1 00:00:03,320 --> 00:00:05,960 Welcome to the Liberty Baptist Sermon Archives. 2 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:09,040 The message you're about to hear was preached at Liberty Baptist 3 00:00:09,040 --> 00:00:13,040 Church in Easton, MA. You can find out more about us 4 00:00:13,040 --> 00:00:17,280 or contact us at my libertybaptist.org or just look 5 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:19,760 us up on Facebook. And now we hope that this 6 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:22,080 message from God's Word will be a blessing to you. 7 00:00:24,520 --> 00:00:29,880 Second Samuel chapter #5 And how do you remember being on the 8 00:00:29,880 --> 00:00:33,280 playground and it was time to play kickball or something like 9 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:34,840 that? And, you know, it's time to get 10 00:00:34,840 --> 00:00:36,960 teams. And so, you know, they get this 11 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:39,600 one over here and that one over there and, you know, they would 12 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:42,040 get everyone down. And I felt like, especially when 13 00:00:42,040 --> 00:00:44,520 I was in second or third grade, once they got it whittled down 14 00:00:44,520 --> 00:00:47,680 to the group got smaller and smaller to the point that, you 15 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:52,280 know, it was just me and one or two other guys or girls maybe 16 00:00:52,280 --> 00:00:57,200 who didn't know what to to. And finally they said and Adam 17 00:00:57,200 --> 00:00:59,120 and, you know, I was excited, but the problem was I was the 18 00:00:59,120 --> 00:01:02,240 only one that was left and they kind of had to take me because 19 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:04,160 that's the way it worked. You know, it's interesting. 20 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:07,280 Now schools, you know, try to shield kids from stuff like 21 00:01:07,280 --> 00:01:08,360 that. It's part of growing up, you 22 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:11,360 know, just those kind of things. I'm not saying kids get made fun 23 00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:13,640 of or something like that. But you know, I just remember I 24 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:16,280 wasn't exactly the first person that they were trying to choose 25 00:01:16,280 --> 00:01:18,400 on the kickball team. I wasn't the first person they 26 00:01:18,400 --> 00:01:21,440 were trying to choose on, well, any team that I remember growing 27 00:01:21,440 --> 00:01:23,160 up. But that's OK. 28 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:26,520 I've survived and I've made it and, you know, and I don't know 29 00:01:26,520 --> 00:01:28,480 where any of those people are. So what does it even matter? 30 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:30,840 Right? You know, it's interesting. 31 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:33,680 I, I kind of wonder if David felt that way because it was 32 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:37,920 like they went through everyone else and then they finally said, 33 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:42,120 well, David, no one's left. I guess it's time to make you 34 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:45,120 king. Remember, they had Saul 1st and 35 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:47,160 they had Saul because that was the desire of their heart. 36 00:01:47,160 --> 00:01:50,200 David wasn't on the scene yet, but they wanted a king like 37 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:52,360 Saul. They wanted to look like all the 38 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:55,000 other nations. And then they listened to Abner. 39 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:57,840 Abner was the one who said, listen, you don't want David as 40 00:01:57,840 --> 00:02:00,640 your king. I can deliver you someone else. 41 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:03,480 And then they followed Ishbosheth because of what Abner 42 00:02:03,480 --> 00:02:06,080 was doing. And now Saul is dead. 43 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:11,200 Abner is dead, Ishbosheth is dead, and David is the last guy 44 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:13,800 on the kickball team. He's the last one that's left. 45 00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:17,560 And finally, the people of Israel, remember, Judah chose 46 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:20,880 David, that's David's tribe. And then the other 11 tribes, 47 00:02:20,880 --> 00:02:24,320 they followed Abner, who told them to follow Ishbosheth. 48 00:02:24,640 --> 00:02:28,760 But now Ishbosheth is dead. It's been over 2 years that this 49 00:02:28,760 --> 00:02:32,240 has taken place, this divided Kingdom, this civil war that was 50 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:36,920 taking place in these two factions, and finally, finally 51 00:02:37,320 --> 00:02:40,360 David is going to become king. I feel like we've been saying 52 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:41,840 this for a while, that it was coming. 53 00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:44,680 Remember, we got into Second Samuel chapter 1, and we 54 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:47,280 thought, well, David's going to be the king any moment now once 55 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:50,240 he takes care of some of this business with Saul having passed 56 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:54,000 away and Saul having taken his own life, and that now he's 57 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:56,240 going to become the king of Israel. 58 00:02:56,240 --> 00:02:58,280 And it was like, wait, I remember we talked a little bit 59 00:02:58,280 --> 00:03:01,000 about patience and how we need to have patience, that the 60 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:04,040 Lord's will in our life doesn't always work the way that we want 61 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:05,720 it to work, and it requires patience. 62 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:08,600 And David was a case study in having patience in this. 63 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:13,400 But now it's finally time for David to be coronated as the 64 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:15,080 king. And as we look at it tonight, I 65 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:18,520 think there's some lessons that will be helpful for us as well. 66 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:21,440 And so if you found your place in your Bible, I'd like to have 67 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:24,640 you stand please, so we can read the first 12 verses of Second 68 00:03:24,640 --> 00:03:29,040 Samuel chapter #5 Second Samuel 5 verse. 69 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:33,040 One says, then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto 70 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:35,800 Hebrew. And spake say, Behold, we are 71 00:03:35,800 --> 00:03:40,200 thy bone and thy flesh. Also in time past, when Saul was 72 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:44,160 king over us, thou was he that led us out and brought us in 73 00:03:44,160 --> 00:03:46,840 Israel. And the Lord said to thee, Thou 74 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:50,160 shalt feed my people Israel. Thou shalt be a captain over 75 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:52,760 Israel. So all the elders of Israel came 76 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:56,880 to the king, to Hebron, and King David made a league with them in 77 00:03:56,880 --> 00:04:01,120 Hebron before the Lord, and they anointed David king over Israel. 78 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:02,880 Love that they call him there the king. 79 00:04:02,880 --> 00:04:05,320 This is the first time we've just heard him as the king 80 00:04:05,320 --> 00:04:07,920 before He was the king of Judah when he was called the king. 81 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:11,240 Now he's just the king. He's the king of all the 82 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:13,800 Israelites. Verse 4 David was 30 years old 83 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:16,279 when he began to reign and reign 40 years. 84 00:04:16,560 --> 00:04:19,120 And Hebron, he reigned over Judah 7 years and six months. 85 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:23,520 And Jerusalem, he reigned 30 and three years over all Israel and 86 00:04:23,520 --> 00:04:25,400 Judah. Now the next few verses talk 87 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:28,040 about David taking control of Jerusalem. 88 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:30,320 And we'll talk more about this in a second because there's a 89 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:33,760 verse or two that might sound troubling when we read it. 90 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:36,040 And I think you'll know as soon as we read it. 91 00:04:36,040 --> 00:04:37,920 But I would just want to tell you, don't, don't get too 92 00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:39,720 concerned. We'll explain exactly what's 93 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:42,280 happening here in just a moment. But I do think it's important 94 00:04:42,280 --> 00:04:43,680 that we read it, not skip over it. 95 00:04:44,080 --> 00:04:46,240 It says in the king and his men went to Jerusalem under the 96 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:49,400 Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, which spake unto 97 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:52,120 David, saying, Except thou take away the blind and the lame, 98 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:55,400 thou shalt not come in thither, thinking David cannot come in 99 00:04:55,400 --> 00:04:57,720 thither. Nevertheless David took the 100 00:04:57,720 --> 00:05:00,960 stronghold of Zion. The same is the city of David. 101 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:04,400 And David said on that day, whosoever getteth up to the 102 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:07,200 gutter and smite at the Jebusites, and the lame and the 103 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:11,320 blind that are hated of David's soul, he shall be chief and 104 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:13,360 captain. Do you think you know what we're 105 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:14,720 talking about? That might sound a little bit 106 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:16,680 odd there. We'll explain what that means in 107 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:18,920 a second. Wherefore they said, The blind 108 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:20,600 and the lame shall not come into the house. 