[8 A.M.] A Promise to David, that only Jesus could Fulfill

I direct your attention to 2nd Samuel.

Chapter 7. It's one of the mountain peaks,

maybe three or four mountain peaks of scripture in the Old

Testament. This is one of them.

We're looking at King David, the man after God's Own Heart.

Now, when the king lived in his house and the Lord had given him

rest from all his surrounding enemies, the king said, to

Nathan, the prophet. See now I dwell in the house of

Cedar, but the Ark of God, dwells in a tent and Nathan

said, to the king, go do all that is in your heart.

For the Lord is with you, but that same night, the word of the

Lord came to Nathan go and tell my servant David thus says the

Org, would you build me a house to dwell in?

I have not lived in a house since the day, I brought up the

people of Israel from Egypt to this day, but I've been moving

about in a tent for my dwelling, in all the places where I have

moved with all the people of Israel.

Did, I speak a word with any of the judges of Israel?

Whom I commanded to Shepherd. My People Israel saying, why

have you not built me a house of cedar?

Now therefore thus you'll shoot, you shall say to my servant

David. Thus, saith the Lord of hosts.

I took you from the pasture from following the sheep.

That you should be Prince Over My People, Israel, and I have

been with you wherever you went. And if cut off all your enemies

from before you, I will make for you a great name like the name

of the great ones of the earth and I will appoint a place for

My People, Israel and will play. Them so that they may dwell in

their own place and be disturbed, no more and Violent

Men shall afflict them. No more is formally from the

time that I appointed judges Over My People Israel and I will

give you rest from all your enemies.

Moreover, the Lord declares to you that the Lord will make you

a house when your days are fulfilled and you lie down with

your father's, I will raise up your Offspring after you, who

shall come from. A body and I will establish his

kingdom. He shall build a house for my

name and I will establish the Throne of his kingdom forever.

I will be to him a father and he shall be to me a son.

When he commits iniquity. I will discipline him with the

rod of men and with the stripes of the sons of men, but my

steadfast love will not depart from him.

As I took it from Saul when I put away from before you.

And your house and your kingdom shall be made.

Sure forever. Before me, your throne shall be

established forever in accordance with all these words.

And in accordance with all this Vision, Nathan spoke to David,

the word of the Lord, you may be seated.

About every other sermon in this series, which we started back in

the late summer. I've had to remind us that.

It's not about Eli. It's not about Samuel.

It's not about Saul. It's not about David.

It's about Jesus Christ. The King of Kings and the Lord

of lords, what we've been studying here in these

narratives in the Old Testament, is the historical account of how

God literally historically in time.

And in place, and over the generations establishes his

kingdom. This is the form.

The kingdom took in the early days.

When God made his Covenant with Abraham.

It was with a man. When God renewed, his Covenant

with Moses, it was with the people, an ethnic group a tribe.

Then God moves through and establishes his Covenant, the

same Covenant yet again. And it's with the nation, the

nation that's been United. Under one Shepherd, one king,

the southern Kingdom Judah, first, and then the Northern

Kingdom Israel joined with them and they are now a United

Kingdom. And so many things that God

promised to his people have already come to pass, God

promised him. He would lead them out of Egypt.

He would lead them out of bondage.

He would save them in the wilderness.

He would deliver them safely into the land.

He's done all of that. There's not failed one, good

word that the lord gave to his people and now time has gone by

and the Lord has raised up judges.

And now he has placed the king upon the throne.

The Bible says, the Lord had given him rest from his

surrounding enemies. Almost everything in the Old

Testament, that has a literal historical personal fulfillment

in David or any of the other leading characters in God's

history. Almost everything has an

immediate reference, but then it goes beyond that.

And that's what we see in this particular passage.

God says he gave them rest in the days of Joshua.

We've been on. What was it?

A complete rest. God says he gave them rest here

in the days of King. David God promises In this

passage that he will give them rest in the future, but it is

only when we come to the absolute and complete and final.

Fulfillment of all of these promises do.

Hear someone say come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy

laden and I will give you rest. The writer of Hebrews says,

there's a rest that remains for the people of God.

It's a ultimate rest of final rest.

It's a rest of Peace. It's a rest of prosperity.

