 man to step aside or there will be violence. Choose violence. Every now and then you want to be nice. You want to be nice, try to be nice, but sometimes you want to choose violence. Today I'm not necessarily choosing violence, but I'm going to be kind of poignant. I'm going to be a little direct because I think we need to be. I think that we should be not hypocritical. I think that when it comes to God's word, it should mean what it says to say what it means to us all the time, all of God's word. And the reason why, if you notice, there are four people on the thumbnail who are really, in many cases, totally different than the next. Probably two are different than the other two. But there's a reason why they are on there. As a matter of fact, I can't remember who was always on the thumbnail. If I could, if I could, no, I'm sorry. Yeah. One is probably maybe more in your corner. Maybe one and a half, maybe three or not. But there's a reason why I'm going to, I want to go into this Bible said, because there's a point that I want to make. And oh, by the way, I have decided that I'm going to violate our rules. Our rules state that we can only deal with the text that we've covered thus far. Well, we're going to violate that a little bit. We're going to jump around a little bit. We're going to still stay with this because I think there's an important lesson. There's a few, there's a few lessons that should be learned here. And there's one on top of the main lesson, a greater lesson to apply forever, for everybody forever. Now that being stated, let's go back to 2 Samuel. This is with the 26th session, 2 Samuel chapter 7 verse 1. We'll get to the point, to the main point in just a minute, but I want to go to the scriptures. Second section 7 verse 1 says, now it came about when the king lived in his house and the Lord had given him rest on every side from all his enemies. This is David becoming the king now. The king said to Nathan the prophet, see now I dwell in the house of Cedar, but the ark of God dwells in tent curtains. Nathan said to the king, go do all that is in your mind for the Lord is with you. And we talked about it before, how there are some people that say, well, this is a false prophecy, not a false prophecy. Nathan did not say the Lord said, he just says, the Lord is with you. Go do what you want. Do what you want to do, since the Lord has been with you. But then we see an actual prophecy verse 4, but the same night the word of the Lord came to Nathan saying, go and say to my servant David, thus says the Lord, are you the one who should build me a house to dwell in? For I have not dwelt in a house since the day I brought up the sons of Israel from Egypt, even to this day. But I have been moving about in a tent, even in a tabernacle, wherever I have gone with all the sons of Israel. Did I speak a word with the one of the tribes of Israel, which I commanded to my shepherd, to my people Israel saying, why have you not built me a house of Cedar? He's never said to do something. So here's one lesson that we can get. We don't have to, nor should we ever try to think for God. That happens a lot, which is one of the reasons why we've kind of changed the title a little bit. All of God's word, but none of your word, all of God's word, none of your word. So do not propose to think for God. Did I ask you to build me a house? No. So keep doing what you're told to do, David. I'll let you know what I want to do. As a matter of fact, I'll do what I want to do. So continuing, now therefore, thus you shall say to my servant David, thus says the Lord of hosts, I took you from the pastor from following the sheep to be ruler over my people Israel. I did that. You were out in the fields taking care of sheep and doing all those other little things, whatever shepherds do. Now I'm taking you from there and I'm bringing you up to shepherd my people. He says my people Israel. That part is clear too. You might even want to underline that my people Israel. There will be those that will even say that those are not his people. What did God say? Not what you said. Not what do you think? What does his word say? I have been with you wherever you have gone and cut off all your enemies from before you and I will make you a great name like the name of the great man who are on the earth. I will also appoint a place for my people Israel and will plant them that they may live in their own place and not be disturbed again. All of God's word. This is what he said. Has it happened yet? No. So the question is will it happen? Remember, we are going to take his word as literally as we possibly can until we cannot. There is no reason, no cause whatsoever to think that he does not mean literally what he's saying. You would have to be a part of some particular denomination theological bent, uh, doctrinal persuasion to say that's not what he meant. Again, he says, uh, I will appoint a place for my people Israel and will plant them that they may live in their own land in their own place and not be disturbed again. Nor will the wicked afflict them anymore as forming. That has never happened yet. It will even from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel and I will give you rest from all your enemies to I'm sorry, the Lord also declares to you that the Lord will make a house for you when your days are completed and you lie down with your fathers. I will raise up your descendants after you who will come forth from you and I will establish his kingdom. This is speaking of Solomon. He shall build a house for my name and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. I will be a father to him and he will be a son to me when he commits iniquity. I will correct him with the rod of man and the strokes of the sons of men but my loving kindness shall not depart from him as I took it away from Saul whom I removed from before you. Your house and your kingdom shall endure before me forever. God doesn't have to use a term forever but he does. He makes himself say that no one else does it. No one is forced as he says I will make I shall cause you you shall endure before me forever or your throne shall your throne shall be established forever. Now let's think for a second. This is what we call the Davidic covenant. This covenant is him making a covenant with David. Did you notice God did not ask David for his input? No he did not. God did not say David if you do this or if you do that then I will establish your covenant. No he did not. He just says I will do this and so this is what we call an unconditional covenant. Now we've had other unconditional covenants in the past before as a matter of fact when you put one on the screen and this is this big one Genesis 12. This is a second unconditional covenant that we see. He says that I will make you a great nation and I will bless you and make your name great and you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you and the one who curses you I will curse