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one for our call to worship Psalm 132 I'll begin reading in verse 1 a song of a sense Lord remember David and all his afflictions how he swore to the Lord and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob surely I will not go into the chamber of my house or go up to the comfort of my bed I will not give sleep to my eyes or slumber to my eyelids until I find a place for the Lord a dwelling place for the Mighty One of Jacob behold we heard of it in Africa we found it in the fields of the woods let us go into his tabernacle let us worship at his footstool arise O Lord to your resting place you in the Ark of your strength let your priest be clothed with righteousness and let your saints shout for joy for your servant David's sake do not turn away the face of your anointed the Lord has sworn in truth to David he will not turn from it I will set upon your throne the fruit of your body if your sons will keep my covenant and my testimony which I shall teach them their sons also shall sit upon your throne forevermore for the Lord has chosen Zion he has desired it for his dwelling place this is my resting place forever here I will dwell for I have desired it I will abundantly bless her provision I will satisfy her poor with bread I will also clothe her priest with salvation and her Saints shall shout aloud for joy there I will make the Horn of David grow I will prepare a lamp for my anointed his enemies I will clothed with shame but upon himself his crown shall flourish amen well please turn with me to 319 in your handbook that's 319 will stand as we sing together [Music] Oh [Music] let us pray our blessed God and holy father it's a joy to gather in your house again on the Sabbath evening we come to you and we acknowledge that you are God Most High you are from everlasting to everlasting you our Father Son and Holy Spirit most blessed most glorious most wondrous and most worthy to be praised and tonight as we gather together we pray for the ministry of your Holy Spirit to be at work in our hearts and minds that you would promote in us that right fear that reverence of God and as well that joy and that Thanksgiving that gratitude expressed through song and through prayer and through attention to the scripture for what you have done for us we know Lord God that we could never save ourselves we know that we were undone because of our place and atom and because of our sinfulness and rebellion against you so god we thank you that in the fullness of the time you sent forth your son born of a woman and born under the law to redeem those under the law we thank you that our Lord Jesus Christ is full of grace and truth and that he has all things necessary for life and for salvation thank you for giving us that saving interest in him thank you for the graces of faith and repentance for showing us our own sinfulness and our need for that one who's altogether lovely and our God and Father as we consider these things may we respond with worship and praise and adoration unto you our great God we thank you for the forgiveness of sins we thank you for the righteousness of Christ imputed to us and received by faith alone and we pray even now Lord God for any and all who've come here tonight that are still in their sins that are still outside of Christ we pray that today would be the day of salvation that as your word goes forth the Spirit would attend and would produce that conviction of sin and would set forth Christ in all of his offices is prophet priest and King and as the one in whom alone there is salvation we ask this not only for our gathering here tonight but for other churches in Chilliwack throughout this nation and to the uttermost parts of the earth we pray that your gospel would run swiftly and be glorified we ask as well Lord God that you would forgive us now for our sins whenever we come into the presence of a thrice holy God we're mindful of our own waywardness and our own prone is to wander that prone is to leave the God that we love so do forgive us now and cleanse us in the blood of Jesus Christ our Lord wash us and purify us and help us Lord God to pursue those things that are pleasing in your sight we know that your law is good the law reflects who you are in terms of your being and your perfections so God give us that appreciation give us that presence and power of the Holy Spirit and give us that desire to do what you call us unto father we ask as well that you would look with favor upon this congregation there are many several that suffer on an ongoing basis and we want to commit them to you and to the word of your grace we thank you that our dear sister Bev can be with us tonight we pray father for the new Feld's and for Linda D Armani we also pray for our dear sister mrs. Boult we just ask Lord God in heaven that you would look with favor upon them and for the Saints in Surrey we pray for the Bosson ease we ask God that you would look with favor upon Tammy and also for the Hutchings continue to bless Deana how we thank you Lord that you not only tend to the inner man that you do take care of the outer man as well and for each of these I pray that you would calm them that you would quiet their hearts that you would cause them in the midst of suffering and in the midst of affliction to nevertheless reflect upon the reality that though the outer man does decay the inner man is being renewed day by day and may Christ be their portion and their lot we also ask father that you would be gracious to the governing authorities in this land we know that righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne and God certainly civil magistrate ought to or to imitate that not to rule in a manner that is consistent with your revealed law and God yet we see in this country especially we see such a a rejection and a repudiation of your law and we can only pray to you Lord God that in your wrath you would remember mercy that you would put the fear of God in the hearts of those in high places and instead of legislating that which is immoral they would take a stand for that which is right God we long for a day when abortion and and euthanasia and sexual perversion all these things these violations of your your glorious truth would be criminalized instead of openly promoted and openly celebrated we pray Lord God in heaven that you would turn a multitude unto you through the preaching of your gospel and cause there to be just uh an earnestness at the throne of grace and a and a desire to think your thoughts after you and to live in a manner that