I'm just saying that even in
death's cold wave, I will not flee. I had a brother go home
to be with the Lord a week or two ago. Doctors were talking out loud,
which he was in the room with them and heard them. He said,
take this stuff off of me. It ain't my life support. He
said, I'll go home. The Lord will take me home. Let
him take me home. I'm ready. I won't turn away
from it. He leadeth me. uh me turn to first samuel well
we'll turn to mark mark two first mark chapter two following services um mike and
karen been kind to invite everybody over for a pool party but we'll
we'll hang out here and visit for a little bit and give them
time to get set up and then we'll trickle over and anybody needs
a direction or something i'll be glad to tell you you can follow
me i'm thankful for that uh mark two This all started, I was studying
Psalm 52. And David wrote that after Doeg
had been witness to him eating a showbread in the temple and
a Himalayan. David didn't say nothing to Himalayan
and that way he had Plausible deniability we call it. He was
looking out for God's preacher said I don't want him Having
to deal with Saul and I just won't say nothing to him but
he saw that stuff happen in the in the temple or the tabernacle
and him elect feeding David and that ended up being that Saul
said I want them mocked off the face of the earth. There's 85
priests down there go kill them and And even the servants of
Saul had just enough common respect. And I said, no, I ain't doing
that. That's the Lord's priests. He said, touch not mine anointing.
I don't want nothing. I want no part in that, going
against God's man. I had some sins. But Doeg, he said, I'll do it. And he went and he slew 85 priests.
And then he went and slew their wives. And then he went and slew
their children. Because he was the head shepherd, and he was
moving up the corporate ladder. And he said, I'll do anything
I can to get a leg up, and he did. But those people had fled,
and after that, David got word of it, and they said he departed
thence. He went to the cave of Adullam, and his brethren in
his father's house, they heard it. They got word of all these
things that happened, and they went down to him. And David said,
everyone that was distressed, or they were in debt, or everyone
that was discontented, they gathered themselves unto him, unto David,
in this cave, in this rock. And he became captain over them,
and there were about 400 men. What a picture that was after
something, what we seen was terrible. What a picture of Christ that
is. If you're in debt, you're distressed, if you're discontented,
come to him. He's the captain of our salvation,
isn't he? After that, David wrote Psalm 52. But the cause of that
was David getting the showbred, and I kept reading back a little
bit in 1 Samuel 22, and I read back a little bit in 1 Samuel
21, and it was just so plain and clear, and I know you've
probably heard 15 messages out of that, and I have, and every
time I hear it, it's sweet, and I told Cameron, I said, it's
just preaching itself. I just look, so that's what that
says. We rejoice in it, and we go the next thing it says. And
it was just precious to me. And I hope for the Lord's people
to be precious to them, too. I think it will be. The Lord
mentions this in three of the four Gospels. It's recorded. And so here, Mark 2, verse 23. Mark 2, 23. And it came to pass that he went
through a cornfields on the Sabbath day. And his disciples began,
as they went, to pluck the ears of corn. They was walking through
there. It was the Sabbath. They was heading to the temple. And they would just grab a ear
of corn, rub their hand, get the husks off, and they'd eat
the corn. They was hungry. And the Pharisees
said unto him, Behold, why do they on the Sabbath day that
which is not lawful? Why are they doing these? They're
breaking the Sabbath. What are they doing? Why are
they taking people's ears of corn and eating them? What's
wrong with them? And the Lord said unto them, verse 25, have
you never read that what David did? You people don't profess
the scriptures. I've been in the word for a thousand
years. He said, don't you know? You say you're masters of Israel. Don't you know what it says?
Ain't you never read that David did when he had need? He was
hungry. He and they that were with him.
Oh, just him, his men that was with him. How he went into the
house of God in the days of Abathur, the high priest, and did eat
the showbread, which is not lawful to eat, but for the priests.
There's so many things that mankind says, that's wrong, you broke
the law. A prostitute lied to a government official, and the
Lord said, you see the faith of Rahab? Maybe we ain't got
a good handle on how God sees things. And maybe we ought to
bow to what he said. Don't you read what he says?
