Let's be turning to 2 Samuel
chapter 2. I'm going to begin reading our
text is the first 11 verses but let's begin by reading the first
three and I'll be making some comments as we cover this. Verse 1, it came to pass after
this that David inquired of the Lord. saying, Shall I go up into
any of the cities of Judah? And the LORD said unto him, Go
up. And David said, Whither shall
I go up? And he said unto Hebron. So David
went up thither, and his two wives also, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess,
and Abigail, Nabal's wife, the Carmelite. And his men that were
with him did David bring up, every man with his household.
and they dwelt in the cities of Hebron." So, things have changed. Things have changed dramatically
here. Saul is dead, and David is now
able to go back into the land, the body of the people of God. He's returning there. He does
this according to the Lord's will, so that he brings his wives
and his children with him. If this was a dangerous place,
one wouldn't want to bring their wives and children there if there
was still some risk for David. But he's trusting the Lord. He's
sought the Lord. He's asked the Lord. And the
Lord told him, go. And he believes the word of the
Lord. He trusts him to go up. And the
other thing that's noticeable here is that while David was
in league with the Philistines, when he was ready to go to war
in league with the Philistines against Israel, we don't read
of David inquiring of the Lord. We don't read of him seeking
the Lord to know what the Lord would have him to do. It wasn't
until he left the ranks of the Philistines just before they
went to battle against Saul. It wasn't until he left then
that he began to seek the Lord. And we saw when we were there
how that was a merciful delivery of the Lord to take David out
from being with the Philistines. And from what it looks like in
the scriptures, he was ready to go to war against the people
of God. And yet, when he leaves there,
when the Lord delivers him, and he comes out from them, and he
returns to Ziklag, that's when there was great trouble that
arose. There was great trouble that arose. His wife, his wives,
and his children, including all the wives and children of the
men that were with him, were taken away by the Amalekites,
I'm pretty sure it was. And they took them, and they
almost stoned David. There was almost a mutiny there,
but that's when he began to seek the Lord, whether he should go
after them. And the Lord said, go after them
and you'll be successful. And so David did that. And now
he's seeking the Lord because Saul is dead. Saul is dead. You'll remember, I say this often,
but it's good to remember, to help you when you're reading
the scriptures, that wherever you read of the Philistines in
scripture, they're a picture of the sin of this flesh. They're a picture of the wicked
thoughts in our hearts and minds, our thoughts, words, and deeds.
That's what they picture sin, and Saul is very often a picture
of the old man of flesh. He's a picture of our old man
of flesh. The folly of Saul, that's the
folly of this flesh. That's the ignorance and the
willful ignorance and the rebellion and sinfulness of this flesh
coming out. So with that man mortified now,
David seeks the Lord. And David returns to the body
of God's people there in Judah. And so there's something very
familiar to our experience as a believer whose flesh is often
a trouble to us. The flesh is not improved any
way. It's only kept, it's only put
down by the grace and the power of God, by the spirit of God. And so it's through that grace
and sanctification of our Lord that the lusts that would rise
up in us are put down, and subdued, and captured, and taken captive.
