 Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening. Hope you all are doing well. I want to go ahead and jump into it This won't be too terribly long, but there are some points. We're still moving forward so far. We have covered Genesis all the way up to where we are now, which is second Samuel and We have discovered some things and things that we know to be the truth now Have we discovered everything that there is to know about the Bible? Well, no not yet We have discovered we've come across some things that we can identify that are characteristics of God We have not heard the name Jesus yet We don't know that there is a Jesus as of yet as we're reading because what we're doing is we are taking away all of our Hopefully our presuppositions Hopefully things that we have brought into and it was hard to divorce yourself from what you've been taught what you've been told That can be difficult and so the only way the best way that you can go about doing it is to Divorce yourself from any of those things preconceived notions and so forth is to try to put yourself in the place of the people at the time the writer the hearers and so forth and You can only bring up or talk about what is the things that we've covered thus far And so the question is what have we covered thus far? Let me just go ahead and put on the screen So far we have covered in the Old Testament We've covered the chronological books if you have not seen this yet or have not done a screen a screenshot just yet Go ahead and do a screenshot the chronological books are Genesis X's numbers Joshua Judges first and second Samuel that's as far as we've gone as far as the chronological books, but then we have Complementary books such as Job is a complimentary book the Genesis We're not totally sure which one of those books came first Between Job and Genesis if you say Job fine if you say Genesis then fine It's not a big deal, but Joe is a complimentary book to Genesis and continuing We have two complimentary books to exodus as well as I guess numbers which is Leviticus and Deuteronomy because as the law was given Then we have extra detail That's also given that we find in Deuteronomy as well as in numbers. I'm sorry as well as in Leviticus Then we also have as a complimentary book to judges We have Ruth and then as a complimentary book to first and second Samuel We have first and second Chronicles, which is also a complimentary book to first and second Kings Which we'll get to more than likely compiled by Ezra now You're gonna also notice as you look at this and we it just Good to go over this in case someone is joining us for the first time or someone has forgotten this or didn't hear the first time When you look at some of these books such as the the wisdom books Psalms Proverbs Clasiasic song and Solomon Well, we're getting to where those also become Complementary as well because we know that some of the Psalms and Some of the Proverbs were also written by Some of the people that we have covered thus far and then as you look at the different prophetic books We have not gotten to really the prophets of yet Although we've seen some prophets, but we have not gotten to the what we call the prophetic books And by the way, we said before we don't divide them up between major and minor prophets There isn't there's really no such thing billically that I understand why some people might actually divide them But for us they're not what we do is we look at when the prophet was who he was prophesying to in the purpose For example, we've got the two prophets who prophesied to the northern kingdoms And then we've got the bulk of the prophets who prophesied to the southern kings of being Joel Micah Isaiah and so forth and we've got the prophets who prophesied during the exile and the prophets who prophesied during the restoration And we've got three prophets who prophesied to The rest of the work to the Gentile nations to the nations and so that being the case We're gonna go ahead and jump into it. The question was are we taking questions? We are always taking questions during this During the Bible studies and would you say what dispensation are we in you mean right now? Well, if you tell me right now as far as the Bible studies in we're in the we're under the law and so The law is the Jews say the major prophets as one book Though though right now we are under the law however, there was what prophecy that was given not a prophecy but a Covenant that was given as well We've covered thus far a couple of different covenants. We covered obviously first the Noe covenant now There are some that might want to hold to that to the Adamic covenant the covenant with Adam And call it a covenant though the Bible does not call it itself a covenant, but if you want to say it's a covenant That's fine. I have a problem with it. I wouldn't fight someone on it But technically the Bible never calls it a covenant, but it does name the Noe covenant It does name the Abrahamic covenant it does name the old covenant or the mosaic covenant and then we now we have just a few weeks ago We talked about the Davidic covenant covenant made with David, but it's really more not about David He is just kind of the what would say the progenitor. He is the he starts it off But it's really not about him We'll find out who it's about in a little bit matter of going to do a recap of it in just a little bit So that being the question A spider makes says isn't Joe also considered part of the wisdom books. No No No, I wouldn't I wouldn't say that I wouldn't naturally be told all of these terms are really just kind of our own way of putting together So whoever if a person wants to categorize them there There's there's no hard and fast rule as to how we categorize them anyway We categorize them to try to help each other out help folks out And so if a person wants to say it's a wisdom book, I don't have a problem with that However, all of the wisdom books that we kind of categorize as wisdom books You'll notice when they when they happen to take place They're all around the same around the same time frame in terms of when they were written Whereas Joe might have been the very first book that was written So but if you want to call it a wisdom book, I don't have a problem with that I don't I don't have I mean I wouldn't be dogmatic on that one where the other Um That's what the Bible project said and we know how I don't feel I don't have any bad feelings about the Bible project I really I think I think 90 plus percent of what what the Bible project does is is excellent is wonderful But there are certain things and this is where when your feelings come in your feelings start interfering with the interpretation of the text And so some of the things that he says The Tim Mackey said I would all have well I would say we would all have to but most people would disagree particularly what he stated about hail So I don't really have a problem with the Bible project. I really don't they make a lot of wonderful Videos and discussions and so I really don't have a problem with that. So anyway, that being the case Let's go ahead and jump into it. We want to pick up in Second Samuel chapter 13. We're not gonna read all of them gonna kind of skim a little bit By the way, while we're here, Jesus eternal is celebrating his birthday. Happy birthday to you and so going in the second Samuel chapter 13 we see where one of one of David's son Amnon is attracted to his daughter Which is obviously for us today. It's a bit weird That's a bit weird did your son comes you say hey daddy, listen, I've got feelings from a sister well His this sister is not the sister of his mother It is the sister of his brother by another woman. So Is that allowable well at the time yes kind of It's icky let's put it that way DWS junk it it is it is a bit icky now We won't go too far into it except to say that during this time Amnon is just really really as he says in love with her He's not really in love with he's just infatuated because what he does is he forces himself on her He kind of even uses David To Have him bring his daughter to him to kind of help him She comes in and he takes advantage of he put he forces himself on her and in doing so he rapes her Let's just be honest with what happens he rapes her and then after that rather than doing even what is probably what he should Should do is we're getting married. No, he hates her. He can't stands her Obviously Amnon is not a good child. Well, we're gonna find out something about