It's a rest that is complete in Christ.

So really this passage is all about Christ, isn't it?

Now, historically, we have the prophet Nathan showing up.

And we don't know where he came from.

This, the first mention of Nathan and we'll hear more about

Nathan extraordinary profit. Very close personal minister to

King David. And he's sitting there with the

king and the king is sitting in his house of Cedar that tire

that Hiram, the king of Tyre had contracted and built and it was

a palace and it was in The Citadel of David in the city of

Jerusalem. It was right next to Mount.

Zion where David? We saw last week had pitched a

tent and it brought the Ark of the Covenant up and placed it in

that tent. and so, David is Enjoying the prospects from this

point on. We don't see David going to war

very much for the all practical purposes.

The great enemies of Israel, the Philistines and the edomites

have been subjected to his power.

David is enjoying rest if we follow David through the caves

in the wilderness and in and out, we've see what David's been

through. This is rest for David sitting

in a palatial home. On the heights of Jerusalem.

And he has this need this urge this Niche within him to do

something for God. Because God has done so much for

him. He's brought the ark.

But he feels that he needs to do yet more and he has this, this,

this urge this, this desire. To build the Lord, a house to

build a temple. Now I would like to suggest to

you. The temple building is a

universal urge of worshipping Humanity.

Just look the world over and look through the history books.

The idea of building a building for the glory of God, for the

presence of God is a strong. Urge.

In the heart. Of the person.

But he means more too. Men kind that it does to God.

And Nathan. Who at this point is a good

friend of David and a very supportive preacher.

Says that sounds like a good idea.

Well, that's a magnificent idea. To build a temple.

Instead of that tent that we have over there on Mount Zion.

Let's think in terms of a permanent house.

A beautiful house Temple. In fact, Nathan the prophet who

speaks for God in this instance, spoke as Jeremiah warns the

prophets not to do. He spoke out of his own heart.

And not from the revelation of God in his own prophecy to David

was positive and affirmative. Yes, that sounds like a

wonderful idea go and do. The Lord has been with you and

everything you've done and this is a wonderful thing that you

have in mind. Go and do what's in your heart.

Not just like to say parenthetically here that that's

not how the Tabernacle got built.

God emphasise to Moses over and over and over.

Build it, like I tell you to build it on the mountain.

Follow every intricate detail of how I tell you to build it.

The Tabernacle. And the reason of course we

learn later is that the Tabernacle was the perfect

picture in the symbol of Christ Christ in his Incarnation

Christ, in his Humanity skin stretched over bones.

And so many parts of that Tabernacle inside and out the

furniture of the Tabernacle itself, all of the things that

surrounded, it gave us a picture of the person and the work of

Jesus Christ. But not so with the temple.

The temple was an architecture design that was derived from

many of the Pagan temples in the ancient world.

It's certainly symbolized in pictured, Christ in many ways

and we'll see you in just a moment.

The most important thing, the temple symbolized.

But David was anxious to build this beautiful Temple.

He already knew a good contractor.

Ohio, the tire was an excellent Builder.

He already had a site picked out.

It was a threshing floor there at the summit of the mountain.

That would make a wonderful bed for the foundation for the

temple. David had already begun to

gather some of the materials gather, some of the things that

would be needed to build the house.

But the word of the Lord came to the prophet.

And it was the word of contrast. No.

You go to King David, Nathan and you say to King, David.

Will you build me a house? I never asked for a house, says

the Lord. The whole time I've been

traveling with my people from the days of the Tabernacle, all

the way through the Wilderness wanderings, and into Canaan, and

several hundred years of living in the land.

I've been in a tent. I've been moving about.

I have not found one particular location.

I've not been tied down. I have been at times most

eminent in the midst of you as a pillar of fire and a smoky

cloud. And there are times in which

I've been distant and far and Transcendent and high and lifted

up. And my presence has struck

Terror in your hearts. I am a god of immensity.

And omnipresence. I don't dwell in a little house

that you've made for me. I'm bigger than that.

And my purposes are better than that.

Not only have I never asked for a tenth, the Lord says, but I've

always been free to move in all the places where I move with the

people of Israel. But let me explain to you David

one, more time. How a covenant works.

