1 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:07,560 Go to the scripture of Second Samuel 19. 2 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:15,640 I know it's been mentioned more than once, but this is Pentecost 3 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:25,480 Sunday. But, and that's true, but in my 4 00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:28,120 ministry world today, it's Mephibosheth Sunday. 5 00:00:29,320 --> 00:00:32,280 All right, Second Samuel, chapter 19. 6 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:37,000 Some of you that don't even know who Mephibosheth is, is saying, 7 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:38,480 what in the world is he talking about? 8 00:00:41,680 --> 00:00:46,040 So you read the book of Second Samuel, you'll get a good, a 9 00:00:46,040 --> 00:00:50,880 good taste for it. Second Samuel 19 and I'm going 10 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:53,120 to read a few verses of Scripture tonight. 11 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:56,280 I know a lot of times we just give you a little snippet, but 12 00:00:56,280 --> 00:01:01,280 I'm going to read a few verses this evening if that is OK. 13 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:03,480 If it's not, I'm still going to do it. 14 00:01:04,440 --> 00:01:06,640 And the Bible says some verse 24. 15 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:12,280 And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king, had 16 00:01:12,280 --> 00:01:16,880 neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed 17 00:01:16,880 --> 00:01:21,920 his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he 18 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:26,560 came again in peace. It came to pass when he was come 19 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:30,800 to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king said unto him, 20 00:01:30,800 --> 00:01:35,800 Wherefore went this not thou with me, Mephibosheth? 21 00:01:36,760 --> 00:01:41,000 And he answered, My Lord, O king, my servant deceived me. 22 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:45,400 For thy servant said, I will saddle me in the ass, and I may 23 00:01:45,960 --> 00:01:49,560 that I may ride there on and go to the king, because thy servant 24 00:01:49,560 --> 00:01:55,080 is lame, he saith, and he hath rather slandered thy servant 25 00:01:55,080 --> 00:02:00,120 unto my Lord the King. But my Lord the King is as an 26 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:03,960 Angel of God. Do therefore what is good in 27 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:07,280 thine eyes. For all of my father's house 28 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:10,759 were but dead men before my Lord the King. 29 00:02:10,759 --> 00:02:15,640 Yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at thine 30 00:02:15,640 --> 00:02:19,240 own table? What right therefore have I yet 31 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:24,200 to cry anymore into the king? The king said unto him, Why 32 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:26,520 speakest thou anymore of thy matter? 33 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:30,920 I have said, Thou and Ziba divide the land. 34 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:37,680 And Mephibosheth said unto the king, Yeah, let him take all, 35 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:42,480 for as much as my Lord the king has come again in peace unto his 36 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:47,360 own house. We'll look at it tonight. 37 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:53,240 But whenever Mid FIBA chef was once introduced to the King's 38 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:56,640 table, there was some things given back to him of the House 39 00:02:56,640 --> 00:03:03,280 of Saul land to a great degree. We see that land transfer from 40 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:07,000 Mephibosheth's hands to Ziba hands and now it being split 41 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:09,280 almost like a compromise between both. 42 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:14,240 And so I want to minister just a little while on this tonight. 43 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:25,240 The King's return is enough. The King's return is enough. 44 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:28,600 Let's ask the Lord to help us the next little while. 45 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:32,120 Father, I need you got to thank you, Lord, for your people that 46 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:35,120 have been diligent all this week and faithful Lord, to your 47 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:40,000 house, God to come and worship and sing and Lord be 48 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:42,720 participants, the Lord in the ministry of the word. 49 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:45,400 I pray God, you'd strengthen their minds, their hearts, their 50 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:47,960 bodies. Pray God for your anointing. 51 00:03:47,960 --> 00:03:51,760 God upon my lips of clay tonight, God, touch me one more 52 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:53,440 time. Touch my voice, the Lord 53 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:57,320 tonight, God, as I the Lord share this word, Lord, with your 54 00:03:57,320 --> 00:03:59,280 people. God will thank you and will 55 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:02,120 praise you, Lord, for what you accomplished in this place. 56 00:04:02,560 --> 00:04:06,880 In the name of Jesus Christ that I pray, Amen and Amen. 57 00:04:06,880 --> 00:04:09,120 And you may be seated tonight in Jesus name. 58 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:18,519 In order to appreciate Mephibosheth's interaction with 59 00:04:18,519 --> 00:04:23,640 King David at this particular juncture in the story, it's 60 00:04:23,640 --> 00:04:27,320 important to understand Mephibosheth's back story to 61 00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:32,840 appreciate this. When David initially sought out 62 00:04:33,280 --> 00:04:38,440 Mephibosheth, he was, in essence, royalty that was living 63 00:04:38,440 --> 00:04:44,360 beneath his privileges. Mephibosheth lived like a broken 64 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:47,920 fugitive in a place called Lodobar. 65 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:54,760 No land, no legacy he had. He was a mirror, and I say this 66 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:59,320 respectfully, but he was a mere cripple that was just scraping 67 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:05,120 out his existence amid bareness, believing that he deserved 68 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:10,000 nothing better. A few moments though, in David's 69 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:14,840 presence changed everything for Mephibosheth's life. 70 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:20,240 In addition to getting a place at the King's table, David said 71 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:27,720 I will restore the all the land of Saul, thy father, which was 72 00:05:27,720 --> 00:05:33,920 in reality his grandfather. He got a restoration of 73 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:37,320 inheritance, not just a seat at the table. 74 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:43,800 Everything that his lineage had lost, the king restored. 