Well, we read God's word trusting that it's his inspired, inerrant, infallible, clear, sufficient, powerful word for you and me, his people.
And seek me, not seek me anymore in any part of Israel.
So I shall escape out of his hand.
Then David arose and went over with the 600 men who were with him to Achish, the son of Maok, king of Gath.
So David dwelt with Achish at Gath.
He and his men, each man with his own household and David with his two wives, Ahinoam, the Jezreelitess and Abigail, the Carmelitess, Nabal's widow.
And it was told Saul that David had fled to Gath.
So he sought him no more.
Then David said to Achish, if I have now found favor in your eyes, let them give me a place in some town in the country that I may dwell there.
For why should your servant dwell in the royal city with you?
So Achish gave him Ziklag that day.
Therefore, Ziklag has belonged to the kings of Judah to this day.
Now the time that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was one full year and four months.
And David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Gerzites and the Amalekites.
For those nations were the inhabitants of the land from of old.
As you go to Shur, even as far as the land of Egypt.
Whenever David attacked the land, he left neither man nor woman alive, but took away the sheep, oxen, the donkeys, the camels, the apparel and return and came to Achish.
Then Achish would say, where have you made a raid today?
And David would say, against the southern area of Judah or against the southern area of the Geramilites or against the southern area of the Kenites.
David would save neither man nor woman alive to bring news to Gath, saying, lest they should inform on us, saying, thus David did.
And thus was his behavior all the time he dwelt in the country of the Philistines.
So Achish believed David, saying, he has made his people Israel utterly abhor him.
Therefore, he will be my servant forever.
The word of God for the people of God.
Thanks be to God.
Please be seated.
Amen.
Let's pray.
Lord, we trust your promise.
What Jesus said.
That all of the scriptures, all of the Old Testament, every part of it testifies of him.
Lord, we confess that the gospel is often a mystery.
It's a revelation that you need to unveil for us.
And Lord, I ask that you'll be pleased to unveil the mystery of the gospel of Jesus Christ, even in this passage of 1 Samuel 27.
Show us how this testifies of our Lord Jesus ultimately and what this means for our life in Christ.
Lord, we pray that you will elevate in our minds the reality of the kingdom of heaven.
That you are the Lord of hosts.
And that you are a God who does not change the same God of the Old Testament.
And now your kingdom is inaugurated in Jesus Christ.
And we long for that day, Lord, when you come again.
Please come quickly, Lord.
And please use this message as you will please, Lord, in each of our lives to prepare us for your coming.
We long for that day, Father.
Amen.
Our failures do not determine our future.
Our standing in God's kingdom is not secured by our own behavior.
Praise the Lord for that, right?
This is a difficult chapter.
And if we look at this chapter with natural eyes, we see a man, David, here and the way he's acting.
And there's no possible way we would conceive of him having a future that God would bless.
And the title of the sermon today has nothing to do with David.
Has nothing to do with his failures or his standing in God's kingdom.
Here's what I hope you will see with God's ministry in this passage.
The Lord will build his kingdom.
I'd like to walk through three shadows in this chapter and then point us to the substance, which is Jesus Christ.
Remember the Hebrew word for anointed is Messiah.
And David has been anointed by the kingmaker Samuel, who's now dead.
David's been in the wilderness now a long time.
So he's the Messiah in the wilderness.
And even after a glorious last chapter where we saw, remember David walking in the middle of the night to the center of the 3000 chosen men of Saul.
And God restraining David from running the spear through Saul right there and becoming the king over this army.
Now the Messiah, this anointed king is driven out once again.
The wilderness he had been running around is in southern Israel in the land of Judah.
It's still in the kingdom.
And yet we read in verse one that David said in his heart,
Now I shall perish by the hand of Saul.
Notice what he says next.
He says, there is nothing better for me.
We know what he says in the Psalms and other places.
There's nothing better for me than being in the house of my Lord and dwelling in his courts.
But look at the state of his heart now.
There's nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape to the land of the Philistines.
The best thing for me is to get out of God's kingdom.
That's what he's saying in his heart.
This is a low place for David.
And it's motivated by just one thing.
He says, then Saul will stop searching after me.
He will seek me no more because I won't be in any part of Israel to be found.
And then I can escape out of Saul's hand.
He's just seen God deliver him out of Saul's hand.
There was a moment for Saul to arrest David and take his head off.
He just saw this happen.
Yet David's faith is so weak.
His heart falters to trust in God.
