Gospel Past, Present, And Future

So today's sermon is the fourth and last in our series called Gospel Training.

! Today I'm going to be talking to you about Gospel Past, Present, and Future.

That's where I'm getting this Gospel Past, Present, and Future.

You've been saved from the penalty of sin.

You're being saved from the power of sin.

And you will be saved from the presence of sin.

Three Ps to help you remember it, okay?

Been saved from the penalty of sin, being saved from the power of sin,

will be saved from the presence of sin.

Got it?

Okay.

John Stott has argued that actually when Paul, in Acts 24-25,

reasoned with Governor Felix about righteousness and self-control in the coming judgment,

he was pointing out the three tenses of salvation,

which is an interesting thought if you think about it and look at it.

Righteousness, speaking of been saved, self-control, being saved,

coming judgment, will be saved.

You can also think of that in Exodus when it talks about the Israelites.

Israelites, they were saved from Egypt, okay?

They were delivered out of Egypt.

And then after they got out of Egypt, they were still being saved from Egypt, okay?

And then eventually they would be completely saved from Egypt, right?

So similar kind of thought structure that goes there.

So this is kind of even a theme that you see throughout Scripture.

So we're going to look at all three of these specifically.

We'll start with the first one, past salvation.

So the other way you can look at these is been saved, justification,

being saved, sanctification, will be saved, glorification.

So the first one, past salvation, justification,

we've been saved from the penalty of sin.

So Ephesians 2 verse 3 says that we were by nature children of wrath.

Ephesians 2:3

So from the beginning, holiness, God's holiness is bad news for the sinner, okay?

God's holiness is bad news for the sinner.

And that includes just being born because we were by nature children of wrath.

He goes on in verse 4, it says,

But God, being rich in mercy because of the great love with which he loved us,

even when we were dead in our trespasses,

made us alive together with Christ.

By grace you have been saved and raised us up with him and seated us with him

in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches

of his grace and kindness towards us in Christ Jesus.

For by grace you have been saved through faith.

This is not your own doing.

It is a gift of God, not as a result of works,

so that no one may boast, okay?

So there you have it, the quintessential verse about we've been saved.

We've been saved from the penalty of sin.

God, while we were dead in our sins, while we were objects of wrath by nature,

God came to us and saved us and made us alive together with Christ.

We were dead, he made us alive.

We were blind and now we see.

Just like amazing grace things, right?

You have been saved.

What is justification?

Justification is basically right legal standing.

Someone would say it's just as if you had not sinned.

Sin.

Justification.

Just as if you had not sinned.

We all know we have sinned.

We all know that we were by nature objects of wrath.

Justification makes it as if you had not sinned.

Romans 3, 20 to 26 says,

For by works of the law, no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.

But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the law and the prophets bear witness to it.

The righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe.

For there is no distinction.

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift.

Through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood to be received by faith.

This was to show God's righteousness because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.

It was to show his righteousness at the present time so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

This is such an awesome truth that God is not just just, but the justifier.

See, if we were sinners and all we know of God is that he's just, that's really bad news.

If a holy God is just and we are sinners, that's bad news.

It's not looking good for us.

Because we then have the wrath of God justly upon us.

By nature, objects of wrath because he's a holy God.

But if God is not just just, but he's also the justifier, now we're talking.

He's not just just, but also the justifier.

So God's justice had to be met, but it was met in his own son.

Jesus became the justifier of us by taking the punishment that was due us on himself and him being the perfect holy sacrifice.

He alone could bear the weight of that punishment.

He alone could satisfy the wrath of God because he alone is holy.

He alone is perfect.

He alone was the perfect atoning sacrifice.

And so not only is God just, but he's the justifier.

So he was able to satisfy his justice by also, and then become the justifier as well.

That is an amazing, amazing charity that he gives to us.

That is amazing grace, truly.

Okay?

And then his justification has implications.

