1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:04,240 Welcome to the official podcast of Rock Hill Baptist Church 2 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:07,480 where we are focused on glorifying God, spreading the 3 00:00:07,480 --> 00:00:11,840 gospel, and making disciples of Jesus Christ right here in the 4 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:16,520 heart of Greenville, SC. Each week we bring you a life 5 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:20,600 changing word from our Senior Pastor, Pastor Matthew D Long 6 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:23,760 Junior, or one of our anointed guest speakers. 7 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:27,920 We pray this message strengthens your faith, deepens your 8 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:32,479 understanding, and empowers you to elevate in every area of your 9 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:35,840 life. Let's join the service already 10 00:00:35,840 --> 00:00:46,080 in progress. First Chronicles chapter 28. 11 00:00:49,040 --> 00:00:54,040 The Bible says the labor is worthy of its hire and and the 12 00:00:54,040 --> 00:00:58,160 honest truth is sometimes we get some of the best in and the Lord 13 00:00:58,160 --> 00:01:02,600 favors us how we get them in here and if I can do more, I 14 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:04,920 would do more. Let me tell you back when I'm 15 00:01:04,920 --> 00:01:07,400 able to do more, I'll do more. Praise the Lord. 16 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:10,200 It's not if it's not conditional, it's just a matter 17 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:12,400 of time. That's a good word. 18 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:15,720 I don't want that's a good word. I'm I'm a snatch that one for 19 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:18,760 myself. It's not if it's just when a 20 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:22,080 matter of time. Yes Lord. 21 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:27,920 First Chronicles chapter 28 and have you rest upon your feet. 22 00:01:32,880 --> 00:01:37,240 Hallelujah. First Chronicles chapter 28. 23 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:42,160 I'm going to skip around if you don't mind, just stay with me. 24 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:49,840 Starting at verse #1 And David assembled all the Princess of 25 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:53,160 Israel, and the Princess of the tribes, and the captains of the 26 00:01:53,160 --> 00:01:57,080 companies that ministered to the king by course. 27 00:01:57,720 --> 00:02:00,240 And the captains over the thousands, and the captains over 28 00:02:00,240 --> 00:02:03,040 the hundreds, and the stewards, over all the substance and 29 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:07,840 possession of the king and of his sons, with the officers, and 30 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:10,840 with the mighty men, and with all the valiant men. 31 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:13,840 Into Jerusalem. Verse 2. 32 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:21,800 Then David the king stood up upon his feet, and said, Hear 33 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:30,480 me, my brother, and my people, As for me, I had in my heart to 34 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:34,080 build a House of rest for the ark of the covenant of the Lord, 35 00:02:34,920 --> 00:02:42,240 and for the footstool of our God, and had made ready for the 36 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:47,480 building. But God said unto me, Thou shalt 37 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:55,120 not build a house for my name, because thou has been a man of 38 00:02:55,120 --> 00:02:58,440 war and has shed blood. Verse 4. 39 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:03,960 How be it the Lord God of Israel chose me before all, the House 40 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:07,440 of my father, to be king over Israel forever. 41 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:11,920 For he had chosen Judah to be the ruler in of the House of 42 00:03:11,920 --> 00:03:15,680 Judah, the House of my father. And among the sons of my father 43 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:19,240 He likened me to make king, make me king of all Israel. 44 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:27,120 Verse 5 And of all my sons, for the Lord had given me many sons, 45 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:31,360 He had chosen Solomon my son, to sit upon the throne of the 46 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:37,080 Kingdom of the Lord over Israel. And he said unto me, Solomon, 47 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:44,560 thy son shall build my house and my courts, for I have chosen 48 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:49,600 them, He to be my son, and I will be his father. 49 00:03:50,720 --> 00:03:55,280 Moreover, I will establish his Kingdom forever if he be 50 00:03:55,280 --> 00:04:00,920 constant to do my commandments and my judgments as at this day. 51 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:06,360 Verse #12 Let's go to 11 because it's important. 52 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:13,440 Then David gave to Solomon his son, the pattern of the porch, 53 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:17,519 and of the houses thereof, and of the treasuries thereof, and 54 00:04:17,519 --> 00:04:20,200 of the upper chambers thereof, and of the inner parlors 55 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:23,880 thereof, another place of the mercy seat. 12 And the pattern 56 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:28,320 of all that he had by the Spirit of the courts, of the House of 57 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:31,520 the Lord, and of all the chambers roundabout, and of the 58 00:04:31,520 --> 00:04:34,240 treasuries of the House of God, and of the treasuries of the 59 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:37,640 dedicated things. Let's move on down to verse #19 60 00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:48,120 And I think I'll stop there. All this said David, the Lord 61 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:55,840 made me understand in writing by his hand upon me, even all the 62 00:04:55,840 --> 00:05:01,240 works of this pattern, the word of God for the people of God. 63 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:06,360 Thanks beyond to God, you take your seat, help me out. 64 