Which is not lawful to eat, but for the priests and gave also
to them which were with him. Boy, out there is a ticket. Nobody
but priests can eat this. David ate it. And those with
him. We'll see it in a minute. And
he said, this solves all this. There's people that argue these
things, and they get on the internet machine, and they talk till their
little fingers bleed, going back and forth. I wish I'd knock that
junk off. This is simple. And he said, the Sabbath was
made for man, not man for the Sabbath. The Lord made the Sabbath. I did this on purpose. You need
a day of rest. Go sit down. Think about the
Lord for a day. Don't do nothing. I did this
for you. Why? Well, one, for our bodies. That's
good. Put in six hard days. Sit down and think about the
Lord for a day. But, therefore the Son of Man is the Lord of
the Sabbath. That's to show us He's our rest. He's our Sabbath. We got to keep
a day? No, keep Christ. Look to Him. Focus on Him. Rest in Him. You
can do that sitting on the couch. You can do that weed eating.
It don't make a difference. Do what you want. Go out and barbecue. I don't care.
We'll have a pool party today. It's wonderful. Swim till your
heart's content. Look into Him. Rest in Him. Now
turn back to 1 Samuel 21. The Lord mentions this. three times it's recorded in
four of the gospels. But this isn't just David did
something wrong and because he's God's child, it don't count to
him. And so you can go do what you
want. That's ridiculous. That's license to sin. foolishness,
God forbid. That's not what this is. This
is a picture of our Lord saving his people. We're given this
in 1 Samuel 21. We're given this picture here
of David eating his showbread and going in and getting it for
his people. Not just that David went and got it, he had a meal.
This shows us, this is a picture of Christ giving life to his
people, providing for his people and who he is. And it's right.
This is right. That's right. And in doing so,
David eats that. The Lord said it's unlawful.
So this is only for the priest. You know, David was king, right?
He was God's anointed king. And David was a prophet. He wrote
the Psalms. He was a sweet psalmist of Israel.
And you know, David was a priest. He ate the showbread and didn't
die. And then later on, he takes that ephod and puts it on. He
says, give that to me. He said, I'm going to get a word
from the Lord. And the Lord didn't kill him. And there's a greater David that's
come. That's who this is pointing to.
This ain't just a story about our great-grandpa David going and
doing something. And that made him eating that,
it's unlawful for anybody but priests to eat it. David ate
it, and he's right. And the men with him went, okay, now David
was the king. Now David was the prophet. Now,
okay, well, David ate the showbread, and he wore the effort and all
those things. Well, them men with him didn't, they were just
soldiers. They were just grunts. What's his picture? Our Lord
said in Revelation 1, He hath made us kings and priests unto
God and His Father. He's made us priests, made us
kings. To Him be glory and dominion
forever and ever. He's done this. David left some
of his men outside this tabernacle. He had the men with him. They
didn't go in with him. And he went in to get some showbread.
To get some bread for them to eat. Because they was hungry
and they needed sustainment. They needed something to keep
them alive. It says in 1 Samuel 21 verse 1. Then came David to
Nob, that's the city, to Ahimelech the priest. Knobs for the tabernacle
was moved to saw how to move the earth and David went there
to a Bimal a Himalaya But Lord said Mark 2 is Abba Thor didn't
he? He said the high priest was Abba Thor. Well here it says
is a Himalaya. This is beautiful This is beautiful Abba Thor was
the son of Himalaya And a Himelech soon is going to be killed, and
his son is going to escape wrath, his son is going to escape death.
And many times throughout the Scriptures, if a father and son
were both servants of the Lord, they were both priests, they
were intertwined. We looked at that last hour,
didn't we? They were knit together, and they were spoken of basically
as one. The father is one with the son, and the son is one with
the father. You see that? And because Christ died and we
were, he's our surety, we're intertwined with him, we went
free and we became priests of God. And I thought too, just,
just practically, just practically, when there's a father and son
that preaches the truth, they're basically one. I could have Marvin
come up here and preach or I'd have Gabe come up and preach.
What's the difference? The message is the same, isn't
it? Which one? I don't care who.
Y'all sort that out and teach yourselves. Somebody will get
outraged. I'll take one or the other. Wouldn't matter which
one. It'd be the same word from God,
wouldn't it? It says, And David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the
priest. And Ahimelech was afraid at the
meeting of David. He was afraid. He got nervous.
