How about turning to Psalm 51? Boy, if you missed the Bible class on
David then that was wonderful, wonderful indeed. 51st Psalm. And the heading to this psalm
reads, to the chief musician, a psalm of David, when Nathan
the prophet came unto him after he had gone
in to Bathsheba and had his husband killed in
battle. And here's what he said, if you're
a sinner, I mean a real, honest, goodness, blue-blooded, full-blooded
sinner, this psalm is for you and for
me. There is no such thing as a sinless
human being except the human nature of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Verse 1, Have mercy upon me, O God, according unto the multitude
of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions, wash me
throughly, that's through and through, from my iniquity, and
cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions. David said, I confess my sins. And my sin is ever before me. You can look at yourself in the
mirror on Sunday morning, Monday morning, Tuesday morning, Wednesday
morning, Thursday morning, Friday morning, Saturday morning, and
you're going to see the same sinner. My sin is ever before me. Against you, you only, have I
sinned and done this evil in your sight, that you might be
justified when you speak and be clear when you judge. Behold,
I was shapen in iniquity, And in sin did my mother conceive
me." Babies are not born without sin. They're born sinners. If for no other reason than the
fact that we are descended from Adam, and He sent this disease
called sin into every generation that will ever live on the face
of this earth. Verse 6. Behold, you desire truth
in the inward parts, and in the inward part you shall make me
to know wisdom. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall
be clean. Wash me, and I shall be whiter
than snow. Now David is, I don't know what
you'd call this, maybe an analogy, but he's talking about our Lord
Jesus Christ putting away our sin. Purge me with hyssop, and
I shall be clean. Wash me, and I shall be whiter
than snow. Make me to hear joy and gladness,
that the bones which you have broken may rejoice. hide your
face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. Create in
me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me."
Now we're a long ways from knowing how to read and understand this
Bible when we run into statements just like this. David is not
talking about that heart that's in here. It is a physical part
of our being. A very important part of our
being. But here he is speaking of this
holiness in us that is Christ in you, the hope of glory. renew
a right spirit within me, cast me not away from your presence,
and take not your Holy Spirit from me. Restore unto me the
joy of your salvation, and uphold me with your free spirit. Then
will I teach transgressors your ways, and sinners shall be converted
unto you. Deliver me from blood guiltiness,
O God, you God of my salvation, and my tongue shall sing aloud
your righteousness. O Lord, open you my lips, and
my mouth will show forth your praise. For you desire not sacrifice,
else I would give it. You delight not in burnt offerings. The sacrifices of God are a broken
spirit, And a contrite heart, there again not physical, spiritual
heart. Oh God, you will not despise. Do good in your good pleasure
unto Zion. Build you the walls of Jerusalem. And this ain't talking about
literal Jerusalem. It's talking about that holy
city. Then shall you be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness,
with burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings. Then shall they
offer bullocks upon your altar." And for the New Testament believer,
these things as well must be considered in a spiritual manner,
not literally nor physically. May we pray. Lord, thank you for these blessed
and wonderful words. Your servant, David, has penned
for us more of the Psalms in this book than anyone else by
far. A man that by the power of your
Spirit and grace came to know what grace is. and that God is
the God of all grace. He forgives our sins. Oh, hallelujah. May it be so
to me and to those who hear this day. Thank you for this dear
friend and brother. We beg your blessings on him
as he comes to preach. We beg this in the righteousness
and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Mike? I'm going to open your Bible to 2 Samuel. Chapter 3. We'll read verse 1
and then we'll jump down to verse 6. Now there was long war. between
the house of Saul and the house of David. The house of Saul was again there
with King Saul who we said earlier today that he was the king that
the people chose. They wanted him a king to be
like everyone else. And God told Samuel, I'm going
to give him a king. You tell him exactly what kind
of king he's going to be and here's what kind of king he was.
He ruled and he reigned with an iron fist. If he wanted to
come get your children to be his slaves, he came and got them.