75 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:46,960 As a matter of fact, I think it can be the reality of every 76 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:51,280 modern day individual that's been crippled by a fall. 77 00:05:51,280 --> 00:05:55,920 Even today, some of us have family trees that are littered 78 00:05:55,920 --> 00:06:01,600 with failure and with addiction and with trauma, and that has 79 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:06,760 left us, some of us, bewildered and on the backside of nowhere. 80 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:10,320 Similar to Mephibosheth. We don't believe we deserve 81 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:15,840 anything better because we've been handed a subpar legacy by 82 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:20,480 our forefathers and all those that went before us. 83 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:24,480 And we deem ourselves in, in a sense, as cripples. 84 00:06:24,880 --> 00:06:28,920 No shape to approach the King, but I think it's important 85 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:34,440 tonight to understand that the King is seeking you out. 86 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:40,440 Someone say, mean a little time spent in his presence can change 87 00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:45,680 your location, change your status, change your future. 88 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:49,960 In essence, what sin took, grace can restore. 89 00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:55,160 Amen. Because grace has the ability of 90 00:06:55,160 --> 00:07:00,440 not just forgiving us of our past, but it also can restore to 91 00:07:00,640 --> 00:07:03,600 us what we had forfeited in our past. 92 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:07,160 The apostle Peter was a great spokesperson in the New 93 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:12,000 Testament for Jesus Christ. He was notably a leader among 94 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:16,240 the other. 12 He was tenacious in his spirit. 95 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:20,600 But after everything that took place at Gethsemane and the 96 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:25,440 activity that took place there. The Bible describes the apostle 97 00:07:25,440 --> 00:07:31,480 Peter as following Jesus from a distance or from afar, and it is 98 00:07:31,520 --> 00:07:35,760 recorded in Scripture that he denies that he has any 99 00:07:35,760 --> 00:07:40,520 association with the Lord three times, whether he's himself by a 100 00:07:40,520 --> 00:07:44,280 fire, whether someone interjects something and says, aren't you 101 00:07:44,280 --> 00:07:47,960 one of those Galileans? He denies his association with 102 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:51,320 the Lord of three times. He was forfeiting, if you will, 103 00:07:51,520 --> 00:07:54,040 what he felt like was his calling. 104 00:07:54,320 --> 00:07:58,240 But after the resurrection, Jesus shows up on the scene 105 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:02,440 within the life of the Apostle Peter and he not only forgives 106 00:08:02,440 --> 00:08:06,560 him but reinstates him with this command. 107 00:08:06,560 --> 00:08:10,960 Feed my sheep. What he had lost, he is now 108 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:13,640 regaining. We read in the Old Testament 109 00:08:13,640 --> 00:08:18,880 that Naomi is trusting her husband and leaves a famine 110 00:08:18,880 --> 00:08:24,440 stricken Bethlehem Judah for a 10 year stint of time. 111 00:08:24,640 --> 00:08:29,880 While there she loses her husband, she loses her two boys. 112 00:08:30,120 --> 00:08:34,840 She says that whenever she left her home that she left full, but 113 00:08:34,840 --> 00:08:39,280 when she returns back there, she's returning home empty. 114 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:45,160 Moab has taken much from her, more than just persons, but a 115 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:50,400 zeal, Amen, a zeal, Amen and a legacy that she once had. 116 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:53,880 She wants the natives as she's returning to Bethlehem, Judah, 117 00:08:53,880 --> 00:08:56,040 She says, don't call me Naomi anymore. 118 00:08:56,360 --> 00:09:01,280 Call me Mara because I'm bitter. I I feel like I've been dealt 119 00:09:01,280 --> 00:09:04,040 with bitterly. So call me Mara. 120 00:09:04,280 --> 00:09:08,640 But by the end of the book of Ruth, the Bible tells us clearly 121 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:14,520 that grace had given Naomi a grandson and a rich legacy 122 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:17,680 through Ruth that led all the way to Jesus Christ. 123 00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:23,560 Grace can restore what we lost Samson in his lifetime of the 124 00:09:23,560 --> 00:09:27,520 book of Judges. He betrayed A Nazarite vow that 125 00:09:27,520 --> 00:09:30,880 was a on his life. And as a result of that, he's 126 00:09:30,880 --> 00:09:36,520 blinded, he's imprisoned, he's made a mockery of among his 127 00:09:36,640 --> 00:09:39,720 enemies. But in his final moments, the 128 00:09:39,720 --> 00:09:45,080 Bible says, as his hair begins to grow back, he's standing 129 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:48,360 there and he's crying out to God and praying. 130 00:09:48,360 --> 00:09:53,160 God, give me strength one more time. 131 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:58,680 And God grants it in so much that the Bible says the dead 132 00:09:58,680 --> 00:10:03,880 which he slew at his death were more than which he slew in his 133 00:10:03,880 --> 00:10:06,760 life. Can I tell you that with God, 134 00:10:06,760 --> 00:10:11,400 He's a restorative God, and your last chapter can be stronger 135 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:14,680 than your failure even in weakness. 136 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:21,880 Grace gave Samson one more victory in addition to the 137 00:10:21,880 --> 00:10:23,960 restoration. We're looking at Mephibosheth 138 00:10:23,960 --> 00:10:26,800 here this evening. He not only got the land that 139 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:30,280 was restored, but the Bible tells us that Mephibosheth 140 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:32,480 received provision. Amen. 141 00:10:32,480 --> 00:10:35,600 Without having to labor for it himself. 142 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:42,240 The Bible says that David set up Saul's servant Ziba and his sons 143 00:10:42,480 --> 00:10:46,600 and the people that were committed under his care to till 144 00:10:46,600 --> 00:10:51,680 the land for Mephibosheth to bring in the fruits for 145 00:10:51,680 --> 00:10:54,520 Mephibosheth. Mephibosheth is a cripple. 146 00:10:54,720 --> 00:10:59,040 He's lame in his feet. He could not work the land even 147 00:10:59,040 --> 00:11:02,800 if he wanted to. But grace allowed him to reap 148 00:11:02,800 --> 00:11:07,320 where he didn't even sow Amen. They bowed over their backs. 149 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:10,400 Amen. Ziba and his fifteen sons and 150 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:14,840 his 20 servants, ensuring that there would be a harvest that 151 00:11:14,840 --> 00:11:17,320 would continue to flow for Mephibosheth. 152 00:11:17,600 --> 00:11:21,520 And so God was providing grace, even through others, for 153 00:11:21,520 --> 00:11:23,960 Mephibosheth. Mephibosheth was one of the 154 00:11:23,960 --> 00:11:26,320 King's grandsons. Amen. 155 00:11:26,320 --> 00:11:33,480 But David has him eating at his table as one of the King's sons. 156 00:11:33,840 --> 00:11:38,000 Mephibosheth is the Old Testament rags to riches story. 