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hello my name is Don Carson you're
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watching the fifth in a series of 14
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talks designed to introduce you to the
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God who is there that is to the God of
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the Bible today we are reflecting on the
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God who reigns many of you who are
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watching this series live in a republic
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so the notion of a king is a bit alien
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others of you live in a constitutional
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monarchy the United Kingdom perhaps
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where the Monarchs powers are strictly
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limited to get used to the frequency and
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ease with which God presents himself in
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the Bible as King demands that we try to
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understand what was expected of a king
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in the ancient world the entire subject
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becomes more important yet when we
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recall how often Jesus himself announced
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the dawning of the kingdom it is
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impossible to gain much of a grasp of
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Christianity without tracking some of
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what the Bible says about such notions
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ultimately Jesus is presented in the
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Bible as the king of kings and the Lord
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of lords the last book of the Bible
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tells us that the kingdoms of this world
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become the kingdoms of our God and of
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his Christ what kind of a takeover is
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this what does it mean what bearing does
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it have on understanding God
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welcome to program 5
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we come now to the God who reigns what
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do we conjure up in our minds when we
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hear a word like king or monarch the
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last king that America had King George
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the third by-and-large
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is not in very good order we're a
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republic thank you a Democratic Republic
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and we probably don't want to go quite
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so far in our anti role assessment of
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things as Voltaire who said that he
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would be satisfied when the last king is
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strangled with the entrails of the last
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bishop or the last priest but still
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whatever Kings there are in the world
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whatever monarchs there are we're pretty
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glad they're over there
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or if we're in more positive mood then
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we might think of Her Majesty Queen
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Elizabeth the second and then we concede
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that royal pomp has its attractions they
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sure know how to put on a decent royal
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wedding don't they with prancing horses
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and gold encrusted chariots and
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spectacular crowns and those long
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trumpets with such a shrill piercing
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sound there's something pretty nice
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about that isn't there
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mind you Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the
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second is a constitutional monarch which
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is really a polite way of saying she
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doesn't have much power she is limited
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by a constitutional structure apart from
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whatever moral suasion she has apart
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from any advice she gives to her Prime
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Minister in fact she really only has two
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powers constitutionally left and if she
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exercises them without the sanction of
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her prime minister in fact it would be a
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general election and she wouldn't get
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her way in any case
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that's very different let's say than the
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Kingdom of Saudi Arabia although there
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is some constraint from the larger
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family yet this is closer to an absolute
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Kingdom it's different again from the
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kingdom of Thailand the Thais love their
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king
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you really cannot speak any word against
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royalty in Thailand that the people
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wouldn't have it even though the
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limitations on this power there are
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really quite significant as well so
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perceptions of what we even mean in
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other words by King and monarch differ
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in different parts of the world don't
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they but certainly in biblical times
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there was no understanding of what we
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mean today by constitutional monarch if
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you're a king you reign that's what
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Kings do you have the authority and the
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fact of the matter is that God is often
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presented in Scripture as being the king
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the Psalms say for example that his
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kingdom rules over all he does what he
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wants amongst us here on earth and in
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the armies of heaven his kingdom rules
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over all which is another way of saying
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that the exercise of his sovereignty
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covers absolutely every domain that was
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built into the very creation account
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that we saw yesterday wasn't it he made
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everything it's all his he continues to
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reign he's sovereign over the whole lot
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in that sense you're in the kingdom of
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God whether you like it or not you can't
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not be in the kingdom of God even those
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who disbelieve him even those who hate
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him even those who think that there are
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other gods are in this God's kingdom if
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he really does reign over all but the
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notion of the kingdom of God the reign
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of God is in fact very flexible in
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Scripture
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and you have to pay attention to the
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context to make sense of what is being
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said in some particular passage or other
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in the Old Testament once God has called
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his people the Hebrews the Israelites to
