Class 3 from this series was used in GCT Episode 364.<\/p>\n
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\nattention to our brother Brian
\nLuke as he deals with the <\/p>\n
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\nsubject.
\nI have set my affairs to the <\/p>\n
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\nHouse of my God, and he’s
\nentitled his first session. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is the House of the Lord
\nGod, Brother Brian. <\/p>\n
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\nDear brother Ron and my beloved
\nbrethren and sisters and young <\/p>\n
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\npeople, I must say that just
\nlooking around made me think <\/p>\n
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\nthat we perhaps were in the
\nwrong spot for the moment <\/p>\n
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\nbecause I thought that Idlewild
\nwas up on the mountains. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd yet looking around here just
\nreminds me so much of of being <\/p>\n
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\nat the Bible school and seeing
\nall of your faces. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I would like to say, you
\nknow, Ron has said how <\/p>\n
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\nprivileged it was for the local
\nbrethren sisters to be here and <\/p>\n
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\nto see so many of you come from
\nsuch wide distances to be here. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I just feel a bit like a
\nlocal at the moment because I’ve<\/p>\n
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\nbeen enjoying the, the domestic
\nenvironment here. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I just have really felt just
\nhow true that is. <\/p>\n
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\nYou just wouldn’t know what it
\nmeans, I suppose, coming from <\/p>\n
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\nother ecclesias to feel how a
\ngroup of three or four brethren <\/p>\n
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\nsisters in this locality feel
\nwhen suddenly the whole place is<\/p>\n
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\nis filled with familiar faces
\nand warm faces. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd it does mean a tremendous
\namount to them. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I’ve been thankful to
\nexperience just what that means.<\/p>\n
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\nYou know, it’s something about
\nbrotherhood, isn’t it, that <\/p>\n
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\nthere is such a desire to travel
\nand to be with each other. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s a tremendous spirit.
\nAnd I pray that it might <\/p>\n
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\ncontinue.
\nWe are a small community, but <\/p>\n
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\nit’s part of our our wonder as
\nChrista Delphines to be able to <\/p>\n
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\nhave that tremendous bond that
\nbrings us together. <\/p>\n
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\nI don’t really earnestly believe
\nthere is anything like that in <\/p>\n
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\nthe world.
\nAnd your coming here today is <\/p>\n
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\npart of the perpetuating and
\nmaintaining of that spirit, that<\/p>\n
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\nspirit of sacrifice and
\ndedication. <\/p>\n
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\nNow, this is not altogether an
\neasy study. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is quite a day today.
\nYou’re feeling frisky now, but <\/p>\n
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\nby the end of the day you’ll
\nprobably be glad that the, the, <\/p>\n
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\nthe 5:30 has come.
\nWe’ve got some difficult <\/p>\n
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\nchapters here, though.
\nThey look difficult, don’t they?<\/p>\n
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\nFirst Chronicles 2221 through to
\nFirst Chronicles 29. <\/p>\n
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\nThere’s a lot of detail there
\nand it’s probably a section when<\/p>\n
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\nwe’re doing the readings that we
\nsay, well, now what was all that<\/p>\n
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\nabout?
\nAnd young 13 year old or 14 year<\/p>\n
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\nold stumbling over all the, the
\nnames of the different priests <\/p>\n
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\nin, in First Chronicles chapter
\n24. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd you’re finding it awkward to
\nsort of make some comment about <\/p>\n
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\nthis section to the children
\nwhen we’re dealing with this <\/p>\n
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\nsection of Chronicles.
\nWell, I hope that after today we<\/p>\n
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\nmight be able to say, well, you
\nknow, really there are a lot of <\/p>\n
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\ndetails there, but why aren’t
\nthey interesting chapters? <\/p>\n
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\nAnd what a wonderful prospect
\nthey have left for the future <\/p>\n
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\nKingdom which is to come,
\nbecause that’s really what <\/p>\n
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\nthey’re there for if you come to
\nthe 29th chapter. <\/p>\n
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\nYou get some sense of what these
\nlast chapters in Chronicles are <\/p>\n
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\nall about.
\nThus it says in verse 26, David,<\/p>\n
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\nthe son of Jesse, reigned over
\nall Israel. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s a very summary statement
\nfull of powerful reflections. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the time that he reigned
\nover Israel was 40 years. <\/p>\n
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\nA seven years reigned he in
\nHebron, and 30 and three years <\/p>\n
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\nreigned he in Jerusalem.
\nHe was 70 years old when he <\/p>\n
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\ndied.
\nHe died in a good old age, full <\/p>\n
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\nof days, riches and honour.
\nAnd Solomon, his son reigned in <\/p>\n
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\nhis stealth.
\nBut in the latter part of his <\/p>\n
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\nlife, there was a season of
\nextreme interest, and that’s <\/p>\n
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\nwhat we’re looking at today.
\nWe don’t often look at this <\/p>\n
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\nsection of his life.
\nAnd there was a burning theme in<\/p>\n
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\nthat part of his life expressed
\nin two beautiful little <\/p>\n
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\nstatements, one in First
\nCorinthians 29. <\/p>\n
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\nJust turn the page back to verse
\n3 where it says, moreover, <\/p>\n
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\nbecause I have set my affection
\nto the House of my God, isn’t <\/p>\n
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\nthat a beautiful expression?
\nI have set my affection to the <\/p>\n
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\nHouse of my God.
\nTherefore I have of my own <\/p>\n
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\nproper good of gold and silver,
\nwhich I have given to the House <\/p>\n
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\nof my God over and above all
\nthat I have prepared for the <\/p>\n
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\nhouse and so on.
\nBecause of that affection to the<\/p>\n
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\nHouse of God.
\nDavid had brought all of his <\/p>\n
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\nlife and all of its
\nfruitfulness. <\/p>\n
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\nHe had brought it to that ’cause
\nthat’s one beautiful little <\/p>\n
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\nexpression.
\nThe other one is more towards <\/p>\n
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\nthe beginning of this latter
\nsection, Chapter 22. <\/p>\n
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\nHe has found where the sacrifice
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\nwill be built.
\nAnd so he addresses Solomon that<\/p>\n
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\nhas this tremendous unique
\nresponsibility upon his youthful<\/p>\n
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\nshoulders.
\nDavid said, Solomon, my son is <\/p>\n
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\nyoung and tender, and the house
\nthat is to be builded before the<\/p>\n
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\nLord must be exceeding
\nmagnifical. <\/p>\n
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\nOnly David could put that
\ntogether. <\/p>\n
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\nRight of fame and of glory
\nthroughout all countries. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat a mind he had.
\nI will therefore now make <\/p>\n
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\npreparation for it.
\nSo David prepared abundantly <\/p>\n
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\nbefore his death.
\nI have set my affection to the <\/p>\n
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\nHouse of my God.
\nAnd so his latter years, my dear<\/p>\n
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\nbrothers, sisters, were given to
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\nThis dedicated purpose he was
\ngoing to put aside and put aside<\/p>\n
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\norganize so that that house <\/p>\n
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\nname of the God of Israel.
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\nthe older man, to the House of
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\nAnd what a life, my dear Red and
\nsisters, David’s had been, just <\/p>\n
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\nChronicles 29 on what we might
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\nDavid’s life.
\nAnd standing up in front of us <\/p>\n
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\nis an old man, it says.
\nAnd David stood up on his feet. <\/p>\n
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\nWell, where else did a man stand
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\nthing that he was standing there
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\ntime before he was.
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\nwas so cold, he was so almost
\ndeath stricken that it needed <\/p>\n
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\ninto the old King’s frame.
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\nthe wonder of this remarkable
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\nremarkable inability that he had
\na description that’s not found <\/p>\n
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\nanywhere else in Scripture.
\nDespite that, that man got out <\/p>\n
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\nof that bed and he set his
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\nthings of God and he
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\nand he prepared abundantly
\nbefore his death. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat an inspiration.
\nDon’t often look at this part of<\/p>\n
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\nDavid’s life, do we?
\nWe look at his youth and the <\/p>\n
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\nbrilliance of his youth and the
\nstone that went through Goliath <\/p>\n
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\nThe the more brilliant parts of <\/p>\n
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\nhis life, but this area of his
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\nwonderful.
\nSo the mind is, is watching him <\/p>\n
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\nputting those things together
\nand standing before Israel. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is perhaps some of the
\nthoughts that would have gone <\/p>\n
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\nthrough our mind, the mind of a
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\nfilled him with the greatest
\nemotion. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is the David who kept the
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\nbroken hills of Bethlehem
\ndespite the lion and the bear. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is the David that rose to
\nnational prominence in the <\/p>\n
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\nValley of Elah when he put his
\nyouthful foot upon the crown of <\/p>\n
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\nthe Philistine champion whose
\nharp then later so skilfully <\/p>\n
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\nassuaged the evil spirit of
\nSaul, who won the hearts of the <\/p>\n
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\nvaliant of Israel, of their
\nsinging women, of soul’s <\/p>\n
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\nservants, even of soul’s
\ndaughter, and yes, even of his <\/p>\n
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\neldest son Jonathan.