David through all this now remember David has this is after David sin David has sinned with Bathsheba and There was a prophecy that was the word of the Lord that came and says what's gonna happen David His house is gonna be in chaos the the sword will be against his house forever As long as he lives the sword is going to be against his house Because a result of your sin now the Bible says that David is a man after God's on heart We've covered this before That it doesn't mean that God. I mean that David has a heart of a heart like God David true is a godly man But is not a not a man after God's heart and same in the sense that he has the same Heart of God David gets involved in sin. However, we're going to see though though. He has sinned We're also going to see that David has his humility and His trust or faith in God on full display So that's a good thing. Amen, but it's possible for a person to have both To be good and have godly characteristics while at the same time sin Everyone ought to say man because that's us everybody in this platform in this chat everybody that you know sins What you want to be is godly There is no such thing as a person who does not sin and the person who says so leave that person alone You step away from that person, but I want to pick up in verse 37 of Chapter 13. Let me let me scroll down to get there myself This is after I'm not a done what he did what he did and his brother Absalon is furious. He hates him. He want he wants revenge He wants to get back at me because you violated my system. We've seen this before We have seen this before where it hurts the family Remember recall when Jacob's Children when Diana is violated and the brothers want to get back at the man Not just the man who did it but the people of that man now in the in that case though The man himself wants to marry her but no it's not gonna happen And so they deal treacherously After making a covenant they violate the covenant just so they can kill the people well in this case Amnon doesn't even want to do that. Amnon is a horrible person Absalon wants to do what most of us probably do go out and get some sort of revenge or vengeance on the person That violated his sister and so if we go down to verse 37 Absalon has Has a feast And after that after Absalon has his feast He brings in now David is told that all of the sons are killed but only Amnon is killed Amnon is killed at this feast as a as a way of getting revenge now as it happens Absalon then flees matter of fact. Let's go to the start of verse 34. Now Absalon fled And the young man who was who was the watchman raised his eye and looked and behold Many people were coming from the road behind him by the side of the mountain Jonadab said to the king behold the king's sons. He says plural Have have come according to your servants were so what happened as soon as he finished speaking Behold the king's sons came and with their voice and wept and also the king and all his servants wept very bitterly verse 37 Absalon fled and went to tell my the son of a me who'd the king of guess sure and David mourn for his son Every day now the question is why would he flee there and this is important Remember and let's put it back on the school. Let's go to the fool's ring David loves his son David David does have David is David is a loyal person now. He's upset and angry what his son did by killing another son But David is a loyal person. He's a he's a he's a loving man Obviously, he loved he loves the people who he has loved for for example he He lingered obviously with Saul longer than most would have more than most even advise him to but he considered him to be the Lord's anointed even after the Lord's anoint even after the Lord's anointing had left him But David was honorable in that regard and he was loyal in that regard and the same thing is happening here as it relates to His son now if only David had been a little bit more loyal and faithful to Uriah well then David you would not be in this position, would you but he was not and so he flees now This isn't the Absalon isn't the first person to flee to this region David himself has also Had also when he was being chased by Saul and went to go stay with the Philistines. This is also where David had fled now, so we want to look at who Absalon's mother is and so if we go to Second wait a second. I gotta put something on the screen. I'm sorry Put this up There we go, and so let's look into who Absalon's mother is in the second Samuel 3 3 Let's start in verse 2 sons were born to David at Hebron. His firstborn was Amnon by He know him the Jesu light and his second kill you by Abigail the widow of Nabal the Carmelite and the third Absalon Absalon the son of Makkah The daughter of Taumai king of Gesheur and the fourth Adonajah now. We'll stop right there We have to go into all of his children, but these two are the ones that are important Amnon and Absalon now the problem with Absalon is Well, you know what before I get there. I want to hold up because it's gonna be part of a question It's gonna be part of a question. So now Absalon flees. I Want I wouldn't introduce that we're gonna come back to Absalon in just a little bit and Absalon's lineage because that's important Absalon's matter of fact, let's go to first time in 27 and why I want to read this as well too First time in 27 one then David said to himself now I will perish one day by the hand of Saul there was nothing better for me than to escape into the land of the Philistines Saul then will despair of searching for me anymore In all the territory of Israel and I will escape from his hand. Let me drop down and Verse three and David lived in Akish at gaff he and his men each with his household even David with his two wives He know him the Jesu light and Abigail the Carmelite and the Bell's wife now It was told Saul had fled. I mean the David had fled to gath. So we no longer search him drop down a little further And I believe it's verse eight now David and his men here. This is important David and his men Went up and rated the Gershawites and the Gersites and the Malachi's For they were inhabitants of the land from ancient times as as you come to sure even as far as land of Egypt so now Understand the Gershawites Which is where? Absalom just fled to those are not Jews. Okay, that part is important to remember Okay, so let's go back to where we started off from excuse me and then let's drop down a verse chapter 14 verse 1 and I don't want to read all let's go down to verse 33 Chapter 14 is a verse. Let me just make sure verse 33 after a while Absalon is reunited with his father. I don't want to go over. I'll let you all go and read that for yourselves I just want to highlight the more important points, but Absalon is reunited with his father in verse 33. Let's drop there because Joab Y'all remember Joab Joab Convinces him that he should be reunited with his son. However when he comes back into the land He doesn't see him for two years, but then in verse 33 He does so when Joab came to the king and told him he called for Absalom Thus he came to the king and prostrated himself on his face to the ground before the king and the king kissed Absalom So this is re-night re-nighting however My Absalom is not a good person to either Unfortunately, neither is Amnon nor is Absalom. Why because Absalom has desires on the throne But guess what this comes as a result of what David did There are times where you would think and hope and even wish that the results or the consequences of your sin Would wane that they would go away. Lord, you've punished me enough. I lost think about it. David. I lost my baby Now I lost his son daughter was raped and Now I've got this other son who is coming against me and it's going to be worse Remember what the prophecy was against David about what he did Not only will the sword be against his house. What matter of fact, let's go. Let's go back to let's let's go to Give me one second. I want to go back to Let me go find this prophecy. I'm sorry. I Want to go to this prophecy and Let's see. Give me one second. I don't know why I did not pull this up Okay, here it is. I want to make sure I do not Okay Chapter 11, but where I don't want to read the whole thing. I just want to read Let me go to the prophecy or the the rebuke that he has Is it worth it 12? Yeah, here it is. I'm sorry chapter 12 and Starting verse 7 Nathan said to David you are this man He gives me a little story about someone who has taken advantage of a weaker person And