Can we show our appreciation to the praise team for blessing us
week after week especially tonight for the worship and just
applaud and and I applaud you for singing Because as we know
that was we come to sing. It's not a performance that
we're witnessing. Its It's an effort that we all
contribute to, you know, singing is a command in scripture, it's
not a suggestion and so when we come to sing and when we do sing
with fervent Hearts were actually obeying, the Lord
Jesus. And so I'm glad that tonight.
I felt like I was in a room with five six hundred people.
I don't know if you felt the same way, but I was just
overwhelmed by your voices and I was ministered to well.
Now we worship in the word so meet me in the book of second.
Samuel and we are still in Chapter 7.
But we are at the halfway, mark. Tonight, we're continuing to
examine one of the most important chapters in all of the
Old Testament and perhaps the most crucial, and vital, and
most pivotal chapter in both first.
And second Samuel, you heard of it last week.
If you were here last week that what we're dealing with in this
tax is essentially a covenant that God makes with a man by the
name of David and that Covenant is still in effect today that
Covenant is still yet to know it's complete fulfillment.
And in that Covenant touches so many aspects of the New Covenant
that you and I are enjoying because of the Lord Jesus
Christ. If you really think about it,
when you read the prophets, what you'll see is that they often
refer back to this chapter, this Covenant that God makes with
this King as a source of Hope, and as a reminder to who they
are called to be, and what God is planning to do through them,
and it was an encouragement for Holiness, and when you open the
first, Book of the New Testament.
In Matthew chapter 1 there, we see the genealogy of Jesus,
pointing his back to David, yes, and back to Abraham, but proving
that he is from this Royal line that has great significance, not
just for Israel, but for all of history, and, and even when you
go to the last book of the cannon, even when you come to,
the concluding verses of holy writ, you and I, we saw this
last week in conclusion and Revelation 22:16, the Lord
Jesus. Where is that?
He is the root and what the descendant of David.
I mean, this is this is how he chooses to identify himself in
the final moments of Us closing, the entire library of sacred
scripture and I believe in part why Jesus did that was so that
as we come to the end of the book, which tells us of the
future, the Lord makes that statement to tell all
generations, All Nations, All Peoples, I kept my promise to
David. I kept my promise to David all
the way until the end. And so this Covenant which is
really unconditional is more about God proving his
faithfulness than anything else. It's not so much about Israel
though. God selected and elected Israel
to be the display case of his faithfulness but it is
ultimately about God's character proving himself.
To all of us that he is a promise keeper last week, you
and I saw God's response to David's passionate desire to
build him a house. And this week we're going to
see, David's reaction to God's answer to his initial request.
And we're going to read these verses in a moment and as I do
as we've been doing week after week, you're going to lean in
and pay attention as you follow in your Bibles and what we do as
a drill so that we can practice the the skill in our own lives
to look at the scriptures and ask questions, you're going to
see certain things that stand out and then you're going to
make some observations and I edifies me.
It had advised me to see what you're able to see.
Because I saw those things, many of those things during the week,
and then for you to see it in one reading one, Is just like,
wow. Wonderful.
So pay attention, as we now come to verse 18 and follow until the
it's a lot of versus. So we have to really pay
attention. Don't let your mind get
distracted. But, here's what the text reads.
Then, King David went in and sat before the Lord and said, who am
I O? Lord God.
And what is my house? That you have brought me this
far? And yet this was a small thing
in your eyes. O Lord God, you have spoken also
of your Servants house for a great while to come.
And this is instruction for mankind.
O, Lord God your version might say did something different in
the Raise their verse 20 and what more can David say to you
for you know your servant O Lord God because of your promise and
according to your own heart you have brought about all this
greatness to make your servant know it.
Therefore you are great O Lord. God for there is none like you
and there is no God besides you. According to all that we have
heard with our ears and who is like your People Israel.
The One Nation on Earth who Oh God.
Went to redeem to be his people making himself a name and doing
for them. Great and awesome things.
By driving out before your people, whom you redeemed for
yourself from Egypt, a nation and its gods.
And you establish for yourself, your People Israel, to be your
people forever, and You O Lord, became their God.
And now O Lord God confirmed forever.
The word that you've spoken concerning your servant and
concerning his house and do as you have spoken And your name
will be magnified forever saying the Lord of hosts has got over
Israel and the house of your servant, David will be
established Before You For You. O.
Lord of hosts, the god of Israel have made this Revelation to
your servants saying I will build you a house.
Therefore, your servant has found courage to pray this
prayer to you and now O Lord God you are God and your words are
true and you have promised this good thing to your servant.
Now therefore may it please you to bless the house of your
servant so It may continue forever Before You For You O.
Lord, God have spoken and with your blessing shall the house of
your servant be blessed forever. What a prayer, what a prayer.
Keep in mind that this is David's response to the Lord.
Telling him you're not going to build me a house.
I'm going to build you a house. And what he means by that is not
a physical house but a dynasty a royal line that would usher in
the Messiah. This is David's reaction.
So as we read that, as you heard that, as you followed along,
anything stand out to you in this and this prayer.
Yes. Very good observation.
Your servant, your servant, your servant, your servant?
He refers to himself as your servant, very important,
anything else? Yes.
Ryan He sat before the Lord. Did you see that?
In verse 18, he went in and sat before the Lord.
We will touch on that, very good.
Yes. Hmm.
