All right, brethren, our text
is going to be in 2 Samuel chapter 4. 2 Samuel 4. I've titled this, Who Makes Who King? Who Makes Who King? We just sang, crown Him with
many crowns. But we don't make the Lord Jesus
king. He makes His people kings. By
His blood, Revelation tells us He has made His people kings
and priests under God. And He comes and creates a new
heart in us and makes us to see He is our Lord and our King and
our Savior. and he brings us to bow to him
as our king. But there are many in false religion
who make the boast that they made him lord of their life. Today we're gonna see a picture
of some men who were trying, a picture of men trying to make
Christ their king, or king of their life. And we're going to
see an example of a true child that God saves. Now let me give
you a little history before I read the chapter. David is king over
Judah. And when David ascended the throne,
you remember Saul had been king, but God rejected Saul. And so
now at this point Saul's dead. But whenever David ascended to
the throne, A man named Abner took one of Saul's sons, whose
name was Ish-bosheth, and Abner set him up as king over the tribes
of Israel. David was king over Judah, and
so Abner set Ish-bosheth up to be king over the children of
Israel. Well, Abner and Ish-bosheth had
a falling out, so Abner went over to David and said, you know,
I'll follow you and I'll bring the children of Israel to follow
you. And then, in the course of time, we saw last time, Joab
heard about this, who was following David, and Joab killed Abner. So now, we're at a point now,
David's king, Abner has died, well Ispahsheth, who Abner had
made king, He sees Abner's dead. Abner had already gone toward
David, so Ispacheth becomes a basket case. He knows he has no power,
but he mentally breaks down, and he's at home in the bed because
he can't function. Okay, well, when a king took
power, a lot of times a king in those days, a king would kill
the opposite king, the opposing king. He would kill him, his
family, and anybody who had been loyal to him. so that he could
stay on the throne. Now David had been very gracious
to people, but that's what kings would do. And that's what Saul's
family is expecting David to do. That's what Saul's men, who
had been loyal to Saul, they're expecting they're going to die
at the hand of David. Well, there was these two men in Saul's
camp. that had been loyal to Saul,
that had been loyal to Ispahsheth. Now these two men are gonna be
our focus today. One's name's Bennehah, one's
name is Reca. These two men had been loyal
to Ispahsheth, one of Saul's sons, and so they're scared of
David. They're scared David's gonna
kill them. There is another grandson of Saul named Mephibosheth, and
we're gonna see something about him too. But in this passage,
We're gonna see what these two men, Ben-Ahar and Rechab, do
to try to save themselves. And they're trying to get David
to like them and reward them for what they do. And then we'll
see what happened to Saul's grandson, Mephibosheth. All right, let's
read the chapter and I'll make a few comments. Verse one. And
when Saul's son, this is Hezrabeth, When Saul's son heard that Abner
was dead in Hebron, his hands were feeble and all the Israelites
were troubled. This is Ish-bosheth. He was the
man Abner set up as king. He was Saul's son. So now he's
just, he had a mental breakdown. Verse two, and Saul's sons had
two men that were captains of bands. The name of the one was
Banna, the name of the other, Recap. These two men are going
to be the focus of our first point. Banna and Recap. They
had been loyal to Saul, they had been loyal to Ispacheth,
and they were the sons of Rimen, of Betharite, and of the children
of Benjamin. And for Beroth also was reckoned
to Benjamin, and the Betharites fled to get him, and were sword
runners there to this day. Now these two men, had been loyal
to Saul, been loyal to Ishmael, so they're worried about David
killing him. Verse four, and Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son,
so this was Saul's grandson, he was lame of his feet. He was
five years old when tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel,
and his nurse took him up and fled, and it came to pass as
she made haste to flee that he fell and became And his name
was Mephibosheth. So that's Saul's grandson. And
the sons of Rimen, the Bitharite, Rechab and Banna, they went and
they came about the heat of the day to the house of Ishbosheth. Now these men had been his captains
in his army. But now Ishbosheth's in the bed.
