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 All right, so we are looking at 2 Samuel tonight, 2 Samuel chapter 2.

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 That's page 255 in the Pew Bible, if you want to turn there and follow along.

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 I think we'll have the words on the screen, is that right, Lindsay?

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 Yeah, we'll have them up on the screen too.

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 So, 2 Samuel chapter 2.

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 Tonight we're just going to focus on the first 11 verses of this chapter.

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 You can see it's a long one.

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 We'll just focus on the beginning portion.

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 All right, let me read this for us.

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 After this, David inquired of the Lord,

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 Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah?

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 And the Lord said to him, Go up.

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 David said, To which shall I go up?

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 And he said, To Hebron.

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 So David went up there, and his two wives also,

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 Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel.

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 And David brought up his men who were with him,

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 Everyone with his household, and they lived in the towns of Hebron.

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 And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah.

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 When they told David it was the men of Jabesh Gilead who buried Saul,

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 David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh Gilead and said to them,

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 May you be blessed by the Lord because you showed this loyalty to Saul your Lord and buried him.

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 Now may the Lord show steadfast love and faithfulness to you.

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 And I will do good to you because you have done this thing.

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 Now therefore let your hands be strong and be valiant,

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 For Saul your Lord is dead, and the house of Judah has anointed me king over them.

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 But Abner, son of Ner, commander of Saul's army,

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 Took Ish-bosheth, the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim.

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 And he made him king over Gilead and the Asherites and Jezreel and Ephraim and Benjamin and all Israel.

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 Ish-bosheth, Saul's son, was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel,

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 And he reigned two years.

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 But the house of Judah followed David.

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 And the time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.

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 Let's pray together.

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 Lord, we long for your word to dwell in us richly.

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 Lord, we want the word of your kingdom, the word of the gospel, the word of grace,

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 the word about you, Lord Jesus, to dwell in us and to seep in us so deeply.

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 That our thoughts and our loves and our words and our actions are a picture and a reflection of you.

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 So God, as we study this text tonight, would you help us to seep deeply in it?

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 To hear what your spirit is saying to us?

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 God, so that we might love you and know you better and better.

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 And God, would the words of my mouth and the meditation of all of our hearts be pleasing in your sight.

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 Oh Lord, our rock and our redeemer.

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 Amen.

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 Amen.

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 All right.

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 So I want us to consider this text tonight under this very simple heading.

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 Responding rightly to God's rightful king.

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 In other words, are we responding rightly to God's rightful king?

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 And I want to just unpack this really simply in two parts.

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 One, God's king, God's rightful king.

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 And two, our response to him, our rightful response.

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 So first, big heading, God's rightful king.

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 Here we are.

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 We're studying the book of 2 Samuel this fall.

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 And as you can see from our text, this book is all about the person of David.

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 Now, if you're not familiar with the Bible or with the Old Testament, David is one of the just massively important figures in all of scripture.

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 You can't really understand the Old Testament.

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 In fact, you can't even really understand the New Testament in many ways without understanding, in some sense, the person of David.

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 And he's incredibly important for two reasons.

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 One, he's important, on the one hand, as an example, in some ways, of someone who trusts God.

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 Of someone who has a God-centered heart.

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 So he's a model for us.

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 But he's not just a model of sort of piety and spirituality for our lives.

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 More importantly than that, in the storyline of the Old Testament, David really is the quintessential king.

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 All the other kings in Israel will be measured, in some sense, by King David.

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 I don't know what we're going to do next in our sermon series in the evening service.

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 Maybe we'll do 1 Kings.

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 Then maybe we'll do 2 Kings after that.

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 Maybe after eight years we'll have finished the entire Old Testament.

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 But you would see, if we went through 1 and 2 Kings, that all these kings end up being measured against David, in some sense, as a measuring stick.

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 And yet, and yet, as we'll see in the unfolding of 2 Samuel, in the unfolding of David's story, we see that even David, even the great David, isn't actually, is not the one that we're waiting for.

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 Not even David himself, the great David, can be the true and real savior of Israel and the world.

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 That the great king David points ahead, actually, in hope to an even better king to come.

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 So that's kind of the big picture of 2 Samuel.

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 Our passage, in particular tonight, shows us the very, very, very beginning of Saul's actual reign.

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 Of David's actual reign, excuse me.

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 Not Saul, he just died.

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 That was 1 Samuel chapter 31, right?

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 And David has just heard about that in our last chapter.

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 He heard about Saul's death and he mourned.

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 So here's David just having mourned Saul's death.

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 And now, in 2 Samuel chapter 2, David's kingdom finally begins.

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 God's kingdom through David, at long last, is inaugurated.

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 And in the three paragraphs that make up, verses 1 through 11 of our text, the narrator, I think, wants us to see three things about David.

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 Three things about this rightful king.

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 And first thing is David's obedience.

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 David's willingness to listen to God and to do what God says.

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 That's in verses 1 through 4.

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 I mean, picture it for a second.

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 David, at the beginning of this chapter, is still living outside the land.

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 He's still living in the country of the Philistines.

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 He's still in exile because he's been running from Saul.

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 And he's just heard that Saul has died.

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 And what does David do?

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 Does he sort of charge into Israel, all guns blazing?

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 At long last, here I am.

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 You know, it's my time.

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 I deserve this.

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 No.

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 The first thing David does is inquire of the Lord.

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 He wants to know what God wants him to do.

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 And this is so different than Saul, isn't it?

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 If you were with us through 1 Samuel in the spring, you'll remember that Saul, as his rule went on and on, listened less and less and less to God.