Sure. It is a very humble response,
right? From right.
From the gate. Who Am I, who am I?
Yes, beautiful heaven. Not so much.
Did you see that Evan pointing out that the motivation?
The the stirring factor of God establishing this davidic.
Covenant is a his name would be magnified.
Oh lord. Your name is going to be so
magnified through this. I can't wait to see how it's
going to be done. What a man?
Yes.
Great Point. Anything else?
Very good observations. Yes, we're geese.
Yes. Yes.
So God's election of Israel is on display here.
It's very clear, he chose them and do you remember in our study
of Deuteronomy why he chose Israel?
What's that? They were the leash or but
there's another reason right? You had your hand up.
Yeah, they were the least. That is one thing.
But remember when the Lord says I loved you and does he explain
why he loved them? Yeah, he made a covenant with
Abram, but why do you even choose Abraham if you go to
Deuteronomy chapter 7 and read the first several verses you'll
see that? The Lord says you not to turn,
there he goes. I loved you.
And then you're ready for the explanation.
He goes because I loved you. Lord.
Can you expound a little bit more on?
Why it is that you love Israel and he doesn't really give a
reason for that. We can pick out some
characteristics of why God would choose Israel in order to
magnify himself. But when God explains he goes, I
loved you because I loved you. Interesting.
Maybe a couple more, yes. Hmm.
Yes. Absolutely.
Last week we touched on how suffering is not.
The only thing that reveals who we are.
Success has that same effect and David here is only being
promoted more and the more he seems to be promoted the lower
he seems to go That doesn't tend to have the same effect on a
majority of people. But for this man he does.
And there's an important reason why which will touch on at the
end of this study. One more, maybe Yes.
Yes, Therefore your servant has found courage to pray this
prayer to you. In other words, there is a
motivation that something from his heart sprung up for him to
be able to come before the Lord in this way.
And we're going to see what was that touched?
His heart, and gave him the courage to come before the Lord,
in this way. Are you ready Verse 18?
And by the way, before we start, we're not going to deal with
this text the way we usually do. We're not going to go line by
line. We're not going to go verse by
verse instead. We're gonna we're gonna hover
over the text and have a bird's-eye view over all of it.
And as we go through this text will really Going to pluck at
different verses and we're going to try to survey the scene to
try to identify dominant themes. So we're not going to go over
every single verse here. We're just going to just fly
over. And we're going to just touch
this verse touch, that verse, kind of like what we just did.
Now looking at observations and trying to connect all of them as
we go through. But let's start with Verse 18,
then, King David went in. Where did he go?
We can only speculate some would believe in some would say, he
came as close as possible to the Ark of the Covenant.
Eminent he went in. Now, here's what's what's
touching to me in our sister brought up in the beginning.
King David, that's how the narrator identifies David.
But how does David choose to refer to himself throughout his
prayer? Are you certain?
In this short prayer, a total of ten times.
He says, your servant your servant, yours, the Lord's.
Servant, the Lord's servant, seen eyes of men.
David was a king because David lived in the light of God's
presence. He saw himself as nothing, more
than a servant. Regardless of the occupation
regardless of any role that he had in this world.
He ultimately saw himself as a servant who's been called to
serve in a particular way. and what ministers to me about this
is because David as a king Psalm self no greater than anybody
else by identifying himself this way.
Does anybody know anything about David's mother?
According to the word of God. We know something about the
father more than the mother, right?
I mean, you have kind of there's questionable things about the
relationship between David and his father, Jesse, he didn't
even include him when Samuel asked for all the sons to come
before him. So, that's there's a question
mark there, but David's mother, does anybody have any clue from
the scripture of what we know about David's mother?
There is a first verse that reveals something about her.
Psalm 86 verse 16 tells us something about David's mom.
And in Psalm 86 16, we read David in another prayer looking
to the Lord saying turn to me and be gracious to me.
Give strength to your servant, the son of your maid servant.
The son of your maidservant from that we can make this strong
conclusion that David's mom. Was a genuine servant of God.
How did she serve God? And what capacity?
We can only assume perhaps it was solely in the confines of
her home? And if she had any influence on
David, that's enough for us to realize, what kind of his
servants. She was, but, David is not just
speaking here by the spirit. He speaking by way of testimony,
his own eyes have have seen his mother over the years.
She's a servant of God, she loves the Lord, she fears the
Lord in such a way that she can penned this in a prayer and say,
oh God. Would you remember where I came
from? Would you remember your servant,
my mom? Your maidservant.
And I thought about that when I read, how he refers to himself
as a servant, because his mom has an unknown vessel hidden
loving the Lord behind the scenes.
We don't even know her name. We don't know what she did in
detail. And she's a servant of God
nonetheless and yet in contrast David, our son, our renowned
King. A popular psalmist.
A warrior. And yet, when he says your
servant in essence, he's saying I'm no better.
Then my mom who nobody knew about, who nobody praised, but
nobody promoted who nobody applauded, I'm a servant.
Just like my mom was a servant. And in essence, you and I do we
exercise different gifts that we exercise different positions.
We all share the same status before God, we are all servants
and our own respective ways. We are all Servants of God.
We all stand on the same level before the cross.
In fact, jesus takes it to another level when he when he
seeks to teach us how we should view ourselves.
He goes even further than how David says it. in Luke 17, 10,
if you want a verse 2, you can choose whatever you want, but
this is one of those verses that I tried to live under as a
banner And Luke 17:10 Jesus says to his disciples.