Every thought is taken captive to the obedience of Christ. and
where the Lord works and where the Lord manifests his grace
and his spirit that this flesh is subdued and mortified and
put down. Paul tells us, let me just read
a few things on this that Paul has said, that to be carnally
minded is death. For you to focus your attention
and thoughts on this world and preserving this body to the exclusion
of worshipping God and serving the Lord and gathering with his
people, that's just death. Okay, so you've improved your
stature in this life. That's just death. Apart from
the Lord, that's just death. But to be spiritually minded
is life and peace. And then another place in Colossians,
Paul says, mortify, put to death, therefore, your members which
are upon the earth. And then he lists a number of
sins in a few verses, but what he said here in Colossians 3.5
was fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence
and covetousness, which is idolatry, and those sins especially have
a bend towards sexual sins, many of them, where you see that lustfulness
and that uncleanness that is in this flesh. But a little further
down, He explains in Colossians 3, 9, in the second half of that
verse in verse 10, seeing that ye have put off the old man with
his deeds and have put on the new man, which is renewed in
knowledge after the image of him that created him. That's
not a fleshly work. The flesh doesn't put off the
flesh. The flesh would never put off the flesh. The flesh
may, as a hypocrite, may play a game and put on a show. But the flesh never puts off
the flesh. That's a spiritual work, which
newborn creatures in the Lord Jesus Christ do by the spirits. The spirits work in you. It's
him working that in you. And so Paul said to the Corinthians,
I die daily. I die daily. There's a constant
dying to this flesh. There's a constant putting off
this flesh. There's a constant denial of this flesh because
there's a love for the Lord and serving the Lord and hearing
the Lord and seeking the Lord. We don't do those things that
we know would just crush us. We do them and that's why we
don't want to do them because we know when we do them how it
just hurts us and it makes us unprofitable in the body while
we're focused on ourselves rather than focusing on the Lord and
serving Him and one another. Verse four then, and the men
of Judah came and there they anointed David king over the
house of Judah. And they told David saying that
the men of Jabesh Gilead were they that buried Saul. So these
men of Judah, they come here and they show great faith in
the promises of God. Great faith in the promises of
God. First of all, they believe the
promise that was made long ago according to the word of Jacob
about Judah being the tribe in which the kingdom would be established. It would come through the tribe
of Judah when Jacob said the scepter, the king's scepter,
shall not depart from Judah nor a lawgiver from between his feet
until Shiloh come and unto him shall the gathering of the people
be. And then they show great faith
in that they knew, they'd heard, they knew that Samuel had anointed
David king to succeed Saul. When the Lord would bring it
to pass, he would succeed Saul. That's back in 1 Samuel 16, 13,
when Samuel heard the voice of the Lord say, arise, this is
he. This is he. And he 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. And we're told
a few verses later there that the spirit departed from Saul. And it rested on David. So these
men were acknowledging the will of God. They were recognizing. They were believing the will
and word of the Lord in anointing David king over the house of
Judah. And yet we see wisdom there.
They were very careful. And David was careful not to
force David on any of the other people. There was no inquisition
there. They trusted the Lord. They anointed
him because they believed the word of the Lord, but they waited
on the Lord to reveal him in the heart of the people, to make
him their king also, to come and anoint him their king. And
then being king, he probably inquired about Saul's body, right? He inquired, he wanted to make
sure he had an honorable burial, and that's when they told him
about the men of Jabesh Gilead and what they had done. And David,
it says in verse five there, that he sent messengers unto
the men of Jabesh Gilead. As in one of his first acts as
a king, he sends word, and said unto them, blessed be ye of the
Lord, that ye have showed this kindness unto your Lord, even
unto Saul, and have buried him. And now the Lord show kindness
and truth unto you. And I also will require you this
kindness, because ye have done this thing. Therefore now let
your hands be strengthened and be ye valiant for your master
Saul is dead and also the house of Judah have anointed me king
over them." And what he's saying there, he's saying a word of
comfort. He's saying though you have lost your king Saul, Be
comforted, because Judah's made me king, and I will provide for
you, and I will care for you, and I will be your king. I'm not just gonna be king over
Judah. I'll be a good, faithful king to provide for you, to protect
you, to defend you against your enemies. I'll do what a king,
a gracious, caring king would do. I'll do that for you, and
that's what he's saying there. And then as soon as that word
goes out, as soon as that word goes out, that he is the king
of Judah, trouble. arises. Trouble comes and it
starts there in verse 8 and 9. But Abner, the son of Ner, captain
of Saul's host, took Ish-bosheth, the son of Saul, and brought
him over to Mahanaim, and made him king over Gilead, and over
the Asherites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin,
and over all Israel. Now there's no word that Abner
did anything until word went out that David was made king. was anointed king in Judah. And Abner knew that David was
the rightful king. He knew that David was the rightful
king, and knowing that, hearing that David is king, he immediately
sets up a rebellion. He immediately sets up a rebellion
to counter him being king there. And so he knew, he knew he was
The rightful king, if you remember when David spared Saul's life
the very first time. He spared his life that first