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 But here is David, inquiring of the Lord, wanting to do what God says.

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 Not wanting to do what he thinks might be prudent or timely or right, but what God says.

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 And notice, too, that David's obedience here is entire.

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 It's sort of total.

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 When God tells David to go up, David goes with what?

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 He goes with his entire family.

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 With all of his wives, with all of his children, with all of his men, with all of his army.

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 They all go.

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 In other words, David is holding nothing back.

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 He's got no sort of plan B here.

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 He's all in.

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 This is a decisive and complete obedience to the word of God.

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 So God's rightful king here is shown to be one who is entirely obedient to the Lord.

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 It's interesting that the key word in this paragraph, or the word that's sort of repeated again and again, is the verb to go up.

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 Did you notice that?

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 Look again at verses 1 through 4.

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 David says, shall I go up?

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 And the Lord says, go up.

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 And David says, go up where?

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 And then in verse 2, the narrator says, David went up.

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 That's the same verb.

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 And then again in verse 3, it says, David brought up.

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 Again, that's the same word.

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 Now what's the point?

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 Well, this paragraph in many ways is not just David sort of going up home to his homeland in Judea.

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 He would have actually gone up elevation wise.

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 But this is David going up to his throne.

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 This is David ascending as the king.

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 This is his royal ascension.

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 And he's going up as one who is obedient to the Lord.

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 God's rightful king, the narrator is telling us, is the one who ascends, who reigns in obedience to the word of God.

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 So David here, God's rightful king is obedient.

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 Second paragraph, starting at the end of verse 4, running through verse 7, shows us the second thing about God's rightful king.

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 And what we see here is his kindness.

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 Now, to understand sort of what's going on in these verses, you have to realize that the city of Jabesh-Gilead, that the people who live in that city were some of King Saul's biggest supporters.

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 One of the first things that Saul did in his reign was to save the people of Jabesh-Gilead from a foreign army's attack.

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 It was in some sense the high point of Saul's rule if you look back in 1 Samuel chapter 11.

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 And the people of Jabesh-Gilead never forgot what Saul did for them.

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 So much so that when they heard the news that Saul had died in battle with the Philistines and that his body was being desecrated, hanging from the wall of the Philistine city Beth-shan.

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 When they heard this, some of the men from Jabesh-Gilead risked their lives in the middle of the night, just after Israel had been totally pummeled by the Philistines.

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 They go marching into enemy territory in the middle of the night to retrieve Saul's body and to give him and his sons a proper burial.

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 I mean, that's like something that they make movies out of, right?

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 It was loyal.

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 It was daring.

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 It was loving.

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 The people of Jabesh-Gilead were some of Saul's most loyal supporters.

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 And the first thing that David does after ascending and being anointed in Judah is to reach out to that very city in kindness.

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 Now, yes, in doing this, there is sort of a political element to what David is doing, right?

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 David knows that if Jabesh-Gilead can come over to his side and acknowledge his kingship, then he will have won a great ally in the north, right?

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 But more than that, David is extending genuine love to these people, is he not?

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 Again, there's sort of a key word of this paragraph.

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 And the word that's repeated again and again and again in this section of the narrative is the Hebrew word hesed.

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 It's probably one of the most important words in the Old Testament, I would say.

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 And it's a bit tricky to translate.

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 Sometimes it's translated kindness.

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 In verse 5, this word is translated loyalty.

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 The loyalty that the city Jabesh-Gilead shown to Saul.

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 In verse 6, it's translated steadfast love.

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 In other words, hesed is covenant-keeping love.

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 An unbreakable bond of undivided loyalty and affection.

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 Has anyone here ever read the Jesus Storybook Bible?

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 Do you know that Bible?

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 The kids' Bible?

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 Greg, I'm sure your kids have read the Jesus Storybook Bible.

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 Well, if you haven't read the Jesus Storybook Bible, go downstairs after the service and grab a copy and buy it and read it.

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 Because it's really edifying.

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 But one of the ways in which the author of that book describes God's hesed love is by his never stopping, never giving up, always unbreakable, forever and ever and ever love.

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 It's sort of this string of descriptions to describe this kind of rock-solid loyalty that God, and that by extension people, can have to others.

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 In fact, it's one of the ways in Exodus 34 that God describes his own nature.

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 That God's own nature is one of covenant loyalty and covenant love.

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 And what David says to the city of Jabesh-Gilead is functionally, that's what you showed Saul.

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 And because of that, I'm praying that the Lord shows you the same.

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 And then in verse 6, David does something very interesting.

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 He says, and I will do good to you because you've done this thing.

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 Now, David doesn't actually use the word hesed there.

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 But what he's saying basically amounts to the same thing.

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 He's saying, let me show you covenant favor.

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 Enter into a relationship with me.

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 And let me prove to you how loyal I can be to you.

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 And it's almost as if David is saying here, when you read the verse as a whole, that he's almost saying, look, I'm praying that God will bless you.

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 Now, let me be the channel.

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 Let me be the mediator through which the Lord blesses you.

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 Yes, Saul is dead, but I'm not going to punish you.

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 I'm going to embrace you, David says.

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 And again, isn't David so different than Saul here?

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 Remember back in 1 Samuel 22, it's one of the most sort of grim aspects, I think, of this whole story in 1 and 2 Samuel.

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 In 1 Samuel 22, Saul has just heard that some priests had kind of innocently helped David by giving him some bread and giving him a sword because David was on the run.

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 And when Saul hears that, he puts the whole village to death.

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 For one little act of kindness to David, Saul mows down the whole city and murders them all.

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 But David, David approaches Saul's biggest supporters and his most loyal fans and the ones who showed him the most kindness.