and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed and again there is no condition placed upon Abram or anyone else that God has said do this and I will fulfill my promise. As a matter of fact what we see is people in Israel violate the covenant that they make with him. Not this covenant but the old covenant the covenant the mosaic covenant. They say they agree that covenant is a conditional covenant where they say we will do what you say if I do this I mean if you do this then I God will do that. If you don't do this then I God will do that. There will be punishment and so they violate that covenant but God states in Deuteronomy 7 that he will remember his covenant not because of them not because they're great not because they're wonderful. As a matter of fact they are the least of nations and the least of people but because of the promise that he made with Abram he will keep that covenant he will keep his promise. Remember this and I think this is very very important. God is not a man that he should lie. This is number 2319. Nor son of man that he should repent. Has he said and will he not do it or has he spoken and will he not make it good? Let me just say that again and I think it's vitally important. Guys please do your very best to remember this. This passage is what you can hang every other passage in the bible on. So let's read it again. God is not a man that he should lie nor son of man not like us that he should repent. In other words change his thoughts change his meaning. Has has he said and he will not do it and will not do it. If he said it he will do it or has he spoken and will he not make it good? This is God we're speaking of. Now you're going to understand in a second why I say I'm choosing violence. I'm not really choosing violence but I'm going to be a little bit direct. I'm going to be forced. I'm going to be firm in and what I'm going to say a little bit later. So stick around but I want you to see what God has stated. God is not like us. It's not changing his mind and have to. He knows exactly what the end is going to look like and he doesn't make decisions based on you. He doesn't make decisions based on you. God is not reactionary nor is he Las Vegas. Meaning that he doesn't make predictions. He doesn't lay odds as to what's going to happen. He's Mr. Make It Happen. He alone is sovereign. As we said before what is rule number one above all else God is sovereign. If anyone disagrees then you can't be his. If you think that you are sovereign and he's not or if you think that you're sovereign along with him you still can't be his because there must be a repentant deferral to who he is and an honest recognition of who you are. Again and I say this kind of jokingly but also I really mean it. We are worth on our best day five dollars. Five dollars worth of dirt that's all we are. The only value the only benefit that we have in us is the spirit of God himself. Otherwise when we die we go back to the dirt and that's that either to be in torment forever or to be with him. So our value is always and only found in him. So let's go back to second Samuel 7 and let's start in let's go to verse 18. Then David went in and set before the Lord and he said who am I oh Lord God and what is my house that you have brought me this far. So David's recognizing I don't deserve any of this and yet this was insignificant in your eyes oh Lord God for you have spoken also of the house of your servant concerning the distant future and this is the custom of of man oh Lord God. Again what more can David say to you for you know your servant oh Lord God for the sake of your word and according to your own heart you have done all this greatness to let your servant know notice what he says you have done this how according to your own heart that's important he did so according to his heart not ours but according to his if you ever wonder or even want to think that God does something arbitrarily he does not because you don't know you don't understand or you disagree matters not let every man be alive because God is the truth let hit what what he says is be the truth and whatever you say especially so far as it disagrees with him is a lie. So therefore he says according to your own heart you have done all this greatness to your servant to let I'm sorry what's your servant know for this reason you are a great you are great oh Lord God for there's none like you and there is no God beside you according to all that we have heard with our ears and what one nation on earth is like your people Israel did you hear what he just said this is why I'm kind of choosing violence today I'm kind of choosing violence today what one nation on earth is like your people Israel that's vitally important understand why notice what he said let me put it on the screen and what one nation on earth is like your people Israel whom God went to redeem for himself as a people and to make a name for himself and to do great things for you and awesome things for your land before your people whom you have redeemed yours for yourself from Egypt from the nations and their gods for you have established for yourself your people Israel as your own people how long how long has God decided or determined to establish Israel as his people can someone just please tell me that because this is important again remember what he says in Deuteronomy I mean I'm sorry number is 2319 he says God is not a man that he should lie nor a son of man that he should repent has he said and will he not do it or has he spoken and will he not make good so the question is how long did he say that they will be his people before him now notice the point and this is where it matters for us because I understand I understand we're not Israel or we get jealous and we want to become Israel but I want you to focus on something that he says he says in the middle of this he says before your people whom you I'm sorry let me fix this right whom you have redeemed for yourself let's highlight that for whom you have redeemed for yourself is that important for just Israel no it's not because we're going to find out that it also relates to us we don't have to worry about what he said to this person or did over there we also know that not only did he redeem Israel for himself everyone in Israel no but that land certainly and there will be a people a posterity that comes from there but then also for us because were we also redeemed sure we were redeemed this is where this is where I'm coming in just a second so let's continue he says for you have established for yourself your people Israel for your own people forever and you oh lord have become their god now therefore oh lord god the word that you have spoken concerning your servant and his house confirm it forever and do as you have spoken that your name may be magnified forever by saying the lord of hosts is god over Israel and may the house of your servant David be established for you so he's going to do this forever his