Hey, I hear you say to me, in
my mind you're part of me. You can be turning to 1st Samuel
22. Last week, I believe we beheld
some marvelous things. We beheld some marvelous things,
things that I don't believe we'd seen before concerning Christ
in this study on the son of David and tonight. The Lord willing. We have another marvelous, marvelous
picture. Of our Lord Jesus Christ in the
life of David. And you're going to be absolutely
amazed at the things you're going to see tonight. Again, we're
going to be spending most of our time in 1st Samuel 22. But I want you to briefly look
with me at Chapter 21 and reconsider Let me give you the setting of chapter 22. Reconsider some things
we briefly looked at last week in chapter 21. Now, you remember
how that David and Jonathan made that covenant together. David
told Jonathan that he had to go. He was leaving his life. He was being pursued, his life
was in danger. And he made that covenant. He
and Jonathan had that tearful farewell together, and they made
that covenant. And David said there'll be peace,
there'll be peace. And then David went in chapter
21, verse one, it says he came to Nob, the city called Nob,
to Himalek, the priest. David came to this city where
the tabernacle was at the time. He did that on purpose, you better
believe. The first place that David resorted
to after he was being pursued, the first place he went was to
where the tabernacle was, to worship God, to offer sacrifices,
to seek out the high priest. And he went to that city and
he entered that tabernacle, that place, and look at verse Look
at what the high priest says to David in the last part of
verse one. Why are you alone? David went in the tabernacle
after talking to Jonathan and easing his mind about his departure. He said, I'm going. I'm going,
but everything's going to be all right. And then he went to
where the tabernacle was, where the high priest was alone. and entered into that place alone. Does that mean anything to you? Look over with me at Mark chapter...well,
let's...wait a minute before you turn there. Let's read all
of this. Let's read the first six verses here in chapter twenty-one.
So David came and the high priest said, Why are you alone and no
man with thee? David said unto him elect a priest
King hath commanded me a business, and he said unto me, Let no man
know anything of the business whereabout I send thee, and what
I have commanded thee, and have appointed my servants to such
and such a place. Now therefore, what is under
thine hand?" Whatever you have, give me, if you've got five loaves
of bread, he says, in your hand, give me that or whatever you've
got, whatever's present, whatever's on hand. And the priest answered
David and said, there's no common bread under my hand, that there's
hallowed bread, there's the show bread. But if the young men have kept
themselves at least from women. And 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. So the
priest gave him hallowed bread that holy. showbread, for there
was no bread there but the showbread that was taken from before the
Lord to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away. Now
turn with me over to Mark, chapter 2. Mark, chapter 2. Keep your place there in 1 Samuel.
This, to me, is a very clear picture of Christ, the Son of
David. Who, after speaking to his disciples,
do you remember it? After speaking to his disciples
in John 14, 15, and 16, and reassuring them like David did Jonathan,
speaking peace to their hearts, he said, let not your heart be
troubled, I go to prepare a place for you, peace, and so forth.
Gave them reassurances of the covenant of grace. And now he
was going to the father with business at hand. He was going
to the cross. He had business to attend to. This tells me of
Christ who told them of his death, burial and resurrection as ascension
back into heaven. And then after he told them,
like David told John, then he went to the tabernacle. He ascended
into heaven itself after going to the cross to finish the business
that his father had given him to do. He said back there, the
king commanded me a business, gave me a job to do, a business.
And that business that the father gave the son was the business
of making a full, free, and effectual atonement for the sins of God's
chosen people. And this eating of the showbread
by David, this was spoken of by Christ himself here in Mark
chapter 2. Look at it. Christ spoke of that very time
back there in chapter 2 verse 23. And it came to pass that
he went through the cornfields on the Sabbath day. And his disciples
began, see his disciples were with him. They were going to
eat some of that corn bread with him. And they went to pluck the
ears of corn. And the Pharisees said unto him,
Why do they do that on the Sabbath day, which is not lawful? Now to understand here, David
went into the tabernacle and said, Give me some bread. And
the priest said, All we've got here is holy bread. David said,
Give it to me. Well, how can you do that? Give
it to me. You don't know who I am. I'm the king. I'm the king. I'm God's chosen,
anointed one. And Christ said, Have you never
read what David did when he had need and was hungry? He and David
were with him. How he went into the house of
God in the days of Abiathar, the high priest, and did eat
the showbread, which is not lawful to eat but for the priests, and
gave also to them that were with him. And he said unto them, to
these Pharisees, the Sabbath was made for man. Oh, how I wish
our legalistic generation could get a hold of these. The Sabbath
was made for man, for his good, for his rest, and so forth. Not
man for the Sabbath. Therefore, the Son of Man is
Lord also of the Sabbath. You see that leftover bread.