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:10,720 Turn to your neighbor, say hey neighbor, are you OK? 65 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:19,440 Turn to someone and say hey neighbor, are you OK? 66 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:24,720 I'm alright. I love it. 67 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:33,520 I love it for this, this first installment of this again, I'm 68 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:37,120 going to preach really from the thought of the idea I got my 69 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:41,760 daddy's blueprints. Well, if, if I had to give a a 70 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:45,600 subject to this particular message, it would probably be my 71 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:50,160 three points for you just to help you out. 72 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:54,920 And it would be the man, the plan and the hand. 73 00:05:56,720 --> 00:06:03,640 Well, and then brothers and sisters, as I approach another 74 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:10,280 birthday and I sit in another year, I, I, I, I sit in it 75 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:15,160 almost with this moment of reflection that while I get 76 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:19,120 older, yet still I thank God for being young. 77 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:27,080 I believe you are only as old as you think yourself. 78 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:34,480 And so the Bible says, as a man thinketh, so is he. 79 00:06:35,520 --> 00:06:38,640 How is it then I would change what God's Word says. 80 00:06:39,280 --> 00:06:47,480 So let me think myself young. But as I, as I really went into 81 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:52,120 this year, this year did not, did not change like the other 82 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:54,200 years. Yeah, I got up at midnight and I 83 00:06:54,200 --> 00:06:57,040 danced. Yeah. 84 00:06:57,160 --> 00:06:59,920 I praise the Lord and the bedside. 85 00:06:59,920 --> 00:07:02,920 I thank him for letting me come in at midnight. 86 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:08,480 I'm I got up and I'm and I praise them again that I was 87 00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:11,880 able to close the year out, clears that close that day out. 88 00:07:12,840 --> 00:07:17,240 And but yet still, it wasn't like other years. 89 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:22,280 It wasn't like when I turned 30 and I made myself a rib eye and 90 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:26,440 got king crab legs and, and, and we was in COVID. 91 00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:28,640 And I mean, I was just doing, just doing it. 92 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:33,040 I'm I was eating, I was eating, God knows I was eating. 93 00:07:34,640 --> 00:07:38,280 Dick said yo-yo, I was eating. But this year wasn't one of 94 00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:41,360 those kind of years. It was, it was really sobering. 95 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:45,080 It was transitory, if I can say that. 96 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:49,240 It's one of those moments that you feel like you are in between 97 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:55,760 a lane change, not in a lane, but between the lanes. 98 00:07:56,880 --> 00:08:00,360 That's kind of where we find ourselves in between the black 99 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:04,480 and white pages of the book before you, my dear brothers and 100 00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:08,280 sister. I believe it almost echoes the 101 00:08:08,280 --> 00:08:13,480 words of Jesus and Luke chapter 14 verse 28 that says which of 102 00:08:13,480 --> 00:08:18,000 you intending to build a tower, sit and knock down 1st and count 103 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:22,640 if the cost and that sometimes in these moments it's not a 104 00:08:22,640 --> 00:08:27,120 financial strategy. It's really divine sovereignty. 105 00:08:28,280 --> 00:08:35,080 And here in this text we find hand of a father who was 106 00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:38,840 handling or handing over something greater than just 107 00:08:39,039 --> 00:08:46,640 money, greater than just life insurance policies, greater than 108 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:52,480 just a bank account, greater greater than just a house, 109 00:08:54,560 --> 00:08:56,240 greater than just a car. You're in the room. 110 00:08:56,240 --> 00:08:57,320 I just want to make sure you're here. 111 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:00,920 Greater, greater, greater, greater. 112 00:09:00,920 --> 00:09:03,840 Greater than just old clothes worn. 113 00:09:06,440 --> 00:09:12,040 A father handing something over that is greater than his books 114 00:09:12,960 --> 00:09:17,000 or CDs. We're here. 115 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:26,120 A father handing over a framework, a sacred script, and 116 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:29,400 even a holy design. That's going to be fine. 3 117 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:33,080 movements in the text I want to quickly, briskly move through. 118 00:09:33,760 --> 00:09:39,440 But #1 the man look in your Bibles first Chronicles chapter 119 00:09:39,440 --> 00:09:41,240 28. I'm going to be in your Bible 120 00:09:41,240 --> 00:09:44,200 for real. Our first Chronicles chapter 28 121 00:09:44,200 --> 00:09:50,840 and verse #6 says, And he said unto me, Solomon, you know what, 122 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:52,920 let's go back. Let's go back to verse 2. 123 00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:54,600 I think I better dig a little bit. 124 00:09:55,000 --> 00:10:00,680 Verse 2 says Then David the king stood up upon his feet and said, 125 00:10:00,680 --> 00:10:06,400 Hear me, my brethren and my people, As for me, I had in my 126 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:11,560 heart to build a House of rest for the ark of the covenant of 127 00:10:11,560 --> 00:10:15,360 the Lord, and for the footstool of our God, and he had made you 128 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:20,640 ready for the building. But God said unto me, Thou shalt 129 00:10:20,640 --> 00:10:24,680 not build a house for my name, because thou has been a man of 130 00:10:24,680 --> 00:10:31,440 war, and thou shed blood. Verse 6 And he said unto me, 131 00:10:31,440 --> 00:10:39,040 Solomon, thy son, he shall build my house and my courts, for I 132 00:10:39,040 --> 00:10:42,920 have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father. 