If he wanted to come get your land and take it to use it for
anything he wanted to use it, he'd come do it. After Samuel
told him exactly what kind of king he was going to be, you
know what they said? That's the one we want. And that's the one
God gave him. King Saul, he pictures so many
things. He can picture the law, the bondage of the law, always
keeping you under bondage. He also pictures the depraved
nature who wants to rule and reign and thinks that he's king
and he rules. And you know what? The main thing
about King Saul, he hated and despised David. He hated and
despised David. Why? He knew. He saw. He knew David was king. He knew
he was. He knew that one day he would
sit upon the throne. Saul said it more than once.
He knew it. Samuel told him. And God took
away the kingdom from Saul and gave it to David. Wow, David.
David was God's choice. David was the one that God had
raised up. He's the one that God had ordained.
And God set him on the throne. over all Israel. David is a picture of the Lord
Jesus Christ who our Lord came of the tribe of Judah, same tribe
that David was from. David was born in Bethlehem.
Our Lord was born in Bethlehem. So many pictures, so many types.
And he was raised from the brood of David to sit upon the throne
of David. And he rules over all things.
But we see here, there was long war. And this war is still going
on between the house of Saul and the house of David. We've
been looking at David for a while at our church and we came to
the point where David one day wanted, remember he wanted to
build God a house. And the Lord told him, he told
him through Nathan, the same one that came to him, the one
that got his sin. He said, David, I'm going to
build you a house. And he did. We sit here this
morning gathered as God's people, as God's children, and we are
meeting in God's house. He's building His house and there
was long war and there's still this war between the flesh and
the spirit, between the gods of this world and our Lord. There's
a long war between the house of Saul and the house of David. But David waxed stronger and
stronger. And the house of Saul waxed weaker
and weaker. In verse 6, And it came to pass,
while there was war between the house of Saul and the house of
David, that Abner made himself strong for the house of Saul.
Now I want you to turn back just one chapter to chapter 2. I want
to show you this in verse 8. Now King Saul is dead. God used
the Philistines to come in and basically solve, remember he
committed suicide how he fell on his own sword and Saul and
Jonathan and his other two sons are dead. But there was another
son called Isbosheth. which was another one of Saul's
sons. Now what are they going to do? All of them are dead.
They can't just let this house fall. So what Abner did in verse
8 of chapter 2, Abner was Saul's right-hand man. I don't know
why Adner was not with Saul that day that they all perished in
the battle, but he wasn't. And after that battle, after
Adner saw what happened, and Adner's always trying to support
and hold up this house, you know what Adner did? Adner, the son
of Nun, captain of Saul's host, took his Bosheth, the son of
Saul, and brought him to Maanaim, and made him king over Gilead,
over the Asherites, over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin,
because Saul was of the tribe of Benjamin, and over all Israel. His bosship Saul's son was 40
years old when he began to reign over Israel. He reigned two years,
but watch this. Israel split here. You have Israel,
which is the northern tribes, and then you have, but the house
of Judah followed David. So you see the picture here.
You have David reigning over Judah. Reigning over Judah. But then Abner goes and gets
Saul's son, this dead king, and he's going to make this dead
king's son, he's going to make him king. Now I'm stressing the
word, he's going to make him king. This is the same thing
that's happening in the world in which we live. Men all over the world today,
they say why don't you make Jesus king? Why don't you make him
lord? This is exactly what Abner is
doing here. He's going to make him a king.
He's going to raise up this fallen king's son and he's going to
sit him on this throne. He did and he reigned over Israel
for two years but the house of Judah followed David and the
time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven
years and six months. So this is the picture here.
