Normally, I would read through
the text, but I'm going to kind of skip through this first chapter
and just show you some very important things we need to know concerning
the Gospel. This was whenever David was old. He was at the end of his reign
as king, and he's in his bedchamber. He's sick. He's dying. And we
start reading here in verse 5, it says, Then Donijah, the son
of Haggath, this is David's son by Haggath, he exalted himself. When we read those words, you
know something bad is about to happen. When a man exalts himself,
it's always bad news. He exalted himself saying, I
will be king. And he prepared him chariots
and horsemen and fifty men to run before him. Now God had appointed
Solomon to be the king after David. Solomon is a type of Christ. He's a picture of Christ. The
Lord told David, A son shall be born to thee who shall be
a man of rest. That's the Lord Jesus Christ. He's born of the house of David. He's the man of rest. Peacemaker. I'll give him rest from all his
enemies round about. And he says, He'll have quietness. He'll make peace and quietness
under Israel in His days. And that's what our Lord has
done. He's made quietness and peace
for the chosen children of God, the spiritual Israel. And He
said He's going to build My house, and He's going to be a son to
me, and I'll be a father to Him, and I'll establish the throne
of His kingdom over Israel forever. We just saw the other night in
Scriptures, Thursday night, where the Lord He said, His name shall
be called Great. That means He's the Elder. He's
the firstborn Son of God. The Son of the Highest. The firstborn
Son of God. And God shall give Him the throne
of David. That's Christ Jesus. And the
end of His government is never ending. There's peace and peace
and peace. You can find that in Isaiah chapter
9 and verse 6. But here you've got Donijah.
a picture of a man by nature, an example of a sinner by nature. Donijah, he's the son of David,
and he exalted himself here and he says, well, I'll just be the
king. And God the Father has raised His Son, Christ Jesus,
King of kings and Lord of lords. He set His King in His holy hill
of Zion. To Him every knee is going to
bow, every tongue is going to confess. He's Lord of Lords and
King of Kings. We're going to either do it in
this earth by His grace, by His power and the wisdom, Christ
Himself, or we're going to do it at the announcement of His
name and glory. But either way, everything's
going to bow. Everything's going to bow. Well,
when the natural man hears that, When the natural man hears that
there's someone else that's king, Solomon's going to be the king,
Christ is king, you're not king. Man says in his heart, no God. Not if you read the text, not
there is no God. There is, as added by the translators,
no God. No. That's what the naturally
religious The carnal man and every man by nature is naturally
religious. And when he hears there is one
King, when he hears there is one Lord, one Sovereign to whom
God has given the charge to provide, to care for, to establish, to
purge the sins of His people, to care for His whole house that
He has given to Him and bring them to Him in glory and present
them to Him spotless without blame and that He shall He's
finished the work of redemption. He's accomplished it in His brethren.
And He's working right now from the throne of glory. He's sending
forth His servants, His messengers with His gospel. And He's speaking
through the word of His messengers. And He's creating peace in the
hearts of His people. They know Him because He knows
them. But this man said, no, I'm not
going to go for that. Not going to go for that. So
he prepared some chariots. And he got him some horsemen,
and he got 50 men gathered up together to run before him. They're
going to all run along before him, and the horses and the chariots,
and he's going to come along in the chief chariot with the
finest stallions, and everybody's going to be saying, here's the
king. This is the king. This is the king. These men are paid hirelings. That's what they are. He's paying
them. And they'll do his bidding. They'll
do what he wants them to do. They'll declare him anything
he wants them to declare. Now, verse 6, it says, And his
father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why hast
thou done so? And he also was a very goodly
man. And his mother buried him after Absalom. And he conferred
with Joab the son of Zoriah, and with Abiathar the priest.
And they followed him and helped him. We can fool other folks,
carnally religious folks, with our carnal show of religion. We can fool others. This man
right here appeared to be who he said he was to everybody.
And everybody that saw him, he appeared to everybody that heard
him and saw him, he appeared to be exactly what he was. He
conferred with Joab, who was one of the princes of the army.
