Thank you. 1 Samuel 16. 1 Samuel 16. If our Lord preached
from this on the road to Emmaus, and I feel certainly did, He
surely preached about David. Because Christ's name is the Son of David. David's name is mentioned more
than any person in all of the Scripture, other than our God. Now, when we think of David as
I go through this, I want you to think of Christ, okay? This
was David's purpose for living. He lived to represent our Lord
Jesus Christ. On the other hand, our Lord lived
to represent David before the Father. David was just a man. He was made mighty by God. Christ is the mighty God. He
was made a man. David was made just and righteous
and great and wise. Our Lord is the just one. He is the righteous one. He is the great one. He is wisdom
personified. David was captain of the Lord's
people. Christ was David's captain. David
was a great sinner. He sets up, pardon my iniquity,
for his grape. Our Lord was His great Savior.
David, as I said, was born and lived to represent Christ. And
our Lord was born and lived and died, and now ever lives to represent,
to intercede for, David. David, as Christ, was God's beloved. God's beloved. Acts 13. Paul was preaching, he said,
he reminded the people that God said that I've sought me a man
after my own heart. I want you to turn to 2 Samuel
real quickly. Some of these, there's so many
scriptures, but some of these you'll really be glad you turned
to. 2 Samuel 18. David was God's
beloved. God loved David, and David loved
the Lord. And he said so often throughout
the scriptures. God said so of David and David
of his Lord. But 2 Samuel 18, the people love
David too. It says in verse 3, 2 Samuel
18 verse 3, David's getting older and the people don't want him
to go out to battle with them. And they said to the people,
thou shalt not go forth. If we flee away, they won't care
for us. We're not worth anything. Neither
half of us die. We're not worth anything. But
thou art worth 10,000 of us. They thought he's the fairest
of 10,000. And that's our Lord. David was
shepherd of the sheep, John 10. Our Lord said, I am the good
shepherd. David wrote of the good shepherd. Who was David riding off? The
Lord Jesus Christ. Ezekiel 34, God said that. Now
this was after David had died. And Ezekiel, let me read it so
I won't misquote it. But now this is written, and
it's often throughout the prophets, written, speaks of David as if
David were still alive. Now it's talking about the son
of David. But listen to Ezekiel 34, God
says, God said, I will set up one shepherd over them, and he
shall feed them, my servant David. But David's dead. He's talking
about the son of David. He shall feed them. He shall
be their shepherd. I, the Lord, will be their God,
and my servant David, a prince among them. I, the Lord, have
spoken, and make with them a covenant of peace. That's all Christ did. David was dead. Peter preached
at Pentecost, didn't he, when the Lord said he would not suffer
his holy one to see corruption? He said, David's dead. You'll
find his bones in a grave over there. But now David was talking
about his son, the Lord Jesus Christ. So David was a great
shepherd of the sheep. David was captain, conqueror,
savior. We might look at the next chapter. You know what's in that? A giant
slayer. The first thing David did was
face that giant. That's the first thing Christ
did as a man, was face Satan. David was the anointed of God.
He was the prophet. He anointed of God. Isaiah 61
says, Spirit of the Lord is upon me. Hith anointed me. David was
a brother. These brethren of his were sorry.
They were sorry men, but David was not ashamed to call them
brethren. They rejected David. They later
received him. And he made them captains in
his army. David was their brother and David
was a friend to them. David was loyal and David was
faithful to them. He stuck closer than a brother. David was a friend of sinners.
You remember Oma Tibisheth? Merciful man. That's our Lord.
David's name means loving. That's what his name means. Loving. Or lover. And beloved. That's our Lord. He is altogether
lovely. The people love Him. He loves
the people. He's a lover of His people. And
they love him. David Edmondson, if you're listening,
he often listens to this before on their way to their services.
They're an hour behind us. David, if you're listening to
this, we love you, brother. You're lovely to us. And I want
to be your friend like Jonathan. But David, his name means loving
and our Lord is the beloved of God. God said of David, He called
him his beloved, and God spoke out loud concerning his son.
This is my well-beloved son, in whom I am well pleased. All
right, chapter 16. Let me just go through these
verses. The Lord said unto Samuel, How
long wilt thou mourn for Saul? See, and I have rejected him
from reigning over Israel. Fill thine horn with oil, and
go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have
provided thee a king among his son." Saul was rejected. Saul was man's king, wasn't he? The people said, we want a king.
Samuel was a good prophet. Samuel was all they needed. But
they said, no, we want a king like the rest of the nations.