time. Abner was standing right there
when Saul said to David in 1 Samuel 24 20, Saul said, Behold, I know
well. that thou shalt surely be king,
and that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in thine
hand." So, they all knew it. They all knew it. Eventually,
when they'll come in chapter 5, in verse 2, when Israel does
come and anoints David king, to be king over all of Israel,
they say that in time past when Saul was king over us, thou wast
he that leadest us out. led us out and brought in Israel. And the Lord said to thee, thou
shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be a captain over
Israel." And so David's being described as the good shepherd. The good shepherd is the one
whom the porter lets in, and he goes to the sheep, and the
sheep hear his voice, and they follow him, and he takes them
out. He leads them out into good pastures. He's the good shepherd. Well,
that's how David's being described here, because David is a type
of the Lord Jesus Christ unto his people. And we'll look at
that in a moment. Let me just finish going through
this. But Abner, he takes Saul's remaining
son. Saul had four sons, and this
is the last son who is not with them. in the battle, and he's
old enough to reign because Jonathan, his son Mephibosheth would have
been the rightful king, but he's only five years old. And if you're
going to mount a rebellion, you're not going to do it with a five-year-old
kid because no one's going to follow you. But Ish-bosheth,
we'll see, is 40 years old. It says, verse 10 there, Ish-bosheth,
Saul's son, was 40 years old when he began to reign over Israel
and reigned two years, but the house of Judah followed David. And this man, Ish-bosheth, his
name is really Esh-Baal. Esh-Baal, right? And Baal, we
know, is an idol. He's an idol that the Israelites
shamefully worshipped. And the name Bosheth means shame. It means shame. Ish-bosheth. And so now immediately, there's
two camps. There's two camps here. Oh, and
just so you know, I'll just quote it from 1 Chronicles 8.33, just
so you know that his name is Eshbaal. It says, Ner begat Kish,
and Kish begat Saul, and Saul begat Jonathan, Melchi Shua,
and Abinadab, and Eshbaal. All right, so that was his name,
that's in 1 Chronicles, where he's called Eshbaal. Because it was a shameful thing,
and Bosheth means it, that's how that name was picked up in
relation to that there. So now there's two camps, two
camps, two kingdoms. And that's what Mechanaim means.
If you remember in Genesis, I think, 32, when Jacob came out from
Laban into Canaan, there were angels of the Lord that met him
there in Canaan. And Jacob recognized that and
called it Mechanaim, meaning two camps, two hosts there. And so that's how it got its
name. And now here's two camps, two hosts here, two kingdoms. And so this rebellion would be
subdued in God's time. And verse 11 tells us that the
time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven
years and six months. So here's this history. I just
wanted you to see this history here that happens to David. And it gives us a picture of
the work of the Lord Jesus Christ for his body in his kingdom,
what he does for his people. What you see, the difficulties
you see, are not unique to the Kingdom of God throughout history.
These things have always been going on. The enemy has always
been fighting and resisting and trying to mount a rebellion,
but God shows us time and time and time again who has the victory. Who has the victory? Our Lord. Our Lord always triumphs gloriously
over all his enemies. All right, so what I want to
do now is we'll just go back through most of these verses,
not all of them, but most of them, and we'll see the gospel
here. what Christ does for you that
are His people, by faith, by His power, by His glory in His
kingdom. So first, David gives us views
of our faithful Savior who always did the will of the Father. Back
in verse 1, David inquired of the Lord. And he sought the will
of the Lord, saying, Shall I go up into any of the cities of
Judah? And the Lord said unto him, Go up. And David said, Whither
shall I go up? And he said unto Hebron, I am
certain that our Lord did everything that the father told him to do. And he went where the father
told him to go. And he sought the will of the
father in all things, emptying himself that he might depend
wholly upon the Father, and trusted him wholly to do what the Father
would have him to do. And so we're told in John 8,
29, I do always those things that please Him. Meaning he didn't
do what he wanted to do or would do. He did those things which
the Father told him to do. He always did that. Again, he
says in John 5.30, I seek not mine own will, but the will of
the Father which hath sent me. And this is because our Lord
Jesus Christ is the faithful servant of God. He's faithful
in all things. He's faithful in order to establish
the will and the purpose of God for the chosen people of God
who were given to Christ for this very purpose. Christ came
for the purpose of saving that people, that host of people,
that body that the Father gave him, the bride that the Father
gave him. Christ came and faithfully established the covenant of grace
so that God might be gracious to whom he will be gracious to. Rather than judge us according
to our sins by our works because of the weakness of this flesh,
we cannot keep the law of God to establish a righteousness
for ourselves. Therefore, we would all die and
perish in our sins and be judged for those sins, but Christ came
being sent to the Father to deliver his people. by establishing righteousness
for them and making atonement, making a sacrifice of himself
to the Father, that we should go free, that God would be pleased
in his Son and all who come in his Son. And we would go free
of the hand of justice to worship and to know God and be established
by him. And so David, as a type of our
Lord, is fulfilling the scriptures and being faithful God's will. He's being faithful to God's
will. So the Lord sends David to Hebron, which is a place not
unfamiliar to us in that Abraham went to Hebron and there built
an altar to the Lord to worship the Lord. And Hebron means joining,
and this is where the Lord was gathering together gathering
