My message this morning is give
us a king. I want to look at three kings. The first one is Saul, the king
the people wanted and what men would choose. Secondly, I want
to look at David, God's anointed, a man after God's own heart,
the sweet psalmist. But David was a man. He was a
sinner. He still needed a savior. And
I want to look at thirdly, the Lord Jesus Christ. king of kings,
lord of lords, the son of God, the king that shed his blood
on the cross, took the full wrath of God, paid the penalty for
sin for his people by the shedding of his precious blood, the just
for the unjust, but he was not consumed. I want to show you the difference
between the king we would choose and God's king. When John the
Baptist baptized Christ, the heavens opened up, the Spirit
of God descended on him like a dove, lighting on him, and a voice
came from heaven saying, this is my beloved Son, in whom I
am well pleased. In Matthew 3.17, at the Mount
of Transfiguration, Christ was transfigured between Peter, James,
and John. Christ's face did shine as the
sun, and his raiment was as white as light. Peter said, let us
build three tabernacles for Moses, Elias, and Christ. And a cloud
overshadowed them and said, this is my beloved son, hear him.
And that's what I want to do this morning, people, is hear
what the Lord Jesus Christ said. I want to show you the king that
we would have rule over us, how the people rejected God and wanted
the king to rule over them and not God. That's how this country
is today. No God for us. If they could,
they would reach into heaven, pull God off his throne, and
kill him. Man is completely wicked and
evil. He wants no one to rule over him or have any authority
over him. Just look at what's going on in this country today.
Man thinks he is so wise. We're wise, all right. We have
come to the very height of our intelligence that we can't even
describe what a man and a woman is anymore. With all the he,
hers, binary, non-binary, I don't even know what it means. But
I know this thing, God created man and woman, man and woman. He breathed life into Adam and
made him a living soul. He took the ribs out of Adam
and he made Eve. There's two genders, that's it.
But this is how I say all this, this is how we are, this is what
we would do. We want no part of Christ, we
want to chase after our own lust. It is estimated that when God
floated the earth, there were billions of people living on
the earth. Eight billion, Jason? Isn't that about right? Eight
billion people, isn't that about how many is here now? In Genesis
6, 5, and God saw the wickedness of man, and it was great in the
earth, and every imagination of his thought was only evil
continually. And the Lord said, I will destroy
man whom I have created from the face of the earth. And doesn't
that sound just like what's going on in this country? But here's
the gospel. But Noah found grace in the eyes
of the Lord. We say and take the Lord's name
in vain, but we don't want to offend man. There's no reverence
or fear of God in this world, but God still has sheep. He's
drawing to himself. I know this because this world
still turns. When Elijah and first King said,
I have been very jealous for the Lord, for the Lord God, for
the children of Israel have forsaken the covenant, thrown down his
orders and slain the prophets with the sword. And I, even I
am only left and they seek my life to take it. But the Lord
told him, 1 Kings 19, 18. Yet have I left me 7,000 in Israel,
all the knees which not have bowed unto Baal, and every mouth
which has not kissed him. We don't know whose Christ's
sheep are. All we can do is proclaim the Lord Jesus Christ and what
the living word says. Give us a king. This is a king
that man would choose. 1 Samuel 8, 4-19. I'm just going to go on through
these now. Then all the elders of Israel
gathered themselves together and came to Samuel unto Ramah
and said unto him, Behold, thou art old, thy son walk not in
thy ways. Now make us a king to judge us
like all the nations. But the thing displeased Samuel,
when they said, Give us a king to judge. And Samuel prayed unto
the Lord. And the Lord said unto Samuel,
Hearken unto the voice of the people, and all that they say
unto thee. For they have not rejected thee,
but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them,
according to all the works which they have done since the day
I brought them up out of Egypt, even unto this day. wherewith
they have forsaken me and served other gods, so do they also unto
thee. Now therefore, hearken unto their
voice, howbeit protest solemnly unto them, and show them the
manner of king that I may reign over them. And Samuel told the
words of the Lord unto the people, and they asked of him a king.
