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Second Samuel chapter #5 And how do you remember being on the
playground and it was time to play kickball or something like
that? And, you know, it's time to get
teams. And so, you know, they get this
one over here and that one over there and, you know, they would
get everyone down. And I felt like, especially when
I was in second or third grade, once they got it whittled down
to the group got smaller and smaller to the point that, you
know, it was just me and one or two other guys or girls maybe
who didn't know what to to. And finally they said and Adam
and, you know, I was excited, but the problem was I was the
only one that was left and they kind of had to take me because
that's the way it worked. You know, it's interesting.
Now schools, you know, try to shield kids from stuff like
that. It's part of growing up, you
know, just those kind of things. I'm not saying kids get made fun
of or something like that. But you know, I just remember I
wasn't exactly the first person that they were trying to choose
on the kickball team. I wasn't the first person they
were trying to choose on, well, any team that I remember growing
up. But that's OK.
I've survived and I've made it and, you know, and I don't know
where any of those people are. So what does it even matter?
Right? You know, it's interesting.
I, I kind of wonder if David felt that way because it was
like they went through everyone else and then they finally said,
well, David, no one's left. I guess it's time to make you
king. Remember, they had Saul 1st and
they had Saul because that was the desire of their heart.
David wasn't on the scene yet, but they wanted a king like
Saul. They wanted to look like all the
other nations. And then they listened to Abner.
Abner was the one who said, listen, you don't want David as
your king. I can deliver you someone else.
And then they followed Ishbosheth because of what Abner
was doing. And now Saul is dead.
Abner is dead, Ishbosheth is dead, and David is the last guy
on the kickball team. He's the last one that's left.
And finally, the people of Israel, remember, Judah chose
David, that's David's tribe. And then the other 11 tribes,
they followed Abner, who told them to follow Ishbosheth.
But now Ishbosheth is dead. It's been over 2 years that this
has taken place, this divided Kingdom, this civil war that was
taking place in these two factions, and finally, finally
David is going to become king. I feel like we've been saying
this for a while, that it was coming.
Remember, we got into Second Samuel chapter 1, and we
thought, well, David's going to be the king any moment now once
he takes care of some of this business with Saul having passed
away and Saul having taken his own life, and that now he's
going to become the king of Israel.
And it was like, wait, I remember we talked a little bit
about patience and how we need to have patience, that the
Lord's will in our life doesn't always work the way that we want
it to work, and it requires patience.
And David was a case study in having patience in this.
But now it's finally time for David to be coronated as the
king. And as we look at it tonight, I
think there's some lessons that will be helpful for us as well.
And so if you found your place in your Bible, I'd like to have
you stand please, so we can read the first 12 verses of Second
Samuel chapter #5 Second Samuel 5 verse.
One says, then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto
Hebrew. And spake say, Behold, we are
thy bone and thy flesh. Also in time past, when Saul was
king over us, thou was he that led us out and brought us in
Israel. And the Lord said to thee, Thou
shalt feed my people Israel. Thou shalt be a captain over
Israel. So all the elders of Israel came
to the king, to Hebron, and King David made a league with them in
Hebron before the Lord, and they anointed David king over Israel.
Love that they call him there the king.
This is the first time we've just heard him as the king
before He was the king of Judah when he was called the king.
Now he's just the king. He's the king of all the
Israelites. Verse 4 David was 30 years old
when he began to reign and reign 40 years.
And Hebron, he reigned over Judah 7 years and six months.
And Jerusalem, he reigned 30 and three years over all Israel and
Judah. Now the next few verses talk
about David taking control of Jerusalem.
And we'll talk more about this in a second because there's a
verse or two that might sound troubling when we read it.
And I think you'll know as soon as we read it.
But I would just want to tell you, don't, don't get too
concerned. We'll explain exactly what's
happening here in just a moment. But I do think it's important
that we read it, not skip over it.
It says in the king and his men went to Jerusalem under the
Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, which spake unto
David, saying, Except thou take away the blind and the lame,
thou shalt not come in thither, thinking David cannot come in
thither. Nevertheless David took the
stronghold of Zion. The same is the city of David.
And David said on that day, whosoever getteth up to the
gutter and smite at the Jebusites, and the lame and the
blind that are hated of David's soul, he shall be chief and
captain. Do you think you know what we're
talking about? That might sound a little bit
odd there. We'll explain what that means in
a second. Wherefore they said, The blind
and the lame shall not come into the house.