And with Abiathar the priest, these were well-known, well-respected
men, people that the folks, when they saw that these folks were
with him, this would give them some credibility. This would
make folks look at him and say, well, he's with the right people. But these men were hirelings
also. They followed him and helped him. They were looking to feed
themselves. They were looking to help themselves
through him. He was the oldest living son. Absalom was dead. And he was
a good man. By all appearances, he appeared
to be a fine man. And David hadn't stopped him.
David hadn't said, why have you done this? God the Father. We see here with most cases,
David's a type of Christ. But here we see David. the father and Solomon's the
son in this passage. And David hadn't stopped him.
God will let men go for a long time. He'll let men go for a
long time in their rebellion and appearing good and doing
their best to appear righteous before men. And he'll let them
go for a while like that. But eventually, if they're Eventually,
if he knew them from before the foundation of the world and put
them in Christ, eventually, he's going to stop them in their tracks.
And he's going to say, why are you persecuting me? Why are you
persecuting me and exalting yourself as the King? Look at verse 8
here. But Zadok the priest, and Beneha
the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet, and Shimei, and
Rai, And the mighty men which belonged to David, they weren't
with Donijah. These men weren't hirelings.
These men were true to King David. They were true to God. You recognize Nathan the prophet
here. There's a priest here. There's other princes, other
mighty men. These were all men that were
loyal to David. They were loyal to David. And
Donijah, they weren't with him. They weren't conspiring with
him in this thing. And Donatio knew it. He knew
they weren't for it. He knew they were loyal to the
king. And so he didn't have anything to do with them. You notice here
that the divider, I want you to see this now, the divider
here, the one who's separating, the one who's trying to get folks
away from other folks, is not Nathan. The priest is not the
men that are loyal to the king. God's saints are not dividers.
That's what God saved us from. He saved us from dividing, from
division and confusion and trying to reign and compel and make
men follow us and make men do and make men bow and make men
serve God. You know that when Adam sinned
in the garden, You know the first thing that
he did when he sinned, after he fell in the garden and died
spiritually? You know the first thing he did? He went off and committed adultery. No. He went off and he stole
something. No. He committed murder. No. No. He did something righteous. He
tried to cover himself. He tried to cover his nakedness.
It's not all the sins that men break. That's the problem. It's the
one sin that they think they've corrected. That's the problem. That's what's keeping men from
Christ. Not your sin. your immorality, not your lewdness. It's that licentiousness of thinking,
I fixed it. I've covered myself. I've done
something to make myself presentable to God. Have you done one thing
to make yourself presentable to God? If you have, that's one
more thing you've got to be safe from. That's right. The work
of God is not to try to compel sinners to be up and doing for
God. That's what Adam did. Men want
to do. Men love to do. That's not hard. I can get men to do. I can get
men to follow after anything. Look around. Men will follow
after anything. They will follow anything. Believe anything. Bow to anything. Do anything
but the work of God. You remember in John chapter
6 when those fellows come to the Lord Jesus Christ and they
said, what's the work of God? What is it that we must do that
we might work the works of God? And when our Lord Jesus Christ
answered them in John chapter 6, our Lord took the role of
a preacher. He took the role of a witness
of Christ. And he said, this is the work.
Believe on him whom God hath sent. And they murmured and said,
well, show us something. Show us something. We want a
religious man always got to see some kind of evidence. Show me
something. And he said, this is the work,
that you believe on him whom he sent. And he just kept on
telling them, I'm the bread. I'm the life. If you come to
me, you never hunger and thirst." And everything he said is the
gospel. He said, I didn't come to do my own will. I came to
do the will of Him that sent me. This is the will of Him that
sent me. Everyone that He's given to me,
they shall come to me. And he says, why they will? Because
the Father will draw them. No man can unless he draws them.
