OK, go back with me to 1 Samuel
chapter 30. I'm not sure if anyone who heard
this Wednesday night enjoyed it as much as I did. But this whole story of David
going after that which was his, is such a glorious picture of
the Lord Jesus Christ and that great salvation. Scripture calls
him the captain of our salvation, the deliverer, the redeemer,
not a hope to be, a might be, a want to be, a wish to be. but the Deliverer, the Savior,
the Captain, the Great Shepherd who never lost a sheep like David. The Old Testament scriptures
are not just history lessons about Jews. The Lord Jesus Christ
said about the Old Testament He said, They are they which
testify of me. That's why they were written.
This whole book is a book written by God Almighty to declare his
Son. And every story, every jot and
every tittle, if we had eyes to see, declares the Christ. The Old Testament said, from
Genesis to Malachi, someone is coming. That is what it is about.
Every symbol, every law, every ordinance, every person, every
place, every thing testifies of the coming Christ, his glory,
his person, his work, his salvation. The four Gospels declare he's
here, just like the scripture said he would be. Here he is,
in person. And then the epistles and the
revelation say he's coming again. And this story, like so many
others, is just a glorious picture of Christ and his work of salvation. How that all was lost in Adam,
Paul wrote, in Adam all die, but in Christ all those in Christ
shall be made alive. All recovered by Christ. Look
at verse 17. It says, David came, these enemies
who had taken away his family and his possessions, he smote
them and he said there wasn't a man escape from them. save these young men he let go
on purpose. And we saw Wednesday night how
the Lord Jesus Christ bruised the serpent's head on Calvary's tree. That's when
he crushed his power, took it away from him, led the captivity
captive. And Christ slew or put away all
the sins of all of his people. The sins and death died at Calvary. And the enmity within his people,
he slew that too. He smote. And Scripture says
that Christ is coming again to this earth to smite which you rarely hear a modern
preacher say anything about. Which all of these stories testify
that the Lord Jesus Christ, not gentle Jesus meek and mild, but
rather the judge of all the earth, is coming back to this earth
to destroy it and recover his people. All of
them. Verse 18, it says, And David
recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away. All. He recovered all. None lost. Nothing lost. It says neither
small or great in verse 19. Nothing was lost. Whatever was
taken, he got it back. This man's a great Savior, isn't
he? He's able to do what he set out to do, isn't he? He did what
he set out to do, didn't he? That's the Christ of Scripture. Any talk of a Jesus coming here
to attempt to save anybody and couldn't because they weren't
whatever or didn't cooperate is another Jesus and a false
gospel. David recovered all, and so did
our Lord Jesus Christ. None lost. Our Lord said that
in his high priestly prayer in John 17. He said, None is lost. Of that which thou hast given
me, those whom thou hast given me, I have lost nothing. He said concerning himself as
the Great Shepherd, he said, I give unto them eternal life,
and they shall never perish. No man can pluck them out of
my Father's hand. He has never failed. He's never
made an attempt at anything. God told David before this story,
David said, Shall I go and pursue? He said, Pursue. He said, Shall
I overtake? He said, You shall. He said,
Will I get them back? He said, All of them. And that testifies of the Lord
Jesus Christ. And I may ask you this question
Wednesday night. What kind of Savior would you,
do you want? One who has never failed to get
back what he goes to seek? Or one you have to help out? He recovered all. Verse 18. I'm
preaching it again, aren't I? David recovered all. There is
no other message, people. That's the message of this book. David recovered all, and David
rescued his two wives. Now, the Lord did not condone
polygamy. That's multiple wives. Never
did. Why was it allowed? God allowed
this to happen. David, when it was all over,
had about seven wives. Solomon, as you know, I mean,
he had three hundred? Why? God allowed it, didn't he? Because as I said, or as the
Lord said, they are they which testify of me, of Christ. The only reason, I believe, that
the Lord allowed David to have more than one wife is because
the Lord Jesus Christ has three trillions. You understand? Every single
person is called his bride. And David at this time had two
of them, and he's not going to lose either one of them. You
understand? He loved them both alike. Can
a man love two women at the same time the same way? David did,
and Christ does. Maybe Abigail was more beautiful
than Ahilam. Is that her name? Ahilam. I can't
even say her name. I'm glad your names are. Sue
and. Maybe Abigail was more beautiful
than the other woman, David's other wife. Maybe she was more
talented. Maybe she was more people thought
she was more worthy and all that not to David. You understand. Not to David. He loved him just alike. And
he's not going to lose either one of them. You understand that,
believer? Oh, I'm not worthy. Oh, I know
that. You remember where Abigail came from? Married to a fool? That made her a fool. And David came and found her,
didn't he? David had mercy upon her. David sent and fetched her
and said, I'm taking you. I'm taking you from my wife.