is consistent with your holy word we also pray for your blessing upon the persecuted Church God as we are or here safely tonight the threat of military or police no no threat of any sort of persecution we know this is not the case for many of our brothers and sisters throughout the world god we pray for your saints that you would be merciful to them we pray for the nation of China and we know that they're cracking down even more so that government oppression over the the people of God we pray to you that you would bless your people there and that in the midst of this persecution they would grow they would persevere they would progress in their understanding of truth and in their commitment to the Lord God of truth we also pray father for those nations steep in Islam we know father there are a multitude of these places and we pray for the people of God under such horrible regimes we would pray that they would be faithful that they was shine as lights and crooked and perverse generations and they would be given that boldness and courage to hold forth your word of truth we pray for the Reformed Baptist Church in Islamabad we thank you for that place we thank you for the fact that there is a worshiping body of God's people in that city and we pray that you would prosper and bless and cause them to be useful in your hand in that region father just blessed and encouraged us now as we continue in our worship we do thank you Father for providing this this opportunity to us for giving us a day for giving us a place for giving us the opportunity to come to the Father through the son in the power of the Holy Spirit and we pray these things through Jesus Christ our Lord amen well please turn with me again in your hymn books to number 294 hymn number 294 will stand as we sing together [Music] [Music] we could turn in your Bibles to Genesis chapter 24 for our scripture reading this evening Genesis chapter 24 it's a long chapter so we'll break it up into two sections we'll read verses 1 to 28 this evening and God willing the latter part next Sunday evening the beginning in Genesis chapter 24 at verse 1 now Abraham was old well advanced in age and the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things so Abraham said to the oldest servant of his house who ruled over all that he had please put your hand under my thigh and I will make you swear by the Lord the God of heaven and the god of the earth that you will not take away for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I dwell but you shall go to my country and to my family and take a wife for my son Isaac and the servant said to him perhaps the woman will not be willing to follow me to this land must I take your son back to the land from which you came but Abraham said to him beware that you do not take my son back there the Lord God of heaven who took me from my father's house and from the land of my family and who spoke to me and swore to me saying to your descendants I give this land he will send his angel before you and you shall take a wife for my son from there and if the woman is not willing to follow you then you will be released from this oath only do not take my son back there so the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master and swore to him concerning this matter then the servant took ten of his master's camels and departed for all his master's goods were in his hand and he arose and went to Mesopotamia to the city of Nahor and he made his camels kneeled down outside the city by a well of water at evening time the time when women go out to draw water then he said O Lord God of my master Abraham please give me success this day and show kindness to my master Abraham behold here I stand by the well of water and the daughters of the man of the city are coming out to draw water now let it be that young woman to whom I say please let down your pitcher that I may drink and she says drink and I will also give you give your camels a drink let her be the one you have appointed for your servant Isaac and by this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master and it happened before he had finished speaking that behold Rebekah who was born to beth UL son of Milcah the wife of Nahor Abraham's brother came out with her pitcher on her shoulder now the young woman was very beautiful to behold a virgin no man had known her and she went down to the well filled her pitcher and came up and the servant ran to meet her and said please let me drink a little water from your pitcher so she said drink my Lord then she quickly let her pitcher down to her hand and gave him a drink and when she had finished giving him a drink she said I will draw water for your camels also until they have been finished drinking then she quickly emptied her pitcher into the trough ran back to the well to draw water and drew for all his camels and the man wondering at her remained silent so as to know whether the Lord had made his journey prosperous or not so it was when the camels had finished drinking that the man took a golden nose ring weighing half a shekel and two bracelets for her wrists weighing ten shekels of gold and said whose daughter are you tell me please is there room in your father's house for us to lodge so she said to him I am the daughter of Beth ul milk cause son whom she bore to Nahor moreover she said to him we have both straw and feed enough and room to lodge then the man bowed down his head and worshiped the Lord and he said blessed be the Lord God of my master Abraham who is not forsaken his mercy and his truth toward my master as for me being on the way the Lord led me to the house of my Master's brethren so the young woman ran and told her mother's household these things amen well let us pray our Father we thank you for the written word of the living and true God we thank you that it's given by inspiration of God and that its profitable to your people and I pray that you would help us to seize upon the to read it and eat each and every day to find great comfort and encouragement for our souls and may we always in the Word of God find Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior and even tonight Lord God as we look at the the promises of God concerning Christ I pray that your Holy Spirit would attend that he would guide and lead us and direct us into all truth and we pray in the name of Jesus Christ amen we may turn in your hem books to our final hymn or psalm psalm 89 be psalm 89 be as in Bravo when you find that you can stand and we'll sing together [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] the