He's broke down. He's laying on a bed at noon.
And they came thither into the midst of the house, as though
they would have fetched wheat. And they smote him under the
fifth rib, and Rechab and Banna, his brother, escaped. For when
they came into the house, he lay on his bed in his bedchamber,
and they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and took
his head, and got them away through the plain all night. And they
brought the head of Ish-bosheth unto David to Hebron. And they
said to the king, Behold, the head of Ish-bosheth, the son
of Saul, thine enemy, which sought thy life. And the Lord hath avenged,
the Lord hath avenged my lord the king this day of Saul and
of his seed. They claimed the Lord did this
through them. for David. And it says, And David
answered Recab and Banna, his brother, the sons of Rimmon the
Betharite, and said unto them, As the Lord liveth, who hath
redeemed my soul out of all adversity. And then he's gonna declare,
there was a man before them that came and told him Saul was dead,
thinking David was gonna rejoice that Saul was dead, and look,
David's gonna say, and I'm gonna tell you what I did to that man.
David said, When one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead,
thinking to have brought good tidings, I took hold of him and
slew him in Ziglag, who thought that I would have given him a
reward for his tidings. How much more, when wicked men
have slain a righteous person in his own house opponent's bed.
Now Ispacheth wasn't a righteous man, but David is saying, in
comparison to what you two men have done, he's a righteous man.
He's in his bed, sick, and you two fellows go in there and slay
him. Bring me his head, thinking I'm gonna give you a reward for
it. And he said, shall I not therefore now require his blood
of your hand and take you away from the earth? And David commanded
his young men and they slew them and cut off their hands and their
feet and hanged them up over the pool in Hebron. But they
took the head of Ish-bosheth and buried it in the sepulcher
of Abner in Hebron. Now my title is, Who Makes Who
King? Who Makes Who King? False religionist,
a man who's falsely religious, he made his God king. He made his savior king. He did
it. He did something to help him.
Either by his will, his works, something he did to make his
His false god, he made him king. Let me tell you something. If
your false god is king, you made your god king. Abner made Ish-bosheth
king. There's a picture of it. He made
Ish-bosheth king. And where did Abner end up? He ended up dead. And where did
Ish-bosheth end up? He ended up with his head in
the coffin with Abner. You see, if you make your god
king, when you die, your god's dying with you. The man that
Abner made king, his head ended up in the coffin with Abner.
The man he made king, his head's in the coffin with him. If you
make your god king, when you die, your god's dying, because
your god's false. When your hands cease working,
the hands of your god cease working, because he's a vain god. Christ
makes his people kings. He makes us princes to God. Christ
does that by his blood, by his righteousness, and we give all
the glory to him for all the work of salvation. Now let's
see this with these men. First now, Banner and Reca, they
give us an example of men who make themselves religious. These two saw the writing on
the wall. They have been loyal to Saul,
then they've been loyal to Ispacheth, captains in his army, and David's
now king. Abner had switched sides, now
Abner's dead, Ispacheth's in the bed, sick, and these two
men realize, we gotta do something or David's
gonna kill us. Your men will get convicted that
they They need to do something to make themselves right with
God. They'll get convicted that they're sinners. The problem
is men try to do something about it themselves. And that's what
these men, that's the picture we have here. In them, we see
an example of sinners who claim to repent, who claim to put away
their sin, who claim to make Christ their Lord. But it's all
in their own strength and their own mind what they've done themselves. These men killed the one that
they had before said was their king. They killed this man, Ispacheth. Sinners outwardly put on a show
of repentance. They come under conviction, they
put on a show of repentance. Outwardly, they break ties with
their former king, the devil. They say outwardly, we're not
wanting any part of our sin anymore, and they clean up the outside.
and they make profession of religion, and they profess faith in Christ,
and they often make the boast that, well, we made Christ Lord
of our life. These men did everything they
did, Bena and Rekeb, did everything they did expecting David to give
them a reward. They expected David would be
happy with them for what they did. Sinners can make themselves religious.