So David dwelt in the Fort, and called it the city of David, And
David built roundabout from Millow, and inward David went on
and grew great, and the Lord God of hosts was with him.
That's a great verse right there.
Verse 11 in Hiram, king of Tyre, sent messengers to David, and
cedar trees, and carpenters and Masons.
They built David house and David perceived that the Lord had
established him king over Israel and that he exalted his Kingdom
for the people Israel's sake. Verse 12 tells that David was
mentally in a good place. He realized God had made him the
king and that God was trying to do something through his people
to glorify himself, not to glorify David.
And he he learns this and it's something that I wish Saul had
held on to for a few years because David understand this
and will carry him through much of his Kingdom.
You may be seated. Let's have a word of prayer
together and we'll continue in our text.
Heavenly Father, I do thank you for this night and I thank you
and I, I, it's never lost on me another time to be able to be in
the pulpit. There are people that are
willing to listen, not even to listen to me, but to listen to
your word. And so I pray that I would do
them justice this evening and do your word justice by rightly
dividing the word of truth. Or take what I've studied, take
these things that have been mulling in my heart for the last
several days and help me to give them to these dear folks in a
way that it's pleasing to you and they'll be helpful in their
Christian walk. But work through all of this now
in a way that only you can. And we ask it in Jesus name,
Amen. Well, from we just read David
has finally been coordinated the king of Israel.
It's taken over 2 years and this is a big deal.
In fact, we're not going to turn there right now.
But if we were to turn to First Chronicles chapter 12, we find
that this isn't just a small ceremony.
In fact, that there is over 300,000 men at the very least of
the armies of well now David that have all gathered together
with 1 accord with one voice to say, David, we now serve you and
we will serve the Lord together with you as our king.
And so when we get to verse #5 chapter #5 rather it's
interesting because in verse #2 this group comes up to David.
Some emissaries of this group come up to David and they
basically say this. They said, listen, we remember
who you were when Saul was king. We remember the kind of general
that you were. We remember the kind of fighting
man that you were. And at the end of the verse it
says that thou shalt feed, or rather it says and broadest in
Israel. And the Lord said to thee, thou
shalt feed my people Israel. Thou shalt be a captain over
Israel. And I know we mentioned this a
few weeks ago, but it bears repeating here in this verse
that they understood on some level David was supposed to be
king. It wasn't that, you know, we we
didn't realize you were supposed to be king.
Abner told us that Ishbasheth was supposed to be king.
We had no idea. No, no, on some basic level,
Abner knew the 11 tribes, knew all the people knew that David
was supposed to be the next king.
But they let all of these other influences get in the way.
And so they never crowned the man who was supposed to be king.
They never crowned the man that God had chosen to be king all
the way in First Samuel chapter #16 when he was out there as a
shepherd, just serving and doing what his father had told him to
do. And when Samuel anointed him to
be the next king over Israel. And so it says that he was 30
years old, and he would reign for the next 40 years, and seven
of those years he would reign in Hebron.
But then they were going to to capture Jerusalem and that's
what happens in the next verses that we see here.
I think sometimes we just have this idea that Jerusalem has
been under the control of the Jews just, you know, all the way
back as far as we can remember. But the fact of the matter is up
until this point, Jerusalem as we know it was controlled by the
Jebusites. The Jebusites were the ones who
are in control of Jerusalem. Now this is a problem, and this
is a major problem because God had told the people of Israel
all the way back in the book of Joshua, remember when they were
dividing the land that the tribe of Judah was supposed to clear
out the remnants of the land, and that included the Jebusites
there in Jerusalem. And they hadn't done this for
probably about 300 years, that they had neglected the small
pocket of people in Jerusalem. And Jerusalem again belonged to
Israel. It was promised to Israel, it
belonged to them. By the way, it still belongs to
them today. That promise hasn't changed.
No matter what someone may tell you that the people of Israel
are still the people of Israel, and Jerusalem is the place of
the people of Israel. Jerusalem will have a lot to do
with what happens in future events when we look at the Book
of Revelation. And so Jerusalem was supposed to
be conquered. David says it's time.
It's time for us to go. Now the Jebusites make this very
strange saying here in verse #6 when it says, except thou take
away the blind, the lame, thou shalt not come in thither
thinking David cannot come in, hit her.
Which then follows up in verse 8 where David says, Hey guys, I
want you to go up into the gutters, which basically would
have been like what we think of gutters.
We think at the top of a roof or a top of a wall.