And said unto him, Why art thou alone, and no man with thee?
Ahimelech knew that David was God's anointed king. He knew
this, and he was afraid, that means careful. He was trembling
at the presence of God's king. Now Saul may say that he's the
boss, this is the boss, this is the king, this is God's king,
and he knew it, didn't he? And he feared him. Many times
we're told to fear God throughout the scriptures, and told to fear
the king, fear the king. Solomon wrote that in Proverbs
24, he said, my son, fear thou the Lord and the king. and the
king. Does that mean we respect those
that are in power over us, our president, and pray for them,
and our governors, like them or not, that's who God gave us,
and local officials and police officers? Absolutely it does.
Romans is playing on that, isn't it? Paul didn't mince no words.
And he said, they don't bear the sword in vain. Tell them
you don't have to roll that window down. I don't have to show you
my license. You might get tased, and you got it coming. That's
just corny. Those that know God, everyone
that fears God, they know who the king is, because God's made
king. That's God's king. It's Jesus Christ, our Lord.
And we fear him, we honor him, don't we? He said in Psalm 2,
I have set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. You know that,
and I know that. He's taught us that, hasn't he?
And that fear starts a trembling, starts being afraid, scared to
death. That's the beginning of saving wisdom. When this ain't
just a cold, dead fact that you happen to land on the right one
and you start seeing Christ the King, that's the Lord start working
somebody. When our mouths start getting
shut up and we stop telling everything we know and all the facts we've
learned and through our diligent study, God might be saving somebody. Huh? We fear the King, the Lord Jesus
Christ. And he asked there, he was afraid, and he said, ask
David why he was alone. Why are you alone? What are you
doing here? He's probably busy working, getting
the place ready for some sacrifices or preparing a message or whatever.
David walked right up to that tabernacle, and David walked
right inside of that tabernacle, and David walked right up to
that high priest, looked him dead in the eye, alone. Nobody
was with him. Look at verse two. And David
said unto Himalek the priest, the king hath commanded me a
business, and hath said unto me, let no man know anything
of the business whereabout I send thee, and what I have commanded
thee, and I have appointed my servants to such and such a place.
The kings commanded me. The Lord Jesus Christ came to
this earth, set on business, didn't he? So he's commanded
me a business. When he was young, 12 years old,
coming back, they'd went up to worship and his parents lost
him for a day or two and went back, found him. What are you
doing? He said, why is it you sought
me? He said, don't you know that I must be about my father's business? I'm on the father's business,
I'm on the king's business. And that business, what was it?
To save his people. What business was David there
for? Keep his men from starving to death. They needed something
to sustain them, they needed life. What was Christ's business? To
save a people. Glorify the father, saving a people, provide life
for them, and he did all of that alone. Alone. Mankind will cling to any sense
of glory that we can get our hands on. Whether it's in war,
if we wasn't a general, we knew one. I met the president. You met
the president. I met the first lady. She's real
nice. And if I could squeeze that into
a conversation, I'm gonna plug it. Because we're looking out
for number one. If mankind had anything to do with salvation,
we'd plug it. We'd exalt ourselves. Well, I chose, I decided, I picked,
I discerned, I did something. It didn't happen. Not in true
salvation, not salvation of God saving his people. He did it
alone. He went in to get that life, the bread of life alone.
The bread of life went to give us bread of life alone. Alone,
just like in the last hour. Benjamin wasn't there. This is
between the father and the son. He said, I've trodden the winepress
alone and of the people there was none with me. We were in
him. We weren't doing anything. He
did that alone, didn't he? No one was at Calvary with him.
He hung on that cross alone and he went into that Holy of Holies
and sprinkled his blood on that mercy seat alone. No one was
with him. There in Hebrews 1, it said,
he had by himself purged our sins. He sat down at the right
hand of the majesty on high by himself. Well, that gives all
the glory to God. Amen. And that was hidden. He said,
don't tell nobody about it. He said, the King told him not
to tell nobody and you don't tell nobody to a Himalaya. That was hidden
for many. It wasn't common knowledge, but
it was revealed unto his servants. You know, those men waiting outside,
David told them what he's doing. They may not have understood.
