That is truly amazing, isn't
it? That our God would die for us. Amazing. If you will, let's open
our Bibles this evening to 1 Samuel chapter 16. 1 Samuel chapter
16. And the Lord said unto Samuel,
How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, saying, I have rejected
him from reigning over Israel? Fill thine horn with oil, and
go. I will send thee to Jesse the
Bethlehemite, for I have provided me a king among his sons. And
Samuel said, How can I go? If Saul hear, he will kill me. And the Lord said, take an heifer
with thee, and say, I am come to sacrifice to the Lord. And
call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show thee what thou
shalt do. And thou shalt anoint me him
whom I name unto thee. And Samuel did that which the
Lord spake, and came to Bethlehem. And the elders of the town trembled
at his coming, and said, comest thou peaceably? And he said peaceably,
I'm come to sacrifice unto the Lord. Sanctify yourselves and
come with me to the sacrifice. And he sanctified Jesse and his
sons and called them to the sacrifice. And it came to pass when they
were calm that he looked on Eliab and said, surely the Lord's anointed
is before him. But the Lord said unto Samuel,
Look not on his countenance or on the height of his stature,
because I have refused him. For the Lord seeth not as man
seeth. For man looketh on the outward
appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart. Then Jesse called
Abednadab and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, Neither
hath the Lord chosen this. Then Jesse made Shammah to pass
by, and he said, neither hath the Lord chosen this. Again, Jesse made seven of his
sons to pass before Samuel. And Samuel said unto Jesse, the
Lord hath not chosen these. And Samuel said unto Jesse, are
here all thy children? And he said, there remaineth
yet the youngest, And behold, he keepeth the sheep. And Samuel
said unto Jesse, Send and fetch him, for we will not sit down
till he come hither. And he sent and brought him in.
Now he was ready and with all of a beautiful countenance and
goodly to look to. And the Lord said, Arise, anoint
him, for this is he. Then Samuel took the horn of
oil and anointed him in the midst of his brethren. And the spirit
of the Lord came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose
up and went to Ramah. In the verses that we've just
finished reading, we have David introduced to us in the scriptures
for the first time. And I wanted to begin this evening
sharing with us author Pink's comments in his studies in the
life of David And I quote, in the preceding ages, it had been
made known that the son of God was to become incarnate, for
none but a divine person could bruise the serpent's head, and
he was to do it by becoming the woman's seed. To Abraham, God
had made known that the Redeemer should, according to the flesh,
descend from him. In the days of Moses and Aaron,
much had been typically intimated concerning the Redeemer's priestly
office and ministry. But now, but now, it pleased
God to announce that particular person in all the tribes of Israel
from which Christ was to proceed, namely David. Out of all the
thousands of Abraham's descendants, A most honorable distinction
was placed upon the son of Jesse by anointing him to be king over
his people. This was a notable step toward
advancing the work of redemption. And this last line, David was
not only the ancestor of Christ, but in some respects, the most
eminent personal type of him in all the Old Testament. David,
the most eminent personal type of Christ in all the Old Testament. I would also mention this before
I go on. David is raised up here to be
king, and as Mr. Pink pointed out, the progressive
revelation concerning Christ, first with the seed of the woman,
then Abraham's seed, and then the types and the law given by
Moses, and now God raises up a king, David. But think this
evening with me, David wrote most of the Psalms, not all of
them, but how much in the Psalms do we have revealed to us about
Christ? How much in the Psalms? Did David
write about the Lord Jesus Christ? The Lord said unto my Lord, sit
thou on my right hand till I make thine enemies my footstool. And
just verse after verse, Psalm 16, spoke about the resurrection
of Christ. Thou will not leave my soul in
the grave. The Lord's resurrection is spoken
of there. And we could just go on and on
through the Psalms. David was inspired by God the
Holy Spirit to write so much about Christ. But what I'm going
to do this evening, I read through these 13 verses. And I'm going to point six things
out that appeared to me to serve as to be typical of the Lord
Jesus Christ. I have six things. And we should
remember, of course, as we began that all of the scripture in
some way points us to Christ, speaks of Christ. First, the
first thing that stood out to me is God provides himself a
king. Notice that in verse one. And
the Lord said unto Samuel, how long wilt thou mourn for Saul,
seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? Fill thine
horn with oil, and go. I will send thee to Jesse the
Bethlehemite, for I, now notice it, I have provided me God speaking
to Samuel, I have provided me a king among his sons. The first king, Saul, was the
choice of the people. But now God says, I have provided
me a king. And as I thought about that,
the words of Abraham to his son, Isaac, came to my mind. Remember
when God had commanded Abraham to offer Isaac up as a sacrifice,
as a burnt offering, and as they made their way there to Mount
Moriah, and as they're going up the mountain, Isaac spoke
to his father and he said, behold the fire and wood, but where's
the lamb for a burnt offering? And Abraham answered, the Lord
shall provide. The Lord shall provide himself
a lamb. Here, God says, I will provide,
or I have provided me a king. The Lord Jesus Christ is God's
king, first of all. He's God's king. In the second
Psalm, you know, the scripture there tells us, yet, God speaking,
yet have I set my king. my king upon my holy hill of
Zion. And Zion, many times, speaks
to us of the church. It's the name for the church
of the Lord Jesus Christ. And Christ is the king of his
church. He's a prophet, he's a priest,
and he's the king of the church. Now, this reminds us, or it reminded
me at least, that before God could do anything for you, before He could do anything for
me, here I am, a sinner, needing a Savior, needing my sins somehow
put away. Before God could do anything
for you, for me, He had to do something for himself, for himself. That's the reason in Romans chapter
three and verse 25, we read that God has set forth him, that is
Christ, to be a propitiation. Now, some of the newer translations,
they don't like that word propitiation. The translators don't, so they
use the word expiation. Now both is true. He is an expiation,
that is His blood cleanseth us from all sin, but His blood serves
as a propitiation. In other words, rather than to
admit that God is not indifferent to sin, God hates sin. He loves righteousness and hates
iniquity. And his wrath is against sin,
against all sin. And for his wrath to be propitiated,
to be appeased, placated, I believe is a word we use, Christ had
to be offered as a sacrifice. He had to give himself as a sacrifice. And I see that here when I read
that God told Samuel, I have provided me a king among his
sons. God has provided the king. God has provided the savior. God has provided the propitiation. He did something through Christ
for himself that he might do something for you. He might do
something for me, that he might forgive us of our sins. A second thing that I thought
of as I read through these verses, God made choice of the king.