And He will draw them. And when He draws them, they
will come to me. And when they come to me, I won't
cast them out because I was sitting here not to do my will, but His
will. And when they come to me, I'll save them. And this is His
will that all that come to me, I'll raise them up in the last
day. That's what I came to do. And they kept arguing something
else. Well, Moses, they knew all about
the their dead prophet, they knew all about that great man
of the Reformed religion that they looked up to, like so many
do. I can quote and tell what he
believed. It ain't what he believed, it's
what you believe. But they didn't understand Moses,
they didn't understand the bread that came down from heaven, they
didn't understand any of that. They didn't have any clue what
the Scriptures were teaching. And he sat there, he didn't change
from what the work he taught them, the Gospel. He didn't try
to compel them to do anything. And he said, and this is why
I do it, because my father's going to make them come. Now
they asked him, what's the work of God? He told them, the work
of God is to trust his son. That's the work of God. And he
showed them what the work of God is for somebody who trusts
his son, and that is to just simply set forth his son, who
he is, what he's done, what he's accomplished, and wait on God
to draw them and make them obedient to Christ. That's the work that
no sinner can do unless God makes him obedient. Do you get what
I'm saying? The message, the works are to
trust Christ yourself. Trusting Him, you fulfill the
whole law of God. He's the solid rock. A solid rock is established through
faith in Him. We've established the Lord. That's
the work for you. Trust Him. And as far as men
are concerned, when He gives you that love for men and that
pureness of heart where now you're going to speak honest and not
deceitful and not crafty and not use the strength of your
hand and try to compel and make sinisters, now you're going to
do The second aspect of that work, which is love your brethren,
and love your brethren means you're going to just set forth
Christ and wait on God to do the work. Deviate from that,
and you're not doing the works of God. You're doing the lusts
of your own flesh. I want the glory for making men
obedient. I want the glory. I want to be
the king. There's one king. He's suffering. Do you believe he's suffering? You believe He's sovereign in
salvation? You believe He's sovereign in calling? He's sovereign in
making His people obedient? He's sovereign in making His
people bow down and trust Him and follow Him? You believe He's
sovereign? If we do, we'll set Him forth
and wait on God to do the rest. What if my brother turns to the
left or to the right and I see him in error and I know he's
in error? Paul told Timothy, rebuke with all authority. How did he save you? Did he whip you? Did he bind you,
tie you up? He revealed what everlasting
that though you were a vile maggot in His sight, He loved you. Though you hated Him with every
fiber of your being, He wouldn't take no. He came in mercy. He came in grace. He came in
love. You know who you rebuke with
all authority? The false prophet and the false
hucksters and the false kings who want to use some other method,
who want to preach some other gospel, who want to use craftiness
of words to muddle this word of truth, who speak out of an
impure, deceitful, crafty, dishonest heart, rebuke them with all authority. They profess to know God, but
in works. What do you think of when you
hear that? I bet everyone out here is thinking about morality,
aren't you? That's not it. He said, they're abominable.
What did the Lord say to the Pharisees? You do that which
is highly esteemed among men. Men love to be told to do something. Men love to be told to tithe.
Men love to be told to do this or that. You won't shut them
up to Christ. And He said, what you highly
esteem, God hates. It's an abomination. It's stinking
sulfurous gas to Him. They profess to know Him, but
they're disobedient. They preach obedience. They do
go to great lengths to make men obedient. They go to great lengths
to yoke and bind and put men under the law and try to make
them obedient and guilty and feel bad all the time and constantly
to get them to do something. And in every bit of that, they're
disobedient to God. Those are the men that need to
be rebuked. And when they hear this word of discipline, They'll
prove that they don't care anything about obedience, because they're
going to bow to God. They'll go on in that yoking.
You know why? They don't believe that Christ
is the power and wisdom of God. You know why? They ain't never
been called. Paul said, as we have received
mercy. How did he receive it? He got
knocked on his rear end and said, Saul, stop. You've gone on in
this madness long enough. Now follow me. And if you've received mercy
that way, you'll know that Christ Jesus is the power and wisdom
of God. And you'll no longer want to
try to take the excellency that belongs to him. You'll bow and
you'll say, Lord, what's the one thing you've given me to
do? Hold up the banner. Who's your banner? Christ Jesus
the Lord is our banner. Hold up the banner. Hold up the
ensign. Blow the trumpet. Declare all
flesh is grass and thy God reigneth. What else? This is the work. You believe
Him? You believe Him? Hold up the
banner. But what if my brother errs and
he turns and he goes off and I know he's in immorality doing
something immoral? Go to him in mercy and love like
Christ came to you. Hold up the banner. Don't take
the banner. Slap him. Try to wake him up,
move him, and trot him and yoke him and rope him. Don't do that.