So you also When you have done all that, you were commended.
Say, what are you supposed to say?
When you are faithful, is it up there already?
Okay. What are you supposed to say?
When you, when you fulfill your ministry?
What are you supposed to say? When people, thank you.
What are you supposed to say? Not necessarily?
Say it out loud. But I think say to yourself, we
are unworthy servants. Not just servants unworthy
servants. We've only done what was our
duty. So the Lord says don't even see
yourself as a servant. I want you to see yourself as
unworthy servant, you know what that means?
You're not doing me a favor by serving me.
Now what a terrible thing that is to think that we come to the
house of God or to think that we serve God outside of his his
church and Lord, I'm doing you a favor just put it on my point
sheet and I'll come back to refer to that when I want to
redeem something, huh? You are not even worthy to serve
God. I'm not even worthy to serve him
to wait on him, to die for him to live for him.
That's a. Holy is it's an honor to serve
God, no matter what it demands of me.
So even in the act of service, I'm supposed to realize and
rehearse over myself, I'm not even worthy to do this.
I can't believe I get to do this.
That's how the Lord wants us to feel about how we serve him not
to compare. And I think compete to try to
elevate ourselves in position and title.
No, you're unworthy. Regardless of what you do.
And we come back to this text, then, King David went in and our
brother, I'd mention it and he sat before the Lord.
I'm not going to sit because it might take me a while to get
back up. He sat before the law I want you
to visualize that. Here's this king who sits on a
throne, but in the presence of God, he sits on the floor.
He's so humbled by the Majesty of God that he can't.
He would not even dare. To sit on anything that would
try to compete with the Majesty of God.
Now, here's the thing, that's interesting sitting is not a
common posture of Prayer in the Bible.
It's not kneeling is laying, prostrate is, but sitting is not
so common and we don't want to read too much into this but if I
were to, let's say, let's say you you came over to my house,
right? And you're standing at the door.
And I say, sit down here. Why are you standing sit down?
What am I asking you to do? I'm asking you to remain longer.
I am asking you to linger. I'm asking you to park so to
speak. And I believe there's something
here with David sitting in the presence of God sitting before
the Lord. He was essentially choosing to
remain in God's presence. He was essentially saying I'm
here to extend my stay before the face of God, right?
So he's not entering in and out to pay his dues.
He's not in thoughtless transition, trying to just come
in and out. He is essentially saying Lord
with this posture. I'm coming before you because I
enjoy you. I enjoy sitting at the feet of
Jesus. It was a deep Delight for David
to know that he can come with a swollen heart.
Not always like we heard, not just because of Brokenness, but
because of the goodness of God and to spill his soul before the
Lord, knowing with full trust that this God, this Almighty
being, here's everything that he's saying and takes into
consideration this like this was like, I can't believe this is
possible. So he sits before the Lord,
essentially saying I'm not going anywhere to Quick your lord.
I want to give you my undivided attention.
And I want to give you focused affection, that's what that
posture communicates. Can I ask you just a simple
question and in this busy life, in this transient culture that
we live in when was the last time you have genuinely not
necessarily physically, but in your heart, Paused and placed
yourself before God in a way. Were you saying, Lord, I'm going
to consecrate this select time to simply adore you And I know
it's different for all of us. How that looks.
But is this something? We even crave?
I think that's an important question.
Is this something we long for right?
Lord, I just want to sit before you.
I really in private just come before you and I just want to as
a response to the goodness that you have shown me to declare how
good you are. That is something that you and I
have a privilege of doing as Believers in Jesus Christ and we
don't have to pack our bags. Remember, going to the airport
once and I think this group of young Muslims and they were
going to fulfill their their pilgrimage, right?
They have to go all the way to Mecca and do a bunch of stuff.
And I thought to myself my God allows me to come wherever and
whenever And that's what you and I have in Jesus Christ, and it
is there that you find rest. It is there that you find peace.
It is, there you find instruction.
It is there where you find Jew, true, genuine fellowship with
almighty. God, believe that, right?
But sitting here also, symbolizes something else.
So at the end of the service, sometimes depending on what
shoes I'm wearing, sometimes I'm talking to people say, can I sit
down for a little bit? Not because I'm lazy, but
because my feet sometimes do weird things, so I got to sit
down, right? So what does that symbolize?
I heard somebody Whispering it rest.
Rest, right? So I'm looking at this, I'm
trying to think in my mind. Also have different different
characters in the Bible who have sat before the Lord.
Can you think of some Who said, I saw your mouth Mary of Bethany
who sat before the Lord. While her sister, was running
around, right trying to bake and cook and put things together and
and sub criticizing Mary. That's a whole different sermon
on its own. Yes, she sat before the Lord and
Jesus, this is the good portion. This is what she's choosing to
do. It won't be taken from her, and
this is a good thing. Absolutely.
There's other places as well, who else sits before the Lord?
He's not a main character, but it's an important picture.
Yeah, they sat before the Lord, Jesus sat, when he taught at
times, there's a particular character in Jesus ministry that
I am that I am thinking of that was highlighted for sitting
before him after something occurred in his life.
All this would be good then. Do you remember in the country
of the gadarenes? The Click yet.
Here, is this wild man? Change can't subdue him.
They try to do everything to lock him up, and he keeps
breaking those chains and he keeps running around,
terrorizing the towns and the neighborhood's, Jesus steps on
the scene, delivers him from a legion of demons.