109 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:24,720 So David dwelt in the Fort, and called it the city of David, And 110 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:29,160 David built roundabout from Millow, and inward David went on 111 00:05:29,160 --> 00:05:32,360 and grew great, and the Lord God of hosts was with him. 112 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:33,560 That's a great verse right there. 113 00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:37,760 Verse 11 in Hiram, king of Tyre, sent messengers to David, and 114 00:05:37,760 --> 00:05:39,840 cedar trees, and carpenters and Masons. 115 00:05:39,840 --> 00:05:42,880 They built David house and David perceived that the Lord had 116 00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:47,000 established him king over Israel and that he exalted his Kingdom 117 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:50,920 for the people Israel's sake. Verse 12 tells that David was 118 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:53,720 mentally in a good place. He realized God had made him the 119 00:05:53,720 --> 00:05:57,320 king and that God was trying to do something through his people 120 00:05:57,360 --> 00:06:00,000 to glorify himself, not to glorify David. 121 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:03,320 And he he learns this and it's something that I wish Saul had 122 00:06:03,320 --> 00:06:06,480 held on to for a few years because David understand this 123 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:08,960 and will carry him through much of his Kingdom. 124 00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:10,720 You may be seated. Let's have a word of prayer 125 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:12,520 together and we'll continue in our text. 126 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:16,920 Heavenly Father, I do thank you for this night and I thank you 127 00:06:16,920 --> 00:06:20,400 and I, I, it's never lost on me another time to be able to be in 128 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:22,320 the pulpit. There are people that are 129 00:06:22,320 --> 00:06:25,200 willing to listen, not even to listen to me, but to listen to 130 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:27,160 your word. And so I pray that I would do 131 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:30,240 them justice this evening and do your word justice by rightly 132 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:33,240 dividing the word of truth. Or take what I've studied, take 133 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:35,320 these things that have been mulling in my heart for the last 134 00:06:35,320 --> 00:06:38,680 several days and help me to give them to these dear folks in a 135 00:06:38,680 --> 00:06:42,160 way that it's pleasing to you and they'll be helpful in their 136 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:44,400 Christian walk. But work through all of this now 137 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:47,360 in a way that only you can. And we ask it in Jesus name, 138 00:06:47,960 --> 00:06:51,120 Amen. Well, from we just read David 139 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:54,400 has finally been coordinated the king of Israel. 140 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:58,240 It's taken over 2 years and this is a big deal. 141 00:06:58,480 --> 00:07:00,520 In fact, we're not going to turn there right now. 142 00:07:00,520 --> 00:07:03,680 But if we were to turn to First Chronicles chapter 12, we find 143 00:07:03,680 --> 00:07:05,840 that this isn't just a small ceremony. 144 00:07:05,840 --> 00:07:10,840 In fact, that there is over 300,000 men at the very least of 145 00:07:10,840 --> 00:07:14,600 the armies of well now David that have all gathered together 146 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:18,360 with 1 accord with one voice to say, David, we now serve you and 147 00:07:18,360 --> 00:07:21,880 we will serve the Lord together with you as our king. 148 00:07:22,280 --> 00:07:25,520 And so when we get to verse #5 chapter #5 rather it's 149 00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:29,360 interesting because in verse #2 this group comes up to David. 150 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:31,880 Some emissaries of this group come up to David and they 151 00:07:31,880 --> 00:07:34,960 basically say this. They said, listen, we remember 152 00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:38,840 who you were when Saul was king. We remember the kind of general 153 00:07:38,840 --> 00:07:40,920 that you were. We remember the kind of fighting 154 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:42,920 man that you were. And at the end of the verse it 155 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:47,960 says that thou shalt feed, or rather it says and broadest in 156 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:50,280 Israel. And the Lord said to thee, thou 157 00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:53,720 shalt feed my people Israel. Thou shalt be a captain over 158 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:55,000 Israel. And I know we mentioned this a 159 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:58,200 few weeks ago, but it bears repeating here in this verse 160 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:01,280 that they understood on some level David was supposed to be 161 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:03,400 king. It wasn't that, you know, we we 162 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:05,240 didn't realize you were supposed to be king. 163 00:08:05,440 --> 00:08:07,760 Abner told us that Ishbasheth was supposed to be king. 164 00:08:07,880 --> 00:08:10,800 We had no idea. No, no, on some basic level, 165 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:15,080 Abner knew the 11 tribes, knew all the people knew that David 166 00:08:15,080 --> 00:08:16,480 was supposed to be the next king. 167 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:19,840 But they let all of these other influences get in the way. 168 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:23,440 And so they never crowned the man who was supposed to be king. 169 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:26,640 They never crowned the man that God had chosen to be king all 170 00:08:26,640 --> 00:08:30,560 the way in First Samuel chapter #16 when he was out there as a 171 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:33,640 shepherd, just serving and doing what his father had told him to 172 00:08:33,640 --> 00:08:36,000 do. And when Samuel anointed him to 173 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:40,360 be the next king over Israel. And so it says that he was 30 174 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:43,679 years old, and he would reign for the next 40 years, and seven 175 00:08:43,679 --> 00:08:45,960 of those years he would reign in Hebron. 176 00:08:45,960 --> 00:08:49,000 But then they were going to to capture Jerusalem and that's 177 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:51,440 what happens in the next verses that we see here. 178 00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:54,600 I think sometimes we just have this idea that Jerusalem has 179 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:57,720 been under the control of the Jews just, you know, all the way 180 00:08:57,720 --> 00:09:00,960 back as far as we can remember. But the fact of the matter is up 181 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:04,920 until this point, Jerusalem as we know it was controlled by the 182 00:09:04,920 --> 00:09:07,600 Jebusites. The Jebusites were the ones who 183 00:09:07,600 --> 00:09:10,000 are in control of Jerusalem. Now this is a problem, and this 184 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:12,880 is a major problem because God had told the people of Israel 185 00:09:13,160 --> 00:09:16,040 all the way back in the book of Joshua, remember when they were 186 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:19,520 dividing the land that the tribe of Judah was supposed to clear 187 00:09:19,520 --> 00:09:23,360 out the remnants of the land, and that included the Jebusites 188 00:09:23,360 --> 00:09:26,440 there in Jerusalem. And they hadn't done this for 189 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:29,920 probably about 300 years, that they had neglected the small 190 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:33,760 pocket of people in Jerusalem. And Jerusalem again belonged to 191 00:09:33,760 --> 00:09:36,000 Israel. It was promised to Israel, it 192 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:38,240 belonged to them. By the way, it still belongs to 193 00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:40,320 them today. That promise hasn't changed. 194 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:43,600 No matter what someone may tell you that the people of Israel 195 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:46,600 are still the people of Israel, and Jerusalem is the place of 196 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:49,480 the people of Israel. Jerusalem will have a lot to do 197 00:09:49,480 --> 00:09:52,280 with what happens in future events when we look at the Book 198 00:09:52,280 --> 00:09:55,440 of Revelation. And so Jerusalem was supposed to 199 00:09:55,440 --> 00:09:57,320 be conquered. David says it's time. 200 00:09:57,480 --> 00:10:00,560 It's time for us to go. Now the Jebusites make this very 201 00:10:00,560 --> 00:10:07,520 strange saying here in verse #6 when it says, except thou take 202 00:10:07,520 --> 00:10:10,840 away the blind, the lame, thou shalt not come in thither 203 00:10:11,080 --> 00:10:12,760 thinking David cannot come in, hit her. 204 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:16,400 Which then follows up in verse 8 where David says, Hey guys, I 205 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:18,720 want you to go up into the gutters, which basically would 206 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:20,160 have been like what we think of gutters. 