\nThis is the one who built faith <\/p>\n
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\nand love and wisdom into that
\ngroup of discontents who were <\/p>\n
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\nwith him in the wilderness and
\nlater became his principles. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is the David who rose to
\nthe throne over all Israel, <\/p>\n
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\nIsrael and Judah, and in the
\nsummer of his life vanquished <\/p>\n
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\nthe Gentiles on every side and
\nestablished Jerusalem, the <\/p>\n
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\nstrong and indivisible capital
\nof a nation under God. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is the David that gave us
\nPsalms and personally designed <\/p>\n
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\nthe instruments to go with them.
\nAnd a new and beautiful order of<\/p>\n
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\nworship was established in
\nIsrael. <\/p>\n
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\nA wide bearing mind who executed
\njustice and mercy to all in the <\/p>\n
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\nland and brought us close to the
\nGod of our fathers who loved <\/p>\n
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\nYahweh and received promise of
\nan eternal throne not equalled <\/p>\n
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\nby any other man and a son to
\nsit there on even the Son of God<\/p>\n
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\nover whom later we we wept in
\nunbelieving sorrow when the news<\/p>\n
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\nof Bathsheba and the Uriah
\nfilled it in hushed whispers <\/p>\n
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\nthroughout the land.
\nOur David then shamed by his <\/p>\n
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\nson, who endured the stones of
\nShimiai, and let his stinging <\/p>\n
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\nwords of jealousy fall upon the
\nshield of his faith. <\/p>\n
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\nOur king in Jerusalem again, the
\nfather of wise young Solomon, <\/p>\n
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\nOld, tired, weak, cold.
\nFrequently I’ll still beset by <\/p>\n
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\njealous rivalries, but despite
\nevery adversity, actively <\/p>\n
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\npursuing the preparation of the
\nHouse of Yahweh Elohim. <\/p>\n
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\nNot to build it, or to see it in
\nfact, but giving everything he <\/p>\n
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\nhad to prepare for it.
\nThere’s something young and <\/p>\n
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\nrefreshing about David in every
\narea of his life, a buoyant and <\/p>\n
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\npowerful spirit.
\nWhat’s so thrilling, my dear <\/p>\n
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\nbrothers and sisters in this
\nstudy, is to see that what we <\/p>\n
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\nknow of David of old, in all of
\nthe early parts, in the middle <\/p>\n
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\nparts of his life, which was so
\ninspirational, we’re going to <\/p>\n
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\nfind that it’s the same person
\nin an older guise in these last <\/p>\n
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\nfew years of his life.
\nIt’s the same person. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd that’s inspiration, wasn’t
\nit? <\/p>\n
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\nHe won’t see that house.
\nYou’ll never prepare it in the <\/p>\n
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\nsense of actually building it,
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\nWhat an inspiration he truly
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\nNow, it’s the numbering of
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\nturning point, the pivotal event
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\nbecause it tells us that in
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\nWe just read in verse 5.
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\nSo when David was old and full
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\nyears of his life.
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\nour brother read for us today
\nand there’s Second Samuel 24. <\/p>\n
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\nThey are parallel passages.
\nWhen you think of the outcome of<\/p>\n
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\nthis event, it’s really is very
\nsignificant, isn’t it? <\/p>\n
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\nThe outcome of the numbering of
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\nin four things.
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\nnation.
\nThere are 70,000 men lost. <\/p>\n
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\nA new place for sacrifice in
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\nIt was at Gibeon where the altar
\nwas. <\/p>\n
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\nNow sacrifice will be made in a
\ndifferent place in Jerusalem. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd fourthly, it provided A
\ntremendous impetus for the old <\/p>\n
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\nKing in the latter years of his
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\nthat would be built upon the new
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\nA humbled king, a chastised
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\nsacrifice, and vast preparations
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\nthere.
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\nin itself, isn’t it?
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\nsacrifice came praise and
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\nthereafter.
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\nwhat our God is like, isn’t it?
\nYou might have thought that such<\/p>\n
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\nan event could never bring forth
\ngood things, but it’s not true, <\/p>\n
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\nisn’t it?
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\nforgives.
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\nAnd the man that is said to be
\nthe Sinner in the story is the <\/p>\n
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\none that prepares the place and
\nfinds the place, is given the <\/p>\n
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\nknowledge of the place, and
\nafter that, centuries of true <\/p>\n
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\nworship will be based upon that
\nvery place. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat an amazing thing is the
\nmind of our God. <\/p>\n
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\nNow, it’s interesting to come
\nback to the Samuel record, <\/p>\n
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\nsecond Samuel 24, this great
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\nand of the Kingdom really.
\nI suppose this is one of the <\/p>\n
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\nDavid, isn’t it? <\/p>\n
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\nWe sometimes feel that we can
\ndraw near to people like David <\/p>\n
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\nbecause there was some failures
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\nour own lives from time to time.
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\nsort of feel we could go up to
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\nAnd it’s this tremendous rebound
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\nabout David.
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\nearly life or it’s his later
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\nsense of rebound toward God.
\nHe gets over his problems and he<\/p>\n
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\ncomes up in faith toward God.
\nNow I don’t know if you’ve ever <\/p>\n
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\nread this carefully, my dear
\nbrother and sisters in Second <\/p>\n
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\nSamuel 24 because it it is
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\ncarefully because it says, as
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\nstory, that the reason it all
\nhappened was because of God’s <\/p>\n
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\nanger toward Israel.
\nIt says, and again, the anger of<\/p>\n
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\nthe Lord was kindled against
\nIsrael and he moved David <\/p>\n
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\nagainst them to say go number
\nIsrael and Judah. <\/p>\n
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\nNow, in the Chronicles record,
\nit says that Satan moved David <\/p>\n
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\nright home in our minds because
\nthat’s why the event occurred. <\/p>\n
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\nIt says that it was again, that
\nthe anger of the Lord came. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd that seems to refer back to
\nSecond Samuel chapter 21 where <\/p>\n
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\nthere was a famine in the days
\nof David three years, year after<\/p>\n
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\nyear.
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\nanswered, it is for Saul and for
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\nverse one is taking that in
\nmind. <\/p>\n
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\nBut why do you think it was that
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\nIsrael?
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\ndoes it?
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\ncome to an answer to that is to
\nsay, well, what actually <\/p>\n
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\nhappened and what happened was
\nthat there was 70,000 of Israel <\/p>\n
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\nare taken out verse 15 So the
\nLord sent a pestilence upon <\/p>\n
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\nIsrael.
\nHis anger was upon Israel. <\/p>\n
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\nThe Lord sent a pestilence upon
\nIsrael from the morning even to <\/p>\n
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\nthe time appointed and there
\ndied of the people from dead <\/p>\n
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\neven to be a Sheba 70,000 men.
\nNo doubt the cause is related to<\/p>\n
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\nthat outcome and it’s clear that
\nGod was not angry with David, is<\/p>\n
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\nit?
\nThat’s very clear. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s a very important part of
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\nHe was made sin, as it were.
\nHe was enveloped in the <\/p>\n
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\ncircumstances, but Israel’s
\nIsrael was the cause of God’s <\/p>\n
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\nanger and Israel was the one
\nthat received the judgement. <\/p>\n
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\nWell, I suppose it’s really not
\ntoo difficult to understand what<\/p>\n
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\nMany years of prosperity, of <\/p>\n
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\nsuperiority among the nations
\nhad no doubt generated a lot of <\/p>\n
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\npeople in Israel that were
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\nand prosperity always comes in <\/p>\n
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\nThere was an independence, no <\/p>\n
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\ndoubt, as we are feeling in our
\nown good years, an independence <\/p>\n
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\nof God because people don’t feel
\nthe same need of him. <\/p>\n
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\nWhen there was battles and David
\nwas going out against this <\/p>\n
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\nnation and against that nation,
\nthen the nation was driven <\/p>\n
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\ntogether, weren’t they?
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\nclearly an advantage nation. <\/p>\n
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\nranks that there are many men <\/p>\n
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\nThey were against the king. <\/p>\n
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\nThere were angry spirits about.
\nThey’re just a little insight <\/p>\n
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\ninto that Psalm 71.
\nYou know that this is the Psalm <\/p>\n
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\nWe’ll be coming to it, in fact, <\/p>\n
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\ntomorrow.
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\njust what the circumstances were
\nlike out there in Israel. <\/p>\n
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\nIn verse 9 of Psalm 71, is this
\nthe Psalm of David’s old age? <\/p>\n
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\nWe know it is.
\nHe tells us that in verse 17 and<\/p>\n
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\nO God, Thou hast taught me from <\/p>\n
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\nmy youth, and hitherto have I
\ndeclared Thy wondrous works. <\/p>\n
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\nNow also, when I am old and grey
\nheaded, O God, forsake me not <\/p>\n
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\nuntil I have showed thy strength
\nunto this generation, and thy <\/p>\n
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\npower to everyone that is to
\ncome. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s David, isn’t it?