Basically, I want you to scale the wall and I want you to take
away the the lame and the blind, the ones that I hate.
Now, if you're like me and I'm just going to lay it out, just I
mean, this is what I do. I just want to lay it out for
you. I have a son with disabilities
and I hear something like that and it just makes me cringe a
little bit. And likely it made you do the
same. You thought, well, well, why did
David hate the lame and the blind so much?
Why? Why would that be something that
Dave would say? Certainly that's not the type of
attitude that a child of God should have.
And so you read that and you, you kind of think that this
doesn't seem right. And I would encourage you,
anytime you're reading the Word of God and there's something
that just doesn't seem like it belongs there with everything
else, what you're reading probably needs to be placed in
the context with everything else that's going around, and then it
will make much more sense. And the case here, always see
about David in this chapter up to this point, is the fact that
he's doing things the way that he's supposed to be doing them
and that he's listening to the Lord.
And, and I just can't imagine that he would in his heart say
that I hate the lame and I hate the blind.
Well, I think the answer is right here for us in the text,
particularly in verses #6 and eight, and it's in it says in
the king and his men went to Jerusalem under the Jebusites,
the inhabitants of the Lamb, which spake unto David, saying,
Except thou take away the blind and the lame, thou shalt not
come and thither thinking David cannot come and hit her.
Really it all starts with that last phrase, David cannot come
and hit her. Their thought process was this,
David has no chance of defeating us.
David has no way then he can beat us.
And So what they are basically saying is this David is so weak.
David is has so much inability to be able to take our fortified
position here in Jebus. The land that would end up being
Jerusalem, that is now going to be called the City of David
basically said, look, we could put the halt and the lane up on
the wall and they have no chance of winning.
We could do that because they, they, they have no chance.
They have no abilities. We could put the weakest among
us on the wall and we'd still win.
And so David in verse #8 basically is making what I would
call a rhetorical flourish. He's saying to them, well,
you're saying that you're putting out your weakest.
It seems like we're going to beat your weakest.
It seems like we're going to beat those who you have put out
there in front of us. It's not David saying that he
hates the halt and he hates the blind.
Listen. He's basically using their own
phrase as a rallying cry to help his men see what they think of
you. Do you see how little they
regard you? Now, listen, if you're not sure
how David feels about those who would be lame and those who
would be blind, consider Mephibosheth.
I think it's important that he was just mentioned in the
previous chapter, Mephibosheth being lame on his feet.
But what did David do? He could have killed him because
he was of the line of Saul. But he says this, come to my
table. I'm going to take care of you.
You're going to become part of my family now.
No, no. David had no disregard for those
with disabilities. He's just taking their own
phrase that they were using to mock him with and basically
said, no, you think that that's the case, Hey guys, that's what
they think of you. That's what they when I played
basketball or coach basketball, we always look at the other team
and say, look, it disrespected us.
And you'd find whatever shred of disrespect the other team, you
see what they looked at you funny.
You see that they they're, they're, you know, whatever it
was, you could take some of those that small, you try to use
it to have a chip on your shoulder and go out there and
play the game and get something. That's what's happening here.
I have no doubt about that whatsoever.
Really. It all circles around the fact
that they said David cannot come and hit her.
They thought he has no ability to take over this city.
But David wins the battle as we know.
And now the land of the Jebusite, or the really the city
of the Jebusites, sometimes called Jebus, sometimes called
Jerusalem, is now the city of David.
David has now renamed it. And then at the end of the text,
we see that it wasn't just the fact that the Israelites
realized that David was king, but then there was also a man
named Hiram, the king of Tyre. We're going to see several times
him pop up here and there in our text in relation to David Tyre
to to the north of of Israel and would be to the more towards the
coast. It had great cedar trees and
they had great carpenters that were there and they were able to
do some amazing things with the artisans they had within their
coasts. And so now Hiram is going to
recognize, hey, David's the king.
So it's not just Israel that's recognizing it.
Now there are others outside of Israel that are recognizing this
as well. And then verse #12 kind of gives
us that summary that David perceived that the Lord had
established him king over Israel, and he exalted his
Kingdom for his people, Israel's sake.
David had the right heart and the right thought process.
And that's going to be important because we're Saul started that
way. Remember, Saul started so well,
but it all descended into chaos so very quickly.
David, for the most part, is going to retain that heart of
integrity throughout his life. And even when he does do wrong
and boy, he's going to do wrong. And boy, is he going to make
some major, major mistakes. But yet at the same time, he is
going to have this thought process in his life that when I
do wrong, I got to be right with the Lord.