207 00:10:20,160 --> 00:10:23,160 We think at the top of a roof or a top of a wall. 208 00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:27,000 Basically, I want you to scale the wall and I want you to take 209 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:30,160 away the the lame and the blind, the ones that I hate. 210 00:10:30,640 --> 00:10:35,800 Now, if you're like me and I'm just going to lay it out, just I 211 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:37,840 mean, this is what I do. I just want to lay it out for 212 00:10:37,840 --> 00:10:40,920 you. I have a son with disabilities 213 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:43,440 and I hear something like that and it just makes me cringe a 214 00:10:43,440 --> 00:10:46,200 little bit. And likely it made you do the 215 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:47,920 same. You thought, well, well, why did 216 00:10:47,920 --> 00:10:50,760 David hate the lame and the blind so much? 217 00:10:50,760 --> 00:10:52,400 Why? Why would that be something that 218 00:10:52,400 --> 00:10:55,360 Dave would say? Certainly that's not the type of 219 00:10:55,400 --> 00:10:57,680 attitude that a child of God should have. 220 00:10:57,680 --> 00:11:00,480 And so you read that and you, you kind of think that this 221 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:02,600 doesn't seem right. And I would encourage you, 222 00:11:02,680 --> 00:11:05,520 anytime you're reading the Word of God and there's something 223 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:08,440 that just doesn't seem like it belongs there with everything 224 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:11,760 else, what you're reading probably needs to be placed in 225 00:11:11,760 --> 00:11:14,360 the context with everything else that's going around, and then it 226 00:11:14,360 --> 00:11:17,560 will make much more sense. And the case here, always see 227 00:11:17,560 --> 00:11:20,160 about David in this chapter up to this point, is the fact that 228 00:11:20,160 --> 00:11:22,720 he's doing things the way that he's supposed to be doing them 229 00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:24,680 and that he's listening to the Lord. 230 00:11:24,680 --> 00:11:28,240 And, and I just can't imagine that he would in his heart say 231 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:30,560 that I hate the lame and I hate the blind. 232 00:11:30,560 --> 00:11:33,120 Well, I think the answer is right here for us in the text, 233 00:11:33,120 --> 00:11:36,560 particularly in verses #6 and eight, and it's in it says in 234 00:11:36,560 --> 00:11:40,120 the king and his men went to Jerusalem under the Jebusites, 235 00:11:40,120 --> 00:11:43,040 the inhabitants of the Lamb, which spake unto David, saying, 236 00:11:43,280 --> 00:11:46,320 Except thou take away the blind and the lame, thou shalt not 237 00:11:46,320 --> 00:11:49,000 come and thither thinking David cannot come and hit her. 238 00:11:49,880 --> 00:11:52,840 Really it all starts with that last phrase, David cannot come 239 00:11:52,840 --> 00:11:55,120 and hit her. Their thought process was this, 240 00:11:55,160 --> 00:11:57,560 David has no chance of defeating us. 241 00:11:57,920 --> 00:12:00,560 David has no way then he can beat us. 242 00:12:00,840 --> 00:12:04,640 And So what they are basically saying is this David is so weak. 243 00:12:04,920 --> 00:12:09,640 David is has so much inability to be able to take our fortified 244 00:12:09,640 --> 00:12:13,800 position here in Jebus. The land that would end up being 245 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:17,320 Jerusalem, that is now going to be called the City of David 246 00:12:17,520 --> 00:12:20,760 basically said, look, we could put the halt and the lane up on 247 00:12:20,760 --> 00:12:23,440 the wall and they have no chance of winning. 248 00:12:23,960 --> 00:12:27,120 We could do that because they, they, they have no chance. 249 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:29,600 They have no abilities. We could put the weakest among 250 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:32,160 us on the wall and we'd still win. 251 00:12:32,680 --> 00:12:36,240 And so David in verse #8 basically is making what I would 252 00:12:36,240 --> 00:12:39,560 call a rhetorical flourish. He's saying to them, well, 253 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:42,000 you're saying that you're putting out your weakest. 254 00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:44,400 It seems like we're going to beat your weakest. 255 00:12:44,880 --> 00:12:48,240 It seems like we're going to beat those who you have put out 256 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:50,760 there in front of us. It's not David saying that he 257 00:12:50,760 --> 00:12:53,200 hates the halt and he hates the blind. 258 00:12:53,600 --> 00:12:55,960 Listen. He's basically using their own 259 00:12:55,960 --> 00:12:59,880 phrase as a rallying cry to help his men see what they think of 260 00:12:59,880 --> 00:13:01,880 you. Do you see how little they 261 00:13:01,920 --> 00:13:04,080 regard you? Now, listen, if you're not sure 262 00:13:04,080 --> 00:13:08,800 how David feels about those who would be lame and those who 263 00:13:08,800 --> 00:13:10,600 would be blind, consider Mephibosheth. 264 00:13:11,160 --> 00:13:12,760 I think it's important that he was just mentioned in the 265 00:13:12,760 --> 00:13:15,360 previous chapter, Mephibosheth being lame on his feet. 266 00:13:15,360 --> 00:13:17,560 But what did David do? He could have killed him because 267 00:13:17,560 --> 00:13:19,960 he was of the line of Saul. But he says this, come to my 268 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:21,520 table. I'm going to take care of you. 269 00:13:21,520 --> 00:13:23,440 You're going to become part of my family now. 270 00:13:23,440 --> 00:13:26,320 No, no. David had no disregard for those 271 00:13:26,320 --> 00:13:29,160 with disabilities. He's just taking their own 272 00:13:29,160 --> 00:13:32,680 phrase that they were using to mock him with and basically 273 00:13:32,680 --> 00:13:36,240 said, no, you think that that's the case, Hey guys, that's what 274 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:38,440 they think of you. That's what they when I played 275 00:13:38,440 --> 00:13:42,240 basketball or coach basketball, we always look at the other team 276 00:13:42,240 --> 00:13:43,760 and say, look, it disrespected us. 277 00:13:44,240 --> 00:13:47,480 And you'd find whatever shred of disrespect the other team, you 278 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:49,080 see what they looked at you funny. 279 00:13:49,080 --> 00:13:52,240 You see that they they're, they're, you know, whatever it 280 00:13:52,240 --> 00:13:54,760 was, you could take some of those that small, you try to use 281 00:13:54,760 --> 00:13:56,960 it to have a chip on your shoulder and go out there and 282 00:13:56,960 --> 00:13:59,600 play the game and get something. That's what's happening here. 283 00:13:59,840 --> 00:14:01,520 I have no doubt about that whatsoever. 284 00:14:01,520 --> 00:14:03,520 Really. It all circles around the fact 285 00:14:03,520 --> 00:14:05,320 that they said David cannot come and hit her. 286 00:14:05,520 --> 00:14:08,640 They thought he has no ability to take over this city. 287 00:14:08,920 --> 00:14:11,480 But David wins the battle as we know. 288 00:14:11,480 --> 00:14:15,200 And now the land of the Jebusite, or the really the city 289 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:17,720 of the Jebusites, sometimes called Jebus, sometimes called 290 00:14:17,720 --> 00:14:19,920 Jerusalem, is now the city of David. 291 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:23,160 David has now renamed it. And then at the end of the text, 292 00:14:23,160 --> 00:14:26,000 we see that it wasn't just the fact that the Israelites 293 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:29,360 realized that David was king, but then there was also a man 294 00:14:29,360 --> 00:14:32,760 named Hiram, the king of Tyre. We're going to see several times 295 00:14:32,760 --> 00:14:37,000 him pop up here and there in our text in relation to David Tyre 296 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:42,360 to to the north of of Israel and would be to the more towards the 297 00:14:42,360 --> 00:14:44,760 coast. It had great cedar trees and 298 00:14:44,880 --> 00:14:47,600 they had great carpenters that were there and they were able to 299 00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:51,680 do some amazing things with the artisans they had within their 300 00:14:51,840 --> 00:14:53,880 coasts. And so now Hiram is going to 301 00:14:53,880 --> 00:14:56,520 recognize, hey, David's the king. 302 00:14:57,160 --> 00:14:59,040 So it's not just Israel that's recognizing it. 303 00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:02,120 Now there are others outside of Israel that are recognizing this 304 00:15:02,120 --> 00:15:04,280 as well. And then verse #12 kind of gives 305 00:15:04,280 --> 00:15:07,400 us that summary that David perceived that the Lord had 306 00:15:07,400 --> 00:15:10,680 established him king over Israel, and he exalted his 307 00:15:10,680 --> 00:15:12,800 Kingdom for his people, Israel's sake. 308 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:16,920 David had the right heart and the right thought process. 309 00:15:16,920 --> 00:15:20,000 And that's going to be important because we're Saul started that 310 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:22,240 way. Remember, Saul started so well, 311 00:15:22,640 --> 00:15:25,240 but it all descended into chaos so very quickly. 312 00:15:25,560 --> 00:15:28,000 David, for the most part, is going to retain that heart of 313 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:30,880 integrity throughout his life. And even when he does do wrong 314 00:15:30,880 --> 00:15:33,520 and boy, he's going to do wrong. And boy, is he going to make 315 00:15:33,520 --> 00:15:37,080 some major, major mistakes. But yet at the same time, he is 316 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:40,040 going to have this thought process in his life that when I 317 00:15:40,040 --> 00:15:42,520 do wrong, I got to be right with the Lord. 318 00:15:43,280 --> 00:15:45,280 If someone tells me I've done wrong with the Lord, that I've 319 00:15:45,280 --> 00:15:47,040 got to do right and I've got to confess that. 320 00:15:47,320 --> 00:15:51,720 And David, much of his 40 years is going to be marked by verse 321 00:15:51,720 --> 00:15:55,120 #12 what we see right there, that's our text that we have 322 00:15:55,120 --> 00:15:58,760 before us here this evening. And as we consider chapter #5 323 00:15:58,760 --> 00:16:01,440 not the whole chapter, but what we've read to so far. 324 00:16:01,440 --> 00:16:04,520 I, I, I really in studying it this week, I was, I was left 325 00:16:04,520 --> 00:16:06,360 with one thought as I was going through it. 326 00:16:06,360 --> 00:16:09,000 And that would be this. It would have been so much 327 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:12,760 better for Israel if David had just been crowned king in the 328 00:16:12,760 --> 00:16:16,320 1st place. Think about all that would have 329 00:16:16,320 --> 00:16:22,080 been avoided if the whole Abner and Ishbosheth mess had been 330 00:16:22,080 --> 00:16:26,040 avoided and they just coronated the king who was supposed to be 331 00:16:26,040 --> 00:16:28,440 the king the whole time. Here's some of the things that I 332 00:16:28,440 --> 00:16:31,760 was considering this week that would have been different if 333 00:16:31,760 --> 00:16:33,600 they had just crowned David king. 334 00:16:34,040 --> 00:16:36,240 First of all, the Kingdom could have recovered from their 335 00:16:36,240 --> 00:16:40,480 devastating defeat at the hands of the Philistines at the end of 336 00:16:40,480 --> 00:16:43,240 Saul's reign. As it was, they had the yoke of 337 00:16:43,240 --> 00:16:45,800 the Philistines upon them for several years because they were 338 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:48,600 so busy fighting amongst themselves that they weren't 339 00:16:48,600 --> 00:16:50,240 able to go and fight the Philistines. 