God said, no, you don't. You don't want the king that
you want. You want the king I provide. Esau was rejected, you see. Esau
is a picture of Adam. Esau is a picture of the first
Adam, rejected. Adam was a king of sorts. Lower
than the angels, but he put him over all his works, Psalm 8 says,
doesn't it? Now that speaks of Christ. But
Adam was a king and he ruled over that, but Adam failed and
Adam all died too. All of Israel would have died
if God hadn't provided David. Israel was God's people, and
so he provided them a king, him a king. But Saul was rejected,
but God had another king, his only king, his true king. God
said, I have provided me a king. And you know, later on, Saul
hated David, didn't he? He found out, he knew. who God's
true king was. And Saul hated him. Saul was
an evil man. And Saul represents this old
man in us who doesn't want this man to reign and rule over us.
Our old man wants to be sovereign. We want to be in control of ourselves. That's the world. That's the
old man. That's Satan. Satan, like Saul. And Saul tried
to kill David, didn't he? He can't. He's not going to take
his life from him. God has made him king. God said,
touch not mine anointing. He's not going to touch him.
David died an old age. But Satan and this old man hates
God's Christ. There's only one King. Only one
can reign. Right? Only one can rule. Only one who has free will. There's one Lord. Right? We love to have it so, don't
we? Aren't we glad? I don't want to reign. I don't
want to rule. There was a time I did. I don't now. Oh, subdue
my sinful will. That's what we pray. So the Lord
said to Samuel, go to the house of Jesse. Every name in scripture
is significant. God's names. Jesse means existent. The existent
one. Well, that's what Jehovah means. I am. Well, sure, Jesse's existent. But he represents our Lord's
Father, the I Am, the great I Am. He said, Go to the house of Jesse,
the Bethlehemite. The first mention of David is
Bethlehem. Well, what does that mean? House of bread. Didn't our Lord
say it? I am the bread. Moses didn't
give you that bread from heaven. My Father giveth you the true
bread. I am the bread, the true bread come down from heaven.
The first mention of our Lord, at least as a man, is in Bethlehem. Born in Bethlehem. That's where
David was born. That's where our Lord was born.
God says, I have provided me a king. This is my king. Psalm
2. Start to have you turn there.
You know it by heart, don't you? I have set my king on my holy
hill of Zion. God's king. And he said, fill
your horn with oil. You're going to anoint him in
front of, in the midst of his brethren. And that's exactly,
David wrote a whole psalm, Psalm 45. Well, it's not the only one.
Psalm of the King, Psalm 45. He said, my heart is indicted
in a good manner. I speak of things concerning
the King. Like Isaiah 53, I'm sure David when he was writing
that, he wasn't writing of himself. And I know he's thinking of Christ.
And his tongue, his pen was just writing and writing and writing.
He said, Thou shalt anoint him with the oil of gladness above
his fellows. David didn't think he was above
his fellows. Though he was, though David was,
though God made him so, yet David was one of them, wasn't he? David
was right in the middle of them, walking amongst them, fighting
with them, for them. That's our Lord. Made a man like
unto David. Verse 2. And so Samuel is sent,
and this is what all the prophets are sent to do, right? To him
give all the prophets witness. Every prophet writes of and bears
witness of the Lord Jesus Christ. That's their purpose. That was
Samuel's purpose. Samuel's purpose, his reason
for existence, Samuel was to come up to this point, to anoint
David, to set forth David as the king of Israel. And then
not long after that, Samuel dies and goes to be with the Lord.
His job is done, like John the Baptist. John was the last of
the Old Testament prophets. So verse 2, Samuel said, how
can I go with Saul here and he will kill me? See? Samuel's coming to anoint the
king of Israel, the true king. Now this would-be king, this
Saul, this usurper, man's king, hates the Christ and he hates
those who preach him. Our Lord said this, which of
the prophets have not your fathers killed? That's what the Lord
said. So Samuel, Saul would have killed
Samuel had not God protected him. And here 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. So Samuel came to anoint the
king and to make a sacrifice. Well, that's what every prophet
does, that's what every preacher, that's what every pastor is sent
to do, to set forth Christ and Him crucified. Christ the King
and Christ our substitute, our burnt offering, our sin offering.