7 133 00:10:43,080 --> 00:10:47,200 Moreover, I will establish his Kingdom forever if you'd be 134 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:51,040 constant to do my commandments and my judgments as at this day. 135 00:10:51,040 --> 00:10:53,800 The very first movement of this text is the man. 136 00:10:55,320 --> 00:10:59,040 But check this out. The man recognizes his divine 137 00:10:59,040 --> 00:11:03,080 assignment and his divine secession. 138 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:08,280 Many brothers and sisters, as we look into this text, we do not 139 00:11:08,280 --> 00:11:13,200 find a young David. We do not find a middle-aged 140 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:17,040 Davids. We find an old man David. 141 00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:22,400 Some scholars say that David is between the ages of 60 and 80 142 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:27,040 years old. And here in this moment, David. 143 00:11:28,040 --> 00:11:33,640 Because some of us can can, can empathize with David's physical 144 00:11:33,640 --> 00:11:39,200 frailties. David calls together everyone in 145 00:11:39,280 --> 00:11:43,040 the Kingdom who has a strong connection to him, who has 146 00:11:43,080 --> 00:11:46,960 influence to him. He calls together everyone who's 147 00:11:46,960 --> 00:11:50,760 been ministering to him, who's been serving him, who has some 148 00:11:50,760 --> 00:11:53,840 level of influence with and through him. 149 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:58,200 He calls them all together. Check this out verse #2 Then he 150 00:11:58,200 --> 00:12:01,920 does not sit. He doesn't lay back. 151 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:06,000 No, your Bible says he stands up. 152 00:12:07,280 --> 00:12:09,720 It does not say he stands up with the cane. 153 00:12:12,040 --> 00:12:20,680 Look at the text that Seth says he stands up upon his feet, 154 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:27,320 which suggests that David, in this old age, wants to make a 155 00:12:27,320 --> 00:12:30,240 strong statement without any assistance. 156 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:40,560 That David realizes that in this moment and this, this moment, I 157 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:46,200 think I better stay the third time in this moment I've got to 158 00:12:46,240 --> 00:12:53,360 stand on business, he says. Right here we cannot have any 159 00:12:53,360 --> 00:12:57,560 question. We cannot have any doubt. 160 00:12:58,960 --> 00:13:03,200 We can't have any. Chatter. 161 00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:12,040 About what I'm about to say, David here begins to tell 162 00:13:13,080 --> 00:13:19,400 everyone that I've had this strong desire not just to be 163 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:25,160 king, not just to be important, not, not just to have robes and 164 00:13:25,160 --> 00:13:33,360 garments and servants, but to have this moment to share. 165 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:40,840 To share that the Lord still has given me something to do. 166 00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:50,120 He's still giving me something else to accomplish that even 167 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:57,680 though, yeah, I'm old, yeah, I've got wrinkles God's given 168 00:13:57,680 --> 00:14:00,760 me, yet still something else to accomplish. 169 00:14:01,720 --> 00:14:04,120 But he won't quite let me get into the lane. 170 00:14:05,680 --> 00:14:12,840 He won't let me accomplish what he put in my heart, David says. 171 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:20,680 Essentially, it was in my heart to build for God a house given 172 00:14:20,680 --> 00:14:27,880 I've built me a house, but not just any house, a house for his 173 00:14:27,880 --> 00:14:36,120 presence, a house for God to abide in, a house for God's 174 00:14:36,240 --> 00:14:43,560 power to be seen and felt in. He said I've had this desire, 175 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:50,360 but the Lord, he wouldn't let me do it. 176 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:56,680 Many brothers and sisters as I sit here in this moment of 177 00:14:56,680 --> 00:15:05,280 another year, I realize that many in my generation are like, 178 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:12,520 are like the bridge between former and coming generations. 179 00:15:14,560 --> 00:15:18,640 But many like myself are sitting in this moment of time where we 180 00:15:18,640 --> 00:15:23,720 the adults running the show, but we still the kids to somebody 181 00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:26,280 controlling the purse. Hallelujah, huh. 182 00:15:26,280 --> 00:15:31,760 OK, I just want to make sure we're still in the room and as 183 00:15:31,960 --> 00:15:38,040 as we sit in this moment of tension, yes, the authority may 184 00:15:38,040 --> 00:15:44,600 be with those of my generation, but the influence is still with 185 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:50,440 the king. The the influence is still with 186 00:15:50,880 --> 00:15:55,160 the former generation. No, no, no, don't take offense 187 00:15:55,160 --> 00:16:01,160 when I say former. Former is a time reference here, 188 00:16:01,400 --> 00:16:07,080 David says. I know what I've got to do, but 189 00:16:07,080 --> 00:16:12,320 I can't do it. But God has given me one to do 190 00:16:12,320 --> 00:16:16,920 it. Notice here in the text that God 191 00:16:16,920 --> 00:16:23,600 selects with specificity. God didn't just remove Saul 192 00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:31,520 because of rebellion. God raised David because of 193 00:16:31,520 --> 00:16:34,400 alignment. Let me say that one more time 194 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:35,560 because it got stuck in my tongue. 195 00:16:35,880 --> 00:16:40,160 I said God didn't just remove Saul because of rebellion, but 196 00:16:40,160 --> 00:16:42,840 he raised David because of alignments. 197 00:16:43,920 --> 00:16:51,440 So here David is as the second king, realizing the position 198 00:16:51,440 --> 00:16:54,840 he's in now. He can't be like the King before 199 00:16:54,840 --> 00:17:01,280 him and I can't die with the glory to God. 200 00:17:03,760 --> 00:17:10,720 I can't die with a cane in my hand trying to pass it off as a 201 00:17:10,720 --> 00:17:14,920 baton. I, I, I, I cannot sit in this 202 00:17:14,920 --> 00:17:22,920 moment and say I'm called for this moment and not give the 203 00:17:23,040 --> 00:17:26,400 rest of me for the next person in this moment. 