name is going to be magnified by who by everybody his name will be magnified by those who hate him because at the name of of god and then Ephesians tells us I'm sorry Philippians tells us that it's also him at the name of Jesus so at his name every knee shall bow and every tongue confess Israel will do so also but then also those Gentiles who he's also redeemed for himself will do the same thing will do so willfully willingly so too will those who he's redeemed from Israel and then also the rest of the world he says for you oh lord god of hosts the god of Israel have made a revelation to your servant saying I will build a house therefore your servant has found courage to pray this prayer to you now oh lord god you are god and your words are truth remember that your words are truth and you have promised this good thing to your servant now therefore may it please you to bless the house of your servant that it may continue forever before you know what davis is pray davis is praying for you oh lord god have spoken and with your blessings may the house of your servant be blessed forever so according to what he says he is going to make this prayer all he's really just emphasizing or praying or reiterating is what god has already determined now we won't go through chapter eight this is just kind of a a summary of davis victory same thing with chapter nine but then we've got a problem here we've got a problem that shows up on the landscape this is in second samuel chapter 11 you all know the story you all know the problem this is this problem with this woman david and what david is not doing what david should not doing and ultimately what should happen to david so chapter 11 verse 1 he says that it happened in the spring at the time when kings go out to battle typically because of the spring weapons so forth and what are they're doing they tend to reserve their fighting or to begin their fighting in the spring time and so david didn't go because customarily not all the time but customarily the king would go that david sent joe ab and his servants with him and all israel and they destroyed the sons of amon and besiege robber but david stayed at jerusalem now when ebden came david arose from his bed and walked around on the roof of the king's house and from the roof he saw a woman bathing so david is being a peeping time or i guess a peeping dave so he's looking at this woman and the woman was very beautiful in appearance uh so david sent an inquired about the woman who is she and one said is this not bathsheba the daughter of eliam the wife of uriah the hittite it's almost so the person says is isn't that isn't that uh uriah's wife isn't that who that is kind of in a sarcastic way david that's you're tripping mr king that's your man or uriah that's his wife is this not uh uriah is not is this not bathsheba the daughter of eliam the wife of uriah david even still even still so david knows full well he sends messengers and took her and when she came to him he lay with her and when she had purified herself from uncleanness she returned to her house i won't go through the whole ceremonial ritual uh that's required by the law but we've got an issue also that's required by the law then i'm sorry the woman conceived and she sent and told david and said i am pregnant by the way in the bible when you hear the term conceived that means that they're pregnant but understand that's the same as the same thought pattern of being conceived is the same as having a child when you go and look at when when the the angel tells joseph about mary that she is and the way it is that it's treated as though she has born a child even though the child is still in the womb because that's how god sees life but a story for another day chapter 11 verse six then david said to joe ab saying send me uriah the hit tight so joe absent uriah the hit tight i mean uriah to david now interestingly enough uh people know what's happening those there are those around them that knows what's happening and i think david wants to make sure not too many know what's happening obviously uriah didn't know what was happening and so he sends his commander uh to bring back or to have hit uh uriah to show back up so joe absent uh uriah to david when uriah came to him david asked concerning the welfare of joe ab and the people uh and the state of the war making small talk with the person who you have whose wife you just filed uh pretty low david pretty low but wait a second isn't david a man after god's own heart well that passes again i said before does not mean that he has the heart of god he is just chosen by god this is one who god has chosen from his heart not that he his heart is what's in focus it's god's heart that's in focus and is choosing so when uriah came to david he asked these questions making small talk talk thinking one knowing what he's done two thinking what he's trying to do what he's trying to cover up so i guess david would like to have a soap opera ending whereas david is the biological father but david believes that he is the father really the baby daddy as we say nowadays is scheming so that no one would know the what be the wiser except for him and uh basheba now how he plans on keeping basheba quiet the whole time don't know remember david is he's not the biggest he's not the tallest uh and he's red he's reddish so if we have a little short redhead kid come out and doesn't look look anything like uriah we might have a problem but that's a story for another time matter of fact a story that's never going to be told because there's never a possibility we'll see why in a second if you don't know the story then david said uriah go down in your house and wash your feet and uriah went out of the king's house and the president from the king was sent out after him we don't really know what the president is the speculation it might have been some wine to kind of get him make him marry but verse nine uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the service of his lord and did not go down in his house he didn't depart uh now when they told david saying uriah did not go down in his house david said uriah uh have you not come from a journey why did you not go down to your house uriah said to david the ark and israel and juda are staying in temporary shelters and my lord joe ab and the servants of my lord are camping in open everyone else is struggling out there they're having it rough why should i come back and have it good uh shall i then go to my house to eat and to drink and to live with my wife by your life and the life of your soul i will not do this thing then david said to uriah stay here today also notice that david concocts another scheme and tomorrow i will let you go so uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next now david called him and he ate and drank before him and he made him drunk so david's trying to get him drunk again and in the evening he went out to lie on his bed with his lord servant