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himself first with a covenant with
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Abraham then with the Covenant under
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Mosaic leadership God is still
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understood to be the king of his people
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God Himself is to be their ruler their
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king in that sense the Israelites
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constitute his nation your only under
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his kingship in that sense if you belong
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to this covenant community but after the
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people eventually got into the Promised
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Land
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they went through cycles that were
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really depressing that two or three
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generations and what they remembered of
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God's kindness in the past of how he had
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spared them how he had secured them how
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he provided for all of their needs was
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forgotten and they became virtually in
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differential from the pagans and all
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around them and then eventually God
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sanctioned temporal judgments of various
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kinds they were attacked by other tribes
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living in the area of Midianites or
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others and eventually they cried to God
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again for mercy for forbearance for
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forgiveness God raises up a judge these
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judges lead the people in renewal and in
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small pitched battles against some of
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their oppressors and the people
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re-establish themselves renew their
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covenantal vows promise to be faithful
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before God and then another two or three
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generations everybody forgets slides
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down and ignominy and shame to really
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forms a pretty awful tube archery let
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alone the idolatry that underlies it
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then God raises up another judge and the
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cycle begins all over again you read the
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book of Judges and the cycles downward
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are so appalling that in the last two or
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three chapters it's really difficult to
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read them in public
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they're so grotesque and barbaric and as
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the
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progresses you begin to hear a refrain
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in those days everyone did that which
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was right in their own eyes there was no
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king in Israel it's the way the book
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ends bloody mayhem in those days there
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was no king in Israel everyone did that
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which was right in their own eyes Oh God
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how we need a king
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but then as the story advances you start
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discovering that some people want a king
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not so that they can be a little more
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secure there so that somebody who in
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authority can hold them to be covenant
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aliy faithful or any of that sort of
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thing - police things when the the moral
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fabric is being torn apart no no some of
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them want a king simply so that they can
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be like the pagan nations around all of
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whom have their petty kings we would
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like to be them they seem to have things
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in civil order we we would like to have
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exactly the same sort of constitutional
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arrangement God says all right you asked
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for it
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choose the best man you can find and
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eventually they choose a strapping young
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man by the name of Saul who seems
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suitably humble and diffident doesn't
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really want the job careful he loves the
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Lord and within his lifetime he becomes
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a corrupt paranoid fearful ungodly men
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who unsatisfied with just being King
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also wants to be priests and anybody
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whom he sees as a threat to his
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authority he wants to kill it's a mess
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but God raises up yet another King he
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says now let me show you at least at
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least in principle what a good King
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would be like here is a man after my own
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heart
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his name is David so after Saul is gone
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David becomes King and initially he
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turns out to be a very good King an able
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administrator he secured the frontiers
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he United the tribes eventually he moved
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his capital from the little town of
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Hobart on to Jerusalem modern Jerusalem
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and established himself there brought a
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measure of order
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peace and prosperity now we pick up the
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account in 2 Samuel 7 second Samuel 7 a
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little less than a quarter of the way
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through the Bible you can find it in
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your index at the beginning of the Bible
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if you don't know how the Bible is put
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together second Samuel that is there are
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two books that bear the name of Samuel 1
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Samuel and 2 Samuel this is 2nd Samuel
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chapter 7 and I'm going to take the time
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to read this chapter after the king
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that's King David was settled in his
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palace and the Lord had given him rest
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from all his enemies around him he said
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to Nathan the Prophet Here I am living
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in a house of cedar while the Ark of God
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remains in a tent that's the Ark of God
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that we spoke of in the last session the
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ark this box that held certain elements
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in it including the Ten Commandments in
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the most holy place where the blood was
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sprinkled on the day of atonement it's
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still in a tent a tabernacle I'm living
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in a cedar Palace the place where God
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meets with his priests is a pretty
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scrappy tent by this point this is about