which was to be eaten by the priest and the priest only of
the tabernacle. Do you remember back there? Turn
back again. It said that this bread is hallowed
bread and it can only be eaten by those who are holy. Priests set apart for God's use. Christ said, I sanctify myself.
I'm set apart. See, the bread, the show bread,
was never sanctified before as it was about to be at the time
of Christ eating it. You understand what I'm saying?
The great high priest, the great high priest was about to eat
the bread. He was coming in to partake of that bread. And the
Sabbath, the Sabbath, which men worship even now, people worship
that. the elements, the ordinances,
the buildings, the days and months and so forth, but that Sabbath,
the Sabbath which men worship even now as they did back then,
has always been a type of the Lord Himself. It's always been
a type of the Lord our Sabbath, the Lord of Sabbath, the Lord
Jesus Christ who is our resting place, the Lord Jesus Christ
who is our tabernacle. The Lord Jesus Christ is our
table of showbread. I remember when Christ was standing
before the temple, and he said, Destroy this temple, and I'll
raise it up again three days. And the disciples and people
were confused. The temple? They didn't understand. He was talking about, I'm the
temple of God. I'm the tabernacle of God among
men. I'm the showbread. I'm the Sabbath. Christ is all. And we need to
see that in everything, not only in the showbread, in the tabernacle,
in the Sabbath, all these things. So David, who was a type of the
Lord, of the Lord Jesus Christ, the son of David, he could come
in and take that bread if he wanted to. Why? So could the
son of David. The son of David. David had need,
so David partook of it. Now look at chapter 22 with me.
Chapter 22. So David partook of that bread
and then he left. He left. I want you to see now
David coming down into this cave. David left. David was being pursued
by his enemy at this time. And even though David was God's
Right then, God's chosen king, Saul was a usurper. Saul didn't
belong on the throne. Saul was biding his time until
the fullness of time when God would set up David. David was
God's king right then and right there. Do you remember back when
Samuel said to Saul, God had rejected thee? Now God's rejected
you. God had provided him a king.
God's got him a king already. Christ has always been the king.
I don't care all these little, Haile Selassie, you know, all
these guys, all their medals hanging down to their feet, and
Saddam Hussein, usurpers. God's always had just one king.
He's provided him one king. Christ has been king from the
foundation of the world. And though David was God's presently
chosen and certain to be future king. David was certain to sit
on that throne. God had ordained it. He was unrecognized
by most and despised by most people, especially Saul and his
followers, right? They hated him, they despised
him, they rejected him, and they pursued him on every hand. And several times David miraculously
passed through the hands of his enemies.
Several times he miraculously escaped harm at the hands of
his enemies. The Lord preserved him, starting
out from a young boy at the hands of that barren lion and so forth.
And Jesus Christ was and is God's chosen King. Always has been,
always will be. Though despised and rejected
of men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with the grief, pursued on every
hand from the cradle to the grave, especially by religious leaders,
the present day, the set up religious leaders, Saul and his leader. But many times, you remember,
how that Christ himself passed through the mist. They would
have taken him and cast him over the brow of the hill, but many
times he said he just passed through the mist. I don't know
what happened, but miraculously, marvelously, he just Walked on
out of that mess. Walked on out. Though despised,
rejected, and pursued, David was God's chosen king at the
time. And Christ, even though a man of sorrows, a mere, seemingly
a mere mortal man, he was God's king while on this earth. Now
look at verse 1 of chapter 22 with me. Now here David is down
in some seemingly meager circumstances. He seemed. He seemed pretty much helpless
at this time right here. He seemed pretty much helpless
running from his enemy down in this cave. Look at it with me. David withdrew himself to a cave. Look at verse one. He departed
thence and escaped to the cave. And when his brethren and all
his father's house heard it, they went down thither to him.