\nBut look at verse 9. <\/p>\n
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\nWas the king lying back in idle
\npleasure, where all his servants<\/p>\n
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\nat his beck and coal was
\neverybody behind him? <\/p>\n
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\nVerse 9 Forsake me not when my <\/p>\n
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\nlay wait for my soul take
\ncounsel together, saying, God <\/p>\n
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\nhath forsaken him, persecute and
\ntake him, for there is none to <\/p>\n
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\ndeliver him.
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\ncause, and so being so long in
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\nwas finished. <\/p>\n
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\ntimes like that is that people <\/p>\n
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\nbegin then to debate the future,
\ndon’t they? <\/p>\n
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\nSuccession becomes the obsession
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\nWhat’s going to be hereafter?
\nAnd you know, just before this <\/p>\n
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\ntime or just after this time,
\nAdonager was the one, his second<\/p>\n
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\nson, who had arisen against him.
\nAnd that’s instructional because<\/p>\n
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\nyou’ll remember the
\ncircumstances out of which David<\/p>\n
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\nwas raised when Adonager
\nendeavoured to usurp the throne.<\/p>\n
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\nDavid was was clearly gone as it
\nwere. <\/p>\n
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\nHe was in that bed of
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\nold body.
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\nwithout principles that came
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\nimportant people, even Joab that
\nhad not gone with Absalom. <\/p>\n
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\nJoab now switched camps, so do
\none of the high prinests. <\/p>\n
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\nSo it shows us, my dear and
\nsisters, what we would never <\/p>\n
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\nhave imagined, that he arrived
\nat the end of his life when he’s<\/p>\n
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\ngot all these laurels of
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\noutside that bedroom, there’s
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\nAnd all that David says is, Oh
\nGod, be not far from me. <\/p>\n
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\nOh my God, make haste for my
\nhelp now also when I’m old and <\/p>\n
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\nGray headed, Oh God forsake me
\nnot. <\/p>\n
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\nthis generation and thy power to
\neveryone that is to come. <\/p>\n
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\nYour beautiful man, wasn’t he
\nremarkable man? <\/p>\n
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\ntaking in that, that national <\/p>\n
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\nsituation, that national
\npicture, that helps us to <\/p>\n
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\nrealize what God was doing.
\nWas he not carving out 70,000? <\/p>\n
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\nWas it not his choice as to who
\nthey were? <\/p>\n
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\nIt was the Lord sent a
\npestilence, verse 15. <\/p>\n
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\nI don’t imagine for a moment
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337
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\nI think that God was taking out
\nof that nation 70,070 because <\/p>\n
338
\n00:24:24,840 –> 00:24:27,520
\nthey were like Gentiles, though
\nthey were in the Kingdom of <\/p>\n
339
\n00:24:27,520 –> 00:24:30,640
\nIsrael and they had never seen
\nthat God had have given them <\/p>\n
340
\n00:24:30,640 –> 00:24:34,000
\nthat man.
\nThey would see his sins, they’d <\/p>\n
341
\n00:24:34,000 –> 00:24:37,800
\nsee his failings, but they never
\nsaw that God was behind that <\/p>\n
342
\n00:24:37,800 –> 00:24:38,680
\nman.
\nHe was. <\/p>\n
343
\n00:24:39,680 –> 00:24:41,920
\nIt was God that gave him
\nstrength to tear the lion and <\/p>\n
344
\n00:24:41,920 –> 00:24:43,440
\nthe bear.
\nIt was God that gave him the <\/p>\n
345
\n00:24:43,440 –> 00:24:46,120
\ndirection to the sin, the stone
\ninto into Goliath. <\/p>\n
346
\n00:24:46,120 –> 00:24:48,600
\nIt was God that gave him the
\nstrength to Vanquish the <\/p>\n
347
\n00:24:48,600 –> 00:24:50,920
\nenemies.
\nIt was God that gave him the <\/p>\n
348
\n00:24:50,920 –> 00:24:53,400
\nPsalms and the inspiration for
\nIsrael. <\/p>\n
349
\n00:24:53,560 –> 00:24:56,040
\nYou couldn’t deal with a man
\nwithout realizing that, never <\/p>\n
350
\n00:24:56,040 –> 00:24:58,520
\nmind his sins.
\nIt was God that forgave him. <\/p>\n
351
\n00:24:59,880 –> 00:25:02,240
\nBut there were men who wouldn’t
\nforgive that and who wouldn’t <\/p>\n
352
\n00:25:02,240 –> 00:25:06,480
\nhave acknowledged that.
\nAnd consequently there was this <\/p>\n
353
\n00:25:06,480 –> 00:25:10,240
\ngrowing discontent in the
\nnation, and the old man was <\/p>\n
354
\n00:25:10,520 –> 00:25:13,960
\nphysically incapable to deal
\nwith that situation. <\/p>\n
355
\n00:25:15,480 –> 00:25:18,080
\nAnd again the anger of the Lord
\nwas kindled against Israel, and <\/p>\n
356
\n00:25:18,080 –> 00:25:23,720
\nhe took 70,000 out of that
\nnation, 70,000 that acted like <\/p>\n
357
\n00:25:23,720 –> 00:25:26,600
\nGentiles, as though they had no
\nknowledge or revelation of God, <\/p>\n
358
\n00:25:27,480 –> 00:25:30,400
\nand he treated them like a
\n70,000. <\/p>\n
359
\n00:25:31,520 –> 00:25:34,560
\nAnd what a security He was
\ntherefore providing for the <\/p>\n
360
\n00:25:34,560 –> 00:25:38,200
\nyoung, the Solomon, when he
\nshould come to reign, that those<\/p>\n
361
\n00:25:38,200 –> 00:25:41,720
\ntroublemakers were generally
\neased out of the nation. <\/p>\n
362
\n00:25:42,560 –> 00:25:46,600
\nWell, that seems to make sense,
\ndoesn’t it, as to why God did <\/p>\n
363
\n00:25:46,600 –> 00:25:49,400
\nthat.
\nAnd I repeat again that it <\/p>\n
364
\n00:25:49,400 –> 00:25:53,480
\nwasn’t his anger against the
\nDavid in this event. <\/p>\n
365
\n00:25:54,000 –> 00:25:58,560
\nThat was the prime thing.
\nThe prime cause was his anger <\/p>\n
366
\n00:25:58,560 –> 00:26:03,440
\nagainst the people.
\nSo in a sense, my dear Bernard <\/p>\n
367
\n00:26:03,440 –> 00:26:07,880
\nsisters, in a sense, David’s
\ngoing to suffer in this matter <\/p>\n
368
\n00:26:09,480 –> 00:26:14,080
\non behalf of the people.
\nTrue, He’s going to be involved <\/p>\n
369
\n00:26:14,080 –> 00:26:19,480
\nin the transgression, but it
\nwasn’t he that was the ’cause it<\/p>\n
370
\n00:26:19,480 –> 00:26:21,400
\nwas the people for whom he would
\nsuffer. <\/p>\n
371
\n00:26:21,840 –> 00:26:24,160
\nThat’s got very beautiful
\novertones. <\/p>\n
372
\n00:26:24,720 –> 00:26:28,360
\nIn a sense.
\nHe was made sin for the people’s<\/p>\n
373
\n00:26:28,480 –> 00:26:32,240
\nsin.
\nThere’s a a very lovely overdrop<\/p>\n
374
\n00:26:32,240 –> 00:26:36,400
\non this whole thing that where
\ntrue sacrifice was going to be <\/p>\n
375
\n00:26:36,400 –> 00:26:38,640
\nmade and the place for that was
\ngoing to be determined. <\/p>\n
376
\n00:26:38,640 –> 00:26:41,640
\nIt would come out of this event.
\nThey never knew that it should <\/p>\n
377
\n00:26:41,640 –> 00:26:43,720
\nbe there that the temple was
\ngoing to be built. <\/p>\n
378
\n00:26:43,720 –> 00:26:46,520
\nThey never knew that sacrifice
\nshould be made there. <\/p>\n
379
\n00:26:47,080 –> 00:26:50,680
\nDeuteronomy chapter 12 had
\nspoken about a place, a place, <\/p>\n
380
\n00:26:50,680 –> 00:26:52,480
\nhadn’t it?
\nThat I would put my name there <\/p>\n
381
\n00:26:52,480 –> 00:26:55,240
\nand it true sacrifice will be
\nmade and no one knew where that <\/p>\n
382
\n00:26:55,240 –> 00:26:59,680
\nwas.
\nWell, it not yet been declared. <\/p>\n
383
\n00:26:59,800 –> 00:27:04,120
\nOne has to indeed wonder if
\nDavid had not some revelation <\/p>\n
384
\n00:27:04,760 –> 00:27:07,840
\nwhen he took the head of Goliath
\nall the way 25 miles up to <\/p>\n
385
\n00:27:07,840 –> 00:27:10,520
\nJerusalem and laid it.
\nWell, it would have been outside<\/p>\n
386
\n00:27:10,520 –> 00:27:12,040
\nthe camp, wouldn’t it?