157 00:11:38,240 --> 00:11:41,720 He went from nothing to something from nowhere to 158 00:11:41,720 --> 00:11:46,040 somewhere from an outcast as it were, to royalty again. 159 00:11:46,320 --> 00:11:51,960 Grace adopted him back in the family, so much so that the 160 00:11:51,960 --> 00:11:57,200 Bible says in Second Samuel 913. So Mephibosheth dewelt in 161 00:11:57,200 --> 00:12:00,600 Jerusalem. For he did eat continually at 162 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:06,000 the King's table and was laying on both his feet. 163 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:09,520 Please note this was a A1 off with a meal. 164 00:12:09,520 --> 00:12:12,760 This wasn't a one time invitation, but he continually 165 00:12:12,760 --> 00:12:16,080 went to the King's table. Hey man, he ate there 166 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:19,040 continually. And almost as a side note at the 167 00:12:19,080 --> 00:12:23,480 end of the sentence as and he was laying on both his feet. 168 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:26,680 Now that last phrase is important and it's a great 169 00:12:26,680 --> 00:12:29,920 preaching point that most preachers preach all the time as 170 00:12:29,920 --> 00:12:33,640 you see as a highlight. And that is different from the 171 00:12:33,640 --> 00:12:36,360 New Testament where they would lay down and their feet would be 172 00:12:36,360 --> 00:12:40,600 sticking out away from the table during the time of the kings. 173 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:45,080 And even in Hebrew culture they had low setting tables and OFT 174 00:12:45,080 --> 00:12:47,360 times their feet were found underneath. 175 00:12:47,360 --> 00:12:52,480 Just as we would sit at a table today, so Mephibosheth lameness 176 00:12:52,640 --> 00:12:56,640 is covered by the table. Amen that he's been invited to. 177 00:12:56,840 --> 00:12:59,880 I think it's important tonight to understand that his 178 00:12:59,880 --> 00:13:03,680 brokenness didn't get fixed, but it did get covered. 179 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:11,080 All of these perks that he's getting at the hand of David the 180 00:13:11,080 --> 00:13:13,360 king. He's been loaded down with 181 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:17,240 benefits, land restored, eating at the table of the king. 182 00:13:17,640 --> 00:13:22,360 Amen has Amen, the very thing that he might be conscious of 183 00:13:22,360 --> 00:13:24,400 and feel a little indifferent about. 184 00:13:24,680 --> 00:13:28,480 Amen under the table of the king because he's accepted the 185 00:13:28,480 --> 00:13:32,560 invitation of the king. If he had a list of check boxes, 186 00:13:32,800 --> 00:13:36,360 all of them are being toggled. All of them are being checked 187 00:13:36,360 --> 00:13:38,000 off. He's a blessed man. 188 00:13:38,160 --> 00:13:42,080 Look at all of the perks of Mephibosheth. 189 00:13:43,760 --> 00:13:49,040 That's why, in our text, David is confused. 190 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:57,160 That's why whenever David's own son Absalom is seeking to have 191 00:13:57,160 --> 00:14:03,080 his throne, seeking to usurp his father's authority, and David 192 00:14:03,080 --> 00:14:08,240 left Jerusalem, there's all sorts of people that's coming 193 00:14:08,240 --> 00:14:13,480 alongside David as he's leaving, some leaving with him, some at 194 00:14:13,480 --> 00:14:17,000 least taking him to the the brink of the Jordan. 195 00:14:18,760 --> 00:14:22,840 And now David Mephibosheth, I restored his land. 196 00:14:23,320 --> 00:14:27,080 I gave him a seat at the table. I brought him from nowhere to 197 00:14:27,080 --> 00:14:30,040 somewhere. I've done all of these wondrous 198 00:14:30,040 --> 00:14:33,320 things for Mephibosheth and when I was going through one of the 199 00:14:33,320 --> 00:14:37,320 darkest hours of my own time, he was nowhere to be found. 200 00:14:37,640 --> 00:14:40,760 He wasn't there alongside me. He didn't make the trip with me. 201 00:14:40,920 --> 00:14:45,120 Where are you, Mephibosheth? David could even begin to argue 202 00:14:45,120 --> 00:14:46,520 in his mind. Amen. 203 00:14:46,520 --> 00:14:48,760 Where anybody that would listen. He said. 204 00:14:48,760 --> 00:14:53,840 I had people that went with me, such as the man it Thai, the get 205 00:14:53,840 --> 00:14:57,040 tight who is a Philistine from God. 206 00:14:57,600 --> 00:15:01,720 The Bible says that it Thai had just newly aligned himself with 207 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:03,080 David. Did you understand he's a 208 00:15:03,080 --> 00:15:08,440 Philistine that's often an enemy of Israel, a enemy of David. 209 00:15:08,440 --> 00:15:13,280 David says I even had Itai that came alongside with me and he 210 00:15:13,280 --> 00:15:16,320 vowed his Allegiant to allegiance to me. 211 00:15:16,560 --> 00:15:20,160 And so David David even told Itai he says, hey, you don't 212 00:15:20,160 --> 00:15:21,960 need to go. You're a Philistine. 213 00:15:21,960 --> 00:15:24,040 You just even got here just yesterday. 214 00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:27,960 Why go with me? But Itai's response was this. 215 00:15:27,960 --> 00:15:33,680 In Second Samuel 1521, he said, As the Lord liveth, and as my, 216 00:15:33,680 --> 00:15:36,800 the Lord the king live, surely in what place my Lord the king 217 00:15:36,800 --> 00:15:41,680 shall be, whether in death or life, even there also will thy 218 00:15:41,680 --> 00:15:44,080 servant be. Here is Itai. 219 00:15:44,280 --> 00:15:48,520 He is a stranger. He is at most along the heap of 220 00:15:48,560 --> 00:15:51,560 enemies. That would have been against 221 00:15:51,560 --> 00:15:55,000 David. But Itai proves that loyalty 222 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:58,040 doesn't require a long history. Amen. 223 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:00,280 But we don't have a Mephibosheth. 224 00:16:05,280 --> 00:16:09,960 You must understand it. Dies presence cast a greater 225 00:16:09,960 --> 00:16:13,400 shadow on Mephibosheth's absence. 226 00:16:16,040 --> 00:16:18,200 The Bible again describes that it. 227 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:20,400 I just joined the force yesterday. 228 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:24,120 If that's to be taken literally or figuratively, I don't know. 229 00:16:25,120 --> 00:16:30,440 But Mephibosheth has been sitting at the table of the 230 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:36,400 king, reaping the benefits of his restoration, according to 231 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:46,520 Scripture, for about 25 to 30 years at this point. 232 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:52,400 So I got someone who's usually with my enemies that showed up 233 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:57,040 yesterday that's willing to make the trip with me and I got a 234 00:16:57,040 --> 00:16:59,000 boy. I've showed every bed of 235 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:04,280 kindness I could show to and have for 25 to 30 years and he's 236 00:17:04,280 --> 00:17:14,359 nowhere to be found. The Bible even says just give me 237 00:17:14,359 --> 00:17:19,119 a moment here tonight. The Bible even says the show by 238 00:17:19,640 --> 00:17:25,599 and Makir, and let me just Shobi is an Ammonite Makkir. 