Romans 5, starting in verse 1 says,

What's that all about?

Since we've been justified, we have peace with God.

Do you have peace with God?

You who profess Christ, do you have peace with God?

Is peace your natural flow?

Is peace your natural way of living?

If you truly are justified, and by the way, there's no such thing as a, well, I'm kind of justified.

There is no partial justification.

That's kind of an oxymoron, right?

Justification actually means justification.

I know we live in an age where everybody gets to redefine what words mean, but you can't do that.

Okay?

Words mean what they mean for a reason.

And justification means that you are made right.

You are made just.

And if you're made right, and if you're made just, that is why you have peace with God.

Because there's nothing that stands in between you anymore.

What stood between you was that you weren't right.

But the justifier made you right.

The justifier made you right.

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

When you come before him, after a bad day, after a long week, when you come before him and you sing songs on a Sunday morning and worship to him,

what causes you to have peace with him?

And what causes you to not have peace with him?

What is your peace?

Or rather, who is your peace?

Jesus is your peace.

Jesus is the one who stands between you and God.

And when he looks on you, he sees his son.

He is the just God and the justifier.

He makes you right.

And nothing stands between you and him.

So often, we have these, as believers, we have pockets of unbelief.

You might even call them little pockets of atheism.

Right?

But we profess to be Christians and we profess to know Christ.

And yet when we come to him, we feel, oh, I feel like I'm not justified.

Well, who ever said anything about your feelings?

Do your feelings make you any less just?

Do your feelings make you any less right?

Do your feelings make Jesus' sacrifice any less atoning?

Do your feelings make God any less the justifier?

Sometimes we have these feelings towards justice that cause us not to believe in his justification.

Well, God isn't just just.

He's also the justifier.

And through Christ, he has made you right.

Therefore, you have peace with God.

Through him, we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand.

Where is your standing?

What are you standing in?

So often we believe more in the power of our sin to disqualify us than the power of God's grace to make us right and just.

Is your sin really that powerful?

That it would be more powerful than the justifying power of God in Christ Jesus making ransom for you to be saved?

Through him, we have obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand.

The reason I have peace with God is because I stand in his grace.

How often?

If I've been made just all the time, I'm always standing in this grace.

It's like that old Switchfoot song where he says, maybe forgiveness is right where you fell.

Right?

We think every time we sin, it's like we go in and out of justification.

No.

Justification is a status that is given to you by God through Christ.

There's grace in which we stand.

We rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.

Verse 6.

While we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

One will scarcely die for a righteous person, though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die.

But God shows his love for us.

And that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

It's like Luke 15, right?

While we are a long way off, he ran to him.

Okay?

Since therefore we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.

For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his son, much more now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.

More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.

See, we've been saved from the penalty of sin.

We stand in grace.

We've been made right.

We've been justified.

That's why in Romans 8.33, he says,

Who shall bring a charge against God's elect?

It is God who justifies.

You're going to bring a charge against me?

You're going to say, Oh, no, no, no.

He's not clean.

He's not righteous.

He's not justified.

Says who?

You dare make a charge against the one that God justified?

How dare you?

It's God who justifies.

You don't get to justify or unjustify somebody.

That's not how this works.

Only God can do this.

And there's a big word in the Bible called propitiation.

I read it in the verse before in Romans 3.

It says, propitiation just means satisfaction of God's wrath.

All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God and are justified by his grace as a gift through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood to be received by faith.

Jesus was the propitiation for us, meaning the wrath of God was satisfied in Christ Jesus.

Some Christians live as if the wrath of God was not satisfied.

How dare we even banish the thought?

Banish the thought that the blood of Jesus was not enough to cleanse.

Banish the thought to think that God's sacrifice was not enough.

It was sufficient.

When Jesus said on the cross, it is finished, what do you think he meant?

Did he mean, well, it's kind of finished.

It's mostly finished.

I think it's finished.

No, it's finished.