God's covenant is a unilateral promissory Covenant.

That is he makes the rules. He sets the stipulation.

He has accomplished everything that it needs to bring it about

and he imposes it with his loving, perfect will upon the

vassal upon the subject David. You are my subject.

I took you from following the Sheep.

And made you prints over my people.

God says, I've been at work. I've done this.

This is my kingdom. This is my work.

But I need for you to David is to continue to be submissive to

me and to do that, which I tell you.

And let me tell you this David. The Lord continues to talk

through Nathan, the prophet. I'm going to build you a house.

You're not going to build me a house.

I'm going to build you a house and there's a little play on the

word house. In the first instance.

It's means a temple. The Lord says, you're not going

to build me a temple. The house also means the

household are the family are The Offspring.

Are the lineage. The Lord says to David.

I'm going to give you a house. I'm going to build you a house.

Now, we know how all this was fulfilled.

As we read through the scriptures.

In fact, the story in the Bible moves through and tells us that

David did not build the Lord of Temple instead.

David's son, who was probably yet to be born.

Solomon. David was a man of war Solomon.

Shalom was a man of peace. God, granted great things to

Solomon. Wisdom power.

In fact, in the days of King Solomon, Israel was the most

powerful Nation on earth. Now, admittedly to get there.

Assyria was in a bit of preliminary decline babbling had

not Arisen Egypt was in somewhat of declined.

And all the glory of the nations came to the courts of Solomon.

And yet. It was through Solomon.

The Lord said I'm going to give you the offspring.

And then God begins to make promises.

That go Way Beyond Solomon. Go all the way to Jesus Christ,

even though Solomon built a great Temple, you know, what

happened in about 400 years. It was destroyed completely

raised and rated taken off. The people were taken to

Babylonian captivity, even when they returned about 75, 80 years

later, they built the temple again, but it was a pitiful

looking Building compared to Solomon's Temple.

In fact, the old man cried. Because they remembered the

glory of Solomon's Temple in their youth.

And now these 70 years of captivity had come and gone and

this new temple built under the rubble and haggai and others did

not have the glory. But the Lord says, I'm going to

bring a Brea greater glory to this Temple than was the glory

of Solomon's Temple. And the glory he brought was it

was to that temple. Zerubbabel's temple.

The second temple. Did Jesus Christ?

The true Temple came. And here's what Jesus thought

about the temple. He said, tear it down.

Got in a lot of trouble for saying that too.

He knew the great symbolism of Solomon's Temple and

zerubbabel's Temple that had been enhanced greatly by King

Herod and others that Temple. Had one great significance.

It was teardown of all. It's that your word is that it

was tear down the Bible. It was subject to destruction.

And in that it symbolized the human body of Christ that was

subject to death. Even the death on the cross.

And Jesus said, tear this Temple down and in three days, I'll

raise it again. And that's exactly what

happened. The temple is to tell us the

gospel of the tearing down in the raising up of the very Body

of Christ. God had gone Way Beyond Solomon

when he talked about, he was going to give him an offspring.

That Offspring move Beyond Solomon.

It moved Beyond Rio boehm. It moved beyond the whole

lineage of the Judean Kings and moved all the way to Jesus

Christ and the New Testament over and over and over.

Continues from the first chapter of Matthew all the way through

to the Book of Revelation to make a big deal how that Jesus

Christ of Nazareth. and, by the way, that To named Nazareth

comes from the Hebrew root knots are, which means Branch or

shoot. And David is called, in the Old

Testament, the shoot out of the stump of Jesse his father, Jesus

Christ, fulfills all of that. He is that offspring.

That seed that lineage that are that dynastic King.

From David. And he has come to establish.

A kingdom that is for ever notice how many times the word

forever is used? The Lord declares that he will

make you a house when your days are fulfilled in you.

Lie down with your father's. I will raise up your Offspring

to get that language. Not just that.

I will give you a lineage. I will raise up your Offspring.

That's gospel. That's Christ.

That's what portal Nathan was, preaching, was the Gospel of

Jesus Christ. I will establish the Throne of

his kingdom, Jesus Christ for ever.