204 00:17:27,839 --> 00:17:34,280 He aligns himself, and because he aligns himself, David's 205 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:42,360 discipline is seen in how he recognizes the need for 206 00:17:42,360 --> 00:17:46,800 alignment, assignment and secession. 207 00:17:48,840 --> 00:17:53,040 I'm going to get there. Give me a second David who was 208 00:17:53,040 --> 00:17:59,960 once the lion slaying shepherd. It's David who's later victories 209 00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:07,880 came, but unnecessary violence. He was still winning, but he had 210 00:18:07,880 --> 00:18:13,120 some casualties. Many brothers and sisters, some 211 00:18:13,120 --> 00:18:18,640 of our previous generations won some great victories, but there 212 00:18:18,640 --> 00:18:23,480 were some casualties. And it's the casualties that are 213 00:18:23,480 --> 00:18:27,560 like David when God looked at her, said you are a man of war 214 00:18:27,560 --> 00:18:30,600 and there's much blood for your hands. 215 00:18:32,680 --> 00:18:37,360 The David says that same discipline and drive to win. 216 00:18:38,760 --> 00:18:40,440 It's got to come through my seas. 217 00:18:40,440 --> 00:18:45,880 It's got to come through my son. But if it's going to come 218 00:18:45,880 --> 00:18:49,480 through, I've got to function in my assignment. 219 00:18:51,080 --> 00:18:55,760 And my assignment is to help align the next one after me. 220 00:18:57,200 --> 00:18:59,760 When we look at this, when we look at this text, when we look 221 00:18:59,760 --> 00:19:03,240 at this text, you find the very first movement is the man. 222 00:19:05,360 --> 00:19:10,080 Notice here, David is the second king, right? 223 00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:15,240 He's giving this strong statement in front of everybody. 224 00:19:16,400 --> 00:19:19,400 And as he's given this strong statement in front of everybody, 225 00:19:20,480 --> 00:19:26,160 we see here a principle that I think needs to surface for all 226 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:29,520 of us in the room and online. You ready? 227 00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:37,040 Every man is the ceiling to his seed, but every son must break 228 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:42,240 the floor of his father. And sometimes the hard places to 229 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:48,800 be in between the lane change because Daddy realizes he's the 230 00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:55,640 ceiling, but Daddy's been comfortable because what's the 231 00:19:55,640 --> 00:20:00,600 ceiling for his, for his son is the floor that gives him 232 00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:07,800 footing. So David in the text stands up 233 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:16,640 with no assistance to say, I've realized that for me, I've done 234 00:20:16,640 --> 00:20:21,000 all I can do physically. Hallelujah, God. 235 00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:27,800 That now, in this moment, son, I'm ready for you to 236 00:20:27,800 --> 00:20:32,600 breakthrough the ceiling, he says. 237 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:36,480 I realize breaking through the ceiling means I've got to fall, 238 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:40,680 he said. That I'm bracing myself for the 239 00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:45,280 fall so that you can breakthrough my them brothers 240 00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:48,560 and sisters. The tragedy is when the Father 241 00:20:48,560 --> 00:20:51,160 refuses to give up the ground he gained. 242 00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:55,120 But David understand. My hands are too bloody to 243 00:20:55,120 --> 00:20:58,240 build, but my heart is full enough to bless. 244 00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:05,600 As I move closer to June, I must stress the importancy of not 245 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:10,120 just Daddy's words, but Daddy's blessing. 246 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:17,120 I know that's tough because a lot of us deal with Father 247 00:21:17,120 --> 00:21:24,080 wounds because we've been stuck in that little place where we've 248 00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:27,440 been trying to push through the ceiling. 249 00:21:29,560 --> 00:21:34,400 But Daddy said, aha, you're not going to be bigger than me, aha. 250 00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:37,480 You're not going to be greater than me, Aha. 251 00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:42,280 No, you're not going to have more influence than me, aha. 252 00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:45,720 No, you will not have a bigger business than me. 253 00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:49,800 I know you won't be a better father than me. 254 00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:59,520 For some of us, we've lived in the conundrum of transition and 255 00:21:59,520 --> 00:22:05,480 it has caused a lot of internal frustration under brothers and 256 00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:09,880 sisters. David here shows us and one we 257 00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:14,600 have to deal with the man. And once you deal with the man, 258 00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:18,480 let me move on to the second movement of the text. 259 00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:22,280 So then you realize that there is a plan. 260 00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:27,040 I'm sorry, I'm slow rolling. I'm going to get to my hoop at 261 00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:29,080 the end. Let me build a little bit more 262 00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:32,640 in this cake. Your Bible in First Chronicles 263 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:40,480 chapter 28, Glory to God verse 11 says then David gave to 264 00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:44,040 Solomon. We, we read the Bible too fast. 265 00:22:44,040 --> 00:22:45,880 I'm going to read it one more time so you can hear it. 266 00:22:46,360 --> 00:22:51,520 Then David gave to Solomon his son. 267 00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:55,080 We really so, so fast, So fast. We do, we really do. 268 00:22:55,360 --> 00:22:58,160 The Bible says First Chronicles, chapter 28. 