Great Texts of The Bible: The Royal Line of David | Samuel | Pastor William Hixson

continue in our study of great texts

in the Old Testament.

And the idea is to wet your appetite

for the Old Testament.

So we give you a taste of what's there

so that you can desire more. And I hope

as we go through this study, you will be

reading the books that we're dipping

into.

and say, "Oh, there's more here than I

realized."

And so that is our gold that we all

become readers of the Old Testament

and students of the Old Testament. Many

Christians I in America are almost

blatantly ignorant of the Old Testament.

And so it's important for us. God gave

it to us.

He didn't throw it away and now we just

have a New Testament.

It's in the word of God. And all

scripture is given by inspiration of

God. It's talking about the Old

Testament as well as the New

and is profitable.

So look with me if you will to 2 Samuel

2 Samuel 7 · chapter mention

chapter 7.

2 Samuel

2 Samuel 7 · chapter mention

chapter

7.

In 2 Samuel, God makes an announcement

to King David.

And God is announcing

something that he was going to do not

only for David and people in the Old

Testament,

but for everyone afterwards.

This is an alltime thing.

And so God did something surprising and

significant. I underscore this not just

for King David.

And not just for the Jewish nation.

And not just for 3,000 years ago when

David lived or even 2,000 years when G

ago when Jesus was incarnated, but for

all time.

And so we are in 2 Samuel chapter 7.

2 Samuel 7 · chapter mention

And as I read through this chapter, I'm

going to ask you if you can follow the

outline that I'm going to give you.

And I want to say something

to just get all of our attention, mine

included.

The importance of this section of

scripture

cannot be overstated

or over evaluated.

This is extremely important.

What goes on here

in verses 1 to3 there's a proposal

in verses four so following there's a

promise

and at the end of it there's a praise

okay let's if you follow that 1:3 is a

proposal

4 to 17 is a promise

and 18- 29 is the praise that follows

this awesome promise that God gave to

David.

This promise

was a covenant.

The covenant is a legal document with

legal ramifications and legal

uh standing.

God was committing himself

before King David and the nation and the

world.

So that's our outline and we'll be

working through it this morning. Let's

look to the Lord in prayer. Father, help

me to speak. Guide us as we gather.

May this particular section of scripture

be riveted into our minds and hearts

and directing us to love and to serve

and enjoy

and rest

in the God who made this agreement that

he himself will never break

in Jesus name. Amen.

Now, some of you know this about

covenants.

There's different kind of covenants in

the Bible.

There's conditional covenants.

If you do this, I'll do this.

A conditional covenant,

which it's an agreement between God and

men on the basis of man's responsibility

uh and activity.

But then there's also unconditional

covenants.

The unconditional covenant is a covenant

where God says, "I'm going to do this."

the obligations are on me

regardless of your performance.

We're to believe both and we're to

receive both.

And obviously, you have to believe in

Jesus Christ for this covenant to mean

anything to you. But as far as what is

God concerned, he's announcing something

awesome.

And I want us to think and rest in that.

Now, it all started with a proposal by

King David. He's an older King David

now. He's not a young man anymore.

He's had decades of fighting.

He's finally has a little bit of peace

or he's not fighting

uh Philistines and he's not fighting

others who didn't like his uh ascension

to the throne.

and he's got a little bit of rest.

And so let's look at the first three

verses. The proposal

came to pass when the king sat in his

house,

that's his palace,

and the Lord had given him rest

roundabout from all his enemies.

So the battlefield part of David's life

is not over completely, but it's over

comparatively

from what it was all those years on the

battlefield.

And the king said to Nathan the prophet,

"See now I dwell in a house of cedar.

I've got a pretty good I've got a better

This is a lot better than the cave, I

want to tell you.

I'm dwelling in a house of cedar.

I spent 10 years of a as a caveman, but

now I've got a house of cedar. I've got

this palace

and God's got a tent.

This isn't right.

If I've got a palace, God ought to have

a temple, not just a tent. That's his

thinking.

God never asked him for this. This is

something that came up in his own heart.

See now I dwell in a house of cedar, but

the ark of God dwells within curtains.

Now, the ark of God was that box with

the gold top and the mercy seat and the

gold angels looking at the mercy seat

and the ten commandments inside of it

and the mana and and the st Aaron's rod

that budded and and that's where the

priest would put uh blood every time he

would go into the holy of holies in that

tent.

God's got a tent.

And so David makes a proposal.

I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark

of God dwells within curtains. And

Nathan said to the king, "Go do all that

is in your heart, for the Lord is with

you."

Now, David's a king, and Nathan's a

prophet, but David wasn't speaking as a

prophet. David or excuse me, Nathan

wasn't speaking as a prophet. He was

just saying, "Sounds good to me."

This was not an inspired utterance. It

was just a response.