Go to him in love. Hold up the banner. If you've been saved this way,
that's all you can do. Because you know you've got no
other power, no other wisdom, no other righteousness, no other
sanctification, no other redemption, no other king, who can do what
he can do. And you just hold up the banner. That's all. That's all. And the moment we turn from that,
though we might profess to know one, we might know the five points
of Calvinism, upside one, upside one side and down the other.
We may have a creed we can quote to you backwards and forwards.
We may be in the right church with the right people, have chariots
and horsemen and fifty men running before us saying that we're a
good man, we're son of David, we're king of God, made a king
of God. I have everybody saying that
about us. But God who knows the heart said, they profess to know
me. but they're abominable, disobedient,
and every good work they do, reprobate. Reprobate. Is that the gospel you've heard?
Is that the gospel that saved you? You see, this gospel really
does take everything out of my hands, everything out of your
hands, and puts everything squarely in the hands of the one who can
save. This is the one we've got to
trust. This is the one we've got to cast all our care on.
If I don't trust Him in, you know, the commandments of this,
love the Lord thy God with all your heart and love your brethren
as yourself. You know how you're going to
love the Lord your God with all your heart? Trust His Son. Trust His Son. You know how you're
going to love your brethren as yourself? Trust your Son. You know how you're going to
show true love to your brethren? Declare the Son. Strengthen your brethren. You
know what the spirit of meekness is? Considering yourself, lest
you also be tempted. You know what that is? The spirit
of meekness is having been made to tremble because you've seen
Christ the Lord. You've seen His power. You've
seen He's the power and wisdom unto salvation. You've seen Him.
You've heard Him. He's made your heart to melt
within you. And so now, all you can do, all
you can do is say what He has said in the way He said it, and
not try to water it down, not try to make it less offensive,
not try to craft it just so that you don't really offend anybody
with it. You just say it the way He said it. That's meekness. Now, the men that you say that
to, the world and men around you, Maybe your own brethren,
the ones right here with you, I don't know. They may say, well,
you ought to be more gracious. You know, you could be more meek
in a way. You just, you're just so straightforward in a way.
I'm not talking about being mean. I'm talking about just saying
the truth. You just say these things that
Christ said. They may say you're bold. They
may say you're arrogant. They may say you're dogmatic.
They may say, well, he don't talk about anything else but
Christ. If Christ is your all, that's all you're going to want
to talk about. But the flip side of that is
this thing that most men call meekness, where they come and
they're so gentle and sugar won't melt in their mouth, they're
so sweet and kind to you, but they won't tell you that everything
you're doing is a lie and everything you're doing is falsehood and
God hates it. They might appear very meek and
gracious and lowly to you, but to God they're arrogant and bold
and defiant saying, I can craft this Word better than what you
can. I can make this Word effectual better than what you can. I can
do with this Word more than what you can do with it. It might
appear meek to men, but it's bold, defiant rebellion against
God. True meekness is trusting God,
trembling at His Word, and therefore it's pureness of heart. There's
no more hypocrisy. And hypocrisy is, you're speaking
about God, but not doing what God has said to do. Not saying
what God has said. That's hypocrisy. I don't even
know where I'm at now. All right. So, Donijah, let's
look here in verse 9, what he did. I won't get through this. Verse
9, Donijah slew sheep and oxen and fat cattle by the stone of
Zoheloth, which is by En-Rogel. That's a fountain. And he called
all his brethren, the king's sons, and all the men of Judah,
the king's servants. But watch this. Nathan the prophet,
and Beneha, and the mighty men, and Solomon and his brother,
he didn't call them. You know why? If he calls them,
they're going to come down there and tell him the truth. They're
going to come down there and say, Solomon's king, you're not
king. And they're going to tell everybody
in the room, Solomon's king, this man's not king, this man's
a fraud. So he didn't invite them. Who
did the separating? Who did the dividing? And he
invited some of their brethren, their brothers, he invited down
there with them. But he didn't invite them. He
did the separating. He separated Himself. Verse 11, Wherefore, Nathan spake
unto Bathsheba, the mother of Solomon, and he said, Hast thou
not heard that Denijah, the son of Haggath, doth reign? And David
our Lord knoweth it not. Now therefore, come, let me,
I pray thee, give thee counsel Thou mayest save thine own life
and the life of your son Solomon." Now Nathan here is the prophet
of God. He's the messenger of Christ Jesus the Lord. And when
we see him as the messenger, we see what a true messenger
does. You know who he came to? He came to the bride. That's
who he came to. Bathsheba, the wife. He came
to the bride. And he said, there's somebody
else trying to reign. What am I saying to you tonight?