269 00:22:58,360 --> 00:23:04,000 Verse #11 Then David gave to Solomon his son, the plan. 270 00:23:05,480 --> 00:23:08,920 The pattern of the porch, and of the houses thereof, and of the 271 00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:12,320 treasuries thereof, and of the upper chambers thereof, and of 272 00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:16,000 the inner pilots thereof, and of the place of the mercy seat. 12 273 00:23:16,360 --> 00:23:25,040 And the pattern of all that he had by the spirits of the courts 274 00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:28,560 of the House of the Lord, and of all the chambers roundabout, and 275 00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:31,520 of the treasuries of the House of God, and of the treasuries of 276 00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:33,400 the dedicated things. The second thing. 277 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:38,000 The second movement is the plan, the plan, the plan, the plan 278 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:43,120 here, the plan here has divine blueprints and strategies. 279 00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:48,560 David gave Solomon not just instruction, but he gave him a 280 00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:51,000 pattern. And my dear brothers and 281 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:54,120 sisters, when we look at the word father, the father, the 282 00:23:54,120 --> 00:23:57,440 word father in Latin is pater. PATER. 283 00:23:58,040 --> 00:24:00,400 You know when you go to the hospital and they take a 284 00:24:01,120 --> 00:24:06,800 paternity test, the test, the test, check this out is to see 285 00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:10,480 what pattern is to be established. 286 00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:13,680 I'm sorry. It's as good to me on the 287 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:14,800 inside. I'm trying to hold it. 288 00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:20,560 And so when we look at the word father or patter that we then we 289 00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:26,400 established that fathers carry a pattern for their families. 290 00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:32,640 That pattern is after it's actually encrypted within their 291 00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:35,520 DNA. That's why you got to be 292 00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:38,000 cautious of the thoughts you think. 293 00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:42,080 God, I want to preach because your thought life can travel 294 00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:45,120 through your DNA, even though you don't say it with your 295 00:24:45,120 --> 00:24:49,240 mouth. The Bible says that a good 296 00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:51,800 father leaves in the hands to his children's children's 297 00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:54,160 children. Men, we trace Scripture and we 298 00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:59,600 look at how fathers and patriarchs had fathered their 299 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:04,240 families. We see that ideas, thoughts, 300 00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:09,760 words, and actions are transferred from generation to 301 00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:13,760 generation to generation to generate. 302 00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:16,200 Come here, let me, let me give you some more nuance. 303 00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:20,040 Everybody wants to talk about generational curses, but they 304 00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:25,120 forget that you can have generational blessings, that it 305 00:25:25,120 --> 00:25:29,880 is the Father who establishes the blessing of his life. 306 00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:36,080 I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but the text shows us that David here as 307 00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:41,560 the Father realizes that he has to give a pattern. 308 00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:45,600 Hey, glory to God. As a patriot, He has to pass on 309 00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:49,320 the pattern because he's a pattern maker. 310 00:25:50,360 --> 00:25:53,120 God, I'm sorry, my birthday's been a different 1. 311 00:25:53,120 --> 00:25:57,360 And so as I sit in this year, I realize that God's trying to 312 00:25:57,360 --> 00:26:01,560 give a pattern, not just to me, but He's giving a pattern to 313 00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:06,920 others as well. He's giving them praise the 314 00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:09,840 Lord. Fathers don't just generate, 315 00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:13,400 they germinate. And so they plant the pattern. 316 00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:17,200 They plant the pattern in their seed. 317 00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:20,240 They plant the pattern in their daughters. 318 00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:22,680 I know, I know, Mama, we need you too. 319 00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:25,280 But fathers, they plant the pattern. 320 00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:27,000 OK, come here. Because I feel you. 321 00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:29,200 Because mothers nurture the pattern. 322 00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:34,080 Come that that's that's why it's not only important who your 323 00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:38,520 daddy is, but who your Mama is too, because the wrong Mama will 324 00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:42,720 but incorrectly nurture that pattern. 325 00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:46,160 That's why they got so many people who are psychics and 326 00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:49,480 spiritual because you've got a prophetic gift that has not been 327 00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:52,920 nurtured properly. I'm sorry I had to go deep real 328 00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:55,280 quick. We got everybody new age with 329 00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:57,200 crystals and hollering at the moon. 330 00:26:57,520 --> 00:26:59,320 But but they're on the wrong side. 331 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:02,920 I mean, you go into the spirit realm that it's, it's just a 332 00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:04,280 thin line. It's a spirit. 