I want you to turn to two passages
of scripture, which I want to read. Matthew chapter one. We'll read one verse from Matthew
chapter 1, and then over in Matthew chapter 12, we'll read a couple of verses
from there. Matthew 1, we'll read the first
verse. Now, this is the very first.
Book of the New Testament first. Gospel according to Matthew. Matthew one verse one. And he says this is the book.
Of the generation of Jesus Christ. The son of David. The son of Abraham. Now read
Matthew 12 beginning verse twenty-two. Matthew twelve, verse twenty-two
and verse twenty-three. Then was brought unto him, that
is, Jesus Christ, then was brought unto Jesus Christ, one possessed
with a devil, blind and dumb, and he healed him, insomuch that
the blind and dumb both spoke and saw. And all the people were
amazed and said, Is not this the Son of David? Is not this the Son of David? I begin tonight with the first
message of what I hope will be one of the most Christ-honoring
and spiritually edifying and instructive studies that we've
ever done here. If I've said it once, I've said
it a dozen times concerning the Old Testament types, that the
preaching and the study of the Old Testament types of Christ
are, to me, the most profitable of all studies and enjoyable. types of Christ, that is, when
clearly revealed, they solidify our faith in Christ. They give evidence of things
we haven't seen. And they solidify our faith in
Christ as being the one and the only true Son of God. When I see undeniable pictures
of Christ, When I see these very clearly from an Old Testament
type, I am able to believe that He is, and that He is the rewarder
of them that diligently study and seek Him in the Old Testament. When I see Him very clearly from
an Old Testament type, I believe He is the Christ, because thus
saith the Scripture, according to the Scripture that is written
of Him. By the diligent study of these
types, he rewards us with that sight of him. At times, upon
hearing or studying these Old Testament types, my heart is
made to burn within me like those two disciples on the road to
Emmaus. At times when I hear men preach stories like Melchizedek
or Mephibosheth or Boaz, the kinsman redeemer, just on and
on. My heart sometimes burns with me, even listening to tapes. And the Holy Spirit is the one
who opens the scriptures to us, by the way, and shows us the
way, shows us Christ. But it's especially the case,
it was especially the case with me in studying this particular
type for tonight, the son of David. is what we're going to
start studying, and I hope to do several parts in this study
of Christ as the son of David. Look with me in Ezekiel, chapter
34. Ezekiel, chapter 34. There are three basic types of
Christ in the Old Testament. Three basic types of Christ.
The first is The first types are what you would call principal
types, principal being chief instructive or instructor like
a principal of a school, principal instructive, things that instruct
us, and those would be the sacrifices, the tabernacle that we did a
study of. These are, as far as the principal
or instructive types, these are the greatest types of Christ,
the sacrifices. as we saw in the tabernacle.
And then there are providential types of Christ, providential
as principal, as providential, and then there's personal. The
providential types of Christ are his redemption of his people. And perhaps the greatest one
of all of those is the exodus of God's people, his children
in the wilderness and how the rock, the manna, those types
of Christ, God's providence in providing these things for the
people's sustenance. And then there are the personal
types. Personal, meaning pertaining to a person. Character studies. There are many, many people throughout
the Old Testament who are personal types of Christ. Personal types. Noah, Joseph, Boaz, Daniel. Just keep going. I keep going
with different types of Christ. David. But of all these different
types, I believe that these personal types of Christ, or these types
that depict Christ's person, his character, what he was like,
what he is like, I believe those are the most Christ-like, or
the most edifying. And of all of those, I believe
this son of David is the chief of them all. the son of David. David, I believe, is of all the
Old Testament saints, I believe he's the greatest type of our
Lord Jesus Christ. Joseph is a tremendous type of
Christ. Someday we'll go through Joseph
and do him. But David, David is spoken of
in reference to our Lord more than anybody else. His very name,
the name David means, as you might know, Beloved right. Beloved. And that's the name
that God gave his son my only forgotten well beloved son of
David my beloved his very name and throughout prophecy that
Christ throughout prophecy. The Christ, the coming one, the
Messiah, the anointed one, the coming holy one of God, is called
the son of David, the seed of David, David's son. And in certain
places, like we read over in Psalm 89, he's just called David. They're likened together. He's
just called David. Look here at Ezekiel 34, verse
23 with me. Here he calls him David. Now