What am I here saying to you? I'm here saying to you, to you, the bride, there's somebody
else trying to reign. And he's not the king. He can't
reign. If he reigns, the Father's name
is diminished. His glory is taken away. If this
false king reigns, the bride's going to perish. She's going
to perish. But when we hear him saying this,
we have to think of Christ the prophet, Christ the shepherd,
Christ the one who rules in the hearts of his under-shepherds. That's who we see here. He's
coming here and saying to her... Now listen to what he says, verse
13. He says, go, get thee in unto King David. He doesn't say, don't gather
up a big troop and let me gather up a big troop. I've got all
these mighty men. These men that he had with him,
that Nathan had with him, these were the mighty men of David. These were the men that had slain
lions. and had fought battles and won victory after victory
after victory for Nathan. Nathan had the manpower that
if he wanted to try to stop this by force, he could have took
off down there to go to Niger and his little group of 50 men
and wiped them out. No problem. But you know what
he does? Go to the king. Go to the father. Go to the father. Seek him. Seek him now. Watch
this. Go get thee unto God. And look
what he says. Petition God. Petition Him. Ask
Him. Ask the Father. Ask Him. Ask
Him. Ask Him. Based on what? Look at this now. And say unto Him, Didst not thou,
my Lord, O King, swear unto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon
thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne?
Why then doth thou not Ah, petition Him based on what? Covenant. Petition Him based on His Word. You know how this whole thing
is going to be solved? Through the Word. That's what I'm trying
to tell you. This whole thing is going to
be solved through the Word. No other way. So He says, go to
the Father. Go to Him who is The beginning. Go to Him who is the Word. Go
to Him. Petition Him based on His covenant
Word, His covenant promise. You promise Christ the King is
going to reign. Father, I see other kings reigning,
whether it's in my son, whether it's in my household, whether
it's in my wife, my husband, my family, in my community, wherever
it is. Lord, for this group right here, for
this body, for this crew. Lord, You promised me Christ
is going to reign. And Lord, we trust You. We're
counting everything on Your Word. Everything. And this is what Nathan says,
and while You petition Him, so will I. He says, Behold, while
Thou yet talkest there with the King, I also will come in after
Thee and confirm Thy Word. Now he's a man, he's Nathan the
prophet. He's going to go in there and he said, I'm going
to say the same thing that you're saying to him. I'm going to petition
him based on the same promise, with the same word, asking him
to save us by just his word. I'm going to go in and ask him
to do this. Are you asking for that? Are
you? Are you? He said, in the mouth
of two or three witnesses, let every word be established. Go
to him and say, Lord, I'll tell you where this work's going to
be done. If there's a group of folks here that he's saved by
his grace, they're all going to be asking one thing, one thing.
Not for how you're going to do it, how the details are going
to be worked out, and how I want everything intricately to happen.