but he did not go to his own house so even still you try to get him drunk again he's still he's still more honorable drunk than david is sober let that sink in for a second now in the morning david wrote a letter i've got to figure out a way to get past this this is where plans go arrive when you start scheming any of us have ever been there a lot of us have been there when you try to scheme to make something work for you and you are desperate because you don't want this lie the secret to unfold to be uncovered and come back to you you're going to look bad and oh by the way there's some rules that have to happen what are the rules that that should be in place remember even though god is establishing this davidic covenant we are still under the um old covenant the mosaic covenant and what does that mean well if we go to to a leviticus 2010 notice what it says if there is a man who commits adultery with another man's wife uh one who commits adultery with his friend's wife the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death where should david be dead in the grave stoned why because you violated the law well wait a minute question why then is david not being killed why then is david not being stoned why then does david not suffer the same fate well one he's the king two the story hadn't gotten out but why didn't god just tell one of the servants to do this why didn't god give the word to the prophet well there's a very good reason why david hasn't this hadn't happened with david the reason is for one god has determined what he's going to do in terms of redeeming mankind that's number one we find that in genesis 315 we don't know the whole story 315 316 so we don't know the whole story but so far we are told that the seed of the woman we find out it's going to be jesus is going to get this victory over the enemy and then of course we go further and so through progressive revelation the scriptures we're finding more and more out about god's plan not everything because again thus far we haven't even been introduced to the name jesus we haven't been introduced to this to this one that's going to come and die and redeem the laws we haven't heard that yet but we have heard this again we've covered this before in genesis 49 10 the separate shall not depart from juda Saul was from benjamin and so the lord chose david out of the tribe of juda and he says nor shall the staff from between his feet until shallow comes and to him shall be the obedience of his people and so there is one reason god is going to have his will to come about your his god's will versus man's sin which one weighs the most which one's the heaviest which one gives clarification and direction god's will god will get his will done either through you or in spite of you and sometimes both sometimes he'll get it done through you while still dragging you and still punishing you which unfortunately for david that is about to happen and so let's go back to second samuel seven and verse 14 i'm sorry second samuel 11 verse 14 now in the morning david wrote a letter to joe ab and sent it by the hand of your rye and he had hand i'm sorry he had written in the letter saying place your rye in front of in the front line of the fiercest battle and withdraw from him so imagine here your rye take this letter give it to joe ab this letter literally contains how you are going to die how i'm going to kill you but he's an honest man a man of integrity and he didn't read it as a matter of fact the bible tells us more about i won't go to it just yet but about your rye being a good man a man that has high esteem he named the bible names him and a few other men and david is up there but this is the man that you that you're going to have killed this is the man that you try to get drunk to go and sleep with his wife so you can lie about the the woman being pregnant that's really pregnant by you yeah uh david no bueno not very good that's my spanish for the day not no bueno not not good not good at all that you're going to do this and so joe ab sees this and he's bothered but but but what does david say it's just another man dying don't don't we don't be too bothered because it's just another man another man dying uh verse 16 so it was as joe ab kept watch over the city that he put your rye at the place where he knew there were valiant men the men of the city went out and fought against joe ab and some of the people among david servants failed and your rye the hittite died also then joe ab sent reported to david all the events of the war he charged the messenger saying when you have finished telling all the events of the war to the king and if it happens to uh that the king's wrath rises and he says to you why did you go so near the city to fight did you not know that they would shoot from the wall who struck down i've been like the son of your uh jerby chef did not a woman throw an upper millstone on him from the wall so that he died in febes why did you go so near the wall then you shall say you're a servant your rye the hittite is dead also so to give him understanding as to what's happening this was done so that your plan so why so not only did uh hurrah huriah was hurrah huriah killed not only was your rye killed but some of your other valiant men some of your better fighting men also died to cover up your scheme i don't know if we recognize this that when we scheme when we lie when we do things when we sin very rarely is it just us that suffers oftentimes there's collateral damage there's people that that that die or suffer even those that are close to you and so the messenger departed and came and reported to david all that had happened so here we have the story and then what does david do verse 26 he says now the wife of your rye heard that your rye her husband was dead and she mourned her husband when when the time of mourning was over so soon it was over david sent and brought her to his house and she became his wife what course he had to time is of the essence we gotta hear and and bring you in and make it as though that the timing matches up because we can't have you too pregnant before i marry you these dates have to add up but the thing that david had done was evil in the sight of the lord and there's where we start all of that everything else was just an introduction what david did was evil in the sight of the lord now we have a problem it's not as though that escapes the lord because nothing that we do escapes the lord but if what he did was evil in the sight of the lord and your rules say that he should be killed matter of fact both of them then why not but let's continue some more chapter 12 verse 1 you know the story then the lord sent nathan to david and he came to him and said there were two men one in one city the one rich and the other poor the rich man had a great many flocks but the poor man had nothing except one little you which he brought and nourished and he grew up together with him and his children it would