\nBecause he couldn’t have gone <\/p>\n
387
\n00:27:12,040 –> 00:27:13,840
\ninside.
\nIt was filled with Jevezites. <\/p>\n
388
\n00:27:14,200 –> 00:27:16,440
\nSo he laid the head of the
\nserpent, as it were. <\/p>\n
389
\n00:27:16,600 –> 00:27:21,440
\nHe laid that at the well.
\nPerhaps it was in this very <\/p>\n
390
\n00:27:21,440 –> 00:27:23,680
\nplace.
\nThe fact that he went all that <\/p>\n
391
\n00:27:23,680 –> 00:27:26,840
\nway with the head of Goliath is
\na clear intimation that he had <\/p>\n
392
\n00:27:26,840 –> 00:27:29,160
\nsome knowledge of things to
\ncome. <\/p>\n
393
\n00:27:30,560 –> 00:27:34,720
\nBut in this incident it becomes
\ncrystal clear, in fact, by the <\/p>\n
394
\n00:27:34,720 –> 00:27:37,320
\nvery Angel himself, and David
\nsenses that. <\/p>\n
395
\n00:27:38,040 –> 00:27:41,120
\nAnd so in that very place where
\ntrue sacrifice would be made, <\/p>\n
396
\n00:27:42,000 –> 00:27:45,120
\nit’s interesting to see that we
\nhave these overtimes of the <\/p>\n
397
\n00:27:45,120 –> 00:27:49,000
\ngreater, the greater than David,
\nthe son of David, who too would <\/p>\n
398
\n00:27:49,000 –> 00:27:52,960
\nbe made a sin, that he might
\ntake away the sin of his people.<\/p>\n
399
\n00:27:54,640 –> 00:28:00,240
\nWas it wrong to number Israel?
\nWell, it doesn’t actually say it<\/p>\n
400
\n00:28:00,240 –> 00:28:02,760
\nwas wrong.
\nYou come back to Numbers Chapter<\/p>\n
401
\n00:28:02,760 –> 00:28:08,560
\n1.
\nThere are some statements made <\/p>\n
402
\n00:28:08,560 –> 00:28:14,440
\nabout this, this matter that
\ndon’t seem seem to have got into<\/p>\n
403
\n00:28:14,440 –> 00:28:20,520
\nour our history or into our
\nknowledge, but they’re not <\/p>\n
404
\n00:28:20,520 –> 00:28:24,800
\naltogether supported.
\nIt was not a wrong thing in <\/p>\n
405
\n00:28:24,800 –> 00:28:29,600
\nitself to number Israel.
\nIn fact, Numbers Chapter 1 says,<\/p>\n
406
\n00:28:29,600 –> 00:28:32,320
\nTake you the sum of all the
\ncongregation of the children of <\/p>\n
407
\n00:28:32,320 –> 00:28:35,960
\nIsrael after their families by
\nthe House of their fathers, with<\/p>\n
408
\n00:28:35,960 –> 00:28:39,000
\na number of their names, every
\nmale by their poles, from 20 <\/p>\n
409
\n00:28:39,000 –> 00:28:41,520
\nyears old and upward.
\nAll that are able to go forth to<\/p>\n
410
\n00:28:41,520 –> 00:28:45,440
\nwar in Israel, Thou and Aaron
\nshall number them by their <\/p>\n
411
\n00:28:45,440 –> 00:28:50,000
\narmies, and with you there shall
\nbe a man of every tribe, <\/p>\n
412
\n00:28:50,000 –> 00:28:52,600
\neveryone head of the House of
\nhis fathers. <\/p>\n
413
\n00:28:53,720 –> 00:28:58,400
\nVerse 19.
\nAs the Lord commanded Moses, so <\/p>\n
414
\n00:28:58,400 –> 00:29:01,000
\nhe numbered them in the
\nwilderness of Sinai. <\/p>\n
415
\n00:29:02,960 –> 00:29:07,760
\nBut here it clearly was a
\nnumbering commanded by God. <\/p>\n
416
\n00:29:09,280 –> 00:29:14,200
\nBut the numbering in itself
\ncan’t be the evil, surely, Or <\/p>\n
417
\n00:29:14,200 –> 00:29:16,960
\nhere he was commanded by God to
\ndo that very thing. <\/p>\n
418
\n00:29:17,280 –> 00:29:24,680
\nNow David says in Psalm 33,
\nwhich is a very relevant passage<\/p>\n
419
\n00:29:24,680 –> 00:29:35,960
\nto the numbering of Israel.
\nThere is no king Psalm 33 and <\/p>\n
420
\n00:29:35,960 –> 00:29:39,520
\nverse 16.
\nThere is no king saved by the <\/p>\n
421
\n00:29:39,520 –> 00:29:44,760
\nmultitude of an host.
\nA mighty man is not delivered by<\/p>\n
422
\n00:29:44,760 –> 00:29:48,680
\nmuch strength.
\nSo numbers is not really the <\/p>\n
423
\n00:29:48,680 –> 00:29:53,000
\nquestion.
\nDavid wrote Psalm 33, but in the<\/p>\n
424
\n00:29:53,000 –> 00:29:56,000
\nfirst of Chronicles just keeping
\nour hand in in Samuel. <\/p>\n
425
\n00:29:56,000 –> 00:29:58,280
\nIf you’ve still got it, but
\nturning back to the other <\/p>\n
426
\n00:29:58,280 –> 00:30:06,000
\nrecording verse of Chronicles
\n21, verse Chronicles 21 and <\/p>\n
427
\n00:30:06,000 –> 00:30:21,650
\nverse 3, there’s this important
\nlittle passage we read here in <\/p>\n
428
\n00:30:21,650 –> 00:30:24,170
\nverse 3 of Joab’s comment to
\nhim. <\/p>\n
429
\n00:30:25,410 –> 00:30:32,800
\nAnd Joab answered, Yahweh make
\nhis people his people, and 100 <\/p>\n
430
\n00:30:32,800 –> 00:30:38,880
\ntimes so many more as they be,
\nif they’re multiplied 100 times <\/p>\n
431
\n00:30:38,880 –> 00:30:42,760
\nmore.
\nBut my Lord the king, are they <\/p>\n
432
\n00:30:42,760 –> 00:30:49,320
\nnot all my Lord’s servants?
\nWhy then doth my Lord require <\/p>\n
433
\n00:30:49,320 –> 00:30:53,200
\nthis thing?
\nWhy will he be a cause of <\/p>\n
434
\n00:30:53,200 –> 00:30:58,800
\ntrespass to Israel?
\nNow I suppose we’re inclined to <\/p>\n
435
\n00:30:59,360 –> 00:31:02,840
\nthink that they’re very good
\nwords from Joanne, but stop and <\/p>\n
436
\n00:31:02,840 –> 00:31:06,760
\nthink for a moment.
\nWe know there is intrigue all <\/p>\n
437
\n00:31:06,760 –> 00:31:10,760
\naround David.
\nThe Psalm tells us that so does <\/p>\n
438
\n00:31:10,760 –> 00:31:14,640
\nthe first of Kings chapter one
\nwith a donagers usurpation <\/p>\n
439
\n00:31:14,640 –> 00:31:17,640
\nhaving occurred all right in
\nthis very period of time. <\/p>\n
440
\n00:31:19,880 –> 00:31:21,800
\nDavid’s aware that those things
\nare happening. <\/p>\n
441
\n00:31:21,840 –> 00:31:24,000
\nHe’s incapable of resisting
\nthem. <\/p>\n
442
\n00:31:26,480 –> 00:31:31,720
\nIf Joab comes to him and says,
\nBut my Lord the King, are they <\/p>\n
443
\n00:31:31,720 –> 00:31:35,800
\nnot all, my Lords, servants?
\nAnd if you’d had a life’s <\/p>\n
444
\n00:31:35,800 –> 00:31:38,560
\nexperience with Joab, what would
\nyou think to yourself? <\/p>\n
445
\n00:31:41,200 –> 00:31:44,120
\nThey sound so glib, so, so fair
\nwords. <\/p>\n
446
\n00:31:45,360 –> 00:31:47,640
\nBut knowing Joab, my dear
\nbrother and the sisters, David <\/p>\n
447
\n00:31:47,640 –> 00:31:52,520
\nwould have read that another
\nway, wouldn’t he? <\/p>\n
448
\n00:31:52,520 –> 00:31:56,880
\nJoab clearly has perceived the
\nconcern of the king. <\/p>\n
449
\n00:31:58,320 –> 00:32:01,520
\nBut David would know Joab
\nthrough and through, and there’s<\/p>\n
450
\n00:32:01,520 –> 00:32:04,320
\nnothing that would perturb him
\nmore than having Joab make these<\/p>\n
451
\n00:32:04,320 –> 00:32:07,000
\nfair words.
\nDoes Joab really believe those <\/p>\n
452
\n00:32:07,000 –> 00:32:08,640
\nwords?