And he said, This will be the manner of king that shall reign
over you. He will take your sons, appoint them for himself, for
his chariots, and to be his horsemen. And some shall run before his
chariots. And he will appoint him captains over thousands,
and captains over fifties, and will set them to ear to plow
his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of
work, and instruments of chariots. And he will take your daughters
to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers, and
he will take your fields, your vineyards, your olive gardens,
even the best of them, and he will give them to his servants.
and he will take the tenth part of your seed, and of your vineyards,
and give them to his officers, and to his servants. And he will
take your manservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest
of young men, and your asses, and put them to his word. He
will take the 10th of your sheep and you shall be his servants.
And you shall cry out in that day because of your king, which
you shall have chosen you. And the Lord will not hear you
in that day." Nevertheless, this is what the people said. They
refused to obey Samuel. They said, but we will have a
king to reign over us. And that's the king that we would
choose. Saul was a wicked king. He sought
his own glory. He didn't care about the people,
only himself. God gave Saul an evil spirit
and a clean spirit. God turned his heart any way
he would. Basically, all he had to do was
let Saul be Saul. Saul tried to kill David several
times because he was jealous over David. He knew the people
loved him. Saul gave David his daughter
to be his wife. He did it so she'd be a snare
unto him, and he could know what David was doing at all times.
David had to flee from Saul for his life. When Saul and David
came into the city, the people sang, Saul killed his thousands,
and David killed his ten thousands. It's made Saul angry. We know
David could have killed Saul two times, but David said, I
will not touch God's anointed. Saul is killed in the battlefield,
or he's wounded, and he falls on his own sword. David had already
been anointed by Samuel to be the king in 1 Samuel 16, 1-14. This is where God anoints David. And the Lord said unto Samuel,
How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from
reigning over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and
go, I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have
provided me a king and among his sons. And Samuel said, How
can I go? If Saul hear it, he will kill
me. And the Lord said, Take a heifer with thee, and say, I am come
to sacrifice to the Lord. And call Jesse to the sacrifice,
and I will show thee what thou shalt do, and thou shalt anoint
unto me him whom I name unto thee. And Samuel did that which
the Lord spake, and came to Bethlehem. And the elders of the town trembled
at his coming, and said, Comest thou in peace? And he said peaceably,
I am come to sacrifice unto the Lord. Sanctify yourselves and
come with me to the sacrifice. And he sanctified Jesse and his
sons and came to them to the sacrifice. And it came to pass
when they came, he looked on Eliab and said, surely the Lord's
anointed is before me. But the Lord said unto Samuel,
Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature,
because I have refused him. For the Lord seeth not as a man
seeth. He looketh on the outward appearance,
but the Lord looketh on the heart. Then Jesse called Abinadad, and
made him pass through, and all Jesse's other sons. And Samuel
said unto Jesse, As this all your children? And he said, There
remaineth one, the youngest, and he keepeth sheep. He's a
shepherd. God's king is a shepherd. He looks after the flock. And
Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and fetch him, for he will not
sit down till he come hither. And he sent and brought him in.
Now he was ruddy, and with all a beautiful countenance, and
goodly to look to. And the Lord said, Arise, anoint
him, for this is he. Then Samuel took the horn of
oil, anointed him in the midst of the brethren, and the Spirit
of the Lord came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose
up and went to Ramah. But the Spirit of the Lord departed
from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him." David was God's king. He did
that's what was right in the sight of the Lord. David sought
the Lord, One example, in 1 Samuel 23, David inquired of the Lord
saying, shall I go up and smite the Philistines? The Lord said,
go up, smite them. I'm so glad the Lord gives us
a full autobiography of his saints. Alas, David was just a man. He
was a sinner. And when he takes his eyes off
the Lord and didn't seek him, Seek his wisdom, he fell into
sin with Bathsheba. He was a king chosen by God.
He was perfect in God's sight because God saw Christ when he
saw David. God sees my Savior and then he
sees me. David was clothed with the righteousness
of Christ. In Genesis, God clothed Adam
and Eve with righteousness when he slew the Lamb, shed his blood,
and covered them. They had covered themselves with
their own works, the fig leaves, their own self-righteousness.