And then the, the city hears about it and they're terrified
because their business, some of their businesses was just
crashed. And so they approached the scene
and they find this man who had the reputation of being
Unstoppable. His craziness.
Clothed in his right mind and Luke tells us in his version
sitting before the feet of Jesus.
And what's what's so comforting? What's so powerful about that
picture? Is that beforehand?
We're told that the demons in him would drive him into the
desert. He was Restless, he was wild.
He was uncontrollable, he was constantly on the move, but one
encounter with Jesus Christ. Kept them in one place.
And that rest that you see this meant, I don't know why I
picture him. Just like, his legs are folded
with brand new clothes sitting at Jesus feet.
And what that teaches is that when the Lord truly encounters,
you and saves you and delivers you, he satisfies you.
And now unlike what you were like before you're not running
around, trying to find some kind of solution to the torment of
your soul. Like we just heard there is no
peace for the wicked. Now, you can sit.
And here's the thing by sitting here saying, I don't want to go
anywhere. And so that man.
What he teaches us, I'm not looking for anything else
anymore. I found it right here, right
here. You know, sometimes I look at
people. Throughout the years throughout
the past 10 years, especially young people and they are
restless. Many of them restless and they
feel like they have to travel everywhere just to keep their
minds busy. Tried to find some experience
that will calm their nerves or they go from relationship to
relationship where they go from job, that you can just see how
Restless they are. And I often think if you only
have tasted his goodness, if you've only allowed the genuine
power of God to win your heart, you can stay in one place and
not saying that, the physical movements there is always
alluding to that, but sometimes it does, sometimes it does.
And so we see here that that David's it's before the Lord, he
satisfied and he just wants to pour out his heart and this is
what he's about to do. We read it, right?
So now we come to this text and I want us to again, we're bird's
eye view. We're not going verse by verse.
Can I draw something to your attention?
We mentioned a lot of things that we do.
See in David's prayer. What's a key thing that's
missing in his prayer, and it's not a negative thing.
What is missing in David's prayer?
Now, here's how we can hone in and we can we can because
there's a lot of things. Missing right, technically
there's a lot of things missing but in light of God's response
to his desire to build him a house.
What would you expect David to do if he was in the flesh?
There, I'll say that much. Complain.
Murmur sulk grumble. So David doesn't come before the
presence of the Lord. And you know what?
Lord, I'm just trying to help you out.
I want to do this for your namesake.
You don't want me to do it. He's just somebody better than
me. And what I've done for you, none
of that. He responded to God's know with
gratitude, not grumbling gratitude.
And there was no evidence of irritation.
There is no sign of resentment. There is no, there is nothing
else. But a, submissive spirit that
could genuinely accept the Fate that God had ordained for his
days. David, you're not going to do
this. There's somebody else I have in
mind and this man could accept that.
He could Embrace that in a worshipful Spirit.
That's significant. Listen the willingness to
worship, God pay. To do this the willingness to
worship God and his sovereignty. In the face of his denials is
one of the truest marks of a mature man or woman of God.
The ability to worship God in the face of his denials is one
of the truest marks of a true man or woman of God.
Do you know why David could accept the no from God?
Because David as we heard was a servant of God and he believed
that about himself. I'm your servant.
Do you know why? It is that some Christians get
upset with God? Bitter against God?
Complain to God? It's because they believe God is
their servant. We wouldn't want a mint that But
that's why that's why some people become so sour in their
souls is because they have adopted this idea as much as
they go to a conservative bible-believing church, if
they've adopted this concept that, if I ask God, he better
give it to me and if he doesn't that he's not worthy of my total
devotion. Well, my sister, my brother
since when did God owe you anything?
Just be real with that since. When does God?
Oh, you and I are a thing. Anything that we have, even the
clothes on your back, right? The ability to see through these
eyes is a gift in itself. God doesn't owe us a thing.
Not one thing. And David understood from the
position of a servant. I can take a No.
In fact, look how look how he addresses the Lord in verse 22
of their chapter. Second Samuel 722.
Therefore you are great O Lord. God for there is none like you
and there is no God besides you. According to all that we have
heard with our ears. Okay.
Now, let's be honest, how many of us can say, in light of a
know, like a closed door, or something happening, or us
feeling that we are being guided into a direction of life that we
did not intend to move. Towards can say, you're great.
Lord, You're great, I can genuinely say, you are great.
You and I should be able to say that every time, not just great,
he's greatly to be praised because he is a great God.
Who is infinitely? Kind infinitely wise to us, who
are infinitely, unworthy? And I get it.
You and I are wrapped with this flesh, that doesn't like
rejection isn't like the client doesn't like refusals, right?
So there's a discipline that we need to have to be able to avoid
that ugly face before God and its really found in David's
prayer here. Do you know how David can do
this? Not just because he's so soft as
a servant. But there's a second thing here.
David in his prayer is focusing on what God gave him, not what
God didn't give him. Look at Verse 18, then.
King David went in and sat before the Lord and said, who am
I Lord God. And what is my house that you
have brought me this far? This man is not bothered At All.
By the fact that he was not handed, the sole responsibility
of constructing a house for God. He's not.
He's that stirred at all because he's captivated by something
else, he's captivated by the realization of God's
providential. Dealings up to this point in his
life and the excitement of what God has for them in the future.