Seems good. You seem like you got your

priorities right and go for it.

But then the Lord spoke to Nathan

and Nathan had to correct

his statement. So, we got the promise of

King David to build a temple uh for

Israel's God. And then we've got the

excuse me, the proposal by David to

build a temple for Israel's God. And

then the promise by Dave uh by King

David

by King David's God to build him a

house.

You want to build me a house, I'll build

you one.

Now, they're using the word house in

different ways, right?

You use the word a house for a a

building that we live in, but a house

also can be like uh we use it for king's

families, the house of so and so and the

house of so and so. And so this is

what's going on

verse four. It came to pass that night

that the word of the Lord came to

Nathan.

So God is now informing Nathan.

It might seem good to David. Might seem

to you good to you. But I want to inform

you there's something greater and more

wonderful than you have even imagined.

Go tell my servant David, thus says the

Lord, shall you build me a house for me

to dwell in? Whereas I've not dwelt in

any house since the time I brought up

the children of Israel out of Egypt,

even to this day, but have walked in a

in a tent and in a tabernacle. In all

places which I've walked with all the

children of Israel, spoke I a word with

any of the tribes of Israel whom I

commanded to feed to shepherd or feed my

people Israel, saying, Why build you not

me a house of cedar?

I never asked for this. I never revealed

I wanted a house.

Now therefore, so shall you say to my

servant David, thus says the Lord of

armies, the Lord of hosts, I took thee

from the sheepcoat, from following the

sheep to be ruler over my people, over

Israel. And I was with thee wherever you

went, and have cut off your enemies out

of your sight, and have made thee a

great name, like the name of the great

men who are in the earth.

You didn't do this on your own.

Moreover, I will appoint a place for my

people Israel and will plant them that

they may dwell in a place of their own

and move no more, neither shall the

children of wickedness afflict them

anymore as formerly. And as since the

time that I commanded judges to be over

my people Israel, remember Ruth in the

book of Judges,

have I caused thee to and I've caused

you to rest from all your enemies. Also,

the Lord tells thee that he will build

you a house

using it in what? in not in the sense of

cedar or stone, but a family,

a house. Referring here to a dynasty,

a dynasty.

And when your days will be fulfilled,

and you'll sleep with your fathers,

I will set up thy seed after thee, which

proceeds out of thy own body, and I'll

establish his kingdom.

He'll build a house for my name. He's

talking about Solomon there.

And I'll establish the throne of his

kingdom forever. Now Solomon's throne

was just an inheritance of David's

throne.

So David learns I am going to enjoy

something that Saul wanted very badly.

But God said no

to him. Saul won the dynasty. He wanted

Jonathan to follow him as king.

And because of Saul's uh activities,

sinful activities, God said, "Nope, this

ends with you.

This is not going farther."

But here to David, who certainly was not

perfect himself. God says of Solomon's

Solomon, uh, "I'll establish his

kingdom, and he'll build a house for my

name. I'll establish the throne of his

kingdom forever." Now, the throne of his

kingdom is the throne of David's

kingdom. Solomon's got a right because

he came from David.

And I'll be a father to him, and he'll

be my son. If he commit iniquity, I'll

chasten him with the rod of men and with

stripes of the children of men. But my

mercy shall not depart away from him, as

I took it from Saul, whom I put away

before you,

and thy house and thy kingdom shall be

established forever

before thee. Thy throne shall be

established forever. Start circling that

word forever.

According to all these words and

according to all this vision, so did

Nathan speak to David.

So, we've got David's proposal, the

proposal by King David to build a temple

for Israel's God. And then we've got a

promise by King David's God to build him

a house

uh through his family generationally,

beginning with Solomon.

And so the God of the Bible changes

something dramatically.

God could have just said, "Oh, it sounds

all right. Let's build the temple. I'm

I'm in." God wanted a temple built. But

God had something bigger than a temple.

David's desire to build God a temple was

a good desire.

And God's desire to build David a

dynasty was even better.

U the temple

that Solomon built, David's son, was

burned down and torn down by King

Nebuchadnezzar

later in history, wasn't it? 586 BC.

So it lasted for a few hundred years,

but the dynasty that God's promising

here is indestructible.

Indestructible.

And it will involve the incarnate

Lord Jesus Christ as a descendant of

King David,

his death, but his resurrection, his

ascension, and his return.

This is especially powerful. King David

had no relatives succeed him. Although

Jonathan would have been a very good

choice,

but God and his sovereignty

didn't build Saul a dynasty,

but David got them.

You know, we don't get to choose our

place

in the program of God.

Sometimes God's will is for us to

achieve this and to be this and to do

this but not move forward. And we try to

go farther and God says, "Nope, this is

work. This is what I got for you."

And someone else goes farther than we

do.

But we have our part to play just as

Saul had his part to play and Jonathan

had his part to play.