340 00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:52,120 We're going to see in short order that that's going to 341 00:16:52,120 --> 00:16:53,840 change now that David is installed king. 342 00:16:53,840 --> 00:16:57,120 But in the meantime, they still had the Philistines with their 343 00:16:57,120 --> 00:17:00,840 heavy yoke of bondage upon them because Israel's too fight busy 344 00:17:00,840 --> 00:17:04,200 fighting amongst themselves the conquered territory that the 345 00:17:04,200 --> 00:17:06,960 Philistines had taken. Remember that they had a major 346 00:17:06,960 --> 00:17:09,440 incursion into the land of Israel. 347 00:17:09,560 --> 00:17:12,079 The Philistines did that. Conquered territory could have 348 00:17:12,119 --> 00:17:15,280 been one bag by now. If they had just coordinated 349 00:17:15,280 --> 00:17:19,480 David as king, they would not have gone through the animosity 350 00:17:19,920 --> 00:17:22,920 of a civil war where they were fighting each other for two 351 00:17:22,920 --> 00:17:25,319 years. And the division lines between 352 00:17:25,319 --> 00:17:29,160 Judah and the rest of Israel would only deepen over the next 353 00:17:29,160 --> 00:17:32,600 few years to the point that it would really explode when 354 00:17:32,600 --> 00:17:35,280 Jeroboam becomes king over Israel. 355 00:17:35,280 --> 00:17:38,120 And Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, is now only the king of 356 00:17:38,120 --> 00:17:42,000 Judah because there's these old fault lines that it existed all 357 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:46,160 the way back from here. They were made worse by the fact 358 00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:48,360 that David was never crowned king. 359 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:51,320 And then perhaps maybe the most compelling of all, you'll 360 00:17:51,320 --> 00:17:54,360 remember during that civil war, soldiers died. 361 00:17:55,000 --> 00:18:01,120 By the best count that I have from chapter #2 / 400 men died. 362 00:18:01,600 --> 00:18:04,680 The men of Israel dying at the hands of the men of Israel. 363 00:18:05,240 --> 00:18:09,640 There were 400 families that were affected that this civil 364 00:18:09,640 --> 00:18:10,960 war never would have taken place. 365 00:18:10,960 --> 00:18:15,280 Those men would have still been alive if they had just crowned 366 00:18:15,360 --> 00:18:19,760 David king over Israel. It's a costly mistake. 367 00:18:20,640 --> 00:18:26,880 It was something that was a very, very difficult time in the 368 00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:29,360 life of Israel and didn't affect just the nation. 369 00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:31,800 It affected the tribes. Didn't just affect the tribes, 370 00:18:31,800 --> 00:18:33,880 it affected the families as well. 371 00:18:34,240 --> 00:18:37,280 Waiting so long to make David the king had some devastating 372 00:18:37,280 --> 00:18:40,160 consequences for the people, and it would have been much better 373 00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:44,120 for Israel if David had been crowned two years before. 374 00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:47,520 But tonight, I want to kind of give you an applicable thought 375 00:18:47,520 --> 00:18:50,560 from this text in the form of a question. 376 00:18:50,920 --> 00:18:54,280 Again, we want to bring out what the people of Israel did 377 00:18:54,280 --> 00:18:56,480 tonight, but I'm not preaching to the people of Israel. 378 00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:00,400 I'm not preaching to people of Judah or people to the other 11 379 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:02,680 tribes. It's, it's you and me that need 380 00:19:02,680 --> 00:19:05,360 to learn a lesson from the word of God tonight. 381 00:19:05,360 --> 00:19:08,400 And as I was considering it this week, I would, I would say this, 382 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:13,240 that really it came down to me this thought, if we say Jesus is 383 00:19:13,240 --> 00:19:17,040 our king, shouldn't we actually make him our king? 384 00:19:18,080 --> 00:19:24,880 If we say Jesus is our king, shouldn't we make him or king in 385 00:19:24,960 --> 00:19:28,080 actuality? You see, the day you got saved, 386 00:19:28,160 --> 00:19:32,840 the day you trusted Jesus Christ as your savior, he became your 387 00:19:32,840 --> 00:19:35,520 king. I mean, that's just the theology 388 00:19:35,520 --> 00:19:38,560 of it. In fact, Colossians 113 says who 389 00:19:38,560 --> 00:19:42,440 had delivered us from the power of darkness and has translated 390 00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:44,800 us into the Kingdom of his dear son. 391 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:47,840 See, the day you got saved, you went from living within the 392 00:19:47,840 --> 00:19:51,680 Kingdom of Satan and having him be your father, to now having a 393 00:19:51,680 --> 00:19:55,680 heavenly Father, and now Jesus becoming not just the King of 394 00:19:55,680 --> 00:19:59,920 kings and the Lord of Lords, but your King of kings and your Lord 395 00:19:59,920 --> 00:20:01,920 of Lords. And what a blessed day that was, 396 00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:04,960 that everything changed. That's why we're new creatures. 397 00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:07,960 That's why we're born again. Everything that's old is out and 398 00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:11,600 everything that is new is in. And what a glorious day that was 399 00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:15,960 that he truly became your king. But I would say this, it's one 400 00:20:15,960 --> 00:20:18,880 thing for him to be your king in position. 401 00:20:19,320 --> 00:20:22,000 It's another thing for him to be king in practice. 402 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:24,520 Now think about that for a second. 403 00:20:25,120 --> 00:20:27,600 It's one thing for him to be king in position, meaning this, 404 00:20:27,760 --> 00:20:30,240 He is seated upon the throne of your heart, if you will. 405 00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:33,800 But it's another thing for him to be king in practice, meaning 406 00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:36,640 this. When a king gives edicts, when a 407 00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:40,200 king gives orders, when royalty says to do this or do that, 408 00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:42,760 Listen, hey, we don't have royalty around here. 409 00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:45,080 You know, we took care of that about 300 years ago, you know, 410 00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:46,680 didn't we? You know, because America, 411 00:20:46,680 --> 00:20:47,640 right? Am I right? 412 00:20:47,920 --> 00:20:49,360 We're going to celebrate that this week. 413 00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:53,200 But I will say this, we know enough about royalty just from 414 00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:56,000 watching around the world and just knowing history, that if 415 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:58,360 the King says to do something, you do it. 416 00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:03,120 There's really no negotiation. There's really no back and forth 417 00:21:03,120 --> 00:21:05,000 that there is. It's just that the King says 418 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:06,440 it's done. It's done. 419 00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:10,600 But I found just within my own life that sure, am I in the 420 00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:12,640 Kingdom? Have I been translated into the 421 00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:14,640 Kingdom of his dear Son? Yes. 422 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:18,280 Is He positioned on the throne of my heart today? 423 00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:21,680 Yes, the day I accepted Jesus Christ, my Savior, December 2nd, 424 00:21:21,680 --> 00:21:23,440 1998. Absolutely. 425 00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:25,840 That's what happened in my life. Does that mean I always listen 426 00:21:25,840 --> 00:21:29,800 to him? It's a different story. 427 00:21:31,560 --> 00:21:35,440 So he's the king, but do I acknowledge him in every way is 428 00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:38,840 my king? I would say that that's a quite 429 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:42,160 different story. Hey, they knew he was supposed 430 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:45,080 to be king. They knew it, they admitted it. 431 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:47,560 But do they listen to him as king? 432 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:50,720 No, not. And it was too late. 433 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:53,400 In fact, they did everything else they could. 434 00:21:54,040 --> 00:21:56,080 They exhausted every other option. 435 00:21:56,200 --> 00:21:59,440 They looked for everyone else on the kickball team, and then they 436 00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:03,800 got left with David. How often is it if our own lives 437 00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:08,320 that we do everything we possibly can do to do things our 438 00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:11,760 own way, And then when that doesn't work, we try God's way, 439 00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:14,080 But He's the king the whole time. 440 00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:18,000 You know, when nothing else works Well, we might as well 441 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:20,640 pray. We might as well pray. 442 00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:24,240 Why is that our last resort when it ought to be our first option? 443 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:28,480 He's the king. He's seated upon your heart. 