This is what consumes him this is, what gets him going.
This is what brings them before, the presence of the Lord.
With a mouthful of Raise. And look, it's obvious here that
he was overwhelmed by the past, mercies of God, he's overwhelmed
by what he's going to do and as much as this chapter is about a
unique Covenant between God. And one man that's not to be
repeated, there's a Code there's a code here in this context and
this code in this context, reveals a characteristic of God
that applies to each of us here on this Friday night.
And here's here it is ready. Our days, our days, each of our
days. Are divinely planned.
Even when plans, don't go according to our plans.
Confusing. Our days are divinely planned,
even though things don't go according to plan, let me put it
this way for the true servant of God.
When anything seems to fall through it in actuality Falls
right into place. When anything seems to fall
through. And in reality, if your hand is
in the hand, of God Falls, exactly where God intended it to
be. And the Lord could have told
David after. David said, I want to build you
a house. He could have told David, you're
not going to build me a house somebody else and kept it at
that but he doesn't do that. He tells David you wanted to
build me a house. I'm actually going to build you
a dynasty and in this process I'm going to have a temple built
for my name. In other words, David, you have
this one desire. I have a greater desire.
You have this one idea how this bigger plan, and he communicates
that to David. Now, here's the thing.
The davidic Covenant that we benefit from it, it's not Not
about us. You're right you're not gonna
have Royal lines right? That's not happening.
That's already established and it's working now but you have
promises as a Christian You really have promises cater
towards you, because you're in Christ because Christ is the
firstborn among many brethren. We are co-heirs with Christ.
You and I have certain promises for us.
How many of those promises do you truly rehearse and believe
for yourself? He you ready for this?
I want to ask you personally how much the promises of God filter,
your view of the future of your future.
And here's one way to test that. It might sting you a little bit
but it's good. Its healthy.
All right. How many promises do you know
from God's word that you actually hold onto for your
life? Anything running through your
mind. I'm not asking I'm not asking if
you believe that God has made promises to his children.
Every Christian would say, yes, I'm asking very specific
question. Which promises in God's word?
Do you actually hold onto and believe applies to your life?
Fill in the blank? Your name.
I'm curious to know actually, because I'm about to give you a
homework. Tell me some promises that you
believe in God's word. Amen.
Ephesians 2:8. Beautiful.
Yes. I will never leave you nor
forsake you. Now, again, my question is not
which, what promises do you know, in the Bible?
Which ones do you hold on to that?
Come to your mind? That that that visit you in a
specific moment or circumstance? Those promises I'm asking about
Isn't that interesting? Isn't that interesting?
This book is pregnant with promises pregnant.
And not in a way of condemnation.
But even if for myself when I when I looked at this I thought
look how much of God's promise to David just stimulated him and
I pause I step back I said Lord teaching the Bible quoting the
Bible but what promises really can bring me to my knees and
worship. I can tell you some promises
about eternity about salvation of all that but which promises
do I really believe Here's your homework.
All right? You're going to go to God's word
this week and you're going to look for a promise, not just a
random promise but a promise that you know, will will bless
you and that you can look to and that you can memorize next week
I'm going to ask what promises you learn for your life and I
hope to see as many hands as possible.
That's your assignment. That's your assignment.
Can I give you one of mine? one of the ones that I often
think about, and come to me in times of need and in times of
persecution, this is a promise in Hebrews 13:5, and it says
this, Keep your life free from the Love of Money.
And be content with what you have for.
He has said, I will never leave you nor forsake you But second
to that, so we can confidently, say the Lord is my helper.
I will not fear. What can man do to me?
That's a promise in the New Covenant and what's beautiful is
both of those quotations. I will never leave you nor
forsake you and what can man do to me?
The Lord is my helper. I will not fear what you meant
to me. Are both the first one,
arguably. The second one.
Definitely from the Psalms, from the Psalms, And the New
Testament authors pulls it out of the book of Psalms and throws
it at the New Covenant Christian she's that's for you that's for
you. And so, I've known moments.
We're Lord, you need to step in here.
Well, I told you I'll never leave you nor forsake.
You watch me, pull through. And I've known moments where men
have reared, their ugly heads. And if threatened And I told
myself and others, if the Lord is truly with us, man, can't do
anything to us. You see we need to know the
promises of God. We can't be illiterate with
this, we can be It's affecting God's glory to a degree and it's
affecting something of our joy in the Lord.
Okay. So we see here that David David
understood something clear, which brings me to my next
Point. Look here to verse 27 of second
Samuel 7. This is, this is wonderful.
David says for you, oh, lord of hosts.
The god of Israel have made this Revelation to your servant
saying, I will build you a house.
Therefore, your servant has found courage to pray this
prayer to you. So David is telling the Lord and
telling us, there is a reason that I'm able to come so freely,
so boldly before the Lord. And what's that reason?
What does he say in verse 27? What gave him the courage, what
invited him to come, so close to the Lord and to speak in the way
that he speaks. Revelation.
You have made this revelation. so, You and I cannot mature in
our praying until we first mature in our understanding of
the word of God. It was revelation.
That pumped in him. The courage to pray in the way
that he prayed. Appraised filled prayer, right?
Heart-stirring prayer, passionate prayer, God
glorifying prayer that all stemmed from revelation.
Something that God had made known to him his word.
Yes, in his life but also the word that we have before us that
is the very thing that caused him to be able to praise.