So that's the purpose of the prophet. And he's going to David's
brethren. That's who's going to be called
to the sacrifice. You hear that? Who is called
to the sacrifice? Our Lord's brethren. Our Lord's
people. That's who He called. They came. We might, I don't know if I'll
preach on this from 1 Kings, but there's a story of how a
man who thought he was king, next in line to David, set himself
up and had a big gathering, invited all his friends to anoint him
king. And they went and told David,
and they said, you put Solomon, you put Solomon on a mule, I
think, and you ride him through town, and you make this decree,
this is my king. And the only ones that were invited
to that, or called to that coronation of Solomon, the son of David,
was the high priest, the bride, David's bride, Bathsheba, the
sinner, and the son was there, and those that loved the king's
son. I'll just preach it to you. That's
the first king. So Samuel did, verse 4, he came
and did that which the Lord spake, and all God's preachers and prophets
do, thus saith the Lord. He came to Bethlehem, the house
of bread. The elders of the town trembled at his coming. You know, preachers, prophets
among God's people, they have great respect. They have the
respect of the people. They're not to fear any man,
that's for sure, but we're to hold in high esteem those who
preach the gospel for the gospel's sake. Now, this generation has
no respect for preachers, and most of them, I don't blame them
because they're a bunch of fools, but not God's preachers. Samuel did that, and they came,
comest thou peaceably? Are you here in peace? He said,
peaceably. Why? How do you bring peace? Come with a sacrifice unto the
Lord. Oh, yes. And, you know, we don't
preach peace, peace when there is no peace. That's what the
false prophets did. Peace, peace. That's all they
say, peace. That's what Jeremiah 23, that's
what it said. They say unto them that despise
God, no evil shall follow you. Peace when there is no peace.
They're not preaching Christ the sacrifice, the only sacrifice,
the only way we can have peace with God. They just preach a
generally benevolent and loving God who loves everybody and just
wants everybody to have peace and all that. And if you'll accept
Him and let Him into your life, you'll have peace. It's up to
you to have peace, you see. No, no, no, no. That's not what
Samuel preached. That's not what we preach. We
preach as one who hath obtained peace for us by the blood of
His crop. You believe on Him, you'll have peace. You rest in
Christ, you'll have peace. In this world, you'll have tribulation.
But only in Christ will you have peace. In fact, when you believe
on Christ, the war begins in this world. Within and without,
in this world, the war begins. But here, by the authority of
God, you've got peace with God and rest. Yes, I bring peace. Peace with God by the blood of
your substitute. In verse 5, he says, sanctify
yourselves. Come with me to the sacrifice.
He sanctified Jesse, his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.
Christ is made unto us wisdom, righteousness, sanctification,
and redemption. Scripture says, by one offering
he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified. Christ said,
I sanctify myself that they also might be sanctified. Doesn't
that say that? Doesn't our Lord say that? So
this sacrifice and all is what set them apart. He tells him,
sanctify yourself. Well, believing on the Lord Jesus
Christ, you're sanctified. You're sanctified. And yet, in
this sense, David says, come out, leave home, leave your family,
leave everyone, come apart. And our Lord said, Come out from
among them, be ye separate. In other words, this is what
sanctifies and sets apart God's people from all the world. What
do they do? They come to bless and rejoice
and crown the King and to come to the sacrifice of Christ and
Him crucified. This is what sets them apart. This is what they do. This is
what they want to do. He said, sanctify yourself, come
apart, come, come, leave what you're doing and come to see
the anointing of the King and the sacrifice, the Lord's sacrifice.
And this is what God does to the gospel and what we want to
do. He said, Paul said, God has chosen
you from the beginning. through sanctification of the
Spirit and belief of the truth, whereunto he called you by our
gospel. Come out. The gospel says come
out. Where? Where are we going? To
see the King. To anoint the King. To the sacrifice
of the King. And he sanctified Jesse and his
sons, called them to the sacrifice. That's what we're called to do.
Worship the King. It came to pass, verse 6, when
they were come that, here they come, the sons of Jesse. The first one was Eliab, or Elihu. And Samuel said, surely the Lord's
anointing is before me. The Lord said, don't look on
his countenance or the height of his stature. Eliab must have
been the tallest. That's what it says right after
Samuel, being a man, said, this has got to be him. Elihu. Elihu came up, and he's tall,
dark, and handsome, evidently. He's the oldest son. Surely,
the oldest is the one who's going to reign and rule. No, the elder. Don't you remember, Samuel? The
elder shall serve the younger. And no, no, no, no, no. God's
no respecter of persons. When our Lord came as a man,
Scripture says, there was no beauty about Him that we should
desire. Nothing about His face or His features that would distinguish
Him, make Him beautiful in the eyes of men. Oh. God looks on the heart. And God
said, this is my well. He's beautiful. He's beautiful. Those babies are born. You don't
care what anybody thinks. You're going to think they're
the most beautiful babies in all the world. There's no beauty
about him that we should desire him. No form or comeliness, meaning
his form was not above. Saul was head and shoulders above
the rest of them. People looked at Saul. Saul was
a bad man. Eliab, in the next chapter, despised
David. You know that? David came, sent
by the Father to look on his brethren and to bring them food
and wine and all that. And Eliab accused him of being
proud and haughty. And that's when David said, there's
a cause. And you're not able to do it,
Eliab. I'm sent for this cause. Bless
God. I believe that God broke Eliab
later on. I hope so. But no, God said,
this is not him. Don't look on his outward countenance. And by the way, verse 7, it says,
the Lord seeeth not as man seeth. People use this as an excuse
to say, well, it doesn't matter what I look like, or it doesn't
matter what I do, all that. The Lord's looking on the heart.