They went down thither to him. All his father's house heard
of it, and they went down to where he was. Even though David
seemed like he was a disposed king or certainly a despised
man, hated and rejected by most, there were some people There
was some people whom God revealed to by His grace and His mercy
that this is no mere man here. This is my King. Now you go down
to that man. I don't care what he looks like
to you, though there's no beauty about him that you should desire,
no comeliness. He's down in a cave, seemingly
immortal, a mere mortal. You go to him. I'm going to raise
him up. And Christ said, Oh, let the
Father give us faith. shall come to me, even though
he looks like just a mere mortal man, even while hanging on that
cross. He said, if I'd be lifted up
at a time when he seemed the most vulnerable, at a time when
he seemed the most helpless, at a time when it seemed like
he'd been defeated and he was running, he was victorious. God had raised him up right then
and there, hanging on that cross. His enemies were being made his
footstool. He was defeating the very forces of all evil. And
Christ said, Oh, if I be lifted up, I'll draw all men to me. Who? All that the Father giveth
me shall come to me, and him that cometh to me I'll in no
wise cast out. He said this. He said it is written
in the prophets, Isaiah 54, 13, and they shall be all taught
of God. Do you see that? It says when
they heard and all his father's house heard it, Isaiah 54, 13
says, All thy children shall be taught of thee. And every
man therefore that hath heard and learned of the Father. There's
David. There's the son of David. You
better get to him. He's your only hope. He's my king. He's
going to sit on the throne someday. Doesn't matter what he looks
like now. You better get to him. You better get to him. I don't
care what your circumstances are now. You better get to him.
And everybody that's heard and learned of the father, they come
to him, don't they? They go to him. They went down.
You see that? They went down. Get down on your
face, first thing, and bow to this sovereign king. Bow to him. And resort thither to him. And
look at the description, the characteristics of his followers. I like this. Here's their characteristics,
verse two. They weren't a mighty lot. They
weren't a high and mighty and noble and No, not many wise men
of the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble of color. But
I'll tell you what they were. They were in distress. Everyone
that was in distress, and everyone that was in debt, and everyone
that was discontented or bitter of soul gathered themselves unto
David, and David became Captain. And they were with him about
400 men, 400 men, David's followers. They were distressed. All those
who were fearful, fretful, worried over things. You know what the
word distress means here? This is great. It means hemmed up, confined,
shut up, hemmed up in a narrow place. Shut up confined. They were forced
these people were forced to labor for King Saul unwillingly. Everybody that was in distress
came to David. And it says everybody in debt,
everybody in debt. Saul, you may remember, was a
hard and cruel king. He exacted heavy debts upon the
people and burdens. He laid heavy burdens upon the
people that they could not bear. And these people were in debt
to the king. He had them where he wanted them. And then they were discontented.
All of these people that came to David were tired of serving
this unjust king, Saul. They were bitter of soul, it
says, in the margin. They were in trials, they were
troubled in soul, and everyone gathered themselves to David,
and David became the captain of them. And I tell you what
the Scripture said. It says, One day the Lord of
glory stood upon this earth, and he cried out, Come unto Oh, you that labor, earner, heavy
laden, and I'll give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn
of me. I'm meek and lowly in heart,
yes, but you'll find rest for your soul. My yoke is easy, my
burden is light." And he tells us, you in distress, that is,
are you fearful, fretful, worried? Are you him being? Are you shut
up to faith in Christ with that word him being him up in a narrow
place? Shut up to faith in Christ. In
other words, you don't see any place else to resort to. No place
else to go. Are you in distress? No place
else to go, but Christ has come to me. Come to me. And that he
says to all those who see how much they owe. Do you see how
far short you've come of the glory of this holy God? Do you
see how that the God in whose hands your breath is, you have
not glorified, which he demands of us, from you, from me? Do
you see that, how very much you owe? Do you see how much we owe
to this debt of divine justice against our sinful, rebellious
soul? And how that we have nothing to pay, bankrupt, poor sinners? Do we see this? Christ says,
do you see that? You don't have a farthing, not
a pence, not a mite to pay all the sin that you owe. Do you
see that? What God demands of us, absolute, strict perfection
from the cradle to the grave. Do you see that? We owe it to
him. We can't pay. Christ says, come to me. I'll
pay it all for you. I'll redeem you. I'll pay you
fine. All of it. Not a down payment.