That's irresistible grace. Whomever Jesus Christ sets his
eye on and sets his love upon, they're going to fall in love
with him, and they're going to come to him, and he's going to
marry them, and he's not going to lose one of them. You understand
that? That's why this story was written. David lost none of them. Is that
who you want to be married to? Especially if you're an ugly
bride. You know, that's the only bride that Christ marries is
the ugly ones. The old maids. I'm getting old
now. These ladies, some of our ladies think that I'm, yeah,
I'm twenty-eight now. I need to pass my time. Yeah, right. Or I'm thirty or
I'm forty or even fifty, you know. Listen, fifties still looks
real young to me. Well, David recovered them both.
He loved them both the same. And you know, if he had lost
one of them, he would have suffered great loss. You understand? And the Lord Jesus Christ cannot
fail to save anybody, for he suffers great loss himself. His
power, his ability to save is at stake here. His wisdom, his
love. Well, he couldn't save this one,
it was the worst. That's precisely who he saved, the worst. Didn't
he say, with man it's impossible? I saved the impossible. That's the ones he does save.
Like with that story of David, they said of David, the Jebusites
were inhabiting Jerusalem at the time. We're not going to
see it. We need to study 2 Samuel. That's
in 2 Samuel. The Jebusites had control of
Jerusalem, and they were in there, and David's coming to get it.
It belongs to him. He's the king of it. God said
so. And God sent him and said, Assume
what's yours. And David's headed there, and
these Jebusites said, He can't come in here. We won't let him. And the next verse says, He took
it. That's the God of the Bible.
That's the Christ of Scripture. God said in Isaiah 43, verse
13, He said, I will work, and who will prevent me? Didn't He? That's the God of
Scripture. This is the Christ of Scripture.
Everyone that the Father giveth me, He said, shall come unto
me. And everyone that cometh to me
I will in no wise cast out. That's the Christ of Scripture.
That's why this story was written. David rescued everything that
belonged to him. And it says in verse 20, David
took all Verse 19, there was nothing left, no one left behind,
no one missing, nothing missing of all that they'd lost, and
nothing lacking. Nobody lacked for anything. None
went hungry or thirsty. David recovered all. In verse
20, David took off the flocks and the herds, which they drove. Whatever the enemy had that they
thought was theirs, he took that too. And he said, David said,
David made this proclamation, this is mine. This is David's
spoil. It all belongs to me now. And
Barbara Ross, that's what Romans 14 verse 9 says, "...to this
end Christ both died, rose, and revived, that he might be Lord
of the dead and the living." It's mine. Satan is called the God of this
world, small g. Meaning, that's whom the world
serves and that's who the world worships and follows and listens
to and so forth. But he's not the big G-O-D of
this world. No, sir. He's not Lord of this
earth. Psalm 24 says, The earth is the
Lord's, and the fullness thereof, the earth and the inhabitants,
the world and the inhabitants thereof. Nancy died To assume
that right, it all belongs to me. It's mine. That's right. That's what the
scriptures say. Nobody owns anything. Man makes his little claims,
you know. He puts a little sign in his
yard. This belongs to me. Yeah. About all that really does belong
to us, and not for long, is a six-foot hole in the ground when it's
all over. That's where we're going to abide for a while. And
we can't even keep that. David recovered all. This is
David's spoil. This is David's spoil. David's
spoil. This is Christ's spoil. This
is Christ's universe. This is the Lord Jesus Christ.