The work was complete.

The wrath of God was satisfied.

The propitiation was met.

When you think of wrath being upon you, you have to think, no, no, no.

In Christ Jesus, the wrath has been satisfied.

1 John 4.10 says,

And this is love, not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

The satisfaction of the wrath of God for our sins.

So that's satisfaction of the wrath of God, which then brings the next thing.

Another big word is, or maybe a word you don't use as much, is expiation, which means the removal of sinner guilt.

Not only did he take away and satisfy the punishment, absorb the wrath, he also removed our sinner guilt.

Some people say, yeah, yeah, I believe God saved me, but I still feel guilty.

I still feel dirty.

No, no, no, no, no.

That's unjust.

That's unjust.

Psalm 103, verse 12.

Psalms 103:12

As far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.

Have you ever measured how far the east is from the west?

Try it sometime.

That's how far your sin is from you.

When it comes to justification, it's gone.

It's gone.

Your guilt has been removed.

1 John 1, verse 9.

1 John 1:9

I love this verse so much.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Now, just use that word just again.

Did you hear that?

But when you think of just, what do you think of?

A lot of times we think of just, we think, well, if God is just, then that's why I shouldn't feel like I can come to God.

Because I sin.

If God is just, then that means there's something in between us.

My sin is in between us.

Hold on.

1 John 1, verse 9.

1 John 1:9

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us.

Don't stop there.

And cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

So from this verse, you could deduce that it is actually unjust for God not to cleanse you.

Did you hear me on that?

If you were still dirty, that would not be justice.

If you believe so many people think they're dirty because God is just, it's the wrong view of his justice.

You have a distorted, perverted view of God's justice.

If you think that God is pushing you away because of your sin in Christ Jesus.

The real belief about justice is that if you confess your sins, if you're in Christ, he not only forgives you your sins, but he cleanses you from your sins.

This is just.

This is just.

It would be unjust for him not to forgive you and to cleanse you.

It would be unjust for him to hold against you something that has been already paid for.

It would be unjust.

When was the last time you appealed for that kind of justice?

When was the last time you went to the Lord in your sin and appealed for God's justice to cleanse you?

You ever think of that?

You ever appealed for God's justice?

We're typically like, I don't want to remind God of his justice because that's bad news for me.

No!

Not if he's just and the justifier.

That means that Christ is the propitiation and the expiation.

He satisfies the wrath.

He removes the guilt.

And it would only be just for him to cleanse you from your sins and your unrighteousness.

Is that not good news?

That's good news.

2 Corinthians 5, 18-21 says,

So do you do that?

Are you living consistent with the way God treats you?

God, it says here that God doesn't count your trespasses against you.

Do you count your trespasses against you?

Why?

Why?

The Bible says that God doesn't count your trespasses against you.

Why are you still doing it?

And why aren't you telling the devil what it is written when he tells you and reminds you of your sin?

Why don't you just say, hey, it's written.

God doesn't count my trespasses against me.

You can leave now.

Right?

And he trusted us the message of reconciliation.

Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ.

God making his appeal through us.

We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Wow.

This is why Romans 8, verse 1 says,

Romans 8:1

Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.

There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

Christian, do you tolerate condemnation in your life?

Why?

Why?

There is no more condemnation for you.

But, but, no, no, no, no.

No buts.

No buts.

Do you believe the gospel or do you, do you not?

If you think that God just kind of cleans you up, he makes you tolerable but not beautiful.

If you think he just, you know, he, he makes it so that, well, I guess he can, he can come in.

No, no, no, no, no.

He washes you clean.

For him not to wash you clean would be unjust.

And now because you are washed clean, because the wrath of God is no longer against you,

because there's no longer any dirt that remains on you,

there is no condemnation for you in Christ Jesus.

No condemnation.

Romans 4, verse 8 says,

Romans 4:8

Blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not count his sin.

Blessed is that man.

And guess what?