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a thousand BC now Nathan replied to the
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king whatever you have in mind go ahead
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and do it for the Lord is with you but
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that night the word of the Lord came to
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Nathan saying go and tell my servant
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David this is what the Lord says are you
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the one to build me a house to dwell in
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I have not dwelt in a house from the day
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I brought the Israelites up out of Egypt
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to this day I have been moving from
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place to place with a tent as my
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dwelling wherever I have moved with all
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the Israelites that I ever say to any of
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their rulers whom I commanded to
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Shepherd my people Israel why have you
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not built me a house of cedar now then
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tell my servant David this is what the
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Lord Almighty says I took you from the
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pasture from tending the flock and
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appointed you ruler over my people
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Israel I have been with you wherever you
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have gone and I have cut off all your
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enemies from before you now I will make
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your name great like the names of the
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greatest men on earth and I will provide
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a place for my people Israel
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and we'll plant them so that they can
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have a home of their own and no longer
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be disturbed wicked people will not
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oppress them anymore as they did at the
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beginning and have done ever since the
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time I appointed leaders over my people
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Israel I will also give you rest from
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all your enemies the Lord declares to
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you that the Lord Himself will establish
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a house for you when your days are over
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and you rest with your ancestors I will
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raise up your offspring to succeed you
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who will come from your own body I will
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establish his kingdom he is the one who
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will build a house for my name and I
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will establish a throne of his kingdom
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forever I will be his father he will be
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my son when he does wrong I will punish
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him with a rod wielded by human beings
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with floggings inflicted by human hands
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but my love will never be taken away
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from him as I took it away from Saul
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whom I removed from before you your
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house and your kingdom will endure
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forever before me your throne will be
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established forever
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Nathan reported to David all the words
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of this entire revelation then King
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David went in and sat before the Lord
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and he said Who am I Sovereign Lord and
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what is my family that you have brought
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me this far and as if this were not
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enough in your sight Sovereign Lord you
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have also spoken about the future of the
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house of your servant and this decrease
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Auburn Lord is for a human being what
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more can David say to you for you know
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your servant sovereign Lord for the sake
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of your word and according to your will
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you have done this great thing and made
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it known to your servant how great you
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are Sovereign Lord there is no one like
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you and there is no god but you as we
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have heard with our own ears and who is
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like your people Israel the one nation
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on earth that God went out to redeem as
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a people for himself and to make a name
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for himself and to perform great and
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awesome wonders by driving out nations
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and their gods from before your people
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whom you redeemed from Egypt you have
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established her people Israel as your
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very own forever and you Lord have
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become their God and now Lord God
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forever the promise you have made
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concerning your servant and his house do
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as you promised so that your name will
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be great forever then people will say
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the Lord Almighty is God over Israel and
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the house of your servant David will be
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established in your sight Lord Almighty
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God of Israel you have revealed this to
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your servant saying I will build a house
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for you so your servant has found
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courage to pray this prayer to you
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Sovereign Lord you are God your covenant
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is trustworthy and you have promised
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these good things to your servant now be
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pleased to bless the house of your
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servant that it may continue forever in
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your sight for you Sovereign Lord have
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spoken and with your blessing the house
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of your servant will be blessed forever
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you see the king was supposed to be
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God's vice-regent the under king God
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still remained the king the final
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sovereign over all the people but the
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king was supposed to mediate God's
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justice to the people to mediate God and
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his ways and his laws to the entire
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people but here we have a remarkable set
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of relationships first a king with
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religious initiatives restrained chapter
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7 verses 1 to 11
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King David wants to do God a favor he is
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now settled the very first verse says
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that they're enjoying rest there's this
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theme of rest again rest now from their
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enemies rest in the promised land and he
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looks around and he's been in the
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capital city long enough that he's got a
