46:16,120 –> 00:46:18,680
\nhasn’t been given for us to sit,
\nsit back and lay back in the <\/p>\n
738
\n00:46:18,680 –> 00:46:21,000
\nsun.
\nNow set your heart and your soul<\/p>\n
739
\n00:46:21,240 –> 00:46:23,960
\nto seek the Lord your God.
\nArise therefore and build you <\/p>\n
740
\n00:46:23,960 –> 00:46:27,360
\nthe sanctuary of the Lord God to
\nbring the ark of the Covenant of<\/p>\n
741
\n00:46:27,360 –> 00:46:30,680
\nthe Lord and the holy vessels of
\nGod into the house that is to be<\/p>\n
742
\n00:46:30,680 –> 00:46:33,480
\nbuilt to the name of the Lord no
\nlonger up there at Gibeon. <\/p>\n
743
\n00:46:35,280 –> 00:46:36,520
\nThe old is not going to be a
\ngiven. <\/p>\n
744
\n00:46:36,520 –> 00:46:37,800
\nGod’s not going to be somewhere
\nelse. <\/p>\n
745
\n00:46:37,800 –> 00:46:40,640
\nHe’s going to be in the centre
\nof this nation and you can feel <\/p>\n
746
\n00:46:40,640 –> 00:46:42,840
\nhere, my dear, there’s all the
\nchange that’s coming. <\/p>\n
747
\n00:46:43,840 –> 00:46:46,680
\nThere’s the days of the judges
\nweren’t there when there was no <\/p>\n
748
\n00:46:46,680 –> 00:46:52,080
\nking in Israel, there was no
\ncentralized authority whatever <\/p>\n
749
\n00:46:52,080 –> 00:46:55,160
\ntribes might want to wander off
\nwith Gideon, so they did and if <\/p>\n
750
\n00:46:55,160 –> 00:46:56,600
\nit was with he would so they
\ndid. <\/p>\n
751
\n00:46:56,600 –> 00:47:00,320
\nIt was never the whole nation,
\nbut under David they had learnt <\/p>\n
752
\n00:47:00,320 –> 00:47:05,360
\nto come as a nation together and
\nhe eventually brought the two <\/p>\n
753
\n00:47:05,360 –> 00:47:08,840
\nand the 12 together in a common
\ncity, as it were, in Jerusalem, <\/p>\n
754
\n00:47:08,840 –> 00:47:14,400
\nwhich was on the border between.
\nBut the worship of God was still<\/p>\n
755
\n00:47:14,400 –> 00:47:17,320
\nat a different place.
\nAnd so he brought the ark in <\/p>\n
756
\n00:47:18,000 –> 00:47:19,920
\nbecause he wanted God to be in
\nthat Kingdom. <\/p>\n
757
\n00:47:20,000 –> 00:47:22,320
\nWhat was that Kingdom if God was
\nnot in the centre of that <\/p>\n
758
\n00:47:22,320 –> 00:47:25,520
\nKingdom, What he to be the king?
\nGod really was the king and he <\/p>\n
759
\n00:47:25,520 –> 00:47:30,480
\nunder God reigning for God.
\nAnd he came to see, didn’t he, <\/p>\n
760
\n00:47:30,480 –> 00:47:33,720
\nthat God had made him to prosper
\nunder him? <\/p>\n
761
\n00:47:34,800 –> 00:47:39,680
\nBut now he really wants the
\nworship of God to be in that <\/p>\n
762
\n00:47:39,680 –> 00:47:42,160
\ncity.
\nThat’s his concept. <\/p>\n
763
\n00:47:42,160 –> 00:47:45,160
\nIt always was.
\nWell, he’s not going to build <\/p>\n
764
\n00:47:45,160 –> 00:47:47,560
\nthe house, but this house is
\ngoing to be exceeding <\/p>\n
765
\n00:47:47,560 –> 00:47:49,640
\nmagnificent.