\nWhy? <\/p>\n
453
\n00:32:08,640 –> 00:32:10,240
\nHe’s just been in the pocket of
\nEdonager. <\/p>\n
454
\n00:32:11,840 –> 00:32:14,360
\nHe’s just trying to set up a
\nrebellion against David. <\/p>\n
455
\n00:32:14,360 –> 00:32:16,360
\nIf it’s not just before, then
\nit’s just after. <\/p>\n
456
\n00:32:16,360 –> 00:32:22,000
\nIt’s in this period of time.
\nSo verse 3 shines in a different<\/p>\n
457
\n00:32:22,000 –> 00:32:24,040
\nlight when you put the
\nbackground behind it, doesn’t <\/p>\n
458
\n00:32:24,040 –> 00:32:26,320
\nit?
\nThat’s not a statement of <\/p>\n
459
\n00:32:26,320 –> 00:32:28,040
\nfidelity.
\nIt’s a statement of absolute <\/p>\n
460
\n00:32:28,040 –> 00:32:31,800
\ntreachery.
\nJoab doesn’t mean a word of that<\/p>\n
461
\n00:32:31,800 –> 00:32:34,680
\nbecause Joab is setting the
\npeople against David at this <\/p>\n
462
\n00:32:34,680 –> 00:32:39,560
\nvery time.
\nSo we have to put put the <\/p>\n
463
\n00:32:39,560 –> 00:32:42,440
\nrecords together because that’s
\nvery instruction. <\/p>\n
464
\n00:32:43,200 –> 00:32:47,120
\nJoab’s words sometimes sound, my
\ndear and sister, so right. <\/p>\n
465
\n00:32:47,960 –> 00:32:50,760
\nThe denial found.
\nThe indelible rule with Joab is,<\/p>\n
466
\n00:32:50,760 –> 00:32:54,120
\nif you think this, that Joab
\nwill be thinking for himself. <\/p>\n
467
\n00:32:54,120 –> 00:32:57,320
\nYou’ll always be correct.
\nIt’ll always work out right in <\/p>\n
468
\n00:32:57,320 –> 00:33:00,360
\nthe overall picture.
\nJoab will think for himself. <\/p>\n
469
\n00:33:00,960 –> 00:33:03,040
\nIn the case of Absalom, what was
\nhe told to do? <\/p>\n
470
\n00:33:03,280 –> 00:33:05,000
\nLeave the young man?
\nWhat did he do? <\/p>\n
471
\n00:33:05,520 –> 00:33:08,840
\nHe did the very opposite of that
\nin the case of Edonager. <\/p>\n
472
\n00:33:08,960 –> 00:33:12,840
\nHe thought, right, the time is
\nup, David can never go at that. <\/p>\n
473
\n00:33:13,160 –> 00:33:17,160
\nHe went with Edonager, but of
\ncourse was found to be failure. <\/p>\n
474
\n00:33:17,840 –> 00:33:21,560
\nJoe will always put his own case
\nfirst, whether it’s the case of <\/p>\n
475
\n00:33:21,760 –> 00:33:26,720
\nAbner again, who came to bring
\npeace to Israel, or later Sheba <\/p>\n
476
\n00:33:27,480 –> 00:33:31,680
\nor Amassa.
\nIn all of those cases, you’ll <\/p>\n
477
\n00:33:31,680 –> 00:33:34,920
\nfind that Joab will think for
\nJoab as #1. <\/p>\n
478
\n00:33:35,600 –> 00:33:40,960
\nSo verse 3 has more behind it as
\nread by David than what we might<\/p>\n
479
\n00:33:40,960 –> 00:33:44,760
\nimagine.
\nAnd so verse 4, his words <\/p>\n
480
\n00:33:44,760 –> 00:33:49,880
\nprevailed against Joab.
\nIt seems, doesn’t it, from verse<\/p>\n
481
\n00:33:49,880 –> 00:33:54,360
\nthree that David had been
\ntroubled to think that that the <\/p>\n
482
\n00:33:54,360 –> 00:34:00,120
\nKingdom was getting away from
\nhim, that Israel really was <\/p>\n
483
\n00:34:00,120 –> 00:34:05,920
\nmoving away from him, and that
\nthe motive of the consensus was <\/p>\n
484
\n00:34:05,920 –> 00:34:11,360
\ntherefore to sort of number them
\nand say these are mine because I<\/p>\n
485
\n00:34:11,360 –> 00:34:14,639
\nnumbered them.
\nI send out my servants to <\/p>\n
486
\n00:34:14,639 –> 00:34:17,880
\ndetermine the number of Israel
\nand it was such and such and <\/p>\n
487
\n00:34:17,880 –> 00:34:22,000
\nthey are my servants.
\nThey belong to me as king of <\/p>\n
488
\n00:34:22,000 –> 00:34:24,520
\nIsrael.
\nThat seems, doesn’t it, to be <\/p>\n
489
\n00:34:24,679 –> 00:34:28,560
\nthe motive behind that.
\nNow my dear brother says, I <\/p>\n
490
\n00:34:28,560 –> 00:34:31,679
\ncan’t explain all the way in
\nwhich God brought that <\/p>\n
491
\n00:34:32,159 –> 00:34:36,560
\ndetermination upon his mind, but
\nI do know that the record says <\/p>\n
492
\n00:34:36,560 –> 00:34:38,960
\nthat Yahweh moved David to do
\nthat. <\/p>\n
493
\n00:34:39,520 –> 00:34:42,360
\nOr as it’s put in First
\nChronicles chapter 21 verse one,<\/p>\n
494
\n00:34:42,600 –> 00:34:46,960
\nand Satan stood against Israel
\nand provoked David to number <\/p>\n
495
\n00:34:46,960 –> 00:34:52,159
\nIsrael.
\nPerhaps there were shades of <\/p>\n
496
\n00:34:52,159 –> 00:34:56,560
\nuncertainty that were cast into
\nhis mind and in the depth of his<\/p>\n
497
\n00:34:57,520 –> 00:35:01,720
\nof his physical weakness and of
\nhis inability to cope with the <\/p>\n
498
\n00:35:01,720 –> 00:35:03,720
\nenormity of this empire that
\nhe’d build up. <\/p>\n
499
\n00:35:04,960 –> 00:35:09,000
\nHe was momentarily shaken and he
\nthought, well, I’ll create a <\/p>\n
500
\n00:35:09,000 –> 00:35:12,240
\nnumbering of the of Israel and
\ntherefore they will all know <\/p>\n
501
\n00:35:12,240 –> 00:35:14,640
\nthat it was my people that went
\nout there and numbered them. <\/p>\n
502
\n00:35:14,640 –> 00:35:16,240
\nWhy didn’t Joab want to be
\ninvolved in that? <\/p>\n
503
\n00:35:19,000 –> 00:35:24,840
\nWell, if you were Joab and your
\nown position is #1 you wouldn’t,<\/p>\n
504
\n00:35:24,840 –> 00:35:27,520
\nwith David in that kind of
\ncondition, want to be away from <\/p>\n
505
\n00:35:27,520 –> 00:35:30,200
\nthe Kingdom, would you?
\nYou wouldn’t want to be, you <\/p>\n
506
\n00:35:30,200 –> 00:35:33,160
\nknow, free booting all over the
\nland, numbering every Tom, Dick <\/p>\n
507
\n00:35:33,160 –> 00:35:37,440
\nand Harry in the land when the
\ngreat issue of succession was <\/p>\n
508
\n00:35:37,440 –> 00:35:41,520
\nfacing you in Jerusalem.
\nYou’d want to be right there, <\/p>\n
509
\n00:35:41,920 –> 00:35:45,120
\nright where the power was.
\nBecause, of course, that was <\/p>\n
510
\n00:35:45,240 –> 00:35:48,360
\nJoab’s motive.
\nHe was always interested in his <\/p>\n
511
\n00:35:48,360 –> 00:35:53,720
\nown position, and so to be sent
\naway on this, this long business<\/p>\n
512
\n00:35:53,720 –> 00:35:57,720
\nthat took in fact over nine
\nmonths was contrary to Jehovah’s<\/p>\n
513
\n00:35:57,720 –> 00:35:59,840
\ninterest and hence the fair
\nwords. <\/p>\n
514
\n00:36:00,440 –> 00:36:04,520
\nIt’s the last thing that Jehovah
\nwanted to be sent away at this <\/p>\n
515
\n00:36:04,520 –> 00:36:06,520
\nperiod of time.
\nHe wanted to be right there <\/p>\n
516
\n00:36:06,800 –> 00:36:09,760
\nwhere he could make his
\ninfluence felt. <\/p>\n
517
\n00:36:13,360 –> 00:36:18,840
\nSo he says in verse 3, Why does
\nthe king delight in this matter?<\/p>\n
518
\n00:36:19,320 –> 00:36:22,720
\nAnd it is an amazing thing that
\nthe king was very strong in this<\/p>\n
519
\n00:36:22,720 –> 00:36:26,400
\nmatter.
\nThat’s in the second Samuel 24 <\/p>\n
520
\n00:36:26,400 –> 00:36:29,400
\nand verse 3.