David finds out according to that. No, that's you David and he says you are this man He says Thus as the Lord of God at Israel It is I who anointed you king over Israel and it is I who delivers you from the hand of Saul I also gave you your master's house and your master's wives into your care And I gave you the house of Israel and Judah and if you if it had been too little I would have added to you more things like these So whatever you wanted you could have had David Why have you despised the word of the Lord by doing evil in his sight? You have struck down your ride the head tight with the sword have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the Sword of the sons of Ammon Now therefore look what he says the sword shall never depart from your house Because you have despised me and have taken the wife of your ride the head tight to be your wife Thus says the Lord behold I will raise up evil against you. This is the Lord saying he's doing this and now remember vitally important understand who is ultimately going to be causing this to be happened God says I will raise up evil against you From your own household So let's stop there for a second. This is why it's important. This is why I say God means what he says He doesn't have to sit and figure out what word should I use what word he uses he uses correctly He chooses words correctly and he means his words What he says he means and what he means he says and how he says it exactly let me say it again Exactly ladies and gentlemen one more time Exactly is how it's going to come about He is a guy that didn't have to kind of figure out Let me see if I can make this fit into the way I prophesied this thing. No, that's what he says He says this is the Lord. I will raise up evil. I will I will do the one that will do this I will raise up evil against you from where? From your own household So someone in your house David is going to come up against you Not against your sons or anyone else but against you David That's getting ready to happen I will even take your wives before your eyes and give them to your companion And he will lie with your wives in broad daylight that is getting ready to happen Indeed you did it secretly but I will do this thing before all that's important notice what he says I will do this before all and he shall lie lie with your wives in broad Daylight as he says I would I'll do this you did it in secret, but I would do this thing before all Israel and under the Sun Now David wants to say I have sinned Well, you should have said that before you should have thought about that before because here comes a punishment and It's going to be severe So let's go back to where we started off where we left off at and so now in chapter 15 verse 1 We're gonna do a little bit of reading here Now what came about? After this that epsilon provided for himself a chariot and horses and 50 men as run before him epsilon used to rise early and stand beside the way to the gate and when any man had had a suit to come to the king for judgment Absalom will call to him and say from what city are you so another word what's happening is if someone has an issue Absalom say come here. I'll take care of this for you What epsilon was doing was epsilon was a modern-day politician at that time He was trying to curry favor with the people and he did he found favor with the people So the people began to look at him more so than they did Absalom more than they did David Okay, and so epsilon is now removing people from David to be in his camp Let's drop down to verse 7 now it came about at the end of 40 years that epsilon said to the king Please let me go and pay my vow which I vowed to the Lord in Hebron Now this isn't after 40 years of all this happened. This is after 40 years Period so this is not 40 years of epsilon For your servant vowed a vow while I was living in Geshara Geshara in Aram saying if the Lord shall indeed bring me back To Jerusalem, then I will serve the Lord that he's lying Then the king said go in peace so he arose and went to Hebron So epsilon sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel saying as soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet Then you shall say epsilon is king in Hebron now a thing with us for a second Let's think about epsilon is going and he sends word throughout the people How can he possibly say that at that moment unless he had already had things in the work? He had already been kind of sowing seeds Planting this to happen. You don't just all of a sudden up and one day tell folks do this Against king David, you know the guy that defeated all of our enemies this mighty king the one who we know the Lord has anointed him You don't do that unless someone's been planting a seed in you Sowing something in your ear Planning something and then so this comes a fruition is happening And so verse 11 then 200 men went with epsilon from Jerusalem Who were invited and went innocently and they did not know anything verse 12 an epsilon sent for Ahitapel the Gileonite David's counselor from his city Gilo While he was offering sacrifices and the conspiracy was strong for the people increased continually with epsilon So this has been going on on so epsilon has been doing this. I think over a period of four years Absalom been working. He has been working. He has been politic. He's been doing all these things and it's working Now think about this for a second epsilon To get people to move and by the way the problem is this The the fear that david had And it's going to be the same fear again Is how you treated the person who who did your your son this way Absalom should have been dealt with probably more severely than you did And so that's part of the issue. It comes up again in dealing with epsilon as well Verse 13 then a messenger came to david saying the hearts of the men of israel are with epsilon So one of his political pollsters came and said listen, we've taken polls and we come to find out that The vote is in favor of him right now right now it we predict that epsilon would win the vote He's leading in all the swing states and all the non swing states Absalom has carried favor over you david. So we got a problem David said to all of the servants who are with them in Jerusalem arise and let us free flee for otherwise None of us will escape from epsilon We got a problem david We have a problem now every faithful man in the bible saved jesus Let me say it again Every faithful man in the bible that we've got a little bit of history Let me put that way let me put a caveat on it that we've got some history on because there are some that we don't have enough information on such as enot But all the ones that we've got some writing on enot. There's not there's not a whole lot of writing on enot but everyone else Their faith at times has waned Either one episode or a few episodes abraham did moses did david is doing so right now Elijah Did so and so we see that which is which is fine You are going to have times where your faith is going to be tested. This is a time where david's faith should have been strong David said to all of his servant arise. Let us flee for otherwise. None of us will escape from epsilon Go in haste or he will overtake us quickly and bring down calamity on us And strike the city with the edge of the sword Then the king servant said to the king behold your servants are ready to do whatever My lord the king chooses and this is why I made that statement So the king went out and all his house sold with him But the king left 10 cocky by concubines to keep to the house. Why would you do that david? Then the king went out and all the people with him and they stopped at the last house Now all of the servants passed on beside him All the cherythites all the pelithites And the getites 600 men who had come with him from gath passed on before the king He's got some royal men there Then the king said to itai The getite why will you also go with us return and remain with the king For you are a foreigner and also in exile return to your own place notice what david calls Absalon david calls epsilon the king You came only yesterday and shall I make you wander with us while I go over? Where will I go? I mean, uh, while I go where I will Return and take back your brothers Mercy and truth be with you by the time answer the king and said as the lord lives In other words, I promise the god And as the as my lord that is david the king lives now he calls him the king Surely wherever the lord the king may be whether