But dad God had something bigger for

David.

And sometimes God has something

bigger, at least in our eyes, for others

than for us. I hope we're okay with

that. We're not in competition with each

other. We just we we we have our role,

others have their role. So we have the

proposal of David in 1:3 and we have the

promise of God in verses 4 to 17 and it

says according to all these words and

according to all this vision so did

Nathan speak to David.

Now when this when David heard this,

he had to sit down.

He was sitting in his house at the

beginning, but apparently when Nathan

confronted him, he wasn't uh sitting

anymore. He's standing up. And he was so

stunned by it, he had to sit down.

And David's praise begins to ascend to

God.

Notice in verse 18,

then went David in and sat before the

Lord.

And he said,

"Who am I, oh Lord?

What is my house

that you brought me thus far?

I don't deserve this.

Why me?

Who am I?

And who and what is my house

that you've brought me thus far? What's

my family that we get to do this?

And this was yet a small thing in your

sight, oh God. But what you've spoken

also of your servants's house for a

great while to come. This isn't going to

be one, two, three generations and

that's it. It's from a great while to

come.

And is this the manner of man, oh Lord

God? What can David say more to you? For

you, Lord God, know your servant.

You know the good, bad, and ugly of me.

How can I be uh privileged for this?

For thy word's sake, and according to

thy own heart, have you done all these

great things to make thy servant know

them? Wherefore thou art great, oh Lord

God, for there's none like thee, neither

is there any god beside thee, according

to all that we've heard with our ears.

And what na what what one nation in the

earth is like your people even like

Israel whom God went to redeem for a

people for himself. He's talking about

getting the nation out of Egypt where

the family became a nation and

and for for the great things and all

inspiring and for your land before your

people which you redeemed

to thee from Egypt from the nations and

their gods. For thou hast confirmed to

thyself, thy people Israel, to be a

people unto thee forever. This covenant

doesn't just affect me.

It affects the whole Jewish nation.

I mean, if you're a king and you don't

have any subjects,

not much of a kingdom, right?

So David understood that this was for

him and his family, but it was also

something for the whole Jewish people

forever.

And now, oh Lord, the word you've spoken

concerning thy servant and concerning

his house, establish it forever. Do as

thou hast said. You said you're going to

do it. There's that word forever again.

Keep circling that.

And let thy name be magnified forever,

saying, the Lord of hosts is the God

over Israel, and let the house of thy

servant David be established before

thee. For thou, Lord of hosts, God of

Israel, hast revealed to thy servant,

saying, I'll build thee a house.

Therefore hath thy servant found in his

heart to pray this prayer to you. Do

what you said. That's all God said. Ba

basically David said, "Amen."

And now, oh Lord God, thou art thy God,

and thy words are true, and thou hast

promised this goodness to thy servant.

Therefore now, let it please thee to

bless the house of thy servant, that it

may continue forever before thee, for

thou, oh Lord God, hast spoken it, and

with thy blessing, let the house of thy

servant be blessed forever. Are you

still watching the forevers?

So, a proposal by King David to build

the temple and a promise by God to build

a dynasty instead of David building the

temple. His son gets to do it, but David

doesn't. So, God's saying, "No, you're

not going to do it, David. Your son will

do it, but not you. But I'll build you a

dynasty, and that's better than getting

to build me a temple."

And then a praise of David in response

to God

who flipped the script.

Who flipped the script. And David said,

"Your plan's better than my plan."

And any of you that have never learned

that need to learn it. If God says no to

your plan, it's because he's got a

better plan.

And if he God says no to my plan, he's

got a better plan.

And if God doesn't let you do something

you sincerely want to do for him,

he's got a better plan.

I hope we understand it. And whatever

that better plan is, we may not live to

see it. David didn't live to see it all

this, but it's still better.

God loves to say yes.

It's hard for him to say no.

So when he says no, there's a reason.

And the catch word here is that word

forever. And I I was helping you to see

that verse 13, verse 16, verse 25, 26,

29. It's it's it's this is something

that is an explicit contrast between

King Saul and David. Saul reigned and

then

nobody in his line reigned again. But

this Davidic dynasty is because of the

Davidic covenant. It's not something

temporary. It's something not just

something

long. It's eternal. It's forever.

Now with that in mind, turn with me to

the New Testament in Luke chapter 1.

Luke 1 · chapter mention

Luke 1 verse 32.

Luke 1:32

This is what the angel said to Mary.

I'll start with verse.

And remember Mary was of the Davidic

line. Mary was genetically connected to

David through David's son Nathan, as

Joseph was genetically connected to

David through Solomon. But in verse 30,

the angel said to her, "Fear not, Mary,

for you have found favor with God. And

behold, thou conceive in your womb, and

bring forth a son, and shall call his

name Jehovah saves.