444 00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:30,080 We ought to treat him as our king. 445 00:22:30,080 --> 00:22:33,120 We ought to have him as our king, not just in position, but 446 00:22:33,120 --> 00:22:36,000 in practice. That we obey his every command 447 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:39,400 because he's not just a king, He's a benevolent king. 448 00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:42,480 He's a kind king. There's been some pretty nasty 449 00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:45,680 kings and Queens over the years and royalty throughout the 450 00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:47,280 world. That you wouldn't want to listen 451 00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:49,080 to what they did. You wouldn't want to follow what 452 00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:51,640 they say because there was no godliness to be found in them 453 00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:53,320 whatsoever. But we're not talking about a 454 00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:55,720 king of this world or a queen of this world. 455 00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:59,200 No, no, we're talking about King Jesus who has only had your best 456 00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:03,200 in mind from before the foundation of the world when he 457 00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:08,000 desired to make a way of salvation for you, going to the 458 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:10,040 cross. None of this was a surprise to 459 00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:12,120 God. God wasn't surprised in Genesis 460 00:23:12,120 --> 00:23:15,280 chapter 3 when mankind fell. What are we going to do now? 461 00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:17,760 It's the same plan from the foundation of the world. 462 00:23:17,760 --> 00:23:20,240 It's this. It's always been Jesus Christ. 463 00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:25,480 And for the joy that was set before him, Hebrews chapter 12, 464 00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:28,320 he endured the cross. He suffered the shame. 465 00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:32,480 Why for you, He's your king. He has your best in mind. 466 00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:36,440 So why don't we listen to him? Like the title of my message 467 00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:37,720 tonight is this. Crown him. 468 00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:40,480 That's what Israel ought to do Crown. 469 00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:45,120 Crown the man. He's waited long enough, but how 470 00:23:45,120 --> 00:23:50,160 often do we have Jesus as our king, but we refuse to live like 471 00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:52,720 he's our king? It's a couple thoughts that I 472 00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:53,960 want to give you with that tonight. 473 00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:56,640 And the first is this. Listen, don't wait to make Jesus 474 00:23:56,640 --> 00:24:00,200 the King of your heart. Don't wait to make the Jesus to 475 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:01,280 make Jesus the King of your heart. 476 00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:03,480 And first of all, if you if someone doesn't know Jesus 477 00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:06,000 Christ their Savior, and I know it's a Sunday night and I know 478 00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:08,440 it's the home crowd that's here tonight, but someone could even 479 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:10,720 be watching here this evening. I believe that could be the case 480 00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:13,600 or listening to this later on podcast form and they don't know 481 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:16,680 Jesus Christ your savior. You need him to be the king of 482 00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:18,160 your life. You need him to be the king of 483 00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:21,480 your eternity and he'd ask Jesus Christ to be your savior. 484 00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:24,880 You can't understand anything else here before you get that 485 00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:27,520 step and taken care of in your own life just. 486 00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:31,480 But just as today is the day of salvation, today is an equally 487 00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:34,520 great day to allow the Lord of your life to actually be the 488 00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:37,640 Lord of your life. Do not just call him King, but 489 00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:41,800 to live as if he's your King. Do not just give him lip 490 00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:44,240 service, but to give him life service. 491 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:47,360 But I'm afraid that we do as Christians that as if we're not 492 00:24:47,360 --> 00:24:49,560 careful when it comes to our loyalty. 493 00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:54,680 King Jesus comes last that when everything else takes place 494 00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:58,560 first that he's the last one to be able to receive our loyalty. 495 00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:02,840 But Matthew 633 says this one of my favorite verse. 496 00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:03,800 I feel like I say that all the time. 497 00:25:04,120 --> 00:25:05,920 One of my favorite verses. There's there's a lot of them. 498 00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:10,360 You probably feel the same way. But seek ye first the Kingdom of 499 00:25:10,360 --> 00:25:15,560 God and his righteousness, and then all these things shall be 500 00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:18,120 added unto you. So when we seek those other 501 00:25:18,120 --> 00:25:21,720 things first, when, when we crown other things as the Lord 502 00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:23,560 of our life, what ends up happening? 503 00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:27,000 Well, we chase after those things, but they don't satisfy. 504 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:31,120 They don't last that they don't give us what we think that 505 00:25:31,120 --> 00:25:34,320 they're going to give us. But we seek Him first. 506 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:39,120 Not only does He give us the things that we need, He gives us 507 00:25:39,120 --> 00:25:42,120 a lot of wants as well. You know, I think I'll just be 508 00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:44,640 be honest with you, probably, you know, 25 minutes. 509 00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:46,120 And that's a good time to start being honest, right? 510 00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:49,440 But I'll be honest with you. I'll be honest with you. 511 00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:52,960 If I was to count how many hours I have spent in church in the 512 00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:58,080 last 20 years in an independent Baptist Church, the world would 513 00:25:58,080 --> 00:26:03,120 probably think I was crazy. Three hours or more Sunday 514 00:26:03,120 --> 00:26:07,440 school if I counted, you know, activities and outreach and all 515 00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:08,960 those things. I can't even imagine. 516 00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:11,520 I even tried to calculate, but I can't even imagine how much 517 00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:12,800 time. And they would say, look at all 518 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:17,200 the time you've wasted, but look at how much better my life is 519 00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:19,080 because I've given him these things. 520 00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:24,120 I lack nothing. They say, oh, you got a lot of 521 00:26:24,120 --> 00:26:27,280 money. I didn't say that I could. 522 00:26:27,360 --> 00:26:29,640 I could probably pull that up right now and tell you see, I 523 00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:32,320 can see when I log in and find out on, on my bank number. 524 00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:36,040 I didn't say I lack nothing. God has been so good to me. 525 00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:40,000 I've not lost out on anything. It's just been a game. 526 00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:43,040 Oh, there've been hard times. Yeah, there've been hard times. 527 00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:45,200 Have there been difficulties? Of course there's been 528 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:47,680 difficulties, which sure has been good to me. 529 00:26:48,360 --> 00:26:51,640 And so why would I make him the last resort when he ought to be 530 00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:56,840 the first one that I turned to? You know, so often when we're in 531 00:26:56,840 --> 00:27:00,560 trouble, it's then that we start to pray and read our Bible. 532 00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:06,400 Well, that ought to be our first go to, not our last resort. 533 00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:10,360 Oftentimes people can think about their ties last and how 534 00:27:10,360 --> 00:27:12,560 they spend their money on their own projects first. 535 00:27:13,120 --> 00:27:14,480 Why? My own projects have my own 536 00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:15,600 needs. And if there's anything 537 00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:17,880 leftover, then I will give it back to God. 538 00:27:18,120 --> 00:27:19,840 And he says that's that's backwards. 