And David consulted with the
captains of thousands and hundreds, and with every leader. And David said unto all the congregation
of Israel, If it seem good unto you, and that it be of the Lord
our God, let us send abroad unto our brethren everywhere that
are left in all the land of Israel, and with them also. to the priests and Levites, which
are in the cities and suburbs, that they may gather themselves
unto us, and let us bring again the ark of our God to us. For
we inquired not at it in the days of Saul." So for 40 years
Saul was the king and they did not go and have nobody to go
in before the ark, offer sacrifices, worship God. He said, And all the congregation said
that they would do so, for the thing was right in the eyes of
all the people. So David gathered all Israel
together from Shahur unto Egypt, even unto the entering of Hamath,
to bring the ark of God from Kerjath-Jerubim. And David went
up in Israel to Bala, that is, to Kerjath-Jerubim, which belonged
to Judah, to bring up this, the ark of God the Lord, that dwelt
between the cherubim. whose name is called on it. And
they carried the ark of God in a new cart out of the house of
Abinadab, and Uzzah and Ahio drove the cart. And David and
all else were played before God with all their might, and with
singing, and with hearts, and with psalteries, and with timbrels,
and with cymbals, and with trumpets. And when they came under the
threshing floor of Chidon, Uzzah put forth his hand to hold the
ark, for the oxen stumbled. And the anger of the Lord was
kindled against Uzzah, and he smote him, because he put his
hand to the ark, and there he died before God. And David was
displeased, because the Lord had made a breach upon Uzzah,
wherefore that place is called Perez Uzzah to this day. And David was afraid of God that
day, saying, How shall I bring the ark of God home to me? So
David brought not the ark home to himself, to the city of David.
his side into the house of Obed-Edom, the Gittite, and the ark of God
remained with the family of Obed-Edom in his house three months, and
the Lord blessed the house of Obed-Edom and all that he had." Our Father, in the blessed name of Your Son,
the Lord Jesus Christ, that Son in whom You delight, the Son
of Your The Son you appointed, the Son
who you made to be the Savior, the Redeemer, the One to whom
you gave all preeminence, the One while He was here, He was
the image of you who are invisible. So when we saw Him, we saw you.
When He spoke, you spoke. So Father, we've come here to
talk of Him, to honor Him, and delight in Him, and love Him
too. Nothing like You do, but Lord, we have it in our hearts
to love Him, to serve Him, to desire Him, to honor Him, to
glorify Him. And as for Your presence, the
Holy Ghost to be in our midst tonight, the power of God, the
power of the Holy Spirit, in the preaching, in the teaching,
in the hearing, And Lord Jesus, we pray for those prayer requests
tonight. We especially pray for Gary's
granddaughter. Lord, you give the doctor's wisdom
and that this can be taken care of and that she'll be fine according
to your will. Pray for Steve's mother. Pray for Donna. Please strengthen
her body. Strengthen her and encourage
her. Make her strong. And Lord, if you'd please you'd
allow her to be here again, we'd be ever so grateful. Pray for
Brooke, Lord Jesus, and thank you that she's doing better.
Pray that you would open her heart to the truth as it is in
Christ, and have mercy on our children, our grandchildren,
husbands, wives, and those that are here without God, without
Christ, and without hope in this world. May they be made nigh
by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, and know what the peace
of Christ that passes understanding is, We ask these things in Christ's
name. Amen. Amen. Sweep over my soul,
sweep over my soul, sweet spirit, sweep over my soul. My joy is complete when I sit
at His feet. Sweet Spirit, sweep o'er my soul. Well, the title of this tonight
is God's King, God's Ark, God's Worship. And this is the third
set of double books. You remember there was 1st and
2nd Samuel, 1st and 2nd Kings, and now we have 1st and 2nd Chronicles. And the word Chronicles, everybody
knows what that means. That means the words of the days
that they kept track, they chronicled what took place. They kept a
record of what took place. That was the 1st Chronicles,
2nd Chronicles. It's the account of the event
of the days of particular people. The chronicles of David, the
chronicles of Solomon, the chronicles of the wars they fought, the
chronicles of who was the priest, the chronicles of who was the
mighty man of David. So you have all of these things.
And these first chronicles covers a period of about 3,000 years,
and the reason it does is because it starts out with the genealogy.
The first nine chapters is just genealogy. And yet, it starts
with Adam. That's why we have 3,000 years.