We read this in several of these verses, but when Samuel got to
the house of Jesse, he had a large family, didn't he? He had seven,
he had eight sons, seven of them were there in the house. They'd
been sanctified, which basically means they washed their clothes.
That's how they sanctified themselves. And they came to this sacrifice
where there was going to be a peace offering. And the first one came
and stood before Samuel, Eliab, and he was a fine-looking man.
He was a rather tall individual. And remember, that's what was
said about Saul. He was head and shoulders above
everyone else, all the other men. And there was a general
idea among the nations, not just Israel, but the nations at that
time, that to be a king, a man had to be of a higher or taller
stature for whatever reason. And this man, Eliab, he was a
nice looking man, but The Lord hadn't chosen him. Hadn't chosen
him. And then another one comes by,
a minute dab, and Samuel said, or it says, neither hath the
Lord chosen him. The point I'm making is that
God made choice of his king. That every one of these seven
sons of Jesse, God had not chosen them. God had chosen David. Isn't that apparent? God did
choose David. In Isaiah chapter 42 and verse
1, we have a prophecy concerning the Lord Jesus Christ as God's
elect. In other words, God chose him.
Behold, my servant, whom I uphold, mine elect, in whom my soul delighted. And then in Isaiah chapter 49,
as I looked there at that text, I thought about this a few pages
past there, speaking about Christ as a mediator and God speaking
to him, said, it is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant
to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the preserved
of Israel. I will also give thee for a light
to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end
of the earth. You know when Mary and Joseph
took the young child Jesus to Jerusalem to do for him after
the requirements of the law, the mother and him, to present
him before the Lord, Simeon, that older man, Simeon came in
And one of the things that he pointed out was he was a light,
a light. That's the way the Lord had been
revealed in the Old Testament, the Messiah, the coming one.
He would be the light to the Gentiles. By nature, we're all
in darkness. And the nations of the earth
were certainly in darkness. They didn't have the word of
God. They didn't have the oracles of God. They were in darkness,
paganism, worshiping idols, nothing more foolish than for a man,
and we read about this several times in Isaiah, to cut down
a tree and use part of the wood to cook his food with, and part
of the wood to warm his body with, and then take some of it
and whittle out of God. And then decorate it. and then
put it in its place. Put it in its place. It couldn't move. It could never
leave that place. But you see, God chose his king. God chose David. Out of all the
sons of Jesse, God chose the eighth son. A third thing that
stood out to me, God anointed his king. In verse 13, we read,
then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst
of his brethren. Now, as you read that, you might
think, and it'd be easy to say, well, here's all these brothers,
these eight brothers, and David is anointed in their midst, no.