There is no remission of sin without the shedding of blood.
David sinned. He saw Bathsheba on the roof.
She was beautiful to look at. He brought her to him. He laid
with her. She conceived. So David went
to thinking, how am I going to cover this and make myself look
good in the eyes of men? How can I hide this? So he had
Uriah Bathsheba's husband brought home. He was a man of war. He thought if he'd come home,
he would lay with Bathsheba and think that that was his child.
But Uriah being a valiant man, he wouldn't go home while his
men were on the battlefield. He wouldn't go home and lay with
Bathsheba. So David gets him drunk. He says, surely he'll
go now. Uriah didn't go. He laid at the
king's gate. Yep, he wouldn't go. So David had him killed.
In the heat of the battle, he put him on the front line and
Uriah was killed. David thinks it's all covered
up. He has hid his sin by lying and killing another man. But
God saw and he sends Nathan the prophet to David and Nathan tells
him what God tells him to do. There are two men in the city. One rich, one poor. The rich
had many flocks, a bunch of flocks, herds. The poor man had but one
little ewe lamb, and he had bought that. The poor man loved the
lamb. The lamb ate with him, slept
with him, drank from the man's cup, and he laid in his bosom.
A traveler came to the rich man. The rich man wouldn't take from
his herds. He took the poor man's and killed it and dressed it
for the traveler. David's anger was kindled And
he said, as the Lord liveth, that man shall surely die, and
shall restore the land fourfold. And Nathan told David, thou art
the man. And 2 Samuel 7, 12, 7 through
13. And Nathan said to David, Thou
art the man. Thus said the Lord God of Israel,
I have anointed thee king of Israel, and I have delivered
thee out of the hand of Saul. I gave thee thy master's house
and thy master's wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house
of Israel and of Judah. And if that had been too little,
I would moreover have given you much more. wherever thou hast
despised the commandment of the Lord to do evil in his sight.
Thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken
his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain the sword with the
children of the Amorites. Now therefore the sword shall
never depart from thine house, because thou hast despised thee,
and hast taken thy wife to Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife. Thus
saith the Lord, Behold, I will rise up against thee out of thine
own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and
give them unto thy neighbor, and he shall lie with thy wives
in the sight of his son. For thou didst this thing in
secret, but I will do it before all of Israel and before the
son. And David said unto Nathan, I
have sinned against the Lord. And Nathan said unto David, The
Lord has also put away your sin. Thou shalt not die. Our sins have consequences, people. Isn't that how man is, though?
We can see everybody else's sin, but not our own. When we think
we're about to be exposed from our own sins, we lie, we cover
up, we slaughter another man's name and cover our own sins.
We get others involved to cover up our dirty little secrets and
sin, and we divide people. When I was working on a crime,
trying to solve it, I would have two or three suspects. I'd take
these three suspects and I'd bring them in. I'd let them see
each other. Let them all look at each other.
Wouldn't let them talk to each other, but I'd let them see each
other. And I knew when they got ready to talk, they'd hit that
little buzzer to my office so they could talk. And the guilty
one would give it up. He couldn't wait to talk, to
tell me what everybody else had done, but he had no part in it.
He was a victim. He told me everything everyone
else had done, but he was innocent. And in all this, the very thing
he was accusing everybody else was, he was my son, he was my
man. He was the one that was guilty.