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 And how does he respond to them?

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 He says, let me show kindness to you.

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 Let me love you.

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 Let me be faithful to you.

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 Let me be the channel of God's blessing to you.

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 Friends, that's God's rightful king.

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 That's the kind of king that we actually need.

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 One who extends kindness to people who were the staunchest supporters of his adversary.

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 One who extends and mediates the Lord's kindness to others.

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 Lastly, in verses 8 through 11, we see that God's rightful king is patient.

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 When Abner makes Ish-Boshef king, what's David's response?

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 Outrage?

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 Retaliation?

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 Full frontal attack?

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 No.

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 David waits patiently for the Lord to establish his throne.

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 After all, when David is anointed in verse 4, he's anointed king over Judah, right?

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 There are still 11 other tribes in Israel at this point who haven't yet acknowledged David to be their rightful king.

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 But David doesn't take this opportunity to seize the throne and to force an immediate response.

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 No, David actually waits on the Lord to establish the Lord's reign in the Lord's own timing.

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 And again, briefly, isn't that so different than Saul?

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 Saul was facing pressure from the Philistines.

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 Do you remember that?

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 And he's waiting for Samuel to show up for a sacrifice.

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 He grows impatient.

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 Doesn't wait any longer.

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 Makes the sacrifice himself.

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 Rushes into it.

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 Does his own thing.

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 But here we see David patient.

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 Even when a rival is put on the throne, he doesn't rush in.

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 He doesn't blaze ahead.

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 He's willing to wait on the Lord and to trust the Lord's timing.

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 So here's God's rightful king.

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 The author of 2 Samuel is showing us.

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 A king who's rich and who's strong in obedience and in patience and in kindness.

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 It's a pretty stirring picture actually.

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 Unlike a lot of rulers the world has seen, isn't it?

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 Now, of course, you might not care very much what sort of king David was.

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 After all, this whole episode took place around the year 1000 BC.

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 That is 3,000 years ago is what we're talking about here.

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 And as we'll see in the rest of the second, Samuel, David isn't always perfectly obedient and kind and patient.

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 So what does all this have to say to us today?

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 Well, if you think about it, the people of Israel needed a king because they were weak and because they were breaking apart.

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 The defeat of Saul at the end of the last book meant that the Philistines now controlled most of the northern territories of Israel.

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 Those regions that are listed there in verse 9, you know, most of those at this point in history were occupied by Philistine troops.

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 So even though Ish-bosheth was supposedly king over them, he didn't really have control of any of them.

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 That's why his capital city in Mahanaim was on the other side of the Jordan,

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 basically in the Transjordan region on the far reaches as he could possibly get.

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 And the fact that David is anointed king by Judah, one tribe out of 12, only his home tribe and none of the rest,

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 shows that Israel wasn't just weak at this point, they were fragmenting.

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 They had lost their center and they were falling apart.

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 Now maybe you look at your own life and you wouldn't say you need a king.

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 Maybe the idea has never crossed your mind.

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 Maybe the idea sounds kind of stupid actually.

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 Maybe you think you can run your own life.

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 Thank you very much.

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 But you know, even though you wouldn't say you need a king,

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 maybe you, like Israel, still feel like things in your life are breaking apart.

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 Fragmenting.

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 And of course, you, like me, like everyone else,

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 you can put on a really good show, right?

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 You can post lots of happy pictures to Instagram.

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 I was down for the count for like three days this week with poison ivy,

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 like all over my face and my hands.

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 I didn't put that on Instagram.

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 Wasn't like, hey, my week stinks.

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 Instagram.

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 No.

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 You can put on a good show.

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 Lots of happy pictures on the internet.

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 You can be killing it at the office.

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 Winning respect.

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 Earning raises.

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 But you know, if you're honest,

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 underneath the veneer of all of that,

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 oftentimes we're not even sure we're even hanging on to begin with.

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 You pretend to be strong, but you're weak.

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 You pretend to be together, but you're falling apart.

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 And on top of all that, you're not even sure who you could tell.

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 Because everyone around you seems to be playing the same game.

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 Posing is strong and together, but inside weak and fragmenting.

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 And you know as well as I do that that's not how it's supposed to be.

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 God actually didn't create us to be weak and to fall apart.

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 To feel like we're on a roller coaster just inches away from falling off the track at any given moment.

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 And if that's not the way it's supposed to be, then why are we like this?

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 Well maybe because we've been getting something all wrong.

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 You know, in a traditional culture,

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 in a sort of traditional culture,

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 if you were to admit that you were weak

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 and your life was falling apart,

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 here's what that traditional sort of culture would tell you.

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 Well you need to do what your family tells you to do.

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 You need to do what your sort of societal structures tell you to do.

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 In other words, you need to find your identity or your center

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 in your primary social group.

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 That's who you really are.

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 Do your duty.

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 To family, to nation, to whatever.

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 You know, if you walk across

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 Yale's campus over here,

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 you'll see a big sort of thing etched in stone

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 where it says,

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 Is that right?

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 Is it on next to the Beinecke?

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 For God, for country, and for Yale.

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 I don't know of any person,

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 let alone Yale student,

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 whose heart is sort of inspired by that.

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 And yet that's the answer

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 that you would get in a traditional culture

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 if you feel like your life's falling apart.

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 Do your duty.

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 That's what's going to hold you together.

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 But you know, today in our culture,

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 we don't really like that answer.

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 And after all, it didn't really work

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 at the end of the day, did it?

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 So if you ask someone in our sort of progressive culture,

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 What do I do?

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 I'm weak.