That don't matter. However he does it, it'll be
fine. But this, Lord, You put these people in Christ, the King. And in covenant promise, Your
glory, Your honor, Your name is behind this promise. And we
trust Your Word. We trust Your promise. We trust
it by Your Word. You're able to raise up. You're
able to save. You're able to put down false
kings and raise up. And we trust You. And I tell
you, if there's two or three here that He's given that heart,
He'll break America's economy to provide for you. You don't
believe it. Read Isaiah 23. Tyre was a big,
flourishing, thriving city. And he destroyed that city completely.
Made them go 70 years with nothing. And then he said, and then I'm
going to turn to them in mercy. And they raised back up and they
went right back to their same He calls it being harlots. They
went right back to prostituting themselves just to make money
and commerce and thrive and all that. But he said, this time,
all their commerce and all is going to be to feed my priests
and my brethren. And all those years later, we
find Paul sailing in a ship, and he ends up, and they go,
and they stop at Tyre, and he gets out. And you know who greets
him? some disciples of the Lord. That's a Gentile island nation. And they met. And he said, that's
why I did this. He says it in Isaiah 23. That's
why to stain the pride of men from thinking they can provide
for themselves. I did this all, broke you down, and then raised
you back up, let you go on in your madness just to provide
for. You know what he did? He spread
them out amongst the children of Israel. so that the believers,
the elect remnant among them, they could hear the Word preached
to them. And all those many years later,
I don't know how he worked all that out, but I know this, he
said he would do it, and he did it. He did it. Well, but Christ is the righteous
man. The effectual, fervent prayer
of a righteous man availeth much. You're not going to make your
prayer effectual. And the only way you're going
to be right in your prayer is if you're trusting Christ your
righteousness to effectually save. That's true prayer. That's
true faith. That's praying with not wavering,
just, Lord, I don't know how you're going to do it, but I'm
trusting your Word. You'll do it. You'll do it. I'm trusting
you. Anything else is lust of the flesh. He said that's wanting
to pat yourself on the back, When we all got together and
prayed, there's great power in prayer. There's great power in
the one to whom we pray. It's not your prayer that's going
to save anybody. It's Him to whom you pray. And
if you're a righteous man, you'll say, Amen. I'm thankful that
it's so. He ever liveth to make intercession. He ever liveth to make intercession.
As you're petitioning Him, Christ goes in. Go, he just is there. But we see the picture here with
Nathan. As you're petitioning him, the bride's petitioning
him. Nathan said, I'll come in. And he'll hear me. He'll hear
me. And he did. Now watch this. Let me skip down here a little
bit so we can hurry up. Verse 28. Then King David answered
and said, Call me Bathsheba. And he said to her most assuredly,
verse 30, Even as I swear unto thee by the Lord God of Israel,
saying, Assuredly, Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and
he shall sit upon my throne in my stead, even so will I certainly
do this day. Then Bathsheba bowed with her
face to the earth, and did reverence to the king, and said, Let my
Lord King David live forever. You know how the Lord is going
to make you tremble and bow at his words? He's going to bring
you into an absolutely hopeless, helpless situation to where you're
hedged in by thorns on every side, and you can't save yourself. And then He's going to make you
call. He makes you call. He makes you pray. He puts the
prayer in your heart, and that's the one He receives. And then
He answers. And when He answers you by saying,
I'm going to exalt my Son. You bow. You bow. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. He said, Call Zadok. He said, Call me Zadok. Verse
32, the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benehi the son of
Jehoiada, and they came before the king. And the king also said
unto them, Take with you the servants of your Lord, and call
Solomon my son to ride upon my own mule, for he shall be king
in my stead. I have appointed him to be ruler
over Israel and over Judah. Oh boy, look at this now. Here's David representing the
Father, God the Father. And he calls his ministers, his
true servants, with one charge. Get your head around this now.
Zadok is the priest. Who's our high priest? It's Christ. Nathan is the prophet. Who's
the prophet of God? Christ is. Beneha is the captain
of the army. Who's the captain of our warfare? Who's accomplished the victory? Christ has. He says, you go. You go. You go. This is for the glory of Christ.