\nNations are going to come and <\/p>\n
766
\n00:47:49,640 –> 00:47:52,320
\nsee this king, this, this, this
\nmagnificent building. <\/p>\n
767
\n00:47:52,800 –> 00:47:54,600
\nAnd they’re going to see
\nsomething that I’ve never seen <\/p>\n
768
\n00:47:54,600 –> 00:47:57,080
\nbefore.
\nAnd so all Israel are going to <\/p>\n
769
\n00:47:57,080 –> 00:47:58,560
\ncome and they’re going to see
\nthat. <\/p>\n
770
\n00:47:59,040 –> 00:48:02,040
\nThis is going to be a great
\ncentre of of activity and <\/p>\n
771
\n00:48:02,040 –> 00:48:04,920
\ninterest and a drawing point of
\nthe whole of that nation. <\/p>\n
772
\n00:48:06,000 –> 00:48:08,760
\nAnd it rests.
\nUpon young Solomon and he says <\/p>\n
773
\n00:48:08,760 –> 00:48:12,880
\nto the nation as a whole, don’t
\nlet this down, look what God has<\/p>\n
774
\n00:48:12,880 –> 00:48:16,320
\nbrought you to.
\nTherefore, set your heart and <\/p>\n
775
\n00:48:16,320 –> 00:48:19,160
\nyour soul to seek Yahweh, your
\nGod. <\/p>\n
776
\n00:48:19,160 –> 00:48:22,760
\nIsn’t that beautiful?
\nHe prepared abundantly, he said,<\/p>\n
777
\n00:48:22,760 –> 00:48:24,560
\nHis affection upon the House of
\nGod. <\/p>\n
778
\n00:48:24,840 –> 00:48:28,200
\nHe wants everyone in Israel now
\nto pick up the spirit of that <\/p>\n
779
\n00:48:28,840 –> 00:48:32,640
\nand to set their heart and their
\naffection upon the future that <\/p>\n
780
\n00:48:32,640 –> 00:48:36,480
\nwas coming.
\nSo when David was old and full <\/p>\n
781
\n00:48:36,480 –> 00:48:40,920
\nof days, 23 verse 1, he made
\nSolomon his son king over <\/p>\n
782
\n00:48:40,920 –> 00:48:46,240
\nIsrael.
\nNow if you turn to chapter 29, <\/p>\n
783
\n00:48:50,520 –> 00:48:54,320
\nthat was 23 verse one.
\nKeep keeping our hand in there <\/p>\n
784
\n00:48:54,320 –> 00:49:02,360
\nbecause this is very important
\nlittle exercise in chapter 29 it<\/p>\n
785
\n00:49:02,360 –> 00:49:08,760
\nsays in verse 22 at the end of
\ntwo amazing chapters that we <\/p>\n
786
\n00:49:08,760 –> 00:49:13,920
\nlook at actually tomorrow, it
\nsays they did eat and drink <\/p>\n
787
\n00:49:13,920 –> 00:49:16,520
\nbefore the Lord on that day with
\ngreat gladness. <\/p>\n
788
\n00:49:16,520 –> 00:49:21,480
\nThey made Solomon the son of
\nDavid King the second time and. <\/p>\n
789
\n00:49:22,840 –> 00:49:26,080
\nAnointed him unto the Lord to be
\nthe chief governor and Zadok. <\/p>\n
790
\n00:49:26,080 –> 00:49:31,160
\nTo be priest, all right.
\nThen verse 23 Solomon sat on <\/p>\n
791
\n00:49:31,160 –> 00:49:32,800
\nthe.
\nThrone of Yahweh as king instead<\/p>\n
792
\n00:49:32,800 –> 00:49:35,280
\nof David his father, instead of
\nDavid his father. <\/p>\n
793
\n00:49:35,280 –> 00:49:38,880
\nWell, what do you make then of
\nchapter 23 verse one? <\/p>\n
794
\n00:49:42,320 –> 00:49:44,960
\nSo when David was old and full
\nof days, he made Solomon his <\/p>\n
795
\n00:49:44,960 –> 00:49:50,360
\nson, king over Israel.