Anybody can make themselves religious. It's common. Most of what you
see in religion is men who made themselves religious. And I don't
just say that. That's what scripture bear out.
When our Lord Jesus came, the whole Pharisee and scribes and
Sadducees, the whole lot of them had made themselves religious.
Our Lord Jesus looked at them and said, you are of your father
the devil. They made themselves religious.
Religion don't follow in bloodlines. You see, these two men were the
sons of Benjamin. They were great-grandsons of
Benjamin. That doesn't make you a child of God because your father,
mother were children of God or your great-grandfather, whatever.
These men represent sinners who make themselves religious. but
you cannot come to the Lord unless the Lord has drawn you. Listen,
our Lord Jesus said this, no man can come to me except my
father, which has sent me draw him, and I will raise him up.
You say, well, preacher, you're discouraging people from coming
to Christ. No, I want you to come to Christ,
but I really want you to come to Christ. I want him to be the
one that drew you. I don't want you to make a false
profession. And when he draws, he's gonna make it, you know,
he did it, you didn't do it, he did it. Regeneration is of
God. Our Lord Jesus said, he said,
except a man be born again. He can't see God, he can't know
Christ the King, he can't enter into the kingdom. We enter into
the kingdom by being born again into the kingdom. You can't just
make yourself be a citizen of heavenly Jerusalem. The Lord
Jesus said, you have to be born again or you can't see it. Nicodemus said, how can a man
be born when he's old? Natural man has no idea about
this. He said, how can he be born when
he's old? Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb and
be born? And the Lord said, verily, verily. He said, verily, verily, I say
unto you, except a man be born of the water. What's that? The
preaching of the Word, the water of the Word, the washing of the
water of the Word. Except a man be born of the Word
and of the Spirit, the Holy Spirit of God. He cannot enter the Kingdom
of God. That which is born of flesh is
flesh. You and me can't do anything.
We can't make our flesh not be flesh. No man can bring himself
to God. The Father must draw him. The
Spirit of God must give us spiritual life inwardly. And Christ said,
and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. He said, you
must be born again of God. And he said, and this Spirit's
like the wind. You don't know when it's coming,
where it's going. You can't stop the wind. and you can't stop
the spirit of God. When the Lord is gonna save his
child, we may put up a lot of objections and the sinner himself
may try to go against it. The Lord's gonna succeed. His
spirit, the Lord is irresistible. It's irresistible grace. When
he decides, when he's purposed to save you and he comes into
his child at the appointed hour, he is going to succeed. Repentance
is not of us. Repentance is the gift of God.
Look at Ezekiel 36. Ezekiel 36. This is the Father's promise
right here. God's promise. Ezekiel 36 and
verse 24. He says, man preaches man's will. We're preaching God's will. Listen,
he said, I will take you from among the heathen. and gather
you out of all countries and will bring you into your own
land. I will, he said, then will I sprinkle clean water upon you
and you shall be clean. That's this gospel. You're gonna
hear this gospel preached. I'll sprinkle clean water upon
you and I'll sprinkle you from all your filthiness and from
all your idols will I cleanse you. and a new heart also will
I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you, and I
will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will
give you a harder flesh, and I will put my spirit within you
and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you shall keep my judgments
and do them. Look at Acts 5, the Lord Jesus Christ gets the
glory for giving repentance to His people. Acts 5, the risen
God-man, God gave Him all power over all, and He fills all in
all, in everyone He saved. Look, Acts 5.31. Him hath God
exalted with His right hand to be a prince and a savior for
to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sin. Christ
is the only one that can grant repentance and forgive sins. No man can do that. A preacher
can't do that. A man can't do it of himself.
Only the Lord, that's His glory to give repentance. Look over
at John 16. It takes the Holy Spirit of God
to convince and persuade us of the Gospel. Look at John 16.