Christ sends his messenger to his servant and says, now you
go to the Father. They go to the Father. He says,
and as you pray to the Father, I'll make intercession for you.
And then the father says, now go. And he comes. See who's getting the glory?
The true king is. He's doing all the work. The
government's on his shoulder. It always has been since God
put a people in him, gave them to him. The world wasn't destroyed. You know why? He upheld it by
the word of his power when Adam sinned. What word? His covenant
word. He's doing all this. Christ is
doing all this. He says, and go get the servants of the Lord. Now he's going to go to his,
these represent his preachers, and he said, now you go through
them and you send them. And here's what you do. All the
while what you're doing is you're setting my son Solomon on God
the Father's mount, on my own mule. Nobody but the king could
ride that. And everybody knew that was David's. Everybody knew that was David's.
The only one that was going to have that authority and that
power to ride on that steed was the one that the Father had said
is the King. And He says, now you go telling
them this. You go walking before the people
with this, with this. And He says, and bring him down to
Gihon, to Gihon. And he says this, I got to say that, you know,
that Gahan right there, that, that, that, uh, let me see here.
What verse it is. Verse, uh, 33 verse 33. Take the King also said, take
with you the service of the Lord. Call Solomon, my son to ride
up on my own mule and bring him down to Gahan. You know what
that is? Gahan. That's the pool of Shiloah. Now let me tell you about the
pool of Shiloah. That's where the king is anointed. That's
where they're taking him to, to anoint him, at this pool of
Shiloah. Years later, Ahaz was king of
Israel, king of Judah, and they was having all kinds of war and
all kinds of problems, and Ahaz had turned away from God and
he said, I better make a confederacy with Assyria to help me out here."
That's an illegal confederacy. He's not trusting God. And God
said, now, Isaiah, you go forth and you meet Him. You take your
son, Shurjazam, whose name means, the remnant shall be saved. You
take that boy with you, and you go down there to the pool of
Shiloah, where the king's son was anointed. Go down there and
you tell him, ask a sign of me, Ahaz. Ask the sign of God's salvation. Ahaz, pretending to be holy,
oh, I can't ask God for a sign. He didn't want the sign. He didn't
want to have to bow to the sign. He said, God can give you a sign
anyway. Behold, a virgin shall conceive, the Son of God. Holy God, holy
man, behold, a virgin shall bear a son, the firstborn, the only
son that ever opened the womb. Remember those two ordinances
he gave them when he brought them out of Egypt? Sacrifice
a Passover lamb, because I provided you a lamb. And sanctify unto
me all the firstborn sons that opened the womb. You don't think
a man ever fulfilled the law of God, do you? You know what he was saying?
Your firstborn sons in Egypt, in Israel, were spared in Egypt.
Because they're my choice sons in my firstborn son. And my firstborn
son is the Lamb. And He's the only one. The wounds
opened at conception. He was born of the Holy Ghost.
She was a virgin when she had Him. He's the first Son that
ever really opened the womb. He's the firstborn Son. He's
the firstborn and He's the Lamb. And behold, a virgin shall believe. She's going to call Him Immanuel.
And what He did for that virgin is what He does for all His virgins.
He comes in power through the waters of Shiloah that go softly. They're not violent, streaming
waters. It's the Gospel. He just goes forth in a word. Nathan didn't get all these powerful
men. He said, listen, we've got to go to God. We've got to go
in and ask Him. He'll send forth Christ the Word.