\nBut why doth my Lord the king <\/p>\n
521
\n00:36:30,120 –> 00:36:35,520
\ndelight in this matter?
\nAnd that, my dear? <\/p>\n
522
\n00:36:35,520 –> 00:36:38,600
\nAnd the sisters, there may have
\nbeen the very means by which God<\/p>\n
523
\n00:36:38,600 –> 00:36:41,360
\nbrought that provocation before
\nDavid. <\/p>\n
524
\n00:36:42,200 –> 00:36:45,920
\nFor if it hadn’t been Jove that
\nsaid those words, the king might<\/p>\n
525
\n00:36:45,920 –> 00:36:49,400
\nhave been persuaded.
\nBut being Joab, the king saw it <\/p>\n
526
\n00:36:49,720 –> 00:36:53,360
\nin another way.
\nNow in the subsequent verses, <\/p>\n
527
\n00:36:53,360 –> 00:36:57,480
\nverses 5 to 9, we have the
\nrecord of the numbering, and it <\/p>\n
528
\n00:36:57,480 –> 00:37:01,600
\nwas quite a business.
\nIt says they passed over Jordan <\/p>\n
529
\n00:37:01,600 –> 00:37:05,000
\nand pitched in Arawa on the
\nright side of the city. <\/p>\n
530
\n00:37:05,000 –> 00:37:07,040
\nSo they’re on the eastern side
\nof Jordan. <\/p>\n
531
\n00:37:07,040 –> 00:37:12,960
\nThey really took in the whole 12
\ntribes that life in the midst of<\/p>\n
532
\n00:37:12,960 –> 00:37:15,360
\nthe river of Gad and toward
\nJaisa. <\/p>\n
533
\n00:37:15,360 –> 00:37:18,560
\nThey came to Gilead, still on
\nthe eastern side of the Jordan, <\/p>\n
534
\n00:37:19,480 –> 00:37:23,080
\nand to the land of TA Tim
\nHodchi, and they came to Danjan.<\/p>\n
535
\n00:37:23,280 –> 00:37:25,600
\nThey’re right up the north now,
\nDan to Beersheba. <\/p>\n
536
\n00:37:25,600 –> 00:37:29,320
\nSo they’re right up the north
\nand about to Sidon, even beyond <\/p>\n
537
\n00:37:29,360 –> 00:37:34,280
\nDan to the coast, and came to
\nthe stronghold of Tyre, up in <\/p>\n
538
\n00:37:34,280 –> 00:37:36,680
\nthe area of Phoenicia, Tyre and
\nSidon. <\/p>\n
539
\n00:37:37,600 –> 00:37:39,080
\nSo they went to the very
\nextreme. <\/p>\n
540
\n00:37:39,560 –> 00:37:42,360
\nThey were going to count, as it
\nwere, the last man, so it <\/p>\n
541
\n00:37:42,360 –> 00:37:46,400
\nseemed, and to all the cities of
\nthe Hivites and to the <\/p>\n
542
\n00:37:46,400 –> 00:37:48,480
\nCanaanites.
\nAnd they went out to the South <\/p>\n
543
\n00:37:48,480 –> 00:37:51,280
\nof Judah, right down through the
\nland on now the western side of <\/p>\n
544
\n00:37:51,280 –> 00:37:54,840
\nthe country, even to Beersheba,
\ndamned to Beersheba. <\/p>\n
545
\n00:37:55,640 –> 00:37:59,040
\nSo when they had gone through
\nthrough all the land, they came <\/p>\n
546
\n00:37:59,040 –> 00:38:04,920
\nto Jerusalem at the end of nine
\nmonths and 20 days, and Job gave<\/p>\n
547
\n00:38:04,920 –> 00:38:07,280
\nup the sum of the number of the
\npeople unto the king. <\/p>\n
548
\n00:38:08,160 –> 00:38:14,120
\nAnd there were in Israel 800,000
\nvaliant men, and in Judah 500 <\/p>\n
549
\n00:38:14,120 –> 00:38:20,080
\nthousand, 1,300,000 together.
\nNow it’s interesting to go back <\/p>\n
550
\n00:38:20,080 –> 00:38:21,480
\nto Chronicles.
\nWe’re doing a bit of this. <\/p>\n
551
\n00:38:21,480 –> 00:38:29,040
\nSo perhaps put a little marker
\nin Second Samuel 24, Come back <\/p>\n
552
\n00:38:29,040 –> 00:38:34,240
\nto First of Chronicles again in
\nchapter 21, and there we find <\/p>\n
553
\n00:38:34,240 –> 00:38:41,720
\nthat jab really betrayed the
\ntrust that was given to him in <\/p>\n
554
\n00:38:41,720 –> 00:38:48,840
\nFirst Chronicles 21 and verse 6
\nit says but Levi and Benjamin <\/p>\n
555
\n00:38:48,840 –> 00:38:54,160
\ncounted he not among them, for
\nthe King’s word was abominable <\/p>\n
556
\n00:38:54,200 –> 00:38:58,040
\nto Joab.
\nThat’s a bit of Gaul, isn’t it? <\/p>\n
557
\n00:38:58,640 –> 00:39:01,320
\nWhy didn’t he count Levi?
\nWhy didn’t he count Benjamin? <\/p>\n
558
\n00:39:01,320 –> 00:39:02,760
\nWhy didn’t he do the job
\nproperly? <\/p>\n
559
\n00:39:03,840 –> 00:39:05,640
\nHe just really did what he
\nwanted to do. <\/p>\n
560
\n00:39:05,640 –> 00:39:08,080
\nAnd when he’d finished with
\nthat, he came back home. <\/p>\n
561
\n00:39:08,640 –> 00:39:11,680
\nI suppose it was a more
\ndifficult area to go into, <\/p>\n
562
\n00:39:11,680 –> 00:39:14,600
\nwasn’t it?
\nBenjamin, of course, was the <\/p>\n
563
\n00:39:14,600 –> 00:39:17,600
\ntribe of the previous dynasty,
\nand so he would have been <\/p>\n
564
\n00:39:17,600 –> 00:39:21,720
\nunlikely to want to go into the
\narea of Benjamin where the <\/p>\n
565
\n00:39:21,720 –> 00:39:24,080
\nKingdom of Judah was never all
\nthat favoured. <\/p>\n
566
\n00:39:24,320 –> 00:39:26,240
\nDavid’s line was never all that
\nfavoured. <\/p>\n
567
\n00:39:26,840 –> 00:39:29,240
\nSo he he skipped Levi and he
\nskipped Benjamin. <\/p>\n
568
\n00:39:30,000 –> 00:39:35,000
\nHe counted them not.
\nWe might also notice that <\/p>\n
569
\n00:39:35,000 –> 00:39:38,120
\nthere’s a tremendous increase on
\nthe numbers that are given back <\/p>\n
570
\n00:39:38,120 –> 00:39:43,200
\nin Numbers chapter one.
\nIn Numbers chapter 1, the number<\/p>\n
571
\n00:39:43,200 –> 00:39:47,960
\nwas 603,550.
\nAs we said, the number now is <\/p>\n
572
\n00:39:47,960 –> 00:39:50,960
\nwell over a million.
\nSo there’s been a substantial <\/p>\n
573
\n00:39:50,960 –> 00:39:56,320
\nincrease.
\nAnd then it says in chapter <\/p>\n
574
\n00:39:56,760 –> 00:39:59,480
\nSecond Samuel chapter 24 and
\nverse 10. <\/p>\n
575
\n00:40:00,080 –> 00:40:02,640
\nSomething which is so indicative
\nof David. <\/p>\n
576
\n00:40:05,760 –> 00:40:08,880
\nDavid made his mistakes but he
\nwas a God fearing man. <\/p>\n
577
\n00:40:10,040 –> 00:40:15,200
\nIt says in verse 10 and David’s
\nheart smote him after he had <\/p>\n
578
\n00:40:15,200 –> 00:40:20,160
\nnumbered the people.
\nIt keeps on saying that it’s all<\/p>\n
579
\n00:40:20,160 –> 00:40:25,320
\nabout what David did.
\nAnd David said unto Yahweh, I <\/p>\n
580
\n00:40:25,320 –> 00:40:32,040
\nhave sinned greatly in that I
\nhave done, and now I beseech <\/p>\n
581
\n00:40:32,080 –> 00:40:36,960
\nthee, O Lord, take away the
\niniquity of thy servant, for I <\/p>\n
582
\n00:40:36,960 –> 00:40:42,640
\nhave done very foolishly.
\nThere’s a sense of full <\/p>\n
583
\n00:40:42,640 –> 00:40:46,800
\nresponsibility by David.
\nIsn’t four times in that <\/p>\n
584
\n00:40:46,800 –> 00:40:51,000
\nstatement.
\nHe says the fault lies with me <\/p>\n
585
\n00:40:51,880 –> 00:40:54,240
\nand his heart smote him.