And look at verse 8. The Lord's talking about the
Spirit of God and He said, He will reprove, that word is convince. Convict and convince. And He's
not talking about all the world, He's talking about His people
all over the world. He will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness,
and of judgment. Of sin, because they believe
not on Me, Christ said. He said of righteousness, because
I go to my Father and you see Me no more. and of judgment because
the prince of this world is judged. When the spirit comes in and
quickens and gives a new heart, the Lord's going to make us see
we are the sinner and there's nothing we can do about it. The
only way we can be saved from our sin is believing in the Lord
Jesus because He alone is the savior of sinners. He's going
to convince you that He's the righteousness God's provided.
That God's provided righteousness and that righteousness is His
Son. He's the only one that ever fulfilled
the law. And He went to that cross and
bore the sin of His people and bore the curse of His people.
And by His death, all His people died when He died. So that this
is what we are by nature. And all our guilt before God
died in Christ when He died. so that justice is satisfied.
God's holy name's been upheld. He has satisfied his own justice,
and the spirit convinces you of that. And by doing that, he
convinces you Christ is righteousness, and he convinces you judgment
has been settled. For God's people, judgment's
been settled. Our judgment was in Christ on
the cross. That's what was taking place.
God was judging us in Christ, and he bore the sin and curse
in our room instead. And it takes the spirit of God
to convince us of that. And faith is not of us. Go to
Ephesians 2. Ephesians 2. You see, why are
you telling us this? Because the thing we gotta be
saved from is trying to glory in what we've done. And that's
all we do by nature. That's what all false religion
is. It's just taking the glory that belongs to God. God said,
that sinner I've called, you go home and read it in Isaiah
43. He said, the sinner I've called, I created him for my
glory. He's gonna get all the glory.
Ephesians 2 8 faiths not of us look at look here again. I'll go ahead and read this to
you, too, but look We were dead in sins, he said up there, and
he said, verse four, but God, who's rich in mercy, for his
great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in
sin, had quickened us together with Christ, by grace are you
saved. That's how we were born again.
Then look down here at verse eight. For by grace are you saved
through faith, and that not of yourselves. It's the gift of
God, not of works, lest any man should boast. You see, Christ
is the king. He's the king. He's the one who
comes to his lost child, sends us this gospel, prays the Father
who sends the Spirit, and God the Father, God the Son, God
the Holy Spirit, and the person of his Son is going to be exalted,
and he's going to exalt himself in our hearts and make us see
he did all the saving. He has established the law for
his people, and he's going to convince us of that, and he's
going to make us see that, and he's going to give you faith
to trust him. Christ is the King. And he came into this world king.
They came saying, where is he, this born king? He's been the
king since God the Father chose him to be the Christ. Look, there's one mediator between
God and men. And everything that has taken
place, Christ created the world, scripture says. Colossians says
everything was created by him and for him. That voice that
Adam heard in the garden that came and called him out of the
trees. That's Christ who did that. Pre-incarnate
Christ came. He saves all His people. Everybody
that's ever been saved has been saved by Christ Jesus. He entered
covenant with the Father to do the saving. And He's the one
that called Abraham and preached the gospel to Abraham. All through
the ages He's preached the gospel to His people. And then He came
in person, worked out all the work, fulfilled the law, fulfilled
the prophets, went to the cross, justified His people. Now He's
ascended back into glory as the God-man. In the end of chapter
1 in Ephesians, He said God gave Him all power. over all things,
seen and unseen, in heaven, earth, and hell. He has power over all,
and He's the head over all things to the church, and it's Christ
who fills all in all. He fills His pulpit with His
preacher, He fills His preacher with the message, He fills the
pew with the people He's going to save. He fills their hearts
with the gospel. He fills all in all, just like
He fulfilled the law and the prophets and all righteousness
and everything that we need to be accepted of God. Christ is
King, and when He saves you, He makes you know He did it.
He did it. any sinner. These men, they went
and they killed this man and they brought, they were going
to make David king. They were going to make him see,
we made you king. We acknowledge you as king. Now
give us a reward because we did all this for you. God's not going
to allow us, we're not going to be able to come to God and
say, look what we did. We deserve a reward from you
for what we did. No, we'll end up right where
these men ended up. Exactly where they ended up.