eat his of his bread and drink this was a family pet more anything else now a traveler came to the rich man and was unwilling to take from his own flock or his own to prepare for the wayfarer who had come to him rather he took the poor man's you lamp and prepared it for the man who had come to him david was angry because this man is bullying this person he's using his power and his influence to take some what someone else's property is for his own benefit so david is upset it would look like righteous indignation but it's not it's hypocritical why because nathan said as the lord lives um surely the man who has done this deserves to die this is what david is saying he must make rest i'm sorry nathan says this uh he must make restitution for the lamb for full because he did this thing and had no compassion nathan then said to david i'm sorry david is saying this uh then nathan then said to david you are the man thus says the lord god of israel it is i who anointed you now look at what he says it is i who anointed you king over israel and it is i who delivers you from the hand of salt 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 juda and if that had been too little i would have added to you many more things like these whatever you wanted you could have had why have you despised the word of the lord by doing evil in his sight you have struck down your eye the head tight with the sword you have taken his wife to be your wife you have killed him with the sword of the sons of emin you killed him you use the enemy to kill him notice what he says now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house because you have despised me and have taken the wife of your rival head tight to be your wife may i ask you guys a question do we think that god is speaking literally here he says the sword shall never depart from your house verse 11 thus is the lord behold i will rise let me raise up evil against you from your own household is that literally what god means well sure because that's literally what's going to happen i will even take your wives from before your eyes and give them to your companion and he will lie with your wives in broad daylight that's literally what happens indeed you did it secretly but i will do this thing before all israel and under the sun when god determines to uh show himself and you are in sin because that what you thought you did in this in the dark he is going to make it clear make it known broadcasted public you think you think youtube can get the word out you think facebook can get the word out you think instagram and whatever else they have out there all of that plus the us males fedex ups everything everyone is going to know it's going to be vivid now obviously i can recognize i can sympathize and i'm sure many of you maybe not to the same level or the the degree but this is god's man this is one that you chose well because god's choosing god's purpose isn't necessarily david he didn't do it because david was so awesome or for the benefit of david he just chose to use david but remember this is all for god's glory and so he said i have sinned against the lord and nathan said to david the lord also has taken away your sin uh you shall not die okay so you won't have to deal with the penalty of leviticus i'm not leviticus yeah leviticus 20 you don't have to deal with that with that penalty nor will basheba but the baby will however because you because by this deed you have given occasion to the enemies of the lord to blaspheme the child also that is born to you shall surely die why because god is going to protect his name then the lord struck the child that you rise why a widow bore to david so that he was very sick david therefore inquired of the lord i mean god for the child and david fasted and went and lay all night on the ground well david if you were gonna fast if you wanted to inquire of the lord why didn't you inquire before you went with basheba mr uh i'm gonna inquire of the lord you've been inquiring of the lord but we saw what happened on on the last session when david did not inquire of the lord now this is the second time that david not inquiring of the lord cost somebody their life the last time uza sticks his hand out to get the ark well david you're doing everything the wrong way why because you did not inquire of the lord then and so now you go inquire the lord bring the ark back everything's fine and so you get a few victories and so what happens is we quickly and all too soon forget god's blessing god did this on monday friday lord where are you we're like little children you never do anything for us you never take us anywhere you never take us out to eat you just had me down last night yeah but that was yesterday but other than that you never you never blessed me lord huh that's how we treat god and we forget about him because the blessings aren't just coming rapid fire no we are selfish as indicated even with david with how he goes his own desires to go after this woman and this is his one of his chief man one of his men one of these great valiant men who's fighting for him then the elders of the house on verse 17 stood beside him in order to raise him up from the ground but he was unwilling and would not eat food and understand that's his baby that's his child you want the child to live david one thing we can say david's got some issues but he also loves his children and so then it happened on the seventh day that the child died and the servants of david were afraid to tell him that the child was dead for they said behold while he was while the child was alive we spoke to him and he did not listen how then can we tell him this verse 19 but then david saw that the servants were whispering he said is the child dead they said yes he's dead so david arose from the ground washes face verse 20 going in himself and changes clothes and came to the house and worshiped the lord i don't want to say too little too late but amen now you're worshiping the lord then he came to his outside house his own house and when he requested they said food before many ate his servants asked him what is this thing that you have done while the child was alive you fastened the wep but when the child died you arose and ate food he said while the child was alive i fastened the wep before i say who knows the lord may be gracious to me that the child may live but now he is dead i mean he has died why should i fast can i bring him back again i will go to him but he will not return to me now this particular passage is used oftentimes to signify that babies go to heaven you could use that i don't have a problem with you saying that but that's not necessarily what david is talking about he's saying that obviously when you die you go to the grave he can't come back to me but i i'll go to the grave too now does david understand how how the uh the dead works how does the grave work i don't know that he does the bible hadn't told us anything about the the date or the