And he'll be great, and shall be called

the Son of the Highest. And the Lord God

shall give to him the throne of his

father

David.

The throne of his father David. Remember

David lived and died a thousand years

before Jesus was born.

Can you trace your family back a

thousand years?

Some of you can.

uh the Hixons, but we've got people in

our family that trace the Hixons back to

to the uh to the 1600s in America. Then

you get into the 1500s in England, but

that's as far as we go.

But David had we're talking about Jesus

was born a thousand years after Jesus

died or after David died.

And this is the great picture here, an

amazing picture to Mary.

And it says of Jesus, he'll be great.

Verse 32, and shall be called the son of

the highest. And the Lord God shall give

to him the throne of his father David.

Thousand years. God hadn't forgotten

that promise.

And he will reign over the house of

Jacob. How long?

until they reject him and crucify him

and then that's it.

He will reign over the house of Jacob

forever.

He'll reign over the house of Jacob

until the Jews blow it and crucify him

and then the church age starts and

there's nothing else for the Jew except

to be part of the church.

He's going to reign over the house of

Jacob. That's what it says. is what the

text says forever. Which means the house

of Jacob has to exist forever as well as

the house of David. Hitler can't stop

it. The Muslims can't stop it. Nobody's

going to stop this program.

And of his kingdom there shall be

no end.

of his kingdom there shall be no end.

That's what the text says.

Kind of important,

not just a longlasting dynasty, an

eternal dynasty that includes the Jewish

people. The Davidic throne is a Jewish

nation throne.

Ezekiel 37. Turn to Ezekiel 37

Ezekiel 37:24

verse 24 and 25.

Ezekiel 37 24-2.

God said this to the prophet Ezekiel.

And David my servant shall

h be king over them and they all shall

have one shepherd. They they shall also

walk in my ordinances and observe my

statutes and do them. And they shall

dwell in the land that I've given to

Jacob my servant in which your fathers

have dwelt. And they'll dwell in it even

they and their children and their

children's children. Oh, there it is

again forever.

and my servant David shall be their

prince

forever.

Moreover, I'll make a covenant of peace

with them. It shall be an everlasting

covenant with them, and I'll place them

and multiply them and set my sanctuary

in the midst of them ever more. My

tabernacle shall be with them. Yeah,

I'll be their God, and they'll be my

people. And the nations shall know that

I, the Lord, do sanctify Israel, when my

sanctuary shall be in the midst of them

forever.

Now, that's a lot.

Now, here's an interesting contrast. You

remember the book of Daniel?

Remember Nebuchadnezzar's vision in

chapter 2

and starting out with the head of gold

and then the silver and then you know as

it goes down the four kingdoms each

kingdom replacing another kingdom.

When does all that replacement stop?

With the second coming of the son of

man.

With the second coming of the son of

man.

with the stone that comes out of heaven

and hits the image on the toes and it

all falls apart and there becomes a

great kingdom. And in Daniel chapter 7,

Daniel 7 · chapter mention

the second coming of the son of man and

clouds of great glory and the

Babylonian, Persian and Greek and Rome

will be gone, but his kingdom will be

forever. Kingdoms come and kingdoms go,

but not the kingdom of the Lord Jesus.

Now, let's con. You say, "Well, we're in

the church age now, and that's replaced

Israel." I I'm not a replacement

theology person, and I know some of you

are, but I'm sorry. I'm not. Well, it

can't be. I I believe in the text.

And I watch how the New Testament begins

and ends. I'm going to say that again.

I watch how the New Testament begins and

ends.

How does the New Testament begin?

Matthew 1:1.

Matthew 1:1

Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son

of Abraham.

That's how Matthew's gospel begins. The

first verse of the first chapter of the

first book in the New Testament.

How does the New Testament end?

In Revelation 22:16,

Revelation 22:16

five verses from the end of the last

chapter of the last book of the New

Testament, it brings David in again.

So, you've got David at the beginning of

the New Testament in Matthew 1:1. And

Matthew 1:1

you've got David, King David, at the end

of the testament in Revelation, New

Testament 22, verse 6.

Now, God's trying to tell us something,

and we may not want to hear it.

David's not going to be replaced like

Saul.

And Israel is not going to be replaced.

Although they deserve it.

They are under great chastisement for

crucifying Jesus,

but God still has a program for them.

And the Davidic covenant proves it. And

so in Revelation 22:16,

Revelation 22:16

I Jesus have sent

my angel to testify to you these things

in the churches. I am the root and

offspring of David and the bright and

morning star. Jesus doesn't say, "Well,

you know,

I was the Davidic king. I came and they

crucified me. So that's it for that

program. We're starting the church."

Yes, the church started. It was always

in God's plan. to start the church. But

that doesn't mean he forgot the original

plan. God keeps his promises.

So,

I hope you've heard of David.