That's why it's called Lord. You know what? That's why it's
called Lord. That means he's sovereign over
it all, that he owns it all. He reigns and rules among the
armies of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth. That's
why he's called Lord. Not a wannabe, a hope-to-be.
He's not running for election. God hath made this same Jesus. Lord! Now, the wise thing for
men and women and people on this earth that are squatters, that
are trespassers, is to ask this great Lord for mercy for trespassing. It's to ask this great Lord for
mercy upon them who have not given him a thought and eaten
all his food, drank all his water, and just maligned him all these
years. God does not love the inhabitants
of planet Earth like men falsely say. God is not happy and has
a wonderful plan for men's lives. That's a lie, as the old saying
is, out of hell, Satan's the father of it. The Lord Jesus
Christ of Scripture, of whom this is a type and a prophecy,
is coming to smite the earth, Malachi 3. Read it, to smite
the earth. With what? Sword. Isaiah 63, his garments dyed
red with blood. Read it for yourself. Well, now here's today's message. In verse 21, David came to the
two hundred men, which were so faint they could not follow David,
whom they made to abide at the brook Besor. He came to these
men. There was, as I said, there were
some who were unable to go with David to battle, to go down to
smite the Amalekites, whether they were too old or too young
or too sick or too weak. It says they were all weak, doesn't
it? They were all weak. Some were
older than others. Some were younger. Too weak, too scared. Some of them were scared. You
know they were. Whatever it was, they were left
behind at this brook Besor. Okay? Stay with me. But I'm quite certain they weren't
idle. They were given something to
do. This says they were left with the stuff, meaning they kept
the home fires burning. They cooked the food. They gathered
water. They set up camp. They were getting
it all ready for David to come back. And I'll tell you what all of
them were doing. The ones that stayed behind, they were praying
for David. They were praying for David and his men for the
success and a swift return. Are you with me? They were praying for David's
swift return and his successful mission to get back our wives
and children. Their future depended on his
success. And so does ours, folks. So does
ours. Our salvation doesn't depend
on us. Your salvation doesn't depend on the preacher. It depends
on one person. Either God or Savior, or you
don't. John, he was either successful
or he wasn't. He either put away your sins
or he didn't. God either reigns or he doesn't. Christ either made an atonement
or he didn't. No gray area here. Can't straddle
the fence on this. His glory and his power is at
stake and your salvation is at stake. And they were praying for the
success of David. Will he be successful? We sure hope so.
Well, lo and behold, here he comes. And he and Ron and he and everybody
with him got a smile on their face. And look behind him. A great train is following him.
Everybody that was lost is following him. Do you see, Mac Torrance, do
you see why this story happened? There's no other reason. This
is not to extol and honor David. David was a sinful, finite, fallible
man. We're not going to say this. We have seen before how he failed
miserably, didn't he? When it was all over, David was
a failure, not the son of David. That's why no man can by himself
represent the Lord Jesus Christ. That's why no type can perfectly
represent the Lord Jesus Christ. That's why, Scott, there are
one million types, because there are one million facets to the
glorious person of the Lord Jesus Christ. Joseph had a multicolored coat.
