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How King David points us to the Lord Jesus. This is not an exhaustive list. I want to have you all out of here in time for the service that's going to be happening in a few minutes. But there are some key things here that we recognize because when we look at David, we know that Jesus is often called the Son of David in the New Testament. We know that in several places through the New Testament, Jesus is called the fulfillment of the line of David. He is the Lion of Judah, just as David was of the line of Judah. And let's take a look at some of these things. So some observations. But first let's stop, let's start with a couple of verses of Scripture. 2 Samuel chapter 2, first part of verse 4. Then the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. Well, interestingly enough, before David was made king over all Israel, there was a period of time where he was only king over a small section of the territory. He was king over Judah for a while, and it was only later that he was made king over all of Israel. Now that must have been a strange thing. Saul had a son by the name of Ifbosheth, and Ishbosheth was the next in line to become king after Saul was killed by the Philistines. He sat on the throne for a short time, but that didn't work out. And eventually we see just a few chapters later in chapter 5 of 2 Samuel, all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and spoke, saying, Indeed, we are your bone and your flesh. Also in times past, when Saul was king over us, you were the one who led Israel out and brought them in. The Lord said to you, You shall shepherd my people Israel, and be ruler over Israel. Therefore all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and King David made a covenant with them at Hebron before the Lord, and they anointed David king over Israel. Stop here. So David is eventually made king over all of Israel after being king over just Judah for a short time. Interesting points here. Notice how the people of Israel tell David, We are your bone and your flesh. They are sort of acknowledging, you are one of us, you are from our lines. Then they acknowledge in verse 2, in the past, even when Saul was the king, you were the one who was leading us out and bringing us back in. That is shepherding language. The idea there is that you, even when Saul was the king, you were the one that was acting like a shepherd. You were the one who was taking us out and bringing us back in. Then they acknowledge that the Lord had spoken to David. They make a public declaration acknowledging that the Lord told David, You shall shepherd my people Israel, and be ruler over Israel. So it's necessary for them to acknowledge, you're one of us, you've been acting like a leader, and if that wasn't enough, God himself has made it clear that you are the one who is supposed to be the king over Israel. It's a great, a great grouping of statements here that they make to David in asking him to become king. Therefore, we see in verse 3, David made a covenant with them at Hebron. Now, isn't it nice to think that when a person accepts a level of leadership like king, or in our country we would say president, other countries they might say prime minister, what have you, the idea is that that person is making a covenant with the people that he or she is leading. And the idea of covenant is I have expectations of you as our leader, and you as leader have a right to have expectations of us as your people. That's what a covenant would be like. But all too often in countries today, it seems like whenever a person gets into the position of leadership, they feel like they've got a mandate to do whatever they personally think they need to do. But David's reign was much more the idea of this covenant. He made a covenant with them at Hebron, and they anointed David king over all of Israel. Now, this is in 2 Samuel. A lot of our chronological Bible recap over the next several weeks is going to be in Psalms and in 1 and 2 Kings and 1 and 2 Chronicles. Matter of fact, we've already gotten into Chronicles, right? So when you're in Kings, the books of 1 and 2 Kings, they are historically focused more on the actions of the various kings of Israel. Occasionally they might provide some reasoning as to why the king does a certain thing. But if you want to find out why God is doing what God is doing, pay real attention to 1 and 2 Chronicles, because in there you sort of find out why the king did this and God did this. The people did this and God did this. And there's less focus on the kings and more focus on God and the priesthood. So getting back to Jesus and David, Matthew refers to David, connected to Jesus, at least nine times in the Gospel of Matthew. Mark does it three times, Luke four times, John does it less in his own gospel, but then when you get into his epistles and the book of the Revelation, you see it's a little more pronounced there. Peter, we see in his sermon at Pentecost, he links David to Jesus using two different quotations. And Paul, repeatedly throughout his epistles, will refer to Jesus as either the son of David or sitting on the throne of David. Paul makes a lot of connections between Jesus and David. But let's just break this down a little bit. So David was from the tribe of Judah. Jesus was also from the