That man is every Christian.

Every true believer in Jesus Christ is the one whom the Lord will not count his sin.

So he absorbs the wrath of God.

He takes away the guilt of sin.

And then he doesn't just leave it there.

Then he gives us his righteousness.

Romans 4, 5.

Romans 5, 19.

For as by one man's disobedience the many were made sinners,

so by the one man's obedience, the one man being Christ,

the many will be made righteous.

Do you believe not only that he's absorbed the wrath,

that he has removed your guilt, but that he's given you Christ's righteousness?

So when the Father looks on you, he sees the righteousness of Christ.

He sees the work of Christ.

You say, my work isn't enough.

Absolutely.

You're right.

But whoever said anything about your work,

you're not coming to the Lord on the basis of your work.

You're coming to the Lord on the basis of Christ's work.

Philippians 3, 8-9.

This is what Paul said.

For his sake I've suffered the loss of all things,

and I count them as rubbish,

in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him,

not having a righteousness of my own.

It comes from the law.

But that which comes through faith in Christ,

the righteousness from God,

that depends on faith.

Some of us think,

oh, we just need to be saved from our unrighteousness.

No, no, no.

We have to be saved from unrighteousness and self-righteousness,

and we are given the righteousness of Christ.

That is, on Christ the solid rock I stand,

all other ground is sinking sand.

I dare not trust the sweetest frame,

but wholly lean on Jesus' name.

That's trusting in the righteousness of Christ.

Okay?

So that's gospel past.

That's good news.

Some people only stick there.

They're like,

yeah, that's my testimony, man.

I want to tell my testimony.

They have a testimony of how God saved them.

They have no testimony of how God's saving them,

and they certainly don't have a testimony

of what he's going to do in the future.

Or,

some people,

they believe in gospel past,

gospel future,

but they have no,

they have no grid for gospel present.

They say,

well, God saved me,

and one day he's returning to save me,

but in the meantime,

I just got to grit my teeth

and my own strength and my own power

and try to stay free from sin.

Well, that sounds like good news.

Not really.

Right?

But this is how,

so many Christians believe this.

They think,

yes, God saved me.

One day he will come

and he'll rescue us from this earth

and all the sin

and make all things new.

But in between, man,

I'm on my own.

I gotta,

I gotta grit my teeth

and just push through.

No.

No.

Let's look at gospel present.

Gospel present,

present salvation,

is sanctification.

It's being saved

from the power of sin.

1 Corinthians 1.18

says,

The word of the cross

is folly to those

who are perishing,

but to us who are being saved,

it is the power of God.

It is the power of God.

See, the cross

is not just saving us

from the penalty of sin,

it's saving us

from the power of sin.

Do you believe that?

Do you believe in a gospel

that not just saves you

from the penalty,

but saves you from the power?

1 Corinthians 15.1-2

says,

I remind you, brothers,

of the gospel I preached to you,

which you received

and which you stand,

and by which you are being saved.

Present.

Being saved.

If you hold fast

to the word I preached to you,

unless you believed in vain.

Okay?

The same power

that saved you

from the wrath of God

and the penalty of sin

is the same power

that saves you

from the power of sin.

Do you believe that?

The same way you received it

initially

when you first became a Christian

is the same way

we receive it

in everyday life.

You are tempted with sin,

it's threatening to overtake you,

it's threatening to rule over you,

and you believe

that you can't do it,

you can't resist it,

you have no power

in and of yourself

to resist that temptation,

but you believe

that the gospel

is the power of God

for salvation

of all who believe,

Romans 1.16,

you believe that in that moment

that God's salvation

and power is available

to you to be saved,

not just from the penalty

like you did before

when you first came to Christ,

but that his power

is available to save you

from the power of sin

so that sin

will no longer reign over you.

This is good news.

Right?

Hebrews 10.14 says,

This is called sanctification,

right?

Progressive growth

and holiness.