this was written four hundred years after David was dead. Not
talking about David. Look at Ezekiel thirty-four verse
twenty-three. And I'll set up one shepherd
over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David. Now David's dead. My servant David. He's talking
about Christ. He shall feed them, he shall
be their shepherd, and I, the Lord, will be their God, and
my servant David, a prince among them, I, the Lord, have spoken
it." I have spoken it. The Son of David is our subject. It's always our subject. He's
always our object of worship, always, and pray. Now, what form
these studies will take, I don't know. I know what this one's
going to take, but the next one, I have a feeling the next one
will be David's youth, and then afterward his anointing. I don't
know what the different forms of the study, the giant killer,
I don't know. We'll see how we can incorporate
different parts of David's life. And how many there are going
to be, I don't know. We'll just depend upon the Holy Spirit. Turn with
me now to 1 Samuel chapter 16. 1 Samuel chapter 16. Tonight we're going to do the
son of David, God's chosen king. We're going to see how God chose
this one, this man named David, and how God chose Christ. Look
at 1 Samuel chapter 16, beginning with verse 1. And the Lord said
unto Samuel, now Samuel was God's prophet. God said unto Samuel,
How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected
him from reigning over Israel? Since the fall of man in the
garden, our state before God has been sad and mournful. We've
got a great deal to mourn about, the state of man. The natural
man is dead in trespasses and sin. The natural man is without
God, without hope, without life, without any help. The natural
man is in darkness, is in sin, is in misery. The natural man
can be like an undissolved here, a sad and a mournful case. Now keep your place here in 1
Samuel chapter 16. We're going to turn over to Judges
chapter 21. Now, the first thing God said
to Adam concerning the coming one, he said, my seed will come,
the woman's seed, a seed of woman is going to come, the coming
seed. And then after Adam, he promised something concerning
this seed to Abraham. God told Abraham that his seed
And we're going to narrow this thing down. He told Adam, he
said, that a seed of woman is going to come. And then Abraham
was his chosen man from among all the people. And he told Abraham,
now Abraham of your loins is that seed, that coming one, coming
from. And then the descendants of Abraham,
all of the children of Abraham were called God's chosen people. And God sent different men to
lead, to guide, and instruct his people, different men like
Moses, Joshua, and Samuel. But after Joshua, after Joshua,
if you'll read Judges all the way through, if you'll read the
state of man, this terrible state of the people was evident throughout
the book of Judges. Read it sometime. For 400 years,
for 400 years, 500 years, lawlessness abounded. Lawlessness prevailed. Iniquity
abounded. Idolatry was rampant. People
were without God. Look here at Judges chapter 21
verse 25 with me. Judges 21, the last verse. 21 verse 25, In those days there
was no king in Israel. No king. Every man did that which
was right in his own eyes. For four or five hundred years,
the people were lawless, iniquitous, and idolatrous. Iniquity abounded. They were without a king. And
they did what was right in their own eyes. That sounds like today
to me. Sounds like a commentary on today,
like today's religion. The supposed people of God, these
children of Israel, they were supposedly the people of God,
but yet they did what was right in their own eyes. And they had
no king. They had no king. And they had no dwelling place,
no permanent dwelling place. They had no peace. They had no
true worship. They had no king, but men wanted
a king. They wanted a king. Just keep
your place there in Samuel. Go back to Samuel now, 16. They
wanted a king, even though Samuel was God's prophet. God sent the
man Samuel to these people, and he was a good prophet, a good
leader, a good representative of God. Samuel chapter 9, go
back to there, 1 Samuel 9. But that wasn't good enough.
Samuel just wasn't good enough. God's Word. Samuel just spoke
the Word of God. He just repeated what God said
to him, but that wasn't good enough. That sounds like today,
doesn't it? Sounds like today. So, they wanted
a king. And you know the story of Saul
here. The people wanted a king. Look at verse 1 of chapter 9.
Now, there was a man of Benjamin whose name was Kish. a son of
Abil, a son of Zeror, a son of Bekorah, a son of Aphiah, a Benjamite,
a mighty man of substance." He was a very rich and famous man. And he had a son whose name was
Saul. He was a choice young man, a
goodly man. And there was not among the children
of Israel a goodlier, or that is, a more moral person than
he. And from his shoulders and upward
he was higher or taller than any of the people. He was tall,
he was dark, he was handsome. He was rich, he was famous. Just
what the people wanted. just what they were looking for.