It starts with Adam, and it traces the lineage of Abraham through
Jacob, Isaac, to David, to Solomon. And also in that, the reason
it does that is to show, keep the lineage of our Lord Jesus
Christ all the way through. That's why we have these genealogies
through the scriptures, to set forth our Lord Jesus Christ in
His He was to be the seed of Abraham, and also the seed of
David according to the flesh. And so what you have is you have
all of this chronology, and also you have the chronicles of David
and his wars, David and his mighty men. David and how he sent people
over the temple, and over the tabernacle, and over the temple,
and how he made the singers, and how he made the porters,
and how he made people to do different things in his kingdom,
and he sent all these singers upon him, and he done all these
things. In fact, Anthony Coco and I, we was riding up the road
up to Oregon back a few months ago, and I was reading through
Chronicles, And all of a sudden, I read him on his drive, and
he said, why don't you read to me? And I had to be in the genealogies
at that time. I started reading them genealogies
to him, and we started talking about him. You know, you're talking
about David. We were talking about David's
mighty men. David had three mighty men. And then those mighty men
were just captives. They were David's three mightiest
men. And then out of Then they had 30, 10 mighty men. Then they had 30 mighty men. And they went down through there
and told the exploits of all these mighty men to David. David,
one time, he said this, he said, Oh, what would I give for a drink
of water out of the well? Out of the well at Bethlehem,
at Jerusalem. What would I give for it? You
know what it is? The three of these mighty men.
They went into Jerusalem, and Saul and all of his enemies were
in there. They went in there and got David a bunch of water
and brought it back out to him. David wants a drink out of Jerusalem,
I'm going to go get him a drink. They were mighty men. And so
you see, it's not just the genealogy, but even the exploits of these
men and their exploits in the wars. So it covers 3,000 years. 2 Chronicles covers about 500
years. But this 1 Chronicles deals with
Adam all the way until Israel and Judah is delivered from Babylonian
captivity and brought back to Jerusalem. Ezra is the one that's
attributed to writing this book. And it covers a lot of the same
history that you have in 2 Samuel. But all it's about God's King,
David. It's about God's ark that's brought
back up. And it's about God's worship,
because you can't worship without an ark. You can't worship without
a temple. You can't worship without a sacrifice. You can't worship without that
ark and that mercy seat and the propitiation on that mercy seat.
And so we go on down here and we see in chapter 10, we'll just
go through this, I'll try not to be as long as I have been,
but chapter 10 gives us about the end of Saul's miserable,
miserable reign. You don't have to turn after
me, I'll just give it to you. It gives us an account of Saul's
miserable reign, and how that God's judgment came upon him
because he despised God, he despised God's Word, and he even went
and sought the counsel of a witch. the witch of Endor. And that
witch, that witch, and of course, it didn't even surprise her.
He wanted to speak to Samuel. Well, there stood Samuel in front
of him. And Samuel pronounced judgment
upon him. God let him pronounce judgment
on him again. And the Scriptures tell us that
he died because of these judgments. Going to a witch, the king of
Israel, And that's the kind of king people wanted. They wanted
a king who was self-willed, self-opinionated, and he didn't care for God. And
if the king don't care for God, certainly the people's not going
to care for him. And then says, God's king in
chapter 11. Now look at this with me. In
chapter 11. God's king, David. David's kingdom
being established. And it says here in chapter 11,
verse 1. It says, Then all Israel gathered themselves to David
under Hebron, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.
And they made a covenant with David. There David's anointed
king. David's rejoiced over his king.
And it opens with David being established as king over Israel
all the way through this chapter. And this is the chapter here
where they went and got him that water. Where those three mighty
men went and got him that water out of the well of Bethlehem.
And here we are, here's David, he's chosen king over Israel
and established as king over Israel. And as David, the king
over Israel, he says before us a picture of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who's the king of Zion. who's the King of Glory, and
God exalted him just like He did David. God raised David up.
David was a man after God's own heart. God raised him up, and
God exalted our Lord Jesus Christ to be both a Prince and a Savior. And He did it that He might grant
repentance to Israel and forgiveness to sins. And all of God's people,
look here in chapter 11, verse 9, And it says, So David watched
greater and greater, for the Lord of hosts was with him. And
what that means is that all of Israel gathered around him. Everybody
loved David. Everybody gathered around David.