He doesn't say that. Keep it in context now. David,
you know, Samuel was impressed with this man's outward beauty
and form and all that, and he said, surely this is the Lord,
surely this is the one, because this is, he looks good to all
of us. And God said, no, God doesn't see that way. Man's sight
is limited to the outward. Right? God doesn't judge that
way. But God does see everything. His eyes behold everything. The inward and the outward, okay? And out of the abundance of the
heart, it comes out. What's on the outside is a manifestation
of what's on the inside. Does it matter? Yes, it does.
Yes, it does. Faith without works is dead. You can say what you will. Oh,
God knows my heart. He sure does. He sure does. And that's when Scripture says,
often God is not unrighteous to forget your labor of love,
what you're doing. He's watching what you're doing.
First thing He said to all the churches, I know your works. But the first thing, and the
important thing, and the primary thing is the motive behind it,
the heart. And man can't see that. Man can't
see that. But God does. And he said, I've
provided me a king after my own heart, a heart for the people. Saul was a taker. It's what it
said. You read the story of Saul, the
first part of it. We went through Samuel years
ago, every birth. And Saul took, he took their
sons and their daughters. He took from them. He made them
slaves to him. He took, he took, he took, he
took. When David was, when David came forth, he said, he gave,
he gave, he gave, he gave. He giveth, he giveth, he giveth.
I started to have you turn to one place, speaking of the bread.
It says, David dealt to every man. When he brought the ark
in, he dealt to every man, every person, a good loaf of bread
and a flagon of wine. Nobody brought anything. David
provided it all. David didn't take anything. Everybody
volunteered to serve David. Made him willing, because they
loved David, because he first loved them. That's Christ. That's Him. So then Samuel went
to the next, and Jesse called Abinadab and made him pass before
Samuel. And the Lord said, Neither hath
the Lord chosen this. And Jesse made Shammah to pass
by, and Samuel said, Neither hath the Lord chosen this. Who's
doing the choosing here? Huh? Was Samuel there asking for volunteers
to be king? Huh? Oh, no. God says, you go,
I've chosen my king. So we don't make him king, do
we? You don't let him be lord of
your life. God did that. And maybe, hopefully,
God will let you know and cause you to bow and see that he is
your king. But you don't have any power
or any will over anybody or anything. Never have, never will. Maybe,
hopefully, savingly, God will make every one of us in this
room to know He is your Lord. Don't you love to have it so?
Now bow the knee. God did the choosing. God chose
His King and God chose His people. Who is chosen first? Who is God's
elect? Christ is. Isaiah 42, Behold my servant,
mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth. We are elected in Him. You see,
this whole thing is about David. Those brothers were just bystanders. They had a vested interest all
right. But this is not about them. Samuel didn't come to tell
them how much God needs them. No. Samuel came to tell them,
there's a king amongst you, one chosen. Psalm 89 says that. Turn there. This is wonderful.
Psalm 89. This is wonderful. While I'm
thinking about it, we need to look at it. This is just marvelous.
Psalm 89, God said, David wrote this, in verse 19, you have it? Then thou spakest in vision to
thy Holy One, and sayest, I have laid help upon one that is mighty.
I have exalted one chosen out of the people. I have found David
my servant. With my holy oil have I anointed
him, with whom my hand shall be established. Mine arm also
shall strengthen him. The enemy shall not exact upon
him, nor the son of wickedness afflict him. I will beat down
his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him. But
my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him. And in my
name shall his horn be exalted. I will set his hand also in the
sea, and his right hand in the rivers. Are you talking about
David? I'm talking about Christ. He shall cry unto me, Thou art
my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation. I'll make him
my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth. My mercy
will I keep for him forever, and my covenant shall stand fast
with him. The Son of David, the Lord Jesus
Christ. Isn't that marvelous? Say amen. Amen. Oh man, I love it, I love it.