539 00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:22,760 Well, once I get my stuff straightened out, then I'll give 540 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:23,960 to God. Maybe your stuff's not 541 00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:25,480 straightened out because you're not giving to God. 542 00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:29,520 I've witnessed that within my own life. 543 00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:31,760 Well, it just doesn't make sense right now. 544 00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:34,160 It would be. It would not even be responsible 545 00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:36,480 for me to give, but responsible to who? 546 00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:42,520 He's the King, we obey him. Often times when people are 547 00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:46,800 busy, they cancel on God first. Often times when it comes the 548 00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:49,920 issue of church, other commitments come first and 549 00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:52,240 listen, listen, this is the Sunday night crowd. 550 00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:53,640 You know what I'm saying? Like you're here Sunday night, 551 00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:55,440 you're here Wednesday night. If I said, Hey, let's get 552 00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:57,600 together on Friday for church, a lot of you'd show up then 553 00:27:57,600 --> 00:27:58,800 because that's just the way that you are. 554 00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:02,080 And thank the Lord for that. But but I will say this, we want 555 00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:04,840 we want God, his house to be our first priority. 556 00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:06,640 Why? Because the mean old Baptist 557 00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:09,200 preacher gets up and points his Bony finger at everybody and 558 00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:13,480 says you ought to be in church. No, because I don't talk like 559 00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:15,440 that. First of all, but, and I don't 560 00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:17,920 think my finger's that Bony, how do I think about actually, it's 561 00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:21,320 actually, yeah. Anyway, but let's say, you know, 562 00:28:22,360 --> 00:28:25,200 as we get to be with God's people, we get to be in God's. 563 00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:27,280 And this isn't a guilt trip. You know what this is? 564 00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:32,920 It's man. I get to be with God's people 565 00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:37,320 and worship him and praise him. What does it say in the Psalms? 566 00:28:37,360 --> 00:28:40,160 Enters gates with Thanksgiving and into his courts with praise. 567 00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:43,000 I get to, I get to be here, man, that's great. 568 00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:45,720 That's a wonderful thing. But so many people look at the 569 00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:49,280 House of God is something that's just, well, if I get around to 570 00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:52,720 it, you know, it'll be OK, I guess I will get there. 571 00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:55,760 And so that's why we made the decision a long time ago that we 572 00:28:55,760 --> 00:29:00,720 work everything around our calendar or everything on our 573 00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:02,400 calendar around the House of God. 574 00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:04,680 And there are things that we have missed out on. 575 00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:07,160 There's some things that we have not got to do. 576 00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:09,680 There's some things my children have not got to do because I 577 00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:11,800 told them that we don't do ball games on Sundays. 578 00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:14,360 We don't do those kind of things, but I will tell you, 579 00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:16,600 we've had conversations even just recently about and I 580 00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:18,400 probably have a testimony I could share with you at some 581 00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:20,440 point, but I don't have the liberty to do so tonight. 582 00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:24,160 But I would say this, that they have lost some things, but I 583 00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:26,200 would hope that they have gained a lot more than what they've 584 00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:29,320 lost from just say, hey, we're going to be in the House of God 585 00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:32,760 and for your own soul, that's what's needed. 586 00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:35,680 We don't want to put him last. We want to put him first. 587 00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:40,200 The Lord of all must truly be the Lord of all that. 588 00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:44,680 Our thought process, the way we look at life, the way that we 589 00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:47,440 choose what to do and what not to do, that all of it goes 590 00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:49,760 through the filter of this. He's the king, OK? 591 00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:53,520 It's not what Rivera would have you to do. 592 00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:55,720 Look, if you're going through the day saying, what would 593 00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:58,080 pastor want me to do? Listen, that's false religion 594 00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:02,360 and I'm serious about that. I'm not even saying this to to 595 00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:05,280 try to be cute or to be funny. But I, I know from independent 596 00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:07,880 Baptist churches in the past that people were, were afraid to 597 00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:10,560 do things or not do things, not because of what the Lord thought 598 00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:11,840 about it. Because what are the preacher 599 00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:16,320 going to see if he finds out? Listen that you know, I don't 600 00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:18,720 want you to be afraid of me. Well, maybe a little afraid of 601 00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:20,440 me, but I don't want you. No, I don't want you to be 602 00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:22,760 afraid. Listen, I'm not your king. 603 00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:27,280 I'm not the king of your home, nor am I the king of your heart. 604 00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:31,400 Do you know who he is? Who is he is and we want to 605 00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:34,320 please him and we want to honor. Listen, if you're trying to 606 00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:37,760 please him, then if I'm trying to please him, then we all ought 607 00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:40,080 to be pleased. That would kind of work itself 608 00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:42,400 out, shouldn't it? That I shouldn't even be part of 609 00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:44,640 that equation. That if you want to love the 610 00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:47,600 Lord and I want to love the Lord, and we say, yes, he saved 611 00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:50,120 us, we're part of his Kingdom. But yeah, I'm going to live 612 00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:54,200 every day like he is my king. That think of what could happen 613 00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:58,960 if we just live that way. So what do we need to do? 614 00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:00,880 We need to make him the king of our life. 615 00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:03,680 Don't wait to make him the king of your calendar. 616 00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:06,240 Don't wait to make him the king of your pocketbook. 617 00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:09,880 Don't wait to make him the king of your electronic devices. 618 00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:12,400 Don't wait to make him the king of your emotions. 619 00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:15,400 Don't wait to make him the king of your car. 620 00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:18,240 Don't wait to make him the king at your job site. 621 00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:20,080 Don't wait for any of those things. 622 00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:24,280 Make him the king. Because this is what's deserved. 623 00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:29,160 This is what's right. But I would say, and probably 624 00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:31,320 our testimony of a lot of us here tonight is, yeah, he's 625 00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:36,200 mostly my king. There's a few areas that I kind 626 00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:38,800 of like. I like to have control over. 627 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:42,080 It would be like a king saying, you see this map? 628 00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:46,360 This is my Kingdom, but you see that shaded area over there? 629 00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:51,120 I can't go over there. Could you imagine, could you 630 00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:54,120 imagine what that would be to have a king who said, well, I am 631 00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:56,680 the king of all this realm, but there are parts of this realm 632 00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:59,720 that I cannot go to. Well, man, are you the king or 633 00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:01,880 not? You know what that king would do 634 00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:04,360 if there were parts of the realm that felt like that? 635 00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:08,480 He'd probably bring an army and he'd probably subdue the people 636 00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:13,000 to be able to rightly rule the people he's supposed to rule. 637 00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:16,600 I will say this, there are times because God loves us. 638 00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:19,640 Going back to Hebrews chapter 12, that there are parts of our 639 00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:23,880 life we don't give him. There are realms within us that 640 00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:26,360 we do not give with to Him like we should. 