They wanted him a king, and he was the man they were looking
for. But not God. Not God. But nevertheless, nevertheless,
in God's purpose and in God's providence, he sent Saul to be
the king of the people. And I'll tell you what about
Saul. Let me tell you some things about Saul. People get confused
about Saul, though he was the king of Israel, though the Scriptures
talk about the Spirit of the Lord being with Saul, that wasn't
in a saving sense. Not at all. Read it carefully.
1 Samuel 9 all the way through chapter 16. Read it carefully.
Saul didn't have the Holy Spirit in a saving way. He didn't have
Him in a saving way. He had Him in merely a ruling
way. I'll show you that. Look at verse
15. Now, the Lord had told Samuel
in his ear a day before. The day before Saul came, he
said, Tomorrow, about this time, I'll send a man out of the land
of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be captain over my people,
Israel, that he may save my people. Now, here's the primary purpose
that Saul was ordained as king. that he might save my people
out of the hand of the Philistines, for I have looked upon my people,"
he said. The Spirit of the Lord wasn't
with Saul in a saving way. The Spirit of the Lord was with
his people. I've looked upon my people because their cry has
come unto me. And when Samuel saw this man
come in, this goodly-looking, tall, dark, and handsome fellow,
the Lord said unto him, This is the one. Behold the man of
whom I speak to thee. This same shall reign. Look,
do you have a margin there? See what it says? Shall restrain
my people. Now, that was the primary purpose
of Saul's kingship here. But Saul was a sorry fellow.
He was a sorry fellow. He was an unfaithful fellow.
Look at verse 3. He was unfaithful in a few things.
Therefore, he could not be ruler over many. Look at verse 3. He
lost his father's assets. Verse 3. And the assets of Kish,
Saul's father, were lost, and Kish fed to Saul his son. Take now unto the service with
thee, and rise, go seek the assets. Saul was unfaithful in a few
things. He couldn't even keep watch over
a few donkeys. And you know, he never did find
those donkeys. Never did. He went looking for
them. And Samuel found them. He never did find those donkeys.
That's significant. He was unfaithful in a few things.
He was a rich man's spoiled child, is what he was. He was tall,
dark, handsome, goodly to look at, moral, upright. And the people,
this is the one we want. This is the one we want. Now
turn to chapter 13, 1 Samuel 13. But God didn't sanction the man. God already had a king. He already
had a king from the very foundation. He knew who he was going to anoint.
And in his good time, he would have anointed David. He would
have anointed David after Samuel. But the people insisted, we've
got to have a king. So God gave him a king. And boy, was he a
king. He ruled over them with an iron hand. He caused the people
to tremble. There's so many things. Read
it in your own personal reading sometime. Just read all the way
through. You'll see very clearly how Saul was a selfish man. He was a proud man. He was an
arrogant man. He was unfaithful. He had religion
for gain. Look at 1 Samuel 13, verse 9. And Saul said, look at this,
this is significant. Saul said, bring hither a burnt
offering to me. Now, Samuel told Saul to wait
until he got back to make an offering, because Samuel was
the only one ordained by God to offer the burnt sacrifice. But Saul got impatient. And Saul
said, Bring hither a burnt offering to me, a peace offering. The
people were impatient. He was impatient. And he offered
the burnt offering. And it came to pass that as soon
as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel
came. And Saul went out to meet him,
that he might salute him. And Samuel said, What have you
done? Samuel knew what he had done.
What have you done? And Saul said, and he started
making excuses, because I saw that the people were scattered
from me, and that thou camest not within the days appointed,
and that the Philistines gathered themselves together at Michmash.
Therefore said I, the Philistines will come down now upon me to
Gilgal. And I have not made supplication
unto the Lord. I forced myself, therefore, and
offered a burnt offering. And Samuel said to Saul, You've
done foolishness. You can't bypass God's way of
worship. You can't bypass God's priest.