I also thought it was interesting.
Where do we get these insights from?
Well, we believe that God breathed out every word of scripture.
So even if this is later on written by Ezra or someone else like that,
God can just tell them this is what David said in his heart.
That's possible.
Now, it's also possible that someone is interviewing David.
And this is part of David's testimony.
His weakness.
Look what I said in my heart.
This is how much I faltered and how weak my faith is.
Even after that amazing experience of the Lord sustaining me and restraining me and Saul blessing me and letting me walk away.
My heart falters and I leave the kingdom.
Psalm 73 verse 26 admits just that.
My heart fails.
And this is the cry of someone who knows the Lord, a person of faith.
Have you had to confess that to the Lord?
God, my heart toward you fails.
Brothers and sisters, a brief application.
I don't want you to be discouraged.
I want you to see the example in all of scripture.
We need to be brutally honest of how weak we are and how dependent we are on God.
Our hearts fail.
Our faith is weak.
The second London Confession of Faith, chapter 14, paragraph 3 admits this.
Capturing the truth of scripture, I believe.
True faith varies in degree and may be weak or strong.
It may often be attacked and weakened.
But God still gains the victory.
Our Confession of Faith, chapter 18, paragraph 3 also says,
Even the assurance that we have of our salvation,
like David's assurance that God would bring the kingdom and fulfill all of his promises.
While assurance of salvation in Christ is infallible,
God's part won't fail based on Christ's work and God's promises.
Assurance, what I know about my own salvation,
is not so joined to the essence of faith that a true believer may not wait a long time
and struggle with many difficulties before obtaining it.
Saying you can be saved for a long time and not have a final assurance that you're saved.
That's how weak we are, brothers and sisters.
We need to admit that.
And we need to admit our dependence on Jesus Christ.
And so in verse 2, David goes back to King Achish again.
I need to remind you now, it was back in chapter 21,
after David had been blessed by Jonathan, blessed by the priest,
took Goliath's sword, do you remember that?
And then he runs to Gath, the capital of one of the five great cities of the Philistines,
the capital where Goliath's sword was likely forged.
It's the city that Goliath is from.
And he was afraid of this King Achish in chapter 21.
And he let drool come down his mouth on his beard.
And he's back there again now.
In both chapters 21 and 27, we have so many parallels.
Again, David runs away from King Saul in both cases, leaves the land of Israel.
He hides in Gath.
In both stories, David is now in exile among the very people that are his enemies,
that Israel's at war with.
Amazing parallels, aren't they?
This makes us pay attention to the literary narrative here and what is being highlighted for us.
We read in verse 4, it was told Saul, and then Saul sought David no more.
In our Sunday school class, Professor John pointed out that nowhere is the name of God mentioned in this entire chapter.
And we have to just say it's inconclusive.
Was David acting out of his flesh and in disobedience?
I can't say for certain.
Was he led by the Lord, by the Spirit of the Lord?
That's definitely not clear.
It sounds like a humble admission in his heart.
There's nothing better for me than to get out of here.
To me, it sounds like weakness from David.
And you notice how it worked.
Saul stopped chasing David.
Stopped hunting him down.
And for his men, his 600 men that are following around, hiding, and just exhausted by being hunted down all the time,
I'm sure it was a nice breather.
We'd get to rest a little bit, finally.
Think about this, too.
The attacks for obeying God are real.
The spiritual battle is real.
We read Ephesians 6.
There is a spiritual war over the souls of God's people.
Satan does back off from those who are no threat to him.
What this shows us in David's weakness, in his faltering heart, his weak faith,
is that a king is needed, but a better king than David.
It points forward.
So we're left not with any answers in this first observation of the first shadow,
but the question, how will the Lord do it?
How will the Lord build his kingdom?
Isaiah 11, verse 1, further sheds light on how God will do this.
Here's the prophecy.
There shall come forth a rod from the stem of Jesse, David's dad.
A branch shall grow out of its roots.
The Lord will build his kingdom.
It will be through David's line, but a better king than David is needed.
I picture this wonderful song, this hymn that we sing, I think every time leading up to Christmas, Advent.
And I picture the people of Israel, even at this moment in time, singing it, looking forward.
A better king is needed.
O come, O come, Emmanuel.
God with us.
In ransom captive Israel.
They're slaves to Saul.
That mourns in lonely exile here.
David's exiled out of the land God promised.
Until the son of God appear.
Then we can rejoice.
Rejoice.
Emmanuel shall come to thee, O Israel.