All of it. Discontented, he says. All who
labor and are heavy laden, are you tired of being under the
service of this cruel and hard taskmaster called sin? He's a
heavy and a tyrannical ruler, isn't he? This thing called sin,
this thing called self, this old man that bombards you, he's
a wicked fellow, isn't he? He bombards you on every side.
Are you tired of serving him, Christ says? Have you had enough
of him? Are you bitter and troubled in soul about your sins and your
relationship with God? Christ says, come unto me. I'll
take care of you. I'll put away that sin, death,
and my peace I'll give unto you. Joy I'll give to you. And the scripture says this.
Christ said, come unto me. And then it says, because it
became him. Come unto me. Why should we go
to him? Because it became him. It's becoming
to him. For whom are all things, and
by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, that God
should make the captain of our salvation perfect through suffering."
Come unto Christ, by whom are all things, for whom are all
things, who will bring many sons into the kingdom with him. He'll
be captain over you. He's promised. Come unto me. David, can't you see David now
in that cave? It must have been a beautiful
picture. He was troubled himself. He was troubled. You read those
songs with me. He was troubled. But according
to the power and the strength and the faith that God gave him
at the time, as these people began to resort unto him in his
cave, this little Wiley, this little Motley crew, a discontented
poor, they were probably Methodist-based people, you know, not much to
look at, just a common, ordinary, everyday, working-class, Motley
kind of people. David gathered himself, began
to comfort them all. What are we going to do? You
know they were rumbling and mumbling. What are we going to do? It's
all right. I'm your captain. God's chosen
me king. We'll get there eventually. Just
put your trust in me. And though Christ, though the
disciples were so worried and so fretful and all, they said,
that's all right. I know things look bad. And he
himself was troubled, wasn't he? About to go to the cross,
he sweat as it were great, great drops of blood and cried unto
the Father much like David did. If it be possible, let this cup
pass from me. Nevertheless, if I will. And
then after he got that over and God encouraged him and strengthened
him and sent his spirit to nurture him, then he gathered his sheep
about him and said, it's going to be all right. I've got a place,
I've got a business to attend to, but I'll be back. I'll be
back and I'll take you into the kingdom with me. You be faithful
and loyal, you go in with me. You continue to be in with me,
I'm the only place you got to go. And Christ became our captain. He became our king. My pastor
preached the message one time, the king and his motley crew.
Oh, what a title. King and his motley crew. Well,
look at this. Listen to David's betrayal. David
was betrayed by a man. Look back at chapter 21, verse
7 with me. Now, back when David was taking
that showbread and he was in the tabernacle and he picked
up Goliath's spear and he was getting ready to leave, there
was a man, verse 7, chapter 21, verse 7, a certain man, a certain
foreordained, predestinated man. of the servants of Saul was there
that day detained before the Lord. And his name was Doeg and
Edomite, the chiefest of the herdmen that belonged to Saul.
All right, it's Doeg the Edomite. He saw everything that went on.
He was spying out David's liberty. He was spying on David and David's
men. And he saw what had happened.
In a minute we'll see how he goes back and tells Saul where
David is. Let me tell you something about
this, what it says about him though. It calls him an Edomite.
Do you see that? Edomite? You know where that name comes
from? Esau, Esau, Edom. Esau was red, the name red, the
term red means Edom. Esau was referred to as Edom.
All the inhabitants, or all the descendants of Esau are called
Edomites, okay? And the Edomites were the enemies
of Israel from the beginning. God said concerning Esau when
he was born, I hate him. Isn't he right? I hate him. I lay his everything waste, all
of his people will suffer and as well. They deserve it. Let's
not lay this all upon God, because these were evil and wicked people.