If someone tells me I've done wrong with the Lord, that I've
got to do right and I've got to confess that.
And David, much of his 40 years is going to be marked by verse
#12 what we see right there, that's our text that we have
before us here this evening. And as we consider chapter #5
not the whole chapter, but what we've read to so far.
I, I, I really in studying it this week, I was, I was left
with one thought as I was going through it.
And that would be this. It would have been so much
better for Israel if David had just been crowned king in the
1st place. Think about all that would have
been avoided if the whole Abner and Ishbosheth mess had been
avoided and they just coronated the king who was supposed to be
the king the whole time. Here's some of the things that I
was considering this week that would have been different if
they had just crowned David king.
First of all, the Kingdom could have recovered from their
devastating defeat at the hands of the Philistines at the end of
Saul's reign. As it was, they had the yoke of
the Philistines upon them for several years because they were
so busy fighting amongst themselves that they weren't
able to go and fight the Philistines.
We're going to see in short order that that's going to
change now that David is installed king.
But in the meantime, they still had the Philistines with their
heavy yoke of bondage upon them because Israel's too fight busy
fighting amongst themselves the conquered territory that the
Philistines had taken. Remember that they had a major
incursion into the land of Israel.
The Philistines did that. Conquered territory could have
been one bag by now. If they had just coordinated
David as king, they would not have gone through the animosity
of a civil war where they were fighting each other for two
years. And the division lines between
Judah and the rest of Israel would only deepen over the next
few years to the point that it would really explode when
Jeroboam becomes king over Israel.
And Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, is now only the king of
Judah because there's these old fault lines that it existed all
the way back from here. They were made worse by the fact
that David was never crowned king.
And then perhaps maybe the most compelling of all, you'll
remember during that civil war, soldiers died.
By the best count that I have from chapter #2 / 400 men died.
The men of Israel dying at the hands of the men of Israel.
There were 400 families that were affected that this civil
war never would have taken place.
Those men would have still been alive if they had just crowned
David king over Israel. It's a costly mistake.
It was something that was a very, very difficult time in the
life of Israel and didn't affect just the nation.
It affected the tribes. Didn't just affect the tribes,
it affected the families as well.
Waiting so long to make David the king had some devastating
consequences for the people, and it would have been much better
for Israel if David had been crowned two years before.
But tonight, I want to kind of give you an applicable thought
from this text in the form of a question.
Again, we want to bring out what the people of Israel did
tonight, but I'm not preaching to the people of Israel.
I'm not preaching to people of Judah or people to the other 11
tribes. It's, it's you and me that need
to learn a lesson from the word of God tonight.
And as I was considering it this week, I would, I would say this,
that really it came down to me this thought, if we say Jesus is
our king, shouldn't we actually make him our king?
If we say Jesus is our king, shouldn't we make him or king in
actuality? You see, the day you got saved,
the day you trusted Jesus Christ as your savior, he became your
king. I mean, that's just the theology
of it. In fact, Colossians 113 says who
had delivered us from the power of darkness and has translated
us into the Kingdom of his dear son.
See, the day you got saved, you went from living within the
Kingdom of Satan and having him be your father, to now having a
heavenly Father, and now Jesus becoming not just the King of
kings and the Lord of Lords, but your King of kings and your Lord
of Lords. And what a blessed day that was,
that everything changed. That's why we're new creatures.
That's why we're born again. Everything that's old is out and
everything that is new is in. And what a glorious day that was
that he truly became your king. But I would say this, it's one
thing for him to be your king in position.
It's another thing for him to be king in practice.
Now think about that for a second.
It's one thing for him to be king in position, meaning this,
He is seated upon the throne of your heart, if you will.
But it's another thing for him to be king in practice, meaning
this. When a king gives edicts, when a
king gives orders, when royalty says to do this or do that,
Listen, hey, we don't have royalty around here.
You know, we took care of that about 300 years ago, you know,
didn't we? You know, because America,
right? Am I right?
We're going to celebrate that this week.
But I will say this, we know enough about royalty just from
watching around the world and just knowing history, that if
the King says to do something, you do it.
There's really no negotiation. There's really no back and forth
that there is. It's just that the King says
it's done. It's done.
But I found just within my own life that sure, am I in the
Kingdom? Have I been translated into the
Kingdom of his dear Son? Yes.