Now, I want you to see how Christ saves His people. Now, we're
told here in verse 4, 2 Samuel 4, 4. Jonathan, Saul's
son, he had a son that was lame of his feet. And he tells us
how it happened. He was five years old when the
tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel. And his nurse
took him up and fled. And it came to pass that she
made haste to flee that he fell, and he became lame. and his name
was Mephibosheth. Now Mephibosheth, he was also
the son of the enemy. He was the son of Saul. This
is Saul's grandson. You know, all who God saves come
into this world in the camp of the enemy. We all come into the
world in the camp of the enemy under the power of the devil.
Mephibosheth was lame. You know how he became lame?
By a fall. Well, everybody that comes into
this world is lame. Far worse than being crippled
on your feet. We're dead in trespassing and sin. How'd that happen? By
the fall. We were all in Adam and we fell. Look at Romans 5.12. Romans 5
and verse 12. Wherefore, as by one man sin
entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon
all men for that all have sin. Look past the parentheses down
to verse 18. If we're gonna be saved, we're
gonna be saved, we fell by the sin of another, if we're gonna
be saved, we're gonna be saved by the righteousness of another.
The last Adam, Christ Jesus, look, verse 18. Therefore, as
by the offense of one judgment came upon all men, all who Adam
represented to condemnation, even so by the righteousness
of one the free gift came upon all men under justification of
life, all men who Christ represented. Watch. For as by one man's disobedience
many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many
be made righteous. That one is Christ. Look, the
law entered that the offense might abound. The law's teaching
us we're guilty. The law wasn't given for you
to come to God by it, it was given to say you're guilty. But
where sin abounded, grace did much more abound, that as sin
hath reigned unto death, it reigned like a king and it killed us,
even so shall grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life
with Jesus Christ our Lord. Men say, well, He laid down his
life for everybody and made it possible for you to be saved.
Listen, when Adam sinned, does it say he made it possible for
you to become a sinner? When Adam fell in the garden,
did he make it possible for you to be a sinner? If you just sin,
you'll become a sinner? No, he made you guilty by what
he did. Well, by what Christ did, he
made his people righteous, and grace is gonna reign like a king,
because he's the king, and he's gonna make His people be born
again and robe us in His righteousness and bring us to glory. Christ
gets the glory. But we come into this world,
you see, like Mephibosheth, lame, spiritually dead in sins. Isaiah
1 said, from the sole of the foot to the head, there's no
soundness in it. Wounds and bruises and putrefying
sores, not been closed, not been bound, neither mollified with
ointment, dead in sin. Every bit of it, every part of
us. and you can't change it. Listen, Jeremiah said, the Lord
said, can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots?
Then may you do good who are accustomed to do evil. We can't
change what we are. We're like Mephibosheth. You
know what his name means? You know what Mephibosheth means?