Love it, love it, love it. No, the Lord didn't choose you
first. He chose Christ. He chose you
in Christ. These brethren, later on, they
were mighty glad that David was their brother and David was their
king. Like Joseph's brethren, they
hated him at first. But David didn't hate them. So Samuel said unto Jesse, verse
11. Oh, this is my favorite story
in the Bible, right now. He said, are these all your children?
And Jesse said, no, they're mainly the youngest. Hmm, things should
have started clicking in Samuel's head. None of the oldest? No. The youngest? Only one left. Is the youngest? That's it. And what's he doing? He's keeping
the sheep. He's a shepherd. Oh, Samuel said,
he's a shepherd? Hmm, Moses was a shepherd. Moses was the youngest. It wasn't
Aaron. It sure wasn't Miriam. Moses
was a shepherd. Kept the flock. He's a shepherd. And Jesse said, he's a good one.
Jesse said, he's a great shepherd. Let me tell you what he did.
That young boy of mine, wow, a bear and a lion both came and
got one of his little lambs. And he went after that with his
bear hands and smote the lion and smote the bear for one little
lamb. I tell you what, Mr. Samuel,
David's a good shepherd. He has never lost a sheep. He's never lost one. And if he
loses one, he'll go after it till he finds it. He'd put it
on his shoulders and bring it all the way home. It's like he
loves that little sheep more than himself. Simon said, hmm,
you better bring... He said, look at this verse. Oh, I can't contain myself here. Verse 11, it says, Sin. Sin for him. Christ is the sin
one, isn't it? Father's sin. Fetch him. Go lay
hold on him. Bring him in. He said, we aren't
going to sit down. We can't sit. We can't rest till
he come hither. In the fullness of time, God
sent forth His Son, made of woman, made under the law. To do what?
To redeem them that were under the law. And he accomplished
redemption, accomplished salvation. His last words on this earth
were, it is finished. Arrest. We can rest because Boaz,
our Boaz, finished the work. Bought us. Bought us with his
own blood and went back to glory where he sits. See, we can't
sit with God. We can't sit with the saints.
We can't sit together in heavenly places unless Christ gives us
a seat, unless Christ does the work for him. We won't rest until
he comes here and fights our fight for us. So they sent, and
they brought him in. I love thinking about this. What
did he look like? See, it is ruddy. Here they came.
They're all waiting, waiting on the son, the youngest, to
come in. waiting on the Lord's anointing. And they brought him
in, all right? Where's he been? Out in the field,
fighting bears and lions, keeping the sheep. Pussy smelled like,
smelled like the field. Scripture says here, it says
he was ruddy. His face was red, windburned. The dew of youth was on his brow. He's young, he's only 16, 17.
Just a lad. All right? He's got the dew of
the morning on his face. His face is red from activity
and exertion of fighting for his sheep and feeding the sheep.
And he comes in and looks around. Everybody's looking at him. The
prophet's there. God's looking. Here he is. A beautiful countenance. Beautiful. Goodly, now look at how the scripture
says this. Goodly to look to. That's what it says. I'd be curious
what these modern perversions, how they were, how they say that. I bet this says good look at.
Goodly to look to. This is the one you're going
to look to for everything, for your salvation. And the Lord
said, now here's what the Lord said to everybody in that room,
arise, anoint him, this is he. Arise. I'd start to have you
arise, right? John, that's why you love that
song. Arise, my soul, arise. Shake off thy guilty fears. The
bleeding sacrifice in my behalf appears. Before the throne my
surety stands. My name is written on His hand.
My name is written on His hand. Arise, my soul. God says to all
his people, arise, anoint him. This is he. This is the one. This is your redeemer. This is
your king. This is your lord. This is your
righteousness. This is your savior. This is your brother. This is
your friend. This is your salvation. This is he. This is him. And Samuel took the horn of oil
and anointed him in the midst of his brethren. They all saw
it. This is it. The Spirit of the
Lord came upon David from that day forth. And Samuel rose up
and went home. Paul said concerning the gospel,
he said, I'm called to be an apostle like Samuel was called
to be a prophet. Separated under the gospel of
God, Samuel was Preacher of the Gospel, which he promised afore
by his prophets in the Holy Scriptures concerning his Son, Jesus Christ
our Lord. That's what the Gospel is concerning
God's Son, Jesus Christ our Lord and our King. Which was made
of the seed of David according to the flesh and declared to
be the Son of God with power. What declared David to be God's
King? The Spirit of God. The Prophet. All right? And it says here in
Romans 1-4, He was declared to be the Son of God with power
according to the Spirit of holiness. The Holy Spirit came upon Christ,
anointed of the Spirit. And God says, this is Him. And
by the resurrection of the dead, by whom we have received grace
and apostleship, obedience to the faith among all nations. This is it. Okay.