I was talking to someone just recently

that was raised in a church and they

never heard of George Whitfield. They

just happened to bring George

Whitfield's name up. So, I don't know

who that is. And I'm thinking, how can

you be a have got raised in church and

you don't remember who George Whitfield

is? Or how could you be American and not

know who George Whitfield?

Person didn't have a clue and didn't

care.

Well, how can you be a Christian and not

know who David is? How can you not know

what the dividic covenant is? The

ignorance in our churches is palpable.

If there's ignorance in the pulpit,

there's going to be ignorance in the

pew.

The reason people don't know their

Bibles is pastor pastors pamper people

and just give them baby food

instead of really getting into the real

teachings of scripture properly.

David's not just someone who lived 3,000

years ago. Oh, we know something of

David. I learned that in Sunday school.

He killed Goliath. I know that. What

else do you know? Well, he wrote Psalm

323. I know that. What else do you know?

Well, he committed adultery with Basheba

and had to confess that. What else do

you know? Well, he played the harp. He's

pretty good musician. Wrote some songs.

What else do you know? I don't know

anything else.

That's it.

You got a kindergarten, Sunday school

knowledge of David.

You don't have a mature understanding of

the Bible. Those stories are good for

Sunday school. Everybody needs to get

them. You stop there, you are hampered.

The new the Bible's full of references

to David. I tried to count them and I it

got so hard I gave up. I had a

concordance. I'm thinking.

So I looked online and they said 928

times

starting with the book of Ruth chapter

Ruth 4 · chapter mention

4.

And another one said over a thousand.

I'm not sure how that difference is, but

it's there. It's online. You figure out

who's right.

Why does the Bible talk about David so

much? The Bible talks about David so

much because it talks about Jesus so

much. And you don't understand who Jesus

is unless you know he is the promised

and prophesied and pictured Messiah of

Israel that God has ordained to reign

forever.

How does the book of Romans begin?

That's Paul's magnumopus.

Romans 1 1-4.

It talks about Jesus being the son of

God, the son of David.

It talks about his deity and it talks

about his identity

as a son of David.

How does Paul's that's how Paul's

magnamopus starts. He talked. He doesn't

leave David out. How does Paul's last

letter,

How's Paul's last letter, second

Timothy,

is that it Paul at the end of his life,

did he ever grow out of this? Emphasis

on David's 2 Timothy 28 and 9. Jesus

Christ, the son of David risen from the

dead. That's my gospel.

Not just some carpenter from Nazareth.

He was that Jesus Christ the son of

David risen from the dead.

Why all this preoccupation with David?

The preoccupation with David on their

part. Apostle Paul and the early church

is because of what? The Davidic

covenant. They knew it.

Now King David in the Old Testament was

the standard for other kings that came

after him.

uh they were all compared. All the king

kings of the southern kingdom were

compared to David. This one was like

David. This one was like David.

So David was kind of a standard. Of

course, David was not sinless or not

perfect, but he was a standard. And he

was one that uh the covenant was given

to.

Now, there are certain people in history

that are

everyone's important because everybody

plays a role, but some play a bigger

role than others.

Have you ever been to Mount Rushmore?

Ever seen pictures of it?

There's four presidents heads on that

granite mountain.

We've had more than four presidents,

haven't we?

that they selected four, the artists

selected four.

And if you really go through American

history, you understand why he selected

George Washington and Thomas Jefferson

and Abraham Lincoln.

We understand that because each of those

were extremely significant in American

history.

They were not a minor

importance. They were major importance

in the expansion of our country or even

the original existence of our country.

George Washington's first and of course

under Jefferson the Louisiana purpose

purpose the re re the Louisiana

purchase uh happened. Abraham Lincoln

led during a civil war that could have

destroyed everything. And finally Teddy

Roosevelt, one of my favorite

presidents, although I don't know if he

was a true believer or not. I know he

was religious. an extremely

significant individual in the 20th

century. Whether you agree of everything

he did, I I'm not saying that, but

interesting. So, they poke picked out

major people. Who are major people in

the Old Testament? There's all kinds of

major people, but the two major people

that stand out, really stand out are

Abraham and David.

Because God promised Abraham something,

an unconditional covenant. The Abrahamic

covenant is unconditional. It did dis it

deals with his physical descendants. It

deals with the land and it deals with

being a blessing to all the nations.

And the Davidic covenant is right up

there with the Abrahamic covenant. Those

are two major covenants, unconditional

covenants in the Old Testament. Now, the

Ten Commandments, that's a conditional

covenant. The land covenant is a

conditional covenant, but that's a whole

other subject. These are unconditional.

Um,

David had a godly side, he had a poetic

side, he had a romantic side, and he had

a horrific side.

He wasn't sentenced.

But God promised him this.