They may have just been poor, dumb folks like me. And he said,
I'm going to go in there. You need this. Just sit down.
Rest. I'll be back in a little bit.
And you'll live. He told him, didn't he? That mystery has been
revealed to some people, to his servants. That's what Paul wrote
about in Ephesians 3. He said, how that by revelation he made
known unto me the mystery. He revealed this to me, which
in other ages was not made known to the sons of men, as it's now
revealed unto the holy apostles and the prophets by the Spirit,
by the priest." It's you. You that's been made priest and
king. The Lord revealed this. He said what He was doing. He
showed us that. David's hungry, and his men are
hungry. They're in verse 3. It says,
"'Now therefore, what is under thy hand? Give me five loaves
of bread in my hand, for what there is present.'" I want five
loaves of bread, give it to me, or however much you got." That's
important. He didn't request five loaves
of bread. He didn't say, a Himalaya, if
you pretty well please, would you please give me a couple of
loaves of bread? He said, give me in my hand. That's God's King standing in
front of a Himalaya. But David pictures that one as
the greater David. greater than David. David's not
a Levite. He's of the tribe of Judah, isn't
he? Christ is that king. He's the
lion of the tribe of Judah. And he commands things. He doesn't
ask and you have first right of refusal. He commands. I remember
looking there in John 4 at that woman at the well, that Samarian,
she was there. And the Lord came to her and
he said, give me to drink. That's a command. He's telling
her, give me to drink, give me to drink. He didn't ask her for
water. He said, baby, real nice if you give me a cup of water.
Do you mind sharing? Could I get half? And then drank it all and
said, my half was on the bottom. He gave a command. He doesn't ask, what does it
say in the scripture? He said, if I was hungry, I wouldn't tell
you. Cattle on a thousand hills are mine. He doesn't come here for his
benefit. It's a command. It's a command. That says a lot
about all the fundraising and the bake sales and the movie
nights and food trucks and bouncy houses all in the name of God.
We're going to raise a couple of pennies for God. Their God
is just like them, they're beggars. Our God commands. He provides. He provides life for his people.
He said, David said that in Psalm 71, he said, thou hast given
commandment to save me. What's salvation? It's a commandment. Was a covenant that covenants
a commandment if Lord said if we can get a hold of that go
read them ten commandments you shall I Don't say like if you
do this, you're gonna die. No for his people. This is a
command you did all that This is what I'm telling you what's
gonna happen. This is a life. This is a life of righteousness
You're gonna live in my son because you're in him God gives command. I'm on that topic. That plumber
we had come, and I was so thankful. He asked me if his son gave me
a quote on the phone, who scheduled the appointment. And I said,
no, sir, he didn't. And I saw his face sink. And he said, it's
going to be a lot. And I said, I figure. You come
out here in 30 minutes. And it's a Saturday. And I've punched
a whole lot of grains. I know how much I charge through
the week. And I can guess how much I'd charge if you had got
me out of bed on a Saturday. It's gonna be a lot, but we're
gonna have services tomorrow. And then he's like, is this a
school? I said, this is a church. Boy's face sunk more. What would
you think? I'm about to ask for a discount,
right? We don't beg people for money
and God's church doesn't ask for a discount. Heed me and hear
what I have to tell you. This is wise and prudent, okay?
There's no church discount. We're gonna pay full price. Kevin,
I don't think that's a good steward of God's money. Oh, is he going
to run out? It's all his money. Because we're going to do what
the scriptures say. Remember when they was trying to give
David that threshing floor? And he said, I ain't offering nothing
to God that costs me nothing. Was it Nehemiah? They rebuilt
the temple. And they said, we ain't asking
the king of nothing. We said, God's going to do this.
We're going to sit back and watch. Now, he may have had to send
ravens to do it. But if he ain't going to do it,
we ain't going to the government for assistance. It ain't happening.
That's what the word of God says. We ain't varied from it, are
we? He gives commandment. He said, you give me five, or
however many is present. Give me what's present. And I
thought, what? I figured that my opinion, which
means nothing, there's probably 12 men with him. There's 12 tribes, ain't there?
But I thought a lot about that. I mean, for hours, I was like,
how come he said, give me five? And he said, or how much is present?