239 00:17:25,640 --> 00:17:29,440 That should sound familiar because whenever David as Zyba, 240 00:17:29,680 --> 00:17:32,240 is there anybody left I can show kindness to? 241 00:17:32,720 --> 00:17:36,680 He said, yeah, there's one in the House of Makkir, the son of 242 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:40,440 Amiel in Lodibar. In other words, this is the same 243 00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:44,920 man who previously sheltered Mephibosheth and he made the 244 00:17:44,920 --> 00:17:50,280 trip and he said there's Barzilai, who, if you read 245 00:17:50,280 --> 00:17:54,600 Scripture, was a very, very elderly man, a elderly 246 00:17:54,600 --> 00:17:58,840 Gileadite. And now all of these three, an 247 00:17:58,840 --> 00:18:03,160 Ammonite, mind you, again, which is historically an enemy of 248 00:18:03,160 --> 00:18:06,720 Israel, shows up. A man who housed Mephibosheth 249 00:18:06,720 --> 00:18:09,760 shows up, and now an elderly man shows up. 250 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:13,560 They're bringing beds, they're bringing food, they're bringing 251 00:18:13,560 --> 00:18:18,160 supplies across the Jordan. But no Mephibosheth Bishop. 252 00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:29,480 And so, in Second Samuel 1926, when Mephibosheth finally 253 00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:34,640 appears before King David, after Absalom has already started his 254 00:18:34,640 --> 00:18:38,760 rebellion, the Bible describes Mephibosheth. 255 00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:43,560 His appearance is unkempt. No, no, no trimming of the 256 00:18:43,560 --> 00:18:49,400 beard, no washing of his clothes indicating a clear picture of a 257 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:53,480 man that's in mourning because the king hasn't been around. 258 00:18:56,440 --> 00:19:01,680 And David begins to question him about why didn't you come alone? 259 00:19:02,440 --> 00:19:05,960 Why when it when, when individuals of enemy forces 260 00:19:05,960 --> 00:19:07,600 showed up, why didn't you show up? 261 00:19:08,320 --> 00:19:11,080 When, when, when you've been sitting at the table for 25 and 262 00:19:11,080 --> 00:19:14,520 30 years and I've lavished everything I've known up on you, 263 00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:17,400 You didn't show up. He's he's, he's questioning him 264 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:20,600 about all of this. And what pours out of 265 00:19:20,600 --> 00:19:25,080 Mephibosheth, Mind you, it's not just an explanation, but it's 266 00:19:25,120 --> 00:19:28,760 really the glimpse into a wounded heart that was still 267 00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:33,080 loyal. Mephibosheth essentially says, 268 00:19:33,080 --> 00:19:36,920 David, I know what you're saying, and I understand a 269 00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:39,840 little bit where you're coming from, but I'm still living in 270 00:19:39,840 --> 00:19:44,360 the shadow of something that happened long ago in my past. 271 00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:48,440 I'm lame. And David, I wanted to go with 272 00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:51,640 you, but my own weakness held me back. 273 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:56,480 And the one that I trusted to help Cyber, that servant, the 274 00:19:56,480 --> 00:20:00,480 one that I trusted to help, he left me without taking me. 275 00:20:00,680 --> 00:20:04,320 He didn't saddle a donkey on me. He didn't lift me up on that. 276 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:09,360 Don't don't get me wrong David, I'm not making excuses, I'm just 277 00:20:09,360 --> 00:20:13,960 letting you know I've longed for you the whole time you've been 278 00:20:13,960 --> 00:20:19,120 gone and my heart wanted to go where my crippled feet just 279 00:20:19,120 --> 00:20:30,160 could not carry me. Because the deception of Ziba is 280 00:20:30,160 --> 00:20:35,120 real. Imagine being in Zyba shoes. 281 00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:43,720 Imagine the resentment that could have built up over 25 to 282 00:20:43,720 --> 00:20:49,920 30 years as he and his sons and his servants has formed 283 00:20:49,960 --> 00:20:56,480 Mephibosheth's land for him, brought in the goods and the 284 00:20:56,480 --> 00:21:01,400 harvest for him, that old cripple. 285 00:21:03,120 --> 00:21:07,000 Someone say man. For that matter, whenever David 286 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:09,160 initially asked, is there any sons of Saul? 287 00:21:09,760 --> 00:21:12,800 You know, again, you can go back to Second Samuel 9 and verse 3 288 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:18,440 where that question is asked. Ziba says yes, but he didn't 289 00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:20,320 leave it as though, yeah, there's still a son left. 290 00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:27,480 He had to throw something else in, he said, but he's lame, as 291 00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:31,920 though his lameness to disqualify him from David's 292 00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:36,560 kindness. Cyber even takes it up a notch. 293 00:21:37,160 --> 00:21:41,320 He wants it to make it look like in the eyes of David, that 294 00:21:41,320 --> 00:21:47,040 Mephibosheth is disloyal and Mephibosheth is unthankful. 295 00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:50,840 Let me read some more scripture. Second Samuel 16, verse one. 296 00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:55,520 This is the deception of Ziba as David is leaving Jerusalem. 297 00:21:55,800 --> 00:21:58,000 He's he's topping the Mount of Olives. 298 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:00,880 He's going to cross the Jordan because of the rebellion of his 299 00:22:00,880 --> 00:22:03,000 son. And the Bible says, And when 300 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:06,880 David was a little past the top of the hill, behold, Zibah, the 301 00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:11,880 servant of Mephibosheth, met him with a couple asses saddled and 302 00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:17,480 up on them 200 loaves of bread and 100 bunches of raisins, and 303 00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:20,720 100 of summer fruits, and a bottle of wine. 304 00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:24,520 And the king said, And the Zibah, what meanest thou by 305 00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:27,400 these? And Zibah said, the asses be for 306 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:29,320 the King's household. Look at this, look, look at 307 00:22:29,320 --> 00:22:31,160 everything that I've done for you, king. 308 00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:34,480 I showed up, Mephibosheth. But look at everything I've done 309 00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:38,360 for you, the asses before the King's household to ride on the 310 00:22:38,360 --> 00:22:41,640 bread and the summer fruit for the young men to eat, and the 311 00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:45,040 wine that such as be faint in the wilderness may drink it. 312 00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:47,000 Because I know you're going to crossover, Jordan, you're going 313 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:48,400 to enter the wilderness, you're going to need this. 314 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:53,120 I've thought ahead and verse 3 And the king said, and where is 315 00:22:53,120 --> 00:22:56,640 thy master, son? He's referring to Mephibosheth. 316 00:22:56,880 --> 00:23:02,280 And Zybush said unto the king, Behold, he abideth at Jerusalem. 