This is what's happening. You've got this fallen king's
son. He's reigning. He set up there
because Adam made him king. But then you have David, who's
the true king. And let me tell you this morning,
you are in one or two houses. You're either still in the house
of Saul, or you are in the house of David. The house of David
grew stronger and stronger, and the house of Saul grew weaker
and weaker. Now, verse 6 of chapter 3. And
it came to pass while there was war between the house of Saul
and the house of David, that Abner made himself strong for
the house of Saul. He made himself strong. He's
got to hold this together. If he don't, that kingdom is
going to fall. He's going to do everything he
can. And Saul, the dead king, had a concubine. whose name was
Rizpah, the daughter of Ahai, and as Bosheth said to Abner,
wherefore hast thou gone into my father's concubine? Then was
Abner very wroth for the words of his Bosheth, and he said,
am I dead, my dog's head, which against Judah did show kindness
this day into the house of Saul thy father, to his brethren,
and to his friends, and have not delivered thee into the hand
of David, that thou chargest me today with a fault concerning
this woman? So did God to Abner more also,
except the Lord hath sworn to David, even so I do to him. To translate the kingdom from
the house of Saul, and set up the throne of David over Israel
and over Judah, from Dan even to Beersheba. And he could not
answer Abner a word, again, because he feared him. And Abner sent
messengers to David on his behalf, saying, whose is the land? Saying
also, make thou league with me, and behold, my hand shall be
with thee to bring about all Israel unto thee. And he said,
well, I will make a league with thee, but one thing I require
of thee, and that is thou shalt not see my face. except thou
first bring Michael, Saul's daughter, when thou comest to see my face.
And David sent messengers to his bosship, Saul's son, saying,
deliver me my wife, Michael, which I espoused to me for a
hundred foreskin of the Philistines. And his bosship sent and took
her from her husband, even to Palatel, the son of Lahish. And
her husband went with her along, weeping behind her, to them,
then said, Adonai unto him, go, return. And he returned. Here we see what is happening. King Saul had concubines and
he had this concubine and it calls her name Rizpah. We find
out on over in 2 Samuel 21 that Saul, she had two sons by Saul,
this concubine did. And what happens here is Abner,
who's a picture of the fallen man, the depraved man, is Bosheth
accuses him to going in with his concubine. In essence, he's
saying, you have no right to go into this concubine. But what
a concubine was, she was just a slave. But some of these slaves
actually raised heirs to these kings. But for a man to be accused
of going into the king's concubine, this was an act of treason. In essence, we know what Abner,
as Bosheth has accused him of, and if he did it, and I believe
Abner did it, He's saying, I have the right to the throne. Because
Esbosheth, I put you on the throne. And when Esbosheth asked him,
he said, Abner, did you go into my father's concubines? And Esbosheth
asked Abner and he got mad. He said, don't you know what
I've done? Abner, in essence, is saying, is Bosheth, I put
you on the throne. If it wasn't for me, you wouldn't
be on the throne. That's what he's saying. He's
saying, I put you on the throne. He's saying in verse 8, do you
not know what, he said, am I a dead dog's head, quenched against
Judah to show kindness unto the house of Saul thy father? Do
you not know what I did for your father? Do you not know what
I did for this kingdom? Does that not sound like religion? Look what all I've done for you.
You wouldn't even be on the throne if I hadn't put you on the throne. And he said, in essence, do you
know what he's saying? I can deliver you and this kingdom
into the hands of David anytime I want to. Now listen, he's talking
to the king. How many kings would let this
go on? Only a puppet king. As I thought about it, you've
seen puppets and marionettes. When you move the strings, that's
how they work. That's what his boss was. And
Abner knew it. He said, what right do you have
to tell me? I've given you everything, I've raised you up, I've protected
your daddy and I've put you on the throne and don't you ever
question me of anything I do. That's what he said. And he's
speaking to the king. And he turns on him. Abner was angry for being accused
of this crime. He didn't care what the king
thought. He had no respect for that king. Abner's sin was exposed. He's in rebate. He brags on his
service. Reminds me of the older brother. He said all these things have
I done for my youth. Look what I've done. Your daddy
wouldn't have been king if it wasn't for me. You wouldn't even
be king if it wasn't for me. Abner in essence is saying, are
you going to judge me for this one crime? After everything I've
done, does that not cover up just one crime? Are you going
to judge me for this one crime? Let me tell you this, Adam was
cast out of the garden for his one crime. You know what Adam
was saying just like Abner did? I'll be God. That concubine was
off limits, that tree of knowledge of good and evil was off limits
and Adam says I'll take it anyway and he took it and rebelled. Because of his crime, his sin,
he was cast out. Adner, just like Adam, just like
all the fallen sons of Adam, they try to take what is not
rightfully theirs. He said, you can't take that
woman and he took her anyway. Why? Why did he do that? He thought
he had a right to it. Does that not sound familiar?