That just stumbled me. And I thought, well, there's
five loaves and two sardines, wasn't there? Five biscuits and
two sardines. So I went and read that, or Mark 6. And he said,
he told them, they saw this great multitude coming. And the Lord
said, give them to eat. And they said, what are we going to give?
They said, we couldn't buy 200 penny worth of bread. What do
you mean, give them to eat? And he said, how many loaves do you
have? Go and see. He knew how many loaves they
had. Whatever's there. And you know what they brought
him? Five loaves. You think he fulfilled the scripture
in 1 Samuel 21? That's what he was doing. I didn't even know.
He did that too. He said it, and then he did it.
That happened yesterday. And that happened when I read
it the day before. And that happened when I read it 23 years ago, and ain't
nothing changed. And guess what he's gonna do
tomorrow? Show me something else he said he did. Give me what's present. It says,
how many loaves have you? And he said, go and see. And
when they knew, they said five and two fishes. And he commanded
them to make them all set down by companies upon a green grass.
He commanded it. And He blessed that bread, and
He broke that bread, and He gave it to the disciples who were
sitting down in green grass, not doing nothing. Just as He
took His body, and He blessed the Father, glorified Him, and
He broke His body, and He gave it to all that follow Him. Put
them in green grass. Verse 4, verse Samuel 21, verse
4. And the priest answered David
and said, there is no common bread under my hand. I'm not
responsible for your common bread, you common folks. He said, but
there's hallowed bread, there's holy bread here. If the young
men have kept themselves at least from women. If the young men
are clean, if they've at least kept themselves from women, they
can eat the holy bread. I don't have regular or common
bread. I don't have holy bread. And David answered the priest
and said unto him, of a truth, barely. That's how it's translated
in the New Testament, in Greek, barely. Of a truth, women have
been kept from us about these three days since I came out. And the vessels of the young
men are holy. Holy. These young men, you get that,
the representative? They're not even in the tabernacle.
They're outside. They're unaware of all this communication
taking place, and David's speaking on their behalf. And the priest
says, this is holy bread, and they gotta be holy to eat it.
And he says, this is true of a truth. They're holy. They're
undefiled. Why? You work through them commas?
It took three days, and I came out. and they're holy. My brother
Paul Mahan says it. Some of y'all was getting this,
ain't you? A couple of you get it. It took three days and I
came out and they're holy, sanctified, without blame before me in love.
Now feed them. They're right. They're right
to eat this holy bread. They are they that testify of
me. all these scriptures. This is pointing to Christ. Could
you imagine that road to Emmaus when it says he opened up scriptures
and preached himself to them? I don't ever want to preach again.
Let him talk. I'll just shut my mouth. Would have been something. What's that defiling of women?
And there's nonsense that goes on through the world. Man's wicked
mind. It comes up all kinds of things for that too. That's that
whore of Babylon. Did you know that? In Revelation
14, it says, they were they which not defiled by women for their
virgins. These are they which follow the lamb, wheresoever
he goeth. They were redeemed from among
men. They're the firstfruits of God unto the lamb. And in
their mouth was found no guile. Wasn't that Nazareth that said,
Lord, so there's no guile in his mouth? for they are without
fault before the throne of God." He ain't talking about people
that take an oath to not commit fornication or anything like
that. He's talking about that great whore Babylon. We go on
reading in Revelation 17, isn't it? And it's because he says
they're virgins who follow the Lamb wherever so ever he goeth.
Not like, well, I like this doctrine of Christ, but you know what?
I'm friends with these folks over here, too. We're brothers
over here, and we're sisters over here with these Catholics,
and this Armenian and Calvinism thing, this is an in-house discussion. Like, we're all part of the family.
No, that's not what he's saying. They're separated. They don't
have no part with that. They follow the Lamb. Why? Because it took three days and
he came up. He arose. They're holy. They're holy. And
for the Lord's we're kept from that great whore of Babylon of
religion, of man-worshiping. Amen. Verse 5, David answered
the priest and said unto him of a truth, women have been kept
from us about these three days since I came out, and the vessels
of the young men are holy. And the bread is in a manner
common. Yea, though it were sanctified
this day in the vessel. Every day they'd make hot bread.