And Jay Oswald Saunders in his book

Robust Robust in the faith said of

David, "His is the fullest biography in

the Bible."

Abraham has 14 chapters. David has 62.

Now, of course, Jesus was greater than

David, but the point is an awful lot is

emphasized on David.

And Jay Oswald Sanders said, "It would

be true to say that no other Bible

character experienced so many swift

changes of fortune as Daniel, as David."

Toward the end of his life, he found a

uh he he found a purpose to build a

house for the Lord.

You know, he fought all the battles.

Now, I want to do something very

positive besides killing people

and said, "No,

Solomon will get to do it. You've been a

man of blood. I'm not going to let you

do it because of that. Not because it

was wrong what he did, but because of

the temple is to beat all nations.

And just in a practical side, God never

tells his people no unless he's

something much better for them.

Better for us in the long run, better

for God and his purposes, better than

for others, better for the spread of the

gospel, better for the glory of God.

There's so many important passages here

in on in on this business. The Davidic

covenant was not something

unanticipated. God talked about Abraham

having kings out of him in Genesis 17:6

Genesis 17:6

and Genesis 35:11. And God even gave the

Genesis 35:11

requirements for the king in Deuteronomy

17:14-26

through Moses before David was born. So

there was always a plan for someday

there's going to be king.

Alva J. Mlan said, "The king must be

God's chosen man sitting on an earthly

underlined throne, an earthly throne of

God's kingdom with God's book constantly

before his eyes and in his heart and

ever mindful that there are uh

that as regards to the written word, God

is the God above and he's above the

humblest subject." uh uh as it reaches.

It was a government of gods rather than

of man's.

That the establishment of kings over

Israel did not in any sense mean the end

of the theocratic rule is made clear by

the prophet Nathan.

I'll settle him in my house and in my

kingdom forever. 1 Chronicles 74 17:14.

Thus the existing kingdom under David

and Solomon was not theirs but God's.

Now if we look at our world history, I

started comparisoning how long different

dynasties last

and I looked at Africa, I looked at

Asia, I looked at Europe, I looked at

North America, I looked at South

America, I looked at Oceanana, there

were articles online, the Chinese

dynasty last this long, the Belgian this

long, the Japan this long. And but G

God's telling David this is going to be

forever.

Now, the Davidic dynasty can't last

forever

unless sooner or later one of the

Davidic kings is risen from the dead.

Are you following me?

There has to be a resurrection of some

Davidic descendant of David for the

Davidic dynasty to last forever.

And so that's what's going on in my

mind. Reynold Chow in his an interesting

book, there really is a difference.

He cont he gives a contrast between

replacement theology and dispensational

theology. But he says in 2 Samuel 7,

although this passage does not call

God's promises to David a covenant,

he's talking about 2 Samuel 7. doesn't

use the word covenant. Other passages

clearly indicate that God was

establishing covenant with his servant.

And he lists seven passages where the

word covenant is used of what was

happening in 2 Samuel 7. 2 Samuel 23:5,

2 Samuel 23:5

2 Chronicles 21- 27, Psalm 89 52 verses

long,

Psalm 83:3 and4, and Jeremiah 33:19.

Psalms 83:3 Jeremiah 33:19

It was very clear to Old Testament

readers that God was establishing a

covenant with David.

Remember the Christmas passage, Isaiah

9. Turn with me to Isaiah 9

Isaiah 9:6

verse 6.

For unto us a child is born, unto us a

son is given. The government will be on

his shoulder. His name shall be called

Pelle. Wonderful miracle worker,

counselor, the mighty God, the father of

eternity is the best way to translate

that. The prince of peace and of the

increase of his government and peace

there shall be what? No end.

I'm glad our presidents only have a

limited time to be in office. Aren't

you?

Regardless of how you good good you

think this one was or that one. I'm glad

we have a limit.

But this says there no need for this

with this one. The increase of his

government uh there'll be no end on the

throne upon the kingdom in on the throne

of David and on his kingdom to order it

and to establish it with justice and

righteousness from henceforth even

forever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts

will accomplish this.

Now, how important is the Davidic

covenant? One Bible scholar that I have

and I've read, he said, 2 Samuel chapter

2 Samuel 6 · chapter mention

6 and 7 deals with matters of the very

heart of the entire book of Samuel.

This is the heart. Whole book of Samuel

is really written for this.

And I when I was some of you were in our

church in 2014, that's 11 years ago. I

taught through 1 and 2 Samuel. And I

happen to find my notes on that. And I

rarely can find my notes there.

That's a whole other picture. They're

all all over the house. But he said,

"This is what I wrote then when I was

teaching 2 Samuel 1. This passage of

scripture is so significant. so

important

uh so important in the Old Testament in

the whole Bible that I simply do not

have the words to even describe it

perfect per imperfectly let alone to

teach it properly.