the people together unto David there in Hebron. It was there
in Hebron where David was made anointed king by those in Judah,
and eventually those in all of Israel came to Hebron there,
a gathering together. And so it typifies, we see how
it typifies our Lord Jesus Christ, to whom we're told that to him
will the gathering of the people be. He is the one that the Father
is drawing, the Spirit of God is drawing us to Him. He is the beacon. He is the type. He is the ensign. He's the flag,
if you will, the banner that we all rally to. We all are drawn
to Him because He is salvation. He's the captain. He's the Savior
whom the Father hath appointed to save His people from their
sins. And in that day there shall be
a root of Jesse, just like we see with David, right, there
shall be a root of Jesse, Isaiah said, which shall stand for an
ensign of the people, to it shall the Gentiles seek. And so this
gospel goes forth, this trumpet blares, the banner is raised,
this is Christ, come to him, the Savior of sinners, come to
him. Though you're guilty, though
you're weak, worthless in yourselves, come to Christ. He's the Savior
of sinners. He's the Savior of his people.
And all that believe him have eternal life. Have life. Have the promise of God revealed
and manifested in them. And then secondly, we see what
David does next. He typifies what Christ does
on behalf of his people. It says, verse 2. So David went
up thither, and his two wives also, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess
and Abigail, Nabal's wife, the Carmelite. And so here's a picture
of the intercession of our Lord Jesus Christ upon the cross for
his people, to intercede for his people with his own blood. For his bride, he went up to
the cross. He went up to the cross. for
his bride, he went up to the cross bearing his bride in his
own body on the tree. Our Lord did that and he went
to that cross and he was raised up on it, not because he's a
sinner, not because he's committed any crimes, he willingly went
to the cross. He could have been delivered
from that, but he willingly went to the cross according to the
will of the Father to bear the sins of his people and to make
satisfaction for those sins. That is, provide a covering for
them so that God is satisfied. And he's just to forgive his
people. So he went there for her sins,
Jew and Gentile. Two women there representing
Jew and Gentile. He sacrificed himself on the
tree to the Father to make satisfaction for our sins. Romans 6.6 says,
knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him. As Abigail
and the other one, the Jezreelites, as she went up there, as they
both went up there, it's a picture of us with Christ. And our old
man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed,
that henceforth we should not serve sin. And then Romans 7,
4, wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law
by the body of Christ, that ye should be married to another.
We are the bride of the Son, whom the Father chose and gave
to the Son. And he labored for his bride,
just as Jacob labored under the cruel hand of Laban. He labored
for his bride. Well, Christ labored for his
bride. He served for his bride and he
obtained her beauty, her perfection, her deliverance by himself. Even to him who was raised from
the dead that we should bring forth fruit unto God. So there we see how Christ interposed
his precious blood to redeem his beloved bride. Now again,
in verse three, and his men is the third thing. his men that
were with him, did David bring up every man with his household,
and they dwelt in the cities of Hebron." So here's a picture
of our resurrection with Christ. The wives of David go up, and
it's a picture of us being taken in our Lord, with our Lord, to
that cross where he intercedes for us and provided a righteousness
for us, a salvation, an atonement, a redemption for us. And now
we are raised together with our Lord. We're told his men that
were with him did David bring up every man and his household. And it's a picture of of our
lives being bound in his life so that as he is raised from
the dead, so you that believe him are raised from the dead
both now through the new birth and you shall be raised out of
the graves in a new body when Christ comes again, a new habitation
in your body. So if we be dead with Christ,
Paul said, Romans 6, 8, we believe that we shall also live with
him. We shall live again. Our eyes
will close in death, and they shall open, and we shall behold
the face of our Savior. We believe, or as they told that
Philippian jailer, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou
shalt be saved, and all thine house. all thy house. Brethren, you shall be raised
again, raised again in the Lord Jesus Christ, not only in spirit,
but with a new body, a heavenly body. You shall be raised again. So these many men from different
tribes and backgrounds, if you read in 1 Chronicles, I think
it's chapter 12, it shows all the different people that are
coming in their backgrounds and where they're from and different
places, and it's a picture of the people that the Lord saves,
as we see in Revelation 5-9, where it speaks of those that
sing the new song, that is the song of redemption, the song
of redeeming grace by the Lamb of God who saved us. And it says
that they are from every kindred, every tongue, every people, every
nation. all kinds of people, Jew and
Gentile, the Lord has his people among them all. And he calls
them to himself, he gathers them to himself there in Hebron, a
picture of our being gathered together in Christ. We don't
go to a specific city. Isaiah says, salvation is become
your walls. Salvation is the city of God,
covered in the blood of Christ. That's our walls. That's our
walls. I think that's Isaiah 26, verse 1. And so these men
who suffered with David, they suffered with David being hunted
in the wilderness, being persecuted by Saul and his people, they
stayed with David, and now they return to Judah, to Hebron, in
triumph. In triumph, brethren, if we suffer
with him, we shall also be glorified together. You that are suffering
with Christ, keep on. Trust him. Believe him. He's
given you his word. Stay upon him. Stay upon him.