They'd make a new set of bread, this show bread. And it's holy
bread. It's set apart for the use of
the priests. They had to eat that. And the
Lord said, there'll be meat in my house. Everybody bring a sacrifice to it. And
that's what the Levites ate. They had to have something to
eat, too. They needed bread, too. But they would make this.
It was set apart for the Lord's use. And it was holy. It was
sanctified. And David says, in a manner,
depending on how you're looking at it, this is common bread. Could you imagine standing up,
shouting? I thought about walking in, too. He just walked into
that place. This is the Lord's house, and
don't forget it. But at the same time, we don't come in and bow
to this carpet and hug the glasses and all these things and hum
to them and make little homages and burn incense, do we? Walk
in, this is the Father's house. And David said, this is true,
this is sanctified for this day, this is for the use of the Lord,
but in a manner, it's common. This bread's sanctified, but
in a manner, it's the Lord's, but in a way, it's common. And
I thought of Jude. Jude said, behold, when I gave
all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, that
ain't dime store salvation, it's common throughout all the people.
It's the Lord. Salvation's of the Lord. Salvation
is the Lord. It's His command. But is that
any different for David? Remember that, that they all
may be one? We looked at it in John 17 also.
It ain't no different. It don't change. From the first
saint to the last. It's commanded. It's His doing,
isn't it? It's the same for all of us. What is this bread? Now
you know better. I wouldn't ask you what the bread
is. It's who. Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth
on me hath everlasting life. I'm the bread of life. If you're
worried about Ezekiel bread or how much wheat they put in it
or whatever, he said that man in the wilderness, everybody
ate that and they died. I'm the bread. I'm the bread
of life. That's what's common to all his
people, isn't it? And his people are common. We're
just commoners. But we hear that. And it's the
same whether you're a king or you're the harlot. There's no
difference. That's what I said before. What
do I have in common with Rahab? What do I have in common with...
I ain't no king. Or Solomon and all that greatness and all these
feasts and hundreds of thousands of lambs they slew and all that.
Well, we got something in common. We sure do. The bread of life,
don't we? That warm bread of the Lord.
Look here in verse 6. So the priest gave him hallowed
bread. That's what the king does. When
the king says, they need to eat, give them bread, I said so. They're
holy because of me. So the priest gave him hallowed
bread, for there was no bread but the showbread that was taken
from before the Lord to put hot bread in the day when it was
taken away. Because of that captain of our
salvation, which goes on in 1 Samuel 22, we eat the warm bread of
the Lord and live. It ain't stale, hard to chew,
bust a tooth on. It's hot and ready. Carolyn makes
bread, and I know it when I walk through the door. Sometimes if
the window's open, I know it when I get out of the car, if the wind's blowing
my way. Oh, it smells so good, and it feels warm in your hands,
and it tastes so good. extra gluten in it and all kinds
of wonderful things. It's yummy, isn't it? It's the
Lord's bread. I eat that and I live. I eat
that and I live. Stay hard. He's the door. You can go through something,
you can go through him. He's the bread. You gonna live? You gotta have
that. You gotta have him. No egg was witnessed all this
one of Saul's men. He was the head shepherd and
wanted to move up that ladder, didn't he? Look at verse seven.
Now, a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day. Detained before the Lord. Was
he there on his own? Free will and recognizes his
decision. God had no egg there. He was detained before the Lord,
and his name was Doeg in Edomite, the chiefest of the herdmen that
belonged to Saul. Just as that son of perdition
was with the 11. There's wheat among tares, but
the doing of it is the Lord. The doing of it's the Lord. All
the sweet things that we have. We have one that goes into the
holiest of holies for us, that petitions our case, that's our
mediator, and that because of him we're made holy, we're made
priest, we can eat the bread of life. Imagine him walking
out here, have some bread. Just eat it. There's always those
around us that don't eat the wheat, eat the bread, wheat among
the tares. He went and told Saul that, and
he said, Hamilech's helping David. And he said, go kill him. And
all those servants wouldn't, but Doeg did. And when David
got word and was captain of the 400, he finally wrote Psalm 52.
We'll get to that next week. What do you do when there's people
against you? Go read Psalm 52. That's what
you do be good for you. All right, but my