whether for death or for life They're also will your servant be now notice he calls him the king david calls his son the king david You need to remember what god said we'll come back to that in a second Therefore david said itai go and pass over so itai Itai the getite Passed over all his men and with all the little ones who were with him While all the country was weeping with a loud voice all the people passed over The king also passed over the brook of kindred and all the people passed over toward the way of the wilderness Now notice this now behold zadok also came and all the levites with him Carrying the ark of the covenant of god. So now you know you got the priests coming with you But now notice what happens And they set down the ark of god and aba thar came up until all the people had finished passing from the city The king said does that I return the ark of god to the city If I find favor in the side of the lord, then he will bring me back again And show me and show me both it and his inhabitation But if he should say thus I have no delight in you behold here. I am Let him do to me As seems good to him the king said also does that like the priest are you not a seer? Return to the city and in peace and your sons with you and your son Ahima's and jonathan the son of aba thar See I am going to wait at the force of the wilderness until word comes from you to inform me Therefore as that I took abr and aba thar return ark of god to Jerusalem and remainder now. We've got a problem We have a problem by the way again if you have questions go ahead and put a cue In the chat so that way I can know I can see just as it's growing. I can tell if someone has a question We've got a problem though Now first of all before we do the problem David shows his humility that David shows his humility and really his trust Even though he's lacking in trust in some areas. He says well, you know what? If the lord is still going to find a favor me let's wait and see I'm going to wait and see but that's also being humble But it's also showing a little bit of lack of faith Why am I saying that? Well, because Let's go back to what was stated. Let's go to the Davidic covenant this covenant that god has made This is an unconditional covenant. By the way as a matter of fact This is an extremely powerful obviously an important covenant This is where david wants to build a house for the lord And the word of the lord comes back to him through the prophet This is a divaera. Did I ever ask you to do anything for me? I never asked you for anything. I never asked you to build a house for me I never asked you. I never complained about not having a house I never complained about being in a tent never complained about that because I'm god What could you build me anyway? That's really going to be sufficient anyway, but I never told you any of those things But now let's go back and look at the covenant That he makes and I want you to notice some of the things I've underlined some things And I want you to notice God means what he says and david should know better Now therefore this is chapter 7 verse 8 of 2nd Samuel Now therefore thus you shall say to my servant david thus says the lord of hosts I took you from the pastor from following sheep to be ruler over my people here. Let me stop there for a second Because of late there are more and you're going to see this more and more I said recently that every Important doctrine every doctrine is important, but critical doctrine orthodoxy of the church is here unsound heresy false teaching is here And you're going to see the false teaching the heresies rise whereas the acceptance of sound doctrine is going to decrease You name the doctrine you're going to find more and more people moving away from it I'm not talking about doctors that have all always been debated in the church I'm talking about things that we know for example the deity of christ That was an early doctrine that has been widely accepted, but now what's happening. Jesus is not god Whether you want to accept the term trinity, that's fine But there's a decrease in the acceptance of the trinity Certainly that jesus is god we're going to see that we're going to see more and more people accept that that one hell is not real Everyone can go to heaven There is no such thing as Certain sins being the cause or let me put this way you're going to find more people having a problem with calling out sin That is waning Obviously every like paul said every sound doctrine even though we don't know who paul is we haven't gotten there yet, but those things are going to wane Why am I bringing this up because Here we have a prophet saying something One of the things that's also on the rise is more and more people Are because they are allowing for false prophets in the world. What are they doing? They are impugning actual prophets of god and they are telling us that even the false prophets got it wrong I even heard one. I may address it sometime in the future, but that because certain people Weren't totally sure it was the word of the lord Then that in some sort of way Um diminishes the prophecy If the word of the lord comes I don't care how the prophet felt felt about it I don't care how the people felt about it It doesn't matter what anyone thinks or what they felt if it's the word of the lord And it comes through the mouth of the prophet even the prophet is totally not totally sure Doesn't mean the prophecy is incorrect Doesn't mean that it was a false prophet when god's word comes and is spoken If it's a true prophet of god and it's a true prophecy it will come to be amen. So That being the case I want to read this to you because look what the prophecy says This is the Davidic prophecy. I mean the Davidic covenant And god is telling saying what he will do and remember We won't go back to it. But why is god doing all these things? If we go back and look through the 20 something plus And I would if you haven't done so go back and do so Go look through the 20 something plus Videos that we've covered in this bible study going from the beginning all the way up When god has made promises Especially these unconditional covenants He does so for his glory for his namesake What he is saying that he is going to do to israel And when he says he's going to bring israel back It's not because israel is wonderful that israel deserves a second chance No, as he says I will do it for my own namesake I will do it for the the promise that I or the covenant I made with your fathers Abraham Isaac and Jacob Why did he make that promise with abraham? Not because abraham was awesome wonderful. No But because god wants to show his glory He will use some of the words of the word faulty fallen men And still use them to make something and do something glorious. That's who god is so God has promised to do something and so in this case this covenant He's making is to bring on display the full glory remember and I want to make this point in genesis 3 15 Let's matter as I didn't intend on I didn't intend on doing this But let's go to genesis 3 15 We've covered this before I think I mentioned this just recently But in genesis 3 15, he says I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed And the seed is singular and paul let's just know who the seed is. This is obviously Yes, we haven't talked about him yet But jesus granted we don't know as we're reading in genesis or as we're reading even up to samuel first or second samuel We don't know who jesus we never heard of jesus. We hadn't gotten there yet, but Since we know the end of the story, we'll go ahead and and humor this this point He says I will put enmity between your seed and her seeds. Obviously speaking of jesus, but notice what he says here He shall bruise you on the head and you shall bruise him on the hill Well, we don't fully know what that means. Well, obviously we know now, but at that time there's no way to know what that means And so who is he speaking of? He's clearly speaking of jesus. Well, what is a Davidic covenant about? Let's go to it in the Davidic covenant Thus as the lord I took you from the pasture from following sheep to be a ruler over my people israel I have been with you wherever you have gone and have cut off cut off all of your enemies From before you and look what he says. I will make you a great name He's saying I god not me quarry not bob not frank not mary natsu, but I god Will make you a great name Where do we first hear that it remember in the Abrahamic covenant? I will make you a