It means reproach. It means a shameful thing. That's
us by nature. But 16 years before our text,
16 years before this, David and Jonathan entered into a covenant
with each other. I'll show it to you. Go back
to 1 Samuel 20. In 1 Samuel 20, here's what they said. 1 Samuel 20,
verse 14. Jonathan said, verse 14, he's
speaking of David, he says, thou shalt not only while yet I live
show me the kindness of the Lord that I die not, but also thou
shalt not cut off thy kindness from my house forever. No, not
when the Lord hath cut off the enemies of David, everyone from
the face of the earth. And so Jonathan made a covenant
with the house of David saying, let the Lord even require it
at the hand of David's enemies. And Jonathan calls David to swear
again because he loved him, for he loved him as he loved his
own soul. So they enter a covenant, and David promises, I'm going
to show mercy to everybody in your house. When I'm the king,
Jonathan, I will show all your people mercy, and I won't slay
them. That happened 16 years before
our text. Now in eternity, long before
we fell in Adam, Before we ever fell in at them, God the Father
and His Son entered into an everlasting covenant, just like Jonathan
and David did. That's what Jonathan and David's
covenant pictured. God the Father and God the Son
entered into a covenant. God the Father chose a people
and entrusted them to his son. And Christ entered a covenant
and said, I will save this people. I will work out a righteousness
for them. I will make them holy. I will call them. I will preserve
them. And I will bring them to you,
Father, faultless and present them faultless by everything
I've done for them. That's our salvation, that covenant,
that covenant. We need that. That's what he's
going to write on the heart is making you know my covenants
between me and my Son. You trust my Son." So, the Lord
Jesus came and laid down His life. Before we ever knew anything
about it, He accomplished this for us. Go back there to Romans
5 again. I'm trying to show you that our lameness
won't let us do anything to save ourselves. Look here at Romans
5, look at verse 6. When we were yet without strength
in due time, Christ died for the ungodly. When you're without
strength, he don't mean here, you know, when you get tired,
you say, well, I just tell, I can't hardly lift my arms up. I can't
hardly lift my head up. I'm so tired. No, we're talking
about no strength at all, dead. When we were without strength
and due time, Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for
a righteous man will one die, yet perventure for a good man
some would even dare to die. But God commendeth His love toward
us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Much more then, being now justified by His blood, we shall be saved
from wrath through Him. For if when we were enemies we
were reconciled to God by the death of His Son, much more being
reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. So, Christ does
for his spiritually dead people, lame, unable to save herself,
he does for us what David did for Mephibosheth. Now go with
me to 2 Samuel 9, just a few pages to your right from our
text. Verse 1, David said, Is there
yet any that's left of the house of Saul that I may show him kindness
for Jonathan's sake? You see that? I'm gonna do it
for Jonathan's sake. And there was of the house of
Saul a servant whose name was Ziba. And when they had called
him unto David, the king said to him, Art thou Ziba? And he
said, Thy servant is he. And the king said, Is there not
yet any of the house of Saul that I may show the kindness
of God unto him? And Ziba said to the king, Jonathan
hath yet a son which is lame on his feet. The king said unto
him, Where is he? And Ziba said unto the king,
behold, he's in the house of Maker, the son of Amel in Lodibar. And the king David sent and fetched
him out of the house of Maker, the son of Amel from Lodibar. Now David's in Jerusalem. He's
in the house of blessing. And Mephibosheth's in Lodibar,
that means the house of no bread. That's where me and you are by
nature, the house of no bread. Any sinner without Christ, anybody
who is religious without Christ, anybody trying to come to God
by the works of their hands, by what they've done, they're
in the house of no bread. But due to his covenant with
Jonathan, that's the only reason was this covenant with Jonathan.
David sent and fetched Mephibosheth to himself. That was because
of the covenant. God the Father and God the Son
are in this covenant, and for the sake of His Son, for the
sake of Christ, and for the sake of the Father, our Lord sends
the gospel and fetches His people to Himself. He fetches us to
Himself. And Mephibosheth couldn't do
anything. He's lame. and David sent and
fetched him. We can't do anything because
we're lame. I read Titus 3 to you because
it says, not by works of righteousness we did. We were sinners like
everybody else in this world. The Lord sent and fetched us.
Let's go to Psalm 65. I'm just almost done here, but
I want you to see a couple of scriptures. Psalm 65. Look at
verse 4. Blessed is the man thou choosest
and causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy
courts, we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house,
even of thy holy temple. Look at Psalm 110. Psalm 110,
this is familiar to you, but I want everybody to see it. Psalm
110, this is the Lord speaking, God the Father speaking to His
Son, and He said to the Son in verse 3, Thy people shall be
willing in the day of thy power. It's going to be in the day you
come in power and grant them repentance and give them life
and give them faith and you call them and fetch them and cause
them to come. That's when they're going to
come. All right, now let's see the end of those Christ saved. We saw the end of Banna and Reca. They come to the king trying
to seek a reward by what they did. And you know what it was?