Psalm 73, 26 goes on.
My heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart.
That's our first shadow.
The Messiah driven out once again.
Second shadow is that the Messiah is welcomed by Gentiles.
The anointed one of Israel is welcomed by the Philistines.
Look at verse three.
So David dwelt with Achish at Gath.
He and his men.
There's 600 of them.
Now this detail is important for upcoming chapters.
Each man with his household.
Wives, children.
Possibly slaves and servants.
Men and women now.
Including David and his household.
Verse five says,
Then David said to Achish, the king of Gath.
If I have now found favor in your eyes, give me a place in some town in the country that I may dwell there.
For why should your servant dwell in the royal city with you?
So David's establishing the terms of his occupation in this land.
You will be the Lord.
I will be your vassal servant.
I will be paying you taxes for everything good that I can do.
That's what a servant relationship would be.
For Achish, it has to be a benefit now.
Achish has to profit and receive these taxes from David as basically rent for allowing him to stay in his land.
We discussed in Sunday school why this land of the Philistines and why Gath, the big city where they've been enemies for so long.
And these are mutual enemies of Saul.
This is a place where Saul can't bring his army without having to go to war, all on war with the Philistines again.
So it is a mutually beneficial arrangement.
In verse 7, we read that David was among the Philistines for one year and four months.
This is a long time.
And we're told his behavior for over a year and four months was a similar pattern.
I want to analyze now the similarities and contrast with chapter 21 once more.
The first time David came to see King Achish, I tried to persuade you that he was alone.
And that when he was saying he sent his men to the priest, you know, to go do an errand, he was bluffing.
Because when he last left Jonathan, he was all alone.
And if he was alone in chapter 21 meeting King Achish, now he's the opposite of alone.
He has 600 men with all of their households.
Remember the first time he met King Achish, the king said, you're no use to me.
Get this guy out of here.
Don't we have enough crazy people already in Gath?
We don't need one more.
There's no place for David here.
But this time, King Achish is a very shrewd ruler.
He says, we can have an arrangement.
I can see you got an army now.
And I don't know how you went from being crazy to now being a commander of an entire army.
But please stay here.
We can make this work.
So how will the Lord build his kingdom in this land of the Philistines?
And how will David, who seems to be on a downward spiral in his relationship with God and God's promises,
how will he even be used by the Lord?
Isaiah 11.10 gives this prophecy.
In that day, there shall be a root of Jesse.
There it is, that theme again.
Jesse being David's dad.
And so from this same family line, who shall stand as a banner to the people,
for the Gentiles shall seek him.
This is interesting language of prophecy.
Because a banner in war is we have two sides line up.
Here's the meadow in the middle that they're going to rush into for foot, hand-to-hand combat.
All these foot soldiers charging in.
The banner on one side shows their nation's colors, what they stand for.
The banner on the other shows what they stand for.
And we have this interesting prophecy that says,
from the root of Jesse will be a banner for the people.
This is the people of Israel.
And the Gentiles will seek after him.
What an interesting shadow we have here, that the Messiah will be welcomed by the Gentiles.
Yet he'll be the banner for the people of Israel.
The third shadow is that the Messiah, the anointed one, deceives the enemy.
The Messiah deceives or tricks the enemy.
King Achish is still the enemy here.
And David is deceiving him.
That's what happens in the rest of the chapter.
Look at verse 8.
David would attack the Amalekites, another wicked people,
for those nations were the inhabitants of the land from of old.
And to get our geography here, the Amalekites lived in the Negeb,
which means the south country,
all the way down toward Egypt,
which was explicitly assigned to the tribes of Judah
and Simeon in Joshua chapter 15, verses 1 and 12.
Remember, David is the lion from the tribe of Judah,
at least the shadow of Christ who will fulfill that fully.
And this land that the Amalekites live in,
all the way down to the river and the border with Egypt,
God promised to Israel,
more specifically to the tribe of Judah.
But ever since Joshua's invasion,
it was always porous.
There's always holes.
It was never completely taken over.
And earlier in 1 Samuel 15, verses 2 and 3,
God had given a direct command to King Saul.
Do you remember this?
To kill the Amalekites
and to claim this territory
because of how they had attacked Israel during the Exodus.
And that's very important
before we get to verse 9 of our chapter.
It's a difficult verse.
Would you look at verse 9?