great name. He reiterates that with Isaac he reiterates that with jacob. I will make you a great name. Well, wait a second It's going to be hard david because david you should be thinking about because listen It's not as though that david I mean that god came and spoke with david all of a time He did have a case to speak with him But that being the case that been the case when he does speak I wouldn't care if god spoke to david 50 times if god spoke to 100 times if god now great. I haven't had god speak to me in that way, but I would imagine I could just imagine I could remember those I could remember those occasions especially when I'm anointed And then this prophecy comes about About me and my family. I think I would remember that I think I would remember that However, david doesn't you should david knows what he says. I will I god will make your name great Like the names of the great man who are on the earth I will also appoint a place for my people israel and I will plant them now This isn't so much about david, but it's about his people Notice what he says He is going to bring this to fruition I will plant them that they may live in their own place and not be disturbed again Nor will the wicked afflict them anymore as formally ladies and gentlemen can I ask a question? Has that happened? Has this point happened has god? Placed israel in their own place and In doing so not been disturbed Has that happened has israel been placed in their land there in the land? That's two occasions the second occasion. This is this is the second time around some of you old folks Who know about shellomar? This is the second time around But still they not the not the first time nor the second time Had they been placed in their land not to be disturbed Is it ever going to happen? Is it ever going to happen now? Notice he speaks specifically of his people israel By the way, when he says his people israel He's speaking of the descendants of israel not the actual nation But the man for whom this name comes israel y'all remember him jaco Whom god said he would make his name great. Let's go back to it I will plant them that they may live in their own place and not be disturbed again Nor will the wicked afflict them Anymore as formally Even from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people israel And I will give you rest from all your enemies again has not happened yet But it will Why can we take comfort in everything that god has that that that what god has said will happen The reason why it's important to know what god has said Uh has happened is that we can have faith in what god has said Will happen or what do you mean cori? Well, if we can have if we can take and have faith that what god said has happened regards to israel or anyone else The issue isn't about israel people get caught up in the whole issue of israel and church and so forth That's not the point. No, that's the point is not God's favor towards israel versus god's favor towards a church. No the point is about god And that we've got a guy that we can trust and if he'll keep his promises with israel Then won't he keep his promises with us if he won't keep his promises with israel Oh, by the way, no one came to god and twisted his arm and said god You need to make a promise with israel. No, he did that on his own And so if he won't keep his promise with him Well, then what assurance do we have that he will keep his promises with us You know the promises that that I am coming back to get you if I go to prepare a place for you that I'm coming back Stop making it about israel and make it all about god That's who the point is about god is about the division between israel and church That's what the point the point is god's promises God's promises are what yes and amen Yes, lord. I believe it. Amen And if you want to speak in tongues in fine fine fine fine If you want to speak in tongues in have that even even their false tongues I don't even care as long as your glory. I do care. I do care But the point is we're glorifying god because what god said it's his word You know the very same words that proceed out of his mouth that formed everything Let there be and what it was that's going to be didn't say, huh? I wonder how no, it just happened. That's because this is god. We're talking about God's words Mean something and I see folks in the chats giving me their their tongues. They're typing tongues Shonda Robo shot Robo shot. I can't even speak good tongues watching you guys type it But that's god. Amen. Notice what he says though verse 12 I'm sorry verse then the verse 11 the lord also declares to you that the lord will make a house for you Wait a second. This part is important guys The lord also declared that the lord will make a house for you. Who is the you that's being referred here The you that's being referred here If we look here in the Lakha This is to you if you if you all can see what's highlighted over here. This is the part where it says to you To who well, this is singular All right guys This word right here. Lakha is singular meaning meaning It's for David Are you guys with me? That's important god is saying i'm going to make a house for you David You my friend Not for anybody else not for y'all. So what he's saying is Of your descendants you you sir Someone asked is it okay to eat pork? Not for them at that time, but it is now It is now remember it and we cover this before you which is why i'm answering this When the bible says that Those those animals were unclean Notice what he said. He said those animals are unclean to you Now me, uh, I wish I had a bacon sandwich right now. I wish I had a I Yesterday I had to go to the to the hardware store. I had to get some filters for the uh, the the heating air conditioning unit They have made these heating air conditioning units smarter than me Because if you don't change the filter Then it simply will not come on it'll a light will blink. I open it up. There's a light blinking I don't even know what this light is blinking for I have no idea just blinking I don't know. I'm not I'm not that kind of person And so the light's blinking. Let me check the filter. Well, the filter was was full the filter needed to be changed So I go and I clean the filter off a little bit so it can at least run a little bit Uh, it can still breathe and then I go buy some filter on my way there I stop up McDonald's I go to McDonald's and I ask for Uh, a bacon egg and cheese biscuit with extra bacon Speaking of pork Service is not very good by the way So what do I get a bacon egg and cheese bacon? I mean bacon egg and cheese biscuit with extra bacon. No, I got a bacon egg and cheese bacon I mean bacon cheese biscuit with extra bacon minus the cheese and minus the extra bacon So Yeah Anyway, but answer your question Baking good Making good pork chop good. Yes pork good Anyway Notice what he says The lord declares that um, I will make a house for you mister When your Days are completed david When I'm finished with you At the finishing the completion of your days david And you lie down with your fathers This is told This is said for people who are going to just die of old age. You're going to have a healthy death You won't have your head chopped off. You won't die as a as a 30 year old When I'm through with you you lie down with your fathers. You'll be buried properly Well, that tells you something that your death is going to be peaceful You have this conversation this statement is given with people who are going to have a fairly peaceful death Okay, now knows what he says I will raise up your descendant after you who will come forth from you And I will establish his kingdom Oh, is he speaking of He's not this is not speaking of the messiah to come Jesus Now there's a part that does but this is speaking of We know to be salomon What is david fearful of right now? david is running from absalon Absalon is not the person that god has told david that he's going to bring up Now true david might not totally be sure who it is But it can't be absalon. Why can't it be absalon? Let's go back to it again. Here's why it can't be absalon now david And his men went up and rated the geyserites and the gyrsites and the amalekites for they were the inhabitants of the land of the ancient times And so where did where did absalon come from? Who was absalon's mother absalon's mother was maca? Who was from who was from geyser? Which is where absalon went to and so this is not even a jewish person Wait a minute david hold on wait a