You can't do it. You can't offer up sacrifices
yourself. It has to be through a mediator, through God's ordained
priest. You've done foolishly. You've not kept the commandment
of the Lord thy God, which he commanded thee. For now would
the Lord have established thy kingdom upon Israel forever,
but now thy kingdom shall not continue. Though Saul was a prince
and a captain over the people, though he was a ruler over the
people, though he was man at his best state, tall, dark, handsome,
goodly to look at, moral, upright, a captain, a prince among the
people, man at his best state, yet he was altogether vanity
and was worthless to God and the people. Why? Because his
heart wasn't right. His heart wasn't right with God. Look at verse 14. God said the
Lord has sought him a man after his own heart. A man after his
own heart. Look over chapter 16 with me
now. Just dwell here a little bit. Where will we find such
a man? Now, the people were looking
for their kind of king, the man they wanted. A man that they
would have rule over them, and they found himself. But he wasn't
the man that God would have rule over these people. He was altogether
different from the one that God had chosen. This man's heart
was far from God. He looked like he was a godly
man, but his heart was far from him. Heart was far from him. Where are we going to find a
man with a heart of God? Where are we going to find him?
We don't find him. You see, the people came up with
this man. We don't find God's man. God sends his own man. God sends him. God finds us and
sends him to us. You see, he's God's chosen. God's
man is God's king. He's God's man. The scripture
said he is found of them that sought him not. The king is found
of them that sought him not. If you understand that, you understand
how Christ comes to us and how we come to Christ. But who he
is and where he is, none but Jehovah knew at this time. And
even Samuel, even Samuel had no idea who God's king was. He had no idea. He had to have
God's king revealed to him. Just like a, are you following
me? I'm building up this story here. OK, look at 1 Samuel 16
again. The people wanted a king, and
they got one, but he wasn't God's king. God already had a king.
He was searching for a man after his own heart. Now, he wasn't
searching. He knew who he was all along.
But he said he provided him a king with a man after his own heart. Look at 1 Samuel 16, verse 1. The Lord said unto Samuel, How
long will you mourn for Saul? I have rejected him. I have rejected
him from reigning over Israel. Samuel, fill your horn with oil,
bud. Like I said, even Samuel had
to have revealed to him who God's king was. And you know how he
had the king revealed to him? He had his horn filled with oil.
What's that picture of? The Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit. It takes the sovereign power
It takes the sovereign power of the Holy Spirit to anoint
our eyes and our ears to recognize God's King. Or you're not going
to see Him. You're not going to recognize
God's King. You'll make some Jesus your King who's not, who's
another Jesus. some Jesus, some God of your
own imagination. It takes the power, the anointing
of God's Holy Spirit to show you who God's King is, or else
you'll never recognize Him. You'll make up one of your own.
And you'll not see Him according to man's wisdom. Samuel couldn't
see Him according to his own wisdom or his own thoughts or
his own ways. Samuel thought the firstborn.
Look at it, verse 6. Now, let's read on now through
this. Samuel said, How can I go? If
Saul hear about it, he'll kill me. And the Lord said, Take a
heifer with you and I, and say, I am come to sacrifice to the
Lord, and call Jesse to the sacrifice. I will show you what thou shalt
do, and thou shalt anoint me him whom I name unto thee. Verse
one said, I provided me a king among Jesse's sons. So Samuel
did that which the Lord spake, and came to Bethlehem. You know
what Bethlehem named? House of Bread. Why? Because the bread of life
is going to come from there. David was born there, and so
was the son of David born there. So beautiful. The house of bread,
the son of David is going to arise from that place. So Samuel
did. He came to Bethlehem, and the
elders of the town trembled at his coming. They said, You come
peaceably. And he said, Peaceably. I've
come to sacrifice. Come to sacrifice unto the Lord.
Sanctify yourselves. Come with me to the sacrifice."
And he sanctified Jesse and his sons and called them to the sacrifice. Okay, now he's going to start
parading these boys in front of him. Verse 6, And it came to pass,
when they were come, that he looked upon Eliab, that was the
oldest, the eldest son, Eliab, and said, Surely, surely, This
is he. Surely the Lord's anointing is
before me. Evidently Alive was tall, dark,
and handsome, goodly to look at, head and shoulders above
the rest of them, dignified looking. You'd thought Samuel would have
learned his lesson by now, wouldn't you? He's just a man, wasn't
he? Just a man. Seemed like he would have learned
his lesson after Saul, after he made the mistake with Saul.
But he didn't. And Samuel, like all natural men and women from
the beginning, are altogether ignorant of God's thoughts and
God's ways. The natural man is ignorant,
even Samuel. When he reverts to his own ways,
his own way of thinking, he's ignorant of God's ways, the essence
of true religion. And God had to speak to Samuel
and reveal his king to him. Samuel said, surely this is it.