641 00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:32,440 And sometimes He has to do some work on us to be able to get us 642 00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:36,680 to a place where we say, Lord, this belongs to you. 643 00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:42,120 It doesn't belong to me. I give it to you. 644 00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:45,400 It's not about what I want. It's not what about what I need. 645 00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:47,680 It's not about what I think. It's not about what my opinions 646 00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:48,720 are. Lord, I give it to you. 647 00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:51,760 And again, this sounds like such a negative, but do you realize 648 00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:55,040 what freedom this brings to the Christian and the Christian? 649 00:32:55,080 --> 00:32:58,080 When you live the Christian life the way God intends it, it is 650 00:32:58,080 --> 00:33:03,360 not constricting, it's not restrictive, it's not fear 651 00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:06,120 inducing. It's all about freedom. 652 00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:11,320 Because when the King of kings is your king, what freedom do 653 00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:12,560 you have? It's incredible. 654 00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:16,440 You know, they say that you can go pretty much anywhere in the 655 00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:19,680 world with an American passport. I've never really thought about 656 00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:21,040 it before. I've only used my passport a 657 00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:24,240 couple of times. But that there's great power 658 00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:25,600 that comes with an American passport. 659 00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:28,360 A lot of other passports. You can't go to other countries 660 00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:31,320 the way that ours can, that we have, that we can go to pretty 661 00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:32,680 much almost any country in the world. 662 00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:34,520 If you want to go to North Korea, listen, that's all you. 663 00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:35,520 I don't know that you can make it. 664 00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:38,040 But for the most, for the most part, you can go pretty much 665 00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:40,320 anywhere. But do you realize that when we 666 00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:44,600 belong to the Kingdom of his dear son done that it's not 667 00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:48,920 restrictive, it's freeing. I think sometimes we don't 668 00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:51,240 believe that. I think sometimes we think, you 669 00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:53,480 know what? If I really, if I really gave 670 00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:55,760 him everything, my life was over. 671 00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:58,080 My life would be over. And you realize if you gave him 672 00:33:58,080 --> 00:34:01,440 everything, your life would just begin in a way that you couldn't 673 00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:03,560 even imagine. Trust him. 674 00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:10,679 This isn't about legalism or Bad Religion or crazy angry 675 00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:13,719 independent Baptists. No, this is about this. 676 00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:16,120 God says this. If he's going to be the king, 677 00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:21,000 make a king. These people had this weird 678 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:22,440 attitude with David. He's annoying the king, but 679 00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:23,400 we're not going to make him king. 680 00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:27,000 Just make it crown him. What are you waiting for? 681 00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:31,840 Just crown the man. And for us, it's can we crown 682 00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:35,239 him in our hearts? Not the man, but the God. 683 00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:41,320 Man Jesus Christ 100% God 100% man who lived that life so that 684 00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:46,440 he could help us even when we're in tempted because he knows all 685 00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:48,080 points. He was tempted on all points 686 00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:52,440 like we were yet without sin. And that was he did that so that 687 00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:56,360 he could better help us as our King to get us through the 688 00:34:56,360 --> 00:35:00,720 difficulties of life. What an amazing God we have #1 689 00:35:00,720 --> 00:35:05,280 Don't wait to make Jesus King of your heart #2 if you're like 690 00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:08,480 most people and you haven't truly made him the king the way 691 00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:12,640 that you're supposed to. And maybe you've lived some of 692 00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:13,960 your life. Maybe you've lived a lot of your 693 00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:17,600 life and you know you've never truly made him the king of, of 694 00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:21,520 every area of your life. My second point is this tonight 695 00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:23,080 and this, and this is very quick. 696 00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:28,800 If you do, if you did wait to make him king, do it anyway and 697 00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:33,360 rejoice when you do. If you've waited, just do it 698 00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:37,840 anyway and rejoice when you do. See, oftentimes I've found with 699 00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:43,080 a type of message like this that it can almost induce sadness. 700 00:35:43,240 --> 00:35:47,160 It can almost induce discouragement in people. 701 00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:49,840 Well, look, look at me. Look at where I am in my life 702 00:35:50,080 --> 00:35:52,200 and I still don't trust him the way that I'm supposed to. 703 00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:54,320 Can I be honest with you? Until you're in glory, you're 704 00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:56,520 not going to trust him the way you're supposed to when you see 705 00:35:56,520 --> 00:35:59,000 him face to face. But I do know this. 706 00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:01,680 I want to trust him more tomorrow than I did today and I 707 00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:03,960 want to trust him to more today than I did last week. 708 00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:08,000 But this process of actually making him the King of your 709 00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:09,920 life, actually listening to him in every facet. 710 00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:12,720 If you haven't done it the way that you should, if you, if 711 00:36:12,720 --> 00:36:14,840 you've gone through a rough patch of discouragement, if 712 00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:17,560 you've gone through a time where you didn't listen to him, if you 713 00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:19,920 went through years, or maybe you're away from the Lord, 714 00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:22,720 whatever it is it and you feel unworthy or you feel like you 715 00:36:22,720 --> 00:36:24,520 can't or you feel like you shouldn't or you feel like, 716 00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:27,880 like, what's the point anymore? Do you think that's the Holy 717 00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:32,160 Spirit saying that to you? Or maybe that's Satan who wants 718 00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:34,840 to keep you away from the Lord, you know? 719 00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:39,040 Hey, crown him. And when you do rejoice, turn to 720 00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:40,680 First Chronicles chapter 12. We're almost done. 721 00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:42,880 First Chronicles chapter 12. Remember I mentioned those 722 00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:45,960 300,000 that all showed up at David's coronation? 723 00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:47,240 Boy, what a party that would have been. 724 00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:55,480 First Chronicles chapter 12, Look at verse #23 verse. 725 00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:58,720 Chronicles 12 just a few pages over verse 23 that says, and 726 00:36:58,720 --> 00:37:01,240 these are the numbers of the bands that were ready armed to 727 00:37:01,240 --> 00:37:05,120 war, and came to David, to Hebron to turn the Kingdom of 728 00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:07,040 Saul to him according to the word of God. 729 00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:10,520 Now the next several verses just give the reckoning of the amount 730 00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:13,120 of soldiers that were there, and it would have been well over 731 00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:16,840 300,000. Now drop down to verse #38 All 732 00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:20,240 these men of war that could keep rank came with a perfect heart 733 00:37:20,240 --> 00:37:22,880 to Hebron to make David king over all Israel. 