Men think they have the right. He was exposed. He said, am I
a dog's head? Do you esteem me nothing more
than a worthless dog? On the other hand, when you see
a true sinner coming before God, you know how they come? Like
a dead dog. And how Mephibosheth, when he came to David, he said,
Would you look upon such a dead dog as me? The Canaanite woman,
the Lord called her a dog, and she said, That's right, Lord,
I'm your dog. But the dogs eat of the crumb
which fall from the master's table. But not this man. He said,
Am I a dog's head? You ain't talking to me like
no dog. Listen, we're all dogs. That's
right, everybody in here is a worthless, worthless dog. But Abner won't admit that. You
know why? He thinks he's too good for that.
Now listen, do you not see the picture? He's standing here,
I can see him with his finger pointing right at the king and
he's saying, you want to call me a dog? After everything I've
done, you want to call me a dog? I'll put you on the throne. That's
the Jesus of this world. They've put him on the throne.
And they've got to what? Keep him propped up. That's right. That's exactly right. That is
the house of Saul. That's the house of Saul. It
is free will man's works religion which has to keep him propped
up because they've made him king. And he does exactly what they
let him do. What they allow him to do. That's
what Abner's saying. That's exactly what he's saying.
Look in verse 9. So do God to Abner, and more
also accept the Lord has sworn to David, even so I do him."
You know what he's saying here? Abner knew that God had sworn
to give the kingdom to David. It doesn't say it, but I believe
that day Saul rebelled against God and Samuel came to Saul. I believe Abner was standing
there pretty close. He's the king's bodyguard. He's the king's
right hand man. Samuel told Saul, God's taken
the kingdom away from you and given it to another man. He knew
David was king and now he's made to confess it. But he still won't
bow. Still won't bow. Abner knew that
God had sworn to throw him to David. He knew it. He knew it
wasn't Saul's. He knew it wasn't his boss's.
But he's going to do it anyway. Do it anyway. He had sinned against his own
conscience. But I want you to see Abner's house, his house
of cards is beginning to fall apart. his king is turning on
him. So you know what he's going to
do? He's going to turn on his king. In essence, you know what
he tells this Bosheth? To paraphrase this, what he's
saying, I put you on the throne and anytime I want to, I can
take this northern kingdom and I can give it to David. That's
what he's saying. I can take it because I have
right to it. and I can give it to David and
there's not a thing you can do about it because it said in verse
11 he said in verse 10 to translate the kingdom from the house of
Saul and set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah
from Dan even to Beersheba and Abs and Isbosheth could not answer
Abner a word again because the king feared Abner. Now is that some kind of king? His boss fears Abner and never
opened his mouth. That's the Jesus of the modern
age. That's right. He's so afraid
because somebody, poor somebody won't allow him to be king. So what's Abner going to do? Abner thinks he's his own mediator. Abner thinks that he can just
do anything he wants to, but let me tell you something. He's
lived under King Saul. He's sat as Bosheth, epic king,
but he's never met a real king. He's never met a real king. He's
never met God's king. Not since he's been king. Abner
was in Saul's army. So Abner saw David when he killed
Goliath. Abner saw David when David was
even in the palace, you remember, for a while. But he hasn't seen
him since he's king. But he's going to meet him. So
what does Abner do? What's he going to do? And Adner
sent messengers to David on his behalf saying, whose is the land? Saying also make thy link with
me and behold my hand shall be with thee to bring about all
Israel unto thee. Don't you see the arrogancy? He thinks he can talk to David
the same way he talked to his boss. He said, David, I've got
all these kingdoms and all these tribes, they actually follow
me and they'll do whatever I want. All I've got to do is save the
world and they'll come follow you because they're all mine.