He'll accomplish this. And that's what He did. You know
what happened years later at the Pool of Shaloha? Christ Himself
came to a blind man and put mud all over his eyes and He said,
if you want to see, go wash in the Pool of Shaloha. And the
blind man went and washed and he came away seeing. That pool
of shallower represents Christ. It represents the gospel of the
word. It represents the one who's going to wash you and cleanse
you and make you come away seeing. That's right where they were
sitting when Solomon was anointed king. I love that. I just think God is amazing how
he does those things. All right, now let's close it
up. Let's finish it up here. Well, we go through all this
and they anoint him. And he says this, verse 34, let
Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him their king
over Israel and blow ye with the trumpet and say this. This is how this is all going
to be accomplished now. You just go forth as my servants
and make sure everybody sees the king, blow the trumpet and
say, God save the king. Here's the King. Here's the King. That's all I've been trying to
tell you since I've been here. I've been trying to set Christ
before you, blow the trumpet, and say, God save the King. God save the King. This is the
King. This is the King. And when the
people heard it, boy, they went to shouting and carrying on. And He said, didn't you come
up after Him? that they may come and sit upon my throne, for he
shall be king in my stead. I've appointed him to be ruler
over Israel, over Judah." They didn't come up before him. They
came up behind him, blowing the trumpet, saying, here's the king.
And he said, you do that, that he might come up and sit on my
throne. That's how you're going to come up and sit on his throne.
It's by the king. By the king. Verse 40, And all
the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes
and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth was just full
of the sound of all these people. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Look down at verse
41. And Danijah and all the guests
that were with him heard it as they made an end of their eating.
There they are down there just having their big old feast. praising
their king, patting one another on the back, all in a big show
of vanity. But they heard this noise. And
when Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, Wherefore
is this noise of the city being in an uproar? And while he yet
spake, Behold, Jonathan, the son of Abiathar, the priest,
came. And Donadiah said unto him, Come in, thou art a valiant
man, and bring us good tidings. Tell me what I want to hear now.
He buttered him up a little bit. Now, tell me something good.
I told you something good. You're a valiant man full of
good tidings. Now, tell me some good tidings. And Jonathan answered. He was a valiant man full of
good tidings. Jonathan answered and he said
to Denijah, Verily, our Lord King David has made Solomon king.
Oh, don't Nigel didn't want him to come into that feast. He didn't
want him coming down there saying that, that Christ is king. Oh, said anybody down here, why'd
you have to come down here and say that? And Jonathan answered and said,
Verily, our Lord King David hath made Solomon king, and moreover
the king's servants came to bless our Lord King David. Everybody's
blessing him. Everybody's praising the Father
through his king. Verse 48, And also thus said
the king, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, which hath given
one to sit on my throne through this day. Mine eyes have seen
it. And all the guests. He said even the Father is rejoicing
in this. Everybody's rejoicing in this.
Oh, and all the guests that were with Donatia were afraid. Uh-oh. You mean you've been a false
prophet, Donatia? You mean you're a false king?
You mean all this feast we've been feasting in is a lie and
you're not the king? And they rose up and went every
man his way. They scattered. They were fleeing for their lives
is what happened. God has raised Christ from the
dead, set Him at His own right hand in heavenly places, far
above all principality and power and might and dominion and every
name that's named. and hath put all things under
His feet, and gave Him to be the head over all things to the
church, which is His body." He's one with it. Now, considering
the King, and the power, and the might, and the wisdom that
He has, and considering that His bride is of His own flesh
and blood, flesh and bones, as one with Him. As Paul said, when
a husband leaves his wife and joins himself with his wife,
and they too become one flesh. I speak of mystery, but I speak
of Christ and the church. That's how one they are. Now,
do you think, do you think He's going to let one Donatia and
all His host of hirelings separate his body, his bride, one member,
one sinner he saved by grace, do you think he's going to allow
them to separate you from him? Can't happen. Can't happen. And if you know that, if you
know that, you know what you can do? If
you called me up tomorrow and you said, Oh, Cyril, he's gone
off the deep end. We got problems. We need you
to come over here and see if you can't talk to him, get him
straightened out. You know what I'd come tell Cyril? I'd come to him in the same spirit
I'm coming to you, and I'd sit down with him, and I'd put my
arm around him, and I'd tell him exactly about this king I
just told you. And if God don't straighten him
out with the king, he ain't going to be straightened out. Can you
do that? Can you trust Christ and love
one another and support one another and help one another, trusting
Christ to do the work? I think you can. I think you
can by his grace. This is the God who reigns. This
is the God who saves. This is the God who is able.