If you look sometime at Exodus 34, the children of Israel coming
through. Now, remember, Esau was Jacob's brother, brother. I know Jacob treated him wrong,
but Esau had it coming to him. Sold his birthright. They were
both in the wrong. At any rate, they were brother.
But one time In Exodus 34, when the people were coming out of
Israel, just stay with me, people were coming out of Israel, and
they wanted to pass through the land of Edom. They wanted to
pass through Edom. They wouldn't let them. They said, don't you
touch foot on our land. And Moses and the people said,
wait a minute, we're of Jacob. We're your brother. We're brothers. They said, you're not setting
foot on our property. They said, we'll not touch your
food. We'll not eat your water. All we want to do is walk down
the highway through your land. They said, get out of here. We'll
kill you all. And it turned out David killed
all of them when David got to power. David came back later
on and slew them. At any rate, these Edomites are
pictures This Edomite is a picture of one whom God hates, the enemy
of God. And Doeg, now look at verse 7
again with me, verse 7. Doeg was one of them, these Edomites,
a servant of Saul, yet he was right in the middle of David
and the boys, wasn't he? Even though he was an enemy and
a servant of Saul, he was right smack dab in the middle of David
and all of them, playing the part. Don't tell. Everybody knows. But look at
verse 7 again. Did you notice this little phrase
right in the middle of it? It says he was detained before
the Lord. I read over that two or three
times and went back and saw that and said, wait a minute. Detained
before the Lord. In other words, the Lord was
going to use this fella. And Doeg betrays David. Look
over chapter 22, verse 6. Saul found out, Saul heard that
David was discovered and the men that were with him abode
in Gibeah under a tree. Now look down at verse nine.
Then answered Doag, the Edomite, which was set over the servants
of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nod, to
whom elect the son of Ahitab, and he inquired of the Lord for
him. And the high priest of Himalaya gave
him victuals, gave him the sword of Goliath, the Philistines,
and so forth. So Doeg betrayed David and told Saul about it.
And look at verse 22. David knew it all along. David
knew about the fellow and knew what he was going to do. Look at verse 22. David said
unto Abiathar, I knew it that day when Doeg the Edomite was
there, that he would surely tell Saul. You know where I'm going? Turn
over it now. We're in chapter 22. Turn over
to Luke. Anybody want to guess what chapter it is? Just guess. Just take a wild guess. What? 22. Luke 22. Just so happens that the very
same chapter in the Gospel of Luke tells us of Judas Iscariotus. Now, you know what the name Iscariot
means? Where do you hear this? The name
Ascariot is Ascariotis, a man of a place called Kerioth, a
city. Do you know where Kerioth was?
On the border of Edom. It was a town that sat right
on the border. Straddle the fence. A town on
the Edomite border. And though Judas appeared to
be one of Christ's disciples, just like old He was the son
of perdition from the beginning, detained by the Lord for this
express purpose of sinning Christ, of denying Christ. Chosen by
Christ himself. Didn't Christ choose him himself?
Detained by the Lord. Retained by the Lord. Have not I chosen you all, and
one of you is a devil for my purpose? Unbelievable, isn't
it? For lack of a better term, unbelievable. Look at Luke 22, verse 3 with
us. This tells of the betrayal by Judas. Then entered Satan
into Judas, surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve.
And he went his way and communed with the chief priests and the
captain. I saw Jesus. He's down there in the garden.
And they were glad and gave him money. And he promised and sought
opportunity to betray him unto them in the absence of the multitude.
Do you know when he did it? You know when he saw him and
when he sought to betray him? Look at verse 7. The day of unleavened
bread. I tell you folks, this book was
written by God Almighty. There's no denying it, is there?
Who are we talking about here? David? We're talking about the
son of David. This couldn't have been written
by a mere mortal man. David went in to eat the unleavened bread,
and the man betrays him. Christ was eaten unleavened bread
with disciples, and a man betrays Him a thousand years later. And Christ foretold of Judas'
betrayal, didn't He? Look at verse 19. And he took
bread, and gave thanks, and break it, and gave unto them, saying,
This is my body, which is given for you, this do in remembrance
of me. Likewise also the cup after the supper, saying, This
cup is a new testament in my blood, which is shed before you.