Why is that? Because it takes a lot of color
to show his glory. White being the chief. Oh, my. Well, these fellows stayed
with the stuff. What a lowly job. What a menial
task. What an unimportant thing. Well, you're not needed here. Well, look at this. When he returned,
when he returned, it says they met him. Verse 21, they went
forth to meet him. Oh, my. When the bridegroom,
when they called the bridegroom, our Lord said, Behold, the bridegroom
cometh, and the five virgins that oiled their lamps went to
meet him. And they all went in together
to the marriage supper of the Lamb. They went to meet him. So shall all of God's people
meet the Lord, doesn't it say that, in the air. He's coming
with, Scripture says, 10,000 of His saints, with all of His
people, a multitude of the heavenly host, coming. And we're going
to meet Him in it, and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Does this amaze you, Jeanette
Berry? Does this amaze you? See, these things are written
for our learning, that we, through patience and comfort of the Scripture,
might have hope. In who? Christ. It's all about
him. There, they testify of me. And the half won't be told today,
but someday he will. And it says, look at this, and
here's the thing, just, just, just, phew. Verse 21 says, David came near
to the people, and Nancy saluted them. The margin says he greeted
them, asked them how they were doing. Well, how are you doing,
brother? It's good to see you. Oh, man, I hope I can make good
on this. Oh, who come to God by Christ. Oh, who come to God
by Christ. By Christ, mind you, there is
no other way. You don't come by my little decision,
or I've cleaned up my life, or turned over a new leaf, or I've
baptized 111 times, or I'm a Sunday school teacher, I've got all
these perfect attendants, and I have a witness, and I have
nothing. To come by Christ and say, He
lived for me, He died for me, He called me, He justified me,
He sanctified me, He saved me, He did all this, He kept me,
He preserved me, He did it all. I'm here because of Him. That's
what it means to come by Christ. Are you righteous? No. But He
is. And I come by faith pleading His righteousness, not my own. That's what it means to come
to God by Christ. Just a little bit of what it
means. There's not enough time to go into that. But all who come unto God by
Christ, no matter how weak, no matter how old, no matter how
young, all they came to meet him. All who come to God by Christ. All who wait for the Lord. That's
what it says. He says, He shall appear unto
them that wait for him. All those who love his coming. You know what it says? All those
who love his coming. All who wait for Him, all who
go forth to meet the Bridegroom, all who salute Him. Don't you
know these weak, helpless failures? They were ashamed of themselves.
They were ashamed of themselves for staying back. Probably they
were ashamed of themselves. But here He comes. And in spite
of the shame, they went to Him like Peter, huh? Peter denied
the Lord, and they said, It's the Lord. He dove out of the
boat and couldn't get to him. In spite of his shame, they came
to David. Oh, they were happy to see him.
They saluted him, and the brethren. It says they saluted the brethren,
too. They were the brethren that they loved all. By this shall
you know, all men shall know you're my disciples. You love
the brethren. You love me, you love my salvation, you love the
brethren. Arise, ye saints, salute your
King. We salute. You salute a superior,
don't you? They saluted him. Well, and the
thing that jumped out at me is he saluted them. My, my, my. All who come to Christ come to
God by Christ will be saluted by the Lord, accepted in the
Beloved. All who come to God by Christ
will be received by him." All! All will! Peter said this. He said, "...will be granted
an abundant entrance." An abundant entrance. It doesn't
mean somebody's going to slip in the back door. They're too
ashamed to show their faith. No, sir. It means he's going
to greet them personally. Glad to see you. I've been waiting on you. Now, I know he's going to say
that about Abraham, don't you? He said that about Ellen Frail. As a matter of fact, Abraham
was there to greet her. Here she, look, look everybody,
here comes Virgie Jones. That's right, Sherry, an abundant
intro. A scripture verse that really
amazes me, it says, there's joy in heaven among the angels over
one sinner. Have you ever stopped to think about
that? All of heaven erupts when one child of God is brought
to Christ. He saluted him. Good to see you. I've been waiting on you. How are you doing? How are you
doing? Good to see you, my beloved.
Good to see you. Well, what's everybody going
to receive? David's coming back with all this foil. All this
fall, he's coming back with it. What's everybody going to get?