Whenever David attacked,
literally struck the land,
he left neither man,
okay, most people are okay with that first word so far
in a battle, combat setting,
but he also left neither woman alive,
but took away the sheep, the oxen,
the donkeys, the camels, the apparel,
and returned and came to Achish.
This is total annihilation.
And David would tell his soldiers,
go and leave no one alive
because we can't afford to have even a little child
come back and give a report to one of the soldiers
and they bring him to Achish.
And Achish says,
David, that guy right there in his army,
they attacked our village
because David is busy deceiving King Achish,
telling him,
I'm going to attack Israel.
He's making Achish think we have a common enemy,
which is Saul.
So you see, it's the Messiah,
the anointed one,
deceiving the wicked King Achish.
Again, the purpose of this
is not for us to learn a moral lesson
from the do's and don'ts about David's life,
but it's also raising some difficult ethical questions
we can't totally skip over.
When believers do something atrocious,
it doesn't automatically mean they were never saved.
Again, our confession of faith,
capturing what we believe the scriptures teach.
chapter 17, verse 3,
teaches this,
that believers may fall
into serious sins
and continue in them
for a time
because of a number of things,
because of the temptations of Satan
in the world,
the strength of the corruption
remaining in them,
and the neglect
of the means of preservation.
not going to meet with God's people,
not praying,
not sitting under the preaching
of the word,
the gospel,
the ministry
that God has given us,
not going out of your way
to be part of a baptism celebration
like we have coming up,
or not taking steps
to enjoy the Lord's Supper
with the church.
These are the means of preservation,
and we are so weak.
The strength of the corruption
remaining in Christians
is so strong.
We need this.
We need all the help
we can get.
So to the extent
that we can relate to David
and to the extent
that this was him
and his flesh,
you know,
lying, deceiving,
and annihilating these villages,
there's an application.
But I think,
I don't think,
I know,
the bigger message here
is not to take do's and don'ts
away from David
as an example,
but rather to see
how does this point us
to Jesus Christ
and the unfolding
of his grand plan
of redemption.
See,
David is raiding
these Amalekites
in the kingdom
that God had already claimed
for himself.
If there is someone wise
paying attention,
maybe in the schools
of the prophets
that sat under the teaching
of Samuel
that's caring about
the scriptures,
this is a signal
that a new Joshua figure
is on the move.
He's not really
in enemy territory.
It's a servant of God
doing what Saul
had neglected.
It's one that God
has anointed
cleaning out
which is meant
to be holy
in the land
that God
had already given
to Israel.
to the extent
that David
is fulfilling
or cleaning up
or following
after the work
that God started
through Joshua,
we have a picture
then of what Joshua
ultimately points to.
In the Bible,
we see these patterns
of two,
ones and twos,
and a great pattern
we see is with
Moses, Joshua.
Later,
we see this
with David, Solomon,
and it's a one-two punch.
With Moses,
the Lord's servant
comes as a lawgiver.
With Joshua,
he comes
to consummate the kingdom,
to take it all.
With David,
we see a man
who goes to war
as the Lord's servant
and he's bloodied.
And with Solomon,
we see a prince of peace
taking everything.
And these patterns
of two point us
to the first
and second coming
of our Lord Jesus Christ.
The Lord
in his first coming
came like a Moses figure,
preaching the law
and giving people
a means
to approach him
through blood sacrifice.
And with Joshua,
we see the second coming
of our Lord Jesus Christ.
And we have this
apocalyptic vision
in Revelation.
There will be
rivers of blood
like grapes
that have been pressed
flowing like wine
on the streets.
This is the second coming
of Jesus.
And now is the time
where his grace
is extended to sinners.
But here we have
these violent pictures
of a coming judgment.
God has been so patient
so long.
Think how many generations
have now passed
since Joshua.
And the opportunity
even for these Gentiles
to be like a Ruth
and receive the true Lord.
Turn away from your idols.
It's a picture
of the kingdom
of heaven
coming to earth
ultimately.
The Lord of hosts
himself
intruding
into the domain
that is rightfully
God's.
Where nothing
unholy
has a place
in bringing
final justice
to all.
The Lord
will build
his kingdom.
It's bigger
than David's story.
It's bigger
than Joshua.
It's the kingdom
of the Lord
of hosts himself
Jesus Christ.
In both
of these times
that David
has been
in this land
of Gath
working with
King Achish
he used deception
and he stayed
safe there.
the first time
he acted crazy
and now
by lying
to King Achish
about which groups
he was attacking
and bringing
money and cattle
and those things
back to King Achish.