grave thus far but maybe don't know so we won't get too much into the grave and what we do know eventually about the grave because that's not that's not necessarily the point right now but we then see that david after that time he comforts basheba because here's a mother who lost her child uh and then he went into her and lay with her and she gave birth to a child by the way we we used that term uh the other day ep exegetical here's another term he went into her and lay with her the same thing so he just ep exegetically used the term lay with her and she gave birth to a son and he named him notices she named him or he named him salomon now the lord loved him and sent word to nathan the prophet and he named him jedi for the lord's sake so we've got salomon having two names jedi and salomon now i want to pause right there and kind of make excuse me the greater point because on the thumbnail there are people that are on this thumbnail that don't seem like they belong on the thumbnail you've got vody bachem uh you've got gino jennings you've got greg lock and you've got marcus rogers what in the world would they have in common why would they be on this thumbnail and the thumbnail being titled all of god's word well let me say this and i've been saying this for the longest i haven't been pushing it now i'm pushing it because thus far i have not said read the bible this way i've told you how i do it but you develop your own hermeneutic and just see now you have been reading with me this while ask little questions as we go to see what you think what does it say to you now the reason why i say that because it's so easy to take a part of his word and read it all and make it make sense because it or read it literally but then get to another part because it doesn't fit my theological system that's not what it means and all four of these men do so now some more egregious than others there are some that spiritualize the text and make up stuff that's just ridiculous excuse me well cori surely vody bachem is not one well yes he's one uh why now and again i love vody bachem but anyone that is going to take israel out of the picture anyone's going to take israel out of the picture i got a cough in my sweater and have a thread from the sweater in my mouth but anyone that's going to take out israel out of the picture when god has clearly stated that they will be before him forever that's a problem there's no need to there's no point to it uh you don't replace anyone israel is not replacing when you cannot be replaced nor can israel be replaced whom god has chosen he has chosen and there's nothing you can say this is why and i've said this and i'll keep saying this you go find your scholar you go find your favorite teacher you go find your favorite preacher and say prove what i just said wrong there are a plethora of scriptures and let us let us know that israel is never ever ever going to be replaced there's no such thing as spiritual israel there's no such thing as the new israel there's no such thing as a spiritual jew the church is not israel the church has not become the new israel the new jew no it's not please read the bible and stop making it say what you say did god not say well let me read it again let me read it again uh god is not a man that he should lie nor a son of man that he should repent has he said and will it and will it not and will he not do it or has he spoken and will he not make good of it if god said it it is going to happen now the reason why i put him in that category again i do love bodhi bakal but the slippery slope that you get on is if you're not going to take it literally when you when there's no reason not to is you can do that with other things i'll get to my main point in just a second but if you want to start saying things like oh i don't know that christians can have demons when there's no pastor says that you just start spiritualizing the text you just start you just start seeing ghosts in the text you making them become something that it it says something plain and clear let me ask you a question the text is being read let's go back to it the text is being read as god has said this as nathanus says this how does how does the person who is saying this who is writing this understand it but even more to the point also how do the people that's hearing it understand let's go back to chapter seven i'm not not yet uh second Samuel seven let me read this again because this is extremely important so now he says again what more can david say to you uh you know you're serving oh lord god for the sake of your own word and according to your own heart you have done all this i want you to see how david understands what god is saying not how i understand it not how uh vody understands it not how james white understands it not how jama carter understands it not how you know jennings understand it tdj not know how god not how david understands because david is hearing this word david has been able to inquire of the lord and so how does david under does david take this word literally yes he does how do we know so verse 22 uh for this reason you are great oh lord god for there is none like you and there is no god besides you according to all that that we have heard with our ears this is how david understands it and what nate what one nation uh on the earth is like your people israel so how does how does god i mean how does david take these promises to israel literally as though physical israel is going to stay established and be a nation be a people before him forever he says uh whom god went to redeem for himself as a people and to make a name for himself this is david speaking david is giving his understand his interpretation of it and to do great thing for you and awesome things for your land literally his land for before your people whom you have redeemed for yourself from egypt from nations and their gods you have established yourself for your people israel as your own people forever how does david understand this that they will be established as his people forever so we can even cut the guessing game out because david has simply told us how they understood it everyone else understands it literally all of god's prophecies that they know have been fulfilled literally and they understand the future prophets that have yet to be fulfilled will be fulfilled literally not spiritualized why what kind of god do we have that has to do it in dorana has kind of had this is what i really meant no that's what you do that's what i do that's what everyone at you else know this is what i really meant no god is clear god has made a statement and has not stutter why do you think you then have to come back and try to help a god out have to figure out well what god really meant was it was the church to be able to know that is not what he meant at all stop it and the problem is when someone else does it when a charismatic or a hyper charismatic says something then you say that's not what the