WEBVTT 00:00:01.840 --> 00:00:02.479 All right. 00:00:03.040 --> 00:00:13.439 In 2 Samuel chapter 9, we're gonna we're introduced to another member of Saul's family. 00:00:14.160 --> 00:00:33.119 This time of David, he has grown and increased in strength, increased in power and authority, and now he's remembering a commitment he made before the fame, before the influence, before he became king. 00:00:35.920 --> 00:00:37.520 It breaks it down like this. 00:00:39.840 --> 00:00:40.880 I can get there. 00:00:48.000 --> 00:00:55.039 Is there yet any that is left in the house of Saul that may show him kindness for Jonathan's sake? 00:00:55.359 --> 00:01:00.320 And there was of the house of Saul a servant whose name is Zibeah. 00:01:00.799 --> 00:01:05.040 And when they had called him unto David, the king said, Art thou Zibeh? 00:01:05.200 --> 00:01:06.480 He said, Yes. 00:01:06.959 --> 00:01:12.400 Is there yet any in the house of Saul that I may show the kindness of God unto him? 00:01:12.640 --> 00:01:17.359 And Zebe said, Jonathan had yet a son who was lame on his feet. 00:01:17.519 --> 00:01:19.760 The king said unto him, Where is he? 00:01:20.079 --> 00:01:28.719 And Zebe said to the king, Behold, he is in the house of Makar, the son of Amiel and Lodabor. 00:01:29.680 --> 00:01:34.560 Lo the boar is a port city on the other side of the country of Israel. 00:01:36.959 --> 00:01:41.599 Then did David sent and fed him from the house. 00:01:43.040 --> 00:01:44.319 This is cool. 00:01:44.879 --> 00:01:50.079 David remembers the commitment he made to Jonathan when he was younger. 00:01:50.719 --> 00:01:52.799 Mephibosheth was lame. 00:01:52.879 --> 00:01:59.920 Yes, he was, because 2 Samuel chapter 4, verse 4 teaches us that uh it identifies him as first. 00:02:00.400 --> 00:02:10.960 But at the same time, um, a little background um when Saul was going out to David and vice versa, they were fleeing, the family household of fleeing. 00:02:11.039 --> 00:02:23.919 And so when when Phibisha was younger, when the nurses dropped him, actually, as it was going, according to the narrative, um Jonathan, his dad died, he was about five. 00:02:24.240 --> 00:02:28.560 So we grew up pretty much, lost his dad at an early age. 00:02:29.280 --> 00:02:34.879 And so because of his ailment, we know it's interesting. 00:02:34.960 --> 00:02:40.879 Um, I thought about three or four different stories, but the first two come to mind with me standing right there. 00:02:40.960 --> 00:02:45.520 I think about Jesus and the disciples when they ran across the man who was mute and lame for birth. 00:02:45.680 --> 00:02:47.599 The disciples like, who sinned? 00:02:47.919 --> 00:02:50.400 So, meaning, whose sin caused this? 00:02:50.719 --> 00:02:56.159 And so we know that the mindset was, hey, this should not ought not be. 00:02:56.560 --> 00:03:12.400 And what we see in the rest of the story is Muphiboshef sees himself a little bit because of the condition, not only the his physical condition, but his social status, because he's a grandson of the king. 00:03:13.919 --> 00:03:20.960 He, once again, inheritance should have physical inheritance, should have been living a lot different. 00:03:21.759 --> 00:03:33.439 But because the anointing was upon David, removed from the house of Saul, and birthrights that should have been passed on were not anymore. 00:03:33.680 --> 00:03:52.159 All right, so David sins for him, not because of what Mufibish is worth, but because his relationship with Jonathan, his promise to Jonathan, like, hey, I'm gonna look after your family. 00:03:52.240 --> 00:03:58.560 You look after me and mine, even at the expense of your relationship with your father, I'm gonna look after you and yours. 00:03:59.039 --> 00:04:06.479 And so, because of that, Phiboshep has shown the kindness. 00:04:07.280 --> 00:04:11.599 David said, I'm gonna show this kindness of God toward the house of Jonathan. 00:04:11.919 --> 00:04:14.159 He says, I'll be brilliant with Jonathan. 00:04:14.400 --> 00:04:17.839 And it's interesting because that's how God has told us. 00:04:19.439 --> 00:04:27.920 Because of his love, because of the Christ, Christ, Christ created on their calver's tree, God extends grace toward us. 00:04:28.160 --> 00:04:34.560 Not because of what we've done or who we are, some of us see ourselves as Mophiboshev does lame. 00:04:35.680 --> 00:04:41.279 Some of us see ourselves as unworthy, some of us see ourselves through the lens of what we've done or what we've lost. 00:04:41.439 --> 00:04:44.160 But David is not hearing that from Mophiboshev. 00:04:44.639 --> 00:04:51.040 Because we know Mophiboshev saw himself as, you know, low. 00:04:52.879 --> 00:04:57.839 He saw himself as he was afraid. 00:04:58.079 --> 00:05:14.079 He saw himself as a servant, but David knew he was royal blood, and they wanted to show him the kindness of God, not because of what shepherds done, but because of his commitment to Jonathan. 