\nObviously chapter 29 verse 22 <\/p>\n
796
\n00:49:50,360 –> 00:49:54,680
\nwhen it says the second time is
\nindicating that 23 verse one is <\/p>\n
797
\n00:49:54,680 –> 00:49:58,480
\nthe first time.
\nHappy with that? <\/p>\n
798
\n00:50:01,040 –> 00:50:07,360
\nWhen was the first time?
\nChapter 29 is a formal occasion <\/p>\n
799
\n00:50:08,280 –> 00:50:10,640
\nin chapters 28 and 29.
\nDavid. <\/p>\n
800
\n00:50:10,640 –> 00:50:13,600
\nCalled all the principal people.
\nIt was formal. <\/p>\n
801
\n00:50:13,600 –> 00:50:16,800
\nIt was done with time, it was
\ndone from priority and they all <\/p>\n
802
\n00:50:16,800 –> 00:50:19,920
\ncame down.
\nBut the first time wasn’t like <\/p>\n
803
\n00:50:19,920 –> 00:50:22,200
\nthat.
\nWasn’t the first time. <\/p>\n
804
\n00:50:22,200 –> 00:50:25,000
\nWas that the usurping by
\nAdonager in First Kings? <\/p>\n
805
\n00:50:25,200 –> 00:50:27,720
\nLet’s have a look.
\nFirst Kings chapter 1. <\/p>\n
806
\n00:50:32,040 –> 00:50:36,800
\nThis is a very helpful little
\npicture in First Kings chapter 1<\/p>\n
807
\n00:50:45,260 –> 00:50:48,780
\nand verse 28.
\nThen Tidings came to Job, where <\/p>\n
808
\n00:50:48,780 –> 00:50:52,420
\nJob had turned after Adonager,
\nthough he turned not after. <\/p>\n
809
\n00:50:52,420 –> 00:50:54,700
\nAbsalom and Job fled into the
\ntabernet. <\/p>\n
810
\n00:50:54,740 –> 00:51:01,880
\nSorry in chapter 2 in first
\nkings chapter 1 Adonijit usurps <\/p>\n
811
\n00:51:01,880 –> 00:51:12,120
\nthe throne and we read in verse
\n6 his father had not displeased <\/p>\n
812
\n00:51:12,120 –> 00:51:15,160
\nhim at any time in saying.
\nWhy has thou done so? <\/p>\n
813
\n00:51:16,120 –> 00:51:19,680
\nAnd verse 7 he conferred with
\nJarab the son OF0Y and with the <\/p>\n
814
\n00:51:19,680 –> 00:51:21,360
\nbirth of the priest, and they
\nfollowed. <\/p>\n
815
\n00:51:21,600 –> 00:51:26,520
\nFollowing Adonijit helped him,
\nbut Zadok the priest and Benaiah<\/p>\n
816
\n00:51:26,560 –> 00:51:33,160
\ndid not, and so they anointed A
\nDonaghet to be king, and they <\/p>\n
817
\n00:51:33,160 –> 00:51:34,680
\nhad a great feast.
\nVerse 9. <\/p>\n
818
\n00:51:34,680 –> 00:51:38,040
\nJohnagers through sheep and oxen
\nand fat cattle, by the stone of <\/p>\n
819
\n00:51:38,120 –> 00:51:41,720
\nZoeleth, which is by Enrogu, and
\ncalled all his brethren the <\/p>\n
820
\n00:51:41,720 –> 00:51:45,000
\nKing’s sons, and all the men are
\ndue to the King’s servants. <\/p>\n
821
\n00:51:45,160 –> 00:51:49,680
\nIt was a pretty general revolt.
\nBut Nathan the prophet, and Ben <\/p>\n
822
\n00:51:49,680 –> 00:51:52,600
\nand I the mighty men, and
\nSolomon his brother, he called <\/p>\n
823
\n00:51:52,600 –> 00:51:55,520
\nnot.