Is He positioned on the throne of my heart today?
Yes, the day I accepted Jesus Christ, my Savior, December 2nd,
1998. Absolutely.
That's what happened in my life. Does that mean I always listen
to him? It's a different story.
So he's the king, but do I acknowledge him in every way is
my king? I would say that that's a quite
different story. Hey, they knew he was supposed
to be king. They knew it, they admitted it.
But do they listen to him as king?
No, not. And it was too late.
In fact, they did everything else they could.
They exhausted every other option.
They looked for everyone else on the kickball team, and then they
got left with David. How often is it if our own lives
that we do everything we possibly can do to do things our
own way, And then when that doesn't work, we try God's way,
But He's the king the whole time.
You know, when nothing else works Well, we might as well
pray. We might as well pray.
Why is that our last resort when it ought to be our first option?
He's the king. He's seated upon your heart.
We ought to treat him as our king.
We ought to have him as our king, not just in position, but
in practice. That we obey his every command
because he's not just a king, He's a benevolent king.
He's a kind king. There's been some pretty nasty
kings and Queens over the years and royalty throughout the
world. That you wouldn't want to listen
to what they did. You wouldn't want to follow what
they say because there was no godliness to be found in them
whatsoever. But we're not talking about a
king of this world or a queen of this world.
No, no, we're talking about King Jesus who has only had your best
in mind from before the foundation of the world when he
desired to make a way of salvation for you, going to the
cross. None of this was a surprise to
God. God wasn't surprised in Genesis
chapter 3 when mankind fell. What are we going to do now?
It's the same plan from the foundation of the world.
It's this. It's always been Jesus Christ.
And for the joy that was set before him, Hebrews chapter 12,
he endured the cross. He suffered the shame.
Why for you, He's your king. He has your best in mind.
So why don't we listen to him? Like the title of my message
tonight is this. Crown him.
That's what Israel ought to do Crown.
Crown the man. He's waited long enough, but how
often do we have Jesus as our king, but we refuse to live like
he's our king? It's a couple thoughts that I
want to give you with that tonight.
And the first is this. Listen, don't wait to make Jesus
the King of your heart. Don't wait to make the Jesus to
make Jesus the King of your heart.
And first of all, if you if someone doesn't know Jesus
Christ their Savior, and I know it's a Sunday night and I know
it's the home crowd that's here tonight, but someone could even
be watching here this evening. I believe that could be the case
or listening to this later on podcast form and they don't know
Jesus Christ your savior. You need him to be the king of
your life. You need him to be the king of
your eternity and he'd ask Jesus Christ to be your savior.
You can't understand anything else here before you get that
step and taken care of in your own life just.
But just as today is the day of salvation, today is an equally
great day to allow the Lord of your life to actually be the
Lord of your life. Do not just call him King, but
to live as if he's your King. Do not just give him lip
service, but to give him life service.
But I'm afraid that we do as Christians that as if we're not
careful when it comes to our loyalty.
King Jesus comes last that when everything else takes place
first that he's the last one to be able to receive our loyalty.
But Matthew 633 says this one of my favorite verse.
I feel like I say that all the time.
One of my favorite verses. There's there's a lot of them.
You probably feel the same way. But seek ye first the Kingdom of
God and his righteousness, and then all these things shall be
added unto you. So when we seek those other
things first, when, when we crown other things as the Lord
of our life, what ends up happening?
Well, we chase after those things, but they don't satisfy.
They don't last that they don't give us what we think that
they're going to give us. But we seek Him first.
Not only does He give us the things that we need, He gives us
a lot of wants as well. You know, I think I'll just be
be honest with you, probably, you know, 25 minutes.
And that's a good time to start being honest, right?
But I'll be honest with you. I'll be honest with you.
If I was to count how many hours I have spent in church in the
last 20 years in an independent Baptist Church, the world would
probably think I was crazy. Three hours or more Sunday
school if I counted, you know, activities and outreach and all
those things. I can't even imagine.
I even tried to calculate, but I can't even imagine how much
time. And they would say, look at all
the time you've wasted, but look at how much better my life is
because I've given him these things.
I lack nothing. They say, oh, you got a lot of
money. I didn't say that I could.
I could probably pull that up right now and tell you see, I
can see when I log in and find out on, on my bank number.
I didn't say I lack nothing. God has been so good to me.
I've not lost out on anything. It's just been a game.
Oh, there've been hard times. Yeah, there've been hard times.