And John, this is a perfect example in John 8, three through 11. And the scribes and the Pharisees
brought unto him a woman, taking in adultery. When they had set
her in the midst, they said unto him, Master, This woman was taken
in adultery in the very act. Now Moses in the law commanded
us that such should be stoned. But what do you say? They said
this trying to tempt him that they might accuse him. But Jesus
stooped down with his finger, wrote on the ground, as though
he heard them not. He ignored them. So when they
continued asking him, he lifted up his self and said unto them,
he that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone
at her. And again he stooped down. and
wrote on the ground. And they which heard it, being
convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, being at
the eldest, even unto the last. And when Jesus was left alone,
and the woman standing in the midst, when Jesus lifted up himself
and saw none but this woman, he said unto her, Woman, where
are your accusers? Hath no man condemned thee? She
said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither
do I condemn thee. Go and sin no more. Those men couldn't wait to show
her sin and accuse her, but the Lord riding on the ground exposed
them, and I wondered what He wrote. Don't you know He showed
the desires of their hearts? I know this, if my life and what
I thought was right back here, I'd have to slither out of here
on my belly. I'd be so embarrassed of what I've done, what I've
said, everything. So let's think about those things
before we slaughter somebody else and talk about what they've
done. Because I'm telling you right now, if God's let you see
your heart, you're the man. Thou art the man, David. Tommy's
the man. In John 4, the Lord said he must
go through Samaria. One of his sheep is there. He
must go reveal himself to her. He's going to give her the living
water himself, the Lord Jesus Christ. He tells her to go call
her husband. She said, I have no husband.
But she had had five husbands. And the man she was with now,
she wasn't married to. And the Lord knew all this, but
he came to seek and save his lost sheep. Both the women were
guilty sinners, but they were not under the law. God had purchased
them with the shedding of his blood on the cross. slain before
the foundation of the world. God gives a full story of his
saints, even when they fall. Some men's sins are exposed for
all to see. Maybe yours hadn't been exposed
as men, but God sees your heart. Aren't you glad the Lord Jesus
Christ doesn't put us away, but afflicts us Causes us to cry
out, Lord forgive me, the sinner. Paul Mahan said something the
other night in his message, and it was so, he said, you defend
your pastor, you defend your brethren and your sisters, but
I can't defend myself, because anything you say about me, I'm
guilty of it. I've done it. I've thought it,
I've said it, I've done it. Now here's a man, Joseph. He's
married, but he's not married his husband yet. He was a just
man. He wasn't willing to make an
example of Mary. She was pregnant. He hadn't been
with Mary yet. They weren't married. But he
wasn't willing to humiliate her, but was going to put her away
privately, not to shame her. Ain't that love? Joseph spread
the skirt of love over her to cover her sins. but she hadn't
sinned. And the Lord appeared to Joseph
and told him, don't be afraid to take her unto you to be your
wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost,
and that was the Lord Jesus Christ. She shall bring forth a son,
a child. You shall call his name Jesus,
for he shall save his people from their sins. Now let's look
at God's King, the Lord Jesus Christ. Christ is the truth. The only man that ever kept the
law perfectly, the only man that ever spoke the truth, the only
man that was righteous, the only good man, he was perfect. Every
word he spoke was truth, and all he said and did was honest.
In Matthew 19, 16, the rich young ruler came and said, good master,
what good things shall I do that I may have eternal life? And
Christ said, why you call me good? There's none good but God.
The Lord said, thou shalt not kill, to the rich young ruler.
Don't commit adultery, don't steal, don't bear false witnesses,
honor thy father, thy mother. And the arrogance and ignorance
of this rich young ruler said, I've done all these, what else?