And to be able to pray, can I tell you why many Christians
don't praise and why many Christians struggle to pray?
They lack Insight concerning God's revelation.
That's one. Major reason why?
When you come to this word, you have to understand.
That it is the source of many of the things that you, and I tried
to do in our spiritual journey with the Lord before I get
there. Have you noticed that David in
this prayer? Expresses Wonder.
And amazement in the form of questions.
Anybody noticed that. So, look at Verse 18, we saw,
right? Who am I?
What is my house that you've brought me this far?
Now, if you have the King James of the new King, James, who is
the King James? I know that you do, who has new
King, James new King James, this verse 19 spell out as a question
because I know the King James does, right?
So if you have the new King James of the King, James verse
19 is another question. Any other translation come to
verse 20 and what more can David say to you?
That's another question for, you know, you're serving the lord
God. Now scroll down to verse 23,
it's a longer question, who is like your People Israel when
nation on Earth? Whom God went to redeem to be as
people. We scroll down, whom you redeem
for yourself from Egypt and nation and its gods.
This man this man based on his personal history with God and
the history of the nation of Israel comes before.
The Lord in Wonder wrapped in questions.
Stunned by the goodness of God. Where he goes.
God! Who am I God?
Who's this? Nation God.
I can't believe that these things are true.
But it all comes from what God has done who God says he is what
God has promised us that is the very thing that got him going.
And I want you to see that. As I said earlier, communion
with God and so many aspects of our spirituality is dependent
upon your engagement with the Bible, okay?
There's a reason why the, the leaders of this church when we
preach and we exhort there's a reason why much of our
application is. Know your Bible get into the
Bible, read your Bible study, your Bible.
Know your why? Because we understand that the
Bible itself, testifies about itself.
That's so much that we want to master or know the maturity and
comes from first, a foundation that is what you're holding in
your hand tonight. Okay.
I'm going to prove it to you Colossians 3:16, let the word of
Christ. Do what?
Oh, you have the word in you? Yes, dwell in you richly richly.
Every time I read that verse every time I'm in Colossians, I
ask Lord and I do an inventory. Is your word in me?
Not just in me. Is it in me richly?
That's what I'ma is the tank on, on the letter, f.
Is it abundant is it isn't? There is an overflowing.
Is it on my tongue? Is it in my thoughts?
Is it something? I sing.
Or is it just in a corner of my heart?
That's not what the Holy Spirit saying the holy spirit.
Let it dwell richly. Let it be a spring that bubbles
up. Let the word have that kind of
abiding force in your life. And when you go to Colossians
3:16, you see the results of the word of Christ.
Dwelling in US richly. There's two main things.
The first is what teaching? And admonishing, one another and
all wisdom, okay? When the word of Christ was in a
person richly, they now reach to an ability where they can, they
can be a source of great, wisdom, guidance, exhortation
and warning to others, and others can recognize that.
So, then you become some source Of a well where they can draw
from not because of anything who you are, but what lives in you,
right? So now, because Christ's words
in you, it comes out of you and it touches those around you.
That's what happens when the word of Christ dwell in you
richly. I can guarantee you somebody who
has the word of Christ dwell in, you richly, can't keep the word
of Christ dwelling in them silently.
Does this doesn't happen? I know those people brother.
I just saw this in the word of God.
Do you believe this is? I've just been studying this
order and they just can't stop. Or when you get up when you ask
for advice, it always points to Something in the Bible.
Right, it's not like every scenario and I know a few
people. Like there's any scenario in
life, you ask them for advice like well, you know, most this
will happen to Moses, you remember that you remember,
whether everything is a reference, to a text, a
reference to a story reference, to a promise of reference to a
warning and I'm blessed by it because it's God's word, it's
God's word for, and many of those times it's something that
I, maybe forgot something that I missed, but I'm so blessed.
When somebody has the word of Christ in them rich.
But the word of Christ dwelling in Us in such a degree is not
just intellectual. It's emotional because he goes
on to say singing, Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with
thankfulness in your hearts, to God.
The more you study, the more you learn, the more you will
discover in the sacred book, wonderful things, the more
Sparks will flicker in your soul and will Electrify worship.
So the words in you and just something happens, right?
There's just these Embers and then you're being blown on by
the word of God, in a flame starts and then it begins to
start and cause you to sing, not mechanically, not routinely with
your mouth. Hims, not that Paul says, with
thankfulness in your heart, Your heart is engaged, your heart
comes to life, and something happens to you.
And to the point where you're unashamedly singing to the Lord,
as a result of what a talented worship band, a new kind of song
with new tricks in a very clever Bridge or no, because the word
of Christ dwelling in you richly.
The word of Christ being poured into you richly through deep
theological music. Something happens, it begins to
affect you, even emotionally. And it's Thanksgiving, right?
Thankfulness in your heart that you learned that you read
anything in the word and you realize oh he is worthy of my
gratitude and it comes from a genuine place of pleasure.
Here's the thing. you have some people have this weird
misconception in Christendom, I don't know and it circulates
That. Coming to the Bible studying,
the Bible reading. The Bible is intellectual
gymnastics, it's heady. And if you're, if you're
well-versed if you're educated, you're probably dry.
You probably stuffy, you probably don't have an intimate
walk with the Lord, and I get it because those people exist
because it's not an automatic promise.
That the more you study, the more you will be blessed the way
clashes talks about. It depends on your attitude and
approach to the word of God. IE the Pharisees okay.