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 I'm falling apart.

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 Here's what they'll probably tell you.

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 Not look to your family,

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 but no, you need to do what your heart tells you to do.

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 You need to look inside.

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 Find your center.

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 Find your identity in yourself.

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 That's how you're going to find stability and strength.

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 Start to create a self according to your own inner desire.

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 Don't listen to other people.

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 That's how you'll find it.

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 So you see, here are the answers.

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 On the one hand,

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 on the one hand,

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 people saying,

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 Look outside.

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 Look to those around you.

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 They'll tell you how to be secure.

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 And on the other hand,

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 people saying,

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 Look inside.

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 That's where you find it.

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 But you know,

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 the trouble is,

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 this new answer,

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 this sort of looking inside answer,

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 that doesn't really work either.

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 We're still just as fragmented and weak as before,

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 and maybe more so.

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 But here's where the Bible is so radical.

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 In the midst of all this,

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 the biblical answer cuts both ways.

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 It doesn't say look out,

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 and it doesn't say look in.

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 The Bible says look up.

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 Family wasn't made to run your life.

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 And you weren't actually made to run your life.

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 God was meant to be your king.

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 You see, friends,

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 the human heart,

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 the human life,

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 is too precious a thing.

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 It is too valuable a thing to be kept,

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 and to be run by anyone else.

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 If I owned a valuable piece of artwork,

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 here's the one place I would not hang that piece of artwork.

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 In my kids' bedroom.

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 Here's why.

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 Because if I entrusted this piece of artwork to my kids in their bedroom,

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 they would use it as a target for their Nerf guns.

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 Or they would bounce into it when they were jumping on their beds.

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 They wouldn't know how to care for it.

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 But friends,

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 don't you see,

00:23:49.579 --> 00:23:51.160
 your life,

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 your soul,

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 is of much more value

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 than the most precious and rare piece of art.

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 There is nothing in the world

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 that amounts to the value of a human life.

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 And to whom will you entrust the care of you?

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 When God wanted to put a king over Israel,

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 he raised up David.

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 Someone obedient

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 and full of covenant kindness

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 and patience.

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 But when God wanted to put a king over our lives

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 and over the world,

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 he sent his own son.

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 And like David,

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 Jesus was obedient

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 and kind

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 and patient.

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 But Jesus was all that David

00:24:43.460 --> 00:24:45.200
 could never be.

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 Because eventually,

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 David's obedience cracked

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 and his kindness wavered

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 and his patience grew thin.

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 But Jesus Christ was true

00:24:55.480 --> 00:24:56.519
 to the end.

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 And after his death

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 and resurrection,

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 Jesus ascended

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 his throne.

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 And didn't sit

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 on a throne in Hebron,

00:25:05.680 --> 00:25:07.519
 but sits at the Father's right hand.

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 And now Jesus doesn't send out

00:25:09.420 --> 00:25:10.480
 messages of kindness

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 to some enemies across the border,

00:25:12.720 --> 00:25:13.920
 but Jesus is pouring out

00:25:13.920 --> 00:25:15.519
 His own Holy Spirit

00:25:16.240 --> 00:25:18.200
 to take that kindness of God

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 and infuse it into your hearts

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 and to make you something

00:25:21.879 --> 00:25:24.019
 you could never even imagine.

00:25:26.720 --> 00:25:28.940
 Friends, Jesus is the true ascended king

00:25:28.940 --> 00:25:31.500
 who issues the Lord's steadfast love

00:25:31.500 --> 00:25:34.519
 even to those who were once His enemies.

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 He's the rightful king.

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 And friends,

00:25:39.160 --> 00:25:39.920
 He's the one

00:25:39.920 --> 00:25:41.259
 that we were meant

00:25:41.259 --> 00:25:42.900
 to build our life on.

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 Isn't your own self,

00:25:45.299 --> 00:25:46.359
 aren't your own desires

00:25:46.359 --> 00:25:46.980
 too shaky

00:25:46.980 --> 00:25:47.779
 and too fickle

00:25:47.779 --> 00:25:48.639
 to do that?

00:25:49.019 --> 00:25:50.599
 You know that they won't hold.

00:25:51.720 --> 00:25:52.839
 But here's one who will.

00:25:55.539 --> 00:25:55.879
 You see,

00:25:55.960 --> 00:25:56.960
 Jesus knows

00:25:56.960 --> 00:25:58.819
 how precious your life is

00:25:58.819 --> 00:26:01.200
 because He shed His own blood for it.

00:26:01.839 --> 00:26:03.240
 And as your king,

00:26:03.359 --> 00:26:04.980
 He will never lead you astray.

00:26:04.980 --> 00:26:07.660
 Here's the one who was broken

00:26:07.660 --> 00:26:09.759
 so that you could be put back together.

00:26:10.559 --> 00:26:12.319
 And Jesus was the one who became weak

00:26:12.319 --> 00:26:14.200
 so that you could be made strong.

00:26:17.160 --> 00:26:20.160
 And He's the one who now reigns.

00:26:21.500 --> 00:26:22.660
 And through His Spirit

00:26:22.660 --> 00:26:25.539
 is applying everything that He's won

00:26:25.539 --> 00:26:26.660
 through His death and resurrection

00:26:26.660 --> 00:26:27.700
 to those who believe.

00:26:27.700 --> 00:26:34.620
 And that brings us to the second big point

00:26:34.620 --> 00:26:35.980
 of our text tonight.

00:26:36.600 --> 00:26:37.319
 God's king,

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 our response.