triple Amen for a wonderful song we're going to look at second Samuel Chapter seven this evening this morning we looked at the Incarnation proper in John's Gospel John 1:14 the word became flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld his glory the glory as of the only begotten of the Father full of grace and truth we'll tonight we'll look at the covenantal context the promise given by God to David concerning the coming of the Messiah so second Samuel Chapter seven I'll begin reading in verse 1 now it came to pass when the king was dwelling in his house and the Lord had given him rest from all his enemies all around that the king said to Nathan the prophet see now I dwell in a house of cedar but the Ark of God dwells inside tent curtains the Nathan said to the king go do all that is in your heart for the Lord is with you but it happened that night that the word of the Lord came to Nathan saying go and tell my servant David thus says the Lord would you build a house for me to dwell in for I have not dwelt in a house since the time that I brought the children of Israel up from Egypt even to this day but have moved about in a tent and in a tabernacle wherever I have moved about with all the children of Israel have I ever spoken a word to anyone from the tribes of Israel whom I commanded to Shepherd my people Israel saying why have you not built me a house of cedar now therefore thus shall you say to my servant David thus says the Lord of Hosts I took you from the sheepfold from following the Sheep to be ruler over my people over Israel and I have been with you wherever you have gone and have cut off all your enemies from before you and have made you a great name like the name of the great man who are on the earth moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel and will plant them that they may dwell in a place of their own and move no more nor shall the sons of wickedness will press them any more as previously since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel and have caused uterus from all your enemies also the Lord tells you that he will make you a house when your days are fulfilled and you rest with your father's I will set up your seed after you who will come from your body and I will establish his kingdom he shall build a house for my name and I will establish this throne of his kingdom forever I will be his father and he shall be my son if he commits iniquity I will chasten him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men but my mercy shall not depart from him as I took it from Saul whom I removed from before you and your house and your kingdom shall be established forever before you your throne shall be established forever according to all these words and according to all this vision so Nathan spoke to David then the King our then King David went in and sat before the Lord and he said Who am I o Lord God and what is my house that you have brought me this far and yet this was a small thing in your sight O Lord God and you have also spoken of your servants house for a great while to come is this the manner of man o Lord God now what more can David say to you for you Lord God no your servant for your words sake and according to your own heart you have done all these great things to make your servant know that therefore you are great Oh Lord God for there is none like you nor is there any God besides you according to all that we have heard with our ears and who is like your people like Israel the one nation on the earth whom God went to redeem for himself as a people to make for himself a name and to do for yourself great and awesome deeds for your land before your people whom you redeemed for yourself from Egypt the nations and their gods for you have made your people Israel your very own people forever and you Lord have become their God now O Lord God the word which you have spoken concerning your servant concerning his house establish it forever and do as you have said so let your name be magnified forever saying the Lord of hosts is the God over Israel and let the house of your servant David be established before you for you O Lord of hosts God of Israel have revealed this to your servants I will build you a house therefore your servant has found it in his heart to pray this prayer to you and now O Lord God you are God and your words are true and you have promised this goodness to your servant now therefore let it please you to bless the house of your servant that it may continue before you forever for you O Lord God have spoken it and with your blessing let the house of your servant be blessed for ever amen will let us pray God thank you again for your word and thank you for this Davidic covenant the promise of the Messiah we thank you that we live on the side of fulfillment and that we have seen these things we have seen all that was written in the Old Testament come to fruition come to realization and fulfillment in our Lord Jesus Christ as Paul said all the promises of God are yes amen in him and we rejoice Lord God in your power in your sovereignty in your glory and in your majesty you ruled over the nation of Israel you kept them intact you preserve them you blessed and you ultimately brought forth the Lord Jesus Christ how we give thanks to you for this how we give thanks to you for the redemption that is ours in him and how we thank you that he rules and reigns over a kingdom that shall have no end and we just pray now that your spirit would lead us as we consider your word and that you would again forgive us for our sins and anything that would darken our understanding and we ask through Jesus Christ our Lord amen well we have in this particular chapter what's called the Davidic covenant and essentially it's a promise of God to David concerning the coming Messiah the coming Lord Jesus Christ verses 1 to 17 deals with the Covenant and then verses 18 and following is David's response to that revelation we'll just take up the first half tonight we'll look first at the desire of David in verses 1 and 1 2 3 and then secondly the covenant with David in verses 4 to 17 but if you look first of all with reference to his desire we note the occasion upon which he is musing and contemplating and desirous to build a house for God verse 1 tells us now it came to pass when the king was dwelling in his house and the Lord had given him rest from all his all around now as we look at this book of second Samuel David of course was anointed to be king in 1st Samuel chapter 16 but Saul wanted to make sure that that never happened will by the end