I I when I started thinking that the

Davidic covenant, I thought this is over

my head. How am I going to really get

this across?

3,000 years ago, the God of the Bible

made a surprising promise to King David

that astonished him. God stunned him by

his grace. God shocked him so totally

that we have David's response in the

second half of the chapter which can be

summarized. I need to sit down. I'm

overwhelmed.

And I also wrote the rest of the Old

Testament is built on this chapter. The

whole New Testament is built on this

chapter. The first and last chapters of

the New Testament return the events of

this chapter. Everything from Genesis

Genesis 3:15

3:15

uh uh are anticipation of this chapter

and everything till Revelation 22

followed from this chapter. Are you

getting the importance of what we're

looking at?

This is the big picture.

God vetoed David's plan. It was a good

plan. Just wasn't God's plan. Has God

ever vetoed your plan?

Yeah, I've had my plans vetoed.

I thought it was a good idea. I was not

a good idea and God just said, "Nope."

And great insight comes to us if we

understand that God's plan's always

better than our plan.

That doesn't mean we shouldn't make

plans. Sometimes God said that's that's

okay. I'll do this. But sometimes God

says no.

And God sometimes interrupts our plans

and he tells us something we don't want

to hear. We got a plan and we're married

to our plan.

We're married to our plan.

For better or worse, rich or poor, in

sickness or in health, this is the plan.

How many people did God say no to a

plan? It might have been a good plan.

Jonah, Hosea, Samuel, Jeremiah, Ezekiel,

in every one of them, God said, "Not

your will, but mine be done."

This is stunning.

Now, the length of God speaking to David

in this chapter

indicates something of the importance of

it. David Burgon, I think I'm

pronouncing his name correct, an Old

Testament scholar said, "The words

recorded here constitute the longest

recorded monologue monologue attributed

to God since the days of Moses."

So God's

really expanding things here and going

over 997 words. The prodigious size of

this divine pronouncement suggests that

the writer intended it to be interpreted

as

uh particularly important

perhaps as important as the Torah

itself.

And David's response to the Lord's

magnificent deliberation is the longest

monologue of David.

David himself was totally taken back by

what God promised him.

It was way way way beyond and above any

of his highest expectations.

And I wrote down some the Old Testament

theologians. Not all this first one's

not that conservative, but he said it's

the most cons crucial theological

statement in the Old Testament.

The most crucial theological statement

in the Old Testament. Another said, this

is a conservative fellow Venoi matrix of

biblical messianism. And Joyce Baldwin

said it's the ideological summit of the

Old Testament as a whole.

So, if you haven't heard of the Davidic

covenant, you've heard of it now.

There's a legal agreement that God made

with David. It's good for all time.

And it it's a major thing like the

Abrahamic covenant. And Bible principle

is what? Keep the main thing the main

thing.

Major on minors, minor on majors. We

should never let a little thing become a

big thing or a big thing get minimized

and be a minor thing.

It's not healthy. It's not honorable.

It's not helpful

to ignore what's the main thing.

What's the main subject in this chapter

is a good question to always ask. What's

the main subject in this book?

What's the main subject in this verse?

Keep the main thing the main thing.

Don't fight with small or great, but

only with the king of Israel. was how uh

the pagan uh general was and that's how

Satan is. He hits the main things.

So, we should focus on the main things.

And Jesus said of the Bible, the volume

of the book is written of me

to do your will, oh God.

The Pharisees were experts in mining on

majors and majoring on minors. Read

Matthew 23.

I'm almost done. I'm I'm a little bit

over, so forgive me. Can't preach too

long. I got to catch an airplane.

But John MacArthur told on himself,

there's not many bigname preachers will

tell on himself.

That John MacArthur was mentored

by Charles Fineberg.

Paris Fineberg was a fine Old Testament

scholar. He had two doctor's degrees,

earned doctorates in in Hebrew and Old

Testament.

and he was asked by John MacArthur's

father to mentor him and John MacArthur

as a very young man preached before the

student body of Talbot Chapel

Talbet Seminary Chapel and he chose 2

Samuel 7

and uh his topic was not presuming on

God.

Now not presuming on God is a okay thing

right? we shouldn't presume on what

God's going to do or not doing, but he

thought he did pretty well in the

sermon. And afterwards, Charles

Steinberg said, "How could you?

You missed the whole point of the

passage.

How could you? How could you? The

passage presents the Davidic covenant

culminating in the Messiah and his

glorious kingdom." And you talked about

not presenting on God.

God be thanked for older Christians that

correct us.

And I give MacArthur credit telling on

himself, but I'm sure that lesson, that

rebuke lasted with him the rest of his

life.

Now all of us have blown it. Now I I I I

think Bible study is important. has got

I think practical application is

important. Uh what am I supposed to do?

What am I not supposed to do? Uh all

that stuff.