00:26:40.580 --> 00:26:41.880
 How are we responding

00:26:41.880 --> 00:26:44.120
 to the true rightful king,

00:26:44.200 --> 00:26:44.920
 to King Jesus?

00:26:46.420 --> 00:26:46.799
 You know,

00:26:46.819 --> 00:26:47.900
 there are three groups of people

00:26:47.900 --> 00:26:48.759
 in our text tonight.

00:26:49.279 --> 00:26:50.380
 One in each paragraph.

00:26:50.840 --> 00:26:51.160
 First,

00:26:51.340 --> 00:26:52.299
 you've got the people of Judah.

00:26:52.880 --> 00:26:53.759
 And what do they do?

00:26:54.019 --> 00:26:55.380
 They receive David as king.

00:26:55.380 --> 00:26:56.660
 And that, of course,

00:26:56.700 --> 00:26:58.660
 is how the narrator wants us to respond, right?

00:26:58.700 --> 00:26:59.780
 That's the right answer.

00:26:59.920 --> 00:27:01.120
 Receive David as king.

00:27:01.560 --> 00:27:03.680
 Crown him the Lord of lords.

00:27:05.760 --> 00:27:06.920
 Receive him as Lord.

00:27:08.500 --> 00:27:08.840
 But you know,

00:27:08.900 --> 00:27:10.100
 we need to be reminded that

00:27:10.100 --> 00:27:11.860
 like the people of Judah,

00:27:11.940 --> 00:27:13.060
 we need to be reminded that

00:27:13.060 --> 00:27:15.340
 it might take some time

00:27:15.340 --> 00:27:18.700
 before Jesus' reign

00:27:18.700 --> 00:27:21.520
 starts to be visible elsewhere.

00:27:21.519 --> 00:27:22.839
 You know,

00:27:22.900 --> 00:27:24.799
 it was two years,

00:27:25.000 --> 00:27:25.980
 two years

00:27:25.980 --> 00:27:28.599
 before the rest of the tribes of Israel

00:27:28.599 --> 00:27:29.220
 found,

00:27:29.700 --> 00:27:31.019
 sort of joined Judah

00:27:31.019 --> 00:27:32.920
 in finding and acknowledging David

00:27:32.920 --> 00:27:33.460
 as their king.

00:27:35.220 --> 00:27:36.160
 But you know what?

00:27:36.539 --> 00:27:37.420
 The kingdom came.

00:27:39.279 --> 00:27:39.759
 Friends,

00:27:39.799 --> 00:27:41.059
 it's been 2,000 years

00:27:41.059 --> 00:27:42.960
 since Jesus ascended to the throne.

00:27:43.400 --> 00:27:44.460
 And you look around at the world

00:27:44.460 --> 00:27:44.900
 and you think,

00:27:45.059 --> 00:27:45.619
 what gives?

00:27:45.799 --> 00:27:47.240
 But don't be mistaken,

00:27:47.720 --> 00:27:49.619
 the kingdom is coming.

00:27:49.619 --> 00:27:53.319
 It starts like a mustard seed,

00:27:53.539 --> 00:27:54.139
 Jesus said.

00:27:54.879 --> 00:27:55.839
 And it grows.

00:27:58.739 --> 00:28:00.879
 And just like David and Judah,

00:28:01.039 --> 00:28:02.299
 Jesus' kingdom is growing

00:28:02.299 --> 00:28:03.159
 and it will grow

00:28:03.159 --> 00:28:04.239
 until one day,

00:28:04.299 --> 00:28:05.119
 not just all Israel

00:28:05.119 --> 00:28:06.339
 will see him and rejoice,

00:28:06.899 --> 00:28:07.839
 but the Apostle Paul says

00:28:07.839 --> 00:28:08.279
 that one day,

00:28:08.579 --> 00:28:09.519
 every knee will bow

00:28:09.519 --> 00:28:10.979
 and every tongue will confess

00:28:10.979 --> 00:28:12.719
 that Jesus Christ is Lord.

00:28:16.239 --> 00:28:16.859
 And you know,

00:28:16.899 --> 00:28:17.899
 what's true of God's

00:28:17.899 --> 00:28:19.519
 sort of whole plan of redemption

00:28:19.519 --> 00:28:20.480
 is true of your life?

00:28:21.379 --> 00:28:23.019
 Sometimes the reign of Jesus

00:28:23.019 --> 00:28:23.700
 in our hearts,

00:28:23.740 --> 00:28:24.160
 in other words,

00:28:24.240 --> 00:28:25.039
 takes time.

00:28:26.259 --> 00:28:27.059
 If you don't see

00:28:27.059 --> 00:28:28.779
 sort of instant transformation,

00:28:30.039 --> 00:28:30.759
 hold on.

00:28:31.559 --> 00:28:32.579
 Don't lose heart.

00:28:33.879 --> 00:28:34.059
 You know,

00:28:34.099 --> 00:28:35.019
 this king actually has

00:28:35.019 --> 00:28:36.220
 much bigger plans

00:28:36.220 --> 00:28:37.099
 for your life

00:28:37.099 --> 00:28:37.980
 than you realize.

00:28:39.339 --> 00:28:40.740
 You want Jesus to come in

00:28:40.740 --> 00:28:41.279
 and sort of

00:28:41.279 --> 00:28:43.019
 redecorate some of your rooms.

00:28:44.480 --> 00:28:45.420
 Jesus wants to come in

00:28:45.420 --> 00:28:46.180
 and he wants to renovate

00:28:46.180 --> 00:28:46.859
 your whole house.