It was murder. And anybody that tries to come
to God by the works of their hands, Scripture says you crucify
the Lord Jesus afresh. You put him to the death afresh
in your heart rejecting him. It's murder and God won't have
it. But let's see what happened now. Let's see what happened
to Mephibosheth. In 2 Samuel there in chapter
9 and verse 6. It says, now when Mephibosheth,
the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, was come to David, he
fell on his face and did reverence and said, and David said, Mephibosheth,
and he answered, behold, thy servant. That's how sinners come. When the Lord has made us know
we're the sinner, and can't do a thing, and yet he has shown
us grace and fetched us to himself. We come bowed down just like
Mephibosheth came. That's not how Abaddon and Rechab
came. They came in there proud, carrying that head and saying,
look what we did for you, David. And David said, kill them. But
when you come like Mephibosheth came, what happens? David told
him, you got no reason to fear. Look at verse seven. David said
to him, fear not. For I will surely show thee kindness
for Jonathan thy father's sake, and will restore thee all the
land of Saul thy father, and thou shalt eat bread at my table
continually. And he bowed himself and said,
what is thy servant that thou shouldest look upon such a dead
dog as I am? That's a totally different spirit
than the way the false religion has come. That's different from
how Banna and Racob came. A dead dog like me, Now here's
the end of those Christ saves, verse nine. And the king called to Ziba,
Saul's servant, said to him, I've given unto thy master's
son all that pertaineth to Saul and to all his house. David,
you know what that means? That means David made Mephibosheth
a prince. He made him a prince. I said,
who makes who king? Christ makes us his people kings
under God. but he's the king who does all. Verse 10, thou therefore and
thy sons and thy servant shall till the land for him and thou
shall bring in the fruits that thy master's son may have food
to eat. But Mephibosheth thy master's
son shall eat bread always at my table, David said. And look
at verse 13, so Mephibosheth dwelt in Jerusalem for he did
eat continually at the king's table and was laying on both
his feet. David restored more to Mephibosheth
than he had lost in Saul. He gave him everything that was
Saul's, plus gave him everything that was David's, plus set him
at his table and provided him servants and fed him all his
days. David did all that for him, and
David David provided all, that's what Christ is doing. He has
provided righteousness for his people, holiness for his people,
redemption for his people, he's the wisdom of his people. He
said, whatever you need in this life, temporal things, I'll provide
it for you. But he said, you're gonna sit
at my table continually. You don't have reason to fear,
I'm gonna keep you, I'm gonna provide for you, I'm gonna save
you, and I'm gonna do it all. And as people, all we do, all
we do is we say, Lord, How is it you give such grace to such
a dead dog like me? And you know what? When he was
seated at David's table, you couldn't see his lameness anymore.
His lame feet are under that table, and you can't see he's
lame. And brethren, under the blood of Christ, robed in his
righteousness, and everything Christ is done for his people,
God sees no lameness in his people. He sees his son. He looks at
his son and then he sees you and he says, you're as righteous
and as holy and as faithful and perfect as my son. It's all for
Christ's sake. God saves for his son's sake,
just like David did everything for Jonathan's sake, because
he's pleased with Christ. And I pray today, I pray this,
I pray the Lord would use this message Those servants that went
and fetched Ziba, they represent the preaching of the Gospel and
the Spirit of God working in the heart and fetching His people
to Him. And I pray today that God would
take these words and fetch, that Christ the King would fetch one
of His Mephibosheth's to Him today. And if He's already called
you, If he's already called you, those servants also represent.
What did they do? They tilled the ground, and they
harvested the fruit, and they brought it and put it on the
table, and the fish chef just ate it. I've been tilling the
ground this week, and I'm bringing the fruit, and God's gotta bless
it to you, but all you gotta do is just eat it. Just eat it.
And that's what I pray. I pray for you that don't know
him, he will fetch you to him, and for you that he has, that
he would make you delight, and just, as he said, Come to me
and let your soul delight itself in fatness. That's what I pray. All right, Brother Adam.