So that's true, there is protocol.
And very limited protocol. Just really humility and longing
to know, God, on a personal level and obey the word.
But there's this weird idea that if you, if you learn, if you
compare, if you get deep, if you do, all these things with words
on a page, its intellectual it's academic, but it's not
spiritual. It's one of the most spiritual
exercises you can be doing Can you think of another passage in
one of the Epistles where the reality is that?
I just read to you from Colossians, 3:16 are very
similar. I think addressing one another
in Psalms, hymns, spiritual songs can be thanks in your
heart. Thank you.
Did you hear that? In the very same place where
Paul tells the Ephesians to not be drunk with wine but be filled
with the Holy Spirit, okay? I want you to see this and
Ephesians, 5:18 turn there very quickly.
Here's what I'm about to show you.
The results of the word of Christ.
Dwelling in US, richly are identical to the results that
come from being filled with the Holy Spirit.
Have you ever noticed that when you compare those two texts?
Look. Ephesians 818 is only an
expansion of what Colossians 3:16 Says, and do not get drunk
with wine for that is debauchery.
But be filled with the spirit addressing one.
Another in Psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs singing, and
making Melody to the Lord, with your heart giving.
Thanks always and for everything to God, the father, in the name
of our Lord, Jesus Christ. So look what the holy spirit is
trying to show us. Having the word in you.
Is synonymous inseparable. To being filled with the Holy
Spirit. So if there's this idea of
ignoring or neglecting the Bible, but hopefully wanting to
be filled with the Holy Spirit is a delusion, it's a delusion.
It doesn't exist and people and I've seen many Christians like
this who claimed to be Spirit-filled people, right?
But have little respect For the proclamation of the word of God,
studying the word of God, expounding the word of God.
Such people have a false sense of spirituality.
No matter how much emotion they show demonstrate, I'll tell you
this. Many of the people that I've
known in my own life that we're, that seemed to be the most
excited about God, but we're very shallow with the word of
God. That it was a vacuum cleaner.
Just collected dust in the house, more than anything else.
Are in dangerous places today, and sin, serious sin, ugly sin.
Because they were chasing spirituality without being
anchored, in the word of God and that will eventually lead you
into heresy, eventually. It's going to lead you into
weird practices. Weird Doctrine or, all right.
All out sin in the end but the holy spirit says, if you want to
be filled with the Holy Spirit, guess what?
You need to be filled with the word of God.
That's what he's trying to say by this.
They have the paralleling effects.
So eat this word suck. The honey out of this were
dispersion would say just in, just indulge in this word and
realize that if you come with the posture of obedience of
humility of worship, then the spirits power will flow into
your heart. as you bring this word, into that heart, And so,
David could come in this powerful prayer before God's
presence because of verse 27, which tells us of a revelation
that was the thrust that brought him into this intimacy.
With the Lord God's word itself to him in his life, believe that
Frieza, I hope that revolutionizes our lives
Revolutionizes Our Lives. If you want your prayer life to
be blessed, if you want your singing, to be blessed, if you
want your attitude, to be blessed.
If you want your emotional state to be blessed.
Hug this word embrace it. No, it growing, it talk about
it, love it and watch what will happen to you.
I won't go too much further. Let's come back to our prayer
here you with one final thought. Many of you brought up all of
these points. Here's one.
Last one before we close. David's praying was motivated by
God's glory. Our brother read earlier in
verse 25 and 26, and I will Lord God, confirmed forever.
The word that you've spoken concerning your servant and
concerning his house and do, as you have spoken, pause for what
For what? Lord, because I yeah.
I did do pretty good. Didn't I?
As a Shepherd? I was faithful when I was
unknown. Yeah, I stood up the Goliath
when nobody else would. I could have killed Saul but I
didn't. I'm so humble, think I'm gonna
write a book about me? Humility.
No, first 26, and your name will be magnified forever.
David's longing for God to confirm his promise to him and
his descendants was so that for Generations.
God's name would be exalted. That was what moved his heart to
the core and I want to tell you this live like that pray like
that. Make decisions with that in mind
for many reasons, right? Or else we will we will be
indicted for the crime of using God as a means for our own
Glory. That's a that's a very ugly.
But for other reasons I don't think people are aware of the
wonderful security and joy that is reserved for those who are
completely convinced that they want God's glory to be known at
any cost, there is something so protective and pleasurable
living that way. A heart that's in golf to this
degree. Literally when your heart is
just coated with that, it leaves no room for jealousy for Envy
for Pride to penetrate and make a home in that heart.
It just like, living for God's. Glory, is like a bulletproof
vest for your soul. It's very difficult to infect
that person with something as hideous as what we see in Saul.
So because David was so in love with the glory of God when God
said David I love what's in your heart but you're not going to be
the guy that's going to build me this house.
David can say, who Am I, who am I Spurgeon said, be willing o
vessel in the house of the Lord. To be hung up on a nail in the
wall. Or to be late aside in a corner.
If so God would be glorified for, thus, was it with David
seemed to say they're be pleased to be hung on a wall by now, or
be pleased to be stuffed in a corner.
If in doing so God would be glorified.
So David could receive the no because if the gnomon God's
glory then let it be no you see more than that David.
When he saw God using somebody else blessing.
Somebody else promoting somebody was not was not Okay, you're in
the way even if it was his son Solomon, right?