333 00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:06,560 That's all it is. You are either in the 334 00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:11,400 heavenlies, on God's heavenlies or you over there in the demonic 335 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:13,600 realm. It's a thin line. 336 00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:18,880 That's why everybody want prophecies and prophetic words. 337 00:27:19,120 --> 00:27:24,560 It's easy to do. It's it is, it's you. 338 00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:27,160 Let me see long enough. I give you a prophetic word. 339 00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:32,200 I give you words of knowledge, dates, numbers, places. 340 00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:35,400 I ain't going to tell them. I fell a story. 341 00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:36,360 Rise. I'm not going to tell that 342 00:27:36,360 --> 00:27:42,640 story, but I'm telling it. The mother nurtures the pattern. 343 00:27:43,360 --> 00:27:46,800 The father plants the pattern, David says. 344 00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:49,400 I realized in my old age I've got to plan a pattern. 345 00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:53,920 OK, let me get in this guy so he has spiritual sensitivity so 346 00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:56,320 that there can be an unlocking of a sacred strategy. 347 00:27:57,320 --> 00:27:59,240 Check this out. David realized he didn't draft 348 00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:03,120 the design. You ready? 349 00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:08,480 David didn't draft the design. But David realized that the 350 00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:15,600 spirit, the spirit is the one who delivered the design. 351 00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:21,640 The in heavy father is a pattern. 352 00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:25,720 I'm sorry. And then the Father, he must 353 00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:31,640 realize that that my job is not to try to make it, try to put it 354 00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:36,280 together. My job is to unlock what God's 355 00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:38,560 given me. So then I can plant it in the 356 00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:43,160 next 1. So David, David, David here, 357 00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:46,000 David here. Make sure that we understand in 358 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:53,160 the text and verse #12 that this pattern is everything he had by 359 00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:56,560 the Spirit. That this pattern is not a 360 00:28:56,560 --> 00:29:01,040 pattern he has concocted after eating some spare ribs. 361 00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:07,120 This pattern is not a pattern that he's come up with after 362 00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:14,280 having some libations, that this pattern is not a pattern after 363 00:29:14,280 --> 00:29:16,400 sitting around with some other men. 364 00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:23,680 But David says that this is the pattern that God has entrusted 365 00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:28,720 to me from spending time in God's presence. 366 00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:35,320 I've got to get out of here now, but I want to let you know my 367 00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:43,760 dear brothers and sisters, that in God has always used patterned 368 00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:50,760 men in the Word come here Abraham Romans 4 and 11 tells us 369 00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:54,760 that Abraham is the father of faith. 370 00:29:55,760 --> 00:30:01,880 Come here, Genesis 26 and 18, Isaac, reopen generational 371 00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:04,120 wealth and wealth. Come here. 372 00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:10,400 Jacob in Genesis chapter 49 teaches us that fathers give 373 00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:12,800 prophetic blessings over their sons. 374 00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:15,400 You know Moses, don't you? Uh huh. 375 00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:20,400 Moses got a Tabernacle, according to God, giving him a 376 00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:24,120 vision. And then Paul even tells us how 377 00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:28,880 to have sons that didn't come from your own loans. 378 00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:37,000 Paul tells us in Second Timothy chapter 1 and verse #13 that 379 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:41,600 you've got to pattern yourself at the sound doctrine. 380 00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:46,440 I've got to get out of here now, but I want to let you know that 381 00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:53,480 David was helping us to realize that sometimes in our lives 382 00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:58,840 we're not just inheriting treasures, but we're inheriting 383 00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:02,400 templates. And so that leads me to my Third 384 00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:07,960 Point here, that David, after all of this time I'm sharing 385 00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:12,720 with Solomon. Solomon in front of everybody 386 00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:21,960 comes down now to verse #19 and he tells his son and everybody 387 00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:30,720 around him that all of this, the Lord, he made me to understand 388 00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:42,760 in writing by his hand upon me, even all the works of this 389 00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:48,560 pattern, that this time He makes sure we all understand. 390 00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:53,800 And the third movement of the text, that it's not just me, 391 00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:59,880 your daddy, it's not just me. Can I be real turtle father? 