Have there been difficulties? Of course there's been
difficulties, which sure has been good to me.
And so why would I make him the last resort when he ought to be
the first one that I turned to? You know, so often when we're in
trouble, it's then that we start to pray and read our Bible.
Well, that ought to be our first go to, not our last resort.
Oftentimes people can think about their ties last and how
they spend their money on their own projects first.
Why? My own projects have my own
needs. And if there's anything
leftover, then I will give it back to God.
And he says that's that's backwards.
Well, once I get my stuff straightened out, then I'll give
to God. Maybe your stuff's not
straightened out because you're not giving to God.
I've witnessed that within my own life.
Well, it just doesn't make sense right now.
It would be. It would not even be responsible
for me to give, but responsible to who?
He's the King, we obey him. Often times when people are
busy, they cancel on God first. Often times when it comes the
issue of church, other commitments come first and
listen, listen, this is the Sunday night crowd.
You know what I'm saying? Like you're here Sunday night,
you're here Wednesday night. If I said, Hey, let's get
together on Friday for church, a lot of you'd show up then
because that's just the way that you are.
And thank the Lord for that. But but I will say this, we want
we want God, his house to be our first priority.
Why? Because the mean old Baptist
preacher gets up and points his Bony finger at everybody and
says you ought to be in church. No, because I don't talk like
that. First of all, but, and I don't
think my finger's that Bony, how do I think about actually, it's
actually, yeah. Anyway, but let's say, you know,
as we get to be with God's people, we get to be in God's.
And this isn't a guilt trip. You know what this is?
It's man. I get to be with God's people
and worship him and praise him. What does it say in the Psalms?
Enters gates with Thanksgiving and into his courts with praise.
I get to, I get to be here, man, that's great.
That's a wonderful thing. But so many people look at the
House of God is something that's just, well, if I get around to
it, you know, it'll be OK, I guess I will get there.
And so that's why we made the decision a long time ago that we
work everything around our calendar or everything on our
calendar around the House of God.
And there are things that we have missed out on.
There's some things that we have not got to do.
There's some things my children have not got to do because I
told them that we don't do ball games on Sundays.
We don't do those kind of things, but I will tell you,
we've had conversations even just recently about and I
probably have a testimony I could share with you at some
point, but I don't have the liberty to do so tonight.
But I would say this, that they have lost some things, but I
would hope that they have gained a lot more than what they've
lost from just say, hey, we're going to be in the House of God
and for your own soul, that's what's needed.
We don't want to put him last. We want to put him first.
The Lord of all must truly be the Lord of all that.
Our thought process, the way we look at life, the way that we
choose what to do and what not to do, that all of it goes
through the filter of this. He's the king, OK?
It's not what Rivera would have you to do.
Look, if you're going through the day saying, what would
pastor want me to do? Listen, that's false religion
and I'm serious about that. I'm not even saying this to to
try to be cute or to be funny. But I, I know from independent
Baptist churches in the past that people were, were afraid to
do things or not do things, not because of what the Lord thought
about it. Because what are the preacher
going to see if he finds out? Listen that you know, I don't
want you to be afraid of me. Well, maybe a little afraid of
me, but I don't want you. No, I don't want you to be
afraid. Listen, I'm not your king.
I'm not the king of your home, nor am I the king of your heart.
Do you know who he is? Who is he is and we want to
please him and we want to honor. Listen, if you're trying to
please him, then if I'm trying to please him, then we all ought
to be pleased. That would kind of work itself
out, shouldn't it? That I shouldn't even be part of
that equation. That if you want to love the
Lord and I want to love the Lord, and we say, yes, he saved
us, we're part of his Kingdom. But yeah, I'm going to live
every day like he is my king. That think of what could happen
if we just live that way. So what do we need to do?
We need to make him the king of our life.
Don't wait to make him the king of your calendar.
Don't wait to make him the king of your pocketbook.
Don't wait to make him the king of your electronic devices.
Don't wait to make him the king of your emotions.
Don't wait to make him the king of your car.
Don't wait to make him the king at your job site.
Don't wait for any of those things.
Make him the king. Because this is what's deserved.
This is what's right. But I would say, and probably
our testimony of a lot of us here tonight is, yeah, he's
mostly my king. There's a few areas that I kind
of like. I like to have control over.
It would be like a king saying, you see this map?
This is my Kingdom, but you see that shaded area over there?