How's he going to divide it up? Well, there were some wicked
fellows. Look at it. In verse 22, these wicked men
of Belial, it says, those that went with David, and they said,
these didn't go with us. Because they didn't go with us,
we will not give them all of the spoil that we have recovered. Now, Brother Kelly, we just read
where it says, this is David's spoil. We just read where it
says, David recovered it all. We just read where it says, David
took it. But these evil men said, no,
but we have got, we did this. They can't have it, because they
didn't do what we did. And Scripture calls them sons
of Belial. evil wicked man. You know when our Lord said,
talked about many being standing before him someday in the judgment,
he called some people workers of iniquity. And who were they? They weren't
rapists, they weren't murderers. They weren't homosexuals. They were preachers. Because they said, Lord, Lord,
have we not preached in your name? Have we not cast out devils
in thy name, the name of Jesus? Have we not done, have we not,
have we not done many wonderful works Now give us what's coming to
us. Okay. That's the worst form of robbery
than what those Amalekites did. Stealing his glory. These men
were stealing David's glory. Don't you think David knew who
these men of Belial were? Huh? Come on. He knew them. Everybody else didn't. They're
going to. This proved it. They're going
to know. It's going to be brought out.
We'll know even as we've been known. Sam, he knew who these
men were. Our Lord said, there must be
heresies among you that they which are approved
might be made manifest. Don't be clear. The foundation
of God stands assured, having this seal, the Lord knoweth them
there is. That's right. He knows. And the
Lord leaves these devils, even in the church, on purpose. But he knows. Like David. He knows. He knows. But these
fellas thought they were worthy because they'd done these many
wonderful works or done all this in David's name. Verse 23, and
they answered him, we have recovered. We have, but they made a little
show of piety. Did you notice, they had a form
of godliness. They said, well, let's give them
something for their wives and children, but get them out of
here. A little show. A little form of godliness, you
know. But they're wicked. And David said, it will not be
so. You shall not do so. See, David's a king. He's a man's
man. He's king. He's the party. They are not going to do this. They're not going to do it. You
shall not do so, my brother. And here's what David did. He
gave the Lord all the glory, didn't he? He said, that which
the Lord hath given us. That which the Lord hath given
us, the Lord who hath preserved us, and delivered the company
into our hands." He did it. He did it all. Listen to this
passage. Listen to that. The Apostle Paul,
writing to the church at Corinth, he said in this, I love this
passage, "'Who maketh thee to differ from another?' And what hast thou that thou
didst not receive? John said this, that a man can
receive nothing except it be given him. Paul said, I am what
I am by the grace of God, but not the wise man, glory in his
wisdom, strong man in his strength, or anybody and anything. He goes on to say, what did we
have that we did not receive? Now, if we did receive it, if
it was given to us, if the Lord gave it to us, why dost thou
glory as if thou hadst not received it? These men, do you remember where
these men came from? All these fellas? All of them.
Do you remember the story? I wish we were going into 2 Samuel. These men, every single one of
these men, David was down in Adullam. Remember? Remember the
story back in chapter 22? David was down there, and it
says everyone that was in debt, discontented, in distress, a
bunch of no good, in debt up to their ears, scared
of Saul, no good, unworthy, They weren't of any value at all to
David. Nothing. Nobody. Nobody came
to David. It says he became the captain of them. They sure forgot where they came
from, didn't they? Forgot where they came
from. And if you want to read on, Patrick, if you want to go
ahead and read through 2 Samuel, You'll see an amazing story,
how David took these men, these no-good bums, not these, not
the 200, but from there on out, these ones, they ascended the
throne with him, from a cave, from a bunch of nobodies, Wesley,
a bunch of no-good nobodies in debt, to the throne of David. The beggar off of Dunhill to
sit among friends. Here's the decree, and he said
in verse twenty-four, he said, nobody's going to hearken to
you, but they'll listen to me. Whatever I say goes. And he said,
as his part is that goeth down to the battle. Who's that? David.