They weren't his, but he thought they were. Man is so proud. Man is so arrogant. So arrogant. And he's acting
from a spirit of revenge. The only reason he's doing it,
he's getting back at his king. He told his king, he said, if
you don't do what I say, I'll take this kingdom from you and
I'll take it to David. I'll just take my marbles and
I'll play somewhere else. That's what he said. And that's
what he sends to David, send these messengers. Adner was ambitious. His ambition made him zillious
for this fake king. And now his revenge makes him
zillious for David. Do you see him? He's turning.
Adner serves his own lust. doing his own thing. This wicked,
self-serving man, God will still use him to serve his own purpose.
God will even use this, you read on, to bring about those kingdoms
coming to David. Even the wrath of man will praise
him. You know what it says in the book
of Revelation? Listen. And when the dragon saw that he was cast
into the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth
the man-child. We know who the man-child is,
that's the Lord Jesus Christ. And to the woman were given two
wings of a great eagle. And she might fly into the wilderness
into her place where she is nourished for a time and times and half
a time from the face of the serpent. And the serpent cast out of his
mouth water as a flood after the woman that he may cause her
to be carried away by that flood of heresy. He's wanting to destroy
the woman. He's wanting to destroy the church.
And you know what happened? The earth helped the woman. And the earth opened her mouth
and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth. This earth, this world's religion
just swallows it up. Our Lord's still on the throne.
David's reigning. The Lord Jesus Christ reigns. So Abner, he sends his petition
to David. And what Abner's trying to do,
he's trying to make peace with David. He's trying to come on
his own terms. And this is exactly how fallen
man tries to make his peace with God. Let me tell you something,
you can't make peace with God. You have the house of Saul. who's
at enmity, at war against David and you can't make peace with
David, you can't make peace with the Lord Jesus Christ God makes
peace. How can these two that are at
enmity and been at war all these years, how can they be made peace? How can there be any peace? David sets the terms. Abner said, if you'll do this,
David, I'll bring all Israel down to you. Listen, you don't
come to God on your terms. Men want to come on their own
terms, don't they? And they say, well, if God will
do this for me, then I'll do something. You don't bargain. You know why? You don't have
anything to bargain with. You're a dead dog. He says, this land and the tribes
of Israel, There wasn't Abner's to give. And he said, you know
what Abner said? My hand will be with you David. You know what happened to a man
whose very hand touched the Ark of God? God killed him. And he'll
do the same thing to you. If you think by your efforts
that you can add anything, put your hand to the thumb of God,
God will kill you. And this man has to find this
out. Like I said, Ed and Abner. Why would this man act this way?