The Lord touched the one point of contention of the young ruler,
the one thing he liked, but it wasn't the one thing, but that's
the only thing the Lord needed to touch on. He told him to go
sell all you have, give it to the poor. And the young man went
away sorrowful. He had great possessions. When
Christ had called his disciples, all he said was, follow me. And
they left all. Christ affectionately called
them like he does all his elect. A few examples are the Samaritan
woman, the woman at the well. He said, I must need to go through
Samaritan. He knew she would be there, and
he revealed himself for her and gave her the living water to
drink himself. The woman with the issue of blood
in Luke 8, she had it for 12 years. She had spent all she
had. She came behind him and touched
him. The Lord had called this woman. She had a need. She knew
if she could just get to Christ, if she could just get to Him
and touch Him, she would be made whole. This isn't just made whole
physically. He gave these examples, new hearts,
hearts to love Christ. My friends, if Christ ever reveals
Himself to you, you will see what a great need you have of
Him. Sin is not what we do, it's what we are. And what we are
makes us do what we do, sin. These are God's elect, chosen
by God before the foundation of the world. People say, and
they go to Jerusalem to be where Christ was and walk where He
was and see where He was crucified. Men were beside Christ and never
saw Christ. Judas. People say everything
I've done is ordained. Yes, it is. But so was Judas,
and Judas is in hell. So be careful. Be careful. If the Lord Jesus draws you to
Him, reveals yourself to Him, you will bow at His feet. Look
what we did to the Lord Jesus Christ, God's King, in Acts 2.23. Him being delivered up by determinate
counsel, and foreknowledge of God, you have taken them by wicked
hands, crucified and slain." In our hearts we crucified Christ,
saying, we will not have this man rule over us. Judas was with
Christ during his ministry. Christ never revealed himself
to Judas. Judas cared about money. He kissed Christ. sold him for
30 pieces of silver. He tried to redeem himself by
giving back the 30 pieces of silver, self-righteousness. That's
what salvation is in religion. What must I do to obtain eternal
life? There are two religions in the
world, and y'all all know this, do and done. The do is works
religion, the done is the salvation of the Lord Jesus Christ. He
shed his redeeming blood, he purchased his people on the cross,
He finished it. Christ said, it is finished.
Salvation is accomplished. John 18, Christ is betrayed by
Judas. The band of soldiers that came
to arrest Christ fell backwards when he asked them, whom sink
ye? They answered, Jesus Christ of Nazareth. He said, I am. And
the power of his very statement and his words, I am, meaning
I am God, they fell backward on the ground. The Lord let them
take him. They tied the Lord. God let them
tie up the Lord Jesus Christ and bind him. How dumb we are
as men. His mere voice and statement
with power forced them and knocked them on the ground and they stayed
there. They took him to Caiaphas. One of the officers smoked the
Lord Jesus Christ in the face because the officer said he offended
Caiaphas. He smoked God in the face for
telling the truth. Pilate then talked with the Lord
Jesus Christ and asked him, are thou the king of the Jews? Christ
told him, my kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my saints
would stand and fight. Pilate took the Lord Jesus Christ
and scorched him. We took the Lord Jesus Christ,
stripped him, took a whip. You know, it's called the cat
of nine tails. It had bone and glass and little sharp rocks
tied in it. They took that cat of nine tails,
They stripped him, laid that whip across his back 39 times. Now it doesn't tell in the gospel,
I don't think, 39 times, but in Deuteronomy 23, the Lord determines
how many, in Deuteronomy 25, the Lord determines how many
times he'll be lashing. That's 39 times. Because 40 was
likely to kill a man, but we couldn't kill Christ, only God
has that authority. Men don't have the ability to
kill God. But they laid the Lord Jesus
Christ on that cold stone floor. They laid his back open. They
stripped him so the whip could reach the most tender parts.
They spit in his face, pulled out his beard, plaited a crown
of thorns on him, on his head while it cut him clear to the
bone. Bloody and beaten, they placed
a robe on him, gave him a ring, smited him on the head with it,
and said, look at the king. Pilate said to the Lord Jesus
Christ, speak thou not to me? Christ spoke not a word to Pilate
because he was taking the sins of his people. He was guilty.
Christ was guilty because we were guilty. He was guilty for
the sins of his people. He did not defend himself. Pilate said, I have the power to release you or crucify you. Jesus answered him and said,
you could have no power at all against me, except it were given
from above. They led the Lord out and said,
behold your king. The crowd said, crucify him,
kill him. A woman cried, let his blood
be on us and our children. And Jesus was led away bearing
his cross. Now the Romans had Simon Sarin
carry the Lord's cross because they thought he might die before
he got to Calvary. They didn't want him to die,
they wanted to kill him. They nailed Christ to the cross in
his hands and in his feet. They dropped it in that hole. The psalm of the cross, Psalm
22, verse 14, I am poured out like water. All my bones are
out of joint. You know when they put those
spikes in his hands, in his feet, the most tender spot, dropped
that cross in the hole with all his body weight. Being forced
down, it pulled all his bones out of joint. In Isaiah 52, 14,
his vicious was so marred, more than any man, you couldn't even
tell he was a man, he was beaten so bad. The soldiers took Christ's
robe and reed. They gave him a reed and a sign
that read, this is Jesus, the King of the Jews. They mocked
Christ. The chief priests, scribes, and elders mocked him. He saved
others he said, we can't save. He trusted in God, let him deliver
him now. If he will have him, for he said,
I am the son of God. Christ prayed for his people
as he was dying and said, forgive them Lord. They don't even know
what they're doing. Christ said, it is finished.
