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All right, my Bible in 365. 
Brothers and sisters, we have 

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arrived at the absolutely 
stunning book of First 

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Chronicles. 
Now, these are the Chronicles of

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the Kings of Judah, not to be 
conflated with the Chronicles of

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the Kings of Israel. 
There is a book or a series of 

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books that are the Chronicles of
the Kings of Israel, but we 

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don't know where they are. 
I'm serious. 

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These are incredible books. 
I'm going to talk about First 

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Chronicles today. 
We will later talk about Second 

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Chronicles. 
There is so much to say about 

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this, and I think the best way 
to approach this book is to go 

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through what I believe to be one
of the most powerful passages 

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yet, one of the most 
misunderstood. 

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And I think you're going to love
the fact that I went over this 

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with you because it is so 
encouraging. 

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So we're going to read. 
I'm going to read through First 

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Chronicles chapter 17, and I'm 
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And you are going to love this. 
I promise you, when we're done 

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with it, you're going to be 
blown away. 

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It says this, and it shall come 
to pass that when thy days be 

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expired, that thou must go to be
with thy father's, that I will 

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raise up thy seed after thee, 
which shall be of thy sons. 

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And I will establish his 
Kingdom, and he shall build me a

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house, and I will establish his 
throne forever. 

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I will be his father and he 
shall be my son, and I will not 

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take my mercy away from him, as 
I took it from him that was 

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before thee. 
But I will settle him in mine 

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house and in my Kingdom forever,
and his throne shall be 

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established forever. 
It's powerful stuff. 

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Now I want to just simply say 
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The book of First Chronicles, 
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just like First and Second 
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intimidating, especially First 
Chronicles, because it opens the

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chapter up with a bunch of names
and genealogies, and those names

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are not meaningless. 
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clear. 
There's a lot of meaning there, 

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and we're going to talk about 
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Let me just simply say that they
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The very first name in the book 
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genealogies move through the 
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Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, the 12 
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to the family of David. 
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hear about Albert and then 
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And then of course, you're going
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from Jesse. 
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that Israel's history is part of
a much larger plan that began 

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with the creation of mankind and
that God had not forgotten His 

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promises. 
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and that's why this means so 
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know why. 
I'm going to explain it now. 

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I have to start off by simply 
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had experienced judgment. 
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we're talking about. 
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We know that the 9th of, of 586 
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It's when the temple was 
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They experienced captivity and 
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been destroyed. 
The temple had been completely 

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burned to the ground. 
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the land, these genealogies 
reminded them that they still 

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had an identity, that they still
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actually had a a plan in God's 
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And that's a very, very 
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Now, this book is called First 
Chronicles because it gives us a

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record of the Chronicles of the 
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history. 
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every event recorded in what you
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It focuses primarily on David. 
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Jerusalem. 
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Believe it or not. 
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worship and preparations for the
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That's very important to 
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human figure here in Chronicles,
First Chronicles specifically, 

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That is important. 
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Saul had been Israel's first 
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king. 
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But he repeatedly rejected the 
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He did not obey what God said. 
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through First Chronicles because
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downfall, because Saul died for 
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committed against the Lord. 
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Chronicles actually said, and 
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out. 
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contrast here because Saul 
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the word of the Lord, and David 
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chose to establish. 
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think that's why this can be so 
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many ways could be accused of 
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He could be accused of being all
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Yet God used him to unite the 
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Jerusalem as its capital. 
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important. 
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all of Israel. 
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to be consequential to a lot of 
facts that we don't necessarily 

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understand. 
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he did was so important. 
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about the Ark of the Covenant. 
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the Tabernacle or the temple or 
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happened because of David. 
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Let's talk about the Ark for 
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The ark represented the presence
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It's very, very clear, OK? 
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would not be strong because it 
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center of its life. 
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the Ark ended in disaster 
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new cart instead of being 
carried according to the way God

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commanded. 
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be more efficient. 
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a big problem. 
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He ended up dying as a result 
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falling to the ground. 
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this later. 
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the Levites when they got the 
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it the right way. 
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the ark. 
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sacrifices that were being made 
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Thanksgiving and all the 
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And David even went so far as to
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musicians to participate in 
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with the people. 
That emphasizes a lot of things 