Why would this man in arrogancy? Can you imagine it being like
you sending a letter to the president or to a king saying, listen,
I've got all this power. This is what I'm going to let
you do. He'd like you to death. You're crazy. This man, and listen to me, now
listen to me. The reason people act the way
they do, strut around in their arrogancy and their religion,
they walk around like a religious peacock. The reason they walk
that way and talk that way and act that way is because they
have never been introduced to the real king. All they've ever
heard of is a puppet king, a man they've made king. But let me
tell you, if you ever see God's king, it's a different story. What does David say? And he said,
well, I'll make a league with thee,
but one thing I require thee. You're not going to see my face,
except thou first bring Michael, Saul's daughter, when you come
to see my face." Why did David love Michael? I intentionally
didn't read verses 2-5 because I can hardly pronounce those
words. But in those verses, you know what that talks about? It
talks about David had six different wives. besides Michael and all
the children he had by all those women. So why does he want Michael? And she is, you know who she
is? She's his boss' sister. She's the king's daughter. And
David said, you will not see my face till you bring Michael
to me. Without Michael, you're not seeing
my face. She's not with David. In 1 Samuel
18 verse 15, do you remember one of the things that Saul promised
to the man who killed Goliath? He said, remember to make him
rich, make his house free, and you know what the other thing
he said he would do? He would give him his daughter. And Saul being the king he was,
he didn't do it. He says in 1 Samuel 18 verse
15, if you want to turn, Therefore, when Saul saw that David behaved
himself very wisely, Saul was afraid of him. But all Israel
and Judah loved David, because he went out and came before them. And Saul said to David, Behold
my elder daughter Merib. Here will I give thee to wife. Only, only be thou valiant for
me and fight the Lord's battle. For Saul said, Let not my hand
be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon me.
And David said unto Saul, Now here's a confession of a sinner.
Who am I? And what is my life and my father's
family in Israel? That I should be the king, the
son to the king? But it came to pass at the time
when Mirab, Saul's oldest daughter, should have been given to David
that he gave, that she was given unto Adram, the Meholathite,
to wife. He should have given her to David
and he says, I'll give her to another man. And Michael, Saul's
daughter, loved David. And Saul, then they told Saul,
and the thing pleased Saul, and Saul said, here's what I'll do,
I'll give her, give Michael to him, that she may be a snare
to him, that the hand of the Philistines may be against him.
Said, well if he's the king's son-in-law, then Philistines
is going to hate him. I won't have to kill him. Therefore Saul said to David,
Thou shalt this day be my son-in-law in the one of the twenty. Now
listen, verse 25. And Saul said, Thou shalt say
to David, The king desireth not any dowry. You know what a dowry
is? Years ago, if a boy wanted to marry a girl, you know what
he had to do to her daddy? He had to pay money. He had to
pay a dowry. And Saul says, I don't require
any dowry, but the only thing I require is that you kill a
hundred Philistines and bring me back from them uncircumcised
their foreskins. And Saul said, there ain't no
way he'll do that. There ain't no way he can kill
100 Philistines. Everyone, I'm going to kill him
first. And when he goes against them
Philistines, what's them Philistines going to do? They're going to
turn on David. And Saul says, I won't have to kill him. And
he says, if you want my daughter, go bring me 100 Philistines. And when his servants told David
these words, it pleased David well to be the king's son-in-law
and the days were not expired. What did David do? David arose
and went, he and his men, and he slew of the Philistines 200
men. He just didn't kill 100, he killed
200. You know why? What is he going to do with that? He's purchasing somebody. He's paying for Michael. That's
what he's doing. That's what he's doing. That's
why he said it pleased him now to be the king's son-in-law.
You mean to tell me if I kill 100 Philistines, I can have her? That's what I'll do. You see
the picture? Our Lord, our great David, killed
more than 200 Philistines to have his bride. He said, I'll
do it. And he did it. Can you imagine
what King Saul thought when David walks back in? He said, where
you been, David? Here's your 204 skins. She's
my wife. She's my wife. And David brought those four
skins and he gave them in full tale to the king that he might
be the king's son-in-law and Saul gave him Michael his daughter
to wife. Why did he love Michael? I've
purchased her. I've bought her. I have not only
redeemed her by price, I've redeemed her by power. She's my wife. David loved her. Michael is David's
lawful wife. And you remember who she is?
She's a dead king's daughter. Saul being a picture of Adam.
Who did our Lord marry? Who did he redeem? Fallen sons
of Adam. Under a cursed kingdom and a
cursed race. Out of everything, That David
could have said, the thing he said is he said, you will not
see my face till I see Michael. That's what he said. You know
why? He loved Michael. Saul had given her to another
man. We see here in the scriptures, she was with another man. And his boss has to go get her.