of 1st samuel saul is dead david is king and in chapter 5 david becomes king not only over judah but also israel he is the ruler over the united kingdom both the North and the South are under the control of David as well in 2nd Samuel chapter 5 we see that Jerusalem has made the political capital it is from that vantage point that David will rule the kingdom and then in chapter 6 it's also made the religious capital the Ark of the Covenant is brought to Jerusalem in 2nd samuel chapter 6 what is a time of rest for David it is a time where he is enjoying the fruits of the labors of his hands it is a time when he is undergoing the very blessing of God Almighty and notice in verse 1 it says when the king was dwelling in his house he is meditating upon this he is musing upon this and that drives the desire of verse 2 verse 2 says that the king said to Nathan the prophet see now I dwell in a house of cedar but the Ark of God dwells inside tent curtains so David as I said is the king over this United Monarchy or over this United Kingdom David has seen the political centrality of Jerusalem the religious centrality of Jerusalem he is now sitting in a wonderful house he's got his own royal palace and he's musing on the reality that God does not have a house God rather is confined ultimately to a tabernacle a mobile sort of a temple and so David's desire is to build a house for God Most High and according to the Prophet Nathan this is a good thing notice in verse 3 the prophets response then Nathan said to the king go do all that is in your heart for the Lord is with you now there's a contrast between verses 3 and verse 4 God does not want David to build a house for God and we'll see why as we move through the exposition tonight but Nathan should have sought God first he's a prophet of the Lord David isn't asking Nathan as a man David is asking Nathan as a prophet he wants the revealed Word of God most high in terms of weather not he is to undertake this building of the house of God one man said the Prophet should have first waited for God's revelation a good intention does not always mean that we are allowed to execute it that Nathan too desired a temple for the God of Israel was not wrong in itself then the state made here was that he spoke as a man and not as a prophet while his opinion as a prophet had been specifically asked for so David wants to build a house Nathan says go right ahead and build the house according to verse 3 but then that brings us into the Covenant made with David in verses 4 to 17 this is given by divine revelation God speaks to Nathan God tells Nathan what he is supposed to say with reference to David's request desiring to build a house for God and that's the revelation of this covenant in verses 4 to 17 notice in verse 4 but it happened that night that the word of the Lord came to Nathan and then again in verse 5 a go and tell my servant David and then again in verse 17 according to all these words and according to all this vision so Nathan spoke to David this covenant is the revelation of God Almighty this wasn't devised by men it wasn't David's desire solely and alone to make a dynasty out of his particular family but rather this was the divine purpose the divine plan God had everything under control God had everything going according to his purpose and his decree and so Nathan now comes to David or rather God first speaks to Nathan and gives him some background concerning this particular covenant notice in verses 5 to 9 the Lord gives Nathan a bit of history concerning the Ark of the Covenant and concerning this Tabernacle this mobile temple in the first place he highlights the previous location of the Ark notice in verse 5 going to all my servant David thus says the Lord would you build a house for me to dwell in for I have not dwelt in a house since the time that I brought the children of Israel up from Egypt even to this day but have moved about in a tent and in a tabernacle so you see the Lord God says that his glory is seen first and foremost not in the town now the temple is going to be a revelation of God's glory once Solomon does build it David son it is a wonderful structure it is a place where God Shekinah glory does calm but the distinction that God makes here specifically in verse six is that his glory is not first and foremost seen in the structure but rather in his powerful deliverance of the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt notice that verse sex for I have not dwelt in a house since the time that I brought the children of Israel up from Egypt even to this day but it moved about in a tent and in a tabernacle the glory of God is seen in his powerful deliverance not in the first place in his presence or in his a place of dwelling but as well the glory of God is seen in his dwelling near and with his people think about the New Covenant sort of application of verse six he says even to this day but have moved in about about in a tent and in a tabernacle with those children of Israel the Lord God's presence was there I say it felt among the nation of Israel the Lord's God's the Lord God's presence is with us today and I think Davis's comment here is wonderful he says so or do you see what Yahweh is saying about himself he is the God who travels with his people in all their topsy-turvy here in their journeys and wanderings do his people live in tents so does he are they a pilgrim people on their way to the land of promise so he is the pilgrim God sharing the rigors of the journey with them turned to the prophet Ezekiel for just a moment to shed further light on this blessed reality in a particular context where the people of God needed this reminder and they needed this encouragement the Book of Ezekiel is during the time of the Babylonian captivity it is during the Exile of the nation of Judah into Babylon the people of Judah have seen their city destroyed they have seen their temple destroyed and many of them are now living in Babylon and basically what is seen as the primary judgment or the primary a problem with reference to that destruction of of Jerusalem and 586 is not the desecration of the temple though that's bad the desecration of the city though that's bad but rather it is the the withdrawal of God that's what caused the problem and yet God the Lord encourages his pilgrim people those faithful the remnant that are living in Babylon with this blessed reality notice in Ezekiel 11 at verse 14 again the word of the Lord came to me saying son of man your brethren your relatives your countrymen and all the house of Israel in its entirety