I can't go over there. Could you imagine, could you
imagine what that would be to have a king who said, well, I am
the king of all this realm, but there are parts of this realm
that I cannot go to. Well, man, are you the king or
not? You know what that king would do
if there were parts of the realm that felt like that?
He'd probably bring an army and he'd probably subdue the people
to be able to rightly rule the people he's supposed to rule.
I will say this, there are times because God loves us.
Going back to Hebrews chapter 12, that there are parts of our
life we don't give him. There are realms within us that
we do not give with to Him like we should.
And sometimes He has to do some work on us to be able to get us
to a place where we say, Lord, this belongs to you.
It doesn't belong to me. I give it to you.
It's not about what I want. It's not what about what I need.
It's not about what I think. It's not about what my opinions
are. Lord, I give it to you.
And again, this sounds like such a negative, but do you realize
what freedom this brings to the Christian and the Christian?
When you live the Christian life the way God intends it, it is
not constricting, it's not restrictive, it's not fear
inducing. It's all about freedom.
Because when the King of kings is your king, what freedom do
you have? It's incredible.
You know, they say that you can go pretty much anywhere in the
world with an American passport. I've never really thought about
it before. I've only used my passport a
couple of times. But that there's great power
that comes with an American passport.
A lot of other passports. You can't go to other countries
the way that ours can, that we have, that we can go to pretty
much almost any country in the world.
If you want to go to North Korea, listen, that's all you.
I don't know that you can make it.
But for the most, for the most part, you can go pretty much
anywhere. But do you realize that when we
belong to the Kingdom of his dear son done that it's not
restrictive, it's freeing. I think sometimes we don't
believe that. I think sometimes we think, you
know what? If I really, if I really gave
him everything, my life was over.
My life would be over. And you realize if you gave him
everything, your life would just begin in a way that you couldn't
even imagine. Trust him.
This isn't about legalism or Bad Religion or crazy angry
independent Baptists. No, this is about this.
God says this. If he's going to be the king,
make a king. These people had this weird
attitude with David. He's annoying the king, but
we're not going to make him king.
Just make it crown him. What are you waiting for?
Just crown the man. And for us, it's can we crown
him in our hearts? Not the man, but the God.
Man Jesus Christ 100% God 100% man who lived that life so that
he could help us even when we're in tempted because he knows all
points. He was tempted on all points
like we were yet without sin. And that was he did that so that
he could better help us as our King to get us through the
difficulties of life. What an amazing God we have #1
Don't wait to make Jesus King of your heart #2 if you're like
most people and you haven't truly made him the king the way
that you're supposed to. And maybe you've lived some of
your life. Maybe you've lived a lot of your
life and you know you've never truly made him the king of, of
every area of your life. My second point is this tonight
and this, and this is very quick.
If you do, if you did wait to make him king, do it anyway and
rejoice when you do. If you've waited, just do it
anyway and rejoice when you do. See, oftentimes I've found with
a type of message like this that it can almost induce sadness.
It can almost induce discouragement in people.
Well, look, look at me. Look at where I am in my life
and I still don't trust him the way that I'm supposed to.
Can I be honest with you? Until you're in glory, you're
not going to trust him the way you're supposed to when you see
him face to face. But I do know this.
I want to trust him more tomorrow than I did today and I
want to trust him to more today than I did last week.
But this process of actually making him the King of your
life, actually listening to him in every facet.
If you haven't done it the way that you should, if you, if
you've gone through a rough patch of discouragement, if
you've gone through a time where you didn't listen to him, if you
went through years, or maybe you're away from the Lord,
whatever it is it and you feel unworthy or you feel like you
can't or you feel like you shouldn't or you feel like,
like, what's the point anymore? Do you think that's the Holy
Spirit saying that to you? Or maybe that's Satan who wants
to keep you away from the Lord, you know?
Hey, crown him. And when you do rejoice, turn to
First Chronicles chapter 12. We're almost done.
First Chronicles chapter 12. Remember I mentioned those
300,000 that all showed up at David's coronation?
Boy, what a party that would have been.
First Chronicles chapter 12, Look at verse #23 verse.
Chronicles 12 just a few pages over verse 23 that says, and
these are the numbers of the bands that were ready armed to
war, and came to David, to Hebron to turn the Kingdom of
Saul to him according to the word of God.
Now the next several verses just give the reckoning of the amount
of soldiers that were there, and it would have been well over
300,000. Now drop down to verse #38 All
these men of war that could keep rank came with a perfect heart
to Hebron to make David king over all Israel.