tribe of Judah. That's the most basic place to start. Gets a little more interesting. David eventually delivered Israel from all of the enemy nations that were around it. We know that Jesus delivered us from our enemies of sin and death. God made promises to David that his kingdom would never disappear. And through Jesus, that promise was made true because Jesus is through the line of David. David was the leading figure of Israel's monarchy. You can go to Israel today and you say, who is the best king of Israel? They almost always will say King David. They won't say Solomon, unless they're really into the money. They won't say Solomon. They'll say David is the greatest king that has ever graced the throne of Israel. Jesus, of course, is the king of all kings. He's the Lord of all lords. He is the fulfillment, he's the greatest ruler the world has, will, or ever will know. David is told that he in the future will have a son or an ancestor of his, will be the Messiah. Jesus is that very Messiah. That's why Jesus is called the Son of David repeatedly throughout the Gospels. When someone says to Jesus, you are the Son of David, they're not saying David was your great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great continued grandfather. What they're saying is you are the promised Messiah, the one who is the son of David that is going to lead our people. Now here's some, you probably know all of this, right? Now let's go into some areas that you might be a little less familiar with. Because not only can you compare Jesus and David, but you can also compare John the Baptist and Samuel. They are very similar. We know that Samuel's mother was barren and unable to have children until God opened her womb, so that Samuel could be born. John the Baptist's mother, Elizabeth, was old and barren and unable to have children until her womb was opened, and she was able to have a child. When Samuel was born, his mother was given instruction that he was to be a Nazirite, has nothing to do with the city of Nazareth, but a Nazirite from the womb. In other words, Samuel's mother was not allowed to drink wine. She was not allowed to have things to do with unclean things that might pass on an idea of uncleanness to the child in her womb. John the Baptist, we are told, was filled with the Spirit from the moment he was conceived. A remarkable thing when we think about it. It's one of the reasons why in the Christmas time stories we tell the story of Mary, the mother of Jesus. She is expecting Jesus. He hasn't been born yet. She goes to visit Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptist, and Elizabeth has the uncomfortable situation of having her baby leap within her womb because he's filled with the Spirit. And so we have this concern for both Samuel and John the Baptist from even before they are born. While they are in the womb, they are set apart, they are separated. So David, even though he was anointed by God for the job, Samuel served in the role of pouring the oil over his head. Likewise, John the Baptist in Jesus. Jesus goes to John, John the Baptist says, What are you doing here getting baptized by me? I'm the one who needs to be baptized by you. And Jesus says, nonetheless, let's do this for righteousness' sake. In other words, let's do this. And that's been an example to us down through the years. By the way, if anyone ever says to you, I'm already saved, I don't need to be baptized, your answer to them is, well, if baptism was good enough for Jesus, you know, get in the water, you know. So Samuel preached to the people on several occasions that they needed to repent nationally. When they went to Samuel and said, We reject you as leader and your sons are miserable, get us a king right now. Samuel said, Well, I'll get you a king, but you need to repent of this affront that you have made to Almighty God. And Samuel several times calls the people to repentance. We know that John the Baptist continually called the people to repent, to make way a highway for the Lord, that they needed to repent. So even in even in their forerunners, in David's case, the forerunner is Samuel, in Jesus' case, the forerunner is John the Baptist. We see these similarities between the two. Let's get back to Jesus and David directly, though. We know that David, when Samuel came to the family to try to find a king, we know that the family told David, Well, you just go out there and tend the sheep. You're not the one that Samuel is here to anoint. We're rejecting your idea of being the leader. Likewise, Jesus. When we read the Bibles and we the Bible and we read it carefully and we read the Gospels, we learn that there are times when Jesus' family rejected what it was that he was preaching and teaching. As a matter of fact, Mary and his brothers at one point say, don't pay attention to him. He's mad. And so David was rejected by his family. Jesus was rejected by his family. David and Goliath. Who thought David was going to win that day when he went out on that field to face that giant? I can tell you who, David. That was about it. David. Saul gave him the armor and Saul gave him permission to go out there, but I don't think Saul thought, oh, we've got him now. No, I don't think so. No, David accomplished a tremendous victory despite his weakness of his age and his size. Now, how does that compare