are those about whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said yet far away from the Lord this land has been given to us as a possession therefore thus says the Lord of God although I have cast them far off among the Gentiles and although I have scattered them among the countries yet I shall be a little sanctuary for them in the countries where they are gone so even stripped of Temple stripped of City stripped of their very location in the land of promise as they have been exiled to Babylon the faithful still know and have their God God says I will dwell among them I will be a sanctuary to them in wherever place they find themselves and the emphasis in 2nd Samuel chapter 6 is the very same thing wherever the nation wandered wherever the nation went wherever the nation had their issues and their trials and their difficulties God the Lord was there in their myths that Tabernacle was the symbolic representation of the presence of God among them and then in second Samuel Chapter 7 at verse 7 he highlights the previous leaders in the nation and in verse 7 he says wherever have I moved or wherever I have moved about with all the children of Israel have I ever spoken a word to anyone from the tribes of Israel whom I commanded to Shepherd my people Israel saying why have you not built me a house of cedar so God hasn't been asking for it God didn't say okay David now you're in this wonderful panel house or this cedar house I want you to build me a house that's not the case the Lord God as we moved to this particular passage wants first of all his people's rest in the land he wants their stability he wants their protection he wants their provision and then at that time they can build a house for God most high it really is a wonderful thing and it displays his graciousness his goodness and his kindness so the background to this Davidic covenant is the previous location of the Ark wherever the people of Israel were and then as well the previous leaders of God's people and that brings them to consider specifically David in verses 8 and 9 notice what he says now therefore verse 8 thus shall you say to my servant David thus says the Lord of hosts I took you from the sheep full from following the Sheep to be ruler over my people over Israel and I have been with you wherever you have gone and have cut off all your enemies from before you and have made you a great name like the name of the great man who are on the earth so the Lord graciously chose David David is a type obviously Jesus is the anti-type to be sure Jesus is the son of David Jesus is from the line of David Jesus is the focus of the promise here in 2nd Samuel 7 but prior to that David was in fact a good man he was a man after God's own heart he was a man that exercised biblical fidelity he was not a perfect man we know from 2nd Samuel 11 and 12 that David committed gross sin but God forgave him of that gross sin because that's what God does not so that we'll go out and sin so that we receive that but when we do sin we have an advocate with the father even Jesus Christ the righteous and David understood that all too well he was a good man god chose this particular man as one of the sons of Jesse to lead the nation of Israel the Lord was constantly present with David and the good times and bad times notice in verse 9 a and I have been with you wherever you have gone again that is God's presence with his people not just when we perceive everything is going wow but even the midst of trial and affliction a difficulty God is there with us when the nation of Israel is wandering through the wilderness it's not as if God had had banished them or God had forsaken that remember in Deuteronomy chapter 1 verse 31 God uses the analogy of a father carrying his son to speak concerning that wilderness experience so while they concluded that God had forsaken us God has abandoned us God is not for us we would rather go back to the land of Egypt God says it's rather like a father carrying his son and God says the same thing with reference to David wherever he's been whatever the conditions whatever the situation whether good times or bad times God has been there with David and that is a most blessed encouragement and then as well the Lord powerfully dealt with David's enemies notice at the end of verse 9 and have cut off all your enemies from before you and have made you a great name like the name of the great men who are on the earth David king of Israel was the man David king of Israel got it done David king of Israel was a man of bloodshed and ultimately that's the reason why God does not allow or permit David to build the temple it's not because he was somehow defiled as being a man of war but because that's what chiefly occupied his business was to secure the kingdom and once the kingdom is secure his son Solomon will engage in a reign of peace and it's at that particular time that Solomon will build this house for God most high so the Lord had dealt graciously with David and powerfully with David's enemies conferring upon David a great name so that's God's communication to the Prophet Nathan and now Nathan comes to speak to David or rather he continues to speak with reference to the Covenant notice in verses 10 and following the promise given through covenant verse 10 moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel and we'll plant them and they may or that they may dwell in a place of their own and move no more nor shall the sons of wickedness will press them any more as previously you know you know there is a human analogy here there's times a father or a mother wants to make everything just so for their children and then the mother or the father can take their rest they want to make sure everything is secure and safe and stable for their children and then the parents will take their arrest it's really how it ought to be parents were supposed to engage in selflessness in terms of rearing our little ones it's not the sort of I got mine philosophy make sure they get their food make sure they're tucked in nicely make sure that they're all provided for and cared for and then as parents we find our rest that's the pattern that God is setting here he wants the people of Israel in the land he wants the people of Israel in the land with vanquished enemies he wants the people of Israel in the land enjoying the blessings of God in that land and then God will say build me a house that I may dwell in the midst of them so verse 10 indicates that God Almighty wants the provision of the promised land the provision of stability in the land and