It's got to be. Look at it. Just look at it.
Verse 7. And the Lord said unto Samuel,
Samuel, look not on his countenance or on the height of his stature.
Don't you remember just not too long ago? Saul? Don't look on his countenance
or the height of his stature. Don't you remember when I said
I sought a man after my own heart? I have refused this alive, for
the Lord seeth not as man seeth. Man looks on the outward appearance,
but the Lord looks on the heart." The heart, Samuel. That's where
I'm looking. A man, a woman, may look good,
sound good, but be no good. That was Saul. A man or a woman
may be highly esteemed among men, but an abomination to God. That was Saul. You can almost count on whatever
is popular opinion, you can almost count on it being wrong. You
know what? You can almost count on it when
the majority agrees is wrong. Yeah, you can, throughout the
scripture. God's people have always been
in the minority. You can almost count on it, whatever
is large and successful is not of God. That's just the way it
is. You can almost count of it, whatever
is well spoken of is evil spoken of of God. You can almost count
on it. Whatever is worldly successful
and beautifully adorned by man is rejected by God Almighty. Look at modern religion. Now
here we've got just a little handful, a little remnant. By today's standards, this is
nothing. This is nothing. But I believe
it's God's people. I believe God meets with us.
He said, the Lord looks on the heart, Samuel. The Lord looks
on the heart. And that's the indictment against
this present religious generation. Several times it's quoted, this
people draws near to me with their lips. With their lips,
they look like they're approaching God. They sound like they're
worshiping God. They sound like they're praying.
They sound like they're singing. They sound like they're preaching.
They're saying all the right words. They're going through
the motions. This people draws near to me with their lips, with
their bodies, with their outward form and ceremony, but their
heart is far from me. Far from me. As I said before,
they don't preach. People don't worship God as God.
That is because He's God. You know, there's no other reason
really to worship God. That's the primary reason we
worship God. Why? Because He's God. He's worthy
to be worshipped. He ought to be worshipped. He's
Lord. He's sovereign. We're to bow down before our
sovereign Lord. He's Lord, so we're to worship
Him. We're His creatures. He's the Creator. We're His creatures. We're to worship Him, whether
we get anything out of Him or not. Right? He's worthy to be
worshipped. People are worshipping God because
He's God, worthy to be worshipped. And they're not worshipping God
for what He has done, what He's already done. That is, He's provided
all that we have and all that we are, the clothes we wear,
the food we eat, the water we drink, the jobs we have, the
homes we live under. All these things God has, by
the grace of God, we are what we are. People aren't worshipping
God and giving thanks and praise just simply for that reason. Thanksgiving, you know that's
the only vow you can vow to God? Look it up sometime. I don't
care what Bob Tilton says. That's the only sacrifice you
can give to God is a sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving. The
only vow you can make to God. Read it sometime. But God is
to be worshipped because of who he is and because of what he's
done. But most people today are worshipping, or so-called, worshipping
God for gain. Right? Religion for gain. What they can get, what more
they can get out of God. They're not acknowledging God.
They're unthankful. You see them on TV, you see these
examples all the time of people sending their money in and saying,
oh, I was poor and destitute and all that. They're living
in a house. They got family, they got food to eat and so forth.
What they've done is they've run their visa card up to about
$2,500 and they got laid off and they're getting real straight.
And then, oh, and they start calling on God and saying, Brother
Bob, you know, $100. Why aren't they, do they worship,
why weren't they worshiping God before all that came on? He's
supposed to be worshiped then. I visited a man in a hospital,
a man who was dying, and the man lived all his life a rebel,
didn't know God, didn't know Christ, didn't care to know God
or Christ. It's obvious. And he was dying just like he
lived. Dying just like he lived. And he got religion, you know,
on his deathbed. But I told him, I said, I called
his name, I said, you just don't get religion when you're sick.
You don't just worship God and call on God when you're sick.