This is David's foil. Right? as his part is, it's all
his, that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth
by the stuff." They're a part alike. They all get the same. I've made a decree, made it a
law, and it's going to be there until the end. So let it be written,
so let it be done. And the scripture says we're
joint heirs with Christ. It's his stuff. See the earth,
his earth, the earth is the Lord when he said, blessed are the
meek, they shall inherit the earth, the new heaven, the new
earth. He says to give kingdoms of the
earth of the Lord and he giveth it to whomsoever he will. Here's the decree, as his part
is, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff. They shall
all part alike in glory, in glory, and I quit with it, in glory,
in heaven. All are loved the same, all have
the same wonderful entrance, the front gate, all are esteemed the same, the
thief on the cross is just as highly esteemed as Moses. Think about it. They all have
the same seats. Old Mephibosheth sat right beside
David. All at the king's table, all
have the same portions. I'm going to give you a little
more because you—no, sir. It's the same portion. Same grace. It's all of grace. They all wear
the same clothes, same garments. Nobody has a little badge on
a little knee. I've had nobody—no, sir. One person at this table
is wearing a crown. One person! Brother John Chapman and I, we're
both laughing at how, you know, we've always been short. It's
always come up short. Scripture says all have come
up short. It's the shorter the lower you
go. John and I were laughing how that everybody in heaven
is going to be the same height. Same height, but one. Head and shoulders above the
rest, so we can see above the rest. That's what this gospel does,
makes everybody level, equal, in a sinful sense, in a no good
sense, in an unworthy sense, equal, worthless, grasshoppers.
But this same gospel elevates those grasshoppers, those worms,
into sex. But they're still, it's all the
same, they're all the same, not one prettier than another. Not
one better than another, not one loved or esteemed more highly
than the other, all the same, but one is head and shoulders
above the rest. In glory, there's one man, head
and shoulders above the rest. That's because he is the head,
and we're the body. Christ, altogether lovely one. We'll not all be standing around
gazing at one another, though we will be beautiful, but we'll
be gazing at him. And it was so. And I was going
to go to 1 Corinthians 12, where it talks about the Lord distributing
gifts to people as he will. Different ministrations, same
spirit, same Lord, same body, same church. And some can't say
because I'm not the eye, I'm the foot, you have no need of
me. No, no, no, no, no. Somebody's got to tarry by the
stuff. Right? And they all get the same. Because really, what do we have
if we haven't received? I'm a nothing and a nobody. I'm
just a voice. I'm just the one called upon to stand up here
and say what you'd like to say. Well, we're all the body of Christ,
and he's the head. He's the head. No flesh is going
to grow it. And it was so until this day. If you look in the glory right
now, it was so. If you look in glory right now,
you'd see Mary Magdalene, the thief on the cross, and all those
no good, rotten, sitting right with David and Abraham and Moses
and all of them the same. All gazing at the Lord, and he's
saluting them. Good to see you. Good to have
you here. I'm just overjoyed that you're
here. And this last, did you notice,
what did you think about the last several verses? Do you know
what that's talking about? Where David took this spoil and
distributed it to all the cities of Judah. Those are the Jews,
that's the tribe, the kingly tribe, that's the Christ tribe,
the tribe of Judah. And David sent presents, gave
gifts to men. And all these places, not one
place throughout Judah he didn't send gifts to. That's a picture of the churches.
There are many churches, local churches, throughout the land.
Christ Church, all Jews, and he sends gifts to them, all of
them. You reckon one got more than
the other? No, no. Same Lord over all. See, this
is David's voice. David did it all. David gets
all the glory. It all belongs to David. He doles
it out accordingly. Let it all get the same part.
And this is Christ's glory. This is Christ's salvation. This
is Christ's word. This is Christ's glory. It all
belongs to him. It's Christ's church. He's the
Lord over it. He's the head of it. It's his
name. It's his glory. It's his honor. It's all about
him. All about him. And everybody who loves him shares
and shares a lot. In that part, OK, well, again,
coming for the Gabriel, David. Come and leave us. I think him number two hundred
and twenty one and stand together. Some thank the Lord for friends
and homes, for mercy sure and sweet. But I would praise him
for his grace, in prayer I would repeat. Thank you, Lord, for saving my
soul. Thank you, Lord, Thank you, Lord,
for making me whole. Thank you, Lord, for giving to
me the great salvation, so rich and free. I trust in Him from day to day. I prove His saving grace. I'll sing this song of praise
to Him until I see His face. Thank you, Lord, for saving my
soul. Thank you, Lord, for making me
whole. Thank you, Lord, for giving to
me Thy great salvation so rich and free.