scripture says when they spiritualize a text it's a problem when marcus writer says that jesus thought was a thought it's a problem because we don't have that such text he's spiritualized in text uh same thing with the genogenics same thing with the greg locks same thing with all these folks that we have these problems with when they spiritualize a text it's a problem but when we do it those we think are saying we do it's not a problem stop it stop it you small insignificant person i include myself we are not that trained not that intelligent not that smart not that crafty to understand deep hidden things that's why he gives it to us like us why because a simple minded people needed to be explained to us simply amen now why is this even so important well because then you got another class of people that spiritualize a text and again let me just say this and be clear when we give them certain texts about god's promise because i said that israel is not the only one that's been redeemed we too have been redeemed but there are those that will tell us you haven't been redeemed not that way no you won't be redeemed until we think you've been redeemed which is in the very end no let me just say let's put some passages on the on the on the screen and let's just see because we're gonna take it how it says and read it literally unless there's a reason not to read it literally you tell me is there a reason not to read this literally he says in Jeremiah 32 40 i will make an everlasting covenant this word alarm alarm is forever an everlasting covenant a brief alarm which is a covenant forever lasting forever with them and notice what he says i will not turn away from them to do them good and i will put my fear of me in their hearts what did god say i'll put my fear not Cory's fears not john's not by but his fear of us i mean of him in their hearts will he do it yes he will because he's not a man that he will lie so if he says it won't he accomplish it and i will put the fear of me in their hearts so that they will not turn away from me so they won't turn away from him nor will he turn away from them so god will not turn away from us nor will we turn away from him now i want you to understand what he what he's saying it it's pretty clear ladies and gentlemen it's pretty clear let's go to the most famous passages on the planet this is not it's not that difficult it's not bad if he says for god so love the word and this is how he shows his love for the world that he gave his only begotten son that whoever believes in the ones believing him will never perish in order henna in order that all the ones believing him shall never perish shall never perish what does the word not mean what does not mean what does never mean what do you mean never what do you mean not well notice what he says in revelations three five the one that's overcoming that's what this wings that's what this means hide in the cone the one who overcomes this is how so thus his person will be clothed in white you will be clothed in white you are an overcome because you've been born again who calls you be born again he did according to peter and you'll be clothed in white and what does he say i will never ever erase his name from the book of life this word this uses who may never ever ever never ever ever means never ever ever what does never mean what does know what does not mean you will not turn away you will not perish you will never be erased or blotted out and he can make that statement because he chose you from the very beginning there's no need to even spiritualize this part this is the lunacy of us who claim to be saved sanctified feel what the holy ghost with a fire burners with a minor run on all that stuff like that tongue talking foot stomping what have you this is the problem that we just simply cannot read we can read a breakfast menu we can read instructions we can read a schedule we can read cooking directions we can read a magazine we can read a newspaper we can certainly read other people's emails and we read that all the same way when we get to here i think this means something else please be quiet he says blessed be the god and father of our lord jesus christ who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in heavenly places in christ jesus just as just as the way that he blessed us to be in christ jesus because those that believe that there is no unconditional election just as he blessed us to have all these heavenly have these spiritual blessings in christ jesus just in that same way he also chose us the direct object to be in him the indirect object plain and simple but that didn't make any sense why because we have free will yeah whatever forget your free will your free will is horrible your free will is horrible you have no good your free will makes no good sense not even you because what you will to do you don't always do you will to do good and you keep messing up you will to not mess up and you keep messing up like paul paul says the evil things that i wouldn't i that i don't want to do those things i keep practicing and this is where he says well old wretched man that i am that's nothing good in me except the spirit there's nothing good in me except the spirit oh by the way who put the spirit in you heard the word and you receive it in your heart but if your heart wasn't any good well then what's what's it gonna do nothing it will not bear fruit who caused your heart to be in a good enough shape fertile enough to produce a harvest with perseverance with the word only god does we've covered that read it like it says you don't have to be smart you don't have to be you don't have to be a straight a student you don't have to go to harvard you don't have to be summa cum laude or magma cum laude you have to be a honor or suit you don't even have to be bald to get this you can have hair and understand what this is saying this is clear he did the choosing he did that you know why you know why he didn't leave up to you because we can't even read correctly we can't even read correctly and so why would he leave living holy up to us why would he leave a chance to it he has determined he has redeemed us he has preserved us for his own spiritual prosperity as he says so when does chose not mean chose well what he really meant please be quiet please have a seat please sit down never ever ever means never ever ever no not means no not what's so hard to understand about these words as a matter of fact he's talking to mary and martha but he's talking to one of the sisters he says everyone who lives and believes and i want you to notice what he says all the ones that are living and the kai pistol on those that are believing so if you're believing today that includes you he says you will never die and nobody says who may apathante apathante which is you will never ever ever what is so difficult to understand about never ever what's so hard to understand about never he says you will never die and notice what he