00:28:46.859 --> 00:28:48.699
 He wants to kick down

00:28:48.699 --> 00:28:49.339
 some walls,

00:28:50.019 --> 00:28:50.899
 throw out an extension

00:28:50.899 --> 00:28:51.639
 out the back,

00:28:52.000 --> 00:28:52.679
 maybe finish your

00:28:52.679 --> 00:28:53.579
 third floor attic.

00:28:54.219 --> 00:28:55.039
 He wants to make you

00:28:55.039 --> 00:28:55.619
 into something

00:28:55.619 --> 00:28:57.719
 much more impressive

00:28:57.719 --> 00:28:59.319
 than you would conceive

00:28:59.319 --> 00:29:00.919
 and it takes time.

00:29:03.599 --> 00:29:04.519
 We have to remember

00:29:04.519 --> 00:29:06.279
 that Jesus is a patient king

00:29:06.279 --> 00:29:07.599
 and we need to keep

00:29:07.599 --> 00:29:08.319
 trusting him.

00:29:10.439 --> 00:29:11.299
 So there are the people

00:29:11.299 --> 00:29:11.639
 of Judah.

00:29:11.719 --> 00:29:12.740
 That's one response.

00:29:12.740 --> 00:29:14.819
 You can crown him

00:29:14.819 --> 00:29:15.559
 the king

00:29:15.559 --> 00:29:16.579
 in your heart

00:29:16.579 --> 00:29:17.299
 and your life.

00:29:18.539 --> 00:29:19.299
 Another response

00:29:19.299 --> 00:29:20.759
 we see in this text

00:29:20.759 --> 00:29:21.460
 is at the end

00:29:21.460 --> 00:29:22.519
 in verses 8-11.

00:29:22.799 --> 00:29:24.299
 Abner and Ish-bosheth.

00:29:24.339 --> 00:29:24.779
 And this is almost

00:29:24.779 --> 00:29:25.799
 the exact opposite,

00:29:26.000 --> 00:29:26.200
 right?

00:29:27.099 --> 00:29:27.880
 Abner sets up

00:29:27.880 --> 00:29:28.720
 a rival throne,

00:29:28.819 --> 00:29:29.680
 a rival kingdom

00:29:29.680 --> 00:29:30.680
 and he uses

00:29:30.680 --> 00:29:31.900
 the last sort of

00:29:31.900 --> 00:29:33.180
 surviving son of Saul

00:29:33.180 --> 00:29:33.859
 to get it done.

00:29:34.480 --> 00:29:35.160
 And make no mistake

00:29:35.160 --> 00:29:35.579
 about it,

00:29:35.720 --> 00:29:36.779
 it's Abner who's doing

00:29:36.779 --> 00:29:37.480
 the acting here,

00:29:37.519 --> 00:29:37.740
 right?

00:29:37.799 --> 00:29:38.819
 Look at verses 8-9.

00:29:39.140 --> 00:29:39.859
 All the verbs

00:29:39.859 --> 00:29:40.680
 belong to Abner.

00:29:40.680 --> 00:29:41.480
 Abner took,

00:29:41.759 --> 00:29:42.440
 he brought,

00:29:42.640 --> 00:29:43.500
 he made him king.

00:29:43.680 --> 00:29:44.299
 He's the one

00:29:44.299 --> 00:29:45.160
 who's doing all this.

00:29:45.940 --> 00:29:46.620
 Now we're going to get

00:29:46.620 --> 00:29:47.519
 into Abner's story

00:29:47.519 --> 00:29:48.660
 a little more next week.

00:29:49.000 --> 00:29:50.100
 The rest of chapters 2-3

00:29:50.100 --> 00:29:50.960
 are really about him.

00:29:51.299 --> 00:29:52.220
 But for now,

00:29:52.519 --> 00:29:53.580
 I think the thing to see

00:29:53.580 --> 00:29:55.240
 is that instead of

00:29:55.240 --> 00:29:56.840
 receiving David as king,

00:29:56.920 --> 00:29:57.759
 what Abner does

00:29:57.759 --> 00:29:58.580
 is he sets up

00:29:58.580 --> 00:29:59.539
 a rival king.

00:30:00.840 --> 00:30:01.700
 And isn't that how

00:30:01.700 --> 00:30:02.600
 all of our hearts

00:30:02.600 --> 00:30:03.740
 actually work?

00:30:04.420 --> 00:30:05.480
 We won't necessarily

00:30:05.480 --> 00:30:06.960
 make ourselves king,

00:30:07.960 --> 00:30:08.920
 at least on the surface,

00:30:08.920 --> 00:30:10.900
 but we'll make

00:30:10.900 --> 00:30:11.880
 something else

00:30:11.880 --> 00:30:13.680
 a king in Jesus' place.

00:30:14.300 --> 00:30:15.279
 We'll install

00:30:15.279 --> 00:30:16.220
 a sort of replacement

00:30:16.220 --> 00:30:17.820
 or a rival king.

00:30:19.620 --> 00:30:20.740
 And that's the other way

00:30:20.740 --> 00:30:21.320
 that you can actually

00:30:21.320 --> 00:30:23.500
 respond to Jesus

00:30:23.500 --> 00:30:24.340
 as the rightful king.

00:30:25.000 --> 00:30:26.240
 You can reject him

00:30:26.240 --> 00:30:27.519
 and you can put someone

00:30:27.519 --> 00:30:28.759
 else on the throne instead.

00:30:30.640 --> 00:30:31.240
 But you know,

00:30:31.300 --> 00:30:32.259
 the irony is,

00:30:33.000 --> 00:30:34.220
 is that you still

00:30:34.220 --> 00:30:35.360
 have a king.