00:05:15.680 --> 00:05:17.439 God is the same way. 00:05:18.079 --> 00:05:27.519 He looks at us because of his love, first of all, for his son, the price paid on cabbage tree, but also the commitment that he made years ago. 00:05:29.199 --> 00:05:38.160 But it's interesting that whenever God reaches out toward people, one of the first things we do is a lot of it like Peter. 00:05:38.879 --> 00:05:49.439 When God, when Jesus is on the scene and he performs the miracle in front of Peter, one of the first things Peter said is, I'm sinful. 00:05:49.519 --> 00:05:52.480 I am not a good man, I am not worthy. 00:05:53.519 --> 00:05:55.759 I am not worthy. 00:05:56.079 --> 00:06:11.519 But thanks be to God, he's persistent, like he understands we're not worthy, but because he loves us so much, because he loves the truth of Israel, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob so much, they look ain't about you, it's about them. 00:06:12.000 --> 00:06:16.639 Because of them, you come in on their credit, on their merit. 00:06:17.600 --> 00:06:20.800 And God is still extending that for us on this day. 00:06:23.680 --> 00:06:28.800 My guess, but one of my questions is I guess that they could be my only question because I'm not gonna finish this up. 00:06:30.000 --> 00:06:45.120 Is the way you see yourself, are you rejecting the grace of God, his advances in every area of your life, or are you reaping all the benefits of what he wants to show towards you? 00:06:46.800 --> 00:06:51.279 This story is not too indifferent of the parallel I was going to make from the prodigal son. 00:06:51.839 --> 00:06:54.800 Not the entire story, of course, but parts of it. 00:06:55.040 --> 00:07:09.360 The extension of grace toward another one, the way that the person viewed themselves as servants only, when they birthright had a position that was more than that. 00:07:09.600 --> 00:07:17.839 But they understood what they've done, where they've been, what they have lost, or the way they saw themselves is not worthy. 00:07:17.920 --> 00:07:19.439 So they wanted to be a servant. 00:07:19.600 --> 00:07:22.319 One wanted to be a higher servant, the other one just wanted to be a servant. 00:07:24.079 --> 00:07:44.240 I'm gonna treat you better than that, not because of what you've done, but because what my son God taught us, what your father and the and the and the example of Muphibosha has done for you and for me, and the example of David. 00:07:45.680 --> 00:08:01.600 Do we continue after we've been restored to see ourselves as less than because we know the end of 2 Samuel chapter 9, David restores all of Buphibusheth's land? 00:08:02.079 --> 00:08:07.199 He tells Zika, the person who let him know about her, go back and form it, take care of him. 00:08:07.439 --> 00:08:09.279 But he's gonna eat off my table. 00:08:09.759 --> 00:08:11.519 Like one of my sons. 00:08:13.199 --> 00:08:16.160 Do you see yourself as a son or as a servant? 00:08:18.240 --> 00:08:24.079 How do you see yourself as a son or daughter of God or as a servant? 00:08:27.120 --> 00:08:28.800 That shifts everything. 00:08:29.920 --> 00:08:33.759 He wants you to see yourself as his son and his daughter. 00:08:34.799 --> 00:08:36.879 That type of relationship. 00:08:38.559 --> 00:08:43.440 A lot of times we see ourselves as a servant trying to work off a debt that we owe. 00:08:44.480 --> 00:08:53.120 When God wants you to see yourself as a son or a daughter, now it doesn't mean that we don't show the gratitude or we don't work because of the relationship. 00:08:53.200 --> 00:08:54.320 Don't get me wrong. 00:08:56.080 --> 00:08:57.440 There's work to be done. 00:08:57.759 --> 00:09:02.799 But your the identity, the way that you relate, is it like a son or daughter? 00:09:02.960 --> 00:09:10.960 Or do you believe that because you're chronological chronologically a little more advanced, or because you have kids now that you're not somebody else's child? 00:09:11.039 --> 00:09:16.159 No, he still looks at you as his son or his daughter. 00:09:18.000 --> 00:09:22.159 And just like Jesus on the cross, no, no, you're not on the cross yet. 00:09:22.240 --> 00:09:27.919 Like Jesus when you arrived at the baptism, that's what it was, in whom I am well pleased. 00:09:29.759 --> 00:09:32.000 Is that how you see yourself though? 00:09:32.320 --> 00:09:38.799 Have you allowed that to saturate your self-identity, your self-view, how you relate to God? 00:09:39.200 --> 00:09:43.120 You are his son, you are his daughter, he is well pleased with you. 00:09:43.360 --> 00:09:46.320 Or do you see yourself as a servant? 00:09:48.000 --> 00:09:52.000 So you have identity of somebody that's like, oh my gosh, would I do wrong a day? 00:09:52.159 --> 00:09:53.360 Would I do wrong a day? 00:09:53.600 --> 00:09:58.159 Whenever you call into the presence of your boss.