the provision of protection in that land notice in verse 11 since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel the judges provided a degree of stability and security but it was not foolproof it would await David king of Israel to bring in this time of great blessing of God and then Solomon to reign over that particularly peaceful era that's when the house of God Most High would in fact be built Robert alter said though the judges succeeded in temporarily driving off Israel's sundry oppressors the period as a whole was one of instability and recurrent harassment by enemy peoples now this is all going somewhere David wants to build a house for God but God says I'm gonna build a house for you that's what verse 11 indicates notice the very end also the Lord tells you that he will make you a house now this word house is doing triple duty in this passage it refers to a physical dwelling place in verse 2 where David lives here in verse 11 it refers to a dynasty David wants to make a house Yahweh and Yahweh says no I'm gonna make a house for you a dynastic succession of Kings will issue forth from you that's the reality and then in verse 13 house is utilized in terms of temple there will be this temple built ultimately where an Israel can go to worship and meet with Yahweh the true and living God so that's what God says David wants to build a house for the Lord but the Lord says I'm gonna build or I'm gonna make you a house now again the connection between the promises Israel first and then this dynasty to David and then comes the house for God Almighty Davis again says how can he God settle down when they Israel are unsettled perhaps we glimpse now why Yahweh wants no cedar temple yet he must make a secure place for Israel first verse 10 he will not rest till he gives rest to his people he will not give rest till he gives rest to his people that's the kind of God that we serve that's the kind of God that is glorified in the in the lives of his people now that brings us finally to consider the particulars involved in this covenant and how it touches specifically on the coming of the Messiah notice verse 12 indicates that there will be a kingdom verse 12 says when your days are fulfilled and you rest with your father's I will set up your seed after you who will come from your body and I will establish his kingdom now seed is very important in the Old Testament we see it in the book of Genesis I didn't comment on Genesis chapter 24 but I will now why is Genesis 24 in the Bible because it is most important and crucial that seed issue forth from Abraham God made a promise to Abraham that he would have many descendants and that he would inherit the land so Abraham sees this Abraham takes this seriously so Abraham dispatches his servant to go fetch a wife for his son Isaac why because is important that's an over arching emphasis in the book of Genesis now we see that seed is important here in second Samuel Chapter seven well in Galatians 3:16 the Apostle Paul identifies the seed as Jesus Christ the Lord so the Old Covenant people were set apart by God for a multitude of reasons but one of the primary reasons was is that it's from that people that Messiah will come it is from that people that the Lord Christ will come it is from that people that salvation comes to the world this is why the Lord God to Abraham can say in you all the nations of the earth will be blessed not for Abraham proper but for Abraham's seed that seed who is Jesus Christ sow seed is most important in this particular emphasis so the presence of the kingdom is obvious in this particular instance but notice that in verse 12 it announces the fact that David is going to die I don't think this was a shock to David I doubt David had this thought that he was going to live forever and ever ever but God wants David to know that this promise is good this promise will transcend David's earthly life this promise is as good as the word of the Lord Himself and that's the emphasis there will be this kingdom and then there will be this house that is built by one of David's see notice in verse 13 he shall build a house for my name speaking about the seed of David he shall build a house from my name and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever now the fact is is that Solomon would build a house for the name of God most high in first Kings we see that the materials are gathered in chapters 5 and 6 we see the construction in chapter 6 and 7 and then we see the dedication of that temple in first Kings chapter 8 and Solomon says as much in 8:20 he says so the Lord has fulfilled his word which he spoke and I have filled the position of my father David and sit on the throne of Israel as the Lord promised and I have built the temple for the name of the Lord God of rayul so Solomon would be the immediate application of this temple of this structure of this particular edifice but the promise transcends that it moves beyond that earthly structure to the Lord Jesus Christ John Gill says for the honor of it for the worship and service of God the building of this house as it is well known Solomon did and so his anti-type the Messiah and then he cite Zechariah 6:12 which is a most important prophecy in Old Testament revelation so you see Solomon is going to build this earthly house for the Lord God Almighty but this seed is going to continue until the fullness of the time when the Lord Jesus Christ will say I will build my church and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it now notice the perpetuity of this kingdom this is just again the the reiteration of the affirmation of the short word of the living and true God he states the promise 13b I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever and then he gives the proofs of this and this again is hopefully an encouragement that when he promises things it comes to pass when God speaks it's not false when God speaks it's not a lie when God speaks it's not deceptive on on Wednesday night we consider Jude and that the book of Jude and specifically verse 3 you know contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the Saints the reason why Jude writes this is because of the presence of apostates or defectors within the professing church and one of the things that Jude says about them is that they're sneaking they're deceptive they work in a way that it's consistent with their father the devil remember it's the devil who's the father of lies he is a murderer from the beginning and he's the father of lies he he speaks no truth whatsoever that's not with reference to