asked her at the end do you believe this you will never die sweetheart you can see Jesus saying do you believe this do you believe this well why don't you believe this well because i keep messing up i know you keep messing up that's why i got to step in not me cori but god god has to step in you poor miserable souls that think it's up to you to keep this going on you you'll get to heaven if you place your faith in christ even though you think you can force forfeit it you'll get there but you'll get there worried you'll get there you'll get there uh with a burden that you don't need to have why do you think he says come under me all you are late who are burden heavy laden and i'll give you a rest because you need it you can't you can't carry this you can't the prize is too big it's like a billion dollars worth of gold you can have it but you can't carry it so again because he makes it let me just put on the screen again he says god is not a man that he should lie he's not a man that he should lie he's not going to repent this is him changing his mind i'm not changing my mind has he said it and if he said it will he not do it has he spoken it and will he not make it good why is that important why why is that important well let me let me give you the passage that lets you understand why this is important because some of you guys aren't the only ones that don't get this some of you guys are not the only ones this is the first time god has been having to suffer through this for the for the entirety of the church this doubt that we have notice what he says he says don't let your little heart speed trouble don't let your heart speed trouble believe in god believe also in me in my father's house and i can see jesus saying this compassionately in my father's house are many dwelling places notice what he says if it weren't so i wouldn't have told you that i'm not just making i'm not just going to tell you anything i'm not like your parents that told you i'll take you to disney world never took you i'm not like your parents tell you i'll take you to the movies don't take you to the movies i'll get you that pony and never do no he does not lie he says if it were not so notice what he says if it were not so i would not have told you these aren't my words these are his words do you spiritualize this text or do you read this text well some folks do some folks do there's no need there's no basis to look for an alternative or deeper or hidden meaning if it were not so i would not tell you jesus is literally grabbing them by the cheeks looking at him if it wasn't so you big wonderful knucklehead i wouldn't tell you but i'm telling you this for a reason notice what he says i have told you so why because i go to prepare a place for who for you i'm preparing a place for you and if i go to prepare a place for you i'm not going to waste my time not going to waste my energy if i go to prepare a place for you lisa she if i go to prepare a place for you for you cathard see if i go to prayer place for you spider monkey scott If I go to prepare a place for you don't you think I intend on coming back for you? I'm not going to prepare a place for you and I know good and well that you're going to lose your salvation. I'm not going to prepare a place for you and I know good and well you've got 40 demons on you. No, I'm going to prepare a place for you and if I do so I'm coming back for you. As he says, I will come again and receive you to myself that where I am there you may be also and you know where I'm going. This is where he says I am the way, the truth and the life. So, yeah, those people that are on that thumbnail deserve to be there. Now, some more are greeted than others but all of this leads to the same. All of this looking into text different ways, turning sideways, it might mean this, it might mean that. All of it can eventually lead because you might not be surrounded by the right people. If you read the Bible interpret incorrectly or to your own feelings, it can easily lead you to the wrong road because what if you're not surrounded by other people with sound and beliefs? What if you buy yourself and you get around other people that are also spiritualizing the text? Other people that are allegorizing text, other people that don't think you ought to read it literally. Again, I'm still looking, I'm still looking for the people that show me that the reason why this way is the wrong way. Not the conclusion. Well, the reason why because your conclusion is off. Forget the conclusion. We're reading. We're reading. They give people in certain seminaries a book called, it's a big thick book as a matter of fact called How to Read. I think many of us need that book, How to Read. Well, wait a second because it seems ironic to have this big thick book called How to Read. You have to read it to learn how to read. Well, it's just giving you the principles that you already know. It's just reminding and iterating or as we say reiterating these principles. And then we apply this to the scriptures because again, how do they think this is going to happen? They felt like they knew and even David repeats it as though they're going to happen literally and they all have everything. Notice this. I want you to think about something and then we'll leave. Everything that God has promised to do, he has literally done. Everything that God has promised to do, he has literally done. But it takes a 21st century or 20th century American or someone in Western culture to say, not everything will be done though. He's stopping now. Now he's going to change it. Well, if he's going to change it, then won't he also change salvation? Won't he also change every blessing that he's got? Won't he just, you know what? I'm going to change the location of heaven and you can't come. That's not the guy that we have. We can trust in him. And so for that reason, and listen, I'm okay. I'm okay with somebody being bothered. I'm okay with somebody disagreeing. That's fine. We're going to go to the scriptures. I'm okay with the comments are going to come. No correct. And guess what I'm going to do? I'm going to make you earn the text, make you earn the statement. I'm going to make you prove your point. I'm going to ask you what the context of it is and what everyone thinks. What do the people on the ground think it is? Because if it means something and what they thought, then God was fooling them. So I understand that we can say that there are those that had eyes to see it, but not seeing and ears, but not being able to hear. I understand that, but that wasn't the case for the, for the prophets. What did David think? What did Jeremiah think? What did Ezekiel think? What did Hosea think? What did Amos think? What did Obadiah think? What did the people hearing it? What do they think? But what I think matters. No. So guys, we're going to hold ourselves to God's word. God's word matters even above our thoughts, even, even in this case, above our sin. Amen.