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fine palace for himself and still the
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center for corporate worship for the
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entire nation is this now slightly ratty
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tent and he remembers that indeed in the
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book of Deuteronomy back at the time of
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Moses there had been promise ultimately
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of a permanent center so he thinks well
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it's about time why not me
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that's what I would like to do
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and Nathan the Prophet says great idea
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God's with you go right ahead
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then God intervenes and says to Nathan
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not quite so fast this is not the way
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it's going to happen and he gives two or
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three reasons why it will not be so
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first verses 5 to 7 god alone takes the
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initiative in these turning points in
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the story of the Bible he alone takes
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the initiative haven't we seen that
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already think back to Abram does Abram
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wake up one day and in his devotion say
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God quite frankly this world seems to me
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to be sliding to hell on a teapot I
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think we should do something about it I
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think we should start some new race
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amongst the human race a kind of subunit
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I'd like to head it I'll be the great
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granddaddy of this entire new humanity
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will call them Hebrews you can be our
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God and we'll be your people you tell us
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what to do we'll obey you and we'll
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start off this whole new dynastic
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structure it's not a great idea and this
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new race this new covenant community
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will show the world what it's like to be
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in right relationship with you is that
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the way it happened no God took the
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initiative called Abram moved him to the
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land gave him a covenant even in that
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scene in the middle of the night where
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God puts himself under a kind of
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covenant vow to look after his people
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God is taking the initiative again and
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again God takes the initiative in
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chapter 22 of Genesis to provide a lamb
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or think of Moses when he was a young
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man Moses did wonder about the
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possibility of starting a revolution and
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leading the people out in fact he got
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caught up in a murder and had to run for
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his life and lived on the backside of a
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desert for the next decades the next
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half century or so and when God did take
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the initiative Moses wasn't too keen on
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going god I'm getting a bit old now
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and I have a speech impediment I'm no
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leader I'm a shepherd for goodness sake
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God takes the initiative and in due
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course uses Moses God will not share his
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glory with anybody else God is really
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not open to our suggestions about how to
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run the universe and that is in effect
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his first objection go and tell my
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servant David this is what the Lord says
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are you the one to build me a house to
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dwell in all along I've been living in
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this tabernacle wherever I have moved
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verse 7 with all of the Israelites that
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I ever say to any of their rulers whom I
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commanded to Shepherd my people Israel
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why have you not built me a house of
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cedar it's not that it will not be built
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in fact it is going to be built in the
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next generation excuse me the task it is
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going to be built in the next generation
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the task is going to be assigned to
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David's son King Solomon but God will
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take the initiative but there's a second
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reason tell my servant David verse 8
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this is what the Lord Almighty says I
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took you from the pasture from tending
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the flock and appointed you ruler over
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my people Israel I have been with you
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wherever you have gone and I have cut
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off all your enemies from before you now
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I will make your name great like the
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names of the greatest men on earth you
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see deep down David is beginning to
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think that he's going to do God a favor
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if he can build a bigger temple and the
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pagans around build for their gods then
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isn't he showing that their God is even
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more magnificent so David is going to
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magnify God's name and almost as it were
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do God a favor and God says it doesn't
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work like that I'm the one that makes
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your name great
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now you see in a certain context it is
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wonderful for for believers to try to
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magnify God's name but not ever because
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they begin to succumb to the feeling
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that they're thereby doing God a favor
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worshiping God magnifying his name ought
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to be the response of gratitude and
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adoration and thankfulness not somehow
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saying the pagans worship their gods we
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can out worship you because in a
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competition we can make your name
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greater than they can make their name
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straight god says you've got this
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entirely wrong I make your name great
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you were a shepherd boy
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not only have I made you a king I'm
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about to make your name resound across
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the ages
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today there are countless tens of
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millions of Christians all over the
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world who know the name of David they've
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never heard of Alexander the Great