He knows where she's at. Listen to me. By listening, you
cannot come into the presence of the King without the object
of his love. Our Lord said, our Lord Jesus
Christ, he saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life.
No man cometh to the Father but by me. Without the Lord Jesus
Christ, we are never able to come into the presence of God
the Father. He says in the book of Genesis,
you remember when, remember Joseph was in Egypt and he had reign
over all the storehouses. And because of a famine, Jacob
sent the rest of the boys down there to Egypt to get corn. And
when they got down there, Joseph asked them and he said, do you
have any other brothers? He's inquiring them to see if
they did the same thing to Benjamin as they did to him. And he said,
yeah, we've got another brother. He said, how's your father? He
said, he's doing OK. And he gave them what they came for. They
came for the corn. But you know what he told them? You know what
he told them? Because when they took the corn
back, it eventually runs out. And Jacob said, OK, boys, you've
got to go back to Egypt. And Judah, that Judah tribe,
he said this. There's one stipulation, daddy.
That man down there in Egypt said, you will not see my face.
Can you bring your brother? Without Benjamin, you're not
getting any corn. And without Christ, you're not getting any
corn. Without Christ, you will not
see His face. You see the terms? That's the term. And what he did, he sent for
her. Verse 14, and David sent messengers unto his Bosheth Saul's
son, saying, Deliver me, my wife, Micah, which I spoused to me
for a hundred four skins of the Philistines. He says, I've paid
the debt. You've got to turn her loose.
You've got to turn her loose. Before she was ever given to
anybody else, she was David's first. Purchased by him. But Michael was given to another
husband. But she never had any children
but that other man. You know why? That other man
pictures the law. The other man represents the
law which we are under the curse of the law and the law cannot
give life. It just can't do it. But you
know what that law had to do? Now I want you to picture this. His boss just sends Abner to
go get her. He knows where she's at. And
when he goes and knocks on that door, the man could have come
to the door and he said, what do you want? I've come for Michael.
I can see him say, you can't have her. Oh yes, I'll come to
get her. I've come to get her because
David has bought her, and you know what? You have no rights
on her! Because David was married to
her first. We've been married to Christ
before the foundation of the world. He hath redeemed us from the
curse of the law, being made a curse for us, for it is written,
Cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree. It said, as Boschus
sent and took her from her husband. You said, this seems like a sad
story. It says that man she's with, he's fallen behind her. It said, please don't take her. Please don't take her. Please
bring her back. That's exactly what the law does. It tries to put you back under
bondage. Isn't that right? It has no right upon her. And he said, look at verse 16,
and her husband went with her, along weeping behind her into
Bomrom, and then said Adonai unto him, Go return. And you know what he did? He
had to return. We are not under the curse of
the law. It says in Galatians 5.1, stand
fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us
free and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. David's
main concern was for the object of his love. David rules in Hebron,
but one day he's going to reign over all Israel. He's going to
capture Jerusalem. He's going to take over Zion.
The city of David. And before he does, he wants
and he sends for his bride. Our Lord Jesus Christ, he has
a bride. He redeemed her by purchase, by price and he redeemed her
by power. He bought her and he has the
right to her. And he said, before you'll see
me, you bring her. And he brought her to David. He knows where every one of his
sheep are at. And he's going to bring every
one of them. You know why? Because he's king. And I don't
read there in the scripture that Abner, he didn't argue with David
did he? He didn't try to barter with
David. He didn't try to say, no I'll
do anything with that. He did exactly what he said.
You know why? That's what kings do. Real kings were sovereign. David, God put this man on the
throne, God put him there. My question to you this morning
is which house are you in? Are you in the house of Saul?
Are you in the house of David? The house of David is growing
stronger and stronger. And the house of Saul is growing
weaker and weaker. Amen.