God when God promises there will be a scene of David who will build a kingdom and that Kingdom will be for ever and ever and ever world without end and amen the Lord God Most High can bring it to pass notice there are several things stipulated by God that will not side track this promise in the first place death itself doesn't and all the promise David's going to die according to verses 12 and 13 but the promise doesn't die with David the Lord is able to go beyond David to his seed to that seed the Lord Jesus Christ and bring this to fruition the presence of sin cannot destroy this promise and that's encouraging because David's earthly descendants leading up to the seed which is Jesus Christ sin and some of them sinned a lot and you might suggest or you might be inclined to think well because of their sin God is going to take from them their lampstand but littered throughout first Kings is a reiteration of this promise even in light of the fact that some of the kings of Judah the southern tribes were not godly Kings the Lord said nevertheless I will not remove my lamp for the sake of David my servant so the promise of God is not an old by death the promise of God is not an old by sin and the promise of God is not exhausted by time notice what he says verse 14 I will be his father and he shall be my son if he commits iniquity I will chasten him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of man so there is this reality that the kings of Judah are going to set the kings of Judah are going to be chasing the kings of Judah however are not going to be extinguished notice in verse 15 but my mercy shall not depart from him as I took it from Saul whom I removed from before you so you had Saul who was wicked and God rips the kingdom away from him God then gives the kingdom to David and he secures this kingdom with this Davidic covenant that from his scene one will rise up that will sit upon that throne and will rule and reign forever and ever and so the Lord most high in his promise tells us death doesn't annul it sin does it all it and time itself cannot exhaust the very promise of God with reference to this comment concerning the withdrawal or the the stripping away of the kingdom from saw Davis again says David's lie we'll never meets all Zen the idea seems to be that any individual Davidic King may meet disaster because of his infidelity but that will not overthrow the promis'd endurance of the Davidic dynasty to steal the house analogy sin can bring disaster on any current resident that cannot demolish the house and that's precisely what Old Covenant revelation teaches us that is precisely what we see in those kings of Judah they are held together by God until the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ and then as I said the time itself cannot exhausted notice in verse 16 in your house and your kingdom shall be established forever before you your throne shall be established forever John Gill says that is both his family and his government should be perpetuated or he should always have one of his family to sit upon his throne the accomplishment of which in the beginning of it he saw with his eyes in his son Solomon and with an eye of faith in his greater son the Messiah in whom only these words will have their complete fulfillment so David beginning in Chapter 7 wants to build a house for God God tells Nathan the Prophet I want you to understand our history together me and Israel it was never the case that I asked those leaders for a house it was never the case that I was wanting or clamoring for those particular things I wanted Israel to be safely grounded in the land I wanted them to be protected I wanted to beat them to be provided for and when that obtains then I can have a house built for my great name and that is precisely the contours of redemptive history from this point in second samuel again David dies his kings are his son Solomon reigns over a very peaceful situation a very peaceful Kingdom and it's Solomon that is the one that brings to pass this act that David had desired but the main point is the dynasty this succession of Kings that comes from David that ultimately leads to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and in conclusion that's what we see first the desire of David it was a good thing but as that quote I read earlier Aysen thought it was a good thing too but it didn't come from God we may want to do good things brethren but it must be according to the Word of God we must listen to the scripture when it comes to our action and in this particular situation Nathan should have asked the Lord before green-lighting David's desire to build this house for God with reference to the rationale behind why David was not allowed or permitted by God to build this house again first chronicles 20 to 8 and first chronicles 28 3 indicates that David was a man of war David was a man of bloodshed and I think we often misinterpret that and say well because he was a man of bloodshed that you know then he was just defiled and he couldn't actually build the temple that's not the point at all he was busy killing people and securing the kingdom it would be Solomon that would have this time of peace where he could in fact build the temple Kyle and David says but in as much as these wars were necessary and inevitable they were practical proofs that David's Kingdom and government were not yet established and therefore that the time for the building of the temple had not yet calm and the rest of peace was not yet secured the temple is the symbolical representation of the kingdom of God as also to correspond to the nature of that Kingdom and shadow forth the Peace of the kingdom of God for this reason David the man of war was not to build the temple but that was to be reserved for Solomon the man of peace the type of the Prince of Peace so the desire of David was legit it was good but it was not intended by God to be in the life and career of David but the desire was ultimately to be realized by Solomon immediately with reference to the earthly edifice that would be the temple of God but ultimately leading to that promise concerning the Lord Jesus Christ destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up he was talking about the temple of his body according to John in John two with reference to the Savior secondly the covenant with David it's intriguing here in Chapter 7 the word covenant never comes up it's never told in this chapter God says I'm making a cop with you David but as we know from our understanding of Scripture just because a word is absent