And he got greater and greater David gifts, but our Lord Jesus
Christ and God's Israel gathered to David, all of God's Israel
gathers to Christ. All of God's elect. All of God's
people gather around Christ. And beloved in our hearts, He
gets greater and greater and greater and more glorious. And
I say He's exalted above all and preeminent and glorious beyond
comparison. And I told you, I done read to
you about the ark. In chapter 13, what happens here
is David, he says here, and this talks about the ark of God. And
the ark's supposed to be in the temple. And the temples were
here to worship God. And that's why he called it.
Why did he call it over here in chapter 13? He says in verse
6, And David went up on Israel to Baal, that is, to Kirgath
Jerum, which belonged to Judah, to bring up this, the ark of
God the Lord, that dwelleth between the cherubims. God who dwells
between the cherubims. The ark is still on this thing.
The ark is still on. The mercy seat is still on the
ark, because God dwelled between those cherubim on that mercy
seat. And so that golden mercy seat was still on top of that
ark. And that ark, of course, represents our Lord Jesus Christ.
First of all, inside of it was the law. Inside of it was a pot
of manna. Inside of it was Ryan's rod that
budded. And all three of those things,
Christ fulfilled the law on our stead and is kept in him. And
he was that manna that feeds us, that true bread which comes
down from heaven. And Aaron's rod that budded,
that shows that he was the only priest that God anointed and
appointed and proved it to all of Israel. And so our Lord Jesus
Christ is God's only priest, High Priest, set now forever
after the order of Melchizedek. And it shows that our mercy seat
over that ark is Christ, our propitiation, our sin-atoning
sacrifice, and the salvation that he accomplished for all
his people. And, O beloved, in the temple where they kept that
tabernacle, where they kept that ark, in that temple, that temple,
of course, represents the church. It represents the kingdom of
God. You know, that temple God dwells in. We are the temple
that God dwells in. We are a building of God, and
God inhabits us by His Spirit, and it represents the salvation
of all of God's event. We're built upon the foundation
of apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the historic
cornerstone in whom all the building fitly grows together unto a holy
temple in the Lord. and whom you're also building
together for a habitation of God through the Spirit. Now,
I want you to see something else. Not only do we see the ark of
God, but look here at the worship of God. I give you this here. In chapter 15, chapter 13, you
see what happens. One of David's first act as king
is he's going to bring the ark of the Lord back to Zion. He's
going to bring it back. And for 20 years, that ark with
its mercy seat hadn't been up there. God's appointed meeting
place with his people had been there, had been in the temple.
And it was neglected and almost forgotten. And David wanted to
reestablish the work of God, worship of God in Israel, but
he'd done several things that was wrong, wrong, wrong. He made
some awful, awful mistakes. And you know what the first mistake
he made was? He never stopped and consulted God. He never looked
in the book of God, how you bring the ark back up. Now, Scripture
tells us plainly how that ark was supposed to be handled. And
who was to handle it? Just a certain people in a certain
way. And David, first thing he done
was he didn't consult God. He never looked in the book.
And the second thing he done is he asked all the people, you
think it would be alright for us to go down there and get that?
And everybody said, oh yeah, oh yeah. Nobody stopped and said,
if this is the Lord's will, we're going to do this the right way.
Huh? The third thing he'd done was
he had a wagon made, a cart made. Now, I tell you, he wouldn't
make a cart like you and I would make a cart. This cart here was
made, it was a special, I mean, you think about a cart, he's
going to carry the Ark of God in this little old cart. So you know this thing ain't
just three or four boards up front, back in the back, and
some wheels on it. This thing's ornate. It's got
to be beautiful. I mean, this thing is, Doug,
the best craftsman made this ark. He's going to come in this,
this wagon, this car. But then, you know, you just
think how much work went into this. They're going to carry
the ark in it. Now, me and you, you know, there ain't going to
be no little red wagon. You know, it's not going to be something
a kid would make, me or you would make. I mean, this thing probably
was just special. It had all kinds of carvings
on it. And they went and got oxen. It had never been made
to yoke before. And oh, beloved, instead of offering
sacrifices, they wanted to please everyone except God. And look
what it says here in verse 8 of chapter 13. Oh, they impressed one another.