\nAnd so Bathsheba became aware of<\/p>\n
824
\n00:51:55,520 –> 00:51:58,960
\nthat when Nathan spoke to her in
\nverse 11. <\/p>\n
825
\n00:51:59,480 –> 00:52:03,480
\nAnd Bathsheba verse 15 went into
\nthe king, and the king said in <\/p>\n
826
\n00:52:03,480 –> 00:52:06,560
\nverse 28, Call me Bathsheba.
\nAnd she came into the King’s <\/p>\n
827
\n00:52:06,560 –> 00:52:09,320
\npresence, and stood before the
\nking and the King’s square, and <\/p>\n
828
\n00:52:09,320 –> 00:52:12,440
\nsaid, As Yahweh liveth, that
\nhath redeemed my soul out of all<\/p>\n
829
\n00:52:12,440 –> 00:52:16,640
\ndistress, even as I swear unto
\nthee by the Lord God of Israel, <\/p>\n
830
\n00:52:16,640 –> 00:52:20,040
\nsaying, assuredly Solomon thy
\nson shall reign after me, and he<\/p>\n
831
\n00:52:20,040 –> 00:52:23,600
\nshall sit upon my throne in my
\nstead, Even so will I certainly <\/p>\n
832
\n00:52:23,600 –> 00:52:26,200
\ndo this day.
\nAnd a hasty assembly was called,<\/p>\n
833
\n00:52:26,400 –> 00:52:30,080
\nand Solomon was anointed.
\nThat’s nothing like First <\/p>\n
834
\n00:52:30,080 –> 00:52:33,560
\nChronicles 20. 8 and 29 if you
\nlook in chapter. 28 verse one. <\/p>\n
835
\n00:52:33,560 –> 00:52:37,560
\nIt’s probably the longest verse
\nalmost in Chronicles, and it <\/p>\n
836
\n00:52:37,560 –> 00:52:40,280
\ntells you of all the people that
\ncame and who were invited. <\/p>\n
837
\n00:52:40,360 –> 00:52:45,240
\nIt was very formal, very proper,
\nbut here over in First Kings <\/p>\n
838
\n00:52:45,240 –> 00:52:51,240
\none, it’s hasting there’s a time
\nof rebellion involved in it. <\/p>\n
839
\n00:52:51,640 –> 00:52:53,320
\nSome people are there and some
\npeople are not. <\/p>\n
840
\n00:52:53,320 –> 00:52:55,080
\nSome people are down at a
\ndonagers feast. <\/p>\n
841
\n00:52:55,680 –> 00:52:57,440
\nIt’s a totally different
\nenvironment, isn’t it? <\/p>\n
842
\n00:52:58,360 –> 00:53:02,840
\nSo that’s the first time and
\nFirst Chronicles 29 verse 22 is <\/p>\n
843
\n00:53:02,840 –> 00:53:04,280
\ntelling you about the second
\ntime. <\/p>\n
844
\n00:53:05,200 –> 00:53:09,040
\nSo it’s reasonable, therefore,
\nto say that first Kings one and <\/p>\n
845
\n00:53:09,040 –> 00:53:12,520
\ntwo equate with.
\nWhat we have here in Chronicles <\/p>\n
846
\n00:53:12,520 –> 00:53:16,720
\n23, verse one, as he made
\nSolomon his son king over <\/p>\n
847
\n00:53:16,720 –> 00:53:20,160
\nIsrael.
\nNow is that clear? <\/p>\n
848
\n00:53:20,240 –> 00:53:23,840
\nI want that little concept to be
\nclear because it’s very helpful.<\/p>\n
849
\n00:53:24,400 –> 00:53:27,480
\nIt it puts the whole background
\nbehind what was happening at the<\/p>\n
850
\n00:53:27,480 –> 00:53:32,360
\ntime of the numbering of Israel.
\nIt was not an easy time for <\/p>\n
851
\n00:53:32,360 –> 00:53:34,320
\nDavid.