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they don't really know about King Tut
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but David's name has come down to us
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across 3,000 years and then in that
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context God gives this amazing promise
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the chapter begins as we've seen with a
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king with religious initiatives
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restrained but now a dynasty with
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unending promise disclosed a dynasty
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with unending promise disclosed 11b the
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Lord declares to you that the Lord
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Himself will establish a house for you
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there's a pun here David wanted to build
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a house that is a temple for God God's
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going to build a house that is a
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household and thus a dynasty for David
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there's a pun you want to build a house
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for me you can almost see God smiling
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I'm gonna build a house for you let me
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tell you what it's like when your days
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are over and you rest with your
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ancestors I will raise up your offspring
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to succeed you who will come from your
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own body I will establish his kingdom he
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is the one who will build a house for my
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name Solomon he would build a temple and
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I will establish the throne of his
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kingdom forever I will be his father and
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he will be my son when he does wrong I
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will punish him with a rod wielded by
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human beings with floggings inflicted by
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human hands but my love will never be
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taken away from him as I took it away
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from Saul whom I removed from before you
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do you hear what is being said there are
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two or three things that help to clarify
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what the passage is saying first David
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is aware that his predecessor Saul
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started well and ended badly and in
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consequence Saul's son Jonathan never
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gone
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to the throne there was no dynasty ever
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established it was a one generation
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dynasty if you can speak of a dynasty in
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one generation there was so much
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wickedness by the end that God said this
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is not going to continue even if David
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remains faithful all his life and in
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point of fact he had his pretty horrible
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lapses too but even if he remains
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faithful all his life who guarantees
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what happens in the next generation and
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in the generation after that if you're
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royalty your concern to preserve the
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family line
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you're preserved your concern is to
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preserve the dynasty the house whether
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the House of Windsor for Her Majesty
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Queen Elizabeth the second or here the
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house of David and God says I'm going to
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build a house for you such that even if
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your son does something wrong even if he
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is really wicked I will not remove him
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from the throne the way I removed Saul
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such that Saul died and there was no
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successor I I will not do that
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I will preserve your house your
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household so there may be some temporal
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infliction there may be some chastening
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some human punishment there may be
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nations that rise up against your nation
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00:27:14,250 --> 00:27:16,139
there may be things of that sort but it
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00:27:16,139 --> 00:27:17,639
will not be the final sanction that
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00:27:17,639 --> 00:27:21,720
wipes out the line that's what has
548
00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:25,620
promised to David then the second thing
549
00:27:25,620 --> 00:27:29,580
to clarify is this what does verse 14
550
00:27:29,580 --> 00:27:31,590
mean when God says I will be his father
551
00:27:31,590 --> 00:27:36,360
and he will be my son now we need to
552
00:27:36,360 --> 00:27:39,149
think about that just a wee bit for us
553
00:27:39,149 --> 00:27:44,340
sonship has to do with DNA so endless
554
00:27:44,340 --> 00:27:48,779
programs the various csi's on television
555
00:27:48,779 --> 00:27:52,860
are constantly using DNA to discover who
556
00:27:52,860 --> 00:27:56,669
the real father is and bound up with
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00:27:56,669 --> 00:27:59,990
this our paternity suits
558
00:28:00,090 --> 00:28:05,419
it's all a matter of a genetic descent
559
00:28:05,899 --> 00:28:08,609
but the ancient world saw things a bit
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00:28:08,609 --> 00:28:12,929
differently in part because there was a
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00:28:12,929 --> 00:28:15,989
descent not only a familial connection
562
00:28:15,989 --> 00:28:22,409
but of work and identity you men now
563
00:28:22,409 --> 00:28:24,719
just you men for a moment how many of
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00:28:24,719 --> 00:28:27,629
you are doing vocationally what your
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00:28:27,629 --> 00:28:31,279
fathers did let me see your hands
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00:28:32,149 --> 00:28:34,769
look around folks I see only two or
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00:28:34,769 --> 00:28:34,979
three
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00:28:34,979 --> 00:28:38,460
well three hands you women how many of
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00:28:38,460 --> 00:28:39,899
you are doing vocationally what your
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00:28:39,899 --> 00:28:43,429
mothers did look around folks
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00:28:43,429 --> 00:28:48,210
but you see in the ancient world if your
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00:28:48,210 --> 00:28:50,429
father was a baker you became a baker if
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your father was a farmer you became a
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00:28:51,929 --> 00:28:54,539
farmer if your father's name was Donna
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varios then you made violins in other
576
00:29:00,359 --> 00:29:04,279
words in a in an agricultural tradecraft
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00:29:04,279 --> 00:29:08,580
pre-industrial society then the son
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00:29:08,580 --> 00:29:10,619
ended up doing in the overwhelming
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majority of cases what the father did
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00:29:12,719 --> 00:29:15,330
and the daughter ended up doing what the
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00:29:15,330 --> 00:29:19,259
mother did our notions of freedom such
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00:29:19,259 --> 00:29:22,859
that we go away from home to university
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00:29:22,859 --> 00:29:25,349
or at a technical college and get a job
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00:29:25,349 --> 00:29:27,809
somewhere else and pursue some other
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00:29:27,809 --> 00:29:30,210
course that's so common for us today it
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00:29:30,210 --> 00:29:32,549
was unthinkable a bear three or four
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00:29:32,549 --> 00:29:37,469