00:30:35.359 --> 00:30:38.740
 The thing that runs

00:30:38.740 --> 00:30:39.539
 your life might be

00:30:39.539 --> 00:30:41.000
 money or sex

00:30:41.000 --> 00:30:41.979
 or power,

00:30:42.339 --> 00:30:43.879
 but something is

00:30:43.879 --> 00:30:44.679
 going to rule you

00:30:44.679 --> 00:30:45.500
 and run you.

00:30:47.159 --> 00:30:48.199
 You'll put something

00:30:48.199 --> 00:30:49.259
 on the throne of your life.

00:30:50.379 --> 00:30:50.699
 And you know,

00:30:50.740 --> 00:30:51.500
 if you read the rest

00:30:51.500 --> 00:30:52.240
 of chapter 2,

00:30:53.159 --> 00:30:54.079
 you see the result

00:30:54.079 --> 00:30:54.740
 of what happens

00:30:54.740 --> 00:30:55.519
 when we do that.

00:30:56.799 --> 00:30:58.219
 The whole country

00:30:58.219 --> 00:30:59.339
 and the rest of this chapter

00:30:59.339 --> 00:31:00.479
 just descends

00:31:00.479 --> 00:31:01.859
 into a brutal

00:31:01.859 --> 00:31:03.139
 civil war.

00:31:03.140 --> 00:31:05.740
 It tears them apart.

00:31:09.380 --> 00:31:10.259
 As I was studying

00:31:10.259 --> 00:31:10.600
 this week,

00:31:10.620 --> 00:31:11.440
 I couldn't get the words

00:31:11.440 --> 00:31:12.540
 of Jesus out of my mind

00:31:12.540 --> 00:31:13.740
 when Jesus met Paul,

00:31:14.300 --> 00:31:14.980
 the apostle Paul,

00:31:15.080 --> 00:31:16.100
 on the road to Damascus

00:31:16.100 --> 00:31:17.000
 before his conversion.

00:31:17.720 --> 00:31:18.000
 Do you remember

00:31:18.000 --> 00:31:18.740
 what Jesus said

00:31:18.740 --> 00:31:19.940
 to then Saul?

00:31:20.980 --> 00:31:21.540
 He said,

00:31:21.620 --> 00:31:22.660
 it's hard for you

00:31:22.660 --> 00:31:23.740
 to kick

00:31:23.740 --> 00:31:25.120
 against the goats.

00:31:26.660 --> 00:31:27.100
 Why,

00:31:27.259 --> 00:31:27.840
 Jesus said,

00:31:27.960 --> 00:31:28.759
 are you fighting

00:31:28.759 --> 00:31:30.360
 against the inevitable?

00:31:30.359 --> 00:31:33.299
 It only hurts you.

00:31:35.240 --> 00:31:36.339
 And on top of that,

00:31:36.399 --> 00:31:37.579
 you can't reject

00:31:37.579 --> 00:31:38.899
 his kingship forever.

00:31:39.899 --> 00:31:40.139
 You know,

00:31:40.199 --> 00:31:40.699
 at this point

00:31:40.699 --> 00:31:41.379
 in 2 Samuel,

00:31:41.439 --> 00:31:41.859
 at this point

00:31:41.859 --> 00:31:42.299
 in the narrative,

00:31:42.559 --> 00:31:44.079
 we know that David

00:31:44.079 --> 00:31:44.779
 is going to be the king.

00:31:45.279 --> 00:31:46.559
 It's just a matter of time.

00:31:47.959 --> 00:31:48.839
 Abner's rebellion

00:31:48.839 --> 00:31:50.000
 doesn't change that.

00:31:51.000 --> 00:31:51.719
 And so today,

00:31:52.679 --> 00:31:54.539
 rejecting Jesus as king

00:31:54.539 --> 00:31:56.379
 doesn't change the fact

00:31:56.379 --> 00:31:57.939
 that he is the one

00:31:57.939 --> 00:31:58.599
 before whom

00:31:58.599 --> 00:31:59.599
 every knee will bow

00:31:59.599 --> 00:32:00.539
 and every tongue

00:32:00.539 --> 00:32:01.199
 will confess.

00:32:02.179 --> 00:32:03.259
 The question is,

00:32:03.359 --> 00:32:03.980
 will we do it

00:32:03.980 --> 00:32:05.579
 willingly now

00:32:05.579 --> 00:32:08.439
 or unwillingly then?

00:32:11.639 --> 00:32:12.119
 Friends,

00:32:12.159 --> 00:32:13.000
 if you see yourself

00:32:13.000 --> 00:32:15.159
 in Abner tonight,

00:32:16.099 --> 00:32:18.319
 know that there's still time

00:32:18.319 --> 00:32:20.159
 to put an end

00:32:20.159 --> 00:32:20.980
 to your rebellion,

00:32:21.980 --> 00:32:24.419
 to cast those false lords

00:32:24.419 --> 00:32:25.039
 from the throne

00:32:25.039 --> 00:32:25.779
 of your life

00:32:25.779 --> 00:32:27.279
 and to bow

00:32:27.279 --> 00:32:28.200
 before the one

00:32:28.200 --> 00:32:29.639
 who's the true king,

00:32:29.720 --> 00:32:30.599
 who's actually

00:32:30.599 --> 00:32:32.660
 patient and kind

00:32:32.660 --> 00:32:33.259
 and good.

00:32:38.000 --> 00:32:38.980
 There's one last

00:32:38.980 --> 00:32:40.039
 group of people

00:32:40.039 --> 00:32:41.339
 in this chapter.