\nAfter that he had numbered the <\/p>\n
586
\n00:40:54,240 –> 00:40:56,960
\npeople.
\nYou know, in a cold world that <\/p>\n
587
\n00:40:56,960 –> 00:41:05,760
\nwe live in that is in fact not
\nconcerned is it with sin at all.<\/p>\n
588
\n00:41:06,960 –> 00:41:12,280
\nYou never see a person today
\nrarely see a person today that <\/p>\n
589
\n00:41:12,280 –> 00:41:16,840
\nis concerned about their sin.
\nThe most atrocious evils are <\/p>\n
590
\n00:41:16,840 –> 00:41:20,200
\nread in our papers and in that
\nsense, my dear and says we <\/p>\n
591
\n00:41:20,200 –> 00:41:24,640
\nbecome don’t we inured to the to
\nthe wickedness of sin against <\/p>\n
592
\n00:41:24,640 –> 00:41:27,880
\nGod.
\nWell, he’s a king for 40 years <\/p>\n
593
\n00:41:28,440 –> 00:41:31,000
\ntells this person to do what
\ntells that person to do whatever<\/p>\n
594
\n00:41:31,000 –> 00:41:35,680
\nhe likes a king.
\nBut it says there in verse 10 of<\/p>\n
595
\n00:41:35,680 –> 00:41:39,040
\na sensitivity of his position
\nbefore God. <\/p>\n
596
\n00:41:39,040 –> 00:41:40,640
\nThat would be the envy of all of
\nus. <\/p>\n
597
\n00:41:40,800 –> 00:41:43,480
\nDavid’s heart smote him after
\nthat. <\/p>\n
598
\n00:41:43,480 –> 00:41:47,160
\nHe had numbered the people.
\nWhat a beautiful man he was the <\/p>\n
599
\n00:41:47,160 –> 00:41:49,960
\nsame kind of person wasn’t that
\nwe found in the beginning a <\/p>\n
600
\n00:41:49,960 –> 00:41:53,520
\nsensitivity of God, a love of
\nGod and all that he stood for. <\/p>\n
601
\n00:41:53,760 –> 00:41:59,280
\nI have sinned, I have done the
\niniquity of thy servant, I have <\/p>\n
602
\n00:41:59,280 –> 00:42:01,720
\ndone very foolishly.
\nMy dear Princess, That’s a <\/p>\n
603
\n00:42:01,720 –> 00:42:06,800
\nwonderful thing as we live in a
\nin an age that is just just cold<\/p>\n
604
\n00:42:06,800 –> 00:42:11,000
\ntowards sin.
\nWhat’s sin churches, they don’t <\/p>\n
605
\n00:42:11,120 –> 00:42:15,200
\nconcern themselves about sin.
\nThe factos or fornication or <\/p>\n
606
\n00:42:15,200 –> 00:42:17,680
\nwhatever it might be.
\nLet them all come in Sodomite’s <\/p>\n
607
\n00:42:17,680 –> 00:42:20,000
\nthe law.
\nWhat’s sin? <\/p>\n
608
\n00:42:20,640 –> 00:42:25,640
\nBut with David there is always
\nisn’t a beautiful sensitivity of<\/p>\n
609
\n00:42:25,640 –> 00:42:30,600
\nhis position before God.
\nHis heart internally smote him <\/p>\n
610
\n00:42:31,320 –> 00:42:32,720
\nafter he had numbered the
\npeople. <\/p>\n
611
\n00:42:32,720 –> 00:42:35,840
\nWhat a lovely man he was, a God
\nfearing man. <\/p>\n
612
\n00:42:36,760 –> 00:42:42,200
\nAnd so verse 11 when David was
\nup in the morning, the word of <\/p>\n
613
\n00:42:42,200 –> 00:42:46,200
\nthe Lord came unto the prophet
\nGad David seer saying, Go and <\/p>\n
614
\n00:42:46,200 –> 00:42:49,800
\nsay unto David, Thus saith the
\nLord, Ioffer thee 3 things, <\/p>\n
615
\n00:42:51,400 –> 00:42:55,440
\nchoose the one of them.
\nSo Gad came to David and told <\/p>\n
616
\n00:42:55,440 –> 00:42:58,120
\nhim, and said unto him, Here’s
\nthe three things. <\/p>\n
617
\n00:42:58,720 –> 00:43:03,640
\nShall 1 seven years of famine
\ncome unto thee in thy land or <\/p>\n
618
\n00:43:03,640 –> 00:43:06,400
\ntwo?
\nWilt thou flee 3 months before <\/p>\n
619
\n00:43:06,400 –> 00:43:12,000
\nthy enemies, or three?
\nAnd shall there be 3 days <\/p>\n
620
\n00:43:12,000 –> 00:43:16,200
\npestilence in thy land?
\nNow advise and see what answer I<\/p>\n
621
\n00:43:16,200 –> 00:43:20,560
\nshall return to him that sent.
\nNow, my dear sister, see this, <\/p>\n
622
\n00:43:20,560 –> 00:43:23,640
\nthat it wasn’t David’s intent
\noriginally to be involved in <\/p>\n
623
\n00:43:23,640 –> 00:43:26,240
\nthis.
\nGod has involved him in it. <\/p>\n
624
\n00:43:27,240 –> 00:43:30,920
\nHis anger was not with David,
\nHis anger was with Israel. <\/p>\n
625
\n00:43:30,920 –> 00:43:33,680
\nIt’s an amazing story.
\nIt’s an incredibly interesting <\/p>\n
626
\n00:43:33,680 –> 00:43:36,000
\nstory.
\nIt’s a unique story. <\/p>\n
627
\n00:43:36,480 –> 00:43:40,040
\nI can’t think of anything else
\nquite like this where it <\/p>\n
628
\n00:43:40,040 –> 00:43:43,040
\nspecifically says that Yahweh
\nmoved David to do this. <\/p>\n
629
\n00:43:44,320 –> 00:43:47,200
\nDavid has become involved, but
\nmy wording has accepted the sin,<\/p>\n
630
\n00:43:47,200 –> 00:43:49,800
\nhasn’t he?
\nIt’s all him in verse 10. <\/p>\n
631
\n00:43:50,440 –> 00:43:51,960
\nHe doesn’t worry about the sins
\nof the people. <\/p>\n
632
\n00:43:52,040 –> 00:43:54,600
\nHe could have gone on for a
\nwhole 2 hours about all the sins<\/p>\n
633
\n00:43:54,600 –> 00:43:56,280
\nof the people and about those
\npeople in his palace. <\/p>\n
634
\n00:43:56,280 –> 00:43:57,440
\nHe had a sort of word about
\nthat. <\/p>\n
635
\n00:43:59,880 –> 00:44:03,160
\nJust like so often, it’s easy to
\npoint out other people’s sins <\/p>\n
636
\n00:44:03,560 –> 00:44:06,880
\nwhen you know you’ve got your
\nown and sort of you hide your <\/p>\n
637
\n00:44:06,880 –> 00:44:09,480
\nown by enumerating other
\npeople’s sins. <\/p>\n
638
\n00:44:09,840 –> 00:44:11,560
\nBut David was greater than that
\nwasn’t. <\/p>\n
639
\n00:44:13,720 –> 00:44:18,800
\nAnd he says in verse 14, I am in
\na great straight, let us fall <\/p>\n
640
\n00:44:18,800 –> 00:44:24,240
\nnow into the hand of Yahweh, for
\nhis mercies are great, and not <\/p>\n
641
\n00:44:24,480 –> 00:44:26,480
\nlet me not fall into the hand of
\nman. <\/p>\n
642
\n00:44:27,840 –> 00:44:30,760
\nSo the Lord sent a pestilence
\nupon Israel from the morning <\/p>\n
643
\n00:44:30,760 –> 00:44:35,080
\neven to the time appointed, and
\n70,000 people from Dan even to <\/p>\n
644
\n00:44:35,080 –> 00:44:37,160
\nbe a Sheba.
\nThere’s a little take off I’m <\/p>\n
645
\n00:44:37,160 –> 00:44:40,440
\nsure of verse 2 there, isn’t it
\nwhere the command was, go now <\/p>\n
646
\n00:44:40,440 –> 00:44:43,840
\nthrough all the tribes of Israel
\nfrom Dan even to be a Sheba. <\/p>\n
647
\n00:44:44,480 –> 00:44:49,120
\nAnd the Lord followed up and the
\nAngel went through that land and<\/p>\n
648
\n00:44:49,120 –> 00:44:51,760
\nthere fell from down even to be
\na sheba, as though it was <\/p>\n
649
\n00:44:51,760 –> 00:44:57,080
\nfollowing the course of those
\nwho took the census and 70,000 <\/p>\n
650
\n00:44:57,080 –> 00:45:01,800
\nmen were taken.
\nWhat import the figures, if so, <\/p>\n
651
\n00:45:02,400 –> 00:45:07,640
\nin such a brief time after it’s
\nwrong at least by the 70,000. <\/p>\n
652
\n00:45:09,920 –> 00:45:14,360
\nSo we have and David a man of
\ntremendous the conscience toward<\/p>\n
653
\n00:45:14,360 –> 00:45:16,320
\nGod.