doesn't mean the concept of the doctrine is absent I used the illustration this morning if you look at your concordance you won't find the word Trinity that has led some to conclude that there's no doctrine of the Trinity that's a bad way to interpret your Bible that's a very heretic 'el and bad way that is associated with the worst in the in the in the history of the church not the best and the brightest but the worst and the dullest we are supposed to see the doctrine and Psalm 89 tells us that this was in fact a covenant we just sang Psalm 89 Psalm 132 uses the language of covenant we read that at the outset of worship Psalm 89 Psalm 132 penned by David rehearsing the promise of the Davidic covenant secondly with reference to this covenant with David the Davidic covenant is present in the prophets the prophets themselves over and over again tell us or rehearse or reflect upon this this transaction God made with David in fact in Ezekiel's prophecy the coming Messiah is called David it is a reference to David specifically well as new covenant readers we know that it's speaking in typical language and that the anti-type is the son of David David's Lord as well the Davidic covenant is realized ultimately in the Lord Jesus Christ and there are several passages we could turn to but turn to Luke chapter 1 Luke chapter 1 certainly has its tap roots in this Davidic covenant Luke chapter 1 beginning in verse 26 now in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph of the house of David the Virgin's name was Mary and having come in the angel said to her rejoice highly favored one the Lord is with you blessed are you among women but when she saw him she was troubled that is saying and considered what manner of greeting this was then the angel said to her do not be afraid Mary for you have found favor with God and behold you will conceive in your womb and bring forth the son and shall call his name Jesus he will be great and will be called the son of the highest and the Lord God will give him the throne of his father David and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever and his kingdom and and of his kingdom there will be no end that song of Zechariah that we sang that's recorded for us in Luke chapter 1 reflects upon the same promise in the Davidic covenant turn to the book of acts we've seen this in our study in the book of Acts this reference or rehearsal of the Davidic covenant Acts chapter 2 at verse 30 therefore being a prophet and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body according to the flesh he would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne he foreseeing this spoke concerning the resurrection of the Christ that his soul was not left in Hades nor did his flesh see corruption this Jesus God has raised up of which we're all witnesses therefore being exalted to the right hand of God and having received from the father the promise of the Holy Spirit he poured out this which you now see and here you see this promise in 2nd samuel chapter 7 death could not annul it sin could not destroy it and time could not exhaust it when the Lord God promised that in Abraham all the nations of the earth would be blessed God meant it and as we move from Abraham up to David we see further revelation we see more input from God we see more description more data more information concerning God's program for salvation of his people our confession of faith refers to this movement as farther steps that makes a promise of salvation in Genesis chapter 3 at verse 15 that promise is then moved along by these historical covenants and its final realization is in the new covenant of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ one theologian Samuel Peto says all the ancient covenant Express run jointly to Jesus Christ and also to believers which are his seed the promises to Adam Abraham David and etc were not so many distinct covenants of grace they were but various gradual discoveries of the same covenant according to the variety of occasions in the several ages every new one being for some new end and bringing with it a further degree of manifestation and all run to Jesus Christ and us see covenant theology is the architecture of the Bible it's what holds it all together the flesh and the blood are on that architecture which is covenant theology this Davidic covenant is a blessed expression of God's purpose to bring about a kingdom to bring about a king and to usher in a blessed age wherein God is our God and we are his people so that promise given to David in second Samuel Chapter seven certainly touches on the coming of the Messiah the incarnation of our Lord the reality that he now rules over an everlasting Kingdom and hopefully it speech great comfort and great encouragement to our hearts that when the Lord promises the Lord secures that promise by bringing it to pass and one prophet I want to end on a prophet that picks up this Davidic covenant and points us forward in terms of New Covenant reality he specifically speaks of Jesus in a way that all of us need to ponder jeremiah 23:5 and six behold the days are coming says the Lord that I will raise to David a branch of righteousness a king shall reign and prosper and execute judgment and righteousness in the earth in his days Judah will be saved and Israel will dwell safely now this is his name by which he will be called the Lord our righteousness yes in his perfections but also in his provision the Lord is in fact our righteousness it is his righteousness imputed to us and received by faith alone along with the forgiveness of sins that enables us to enter into the presence of a thrice holy God and to enjoy this kingdom that will have no end will let us pray our Father we thank you for your word we thank you again for the incarnation of our Lord that blessed wonder that the word became flesh and dwelt among us and God we see that all of Scripture runs this direction all of Scripture from the giving of that first gospel promised in genesis 3:15 to the inauguration of the new covenant in the blood of the Lord Jesus the the scope of Scripture is the same it's all about Christ and the glory of God and the salvation of sinners by the son and father we thank you that you've blessed us richly that you've included us in these covenant promises that you have become our God you've made us your people and lord help us to delight help us to rejoice and help us to worship and to praise and honor your great and awesome name and we ask this through Jesus Christ our Lord amen 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