And it's interesting that. The Lord anticipates in this

prophecy that there will be descendants of King, David and

Solomon. Some would be obedient to the

Lord and walk in the ways of David, their father and son

would be Wicked Kings. And the Lord promises that the

good Kings those that walk in the ways of David.

Will be blessed. And if a king sins or if he

Strays or if he doesn't follow in the footsteps of his father,

David that he will be disciplined.

According to the stripes of the sons of man.

That's Christ right there. Jesus was the perfect son.

In fact, it said so in the adoption language of Psalm 2.

In Jesus ministry, he heard the voice of the Lord saying this is

my beloved Son in whom I am. Well pleased ask of me and I

will give you the nation's. That's who Jesus Christ.

Is he is the perfect obedient son.

Of God. But he came and stood in the

place of the disobedient Kings of Israel.

Those that didn't walk in the statutes of the Lord are

following. The steps of David.

He came and stood in their place and took upon him as the

scripture says here, the stripes of the sons of men.

Gospel all pointing to Christ. There's a lot more here than

just what I've suggested this morning.

I'm just going to conclude with this one, little term there in

verse 15, but my steadfast love will not depart from him.

The steadfast love is the Covenant Love.

It's the Covenant. Keeping love of God.

And if there's anything that's going to abide.

Upon Christ. It's the steadfast love of God.

And it is through that, steadfast love of God, which is

bestowed upon Jesus Christ. As the anointed one, The Chosen

One, the Savior, the anointed king that is imparted.

That love is imparted to a people.

And in the book of Acts more than once, you'll hear the the

apostles Proclaim, this little truth.

The Lord says I will return and will rebuild the Fallen House of

David. Do you know what it's referring

to? In every case?

It's referring to the Gentiles. The people's the nation joining

with David and Israel into a mighty nation.

The True Body of Christ is his people.

Salvation is not about buildings.

It's about people. Rescuing people saving people

and God has determined that he would.

And it's interesting in one passage.

Which and I have time to read for IV.

Let me just summarize over. Amos.

There was one tribe that was named, that would become part of

the Kingdom of Israel of all the tribes.

And we've talked about all those a'ight, you know, the amalekites

and you know, the Philistines and all the rest of it, but

there's one tribe that's mentioned.

And it's the edomites Edom will come into the fold into the

kingdom, into the population with Israel.

What's so significant about that?

Well, the edomites are descendants of Esau and if there

ever was a man, it was outside the Covenant there.

Ever was a man with the Lord said, Jacob.

I loved Esau, I hated but in the gospel in Jesus Christ, he

brings the edomites in How many termites are here today?

How many of you have not come to the King of Kings and the lord

of the Lord, not bowed your knee to Jesus Christ.

Your edomites. It said if he saw that, he lived

according to the lust of his flesh.

Everything about a sinner is described.

According to Esau, Esau despised, the Covenant.

He despised the birthright. He couldn't care less about the

things of God. But God left him in Jacob in

Christ and brought him in. And that's the gospel.

The gospel goes from David and Israel to Christ.

And to the world. Every single tribe, every

ethnicity, Every Nation, every people group, none, or excluded,

in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. David said I'm going to build

you a temple. The Lord said no, I'm going to

build you. A house is going to be the

household of faith. It's going to be my people.

Now if you want to see some Splendor David you stick around

a few Millennia and I will show you when the New Jerusalem, the

bride of Christ, descends from God, out of Heaven to the Earth.

There's a Temple and each of us are living stones fitted and

placed into that. Wonderful Temple.

It is the Lord that builds the house.

It is the Lord that builds his people.

A mighty name, a mighty nation of people resting in the Lord

secure in their place. And as I mentioned think it's

about eight times. This term is used Forever.

This is eternal salvation. What are you staying?

What's your what's your place in?

Holy history. This is not just academic study

this morning. This is for you.

This is Gospel. Truth, what God Said to David

1,000 years before Christ died and rose again, and it's been

2000 years since then never changes.

The message. That Nathan preached is the

message. I'm trying to preach in that is

of Jesus Christ, all in all. Your savior, your lord, your

king for all eternity. How about it?

How have you waited out? How have you measured it?

How have you considered it? What is your commitment?

What is your Allegiance? What is your willingness to come

and and stay? In the kingdom of God.