second. You mean to tell me david you had a child with someone who's not even jewish david you mean to tell me you went and married people who you weren't supposed to marry david a man after god's own heart you mean to tell me you went and married a woman who is part of the Is that what you did david? david you do realize you're not supposed to do that, right david you do realize that's that's no good. No bueno This is what happens when even good godly men do dumb stuff make mistakes you sin. That was wrong david That was wrong Even all the dog on concubines you got Wrong god didn't tell you to do that But fine There is a consequence to what we do Hey, man, there is a We all know this there is a consequence of your sin even when you say god. I'm sorry. I'll be good Please forgive me lord. I'm sorry. I won't do it again Yeah, well you you'll remember next time no next time let let me give you a reason not to do it again Let me give you a reason to remember not to do matter of fact. Let me give you all the reason Not to do this again so that you remember And that's what david is getting david is getting a reminder However, while we're speaking of reminders david, why don't you remember what the deviated covenant would that god on his own volunteered to to covenant with you about When your days are complete and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up the sin and after you who will come forth from you After you who will come forth from you and I will establish his kingdom He that that person shall build a house for my name and I will establish the throne of his kingdom Forever, I will establish the throne. So now this throne though will continue Now this is the beginning of this covenant that he's making with david This this this throne will continue forever I will be a father to him to the not that the person's gonna sit on the throne forever, but to Solomon I will be a father to him and he will be a son of me when he commits iniquity So you look it's gonna happen I will correct him with the ride of man and the strokes of the sons of man But my loving kindness shall not depart from him as I took it away from saw Whom I removed from before you your house and your kingdom shall endure before me Forever Stop the presses Listen to what he just said your house and your kingdom shall endure before me Forever your throne shall be established forever David you really don't have to worry as much as you are worrying now God says your throne Of your house shall continue before him before who forgot forever Forever This is him introducing obviously david may not know the full scope of this just yet david will learn it later But he's speaking about who? Who's to come for jesus? Amen, and so david's not really paying attention Now david is getting ready to offer one of the greatest all-time prayers ever When you're mad at somebody when you're bothered with somebody and we get bothered and mad at people from time to time Especially if you got an enemy This is what you should do and everyone's talking about pork chop sandwiches. I'm hungry No, we don't need to praise a pig, but just make sure you cook them evenly Well done thoroughly and put some season salt on it. That's what you should do with the pig But he said what the only thing wrong with a pig is they ain't as big as an elephant That way we can have big big pork chop sandwiches What did david mean? I mean what did god mean when he said that that I gave you your master's house and your master's wives into your king A couple things one The wives of that king will become your possession. Not that they became your your wives now you could Take them as wives But you didn't have to it's just that his possessions are now yours They would serve and be and serve at your behest They would they would just you know Be led by you his house his kingdom because remember David didn't throw off his king the first king was solemn So he said I'm giving this to you What I gave to Saul and all that I would have given to him. I'm giving to you. That's what that meant So he's going to give a great prayer Verse 30 and david went up to this scent of the mount of olives and wept as he went And his head was covered and he walked barefoot david is being humble right now Then all the people who were with him each covered his head and went up weeping as they went Now now someone told david saying Ahetopole is among the conspiracy conspirators with epsilon and david said oh lord. I listen to his prayers a good prayer I pray make the council of ahetopale foolishness Confound his prophecy make what he's prophesied make me prophesied make what he gives as council to be foolishness That's a pretty good prayer That is a pretty good. You know what lord Now notice he didn't pray kill my son But I want the council of his man this this guy who used to counsel with me to be foolishness Confound that messed that up. Well, what is guy gonna do? And I I I don't know if I've ever prayed that prayer I don't know if I've ever prayed that prayer, but Maybe I ought to start Maybe ought to start now what I want to do is I want to jump ahead I don't want to read all of the rest of that and so Let's go to chapter 16 verse 1 Because here we're going to do some reading Because david just prayed a wonderful prayer david just prayed a prayer Now what god has promised two things have to happen guys two things one Everything that god had given in the uh in second Samuel chapter 7 Concerning david in his house has to come true Oh, by the way everything that was given about david previously About david when david was anointed king over israel that all of that has to come true as well Also what has to come true Is the prophecy about Uh the septer coming from Judah That has to come true All of these prophecies all of these things that god has spoken up to now have to come true Even The punishment that god has ascribed As a result of david sin has to come true So all of those things have to come true the blessings for david and the curse or the punishment for david all of those things have to come true amen so Let's go to chapter 16 verse 1 Now when david had passed a little beyond the summit behold zeba The servant of mafiboshet Met him with a couple of saddle donkeys and on them were 200 loaves of bread 100 clusters of raisin and 100 uh summer fruits with the jug now Well, we'll just skip past a little bit. What's happening Is zeba who was the servant of mafiboshet is going to come and try to change david's view of mafiboshet Hey, you realize that got mafiboshet the one that you had uh come against Meanwhile, everyone else is coming against you turning the back. So is he that's not the case though um He does he does not but zeba has to some degree convinced david a little bit david has bothered With mafiboshet, but he doesn't do anything at this point in time Chapter 16 verse 5 when david came to Bahrain Behold there came out from there a man of the family of the house of saw whose name was shammy Now we're going to find out what happens with shammy later But shammy is throwing stones at david and cursing david Shammy is upset one because hey you took over from my father's house And then two what all is happening But notice what david says in verse nine apishah the son of zurai Said to the king why should this dead dog by the way when the bible calls you a dog He's saying something He's saying something. Why is this dead dog? Why why should we let this dead dog curse my lord the king? Let me go over now and cut off his head the king Said what have I to do with you? Oh sons of zurai If he curses and if the lord has told him Curse david then who shall say why have he doesn't so david's like well Maybe the maybe the lord is saying this maybe the lord has him doing so so we're going to leave him alone We're going to let him be because perhaps this is what what the lord has something to do verse 15 Then epsilon i'm sorry I want to make sure i don't i don't cut off anything first Yeah verse 15 then epsilon and the people the men of israel into jerusalem And i hit the felm with them now i can't hit the felm the same guy who david has had or prayed Lord make his counsel be foolishness Now it came about when hushai the archite david's friend came to epsilon that hushai Said to epsilon long live the king i'm sorry by the way i should have covered this part But i won't go over i'll just reiterate this part you go back and check in chapter 15 Hushai is told by david they're told listen go there and just be friends