317 00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:10,400 For he said, Today shall the House of Israel restore me the 318 00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:17,720 Kingdom of my father? Ziba is trying to make it seem 319 00:23:18,440 --> 00:23:23,320 that Mephibosheth is more interested in the Kingdom than 320 00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:30,080 he is the king. He covers Mephibosheth in such a 321 00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:34,720 way that all the restoration that David is given, all the 322 00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:38,840 land that he has restored, the status that he's placed upon his 323 00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:41,960 life, all the kindness that he has shown, he's covering 324 00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:45,480 Mephibosheth in such a way that David, everything that you've 325 00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:52,920 done isn't good enough. Verse 4 says, then said the king 326 00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:58,880 to Ziba, behold thine are all that pertained unto 327 00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:00,080 Mephibosheth. Look at this. 328 00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:03,160 Now what happened, Fred? Mephibosheth had it whenever he 329 00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:06,320 came, but now he's saying, as a result of all this, I'm 330 00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:10,240 transferring what was his and I'm giving it to you, Ziba. 331 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:13,960 And Ziba said, I humbly beseech thee that I might find grace in 332 00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:17,520 thy sight, my Lord, O king. So here is David. 333 00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:20,520 He's taken everything that was Mephibosheth and he's 334 00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:25,360 transferring it over to Ziba. It was Mephibosheth, but now it 335 00:24:25,360 --> 00:24:28,000 is Ziba's. And Ziba's probably thinking in 336 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:31,280 the back of his mind, success. I did it. 337 00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:34,360 It should have belonged to me. For the past 25 years, I'm the 338 00:24:34,360 --> 00:24:37,360 one that deals the land. I'm the one that works the land. 339 00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:39,080 I'm the one that plants the seed. 340 00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:42,720 I'm the one with the long hours harvesting the land for years, 341 00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:48,960 everybody doing all right. Do you understand the scope of 342 00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:54,400 this land? The land in question, the Bible 343 00:24:54,400 --> 00:25:01,000 says was all the land of Saul likely held. 344 00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:07,640 Royal lands that was for agriculture, royal lands for 345 00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:09,920 provision. Because this was customary for 346 00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:14,040 ancient kings. He had family lands that he 347 00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:17,360 inherited through others that were part of the tribe of 348 00:25:17,360 --> 00:25:19,760 Benjamin because it would never leave the tribe. 349 00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:23,720 It would stay with the tribe. He had strategic property, no 350 00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:28,960 doubt around about Gibeah, which was his hometown and his seat of 351 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:31,240 of rule. There's a possibility through 352 00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:34,800 the wars and the battles that he thought that he had even 353 00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:39,960 confiscated some lands and tributes that he ruled. 354 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:47,680 And now we know that all of this belongs to Ziba. 355 00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:52,560 We know it was enough land that it supported Mephibosheth, Ziba, 356 00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:55,680 his fifteen sons, and his 20 servants. 357 00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:59,200 I'm talking about multiple fields, multiple vineyards, 358 00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:02,520 multiple if you will, possibly even livestock. 359 00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:07,720 And now it's all given to Ziba. Someone say man. 360 00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:16,600 So as Mephibosheth informs David, he tells him, David, I've 361 00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:22,240 been slandered. I've been slandered by Ziba. 362 00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:27,080 I know you've heard his story. I'm just telling you I've been 363 00:26:27,080 --> 00:26:31,440 slandered by Ziba and David. Here's what I got to say. 364 00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:34,920 You're like the Angel of the Lord, he says. 365 00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:38,200 You just do whatever you believe is right. 366 00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:43,360 You just do whatever you believe is honorable because I 367 00:26:43,360 --> 00:26:47,480 understand my position, David. I understand. 368 00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:50,760 I don't have a leg to stand on. I I don't have any right to 369 00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:54,640 complain. When you found me, I was in Loda 370 00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:58,000 Bar. I don't have no right to lift up 371 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:01,880 my voice in in contesting. Hey man, this switching, if you 372 00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:04,840 will, of lands. When you found me, I was in a 373 00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:08,240 barren, desolate place. Just a cripple eking out my 374 00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:11,440 life. I have not a leg to stand on. 375 00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:14,880 I was a nobody from nowhere. And you gave me a chance. 376 00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:19,080 So. So you just do what's right in 377 00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:24,160 your sight, David. And so David, Amen. 378 00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:26,920 David, it's summertime or almost Amen. 379 00:27:27,120 --> 00:27:31,920 David tries then to resolve the issue, and he proposes them a 380 00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:34,440 little split. He says, I tell you what we'll 381 00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:36,680 do. We'll give all of the lamb that 382 00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:40,000 was Mephibosheth, that became all the lamb that became Zibas, 383 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:43,240 that used to be King Saul's. We'll now just split it right 384 00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:45,600 down the middle. And we'll give half to 385 00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:48,360 Mephibosheth and we'll give half to Ziba. 386 00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:52,480 And that will be good half for one and the other half for the 387 00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:53,920 other. I'll just make a little 388 00:27:53,920 --> 00:28:00,280 compromise gesture here between them and but the Bible says in 389 00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:08,280 verse thirty of our text and Mephibosheth said unto the king, 390 00:28:10,120 --> 00:28:21,120 yay, let him Speaking of cyber, let him take all for as much as 391 00:28:21,120 --> 00:28:28,280 my Lord the King is come again in peace unto his own house. 