We know from the next chapter that the brothers did not know
that David had been anointed to be king. They didn't know
that because of the way his brother spoke to him. We'll see that,
the Lord willing, in the next chapter. But here's the point. If you look back with me to 1
Samuel chapter 10, First Samuel chapter 10 in verse
1 we read, then Samuel took a vial of oil. Now he's going to anoint
Saul. He takes a vial of oil. Now, when he's going to anoint
David, God tells him to take a horn of oil. Now to me, That
shows quite a difference in the amount of the oil with which
the first king Saul was anointed and David was anointed. You take
a ram's heart, put a lot of oil in that horn. Take a little vial
and not so much. How does this picture the Lord
Jesus Christ? When John the Baptist, when he
baptized the Savior, You remember he said that he witnessed this,
the spirit descending from heaven like a dove. And these are very
important words that follow, and it abode upon him. He saw the Holy Spirit coming
upon the Lord Jesus Christ as a dove descending from heaven,
and it abode upon him. And then a few chapters later,
in John's gospel, he tells us, John the Baptist does, he tells
us, for he whom God sent speaketh the words of God. Now listen,
for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him. Every other man who is anointed
of the Spirit of God, and every believer has the Holy Spirit
living in him as a seal, as a witness, but only the Lord Jesus Christ,
the man, Christ Jesus, had the anointing of the Spirit of God
upon him without measure. Without measure. The fullness
of the Spirit. And a fourth thing that stood
out to me is God's king is a shepherd king. A shepherd came when the
first seven sons passed before Samuel and God said, none of
these is a man. Then Samuel asked Jesse, are
these all your sons? Oh no, there's one. There's one
out there. He keepeth his sheep. He keepeth
his sheep. What a beautiful type here of
the Lord Jesus Christ. Isn't that so? He's the shepherd
king. He is the good shepherd, he said. I am the good shepherd. The good
shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. And I looked at that
word keepeth. Jesse said he keepeth the sheep. That does not speak to us about
Christ, how he keeps his sheep. Christ is a pastor, the shepherd
of the sheep. That would mean that he provides
Food, that's what a shepherd did, he led the sheep out. I
was speaking to someone recently about the words in the Psalm,
Psalm 23, which tells us, he maketh me, maketh me, maketh
me to lie down in green pastures. The green pastures represent
the word of God. And the shepherd makes us sometimes
get into the Word, doesn't he? By trials, by tribulations, we
turn to the Word. We get, we lie down in the green
pastures to find food. That's what a shepherd does. He provides food, he leads to
water to drink, he defends the sheep, There's so many different
things that the shepherd does for his sheep, but he keeps them.
He keeps them. And I thought of his words in
John chapter 10 when he said, my sheep, hear my voice. And
I know them and they follow me and I give unto them eternal
life and they shall never perish. Neither shall any man pluck them
out of my hand. He keeps his sheep. People who profess to be believers
and believe that a person can be saved and then be lost, how
awful that is to accuse God of something like that. Of course,
anyone who believes that, everyone who believes that, they do not
believe in salvation by grace. I mean, that's all you can say.
They believe in salvation by works. And if salvation is by
works, then we could lose it. But since it's not, it is by
grace through faith, he keeps his sheep. He keepeth them. A fifth thing I think about here
in verse 13, it says, Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed
him in the midst of his brethren, and the Spirit of the Lord came
upon David. David. David. What does David
mean? It means beloved. Beloved. God calls his king his beloved. His beloved. At his baptism,
you remember, there was a voice from heaven saying, this is my
beloved son, in whom I am well pleased. At his transfiguration,
again, there was a voice from heaven which said, this is my
beloved son, in whom I am well pleased. Not just pleased. I
didn't say I'm pleased with my beloved. No, I'm well pleased. I'm well pleased with him. And he said, the Lord Jesus Christ
said, I do always those things that please him. He never did
anything that did not please him. I was speaking with a man
today, and I was just trying to talk to him about the Lord
and witness to him, and I mentioned the fact, I said, you know, Christ
did for me what I can't do for myself. What's that? Keep his law. Keep his holy law. Love God with all my heart, all
my soul, and all my mind and strength. And love my neighbor
as myself. I've never done that. I can't
do that. Can you? Of course not. Therefore, by the deeds of the
law shall no flesh be justified in his sight. But Christ, he
pleased the Father. He loved God with all his heart,
soul, and mind. He loved his neighbor as himself. And you know, here's the wonderful
thing about this. God said, this is my beloved
Son in whom I am well pleased. He says the same thing about
you tonight if you are in His Son. You are accepted in the
Beloved. You're accepted in Christ and
for Christ's sake. Now here's the last thing I want
to mention. Look in verse 12. God's King
is goodly to look to. You see that? And he sent and
brought him in. Now he was ready and with all
of a beautiful countenance and goodly to look to. And the Lord
said, Arise, anoint him, for this is he. It is said of David
that he was ready with a beautiful countenance and goodly to look
to. And those words remind us of
the words of the bride, the spouse in the Song of Solomon. Song
of Solomon, when, you know, She was asked this question, what
is thy beloved? You talk about your beloved?
What is thy beloved, that is Christ, more than another beloved? Isn't one beloved as good as
another? What's so special about your
beloved? She begins her answer with these
words. my beloved is white and ruddy. Just like it says here of David,
that he was ruddy. And that word means red. And
that, when the bride says, my beloved is white and ruddy. White, of course, refers to his
deity, his holiness. Ruddy or red, when God made Adam,
From the dust, the scripture there, the word which is used
means red, red dirt. Man was made from red dirt. And
what is your beloved more than another beloved? He's, first
of all, God-man. There's no one else like him. And then look at these words,
he's goodly to look to. He's goodly to look to. That
means, of course, his appearance, his countenance and all, but
I just think like this. Christ is good to look to for
acceptance with God. He's good to look to for having
your sins put away. He's good to look to to have
eternal life. Because he said, look unto me
and be ye saved. All the ends of the earth For
I am God, and there is none else. I pray the Lord would bless this
word to all of us here tonight. What a wonderful Savior we have.
What a wonderful Savior.