hundred years ago so as a result you
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00:29:37,469 --> 00:29:40,529
became identified not only by the family
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00:29:40,529 --> 00:29:42,859
name but by the family's profession
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00:29:42,859 --> 00:29:45,839
that's why Jesus can be called the son
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00:29:45,839 --> 00:29:49,830
of the carpenter because his putative
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00:29:49,830 --> 00:29:51,869
father Joseph was a carpenter and in one
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00:29:51,869 --> 00:29:53,609
place he can be called himself the
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00:29:53,609 --> 00:29:56,839
carpenter apparently Joseph has died and
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00:29:56,839 --> 00:29:59,219
Jesus himself has taken over the family
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00:29:59,219 --> 00:30:02,249
business Joseph was a carpenter what do
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00:30:02,249 --> 00:30:05,419
you expect Jesus to be he's a carpenter
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00:30:06,169 --> 00:30:09,239
and this meant that the father then in
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00:30:09,239 --> 00:30:13,109
the case of the son taught the boy as
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00:30:13,109 --> 00:30:13,929
well
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00:30:13,929 --> 00:30:15,850
later Judaism there were synagogues
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00:30:15,850 --> 00:30:18,190
where kids learned reading and writing
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00:30:18,190 --> 00:30:19,539
and things like that there were little
604
00:30:19,539 --> 00:30:20,919
village schools of some sort or another
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00:30:20,919 --> 00:30:24,999
but your trade what you learned how you
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00:30:24,999 --> 00:30:27,549
learned to make a living if you're a
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00:30:27,549 --> 00:30:29,799
farmer when to plant the seed and when
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00:30:29,799 --> 00:30:31,570
to irrigate and how to read the weather
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and how to build a decent fence and all
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00:30:33,490 --> 00:30:36,039
of that that that that was all taught by
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00:30:36,039 --> 00:30:39,909
the family and because of this family
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identification of the son with a father
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and the tasks and the clan the notion of
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sonship has a whole lot of different
615
00:30:50,230 --> 00:30:54,369
rings than it does on CSI out of this
616
00:30:54,369 --> 00:30:56,529
come a whole lot of biblical metaphors
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00:30:56,529 --> 00:30:59,379
for example here and there in the Bible
618
00:30:59,379 --> 00:31:01,990
some one is called a son of Belial which
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00:31:01,990 --> 00:31:05,799
means a son of worthlessness this is not
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00:31:05,799 --> 00:31:08,490
saying that the father is mr. worthless
621
00:31:08,490 --> 00:31:11,950
what it is saying is that this person's
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00:31:11,950 --> 00:31:15,009
character is so worthless that he must
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00:31:15,009 --> 00:31:16,570
belong to the worthless family at the
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00:31:16,570 --> 00:31:17,889
only it's the only thing that explains
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00:31:17,889 --> 00:31:21,639
it in the time of Jesus Jesus gives us
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00:31:21,639 --> 00:31:24,159
some Beatitudes where he says blessed
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00:31:24,159 --> 00:31:26,409
are the peacemakers for they shall be
628
00:31:26,409 --> 00:31:31,840
called sons of God so the idea is that
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00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:34,779
God is himself the supreme peacemaker so
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if you make peace then in that respect
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00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:40,299
at least you're acting like God so in
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00:31:40,299 --> 00:31:42,159
that respect you're a son of God it's
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00:31:42,159 --> 00:31:43,090
not telling you how you become a
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00:31:43,090 --> 00:31:45,009
Christian it's saying that in that
635
00:31:45,009 --> 00:31:48,309
respect that's what God does so you're
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00:31:48,309 --> 00:31:53,350
acting like God do you see elsewhere
637
00:31:53,350 --> 00:31:56,470
when Jesus is debating with some Jewish
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00:31:56,470 --> 00:32:00,249
opponents in John chapter 8 he's
639
00:32:00,249 --> 00:32:02,289
claiming to be sent from God they're
640
00:32:02,289 --> 00:32:08,379
saying how can this be we are ourselves
641
00:32:08,379 --> 00:32:11,740
that the true sons of Abraham we are the
642
00:32:11,740 --> 00:32:17,259
true heritage here and Jesus says can't
643
00:32:17,259 --> 00:32:20,559
be Abraham rejoiced to see my day and
644
00:32:20,559 --> 00:32:23,320
they reply Abraham has been dead for
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00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:25,240
2,000 years you're not yet fifty years
646
00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:27,399
old what do you mean he rejoiced to see
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00:32:27,399 --> 00:32:27,730
your
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00:32:27,730 --> 00:32:32,440
de Jesus won't back down they up the
649
00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:34,390
ante and say what we're not only sons of
650
00:32:34,390 --> 00:32:37,150
Abraham we're sons of God and Jesus's
651
00:32:37,150 --> 00:32:40,270
can't be I come from God God knows me I
652
00:32:40,270 --> 00:32:42,430
know God if you don't recognize me then
653
00:32:42,430 --> 00:32:44,620
you can't be sons of God you you you you
654
00:32:44,620 --> 00:32:46,060
don't recognize me at all let me tell
655
00:32:46,060 --> 00:32:52,120
you who your real daddy is and he turns
656
00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:53,920
to them and he says you are of your
657
00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:57,220
father the devil he was a murderer from
658
00:32:57,220 --> 00:32:58,480
the beginning and you're trying to
659
00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:00,490
murder me he was a liar from the
660
00:33:00,490 --> 00:33:01,660
beginning and you're not telling the
661
00:33:01,660 --> 00:33:05,170
truth now Jesus is not denying that they
662
00:33:05,170 --> 00:33:07,210
really are sons of Abraham genetically
663
00:33:07,210 --> 00:33:12,730
they are he's not denying that they
664
00:33:12,730 --> 00:33:16,170
carry the Israelite heritage of genes
665
00:33:16,170 --> 00:33:18,790
nor is he suggesting for a moment that
666
00:33:18,790 --> 00:33:22,720
somehow the devil's copulated with women
667
00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:25,360
to produce some sort of bastard crew
668
00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:27,310
that's not what he's suggesting either
669
00:33:27,310 --> 00:33:30,460
he's saying that at the behavior of at
670
00:33:30,460 --> 00:33:34,300
the level of behavior they're acting
671
00:33:34,300 --> 00:33:36,430
like the devil that makes them sons of
672
00:33:36,430 --> 00:33:38,740
the devil now that's the sort of
673
00:33:38,740 --> 00:33:40,540
language that is going on here it's
674
00:33:40,540 --> 00:33:42,640
sonship language that is used especially
675
00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:46,510
with respect to Kings if God is the
676
00:33:46,510 --> 00:33:49,540
supreme King if he's the king over this
677
00:33:49,540 --> 00:33:52,720
people then when the human person takes
678
00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:56,020
on the throne when this Davidic air
679
00:33:56,020 --> 00:33:59,400
becomes king himself then he becomes
680
00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:01,000
God's Son
681
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:03,550
it's not it doesn't mean he's born-again
682
00:34:03,550 --> 00:34:05,920
or anything of that sort it simply means
683
00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:11,020
that he is now acting as God's Son in
684
00:34:11,020 --> 00:34:14,230
God's place in the King family as it
685
00:34:14,230 --> 00:34:17,230
were that's the nature of the promise
686
00:34:17,230 --> 00:34:23,590
that is given here we read he is the one
687
00:34:23,590 --> 00:34:25,270
who will build a house for me this air
688
00:34:25,270 --> 00:34:27,370
of yours and I will establish the throne
689
00:34:27,370 --> 00:34:29,260
of his kingdom forever I will be his
690
00:34:29,260 --> 00:34:33,370
father he will be my son he will
691
00:34:33,370 --> 00:34:36,070
represent me that's the nature of this
692
00:34:36,070 --> 00:34:36,989
kingdom
693
00:34:36,989 --> 00:34:39,370
and when he does wrong I will punish him
694
00:34:39,370 --> 00:34:41,350
with a rod wielded by human
695
00:34:41,350 --> 00:34:43,790
but my love will never be taken away
696
00:34:43,790 --> 00:34:47,270
from him as I took it away from Saul the
697
00:34:47,270 --> 00:34:49,820
last thing to understand from this
698
00:34:49,820 --> 00:34:53,449
passage your house and your kingdom will
699
00:34:53,449 --> 00:34:56,000
endure forever before me your throne
700
00:34:56,000 --> 00:35:00,320
will be established forever in other
701
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:02,840