392 00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:34,320 You know what Mephibosheth is saying, His heart is right where 393 00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:38,640 his heart needs to be. Mephibosheth is telling David, I 394 00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:41,480 don't care about the property. I don't care about the 395 00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:43,840 restoration of everything that was my dad's. 396 00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:47,720 I don't care that I I partook of some of that over the past 25 397 00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:51,080 years and 30 years. I don't care about all the perks 398 00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:53,680 that came to me. I don't care about all of the 399 00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:56,520 things that you're giving and all the kindnesses, he says. 400 00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:58,400 There's only one thing I'm concerned about. 401 00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:03,160 It's not riches, it's not lands, it's not blessings, it's not 402 00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:05,600 gift. But as long as I know the king 403 00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:11,520 is back, as long as I, he says all of the gifts and the riches 404 00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:15,440 and the kindness pales in comparison to having the king. 405 00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:19,280 Because the gift came from the king, the restoration of the 406 00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:23,080 land came from the king, the kindness came from the king. 407 00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:28,600 I could have all of that and not have the king and never have 408 00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:31,440 another thing. But if I got the king, I have 409 00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:34,520 access to riches. If I got the king I have. 410 00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:47,240 I don't care about the land. I don't care about how many 411 00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:51,600 bushels it produces. I realized, David, I was a dead 412 00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:54,480 man without the king when you found me. 413 00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:58,400 And I understand that the King's table is worth more than all of 414 00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:01,400 the fields and all of the fields of the world. 415 00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:06,320 I'm just glad the King's here. I'm satisfied with the King's 416 00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:14,000 presence. Sometimes we're grappling for 417 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,760 what God can do for us than the God that does it. 418 00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:27,840 Look at all the perks, yes, but look where they come from. 419 00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:37,000 Fibber Chef, he says, really, all this restoration stuff isn't 420 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:39,920 about getting things back, it's just about getting the king 421 00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:42,600 back. You can take everything, but 422 00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:46,360 just give me the king. His attitude is I'm a cripple. 423 00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:50,080 I may always be a cripple, but even if you told me that I could 424 00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:53,160 have a field and not be crippled, I'd rather be a 425 00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:55,640 cripple in the palace and still have the king. 426 00:30:55,960 --> 00:30:57,960 I'm just glad that I have his presence. 427 00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:01,880 I don't need what I've lost. I just need what I've been 428 00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:05,880 longing for, what I've been missing, the reason why I unkept 429 00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:08,160 myself. There's been a longing and a 430 00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:10,280 desire. I had the land while you was 431 00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:12,280 gone. I had the riches while you were 432 00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:14,160 gone. I know the servants while you 433 00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:17,280 gone. But what I needed was the king. 434 00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:40,040 And they'll subtract that line of blessing and that line of 435 00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:41,880 blessing and that line of blessing. 436 00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:45,320 But when all the subtraction has taken place, if the net value 437 00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:51,280 still adds up to him, if the net value still adds up to him, 438 00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:54,040 that's sufficient. But if you just based upon 439 00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:57,200 everything you can get from his hand rather than getting the one 440 00:31:57,200 --> 00:32:00,080 who owns the hand, then you got the misconception. 441 00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:03,240 You need the Lord, you need his presence. 442 00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:16,810 Nothing compares to that Bible talks about in the Old Testament 443 00:32:17,450 --> 00:32:20,770 with the allotments of lamb that was given to the tribes of 444 00:32:20,770 --> 00:32:22,890 Israel. That whenever it came to the 445 00:32:22,890 --> 00:32:27,040 Levites in particular, the Bible says that they were denied any 446 00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:32,840 allocation of land, any any physical inheritance as it were. 447 00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:36,880 Because the Lord says these words, He says I'll be your 448 00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:43,640 portion, while others are being given this portion of land and 449 00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:46,200 the boundaries being described as it often is in the Old 450 00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:49,360 Testament about that tribe, and they get in that allocation of 451 00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:51,080 land. You're not reading any of that 452 00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:54,080 for the tribe of Levi because the Lord is, suffice to say to 453 00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:58,120 them, I am your portion. They may not have got property 454 00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:01,680 per SE that they could call absolutely their own, but they 455 00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:06,080 got His presence, they got Him, they got the King of Glory. 456 00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:08,680 Honey, you don't have to outline what's coming to me. 457 00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:11,560 Just let it outline with a circle about about him. 458 00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:15,560 Just let it outline the circle about the Creator, the great 459 00:33:15,560 --> 00:33:19,000 giver, the Almighty God, the everlasting Father. 