with him You can bring counsel. Maybe you can even be used to thwart the efforts of uh, i hit the felm and epsilon So hushai goes And he says long live the king long live the king Absalom says is this your loyalty to your friend david Why did why did you not go with your friend? Well, you can say the same thing for everyone else all those folks that went with you They were supposed to be loyal to the king as well, but they're with you Then hushai said to epsilon no for whom the lord This people and all the men of israel have chosen His i will be and with him i'm loyal to the to the throne and to the people to this land Not to a certain person So hushai has done a pretty good job of covering itself first 19 besides Whom should i serve should i not serve in the presence of his son as i have served in your father's presence So i will be in your presence in other words. I'm here for you Uh, then epsilon said to i hit the felm give your advice What shall we do? I hit the felm said to epsilon go into your father's concubines Whom he has left to keep the house Then all israel will hear that you have made yourself odious to your father the hands of all who are with you Will also be strengthened. So they pitched it. Now look what they did They pitched a tent for epsilon on the roof and epsilon went to his father's concubines in the side of all israel Get the picture. This is really really weird. This is kind of gross and weird They pitch a tent on top of a roof And bring his concubines his wife his concubines there And so epsilon goes in and has relationships with him. So all of israel knows about it and sees it Well, what did the prophecy say that he'll do this? And everybody is going to know one from your own household. So david If you're paying attention david What was said what the lord said is happening? So just because you see the bad things happening what I what I promise will be your punishment I also remember the good things too I know it's hard to remember the good things when the bad is happening But I told you it was gonna happen But I also said i'm gonna i'm gonna bring you out. I'm gonna bless you and so this is exactly what's happening So I hit the felm and maybe and maybe someone else knows about this as well I the bible doesn't say so I I don't want to just Do that and make it say that hey They absolutely knew about the prophecy but It's happening And so the advice of a hit the felm which he gave in those days was as if one Inquired of the word of god So so was all the advice of a hit the felm regarded by both david and epsilon So if that in those days that whatever he said they regarded this is some good sound word These are wise words as though these are the words of god the counsel of god not necessarily they were But they treated his words as such What do you think happens to a person? When people regard what you say as For lack of a better word gospel You kind of get full of yourself you you can kind of get a little bit Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm the man So to speak he didn't say that but we're going to see the effects of that In just a little bit except for 17 verse 1 Furthermore, I hit the fel said to epsilon. Please let me choose 12 000 men that I might arise and pursue david tonight I will come upon him while he is weary and exhausted and terrify him So the people are going to who are with him will flee then I will strike down the king alone now So this is I hit the fel's plan Because we should do The problem with that is yeah Now the the plan as he says verse 4 the plan please epsilon and all the elders of israel Then epsilon said well, wait a second. Let's call who shy the archive also Let us hear what he has to say when who shy had come to epsilon Absalon said to him I hit the fel and spoken to us. What do you excuse me? What do you think? Who shy said verse 7 this time the advice that he I hit the fel has given is not good Moreover, who shy said you know your father and his men that they are mighty men and they are fierce I like bear like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field and your father is is an expert in warfare And will not spend the night with the people so now in other words. He's given you reasons why you should do it And so what does epsilon do? epsilon disregards I hit the fel's advice And instead follows who shy's advice Remember what david's prayer was Cause his counsel to be as foolish as soul. In other words, they're disregarding I hit the fel's advice Uh, let's drop down to I don't want to read all of this Wait a minute. Did I type something wrong? Wait a second. Hold on. Wait a second. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry Uh, let's continue. Let's go to verse Yeah, let's go to verse 13 I'm sorry verse 14 then epsilon and all the men of israel said the house the council of who shy The archite is better than the council of I hit the fel For the lord has ordained to thwart the good council of a hit the fel So that the lord might bring clarity on epsilon. Now what happened now, they're not saying this is what happening Uh, the the account is that the lord has thwarted the council of I hit the fel that was good council But to them, uh, not so good. Let's go to who shy So who shy is warning does save david david escapes david makes uh moves around but there's a problem with a hit the fel Let's drop down to verse 23 Now when hit the fel I hit the fel saw that his council was not followed He sat on his donkey and arose and went to his home to his city And he said his house in order and strangled himself Thus he died and was buried in the grave of his father So because they weren't listened to anymore He decided Well, what use of mine and he killed himself So Now he's got one main advisor who shy Yay, that's kind of what it should be right. This is what it should have been all along. This is what this is what david wants This is the plan of god to bring david back because even still even though david isn't as faithful As he should be There's some doubt Still god is going to carry forward what he says now what I want to do is I want to skip over All of the rest of chapter 17 and move to chapter 18 There's there's fighting breaking out. There's a war breaking out between david and absalon's people uh, and Absalon is going to die Now is interesting how absalon dies Very interesting how absalon dies as a matter of fact um The way absalon dies I couldn't die this way It's impossible for me to die this way By the way, diane wouldn't thank you so much for the super chat But it would be literally impossible For me to die this way. Is that quarry you you're being you're being arrogant quarry How can you say that you can't die the way absalon dies? Well, I'm going to show you how And then you all will agree with me. So let's go to chapter 18 verse 9 Now absalon happened to meet the servants of david where absalon was riding his mule And the mule went under the thick branches of a great oak and his head caught fast in the oak So he was left hanging between heaven and earth while the mule was was uh, that was under him kept going When a certain man saw it, he told joe ab and he said behold I saw absalon hanging in oak in an oak Then joe ab said to the warrior who had uh, who had told him now behold you saw him Basically, why didn't you kill him and he's like, I'm not going to kill his son. No well We didn't cover this but if you go back and look at absalon's description absalon is hansom No problem with that. You can be handsome. The problem is oh, he had hair Absalon had hair Dog on hair his hair Gets caught that's when you got too much hair Too much hair. So not a problem with me when I say smooth head aerodynamic I meant that I meant that but no his hair gets caught up and he gets caught up in it and his mule just keeps going That's a goofy way to die That isn't that is a that is a really really really goofy way to die Now I want to know I want you to pay attention to something. This is also why david Needs to pay attention to the word of the lord another reason why david should have known that Absalon will not be victorious david. You really notice by the way david never needed to leave his kingdom He never needed to leave the throne God never told him to he david did not Why is that when david doesn't counsel of the lord doesn't seek his counsel? He does rash things which we can learn from that as ourselves, right David didn't counsel from the lord the lord didn't say get out and leave going your own