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to us, a lot of principles that 
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David was a worshiper. 
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Lord was the true king of 
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I think he really believed that.
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he knew that God was the real 
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and prosperity and future 
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but entirely on the Lord. 
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to build a house for God. 
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Tabernacle. 
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be encapsulated by a Tabernacle.
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He tells the prophet, I want to 
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And the prophet says, yeah, or I
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And the prophet says, yeah, 
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And God tells the prophet, you 
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You misrepresented me. 
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build the temple because his 
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It was remarkable. 
We actually call it the Davidic 

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promise, the Davidic covenant. 
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son would sit upon his throne 
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That promise was initially 
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I guess you could argue that, 
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a king who would rule in 
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Jesus. 
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completely fulfill the promise 
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Solomon eventually died and the 
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died. 
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fulfilled that way. 
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come through Christ Jesus, who 
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And I just finished talking 
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it in the book of Luke and 
Matthew in my last study in Luke

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where we talked about it, and it
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Jesus our Messiah is the 
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That's a phrase we need to 
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He's the rightful king of 
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This is why I'm very, very 
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when we talk about Christ being 
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king one day over the universe, 
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That's a whole other issue. 
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But he will rule over a Kingdom 
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Now this is interesting because 
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military victories, and there 
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The Lord gave him victory over 
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Moabites, the Syrians, you guys,
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Ammonites. 
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of other surrounding enemies 
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David's power didn't come from 
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His victories actually came from
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But this is interesting because 
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David's failure either. 
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ordered a census when God told 
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It doesn't hide the fact that he
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The judgement stopped at the 
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Jebusite. 
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that location. 
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repentance. 
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Lord. 
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important because it was the 
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build the temple. 
That's a very important fact to 

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know, which, by the way, doesn't
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the highest place in the city. 
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Even in judgment, God was 
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and worship. 
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Although David was not permitted
to build the temple, he spent 

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the closing years of his life 
preparing to build the temple, 

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gathering the materials to build
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Pretty amazing when you think 
about it. 

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David wanted the next generation
to succeed in accomplishing what

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God had called them to do. 
He charged Solomon to remain 

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faithful and courageous. 
He says this in First Chronicles

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22. 
It's a beautiful passage. 

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Here's what I want you to think 
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The book ends with the people 
giving willingly for the 

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construction of the temple. 
David praises God and publicly 

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acknowledges that everything 
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I love the pattern that we see 
in that first Chronicles. 

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In summary, teaches us that God 
is faithful across generations. 

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Look, human kings, they're going
to rise and fall. 

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We see it all the time. 
Nations experience victories and

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defeats. 
Some completely fall, some 

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completely rise quickly, some 
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People are going to fail. 
They're going to suffer 

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consequences. 
People eventually die. 

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I've got news for you, but the 
purposes of God continue. 

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The genealogies that we see here
show that God remembers his 

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people. 
The life of Saul warns us about 

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rejecting the Word of God. 
The life of David teaches us to 

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seek God's presence, to worship 
him according to his Word, and 

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to prepare the next generation 
to serve him. 

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And the temple preparations that
we read about, they remind us 

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that everything we possess 
ultimately belongs to God. 

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I want you to see this and the 
covenant with David. 

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That covenant points us to Jesus
Christ, the one who will reign 

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as King, whose throne will be 
established forever. 

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Central message of First 
Chronicles is that the Lord 

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remains faithful. 
The central message of First 

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Chronicles is that his people, 
his promised king, they're never

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going to. 
They're going to rule forever. 

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Like, think about this, God will
reign forever through His 

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promised King, Jesus Christ. 
Like that just throws me off. 

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It's an incredible thing. 
We're going to be a part of His 

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Kingdom. 
Human failure, listen to me, 

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'cause this is where it all 
culminates. 

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Human failure can't cancel the 
plan of God. 

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A Kingdom belongs to Him. 
His purposes will ultimately be 

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fulfilled through Jesus Christ, 
the Son of David, the one who 

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will stand as our everlasting 
king. 

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Now why is that important? 
Because we have hope. 

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You experience loss, somebody 
you miss, somebody pass away 

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recently, somebody you love, be 
thinking about heaven. 

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It all relates to the promise of
God. 

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And First Chronicles does a 
great job of reminding us that 

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God doesn't go back on his 
promises because he's faithful 

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and he's good. 
Praise the Lord. 

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God is good. 
Guys. 

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We have every reason to be 
blessed. 

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We have every reason to look 
forward to all that God has for 

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us. 
Why? 

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Because God is good. 
God bless you guys.