words God is not only promising that it
702
00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:05,300
will endure into the next generation the
703
00:35:05,300 --> 00:35:07,070
generation of Solomon when the temple
704
00:35:07,070 --> 00:35:08,960
will be built even if Solomon turns out
705
00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:11,300
to be quite wicked he is saying that
706
00:35:11,300 --> 00:35:14,240
this dynasty will go on and on it will
707
00:35:14,240 --> 00:35:19,160
be established forever there are only
708
00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:21,430
two ways that's possible
709
00:35:21,430 --> 00:35:27,350
one is for every generation to produce a
710
00:35:27,350 --> 00:35:31,460
new Davidic heir so that you go to the
711
00:35:31,460 --> 00:35:33,200
next heir then the next heir and the
712
00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:35,450
next heir and the next heir and the next
713
00:35:35,450 --> 00:35:37,120
heir world-without-end
714
00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:39,290
that's one way this promise could be
715
00:35:39,290 --> 00:35:41,000
fulfilled there's only one other
716
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:43,760
possible way it's not even mentioned
717
00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:48,620
here but if you could eventually have an
718
00:35:48,620 --> 00:35:52,670
air in the Davidic line who himself
719
00:35:52,670 --> 00:35:54,550
lived forever
720
00:35:54,550 --> 00:35:57,350
it could be fulfilled that way there's
721
00:35:57,350 --> 00:36:00,950
no hint of it yet here this is about a
722
00:36:00,950 --> 00:36:05,780
thousand BC this promise and it leads to
723
00:36:05,780 --> 00:36:09,590
a number of other promises to Davidic
724
00:36:09,590 --> 00:36:14,420
Kings across the centuries most of us
725
00:36:14,420 --> 00:36:16,100
I'm sure have listened to Handel's
726
00:36:16,100 --> 00:36:20,480
Messiah Handel's Messiah cites Isaiah 9
727
00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:23,540
writing in the eighth century in the
728
00:36:23,540 --> 00:36:25,880
eighth century Isaiah in his ninth
729
00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:29,930
chapter envisages a coming king unto us
730
00:36:29,930 --> 00:36:37,370
a child is given a son is born a son he
731
00:36:37,370 --> 00:36:40,250
shall rule on the throne of his father
732
00:36:40,250 --> 00:36:43,310
David in other words it will be a
733
00:36:43,310 --> 00:36:47,890
Davidic son who is the son of God
734
00:36:47,890 --> 00:36:50,450
standing in under God as God's vice
735
00:36:50,450 --> 00:36:53,850
regent of the
736
00:36:53,850 --> 00:36:55,770
increase of his kingdom there will be no
737
00:36:55,770 --> 00:37:03,360
end and then we're told he shall be
738
00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:06,320
called the wonderful counselor the
739
00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:13,850
mighty God the everlasting father the
740
00:37:13,850 --> 00:37:20,130
Prince of Peace I don't imagine that
741
00:37:20,130 --> 00:37:23,160
Isiah himself fully understood all of
742
00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:26,700
that meant but on the face of it it
743
00:37:26,700 --> 00:37:29,040
seems to be promising that somehow there
744
00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:31,470
would be a David I'd someone in the
745
00:37:31,470 --> 00:37:33,990
heritage of David who himself would
746
00:37:33,990 --> 00:37:36,270
rightly be addressed as none less than
747
00:37:36,270 --> 00:37:44,850
God Himself will shortly see that there
748
00:37:44,850 --> 00:37:47,660
are other prophets who make similar
749
00:37:47,660 --> 00:37:52,770
promises then in the rest of this
750
00:37:52,770 --> 00:37:55,740
chapter 2 Samuel Chapter 7 we find a
751
00:37:55,740 --> 00:37:58,980
king with spectacular privileges humbled
752
00:37:58,980 --> 00:38:02,490
in verses 18 to 27
753
00:38:02,490 --> 00:38:06,660
David is hushed and crushed by what has
754
00:38:06,660 --> 00:38:10,050
been promised him and basically his plea
755
00:38:10,050 --> 00:38:12,930
now is not let me build a temple for you
756
00:38:12,930 --> 00:38:14,550
and do something for you
757
00:38:14,550 --> 00:38:18,150
now it's all gratitude I don't deserve
758
00:38:18,150 --> 00:38:21,560
this this is wonderful all I ask
759
00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:26,430
dear God Sovereign Lord is that you keep
760
00:38:26,430 --> 00:38:28,970
your promise
761
00:38:33,380 --> 00:38:37,470
that's about a thousand BC there are a
762
00:38:37,470 --> 00:38:39,510
lot of intervening steps that go on
763
00:38:39,510 --> 00:38:42,780
after several centuries the Davidic
764
00:38:42,780 --> 00:38:44,970
Kingdom itself has become corrupted
765
00:38:44,970 --> 00:38:48,210
after two generations after the time of
766
00:38:48,210 --> 00:38:51,600
Solomon the Kingdom splits there's a
767
00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:53,250
northern kingdom in a southern kingdom
768
00:38:53,250 --> 00:38:55,110
and David's line only rules over the
769
00:38:55,110 --> 00:39:00,090
South two and a half more centuries go
770
00:39:00,090 --> 00:39:04,620
by and the northern kingdom never has
771
00:39:04,620 --> 00:39:07,620
established a dynasty kings come and
772
00:39:07,620 --> 00:39:10,710
kings go the new user fur comes in and
773
00:39:10,710 --> 00:39:12,030
slaughters all the children of the
774
00:39:12,030 --> 00:39:14,670
previous one it's a bloody mess and
775
00:39:14,670 --> 00:39:18,800
eventually they get carted off into into
776
00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:22,160
captivity under the Assyrian Empire
777
00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:24,540
another century and a half and the
778
00:39:24,540 --> 00:39:27,870
Davidic dynasty itself is so corroded
779
00:39:27,870 --> 00:39:29,370
and corrupted
780
00:39:29,370 --> 00:39:31,530
despite times of revival and renewal
781
00:39:31,530 --> 00:39:33,660
that at the beginning of the sixth
782
00:39:33,660 --> 00:39:38,790
century about 587 BC it shut down the
783
00:39:38,790 --> 00:39:43,590
Babylonians have taken over and the
784
00:39:43,590 --> 00:39:48,870
people go into exile in due course God
785
00:39:48,870 --> 00:39:50,640
brings some of them back first of all
786
00:39:50,640 --> 00:39:54,420
only about fifty thousand they rebuild a
787
00:39:54,420 --> 00:39:56,040
temple that had been burned down but now
788
00:39:56,040 --> 00:39:57,330
it's just a pathetic little affair
789
00:39:57,330 --> 00:40:00,720
there's still no king by this time
790
00:40:00,720 --> 00:40:04,040
they're living under the Persian rule
791
00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:07,790
all the way down to the turn of the ages
792
00:40:07,790 --> 00:40:13,440
from BC to AD there still is no restored
793
00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:15,210
king of David on the throne they're
794
00:40:15,210 --> 00:40:16,710
always under one authority or another
795
00:40:16,710 --> 00:40:19,050
and in the first century of our era
796
00:40:19,050 --> 00:40:22,200
they're under the power of Rome under
797
00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:25,380
regional governors and half-breed kings
798
00:40:25,380 --> 00:40:31,020
like Herod and so on then you open up
799
00:40:31,020 --> 00:40:35,360
the pages of the New Testament the
800
00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:38,640
accounts the foundation documents of our
801
00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:42,300
book of our Bible that begin to tell us
802
00:40:42,300 --> 00:40:44,849
what happens in the time of Jesus
803
00:40:44,849 --> 00:40:49,109
and what is the very first line of the
804
00:40:49,109 --> 00:40:52,890
very first book this is the genealogy of
805
00:40:52,890 --> 00:40:55,940
Jesus the Messiah the son of David the
806
00:40:55,940 --> 00:41:01,710
son of Abraham that is the fulfillment
807
00:41:01,710 --> 00:41:06,420
of the promise of a Davidic King when
808
00:41:06,420 --> 00:41:08,609
Jesus comes on the scene he announces
809
00:41:08,609 --> 00:41:12,720
the dawning of the kingdom and he uses
810
00:41:12,720 --> 00:41:15,450
the word Kingdom in a variety of ways he
811
00:41:15,450 --> 00:41:17,549
can say this for example the kingdom is
812
00:41:17,549 --> 00:41:21,630
like a man who plants wheat and a field
813
00:41:21,630 --> 00:41:24,779
good seed in a field and then at night
814
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some rotters come by and they plant a
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lot of weeds and the wheat and the weeds
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are growing up together and the servants
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of the man say should we go out and try
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and pull out the weeds now no no let
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both grow until the end and there'll be
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a final separation at the end that's
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what the kingdom is like in other words
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here you have a picture of the kingdom
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that is embracing this world with both
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good seed growing and bad seed growing
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it includes some it includes a John
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Piper and Adolf Hitler it includes them
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both there are weeds and and and there
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is a good seed and they're both to grow
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till the end when there will be a final
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division that's one notion of Kingdom
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but elsewhere in John 3 in a passage
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we'll look at next week
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Jesus says unless you're born again you
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cannot see or enter the kingdom now with
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that notion of kingdom not everybody's