And all the rest also of Israel were of 1 heart to make David
king. And they were with David three
days, eating and drinking, for their brethren had prepared for
them. Moreover, they that were thy
them, even unto Issachar and Zebulun and Naphthali, brought
bread on asses, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen and
meat meal, cakes of figs, bunches of raisins, wine, oil,
oxen and sheep abundantly. For there was joy in Israel.
These are the same people that waited.
These are the same people that held David at arm's length all
that time. But they finally got it.
And when they did, with a perfect heart, they came
together and they must have been Baptist because what did they
do? They brought a lot of food and
for three days they ate and they drank and they enjoy themselves.
Let's stop talking about drinking in an intoxicating way,
obviously, but it's talking about the fact that they had
great joy amongst themselves. They should have done it two
years before, but they did it. And when they did it, they
rejoiced. It's my point this evening to
make you discouraged. Look at look at how old I am.
Look at how long I've been in the Lord and I should be so much
further in my Christian life. Maybe that's how you feel.
Maybe you feel like now you know, I don't trust him.
I trust everything else. I trust everyone else, but he's
the king in position. But in all practicality, he's
not the king of my heart. My purpose is not to discourage
you tonight. It's to encourage you to say,
then make him the king of that area of your life, making the
king of that component of your life tonight, make him the king.
And when you do realize this, that when you do that, you will
have such great joy and gladness that the only thing you'll say
is I wished I'd done it sooner. But you won't even say it
necessarily like you're, you're moping about it the rest of your
life and just say, I wished I'd done it sooner because look at
how good it is when the one who is anointed king actually is
allowed to be king in my life. I'll leave you with this thought
and we're done. If you, if you were to go back
to verse number or chapter #5 you don't have to right now.
But do you remember Hiram? We had that, that little verse
about Hiram, the King of Tyre. And he was the one who said,
Hey, you know, you're building this Jerusalem.
I'll give you some, I'll give you some materials.
You know, there was no Lowe's back then.
So, you know, Hiram, King of Tyre was like Lowe's and Home
Depot put together. It's like, hey, you know, you
know, you know, you need something, you ask something,
you know. This is what you, we'll give it
to you whatever you need. But you know, Hiram did not
recognize David as king until Israel recognized David as king.
Do you know one of the reasons it's so important for us to live
like he's the king? Because the world that we
interact with will not truly see Jesus and us until we do.
I wish, I wish my Co workers saw, I wish they would listen
about Jesus. Maybe they need to see Jesus in
you first, that you live like he's the king.
Why doesn't my family get it? Why don't they listen?
Perhaps, and again, I'm not saying this is the only reason.
There's a lot of reasons. Everyone has to come to make
these decisions on their own. But perhaps we need to actually
live like he's the King within our own life.
That there's some things we have to say no to.
There's some events we can't go to.
There's some things we can't participate in.
Well, that'll push them away. Will it push them away?
Or maybe we'll just show them if you do it in love, that you
serve a different king and that, no, there's some activities I
can't go to. I won't go to, I won't go to
during church time. Now these, this is what I do.
I'll come after church. I'll, I'll come on a different
day. Let's have it at a different
time or, or whatnot. No, I can't do that at work.
No, I, I, I wouldn't, I can't do that.
I, I feel like if I do that with the paperwork, I'm, I'm fudging
the numbers and I can't do that. I, I won't do that.
No, no, I know that you all we're friends, but I know you're
going to a place. I don't, I don't, I can't, I'm
not comfortable going to or you're telling stories and and I
just can't participate in those. You say I would sound like such
a oh, I would sound so awful if I talk like that.
Well, first of all, you don't say it in a way to be a jerk.
You know, you don't say, hey, you heathens, what are you doing
on Sunday morning? No, you say, hey, you know, I'd
love to be there, right? But I have a prior commitment.
Well, that's not true. And I have a prior commitment to
my king. But hey, maybe when they see
that, they will see more in you and they'll see Christ in you.
The hope of glory. Hiram did not recognize David as
king until the people of Israel recognized David as king.
And how many people out here will not truly see Jesus until
they see him in us, the people of God?
So this week, as we consider these things, let's don't wait
to put Jesus on the throne until everything else fails.
Jesus isn't the last one we pick on the kickball team.
No, he's the first. The first in our heart, the 1st
for our love, the first for affection, the first in
everything. And that's not restrictive.
That brings freedom unlike anything you can imagine.
Thank you for listening to the sermon from the pulpit of
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