1 Thessalonians 5.23

It says,

Now may the God of peace

himself sanctify you

completely,

and may your whole spirit

and soul and body

be kept blameless

at the coming

of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Okay?

This is God working

in you his will,

this is God removing

the power of sin

from your life,

sanctifying you

day in and day out,

setting you free.

1 Thessalonians 4.3-5

says,

This is the will of God,

your sanctification,

that you abstain

from sexual morality,

that each one of you

know how to control

his own body

in holiness and honor,

not in the passion of lust

like the Gentiles

who don't know God.

Do you believe

that God's power

is available for you

even to overcome

and conquer sexual morality?

I know for some reason

we have glorified

and worshipped

and lifted up

the power of sexual morality

nowadays

to be a sin

that cannot be overcome

by the power of God.

What a travesty.

What a slap in the face

of the gospel.

Is not God mighty

to save

even from sexual

or immorality?

I mean,

what do you believe?

He can save you

from all their sins

but that sin?

It's like God

is this tiny little God

but the God of sexual morality

is the God that reigns?

No,

Jesus Christ

is the God that reigns.

He died so that

the power of God

will be given to you

so that you could live

in holiness and honor.

That's the truth.

Those are the facts.

We have power over sin.

Okay?

This is why Romans 6 says,

Let not sin,

therefore reign in your

moral body

to make you obey

its passions.

Do not present your members

to sin as instruments

for unrighteousness

but present yourselves

to God as those

who have been brought

from death to life

and your members to God

as instruments

for righteousness

for sin will have

no dominion over you.

Do you believe that?

Do you believe that?

That that's a promise of God

that in the gospel

sin shall have

no dominion over you.

That means it doesn't

rule over you.

That your inheritance

isn't to just be someone

who's saved from

the penalty of sin

but sin rules over you

until Jesus returns.

No.

Sin's penalty

has no power of you.

Sin's power

has no power of you.

And one day

its presence

won't be there either.

It will remove

the presence of it

altogether.

That's the good news.

That's the full gospel.

No dominion.

2 Corinthians 2.14

says thanks be to God

whom Christ Jesus

leads us

in triumphal procession

and through us

spreads the fragrance

of the knowledge

from everywhere.

This is how Paul

describes the Christian life.

Let me ask you

believer

fellow believers

would you describe

your Christianity

as a triumphal procession?

Would you describe it as that?

The Bible does.

The Bible describes

your Christianity

my Christianity

as a triumphal

procession.

Again

if you believe

a gospel

where it's all on you

until Jesus returns

then this is foreign to you.

You read this

and say what?

What is that?

If you believe

that the gospel

is for yesterday

today

and forever

if you believe

that it's past

present and future

if you believe

it's not just the penalty

but it's also the power

and it will be the presence

if you believe that

and you read

triumphal procession

you're like yes

absolutely

that's my inheritance

that's what I live in

that's the good news

triumphal procession

we don't use that word

triumphal much anymore

we should

that's what we get

in the gospel

he didn't just save you

from the penalty of sin

and leave you alone

he saved you

from the penalty of sin

and then said

I'm now giving you power

for triumphal procession

triumphal procession

triumphal procession

some of us need to

notify our face

about that

like hey

hello

we have been given

in the gospel

the power

to triumph over sin

to triumph over sin

not in our strength

not in our power

in the power of Christ

this is why Romans 5.17

uses this great term

I love this term

reigning in life

are you reigning in life?

are you reigning in life?

that's your inheritance

the free gift of righteousness

causes you to reign in life

through the one man

Christ Jesus

it's the difference

between overcoming

and coming under

right

the Bible talks a lot

about those who will overcome

they'll inherit

salvation right

are you an overcomer

or a comer under?

do you come under

the power of sin

or do you come over it?

those who believe

in the power of the gospel

are coming over

the power of their sin

not coming underneath

all their sexual temptations

all their temptations

towards depression

towards selfishness

towards anxiety

okay

no we're not coming

under those things

we're coming over

those things

because God's power

in the gospel

is enough to triumph over them

Romans 16.25 says

now to him who is able

to strengthen you

according to my gospel

do you believe in a gospel

that strengthens you

in the present?