He is faithful who promised. believe him, trust him, just
as these men for many years suffered in the wilderness. And yet here
we see the fulfillment of God to them to bless them with David,
to glorify them with David. So we see here a beautiful picture
of our resurrection, of our life, bound in Christ. And where he
goes, we go. All right, now next we see a
beautiful picture of faith in God and His Christ. Verse four,
and the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king
over the house of Judah. So as stated earlier, these men
knew that David was the king of Israel. They knew it, right?
For God had already anointed David by Samuel before that he
would be king. And so it is that our faith believes
that Jesus Christ is the son of God, the son of the living
God. And by faith, we don't make Jesus king, right? By faith, we acknowledge that
God has made him king. He is Lord. He is Savior. He's
the one whom the Father sent. Faith believes that. Faith believes
that He is the King, that He is my Savior, that He is my Lord. Faith acknowledges that God hath
done this. This is the will of the Father.
This is the will of Him who loved us and chose us in Christ before
the foundation of the world. This is the one who reveals by
faith in us that Jesus Christ is made all unto us by God. Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
He is made all. Peter declared it this way, let
all the house of Israel know assuredly that God hath made
the same Jesus whom ye crucified both Lord and Christ. God made
him king. God made him Lord. God set him
on his throne. We don't make that happen. Faith
just acknowledges God is true. God has given his word, so it
is. So it is. Lord, we believe it. So we believe
that God has exalted Christ above all, that he has given him a
name, that he has sat him at the right hand of him seated
on the throne, on the throne of God. ruling and reigning right
now, that he died, that he rose again for my salvation, for my
deliverance, for my inheritance, and God has given him a name
which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee
shall bow, every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is
Lord. He's King of Kings and Lord of
Lords. He's all, brethren. Then after
being anointed king of Judah, David recognizes the good work
done by the men of Jabesh Gilead. Look there in verse four at the
end through verse seven. They told David saying that the
men of Jabesh Gilead were they that buried Saul. And David sent
messengers unto the men of Jabesh Gilead and said unto them, blessed
be ye of the Lord. that ye have showed this kindness
unto your Lord, even unto Saul, and have buried him, and now
the Lord show kindness and truth unto you. And I also will requite
this kindness, because ye have done this thing. Therefore now
let your hands be strengthened, and be ye valiant, for your master
Saul is dead, and also the house of Judah have anointed me king
over them. What a picture of the grace of
our God wrought in his people and the good works he works in
you so that it just reminds me of when the Lord says to his
people, Well done, thou good and faithful servant. Enter thou
into thy rest prepared for thee from before the foundation of
the world, because you did these things. And we're like, when
do we do these things, Lord? When you did it to the least
of these, my brethren, you did it unto me. And that's how David
is responding to them. What you did for Saul there,
you did for me. You did right. You did what was good and right
in laying down, mortifying this flesh. But it's not by the flesh.
It's not by this flesh that we do this. It's all by his grace.