So we read
in verse 12
how it worked.
King Achish
believed David
saying
he has made
his people
Israel
utterly
abhor him.
Therefore
he will be
my servant
forever.
There's no way
David can go back
across the border
to Judah.
I'm going to keep
milking this prophet
from him
all of my days.
The Messiah
the anointed one
deceived his enemy.
Well
there's one more
movement
but it's not even
in our passage
and it confirms
the theme
of the sermon
and it's this
that God gives
the Messiah
the anointed one
an army.
We've seen
in this chapter
many ways
how David
is certainly
weak
but notice
how God
is accomplishing
his purposes
despite David's
weakness.
He's even
showing mercy
and grace
to those
who least
deserve it
like David
like you
and me.
Would you
please turn
with me
to 1st
Corinthians
I'm sorry
1st Chronicles
chapter 12
1st Chronicles
chapter 12
a few books
forward
just keep
going forward
until you
get to
1st Chronicles
while you're
turning there
let's see if
how many
of our kids
can remember
the name
of the city
that King
Achish
gave David
can you
remember
what it
was?
It starts
with the
letter Z
can someone
say it
out loud?
Parents
you can
help them
what was
it?
Ziklag
yeah
so Ziklag
is an
unusual name
it's a
town
in the
land of
the
Philistines
where David
and his
his 600
men and
all their
households
are living
and if we
search the
Bible for
that unusual
name of a
town
Ziklag
we learn
some interesting
things
let's look
at 1st
Chronicles
chapter 12
starting at
verse 1
now these
were the
men
who came
to David
where?
at Ziklag
while he
was still
a fugitive
from Saul
the son
of Kish
and they
were among
the mighty
men
helpers
in the
war
pay attention
to verse
12 now
these men
were armed
with bows
using both
the right
hand and
the left
in hurling
stones and
shooting arrows
with the
bow
they were
of Benjamin
Saul's
brethren
isn't
that
interesting
while David
is in
hiding
in
Ziklag
some of
the best
warriors
from
Benjamin
are now
day by
day
traveling
down
and joining
David's
force
instead
isn't
that amazing
where would
those mighty
men of the
tribe of
Benjamin
last have
seen
David
it'd be the
chapter right
before this
wasn't it
Saul brought
3000 chosen
men
mostly from
his tribe
of Benjamin
that are
loyal to
him
and they've
seen not
once but
twice now
the Lord's
anointed
David
spare King
Saul
and wait
upon the
Lord
so while
there are
some
Ziphites
from the
southern
part of
Judah
going up
to
Tattle
on David
to King
Saul
there's
also
Benjamites
that have
a love
for the
true Lord
and they
want the
kingdom
that God
will bless
they're done
with the
ways of
the world
they're done
with King
Saul
verse 8
of 1st
Chronicles
12
tells us
from the
Gadites
there were
over
there went
over to
David
at the
stronghold
in the
wilderness
mighty
and experienced
warriors
experts
with the
shield
and spear
whose faces
were like
the faces
of lions
and who
were swift
as gazelles
upon the
mountains
now the
Gadites
were on
the other
side of
the Jordan
got from
way up
north as
well
northeast
God is
sending
soldiers
an army
the best
soldiers
from all
of Israel
to this
little
outpost
outside of
the borders
in Ziklag
in the land
of the
Philistines
now drop
down to
verse 22
1st
Chronicles
12
22
for from
from day
to day
men came
to David
to help
him
until there
was a
great
army
like
an army
of God
isn't that
awesome
David is
weak
but the
Lord is
building
his army
in a way
that you
can't get
communication
out to all
these parts
God will
put it
in the
hearts
of the
soldiers
they will
go to
the
Messiah
in the
wilderness
exiled
and the
Messiah
will receive
an army
from God
in a way
that only
God gets
all the
glory
despite David
being so
weak
despite his
heart failing
so often
despite his
faith faltering
so frequently
God still
accomplishes
his will
he sends
these mighty
men of
valor
there to
where David
is
and God
causes them
to choose
what the
world sees
as foolish
which is to
follow
God's
anointed
one
in exile
it's all
part of