392 00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:05,160 But it's the Lord who's giving all of this. 393 00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:10,080 It's the Lord who's driving all of this. 394 00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:14,800 It's the Lord who who's working all of this. 395 00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:20,640 Your Bible. Shows us here right now that 396 00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:26,120 David tells us that it's the hand of the Lord that's been 397 00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:30,600 wielding here, that's been moving, that's been 398 00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:40,880 orchestrating how long this so he tells tells his son. 399 00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:45,520 That no man up. What you do? 400 00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:51,600 Yeah. When I leave here, remember that 401 00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:53,200 this didn't come from your daddy. 402 00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:57,400 Remember, this didn't come from my. 403 00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:02,200 Words, but this came. From the hand. 404 00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:06,840 Of God. Whatever you do, boy, don't move 405 00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:14,560 from the hand of God. Life may live, but say I'm done. 406 00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:20,640 The hand of God, God's hand will. 407 00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:26,440 Hold you. God's hand will guide you. 408 00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:34,120 God's hand will govern over you. It's the hand of God. 409 00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:42,680 That will conceal you, he says. Boy, don't forget that God's 410 00:33:42,680 --> 00:33:49,960 hand, it communicates, communicates clarity that God's 411 00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:57,200 hand will give you a pattern, a pattern and that pattern will 412 00:33:57,200 --> 00:34:00,040 come. They'll come in writing. 413 00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:04,440 He come on back to the text. He said all of this. 414 00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:13,600 The Lord made me to understand in writing by His. 415 00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:20,440 Hand up on me, he says. I need you to know that God's 416 00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:23,040 hand. Confirms your. 417 00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:28,080 Calling God's hand will be on. You to. 418 00:34:29,159 --> 00:34:35,800 Give the direction even when nobody understands. 419 00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:44,120 God's hand will be right there to catch the words when you 420 00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:49,639 don't know how to say it. God's hand. 421 00:34:50,400 --> 00:35:00,000 But be right there to come this way on your head, boy. 422 00:35:02,240 --> 00:35:07,720 Lay on the his head, stay on the his head, 'cause when you stay 423 00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:10,840 on this head, first you on this head. 424 00:35:11,720 --> 00:35:19,840 Do this for real and be strong. Be a good carrot and do it. 425 00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:24,320 Help me close half. Out two people. 426 00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:30,080 And say do it, do it. I said half out, two people. 427 00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:38,400 Do it, do it, do it, Do it, do it. 428 00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:41,800 It's your time. Do it. 429 00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:45,440 It's your season. Do it. 430 00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:49,040 It's your moment. Do it. 431 00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:52,400 Don't worry. Do it. 432 00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:55,920 Don't friend. Do it. 433 00:35:56,960 --> 00:35:59,520 Be strong. Do it. 434 00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:05,440 Cause courage is the companion of calling. 435 00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:09,000 Do it. No more fear. 436 00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:13,120 Do it. No more fear. 437 00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:17,120 Do it. Might not be the favorite. 438 00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:20,680 Do it. It might not have should have 439 00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:25,080 been you do it. You might still feel like you 440 00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:28,920 can't do it. Sew it. 441 00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:34,920 Sew it. Cause the Lord's hand is sand. 442 00:36:59,460 --> 00:37:03,760 Sand is on you. You got to do it. 443 00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:07,760 You got to start. The business you. 444 00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:43,720 Got to do Hallelujah. He said don't forget God's hand 445 00:37:43,720 --> 00:37:50,040 is on you. He said go do it, look at the 446 00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:55,000 text. So he tells them, fear not nor 447 00:37:55,000 --> 00:38:03,440 be dismayed, for the Lord God, even my God, He will be with 448 00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:10,200 you. He will not fail you nor forsake 449 00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:17,760 you until that has finished. All the work. 450 00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:30,080 Glory to God for the service of the House of the Lord, he says. 451 00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:34,600 He says you got to do it. You got to do it. 452 00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:43,360 You got to do it because this faith that God's given me, it 453 00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:47,880 requires follow through. And you've been assigned to 454 00:38:49,240 --> 00:38:57,440 follow the man, the plan, and the hand. 455 00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:02,440 You may not know Jesus and the free partner of yourself. 456 00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:07,600 I invite you today to get to know for yourself. 