Salvation is accomplished. The Jews, because it was preparation. of the Holy Day that Christ couldn't
be on the cross. Isn't that something? There's
religion right there. He couldn't be on the cross. Not for the
Holy Day, the Sabbath. So being the thing, they would
break the prisoner's legs. They would take a giant mallet
and walk up and smash their legs. That's wicked. The soldier saw
Christ was already dead. He took a spear, put it at his
side, and out of his side came the water and blood, the living
water and the blood, redeeming blood of Christ. But that's not
the end, brothers and sisters. In Christ we serve a living Savior.
After three days, the Lord raised from the dead. John 10, 18, Christ
said, no man taketh my life from me, I lay it down for myself.
I have the power to lay it down, and I have the power to take
it again. This commandment have I received of my Father. Christ
willingly laid down his life for his people. He fulfilled
the law perfectly. In Hebrews 4.15, for we have
not a high priest, speaking of Christ, which cannot be touched
with the feelings or of infirmities, but was in all points, like as
we are, yet without sin tempted. God the Father poured out His
fury and justice and holiness and punishment on sin, on Christ,
on His Son. But it didn't consume Him, like
the burning bush. It burned with fire, but it didn't
consume Him. In Revelation 5-6, Christ sitting
on the throne, and I beheld, and lo, in the midst of the throne,
and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, and
lo, as if had been slain, the Lord Jesus Christ is sitting
on the right hand of the Father, reigning, ruling, praying, and
interceding for his people, the ones he shed his precious blood
for, the just for the unjust. He hideth my soul in the cleft
of the rock. He covers my sins in his hands. A believer is truly a paradox.
I can't believe that Christ could love me and cause me to love
him and save me, justify me, purify me, sanctify me with the
shedding of his blood. It makes my heart full of joy
and my eyes full of tears that he was crucified for the sins
that I have committed. And when I sin, I see those lashes
across his back for what I am, sin. In Leviticus, when a man had
leprosy, or Deuteronomy, when a man had leprosy, which was
a symbol of sin, If he had it on his body, he was unclean and
he had to walk around going, unclean, unclean. But when he
was covered from his head to toe with leprosy, the priest
would say he's clean. And that's how we are, brother.
When you find out that you're sin and everything about you
is sin, that's when the Lord's done something for you. You can
be called clean by Christ with his redeeming blood. Mary Magdalene
fell at Jesus' feet. Tears falling down her face,
she washed his feet with her tears. Now that's a broken heart
over what you are, that you would cry so hard you could wash somebody's
feet. And she washed the king's feet. She fell at him and she
kissed his feet. What do you think of Christ?
Is he an escape route from hell? Or do you love him? Can't be
without him? Can't be without his word? Can't
go a day without thinking of him, about him, praying to him,
falling at his feet? Mm, mm. God is a consuming fire
outside of Christ. God the Father punished Christ
on the cross for the sins of his people. My sins are gone. They're all taken away. In Jeremiah
29, 11, in closing, for I know the thoughts that I think towards
you, saith the Lord. thoughts of peace and not of
evil, to give you an expected end. Peace between God and man
is the redeeming blood of Christ. In Psalm 85, 10, and 11, mercy
and truth are met together. Righteousness and peace have
kissed each other. And that happened at Calvary.
And I can say like David in 2 Samuel 23, 5, although my house be not
so with God, Yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant,
ordered and sure in all things, and sure, for this is all my
salvation and all my desire, although he make it not to grow.
Thank you. Johnny, will you pray for us?
Dear Lord, we thank you for bringing us here this morning, to hear
these two beings proclaim to God. Thank
you for your salvation for this all, You're just smart.