But behold, the hand of him that betrayeth me is with me on the
table." I knew it, David said, when Doag
the Edomite was there. He would surely tell Saul. David
might have even said to him, Go do what you have to do. All right, now look back at the
text. I want you to look at this. This is marvelous. David protects
his own. These people were about to be
persecuted. All that went with David and escaped with him, they
were about to be persecuted for David's sake. And David's going
to make sure that they're safe. As long as they're with David,
everything will be all right. David's a captain. He's not about
to lose a swan. David knew all that followed
him would be persecuted like so like the good and the faithful
captain and shepherd that he was David made sure of the safety
of his family and friends much like you would your own children
at all taking a journey and he went to a nearby king. The king
who was nearby and sought refuge for his people the first three
first Samuel twenty two David went since to miss of Moab and
he said under the king of Moab Let my father and my mother,
I pray thee, come forth and be with you." Are you reading this
with me? You've got to look at it. David
prayed to this king and said, Let my father and mother, I pray
thee, come forth and be with you till I know what God will
do for me. I'll turn it over to John 17. All right? John 17. Christ knew that all
who followed him would be hated and persecuted for his namesake. He foretold it. And being the
great and faithful shepherd that he was, he made certain of the
safety of his people, all of his family. Look at John 17,
verse 5 with me. And he's praised to a nearby
king. O Father," and the king's his
father, Henry, "'O Father, glorify me with thine own self, with
the glory which I had with thee before the world was. Whatever
thou wilt do for me, I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou
gavest me out of the world. Thine they were, thou gavest
them me, and they have kept thy word. Now they have that all
things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee, that I am their
king. I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me.
They have received them, and have known surely that I came
out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send
me. I am your chosen king. I pray for them. I pray not for
the world. I pray for my own. I pray for
them which thou hast given me. They are thine, and all mine
are thine, and thine are mine, and I am glorified in them. And
now I am leaving the world." I got business to attend to.
But these are in the world. And I come to thee, Holy Father,
keep them. Would you keep them with thee,
through thine own name, those whom thou hast given me, that
they may be one as we are? Keep them a little while for
me. I've got some place to go. Christ said, while I was with
them in the world, I kept them. Look at 1 Samuel 22 back there
again. Keep your place in John 17. Look
at verse 4. This is great. 1 Samuel 22, verse
4. So David appealed to this king
in Moab to keep his family for him and his people, and he brought
them before the king of Moab. Brought them before him. And
they dwelt with him all the while that David was in the hold. They dwelt with him all the while
that David was in the hold. Christ said, while I was in the
hold, while I was in the world, I kept them in thy name. Those that thou hast givest me,
I have kept. None of them is lost but the
son of perdition, that the scripture might be fulfilled. God made
Christ a little lower than the angel, didn't He? A man, a body
that has prepared Him. Put Him in this world, in the
hold, didn't He? Put Him in the hold. Father kept
His people with Christ the whole time He was in the hold. And when Christ went to the cross,
He kept them still. They're still kept by the power
of God. We're still kept. Christ is in the hold. He's in the heavens. He's at
the right hand of the Father. Didn't he say, no man should
be able to pluck him out of my hand or out of the Father's hand?
Christ is holding us. He's in the hold and we're in
his hold. We're kept by his power, ready to be presented to the
Father at that last day. Now look at verse 17 through
19 with me and we'll wrap this up. Because of these people,
their allegiance to David, Because of their allegiance and following
after David and their confession of faith in him. Look at verse
14. How him elect, the priest, was called before this king.
This reminds me of when Christ told his disciples, now take
no thought of what you shall say. You're going to be brought
before kings and rulers and all. Take no thought. It shall be
given you in that day what you shall say. Look at verse 14. How him elect was a priest. And he was brought before King
Saul, and here's his confession concerning David. He was a man
who was about to lose his life, but he said, Who is so faithful
among all thy servants is David. He's the only faithful one, David. He's among all thy servants,
which is the king's son-in-law, and goeth at that bidding, and
he's honorable in thy house. mighty profession and confession
of faith before this king. And the king said, verse 16,
you're going to die, man, because of your confession, because you
helped this king out. You're going to die. And he did. You know that Doeg personally
slew 85 priests. Every priest in that place, Doeg,
slew them all by his own hand. Killed every one of them. Every
one of them, even the men, the women and children, oxes, cattle,
asses, sheep by himself. They all were killed for David's
sake. Because of their confession.