\nThere was rebellion in the <\/p>\n
852
\n00:53:34,320 –> 00:53:37,680
\nenvironment and therefore the
\ncircumstances were very <\/p>\n
853
\n00:53:37,680 –> 00:53:42,280
\ndifficult for him.
\nIs that all clear? <\/p>\n
854
\n00:53:42,280 –> 00:53:46,200
\nAnd what also now it makes very
\nclear to us is this. <\/p>\n
855
\n00:53:46,240 –> 00:53:50,760
\nWhen things are going hard, when
\nthings are going difficult and <\/p>\n
856
\n00:53:50,760 –> 00:53:53,480
\neverything’s not, again, not in
\nfavour of you might be a <\/p>\n
857
\n00:53:53,480 –> 00:53:55,200
\nClichelean.
\nYou feel there’s lots of people <\/p>\n
858
\n00:53:55,200 –> 00:53:58,200
\nin the meeting that perhaps
\nthink you’ve done this or think <\/p>\n
859
\n00:53:58,200 –> 00:54:01,280
\nyou’ve done that or why you did
\nthis. <\/p>\n
860
\n00:54:01,280 –> 00:54:02,960
\nThey think of this reason why
\nyou did that. <\/p>\n
861
\n00:54:02,960 –> 00:54:05,840
\nThey think of that reason and
\nyou feel really in the Blues, <\/p>\n
862
\n00:54:06,960 –> 00:54:10,240
\nthe best thing to do is to do
\nwhat David did, isn’t He kept <\/p>\n
863
\n00:54:10,240 –> 00:54:14,880
\nhis faith through all of that.
\nHe never swerved his course, but<\/p>\n
864
\n00:54:14,880 –> 00:54:17,680
\nhe picked up and worked in the
\nthings of God. <\/p>\n
865
\n00:54:18,440 –> 00:54:21,840
\nHe increased his activity before
\nGod. <\/p>\n
866
\n00:54:22,400 –> 00:54:24,760
\nHe admitted his sins without a
\nquestion. <\/p>\n
867
\n00:54:25,000 –> 00:54:28,560
\nBut he picked his ball up and he
\nran with that in the things of <\/p>\n
868
\n00:54:28,560 –> 00:54:31,440
\nGod.
\nWhat a wonderful person he was. <\/p>\n
869
\n00:54:32,360 –> 00:54:35,400
\nHe didn’t sit around moping and
\nbemoaning his life. <\/p>\n
870
\n00:54:36,280 –> 00:54:37,960
\nHe said there’s a great work to
\nbe done. <\/p>\n
871
\n00:54:38,000 –> 00:54:41,760
\nI’m going to get on with it and
\nencourage the rest of Israel to <\/p>\n
872
\n00:54:41,760 –> 00:54:44,360
\ncome behind that word.
\nWhat an inspiring person. <\/p>\n
873
\n00:54:44,360 –> 00:54:47,280
\nMy dear Britton sisters.
\nIt’s the same boy, isn’t it? <\/p>\n
874
\n00:54:47,280 –> 00:54:50,240
\nIf we might say so, that ran
\ndown the slope of the valley of <\/p>\n
875
\n00:54:50,400 –> 00:54:53,480
\nElah and went toward Goliath.
\nThere was Goliath with all of <\/p>\n
876
\n00:54:53,480 –> 00:54:55,920
\nhis difficulties.
\nDavid went against all of his <\/p>\n
877
\n00:54:56,040 –> 00:54:57,720
\nhis enemies, all of his
\nproblems. <\/p>\n
878
\n00:54:57,920 –> 00:55:01,480
\nHe treated the same as if they
\nwere Goliath from the time he <\/p>\n
879
\n00:55:01,480 –> 00:55:04,360
\nwas a boy to the time he died.
\nThat’s how he treated his <\/p>\n
880
\n00:55:04,360 –> 00:55:05,560
\nproblems in.
\nGod. <\/p>\n
881
\n00:55:05,880 –> 00:55:09,280
\nHe went against those problems
\nand in that way he conquered.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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