00:32:42.639 --> 00:32:43.539
 Right in the middle

00:32:43.539 --> 00:32:44.759
 between these two responses

00:32:44.759 --> 00:32:46.119
 are the people

00:32:46.119 --> 00:32:47.339
 of Jabesh Gilead.

00:32:49.720 --> 00:32:50.539
 These are the ones,

00:32:50.660 --> 00:32:50.819
 remember,

00:32:50.920 --> 00:32:51.940
 who receive the message

00:32:51.940 --> 00:32:52.859
 of David's kindness.

00:32:53.099 --> 00:32:53.700
 David has ascended

00:32:53.700 --> 00:32:54.200
 the throne.

00:32:54.200 --> 00:32:55.640
 His words going forth,

00:32:56.019 --> 00:32:56.460
 come to me,

00:32:56.539 --> 00:32:57.539
 let me do good to you,

00:32:57.559 --> 00:32:58.000
 he says.

00:33:01.000 --> 00:33:01.400
 Friends,

00:33:01.460 --> 00:33:01.860
 you need to know

00:33:01.860 --> 00:33:03.299
 that that is the same word

00:33:03.299 --> 00:33:04.640
 of the ascended Jesus

00:33:04.640 --> 00:33:05.980
 that's going forth tonight.

00:33:06.700 --> 00:33:07.960
 That is the same thing

00:33:07.960 --> 00:33:08.680
 that Jesus is saying

00:33:08.680 --> 00:33:09.480
 right now

00:33:09.480 --> 00:33:10.279
 through the preaching

00:33:10.279 --> 00:33:10.980
 of his word

00:33:10.980 --> 00:33:11.819
 that he's saying

00:33:11.819 --> 00:33:12.700
 through the elements

00:33:12.700 --> 00:33:13.600
 on this table,

00:33:13.740 --> 00:33:14.319
 he's saying,

00:33:15.039 --> 00:33:16.640
 come to me

00:33:16.640 --> 00:33:18.100
 and find

00:33:18.100 --> 00:33:19.180
 the kindness

00:33:19.180 --> 00:33:19.840
 of the Lord.

00:33:20.779 --> 00:33:21.799
 Let me be the one

00:33:21.799 --> 00:33:22.720
 who mediates

00:33:22.720 --> 00:33:23.879
 all of your

00:33:23.879 --> 00:33:25.039
 creator's blessings

00:33:25.039 --> 00:33:25.680
 to you

00:33:25.680 --> 00:33:26.460
 in forgiveness

00:33:26.460 --> 00:33:27.859
 and in covenant

00:33:27.859 --> 00:33:28.759
 faithfulness.

00:33:31.639 --> 00:33:32.379
 So friends,

00:33:32.539 --> 00:33:34.000
 receive his kingship

00:33:34.000 --> 00:33:35.559
 and receive his kindness.

00:33:38.740 --> 00:33:39.220
 You know,

00:33:39.240 --> 00:33:39.879
 it's an interesting thing

00:33:39.879 --> 00:33:40.720
 that we don't know

00:33:40.720 --> 00:33:42.180
 how the people

00:33:42.180 --> 00:33:43.180
 of Jabesh Gilead

00:33:43.180 --> 00:33:44.339
 responded to David.

00:33:45.839 --> 00:33:46.539
 The narrator

00:33:46.539 --> 00:33:47.539
 just doesn't tell us.

00:33:48.480 --> 00:33:49.240
 But the more important

00:33:49.240 --> 00:33:49.779
 question is this.

00:33:49.819 --> 00:33:50.819
 How are you

00:33:50.819 --> 00:33:52.160
 and I going to respond?

00:33:53.700 --> 00:33:54.960
 That's what really matters.

00:33:56.319 --> 00:33:57.559
 How will you respond

00:33:57.559 --> 00:33:59.599
 to God's rightful king?

00:34:01.740 --> 00:34:02.339
 Let's pray.

00:34:12.760 --> 00:34:13.159
 Father,

00:34:13.239 --> 00:34:13.619
 we thank you

00:34:13.619 --> 00:34:14.139
 for the picture

00:34:14.139 --> 00:34:14.940
 that we have

00:34:14.940 --> 00:34:16.219
 in this chapter

00:34:16.219 --> 00:34:18.039
 of the glory

00:34:18.039 --> 00:34:18.739
 of your son.

00:34:19.239 --> 00:34:21.879
 thank you

00:34:21.879 --> 00:34:22.399
 that you

00:34:22.399 --> 00:34:23.399
 have sent your son

00:34:23.399 --> 00:34:24.179
 to be a perfect,

00:34:24.739 --> 00:34:25.979
 good,

00:34:26.359 --> 00:34:26.979
 loving king.

00:34:28.319 --> 00:34:28.739
 God,

00:34:28.779 --> 00:34:29.259
 would you work

00:34:29.259 --> 00:34:30.399
 in all of our hearts

00:34:30.399 --> 00:34:32.619
 that we might turn

00:34:32.619 --> 00:34:35.099
 from the false things

00:34:35.099 --> 00:34:36.119
 that we put on the throne

00:34:36.119 --> 00:34:39.679
 and that we might

00:34:39.679 --> 00:34:40.639
 receive him as Lord.

00:34:43.759 --> 00:34:44.159
 Lord,

00:34:44.219 --> 00:34:44.699
 we pray this

00:34:44.699 --> 00:34:45.939
 in his

00:34:45.939 --> 00:34:47.459
 precious name.

00:34:48.519 --> 00:34:48.839
 Amen.

00:34:49.239 --> 00:34:49.859
 God,

00:34:49.859 --> 00:34:52.339
 who impressed you