457 00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:17,440 I know I said this every week but I'm like I'm for real. 458 00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:23,880 No, no, no jokes, no gimmicks. You do realize that Solomon was 459 00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:34,080 not the oldest son? You do realize that Solomon is 460 00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:45,600 one of about nineteen sons. Solomon ain't even of them. 461 00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:47,640 He ain't even buy the first wife. 462 00:39:52,520 --> 00:40:00,120 Solomon came from a situation that went wrong and he not the 463 00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:02,640 first child out of that situation ship. 464 00:40:06,040 --> 00:40:13,960 He's the second child. Solomon has so many complexities 465 00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:18,880 to his upbringing that he's not perfect. 466 00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:29,440 He's not the ideal candidate. He, he, he doesn't have all the 467 00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:34,360 dots I hate on the I. He don't have all the crosses on 468 00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:41,040 the T's or if you want to say the T's crossing the the i's 469 00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:42,200 dotted. No, no, no, no. 470 00:40:42,520 --> 00:40:44,760 He's not nuanced. Like all of that. 471 00:40:46,920 --> 00:40:50,200 Solomon comes from sticky situations. 472 00:40:54,520 --> 00:40:57,680 The Bible even tells us that Simon wasn't even David's 473 00:40:57,680 --> 00:41:03,640 favorite son. His favorite turned on him. 474 00:41:04,720 --> 00:41:11,320 His favorite was Absalom. But he says, boy, you the one, 475 00:41:13,960 --> 00:41:18,160 Boy, you the one. That's what the Lord is saying 476 00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:19,120 today. You the one. 477 00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:21,520 I know, I know you like your weed. 478 00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:25,560 You the one I I know you like to drink and you like to party. 479 00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:30,840 You the one I I, I know you can't stop eating, you can't put 480 00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:34,880 the food. I know you the one I know you 481 00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:39,200 struggle with time management and with them finances and and 482 00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:40,600 all that. But you, you the 1. 483 00:41:40,720 --> 00:41:45,120 You the 1. Solomon's name means peace. 484 00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:49,680 That's why we got to be careful what we name our babies because 485 00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:54,440 we'll prophecy over their entire lives and not even know it. 486 00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:58,960 That the child that was supposed to bring peace to a mother's 487 00:41:59,960 --> 00:42:02,320 wild situation, you do know his mother's Bathsheba. 488 00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:11,800 God uses peace Solomon for the next place, the next level, the 489 00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:14,560 next era. That's what God's saying today. 490 00:42:14,560 --> 00:42:19,600 God said I'm going to use you. I, I, I want you to get out, get 491 00:42:19,600 --> 00:42:23,800 out your head because you and your own self can't can't do it. 492 00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:27,440 You can't save yourself. You can't fix yourself. 493 00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:30,520 Get get out of that. He says, I want you. 494 00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:34,720 I want you. Listen, this may be the first 495 00:42:34,720 --> 00:42:37,040 time you've ever heard this invitation. 496 00:42:38,480 --> 00:42:42,680 This might be the 272nd time. I'm going to tell you something 497 00:42:42,680 --> 00:42:47,560 that's so true. It doesn't matter what you think 498 00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:49,600 about somebody preaching up here. 499 00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:52,240 I move my tongue. What you think about somebody 500 00:42:52,240 --> 00:42:57,400 with these collars on or these particular titles and seats, We 501 00:42:57,440 --> 00:43:03,720 all mess up. They may not want to tell the 502 00:43:03,720 --> 00:43:09,080 truth, but we all slip up now. OK, I'm sorry. 503 00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:13,760 We all sometimes purposely, hazardously mess up. 504 00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:20,880 The Bible says if you say you have no sin, you deceive 505 00:43:20,880 --> 00:43:30,560 yourself and you're a liar. We lie to don't think for any 506 00:43:30,560 --> 00:43:33,600 second. Now you know, I just did this. 507 00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:35,320 I just did that. I just lied on my income tax. 508 00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:36,760 I just no, no, no, don't worry about that. 509 00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:40,280 God's going to cover all that. I need the blood, and He's going 510 00:43:40,280 --> 00:43:42,360 to send His Spirit to start working on you. 511 00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:46,560 As long as you submit, He's going to start changing you, but 512 00:43:46,560 --> 00:43:48,360 He's going to change you from your mind. 513 00:43:49,560 --> 00:43:52,040 That's what God wants. He wants to save your mind. 514 00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:54,560 So we prayed this short prayer after us today. 515 00:43:54,560 --> 00:43:58,120 We're going to do it together to show you that we're one family. 516 00:43:58,720 --> 00:44:02,360 Repeat after me. Lord Jesus, come into my heart. 517 00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:06,160 Save me. I want to be saved. 518 00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:12,120 Lord Jesus, thank you for dying on the cross for me. 519 00:44:13,560 --> 00:44:18,680 Lord Jesus, thank you for rising out of the grave for me. 520 00:44:20,600 --> 00:44:25,320 Lord Jesus, thank you for soon coming again for me. 521 00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:31,280 In Jesus name, Amen. Come on, put those hands 522 00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:34,160 together, let's celebrate. Hallelujah. 523 00:44:34,160 --> 00:44:37,480 Someone just received Jesus into the heart. 524 00:44:37,480 --> 00:44:39,360 Hallelujah. Thank you for tuning in to the 525 00:44:39,360 --> 00:44:41,680 Rock Hill Baptist Church 2 Podcast. 526 00:44:42,480 --> 00:44:45,400 We pray today's message planted something in your spirit and 527 00:44:45,400 --> 00:44:48,880 gave you the strength to keep growing here at the Rock Hill 528 00:44:48,880 --> 00:44:52,000 Baptist Church 2. We're a growing church and 529 00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:55,480 growth starts with one step. 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