460 00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:22,560 If I could just raise my voice and sing the song, Give me 461 00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:26,400 Jesus, give me Jesus, give me Jesus Jesus. 462 00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:36,880 Jesus is hard teaching in New Testament scripture. 463 00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:43,040 The Bible describes that many of the followers left, but the 464 00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:49,080 disciples stay not because of the benefits, but because of 465 00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:51,760 Jesus. Note what the Scripture says. 466 00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:58,880 John 667 then said, Jesus and to the 12 will ye also go away? 467 00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:05,480 That tenacious Simon lifts his voice and Peter answered him. 468 00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:08,719 Lord, and the next two words are important. 469 00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:14,400 To whom it wasn't. Where should we go? 470 00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:23,719 The subject wasn't aware or what it was a whom it wasn't. 471 00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:27,880 But Lord, what about the land? It wasn't. 472 00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:31,040 Lord. What about the finances, Lord? 473 00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:35,199 What about my servants, Lord? What about my esteemed status? 474 00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:38,159 It wasn't none of that. It was the whom, and the whom 475 00:34:38,159 --> 00:34:42,159 was Christ. To whom would we go? 476 00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:49,960 But there's people making raw deals in society today. 477 00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:51,960 They're trading the whom for what? 478 00:34:52,159 --> 00:34:53,800 They're trading a whom for where. 479 00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:55,679 They're trading the whom for a promotion. 480 00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:58,200 They're trading a whom, if you will, for riches of the world. 481 00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:00,960 They're trading a whom, if you will, for notoriety in the 482 00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:02,520 world. Listen, none of that is as 483 00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:05,920 valuable as the whom, Amen. The King's return is enough. 484 00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:16,000 That's sufficient for the church, Mary said. 485 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:19,880 At Jesus's feet she chose presents over performance. 486 00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:24,240 Habakka declared. And Habakka 3 And I know we 487 00:35:24,240 --> 00:35:26,600 don't read a lot, it seems like from Habakkuk sometimes, but 488 00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:30,720 Habakkuk 317 says, he says, although the fig tree shall not 489 00:35:30,720 --> 00:35:34,000 blossom. Oh, I like this, he said. 490 00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:35,920 Neither shall fruit be in the vines. 491 00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:42,000 Labor of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no 492 00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:45,400 meat. The flock shall be cut off from 493 00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:49,000 the fold. There shall be no herd in the 494 00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:50,960 stalls. Verse 18. 495 00:35:51,160 --> 00:36:00,800 Yet I will rejoice in the Lord. I will joy in the God of my 496 00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:02,800 salvation. You know what Habakkuk is 497 00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:06,040 saying. Take the trees, take the vines, 498 00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:10,640 take me all the press, take the meat, take the flock, take the 499 00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:15,560 herbs, but give me the Lord. I find my joy in the Lord. 500 00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:35,480 A fibba chef, though he feels lost because of a passive in 501 00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:41,840 that has no no doubt prohibited him and prevented him from 502 00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:46,760 reaching David. He acknowledges in this point in 503 00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:55,120 our text that now that David has returned, he has access even 504 00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:58,640 when others like Ziba refused to help him. 505 00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:06,600 The King's return is coming back to Jerusalem, gave all of them 506 00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:11,760 access, and now he's in a measurable distance where even 507 00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:18,000 Mephibosheth can reach him. We can listen to the heart of 508 00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:21,360 Mephibosheth, he said. Just take it all, Take the 509 00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:24,600 inheritance. Just don't take my king. 510 00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:30,400 Just don't take my king. The chef, he said. 511 00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:33,680 Just take it all, take the inheritance. 512 00:37:34,280 --> 00:37:40,040 Just don't take my king. Just don't take that. 513 00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:51,080 There have been, baby, maybe you have missed moments where you 514 00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:52,880 wished you hadn't missed moments. 515 00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:55,880 There might be some that says there's been other people that 516 00:37:55,880 --> 00:37:58,720 slandered me. There's been other people lied 517 00:37:58,720 --> 00:38:00,840 on me. There's been other people that's 518 00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:03,360 passed over me. There's been other people that's 519 00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:06,400 taken what is mine. But I'm here to tell you today 520 00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:10,800 that the king is returning. He's going to return and his 521 00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:14,880 presence is already here and he's coming back for you. 522 00:38:15,240 --> 00:38:19,400 He's not far from every one of us, not far from the cripple, 523 00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:23,480 not far from the hurting, not far from the wounded, not far 524 00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:27,920 from the forgotten, not far from the confused, the whoever, the 525 00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:31,000 whatever. The king has come back for you. 526 00:38:38,260 --> 00:38:43,500 You stand with me. And is that he did not defend 527 00:38:43,500 --> 00:38:50,240 his reputation. He did not demand what was 528 00:38:50,240 --> 00:38:55,160 rightfully his. He didn't even ask for, oh, only 529 00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:56,360 half. I want it all back. 530 00:38:58,680 --> 00:39:00,200 Just wanted the king, Brother Malone. 