There's we need application. We need

application to ourselves. We're going to

give some real quick ones.

But we the application is based on the

teaching and we got to keep that

central.

Petershime Alfred Petersshim said of

this section it's a neverending kingdom

and a never passing king and Joyce

Baldwin again said the major measure of

God's greatness in his capacity to refer

to the future as easily as to the past

so demonstrating he's master of mankind

and the uh uh

uh runner of history here is

incomparable. He is incomparable in a

total different category from all other

gods.

This is big. This is shocking. David was

shocked. We should be shocked.

And David said, "God is my king."

Chapter 7 and chapter 6 go together. And

in chapter six, God David brought the

ark into Jerusalem.

He did that right before this.

And the ark represented the presence of

God with his people in the holy of

holies. And David when he did that was

saying God is my king.

I'm a king under a king. I'm a

mediatorial king.

I rule for God. I'm under God. That's

what David believed. Now, he got rebuked

for that and chasened for that. We know

that because he did it the wrong way.

That's part of having God over us.

So, let's make some applications to

ourselves real quick. Let me just I'm

going to go through them fast. Jesus was

crucified with a sign over his head.

What did it say?

Jesus of Nazareth, the king of the Jews.

He's never abdicated his dignity or

authority.

Our loyalty must be to him above

everything else. Is it?

Is it?

Do we operate at Athens Bible Church

under the head of the church, King

Jesus? Are we doing our own thing, our

own way? Are we submitting to him?

Number two, he is still King Jesus

whether he's recognized or not.

Not everyone recognized David 3,000

years ago, but David was still king.

Nabel thought he could safely ignore

David.

David's own son rebelled against him,

Abselum, and thought he could rebel

against David. But David was the king.

Did we ever sit down in awe because of

what God's done for us?

We should

this king is an example.

Is our knowledge of the Old Testament

uh kindergarten knowledge or are we

maturing?

We trying to take the wide lens and the

big picture.

Do we understand that God keeps his

covenant promises and he does more than

we ask or think? But that does more than

we ask or think is done according to his

written word.

The rejection and crucifixion of Jesus

was a rejection and uh of the Davidic

Messiah.

The Messiah is the seed of Abraham, the

son of David. He's the suffering

servant. He's the savior of the world.

He's the He's the son of man. He's the

eternal sovereign desired to sit on

David's throne forever and ever. That's

what happened 2,000 years ago.

If you're being against David, you're

against God. If you're against Jesus,

the son of David, you're against God. If

you're indifferent to David, like Nabal,

you're indifferent to God. If you're a

traitor against David,

you were you were you like a hiel, you

were a traitor against God to put him on

the throne. David's seed is God's son.

Um,

we have the right genealogy

and we have the right witnesses

to who David or who Jesus is and why he

came and how he defeated death. It was

not just anybody that rose from the

dead. It was Jesus Christ of the seed of

David risen from

last point.

God makes covenants with imperfect and

flawed people.

Sometimes furiously broken.

David was a man after God's heart.

He was seriously focused on God. But

David was not a sinless man by any

stretch of the imagination.

In 2 Samuel 6, we have David's sin in

bringing the ark uh to Jerusalem and

they didn't use Levites to carry it.

They carried it on oxen. He wasn't being

biblical and a man died because of that.

That was before the Davidic covenant in

chapter 7.

And then in 2 Samuel 12, he David's

confronted by the prophet Nathan with

the whole business of Basheba and the

the adultery and murder that David did.

That was after the Davidica.

And then in 2 Samuel 24, the last

chapter of the book of Samuel, David

numbers the people and all these people

die.

And the only way to get out of it is for

David at cost to himself

to offer sacrifice to God

on mount on the mountain that would

become the temple.

In 2 Samuel 24

in Romans 4,

Paul picks out two people. first Jew,

Abraham, and the and the most important

Jew, David, and illustrates

they weren't saved by their good works.

They were saved by the work of another,

Jesus Christ.

And that ought to settled

in the other argument. Well, may God

speak to your heart. If you're not

saved, how could you ignore this? This

is the future. This is the future. The

Bible's not just about something that

happened long ago. It's about the

something that happened long ago, but

it's also happening something that's

going to happen.

And the early church announced it in

Acts chapter 2.

Acts 2 · chapter mention

And the early church wrote about it and

preached about it all through all the

way through the book of Acts.

And that King David has a covenant

that's never going to end because Jesus

arose from the dead and is never going

to die again.

Thank you, Father, for what we've looked

at. Challenge us from your word. Bless

us with your truth. We pray. Amen.

And turn to page 704.

74.

>> What a mighty God we serve. What a

mighty God we serve.

Angels bow before him. Heaven and earth

adore him as we go from this place.

Loving you more, trusting you more.

May the power of your love and the light

of your word shine to a sin darkened

world as we go from this place.