That's why in heaven it speaks of us casting down our crowns
before him. Because not unto us, Lord, not
unto us be praise, but unto thy name. because it's all your work,
it's all your hand, that these good works that are witnessed
in us, they're wrought by you. We are created in Christ Jesus
unto good works, which God hath before ordained, that we should
walk in them. It's all by him, it's all by
his grace and power. And so Paul said it this way,
just to warm your heart on this matter, in Ephesians 4.32, where
he says, and be ye kind. one to another, tender-hearted,
forgiving one another, even as God, for Christ's sake, hath
forgiven you. If you have some grudge against
a brother or sister, let it go. Ask the Lord to give you a heart
to let it go, to trust Him and to just put it away that you
may serve them in love, be kind to them, be tender toward them,
forgetting those things which are behind. If there's something
that you can't trust about them in their flesh, then pray to
the Lord and ask Him how you can love them rightly. And He'll
show you. He'll make the way. He'll provide
it. You want to do good and right by somebody? He's able to make
the way and help you. You can't make them like it or
appreciate it or have anything to do with you, but you can be
kind and gracious to them and be tender toward them. Be, therefore,
followers of God as dear children. As God has forgiven us for Christ's
sake, let us be kind and patient and tender with others. And walk
in love as Christ also hath loved us and hath given himself for
us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savor."
And so it's all in the body and in the work of Christ that we
do these works. We rejoice in it, but we rejoice
in it because it is the Lord's work and not this flesh. That spreading forth of the gospel
to the people in many lands, well, it's all response. It had
a response by the enemy of rebellion. The enemy rises up to fight against
it. Just as we see as the gospel
goes forth, so the enemy rises up and fights against it. We
should never be surprised when these things happen, because
it's happened throughout history. Throughout history. So verse
8, but Abner, the son of Ner, captain of Saul's host, took
Ish-bosheth, the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mechanaim. And so he set up in the other
camp to oppose the rule of David. He said, I'll stop that. I ain't
stepping down from my post. I like the influence I have.
I like the position and the power. I'm keeping it. I'm keeping it.
That's what he tried to do. The name Abner means father of
light, who, like our adversary, transforms himself into an angel
of light. And so he takes Ish-bosheth,
this boy who had no business being king. He had no business
being the king there, but Abner used him to keep the people from
David. He did that wicked work. And so it is throughout history.
On many occasions, the enemy has risen up to oppose the work
of the Lord and to try to oppose the spread of the gospel. And
as soon as our Savior was baptized, he was led of the spirit into
the wilderness where the wicked one tried to tempt him. But,
of course, that was there where Christ established righteousness,
that he is the faithful Savior, that he is the fit Lamb of God. He's the second Adam that is
the federal and seminal head of his people in perfect righteousness. And so the enemy fell there.
And the Jewish leaders, they opposed Christ vehemently, trying
to put him to death until finally, according to the determined counsel
of God, they figured out a way to turn him over to the Gentiles
to have them crucify him. right, to relieve them of bearing
any of the blame, which of course is nonsense, but they opposed
him. They opposed him and then after
Christ died and rose again and ascended to the Father and the
gospel spread under the commission that Christ gave the church,
they continue to persecute and fight against the truth. If you notice, when you speak
of Christ, the enemy is always trying to silence that. They're
OK with religion, but don't talk of Christ. Don't glorify Christ.
That's what the enemy doesn't want to hear. Don't glorify Christ,
they say. Well, just let him shine further, because that's
the ensign. That's the banner. He's the one
to whom we are gathered and drawn together by him. And so there's
a constant raging and a constant fighting. These shall make war
with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them, for he is Lord
of lords and King of kings. And they that are with him are
called and chosen and faithful. Just like all those people that
went with David. They're the faithful ones gathered
together by God with David to be with him. forever. And so
you, brethren, though times get difficult and hard and there's
oppositions and enemies opposing the truth and triumph of the
Lord Jesus Christ who saves his people to the uttermost, know
this, that the enemy is always destroyed, always defeated. Christ always overcomes. The
battle's already decided. He's already won. Ain't nothing
going to change that. So you look to Christ. You follow
him. Like those faithful men who came
and trusted and anointed David King. We don't make Christ King. You follow Christ. You trust
the word of God. You believe him faithfully and
praying always that the will of the Father be done on earth
even as it is in heaven, trusting him because Jesus is the rightful
king, the rightful king. These things, he said, I have
spoken unto you, that in me he might have peace. In the world
he shall have tribulation, but be of good cheer. I have overcome
the world. Amen.