And the scripture says all who are kings and priests by faith
in Christ are what? Crucified with Christ were crucified
with Christ. And Christ even foretold the
literal death of many of his followers didn't didn't Christ
say they shall put you out of the same synagogue. Yay the time
coming that whosoever killeth you. And ten of the eleven apostles
were killed. Whoever kills you thinks that
he does God a service. And how many countless murders
and professors in Christ have been killed for Christ's sake? Well, look at what David said.
Verse 22, David said, I have occasioned the death of all the
persons of thy father's house. The son of the son of Himalaya,
Abitur was his name. He came running to David, poured
out his troubles before him. David said they were killed for
my sake. But it's all right. It's all right. They were crucified,
yea, but nevertheless they live. They're living in glory right
now because they confess the king. They trust in the king.
But fear not. Look at this. Fear not, David
said. Verse 23, you abide with me.
Fear not. He that seeketh my life, seeketh
thy life. But with me, you'll be safe. Christ said, it's not you they
hate, it's me. It's me. But he said, fear not,
little flock, it's your father's good pleasure to give unto you
the kingdom. And Jesus Christ is the believer's safeguard,
isn't he? He's our security. Abiding in
him, we are eternally safe. and secure from all alarm, the
song says. Leaning on those everlasting
arms, safe in the hold, in the hold of his hand. No man can
pluck us out of his hand, the Father's hand, for he has said,
he has said, the glory which you gave me, I have given them,
that they may be one, even as we are one. I in them, thou in
me, that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may
know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them as you have
loved me. Father, I will." And the son gets his will, gets his
way with the father. "'I will that they also whom
you have given me be with me where I am, that they may behold
my glory which thou hast given me. For you loved me before the
foundation of the world. And just like many, if not most
of these 400 men that gathered together and he became captain
of them, they went on into the kingdom with David. They made
them rulers. His friends, his confidants reigned
with him and gave this man a little rule over this place. This man,
we shall reign as kings and priests. The apostles set up as the twelve
judges. over the people of Israel, over
God's people. And we will reign someday with
Christ as kings and priests before Him. Although things look bleak
right now, they look bleak right now, our King is in the hold
somewhere. He's got business. He's doing
his business. He's got business at hand. But
he said, I'm coming back. I've left you with a king. I've
left you with a comforter. It's nothing to worry about.
You're in the hold. Just stay put right there. Abide in me. You'll be safe. All right. All
right. OK, Jeanette, come up here and
let's let's sing, if you don't mind, let's sing this other song
I wanted to sing. Jesus, lover of my soul. 352, like that little bird that flew
into Mr. Wesley's bosom. These motley
fellows, all these distressed and in debt and discontented
people just flew in that cave. Where's David? Where is he? Down
there. Let's go. I'm going. I'll go with you. He's our captain. Okay, let's
sing this song. Stand with me. First and second verse, second
is the land. Jesus, mother of my soul, let me to thy bosom
climb, while the nearer waters roll, while the tempest still
is mild. Hide me, O my Savior, hide, Till
the storm of life is past, Safe into the haven guide. He will, he said, all that comes
to me I would no wise cast out. David didn't. He reckons anybody
he cast out of the cave, well, you're not good enough. You don't,
you're not strong enough. You're not, oh no. They were
distressed and dead and discontented. I don't care what you look like,
baby. I don't care what you walk, crawl, however you can get here.
Come on, I'll take you. Other refuge have I none, hangs
my helpless soul on thee. Leave, ah, leave me not alone,
still support and comfort me. All my trust on Thee I stay All
my help from Thee I bring Cover my defenseless head With the
shadow of Thy hand