734 00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:26,840 And all the rest also of Israel were of 1 heart to make David 735 00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:29,240 king. And they were with David three 736 00:37:29,240 --> 00:37:32,120 days, eating and drinking, for their brethren had prepared for 737 00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:34,360 them. Moreover, they that were thy 738 00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:38,120 them, even unto Issachar and Zebulun and Naphthali, brought 739 00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:41,880 bread on asses, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen and 740 00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:46,800 meat meal, cakes of figs, bunches of raisins, wine, oil, 741 00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:52,720 oxen and sheep abundantly. For there was joy in Israel. 742 00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:55,800 These are the same people that waited. 743 00:37:56,920 --> 00:38:00,240 These are the same people that held David at arm's length all 744 00:38:00,240 --> 00:38:02,880 that time. But they finally got it. 745 00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:06,920 And when they did, with a perfect heart, they came 746 00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:09,840 together and they must have been Baptist because what did they 747 00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:11,760 do? They brought a lot of food and 748 00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:15,840 for three days they ate and they drank and they enjoy themselves. 749 00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:18,160 Let's stop talking about drinking in an intoxicating way, 750 00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:20,280 obviously, but it's talking about the fact that they had 751 00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:24,680 great joy amongst themselves. They should have done it two 752 00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:30,360 years before, but they did it. And when they did it, they 753 00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:33,240 rejoiced. It's my point this evening to 754 00:38:33,240 --> 00:38:35,440 make you discouraged. Look at look at how old I am. 755 00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:38,080 Look at how long I've been in the Lord and I should be so much 756 00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:40,240 further in my Christian life. Maybe that's how you feel. 757 00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:43,680 Maybe you feel like now you know, I don't trust him. 758 00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:47,120 I trust everything else. I trust everyone else, but he's 759 00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:51,040 the king in position. But in all practicality, he's 760 00:38:51,040 --> 00:38:55,440 not the king of my heart. My purpose is not to discourage 761 00:38:55,440 --> 00:38:58,000 you tonight. It's to encourage you to say, 762 00:38:58,640 --> 00:39:02,960 then make him the king of that area of your life, making the 763 00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:07,720 king of that component of your life tonight, make him the king. 764 00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:13,200 And when you do realize this, that when you do that, you will 765 00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:19,000 have such great joy and gladness that the only thing you'll say 766 00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:22,440 is I wished I'd done it sooner. But you won't even say it 767 00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:25,000 necessarily like you're, you're moping about it the rest of your 768 00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:28,200 life and just say, I wished I'd done it sooner because look at 769 00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:32,440 how good it is when the one who is anointed king actually is 770 00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:36,120 allowed to be king in my life. I'll leave you with this thought 771 00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:37,960 and we're done. If you, if you were to go back 772 00:39:37,960 --> 00:39:43,000 to verse number or chapter #5 you don't have to right now. 773 00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:45,440 But do you remember Hiram? We had that, that little verse 774 00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:50,000 about Hiram, the King of Tyre. And he was the one who said, 775 00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:52,720 Hey, you know, you're building this Jerusalem. 776 00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:55,160 I'll give you some, I'll give you some materials. 777 00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:56,760 You know, there was no Lowe's back then. 778 00:39:56,760 --> 00:39:59,760 So, you know, Hiram, King of Tyre was like Lowe's and Home 779 00:39:59,760 --> 00:40:01,680 Depot put together. It's like, hey, you know, you 780 00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:03,520 know, you know, you need something, you ask something, 781 00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:05,680 you know. This is what you, we'll give it 782 00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:09,720 to you whatever you need. But you know, Hiram did not 783 00:40:09,720 --> 00:40:15,280 recognize David as king until Israel recognized David as king. 784 00:40:15,280 --> 00:40:19,320 Do you know one of the reasons it's so important for us to live 785 00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:22,120 like he's the king? Because the world that we 786 00:40:22,120 --> 00:40:26,480 interact with will not truly see Jesus and us until we do. 787 00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:31,880 I wish, I wish my Co workers saw, I wish they would listen 788 00:40:31,880 --> 00:40:35,040 about Jesus. Maybe they need to see Jesus in 789 00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:37,520 you first, that you live like he's the king. 790 00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:41,200 Why doesn't my family get it? Why don't they listen? 791 00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:45,120 Perhaps, and again, I'm not saying this is the only reason. 792 00:40:45,120 --> 00:40:47,160 There's a lot of reasons. Everyone has to come to make 793 00:40:47,160 --> 00:40:50,280 these decisions on their own. But perhaps we need to actually 794 00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:53,000 live like he's the King within our own life. 795 00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:55,600 That there's some things we have to say no to. 796 00:40:56,400 --> 00:40:57,840 There's some events we can't go to. 797 00:40:58,520 --> 00:41:00,040 There's some things we can't participate in. 798 00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:02,880 Well, that'll push them away. Will it push them away? 799 00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:06,720 Or maybe we'll just show them if you do it in love, that you 800 00:41:06,720 --> 00:41:10,040 serve a different king and that, no, there's some activities I 801 00:41:10,040 --> 00:41:12,160 can't go to. I won't go to, I won't go to 802 00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:14,280 during church time. Now these, this is what I do. 803 00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:16,640 I'll come after church. I'll, I'll come on a different 804 00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:17,760 day. Let's have it at a different 805 00:41:17,760 --> 00:41:20,680 time or, or whatnot. No, I can't do that at work. 806 00:41:20,680 --> 00:41:23,000 No, I, I, I wouldn't, I can't do that. 807 00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:25,680 I, I feel like if I do that with the paperwork, I'm, I'm fudging 808 00:41:25,680 --> 00:41:28,600 the numbers and I can't do that. I, I won't do that. 809 00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:32,680 No, no, I know that you all we're friends, but I know you're 810 00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:34,360 going to a place. I don't, I don't, I can't, I'm 811 00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:38,000 not comfortable going to or you're telling stories and and I 812 00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:40,840 just can't participate in those. You say I would sound like such 813 00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:44,080 a oh, I would sound so awful if I talk like that. 814 00:41:44,720 --> 00:41:49,040 Well, first of all, you don't say it in a way to be a jerk. 815 00:41:50,360 --> 00:41:52,240 You know, you don't say, hey, you heathens, what are you doing 816 00:41:52,240 --> 00:41:58,800 on Sunday morning? No, you say, hey, you know, I'd 817 00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:01,520 love to be there, right? But I have a prior commitment. 818 00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:03,480 Well, that's not true. And I have a prior commitment to 819 00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:08,160 my king. But hey, maybe when they see 820 00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:13,080 that, they will see more in you and they'll see Christ in you. 821 00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:16,320 The hope of glory. Hiram did not recognize David as 822 00:42:16,320 --> 00:42:19,360 king until the people of Israel recognized David as king. 823 00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:23,520 And how many people out here will not truly see Jesus until 824 00:42:23,520 --> 00:42:26,840 they see him in us, the people of God? 825 00:42:27,640 --> 00:42:30,680 So this week, as we consider these things, let's don't wait 826 00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:33,120 to put Jesus on the throne until everything else fails. 827 00:42:34,240 --> 00:42:36,200 Jesus isn't the last one we pick on the kickball team. 828 00:42:37,040 --> 00:42:41,360 No, he's the first. The first in our heart, the 1st 829 00:42:41,360 --> 00:42:44,600 for our love, the first for affection, the first in 830 00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:46,560 everything. And that's not restrictive. 831 00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:50,400 That brings freedom unlike anything you can imagine. 832 00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:54,120 Thank you for listening to the sermon from the pulpit of 833 00:42:54,120 --> 00:42:57,000 Liberty Baptist Church. If this message was a blessing 834 00:42:57,000 --> 00:43:00,440 to you, or if there's any way we can serve you, please let us 835 00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:05,040 know by contacting us at info@mylibertybaptist.org. 836 00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:09,880 Or you can visit us this Sunday at 800 Washington St. in Easton, 837 00:43:09,880 --> 00:43:12,720 MA. May the Lord bless you as you 838 00:43:12,720 --> 00:43:13,920 grow in His Word.