move get away. No But if david if you're going to pay attention to god pay attention to god pay attention to everything else too david It's impossible For absalon to fulfill this prophecy It's impossible for absalon to be the descendant for david impossible Because maybe david's trying to convince himself. Well, I guess maybe maybe absalon is the descendant that's going to be on the throne There's a problem with that though Because god said let's go back to it God said this person will be on this throne forever Is that not the word that it says? This throne will be established forever Why could absalon not meet that one? He's not because of where he comes from who his mother is But then also If absalon is going to be able to carry this out Do you know what absalon has to have? What would absalon have to have in order for what god said? He's going to establish what would absalon have to have Absalon will have to have some kids himself some sons himself What did absalon not have well absalon did not have any children absalon chapter 18 verse Is it 18 as well? I'm sorry 18 verse 18. Yes. Let's go to it Now absalon in his lifetime had taken And set up for himself a pillar which is in the kings valley and he said I have no son to preserve my name. So he made a pillar He made a monument to himself because I don't have any kids. I don't have any sons So he named the pillar after his own name and it is called absalon's monument to this day Absalon could not have been who god was speaking of David just simply pay attention what god said and look this kid here can't be it Couldn't be anon because he's dead So we're shrinking the pool a little bit to figure out who it could possibly be Does he know? Well, he's going to know The point is this If we just keep looking at the word of the lord, we keep seeing how what god says comes to be Everything that he said thus far it if I'm if I'm incorrect someone help me out But everything that the lord has said thus far Has taken place perfectly to a t Obviously, there's some things that he said that's going to happen that are yet to come For example, he tells them that he is going to remove them out of the land Hadn't happened yet. They're going to be removed out of the land He tells them some other things They are going to happen by the way remove them out of land They're going to come back to the land Have problems even then god is going to fix their heart eventually To where they can serve him call upon him as lord And they'll be in perfect peace in that land none of those things have happened just well some of those things have happened But the main portion that hadn't happened yet And so the point of this is two twofold one What god says is going to come about we're seeing this but also As it relates to us Sometimes we look too much at what's happening Instead of looking at what god has said Instead of paying attention to what god has said We focus too much on the other things We focus on the circumstances And we focus on us And when we focus on those two things what ends up happening sin We end up sending as a result of lack of faith And too much focus on us A lack of focus on him And and and a disproportionate focus on ourselves David ends up ends up having the affair because of a lack of focus on him And too much of a focus on himself. You can be a man of god. You can be a woman of god and sin Now the lesson that we're learning To there's consequences as a result of that And you don't get to determine The length or the extent of the consequences the severity of them. That's god Because it interesting that some people can commit the same sin Even now or in the bible and the consequences aren't the same I'm sure But It didn't also good It didn't also good though that you could also Have restoration in him That david still has a name All that david did All that david uh the sins listen most of us could probably say That we haven't had most people will be able to say that I haven't sinned like david Most can say that david remember david done some things You Forget the fact that we and we're not even told how bad it is But the fact that you go in and you have all these different wives and take wives of someone that you're not supposed to You're not supposed to marry someone of the philistines You're not supposed to marry someone of of who's not jewish, but he does he takes his wives You're not supposed to go and cheat on the wives you do have and then um take another man's wife your own Loyal man's wife Take her try to hide it kill him david is doing some bad stuff But what was god's promise to him notice what god said he says i will make your name great after all of those things After all of those things Don't we steal don't we still look at david's name as a great name? He's got a star name after after all right the star of day when we look at israel's flag the star of david david's name is great and has lingered as a matter of fact Jesus as we go to the new testament we'll see that he even invokes the name of david the people they invoke um david's name david has a great name so god does exactly what he said he's going to do All of that so it's possible. Yes, our name will never be as great as david. That's fine That that is we never have to worry about our name being great because that's not the point david didn't ask for his name to be great But you can still be used of god even though you will sin Don't go out and seek to sin don't sin and say, you know, yeah, I can sin and god's gonna forgive me Well, no, don't do that Yes, uh god is uh you you will sin And yes, god will forgive you but guess what you don't know You don't know the ramifications the consequences of that sin How many you all are still alive a day? But are suffering from something that you that you know that you should not have done even then You should not have done it then and you wish you could take it back But the consequences are still there. Well, yeah, because you don't control the consequences So if you think that yeah, I I can go ahead and sin and god is gonna forgive me Yeah, you're gonna forgive you, uh, but you might get a whooping You might you might get beat pretty bad You might suffer Do not think that you get off scot-free With sin Do do not think that there's a consequence But there is forgiveness. There is restoration And you might get restored with you know with a limb missing you you start it off with two good legs now you got one You start it off. You could see 2020 now you can't see five feet in front of you You might come you might come You might be restored a little bit more damaged But you'll be restored Keep your faith in him keep your focus in him and less of the focus on yourself You can be godly and sin but that sin That god because think about who who is going to take care of you? Who is the one that's ultimately in charge of correcting you? Well, god And when god irons sent out He is He is Not going to iron out gently cg says lead us out with Numbers 2319 All right, let's see what numbers 2319 is Amen. Amen. You know what I'm starting doing though. I'll I need to start asking you I'm gonna start ranking I'm gonna start ordering Which questions to answer I'm gonna have two categories well three two categories male and female right You all understand in second why I'll put the females in one category and there's another category I have two categories And this will help determine The order of questions I take y'all tell me Women over here And then men over here and then and the men there'll be two categories Well really one category How much hair do you have? Yeah, the more hair you have the further your question will be put down the less hair you have The more likely your question will be answered sooner Unless you're a woman if you're a woman then you get then it's just uh first come first serve Is that is that a good way? Not a good way. No bueno. Not a good way Anyway, this is a good question. This is a good way to leave off cg He says god is not a man that he should lie nor son of man that he should repent Has he said and will he not do it won't he do it has he said And will he not do it or has he spoken and will he not make it good? Amen cg I don't know how much hair you have cg, but that is awesome And that's true. I think we forget that god is not like us. He doesn't lie what he says He's gonna do it If he means to say it, he'll say it and he'll say it just the way he meant it I said it just like I meant it With his chest out Amen. Amen. God bless you all