\nHe’s made his choice that he <\/p>\n
654
\n00:45:16,320 –> 00:45:20,160
\nwould fall into God’s hand and
\nthis great tragedy has occurred.<\/p>\n
655
\n00:45:21,680 –> 00:45:24,240
\nNow look at the the quality
\nagain of of David. <\/p>\n
656
\n00:45:25,440 –> 00:45:32,840
\nIt says in verse 16.
\nAnd when the Angel stretched out<\/p>\n
657
\n00:45:32,840 –> 00:45:36,680
\nhis hand upon Jerusalem to
\ndestroy it, the Lord repented <\/p>\n
658
\n00:45:36,680 –> 00:45:39,720
\nhim of the evil and said to the
\nAngel that destroyed the people.<\/p>\n
659
\n00:45:40,520 –> 00:45:43,440
\nIt is enough.
\nStay now thine hand and the <\/p>\n
660
\n00:45:43,440 –> 00:45:48,640
\nAngel of the Lord was by the
\nthreshing place of all runner, <\/p>\n
661
\n00:45:48,640 –> 00:45:55,160
\nthe Jebusite.
\nSo the Angel has come back, <\/p>\n
662
\n00:45:55,160 –> 00:45:57,800
\nhaving done the complete circuit
\nof Israel, has come right back <\/p>\n
663
\n00:45:57,800 –> 00:46:02,440
\nto Jerusalem itself.
\nAnd it is at that point that God<\/p>\n
664
\n00:46:02,440 –> 00:46:05,920
\nstops the play.
\nAnd you might have thought that <\/p>\n
665
\n00:46:05,920 –> 00:46:09,560
\nif it was against David that
\nGod’s anger was wrought, and <\/p>\n
666
\n00:46:09,560 –> 00:46:11,480
\nthen in fact He would have
\nallowed that to proceed. <\/p>\n
667
\n00:46:11,480 –> 00:46:14,880
\nBut He stops it just in front of
\nJerusalem. <\/p>\n
668
\n00:46:16,400 –> 00:46:18,440
\nNow let’s come over to the
\nChronicles record again. <\/p>\n
669
\n00:46:18,440 –> 00:46:25,680
\nNow we’ll take it up from there.
\nI’m sure that God took out of <\/p>\n
670
\n00:46:25,680 –> 00:46:28,960
\nIsrael the ones that He wanted
\nto take. <\/p>\n
671
\n00:46:31,160 –> 00:46:37,160
\nAnd in verse verse 15, we have
\nthe record now a little more <\/p>\n
672
\n00:46:37,160 –> 00:46:40,480
\namplified here concerning the
\nsubsequent events. <\/p>\n
673
\n00:46:40,800 –> 00:46:43,600
\nGod sent an Angel unto Jerusalem
\nto destroy it. <\/p>\n
674
\n00:46:44,200 –> 00:46:48,760
\nThat’s very emphatic.
\nAnd as he was destroying, Yahweh<\/p>\n
675
\n00:46:48,760 –> 00:46:50,120
\nbeheld.
\nNow do you notice the <\/p>\n
676
\n00:46:50,120 –> 00:46:53,080
\ndifference?
\nGod sent an Angel, but Yahweh <\/p>\n
677
\n00:46:53,080 –> 00:46:56,840
\nbeheld and he repented him of
\nthe evil and said to the Angel <\/p>\n
678
\n00:46:56,840 –> 00:46:59,800
\nthat destroyed it is enough.
\nStay now thy hand. <\/p>\n
679
\n00:47:00,320 –> 00:47:05,200
\nSo 1 Angel with superior name
\nbearing qualities. <\/p>\n
680
\n00:47:05,560 –> 00:47:10,280
\nIt’s a sort of an echo isn’t it,
\nof Exodus 23 where God had one <\/p>\n
681
\n00:47:10,280 –> 00:47:14,280
\nAngel that bore his name in a in
\na greater sense than the other <\/p>\n
682
\n00:47:14,280 –> 00:47:18,000
\nAngel, and he was sent in place
\nof the previous Angel that was <\/p>\n
683
\n00:47:18,000 –> 00:47:20,480
\npromised.
\nAnd so here we have one Angel <\/p>\n
684
\n00:47:20,480 –> 00:47:24,200
\ngiving command to another.
\nAnd as he was destroying, Yahweh<\/p>\n
685
\n00:47:24,200 –> 00:47:27,600
\nbeheld, and he repented him with
\nthe evil, and said to the Angel <\/p>\n
686
\n00:47:27,600 –> 00:47:30,280
\nthat destroyed it is enough,
\nstay Now thine hand. <\/p>\n
687
\n00:47:31,920 –> 00:47:34,920
\nAnd the Angel of the Lord stood
\nby the threshing floor, born <\/p>\n
688
\n00:47:34,920 –> 00:47:39,840
\nonan the Jebusite or runner in
\nsecond Samuel 24 is onan the <\/p>\n
689
\n00:47:39,840 –> 00:47:44,280
\nJebusite here in verse 15.
\nAnd David lifted up his eyes and<\/p>\n
690
\n00:47:44,280 –> 00:47:46,640
\nsaw the Angel of the Lord stand
\nbetween the earth and the <\/p>\n
691
\n00:47:46,640 –> 00:47:50,720
\nheaven, having a drawn sword in
\nhis hand, stretched out over <\/p>\n
692
\n00:47:50,720 –> 00:47:53,880
\nJerusalem.
\nSo the threat was still there. <\/p>\n
693
\n00:47:54,600 –> 00:47:57,000
\nIt was stayed, but the threat
\nwas there. <\/p>\n
694
\n00:47:59,080 –> 00:48:01,400
\nThen David and the elders of
\nIsrael, who were clothed in <\/p>\n
695
\n00:48:01,400 –> 00:48:05,720
\nsackcloth fell upon their faces.
\nAnd here’s the greatness of this<\/p>\n
696
\n00:48:05,720 –> 00:48:11,600
\namazing man.
\nDavid said unto God, Is it not I<\/p>\n
697
\n00:48:11,600 –> 00:48:13,480
\nthat commanded the people to be
\nnumbered? <\/p>\n
698
\n00:48:14,760 –> 00:48:18,240
\nEven I’d is that have sinned and
\ndone evil indeed? <\/p>\n
699
\n00:48:19,680 –> 00:48:23,520
\nBut As for these sheep, what
\nhave they done? <\/p>\n
700
\n00:48:25,560 –> 00:48:30,080
\nLet thine hand, I pray thee, O
\nLord, my God, be on me and on my<\/p>\n
701
\n00:48:30,080 –> 00:48:33,880
\nfather’s house, but not on thy
\npeople, that they should be <\/p>\n
702
\n00:48:33,880 –> 00:48:36,560
\nplagued.
\nNow an actual fact, my dear. <\/p>\n
703
\n00:48:36,560 –> 00:48:41,680
\nAnd sisters, it was all the
\nother way around, wasn’t it? <\/p>\n
704
\n00:48:41,680 –> 00:48:46,440
\nWas the people’s sins that God
\nwas moved by, Not David’s. <\/p>\n
705
\n00:48:46,640 –> 00:48:50,560
\nBut David sees it entirely
\naround the other way, doesn’t Is<\/p>\n
706
\n00:48:50,560 –> 00:48:53,560
\nit not I that commanded?
\nThe sin is mine. <\/p>\n
707
\n00:48:53,920 –> 00:48:56,680
\nAnd the man who first looked
\nafter sheep in the wilderness <\/p>\n
708
\n00:48:57,000 –> 00:48:59,840
\nand treated Israel in those
\nearly days as though they were <\/p>\n
709
\n00:48:59,840 –> 00:49:02,880
\nsheep and would put his life on
\nthe line for them, is the same <\/p>\n
710
\n00:49:02,880 –> 00:49:06,640
\nman here who in the latter part
\nof his life says, they are the <\/p>\n
711
\n00:49:06,640 –> 00:49:08,520
\nsheep.
\nI’m the shepherd that was <\/p>\n
712
\n00:49:08,520 –> 00:49:11,520
\nresponsible for them.
\nWhat have these sheep done? <\/p>\n
713
\n00:49:11,640 –> 00:49:14,880
\nAnd yet that palace was full of
\nintrigue, and the streets of the<\/p>\n
714
\n00:49:14,880 –> 00:49:18,560
\ncity were full of gossip about
\nsuccession and about the sins of<\/p>\n
715
\n00:49:18,560 –> 00:49:21,040
\nDavid.
\nAnd David wipes over all of that<\/p>\n
716
\n00:49:21,040 –> 00:49:23,360
\nand says, is it not I that have
\nsinned? <\/p>\n
717
\n00:49:23,360 –> 00:49:27,720
\nWhat an amazing man that can
\nthink first of his own failures.<\/p>\n
718
\n00:49:28,240 –> 00:49:30,360
\nWhat a tremendous lesson that is
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