You call on God and you worship God. You serve God when you're
well, when things are going well. That's when you start worshiping
God. Don't make you think God will hear you now. People need to tell people like
it is, don't they? I don't care if a man is sick
or on his deathbed. Tell him like it is. Maybe the
Lord will convict him and give him repentance that needs not
to be repented of. But all of this worship for gain,
to get more from God, that's what people are worshiping God
for, to get more out of God. Religion for gain. God hates
it. God must be worshiped in spirit. That is, as a spirit. idols or rudiments or of the
flesh, things of the flesh, these sacrifices, ceremonies we go
through and so forth, flesh. But as a spirit and from the
heart, from the spirit and in truth, that is sincerity and
from the heart and in Christ who is the truth, you can only
worship God in Christ. All right? And the person who
truly worships from the heart, listen to A person who truly
worships God from the heart will worship the one who's closest
to God's heart. Who is the, let me ask you parents,
who's the apple of your eye? Who's the dear one of your heart?
Who do you dote over? Who do you care for? Who do you
think about? Who do you love? Huh? Your children. God's got one. One, one, only begotten, and
he calls him well beloved. He's the apple of God's eye.
He's the son of his bosom. He's next to God's heart. And
when you worship God from the heart, you worship the one who's
in the heart of God. That is Christ. Paul said this.
He said, we're the true people of God. We're the true Israelites
because we worship God in the spirit. That is, as a spirit
and from the heart. And therefore we rejoice in Christ
Jesus. We rejoice in Christ. The beloved
one of God is our beloved too. I am my beloved and he is mine. What's mine is thine and thine
is mine. What's God? We worship God. We worship the
Son. We honor God. We honor the Son. We hear the
Son. We hear the Father. He's one and the same. The apple
of God's eye has riveted our eye upon him. The Son of God's
bosom and heart is in our heart and our affection and our bosom.
And we put no, because we rejoice in Christ Jesus, we put no confidence
in the flesh. None whatsoever. No esteem whatsoever
for anything that has to do with His flesh. None whatsoever. We put no stock in anything that
has to do with His flesh. We don't count anything that
has to do with this flesh as being notable. Nothing. No matter what a man does, what
a man says, what a man has been, what a man will be. No confidence.
Nothing notable about it. We rejoice in Christ Jesus, but
no confidence in the flesh. Anything having to do with the
flesh, we denounce it. We denounce it. The people who
worship and speak most of Christ are God's people. The people
who worship and speak most of Christ are God's people. Why?
Because that's who God speaks most of. That's who God's Word
is full of. Right? That's who God's Holy
Spirit is sent to bear witness of. Right? So the people who
worship Christ, the people who worship and speak most of Christ,
those are God's people. I don't care what they look like.
Tall, dark, and handsome. Big, bold, beautiful. I don't
care. Eloquent? I don't care who they
are. The people who worship and speak
most of Christ are God's people. And the preacher, the preacher
who preaches most of Christ is God's preacher. Count on it. The preacher who preaches most
of Christ is God's preacher. The place where Christ is exalted,
worshiped, preached, and adored is the place where God's Holy
Spirit dwells. I don't care what the building
looks like. I don't care. I don't care how long it's been
there. I don't care what movie star sanctions that place. I don't care. I don't care what
men say about it. I don't care what the world is
saying about it. The place where Christ is exalted, worshipped,
preached, and adored is all and in all, and where God is worshipped
from the heart. Christ is rejoiced in, and there's
no confidence whatsoever, nothing notable about the flesh or anything
to do with the flesh. That's where God's Holy Spirit
dwells. Count on it. That's where the heart of God
is. So that's what God told Samuel
here. So old Samuel kept looking. He
kept looking. Look at verse 8. Then Jesse called
Binadab. and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, Neither hath the
Lord chosen this. Then Jesse made Shema to pass
by. And he said, Neither hath the
Lord chosen this. Again, Jesse made seven of his
sons to pass before Samuel. And Samuel said unto Jesse, The
Lord hath not chosen thee. Seven sons. One of the writers
I was reading said, it's always notable, seven after the number
seven. Number eight is generally the
number for a new beginning, a new beginning, a new birth. You know,
this world is going to last about 7,000
years. From what I see in prophecy and the Scripture, about 7,000
years. And then it's going to be a new beginning, a new heaven
and a new earth. So seven sons. passed by, and
none of them were chosen. Look at verse 11. Samuel said
unto Jesse, Are here all your children? Are these all? Is that all you got? And Jesse said, No, there is
one more. One more, but only one. He's the last. He's the last,
and he's the least. Just one more. Is there anyone
can help us? One who understands our heart?
When the thorns of life have pierced them till they bleed?
One who sympathizes with us? You see, Israel needed a king,
a bad, a good king, a benevolent king, a kind king, a wise king. God's king is who they needed.