I love Jude 24

see a lot of people

they have this fear

of falling away

I just want to say

confidently

I do not have a fear

of falling away

I don't have any fear

but you say

well you should

because the Bible talks

about people falling away

it does

it does

but I'm not afraid of it

you know why?

Jude 24

Jude 24

now to him

who is able

to keep you

from stumbling

another version says

from falling

to him who is able

to keep you from stumbling

and to present you

blameless before the presence

of his glory

with great joy

that's why I'm not

afraid of falling

I'm not putting my hope

in myself

to keep me from falling

I'm putting my hope

in God

to keep me blameless

until the day

that Christ Jesus returns

that's where my hope is

I don't fear falling

I'm just pressing

into trust

God you didn't

I didn't bring myself

I'm not going to keep myself

and I'm not ultimately

going to save myself

you are

I'm trusting in you

to him who is able

to him

who is able

to keep you from falling

to keep you from stumbling

you believe in that God?

do you act like it?

do you live like it?

do you sing like it?

this is the gospel

now in that

some people confuse

justification

and sanctification

okay

they think

well

when I sin

I lose my justification

so I need to get

re-justified

by feeling bad

for long enough

or

you know

doing penance

some form of penance

and if I do that

then maybe

so I go back and forth

from sanctification

to justification

and it's just like

they confuse it

they think every time

they sin

they lose their justification

no when you sin

your justification

isn't affected

this is

this is where you need

sanctification

the penalty is still gone

you're still right

before the Lord

because of that

now let his

the justification

feel your sanctification

so that you go

and sin no more

that you say no to sin

Martin Lord Jones

says there's no

going back and forth

from being justified

to not being justified

and I think of

no greater story

than this

than the story

of David

and the city

of Nob

you guys know

this story at all

it's a great story

okay

it's a great story

one of the cool

things about David

is if you ever

read the life

of David

unlike any other

person in the Bible

when you read

the life of David

number one

you got two

versions of it

because you have

two accounts

of a lot of it

but then

you have a third

insight into it

and then you have

the book of Psalms

and you have

all these Psalms

that he wrote

while he was

doing certain things

so you're thinking

well I wonder

what David was thinking

when this

and this

and this happened

there's probably

a Psalm about it

you look at the Psalm

and you're like

I know what he was thinking

what in the world

was he thinking that for

you know

and then you can

you start to understand

some things

so let's do that

let's do that

right

1 Samuel 21

starting verse 1

David comes to Nob

comes to him

a him elect a priest

okay

now give you

a little context here

he's running

from Saul

Saul's trying

to kill him

okay

that's what's

happening right now

Saul decided

that he's not

a fan of David

he's trying to

kill him

David goes

into exile

and when he

goes into exile

he's got to get

he's got to get

some stuff

so he goes

to Himalek

in Nob

the city

of the priests

verse 2

says

David said

to Himalek

the priest

listen to what

he says

the king

has charged

me

with a matter

and said

to me

let no one

know anything

on the matter

about which

I send you

and with which

I have charged

you

I have made

an appointment

with the young

men for such

and such a place

guess what

that's not true

that's a lie

Saul didn't send

him

Saul didn't send

him on this

mission

Saul's trying

to kill him

David went

to the priest

and lied

to the priest

this is a

this is a flat

out lie

this did not

happen

so he goes

to the priest

and then

so the priest

believes David

he has no reason

not to believe David

and David says

what do you got

on hand