with Jesus? Well, when Jesus was on that cross, that Good Friday day at Calvary, how many people thought, oh, Jesus is now going to defeat sin and death? Jesus is going to have victory this day. No one thought that. No one thought that. But we know that Jesus did accomplish the greatest victory of all time through the work he did on the cross. David, when he was brought into, let's look at another piece. David, when he was brought into Saul's castle, he's brought in there with a harp, and he's told, When the evil spirit comes upon the king, you begin to play your harp and sing and drive the evil spirits away. And we know that that's what David did, and at least for a short time the spirits would leave Saul. They would come back later, but he was able to drive them away by singing praise songs. Well, Jesus in the New Testament is repeatedly driving demons and evil spirits out of possessed people. Now, when Jesus drove them away, they were driven away once and for all, never to return. But we see this similarity between the two. Here's another point. When David is out in the wilderness running away from Saul, how many of you were with us when we saw David over in Branson last year? Okay. Remember, David is out there in the wilderness, and the people that start to hang around David and become his soldiers, they are what the Bible calls worthless fellows. And I think perhaps the Bible was being kind in characterizing them that way. These were not the best and the brightest. These were not the people that have been necessarily even trained by the greatest people in military defense. But by following David, they grew in their understanding. They definitely grew in their understanding of the Lord. What about Jesus? How does this compare to Jesus? Well, have you seen Jesus' followers in the New Testament? He's got a ragtag bunch of fishermen. He's got worthless, a worthless fellow was a high compliment compared to being called a tax collector back in Jesus' day. All right. One of them is a man by the name of Simon who's called a zealot, which means he's a political hothead. We don't know what zealots are today, though, you know. That was a joke line right there. So no, you see that Jesus' followers, the apostles and some of his early disciples, they were every bit as much a ragtag band as David's followers were when he was wandering through the wilderness. So let's get down to the final two to compare, because I do want to get you out of here on time for the service that's about to start. David was the rightful king of Israel even when Saul was on the throne. David had been anointed king by Samuel even while Saul was on the throne. Likewise, Jesus was the rightful king of Israel, even though evil King Herod was on the throne. In Jesus' case, it goes even further. He was the rightful high priest of Israel, while evil Caiaphas maintained that position during the day. And this is a recurring theme in our understanding of Christianity. As Christians, we are serving a rightful king first and foremost, rather than whoever is on the throne pretending to be the king over the rightful king. That's just part of being a Christian. And then finally, David, I mentioned earlier, David was first acknowledged as king by the smaller tribe of just Judah by itself with some Benjamites thrown in for good measure. It would be later that he would be acknowledged as king over all Israel. How does Jesus compare to this? Well, Jesus is the rightful king, but right now he's only acknowledged as the rightful king by those of us who are saved throughout the world. And the rest of the world does not acknowledge him as king, even though he is the rightful king, but a day is coming in the future when everyone will acknowledge Jesus as King. The Bible tells us that every knee will bow and every tongue will confess. So we're going to stop here. As I said, these are just a few comparisons between David and Jesus. It makes us realize that the title, Son of David, has many layers to it, doesn't it? David was put, his history, his life was put together in such a way by God that even the times that he's out in the wilderness, and all he's got around him are a ragtag bunch of followers, that even something like that has its own way of pointing to the fact that a son of David, a Messiah, is coming. And aren't you glad? Aren't you glad that the story didn't end with King David? You know, imagine if all we were, imagine if we were living in that in-between the testaments time during those 400 years of silence, and we were, we'd look at our scriptures and we would say, well, what is all this pointing to anyway? What is all of this? What's the end of all of this anyway? We have the blessing of being able to live in this time when we can see all these pictures of David as well as so many other men and women in the scriptures, how they point to Jesus, what they pointed to in Jesus, and why they pointed to Jesus, so that we could be saved. Let's go to the Lord in prayer. Heavenly Father, we thank you for this day and for your word. Bless these, your people, and this time that we have together. And Lord, bless our time in your word. May we always be brought back to the reason that the scriptures are here to point us to Jesus. We thank you for the salvation that we have through Him and His name, and God's people said, Amen.