Not their king, but their own making. They needed one who could
sympathize with them, one who in wondrous love imparts just
the very, very blessing that they need. Yes, there's one,
only one. And old Jesse said, there's one
left. There remaineth yet the youngest, and behold, look at
that, he's keeping the shape. He ain't lost his asses. He's
keeping the sheep. He's faithful in a few things,
he said. He's where God put him, and he
stayed right there, and he was faithful in a few things. David
was a shepherd. That's who he was. And a faithful
one. He was a good shepherd. He was good. He didn't lose a
one. We're going to see later on how a lion and a bear came
out after it took one of his little lambs. One little lamb. One little insignificant lamb.
And this young man went out at that line and grabbed one by
the beard and cut his head off and beat one on the head. One
lamb, left the ninety and nine, went after that one. He keeps
his sheep. He keeps them. Not going to lose
a one. He's the good shepherd, and so is my Lord. Psalm 23 says,
The Lord is my shepherd. The Lord Jesus Christ, that is.
He's the faithful shepherd. He's the eternal shepherd. He's
keeping the sheep. Johnny's always been keeping
his sheep. He's always been the good shepherd. He's always looked
over God's flock, God's chosen people. Christ has been the good
and faithful shepherd of God's people from the very beginning,
watching over them. Yes, he has. From the very beginning,
he's led them, he's guided them, he's protected them, he's fed
his sheep. Yes, Christ. And occasionally,
Christ would leave the ninety and nine. Occasionally He would
leave the hosts of heaven and come down Himself just to tend
to one of His lost sheep. He did. He personally come to
one of His sheep, Abraham. Didn't He come to Abraham, the
angel of the Lord? He came to him in the form of
Melchizedek too, didn't He? He came down to one of His sheep.
He came down to Jacob. Didn't He appear to Jacob? How
about Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego? Those three boys needed
help bad. And there was one like unto the
son of man in the furnace with him. Daniel. So Jesse said, yeah,
there's one. Only one. He's just a shepherd.
He's a good one, but he's just a shepherd. He keeps the sheep. There's one more, the youngest,
the keeper of the sheep. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Go
get him. Send and fetch him. Send and
fetch him. We'll not sit down till he comes
hither. I bet this struck a chord with
Samuel when he heard that he was the youngest. I bet you Samuel
got to thinking about God's covenant when he said the elder shall
serve the younger. Right? Jacob and Esau. And when
he said he's a shepherd, I bet that struck a chord with old
Samuel. He got to thinking about old Abel. Abel was accepted. He was a shepherd. Cain wasn't. He got to thinking about Moses.
Moses was God's man. God spoke to Moses face to face. What was Moses? A shepherd. A
shepherd. The anointed ones of God. The
anointed ones. And Samuel said, Send and get
him. Sounds like a good one to me. Go get him. We're not going
to sit down until he comes hither. That reminds me of old Abraham's
servant who went to get a bride for Abraham's son, Isaac. And
remember what he said to Rebecca's family? He said, I'm not going
to sit down, and I'm not going to eat until we get this thing
settled, until I've told my message. See, I've got a message to tell
you. I've come to get a bride for Isaac, and I'm not going
to sit down. I'm not going to linger and stay
here with you. I'm not interested in anything
else but telling my message. And nothing and no one could
detract that man from telling his message. And that's old Samuel
here, the faithful prophet of God. And I tell you what, if
anybody ever sees their need of Christ, they're not going
to be distracted by anything else. Anything else. Nobody or
no one or nothing is going to distract them from coming to
Christ. They'll not be satisfied until
they see Him. Right? And he said this, he said,
we'll not sit down. Do you have a margin there? He
said, We'll not sit down, verse 11. He will not sit down till
he come hither. You have a margin, you see where
it says sit down? He said, We'll not sit round till he come hither. We're not going to sit around
the table. We're not going to have rest. We're not going to
be with God. We're not going to sit around
the throne of heaven. We're not going to be granted
entrance into heaven itself until he come hither, until the king
come down, until Christ comes to earth. There's going to be
no fellowship, no rest, no peace with God, except Christ come,
right? Except he come hither, come to
us. Except God reveal Christ to our
hearts, we're not going to sit down with the saints in heaven
around that table, around the king's table. I call my fellowship.