give me five

loaves of bread

or whatever's here

and the priest

says

I have no

common bread

on hand

but I have

holy bread

and if the young

men have kept

themselves from

women

and David said

the priest

truly women

have been

kept from

us always

when I go

on an expedition

the vessels

of the young

men are holy

and so the

priest gives

them holy bread

and

now verse

seven

a certain

man of the

servants of

Saul was

there that

day

detained

before the

Lord

his name

was

Doeg

the

Edomite

the chief

of Saul's

herdsmen

then David

said to

Himalek

then have you

not a spear

or a sword

at hand

for I have

brought neither

my sword

nor my weapons

with me

because the

king's business

required haste

and the priest

said the sword

of Goliath

the Philistine

when he struck

down the valley

of Elah

behold it is

wrapped in the

cloth behind

the ephod

if you will

take that

take it

for there is

none like

it

for there is

none but

that here

and David

said there is

none like

it

give it

to me

so he

gives him

bread

gives him

the sword

provides for

David

because David

lied to him

what do you

think Saul's

going to find

it

well let's

look

it's 1 Samuel

22

Saul is

asking all the

men

hey where's

David

he's still

looking to

try and

kill him

and Doeg

the Edomite

answers

remember the

guy who was

there

who saw

David

go to

Himalak

Doeg

the Edomite

verse 9

of 1 Samuel

22

who stood

by the

servants of

Saul

he said

I saw

the son

of Jesse

come in

Nab

to Ahimelech

the son

of Ahithub

and he inquired

of the Lord

for him

and gave him

provisions

and gave him

the sword

of Goliath

the Philistine

then the king

sent to summon

Ahimelech

the priest

the son

of Ahithub

and all

his father's

house

the priests

were at

Nab

and all

of them

came to

the king

and Saul

said

here now

son of

Ahithub

and he answered

here I am

Lord

you and

the son

of Jesse

and that

you have

given him

bread

and a sword

and inquired

of God

for him

so that

he has

risen

against me

to lie

and wait

as at

this day

and then

Ahimelech

answers

as you

would think

he would

answer

right

he says

who among

all your

servants

is so

faithful

as David

who is

the king's

son-in-law

and captain

over your

bodyguard

and out

into your

house

is today

the first

time

that I've

inquired

of God

for him

no

let the

king

impute

anything

to his

servant

or to

all the

house

of my

father

for your

servant

has known

nothing

of all

this

much

or little

and the

king

said

you shall

surely

die

Ahimelech

you and

all your

father's

house

and the

king

turned

and told

his

servants

to kill

him

they said

no

we're

not

going

to do

it

right

they

wouldn't

put their

hand

against

the

priests

of the

Lord

right

but

you know

Doag

is perfectly

willing to

do it

right

verse 18

the king

said

Doag

you turn

and he

killed

on that

day

85

persons

who wore

the

linen

ephod

and

now

the

city

of the

priest

he put

to the

sword

both

man

and woman

child

and infant

ox

donkey

sheep

he put

to the

sword

one of

the sons

of Ahimelech

the son

of Ahithub

named

Abiathar

escaped

and fled

after David

and Abiathar

told David

that Saul

had killed

the priest

of the

Lord

and David

said to

Abiathar

I knew

on that

day

when Doag

the Edomite

was there

that he

would surely

David says

I have

occasioned

the death

of all

the persons

of your

father's

house

David knew

it was his

fault

he knew

he lied

and who

died

he lied

in all

85

priests

the city

of the

priests

imagine if

there was

a city

like

imagine if

there was

a nearby

city

near Kansas

city

where all

the pastors

lived

and you

told a lie

and all

the pastors

got killed

and their

wives

and the

children

and all

the animals

can you

imagine that

now you

guys have

probably had

bad days

when you've

sinned

I don't

know if

you've ever

had a bad

day like

this right

you ever