And you might say, well, of course, he's happy, it's his son
who wouldn't be happy. He would have feel some kind of
Pride if their son was being used by God in such a way.
Are we actually under the persuasion that sin cannot so
Kill us that we can actually look at a relative even our own
offspring and despised them. Do we forget so easily about
Saul who with his own son, Jonathan, when he seemed to be a
threat to receiving praise, he did something about it.
That's how ugly sin can make us. And yet this man David was not
shifted in any direction because he was so grounded in this glory
of God, really. And so, when it came to Solomon
being elevated, being promoted, you know what David could do.
He can encourage him. So David David had the door
closed of not being able to build the temple, but what did
David do we know this? What did he end up doing about
the temple? He prepared all the material.
He's okay. Fine.
If I can't have that position then let me do whatever I can to
make sure that God is glorified. I have all these resources I
have all these connections. We're going to get all the
material yes we gathers all the material prepares for his son
and more than that in first Chronicles 28.
He looks at his own son, you don't have to turn there but
listen to these words, this man who was told no you're not going
to build, your son is going to build can look at this son of
his and say to him in verse twenty first car. 28.
Then David said to Solomon his son, be strong and courageous be
strong and courageous and do it. Do not be afraid and do not be
dismayed for the Lord. God even my God is with you, he
will not leave you or forsake you until all the work of the
service of the house of the Lord is finished.
David was able to energetically encourage Solomon.
Do you know why? Because of the glory of God, and
if we don't live for the glory of God, you know, what can
happen. We are in danger of envying, the
very ones that were supposed to be encouraging.
Hi. We're in danger of looking at a
brother a sister who has been anointed by the Holy Spirit, who
has been, who has been given greater expansion of influence
and to feel as though they are competitor instead of a partner
for the glory of God. But because of the glory of God,
here's how powerful this to live with this motivation, whether
you are the means or Not, by which God's goal is accomplished
because you're all about that goal, regardless of the vessel.
Even if it's not, you you can Rejoice.
Yes, God is being glorified through him.
God is being glorified through her.
God's name is being praised in this way, even though you're not
involved. Even though you're not the
direct agent because you were so enthralled by the glory of God.
Wherever it is coming from you can rejoice.
And listen, this is a genuine struggle for genuine Disciples
of Jesus Christ. Even, even the closest
disciples, remember, one of the disciples came up to Jesus.
Hey Jesus. They're trying to cast out
demons in your name, but then with us.
She's like, what are you talking about?
They are for us. And so there's always that that
temptation. To struggle with our identity in
God. And I think the solution is
really Living For the Glory of God.
How do we get there though? Can live for the glory of God
live for the glory of God? Look, how do I get there?
I believe the answer is here. The answer is in this text.
Some might say, well, have a big view of God, have an awesome
view of God. Yes, that's that's in part, but
I know many people who love the word of God at least information
in the word of God who can soar in their explanation of the word
of God and they are eaten up by self Glory.
So it's that's that's just part of the solution.
Can I tell you what? I think is the the biggest
ingredient missing for people to be perpetually in that state of
living for the glory of God. It's because they don't have an
accurate view of themselves. That's why.
How did David start? Who am I?
That's where you need to be. That's where I need to be.
Who am I Have a big view of God and have an honest perception of
yourself, and I think sometimes we focus so much here.
That we think that we're just like a little bit under Jesus.
He's just a little bit better. Just like how we think of him.
We think Heaven is just like a little bit better than America.
That's why we struggling and I don't know if I want to go back.
I don't know if I want to go to Glory, you have no idea what
you're talking about, okay? And so, There needs to be
something of our application of the word we say.
Lord show me who I really am. Show me who I would be without
you show me. How dependent upon I am by your
microsecond Mercies in my life. Tell me realize that if you call
me for the rest of my life to tie the shoes of those who serve
you that even in that, I would be seen as an unworthy servant.
May God help us in that. There is so much protection.
So much pleasure, so much promise.
In living with those three words in mind.
Who Am I? Who am I Lori?
Thank you. For this Bible study.
Four. Being able to share with one
another what we've seen in this text.
And Lord tonight we take it to heart and we say, who are we,
who are we to be saved by your grace?
And who are we to be used for your glory?
And who are we to be able to meet in this place freely to
worship you who are we? What are we?
We are but dust and Ash. But the very fact that we can
sit, the very fact that we can move, the very fact that we can
breathe. The very fact that we can we can
learn is because you have allowed us to Lord tonight, we
just pray that there would be revived campaign in each of Our
Lives, to master the word of God.
The Lord may be said of every person here whether this is
their home church or not. That the word of Christ dwells
in US richly. Lord protect us from a vain
pursuit of the word of God and help us Lord know the full
potential as we come to this word day by day.
Floor with this one life that we have.
May we be a spectacle to an unbelieving world and to a host
of angels, who are watching the wisdom of God being unfolded
through the church. We ask Lord Jesus.
That you would Infusing us a humility.
That you would teach us how to sit at the feet of Jesus that
that would not be a duty that would be a deep Delight to know
how we can just pause on everything saying, oh I just
want to sit with him and speak to him and tell him how
wonderful he is and tell him my needs and pour out my my mom
wants to him Lord. Revive revive, that Pursuit.
Lord, in this place. We sing to you because we have
been receiving the word of God. Me, that overflow, as we respond
and worship, Jesus name, we pray.
Amen.