And the man who comes to Christ must first have Christ come to
him, right? So, verse twelve, And he sent
and brought him in. He sent and brought him in. And he was ruddy, that is, he
was red-haired, freckled face, just a boy, and with all of a
beautiful, that is, pair of eyes. I like that better. had something
in his eye, a keen look in his eye, an honest eye, and goodly
did look too. Goodly did look too. And the
Lord said, Samuel, get up. Anoint him. This is he. This is he. Turn over to John
chapter 1 and I'll close. This is he. Do you remember when
the shepherds were watching over their flocks on that hillside,
and the God and the angel of the Lord came to them and said,
Under you is born this day in the city of David in Bethlehem
a Savior, which is Christ the Lord. Go see him. And they went
to that manger, remember? And they rushed into that manger.
And they said, what did they say? Where is he? Where is he
that is born, King? Where is he? I bet you one of
the wise men or somebody standing around said, this is it. That's
it. That's him. Simeon. You remember
Simeon? Standing in the temple, waiting
on God, the consolation of Israel. Waiting. God said, you won't
die, Simeon, until I've showed you the consolation of Israel,
your hope, your peace. And I'm sure he was saying to
himself, where is he? Where is he? I'd sure like to
see him. And the Spirit of the Lord, when that woman brought
that baby in, the Spirit of the Lord said, This is it. And he
took that baby in his arm. He said, Now, Lord, let your
servant depart in peace. I've seen him. I've seen your
salvation. I've seen him. I've seen him. Look at John chapter 1, verse
19. John 1, verse 19. Let's read
the beginning here. And this is the record of John.
John saw him. This is a record of John the
Baptist, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to
ask him, Who art thou? And he confessed and denied,
but confessed, I'm not the Christ. And they asked him, Well, what
then? Who are you? You're lying, Elijah? And he said, I'm not. Art thou that prophet? Then they
said unto him, Who are you, that we may give an answer to them
that sent us? What sayest thou of thyself?
He answered, I am just a voice, just a voice, one crying in the
wilderness. Make straight the way of the
Lord, as said the prophet Isaiah. And they which were sent were
the Pharisees. And they asked him and said,
Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not to cry? What is this ordinance,
this ceremony you are going through? If you are not Elijah, neither
that prophet John answered, saying, I baptize with water, but there
standeth one among you whom you know not. He it is who coming
after me is preferred before me, whose shoes I am not worthy
to unloose." Now, these things were done in Bethabara, beyond
Jordan, where John was baptizing. And the next day, John saith
Jesus coming unto him. And he saith, Behold the Lamb
of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. This is He. This is He. The Son of God. The Son of David. God's anointed King. The man
after God's own heart. Do you remember what the people
said over in Matthew 12? We read at first that people
were amazed and said, Is not this the son of David? Is not
this God's chosen King? God's anointed one? Yeah. This is it. This is it. A man after God's own heart.
I believe next week we'll look into David's youth as just a
young man. He was such a type of Christ. We'll see some things in the
youth of Christ, how Christ was always about His Father's business.
How He was faithful. Faithful, even as a young man.
Okay, stand with me and I'll dismiss this and pray. Our Lord, We thank You for all Your past
providence and Your good purpose and Your design, Your decrees,
Your wisdom, Your will and Your ways. We thank You for the marvelous
things that You've showed us from Your Word. How we thank
You that everything has worked out according to your divine
purpose and your will to show us who Christ is. We see Christ
as, in Christ, hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
We see in Him the very fullness of God in a body, in a man. We see the anointed one of God,
the man after God's own heart, the one who said, I am meek and
lowly in heart, the man of God's choice, God's choosing. God's
King, God's Anointed One, how we thank You for the Son of David,
for choosing Him and not allowing us to make a God of our own imagination,
not allowing us to worship another Jesus and another Gospel, but
showing us the true and living One. How we thank You, because
this is salvation. This is eternal life, that we
might know Thee, the only true God and Jesus Christ. Whom thou
hast sent, the sent one, the one you fetched from your very
right hand and sent to us, that we may sit down with Him, join
heirs with Christ, sit down seated with Christ in the heavenlies.
And we thank you for the Son of David. And we ask you to bless
these studies as we look into them, open them to us, Lord,
and reveal great and beautiful things we haven't seen before.
The character of Christ, the person of Christ and His work,
as seen through David. We pray these things for your
honor and glory and for our spiritual edification and good. Amen.