531 00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:04,240 And when you live in a world like we Live Today that's 532 00:39:04,240 --> 00:39:08,600 obsessed with getting back what's been taken, Here's a man 533 00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:11,200 that stands diametrically different from them. 534 00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:15,640 He's just saying let them have it all. 535 00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:23,840 As long as I've got the King back in his rightful place, 536 00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:30,520 that's enough for me. And I'll tell you tonight, 537 00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:35,680 that's the heart that God honors, the one that values His 538 00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:48,280 presence over presence. I'm not, I'm not saying I'm, I'm 539 00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:52,080 not enamored sometime by God's blessing and His goodness and 540 00:39:52,080 --> 00:40:03,360 kindness, but I am saying this. If it's that or him, I'll lay 541 00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:08,320 down my claim to the field. I'll try to erase the slander 542 00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:13,640 from my mind. I'll let go of what I lost back 543 00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:17,680 on Zion. Because the king is back. 544 00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:23,680 That's all that matters. You know what that means? 545 00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:28,960 That means I can come to the table, sit down again. 546 00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:33,960 Because the king is home. The king is home. 547 00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:38,240 As long as the king is home. Ladies and gentlemen, there's 548 00:40:38,240 --> 00:40:44,680 still a seat with your name on it at the King's table, but 549 00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:47,080 there's no table to sit with the king. 550 00:40:47,080 --> 00:40:52,600 If there's no king, people surrounding themselves with 551 00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:58,480 their goods just surround me with the presence of my king, 552 00:41:04,320 --> 00:41:14,760 because his return, it's enough. He came looking for me. 553 00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:27,230 He came looking for me. All the other perks that were 554 00:41:27,230 --> 00:41:32,030 given to me, they couldn't do that search, but the king could. 555 00:41:36,790 --> 00:41:41,470 For that matter. None of those things per SE knew 556 00:41:41,470 --> 00:41:44,590 I was missing, but The Who knew I was missing. 557 00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:55,440 I'm going to hold these things loosely, but I guarantee you 558 00:41:55,440 --> 00:41:59,640 this, in the day without him, without experiencing him, 559 00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:04,560 without his presence at the table, I'm in a posture of 560 00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:11,240 longing for him. I'm in a posture of desiring 561 00:42:12,240 --> 00:42:15,440 him. There's not a day that goes by 562 00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:20,200 that I don't want to spend time in his presence. 563 00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:26,480 He's blessed me with a house and cars and money to take care of 564 00:42:26,480 --> 00:42:31,920 my family, but I don't want there a day go by that I just 565 00:42:31,920 --> 00:42:35,440 surround myself with the things that not surround myself with 566 00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:39,160 him because his presence is what matters to him. 567 00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:45,880 I'm challenging us in this place that we would we would just get 568 00:42:45,880 --> 00:42:51,080 the heart of a Mephibosheth. He says you can just take it 569 00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:53,960 all. I know what used to rightfully 570 00:42:53,960 --> 00:42:57,760 be in my hand, but you can even have it as long as I got the 571 00:42:57,760 --> 00:43:00,480 King. I wish somebody would search 572 00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:02,480 their heart and be introspective tonight. 573 00:43:03,520 --> 00:43:06,800 Are we living our lives at a lesser degree because we are 574 00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:10,600 just living off the things rather than living off the King 575 00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:15,360 we surrounded our lives with, with things that are temporal 576 00:43:15,360 --> 00:43:18,880 and things that fade away and things that moths can eat and 577 00:43:19,080 --> 00:43:23,560 rust can corrupt? But folks, the eternal is the 578 00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:26,920 King. We need the King tonight. 579 00:43:27,640 --> 00:43:33,640 Every day we need to sit at the table in the presence of our 580 00:43:33,640 --> 00:43:36,400 King. This altar is open right now 581 00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:39,560 because I think the King's return is enough. 582 00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:44,120 He found you on the backside of load a bar. 583 00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:50,600 He found you in, in barrenness, with no legacy, no hope, without 584 00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:53,320 anything. If you look at your life right 585 00:43:53,320 --> 00:43:57,560 now, anything that you have that is even notable, it stemmed from 586 00:43:57,560 --> 00:44:04,000 him, it came from him. It boiled down in the overflow 587 00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:09,720 of it was from him. Give me Jesus, give me Jesus, 588 00:44:10,120 --> 00:44:12,640 give me Jesus. You can have it all. 589 00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:17,840 It's just like I don't even need half. 590 00:44:18,840 --> 00:44:23,960 Just knowing the King is safe at home, just knowing the King is 591 00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:27,520 safe at home, that's good enough for me. 592 00:44:29,480 --> 00:44:33,280 That's good enough for me. I wonder if somebody could just 593 00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:35,800 bump the relationship up just one level. 594 00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:44,200 That the Lord is sufficient for you suffices. 595 00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:49,000 It's not like the Lord and this and the Lord and that, Just 596 00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:52,680 having him, that's sufficient. It's sufficient. 597 00:44:57,920 --> 00:44:59,680 The return of the King is enough. 598 00:45:02,040 --> 00:45:06,240 Oh, I feel the Holy Ghost. I feel the Holy Ghost. 599 00:45:33,160 --> 00:45:39,000 I need the Lord above every other need, above every other 600 00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:42,000 want, above every other aspiration in this life. 601 00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:50,160 I need the Lord, I need Him. I need him. 602 00:45:54,400 --> 00:45:59,560 Who would we go to Lord? We left you who? 603 00:45:59,560 --> 00:46:02,440 Who? Who would we go to, Lord? 604 00:46:04,320 --> 00:46:07,040 There's not another who that can substitute for you. 605 00:46:07,880 --> 00:46:10,840 There's not another who that can replace you. 606 00:46:11,640 --> 00:46:16,280 There's not an adequate who that could be in your stand. 607 00:46:16,800 --> 00:46:19,800 That's none like you. There's nothing that compares to 608 00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:22,640 you. I need you. 609 00:46:24,280 --> 00:46:27,240 Oh, let's talk to Lord here at the end of the service for a 610 00:46:27,240 --> 00:46:29,640 little while. They they prepare a song.