told a sin

where 85

priests died

and all

their wives

and all

the kids

and all

the animals

because of

a lie

you told

probably not

have you

ever sinned

before and

felt really

bad and

felt condemned

yes I

have many

times I

don't think

I've ever

done anything

as consequential

as this

so I'm

thinking okay

if there's a

psalm about

this

surely

David's

like I'm

an idiot

I'm stupid

I'm scum

I'm a worm

what have I

done

I'm a horrible

person

this is what

you would think

he would say

right

well let's

take a look

Psalm 52

now some of

these psalms

they say at

the beginning

what was going

on right

beginning Psalm 52

says

to the choir

to the choir

master

a master

of David

when Doeg

the Edomite

came and

told Saul

David has

come to the

house of

Ahimelech

you following

me here

this is the

psalm

we could find

out what he

was thinking

during this

time

it's like

okay

let's check

it out

what does

it say

there

let's

read it

why do

you boast

of evil

almighty

man

he's

obviously

talking

about

Doeg

right

so he

wrote a

song

about

Doeg

okay

why do

you boast

of evil

almighty

man

the steadfast

love of

God

endures

all the

day

your tongue

plots

destruction

like a

sharp razor

you

worker

of

deceit

you

love

evil

more

than

good

and

lying

more

than

speaking

what

is

right

you

love

all

the

words

that

devour

oh

deceitful

tongue

but

God

will

break

you

down

forever

he

will

snatch

and

tear

you

from

your

tent

he

will

uproot

you

from

the

land

of

the

living

the

righteous

will

see

and

fear

and

shall

laugh

at

him

saying

see

the

man

who

would

not

make

God

his

refuge

but

trusted

in

the

abundance

of

his

riches

and sought

refuge

in his

own

destruction

okay

so so far

he's

just

talking

about

Doeg

right

he condemns

himself

right

let's

look at

this

because

that's

what I

would

do

right

I

screwed

up

Lord

I'm

such

a bad

person

I'm

an

evil

worm

I'm

an

idiot

this is

what

David

says

about

himself

after all

that

happens

but

I

am

like

a

green

olive

tree

in

the

house

of

God

I

trust

in

the

steadfast

love

of

God

forever

and

ever

I

will

thank

you

forever

!

because

you

have

done

it

I

will

wait

for

your

name

for

it

is

good

in

the

presence

of

the

godly

wait

what

how

dare

he

how

dare

he

trust

in

the

righteousness

of

another

how

dare

he

trust

that

his

sin

does

not

remove

his

justification

how

dare

he

trust

that

God

is

his

portion

forever

that

God

is

a

steadfast

lover

and

that

he

is

not

putting

his

hope

in

what

he

does

and

he

is

not

putting

his

rejection

in

what

he

didn't

do

or

what

he

did

wrong

he

is

putting

his

hope

in

the

God

who

saves

and

he

says

I'm

an

olive

tree

thriving

in

the

house

of

God

so

when

you

sin

and

you

go

to

the

Lord

you

pay

penance

do you

have to

feel

bad

and

pout

around

for

a

couple

weeks

or

a

couple

days

or

you

feel

bad

about

is

just

and

the

justifier

because

I've

confessed

my

sins

he

is

faithful

and

just

to

forgive

me

and

cleanse

me

from

all

unrighteousness

I'm

an

olive

tree

thriving

in

the

house

of

God

and

I

will

trust

in

the

steadfast

love

of

God

forever

and

ever

is

that

what

you

say

that's

what

David

said

why

don't

you

do

you

do

we

do

we

have

that

kind

of

attitude

what

is

then

then

you're

probably

some

self

righteous

religious

hypocrite

who

only

believes

that

God

loves

you

and

is

close

to

you

when

you

do

everything

that's

right

okay

and

like

Brennan

said

God

loves

you

for

who

you

are

not

who

you

should

be

because

no

one

is

as

they

should

be

if

you're

waiting

to be

as

you

should

be

for

God

to love

!

you're

!

for a

long

time

all their

ground

is

sinking

sand

I

dare

not

trust

the

sweetest

frame

but

wholly

lean

on