God's
plan
the
Lord
will
build
his
army
amen
well those
are the
shadows
and now
is the
joy
to celebrate
with you
the substance
the fulfillment
through our
Lord Jesus
Christ
how do all
of the
scriptures
testify of
him
our Lord
Jesus
Christ
he deceived
Satan
the enemy
turn back
to 1st
Samuel
one more
time
1st
Samuel
27
our
sermon
passage
and take
a look
at the
last
verse
of this
chapter
verse 12
just as
Achish
believed
David
had made
his people
Israel
utterly
abhor him
and thought
he will be
my servant
forever
think about
how when
all of
Israel
utterly
abhor
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ
and
Satan
saw
both
Jews
and
Gentiles
the
Israelite
rulers
and the
Roman
soldiers
Satan
was
delighted
to watch
that
happen
to see
them
torture
Jesus
mock
him
spit
at
him
curse
him
reject
God's
own
son
the
Messiah
the
anointed
king
and
Satan
the
great
deceiver
thought
that
Jesus
Christ
would
be
his
servant
now
Satan
thought
he
won
as
our
Lord
hung
on
the
cross
Jesus
would
be
the
object
of
mockery
and
torture
in
hell
forever
that's
what
Satan
thought
our
Lord
Jesus
used
that
weakness
of
the
cross
that
foolish
tool
to
despise
Satan
to deceive
him
to turn
it over
on his
head
in
1
Corinthians
2
verses
7
and 8
we read
that the
cross
was the
wisdom
of God
in a
mystery
it was
the
hidden
wisdom
which
God
ordained
before
all
ages
for
our
glory
with
Christ
which
none
of the
rulers
of this
age
knew
for
had
they
known
they
would
not
have
crucified
the
Lord
of
glory
and
now
we
can
sing
that
great
hymn
O
come
thou
rod
of
Jesse
free
thine
own
from
Satan's
tyranny
from
depths
of
hell
thy
people
save
and
give
them
victory
over
the
grave
and
so
we
rejoice
Emmanuel
has
come
and
the
Lord
is
building
his
kingdom
brothers
and
sisters
we may
fall
into
serious
sins
because
we are
so
weak
but
our
failures
do
not
determine
our
future
our
standing
in
God's
kingdom
is
not
secured
by
our
behavior
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ
is
the
better
king
he's
the
one
who
was
now
welcomed
by
us
Gentiles
we
go
to
him
Psalm
73
26
we
can
say
this
now
in
Jesus
Christ
my
heart
fails
outside
of
him
but
God
through
Jesus
Christ
the
ministry
of
the
spirit
God
is
the
strength
of
my
heart
we
are
raised
up
as
his
army
and
he's
our
only
comfort
in
life
and
in
death
we're
going
to
begin
through
our
next
set
of
catechisms
!
next
week
I
believe
and
this
is
the
answer
to
that
great
question
what
is
our
only
comfort
in
life
and
in
death
listen
to
how
this
pulls
together
these
wonderful
themes
of
this
passage
in
Jesus
Christ
we
can
rejoice
that
I
am
not
my
own
but
belong
body
and
soul
in
life
and
in
death
to
my
faithful
savior
Jesus
Christ
he
has
fully
paid
for
all
my
sins
with
his
precious
blood
and
has
set
me
free
from
the
tyranny
of
the
devil
he
also
watches
over
me
in
such
a
way
that
not
a
hair
can
fall
from
my
head
even
when
I'm
failing
without
the
will
of
my
father
in
heaven
in
fact
all
things
must
work
together
for
my
salvation
even
my
weakness
even
my
faltering
because
I
belong
to
him
Christ
by
his
Holy
Spirit
assures
me
of
eternal
life
and
makes
me
wholeheartedly
willing
and
ready
from
now
on
to
follow
him
as
a
joyful
foot
soldier
his
troops
are
willing
on
the
day
of
war
the
Lord
builds
his
kingdom
and
you
and
I
get
to
be
part
of
it
through
the
finished
work
of
Jesus
Christ
let's
praise
him
and
thank
him
for
his
mighty
power
oh
Lord
we
praise
you
for
how
you
are
the
king
of
kings
you
are
the
Lord
the
host
the host
of
heaven's
armies
bow
before
you
and march
after
you
you're
the
king
of
armies
we
thank
you
Lord
that
your
church
can
hear
you
can
know
your
commands
can
obey
we
thank
you
Lord
that
you
take
weak
ones
like
us
despite
our
failings
and
our
falterings
Lord
you
cause
us
to
joyfully
obey
you
we
know
we
can't
do
this
on
our
own
but
you
make
us
to
readily
want
to
live
for
you
from
now
on
I
pray
Lord
that
your
Holy
Spirit
will
do
this
in
a
mighty
way
in
your
church
for
your
glory
we
ask
amen