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in it everybody's in the other one
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you're either wheat or weeds but in this
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notion of kingdom you now have a subset
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of God's reign of God's rule of God's
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kingdom under which there is life only
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those who are born again can enter or
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see that kingdom and further sometimes
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Jesus speaks of the kingdom is already
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having dawned it's it's already here its
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operating secretly as it were it's like
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a yeast that's put into dough it's
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already quietly working and having its
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effect and another passage he passages
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he speaks of the kingdom as as as what
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comes at the end when there's a new
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heaven and a new earth and consommé
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consummation tremendous transformation
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so the kingdom is here it's already here
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and it is not yet come all these notions
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of kingdom but they all Center on Jesus
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the king after World War two
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there was a Swiss theologian by the name
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of Oscar Coleman who used one of the
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turning points in World War two to
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explain some of these notions he drew
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attention to what happened on d-day June
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the 6th 1944 by this time the Western
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Allies had already cleaned out North
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Africa and it started pushing up the
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boot of Italy the Russians were coming
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in from the steppes they had already
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defended Stalingrad they were pushing
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their way to and through Poland and
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other Eastern European countries and now
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on d-day the Western Allies landed on
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the beaches of Normandy and in three
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days they dumped 1.1 million men and
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tons and tons of war materiel there was
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a second front anybody with half a brain
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in his head could see that the war was
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over after all in terms of energy in
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terms of war material in terms of the
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numbers of soldiers and in terms of the
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way all of these lines and reject arees
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were working the war was over so does
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that mean that Hitler said oops I goofed
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and sued for peace know what came next
883
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was the Battle of the Bulge where he
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almost made it right through the coast
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of France again except that he ran out
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of fuel and the Battle for Berlin was
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one of the bloodiest of the entire war
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it wasn't over yet
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but a year later it finally was in
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00:45:18,160 --> 00:45:20,380
Europe and there was this gap thus
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between d-day and VE Day Victory in
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Europe he says it's like that for
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Christians the promised king came
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00:45:31,890 --> 00:45:35,140
that's our d-day the coming of Jesus and
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what he did on the cross and rising from
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the dead and in rising from the dead he
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says in the last verses of Matthew's
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00:45:44,740 --> 00:45:48,850
Gospel all authority is given to me in
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00:45:48,850 --> 00:45:52,780
heaven and on earth he's the king but
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00:45:52,780 --> 00:45:54,220
does that mean that the devil says oops
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00:45:54,220 --> 00:45:56,910
I goofed I think I better sue for peace
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00:45:56,910 --> 00:45:59,620
does it mean that human beings say ok ok
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00:45:59,620 --> 00:46:01,420
you've risen from the dead you won ok
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we'd better bow the knee no what it
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means is you have some of the stiffest
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00:46:06,910 --> 00:46:10,360
fighting left because Jesus has not yet
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00:46:10,360 --> 00:46:13,600
defeated all of his enemies he reigns
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00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:16,390
all of God's sovereignty is mediated
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00:46:16,390 --> 00:46:18,790
through King Jesus the kingdom is dawn
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00:46:18,790 --> 00:46:21,790
it is here and you're either in this
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00:46:21,790 --> 00:46:24,190
kingdom in the new birth sense or you're
912
00:46:24,190 --> 00:46:28,180
not or if you conceive of Jesus total
913
00:46:28,180 --> 00:46:30,250
reign all authority as already is you're
914
00:46:30,250 --> 00:46:31,930
in this kingdom whether you like it or
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00:46:31,930 --> 00:46:32,230
not
916
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the question is whether you bow the knee
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now cheerfully in repentance and faith
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00:46:36,100 --> 00:46:39,130
and Thanksgiving or you will bend the
919
00:46:39,130 --> 00:46:41,010
knee in holy terror at the end because
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00:46:41,010 --> 00:46:43,960
the end is coming VE Day is coming and
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00:46:43,960 --> 00:46:47,440
there is no doubt who will be seen to be
922
00:46:47,440 --> 00:46:52,000
king on the last day so when Paul writes
923
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to Christians in the city of Corinth
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about the middle of the first century
925
00:46:55,960 --> 00:47:00,190
he describes Jesus being the king with
926
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all of God's sovereignty mediated
927
00:47:01,990 --> 00:47:04,020
through King Jesus and he says and he
928
00:47:04,020 --> 00:47:08,770
must reign in this fashion until he has
929
00:47:08,770 --> 00:47:13,290
put his last enemy under his feet and
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00:47:13,290 --> 00:47:17,670
that last enemy to be destroyed
931
00:47:18,690 --> 00:47:26,760
is death itself death will die which is
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00:47:26,760 --> 00:47:28,349
of course picking up exactly what
933
00:47:28,349 --> 00:47:30,950
happened in Genesis one two and three
934
00:47:30,950 --> 00:47:34,290
with this massive rebellion that tried
935
00:47:34,290 --> 00:47:38,730
to de God God and brought only death and
936
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decay now Christ who has himself beaten
937
00:47:43,380 --> 00:47:48,150
death come back from the dead will
938
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continue as God's own king in the
939
00:47:51,990 --> 00:47:54,900
Davidic line yet the one who was also
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called a mighty God the everlasting
941
00:47:56,069 --> 00:48:03,420
father and he will reign until he is
942
00:48:03,420 --> 00:48:09,619
destroyed the last enemy death itself
943
00:48:09,619 --> 00:48:12,810
and this is why the church stands up and
944
00:48:12,810 --> 00:48:20,700
sings again and again hail King Jesus we
945
00:48:20,700 --> 00:48:24,119
need a king one who is perfectly
946
00:48:24,119 --> 00:48:26,640
righteous who cannot be corrupted who is
947
00:48:26,640 --> 00:48:30,270
entirely good and is never any taint of
948
00:48:30,270 --> 00:48:38,310
evil and he transforms he saves his
949
00:48:38,310 --> 00:48:43,109
people and he is to be acknowledged as
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00:48:43,109 --> 00:48:50,210
our sovereign hail King Jesus
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you
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