And they impressed all of Israel. But look what it says, And David
and all Israel played before God with all their might. They
played before God with all their might. But there wasn't no praying. There wasn't no priest. There
wasn't no one turning on his shoulders. They brought a cart
down there. And they had two fellows that
weren't even priests guiding those. And that's just what goes
on in most churches today. Everybody's praying before God
with all their might. Just making a lot of noise. They're
not inquiring of God. They're not looking in the Bible
to see whether they ought to do this, that, or not. And they
call it worship. They ignore the Gospel. They
ignore the Scriptures. And they pray before God with
all their might, glorifying their own lust. And whatever it may
be, it's not worship. And I tell you this, I hear preachers
and stuff get on the radio, come worship with us this Sunday.
The only people that can worship God is God's people. An unbeliever
cannot worship God. He can come hear about God. He
can come hear the Gospel. He can come and have the Scriptures
read to him. He can come and maybe even enjoy
what's being said. But worship is a heart thing. The scripture says, you know,
God is a spirit and he must be worshiped in spirit and in truth,
the flesh. You've got to know the truth
and you've got to have the spirit before you worship God. And these
folks, beloved, was going in the energy of the flesh. Oh,
they made a lot of noise. And it looked impressive. But look what happens now. And
then they came to verse 9, it says, And when they came to the
threshing floor of Chidon, Uzzah put forth his hand to hold the
ark. He didn't put it on the cart,
he put it on the ark itself. For the ox-stand stumbled. Oh, that ark, the oxen stumbled
and that cart waveled just a little bit. I don't think that part
was any closer, anywhere near, but it just shook a little bit.
And he quickly rushed out and steadied that ark. He died just that instant, just
like that. You remember when Philistines
opened the ark, they lifted the lid off of that, they lifted
up that mercy seat and put it in there, and God killed 53,000
of them. You know what that tells us?
That you're not going to play games with God. And you certainly
don't want to look inside that ark without Christ. You want
Christ on that mercy seat. And God don't need us to help
His work. He don't need us to put our hands
on anything He's ever done. He don't need us to put our hands
on the ark. He don't need us to put our hands on the cart.
He don't need us to do anything in the world. And the very minute
that we put forth our hands to do anything to help God out,
we're under the curse just like that. Now that's why God's done that.
You say, God's too hard. No, God's jealous. And so because David didn't inquire
of God and the people God lends you the faith, it cost a man
his life. And that man presumed that God
would need me to take care of his ark. And that's why the scriptures
tell us that they had golden staves, that they had two hooks
on both sides of that ark. And they run those golden staves
through that. And they was long enough that
there would be a Levite over here, and a Levite over there,
and a Levite over here, and a Levite over there. And they would pick
that thing up and put it on their shoulders. Nobody touched that ark. The
high priest, when he went behind that veil, he never touched the
ark. He just put blood on it. On that
mercy seat. And that's the only way that
thing is supposed to be touched. Put them rods through that thing. And these fellows here, he goes
in, that tells us that God does not and will not let us entertain
the sleest thought of ever putting forth our hand in His work. I know preachers say, God ain't
got no hands but yours. Oh, He does. The earth is the
Lord's in the fullness thereof. He rides upon the whirlwind.
The clouds are the dust of His feet. He sendeth the snow. His breath is the hoarfrost on
the ground. The lightning is His arrows.
And you say, somebody got struck by lightning. God sent an arrow
to them. One of God's arrows. And I tell you, that's what we're
talking about. You know, God's got a way. And God needs no hand,
no man's hand. And beloved, no matter what His
intentions were, What he was doing, he was defying God and
God's steel. And it may not happen, it won't
happen in this world. But in the world to come, men
will find out that God did not need their hand touching His
work of redemption and grace. Didn't need it. And I'll say
another thing about God's order. When David saw his error, he
got mad at God and then got afraid of Him. Look what it says here
in verse 11. Well, first of all, God's anger
was kindled against us and he died before the Lord. And David was displeased because
the Lord had made a breach upon us. David got angry. He was displeased. I'm sure he got pretty upset.
And then when he got to thinking about it a little while, look
what he says next. And David was afraid of God that day. How shall I bring the ark before
God home to me? That's the first thing he should
ask. How am I going to bring it? If he had asked that to start
with, he'd have brought it up there the right way. But God
has a way. And then look over in chapter
15. And David, he learned his lesson, and he prepared, the
first thing he'd done, he prepared a place to set that ark. And the first thing he said there
in verse 1, David made him houses in the city of David, and prepared
a place for the ark of God, and pitched a tent for him. It's
the first thing he'd done. He got a place to put it. Got
a place to put it. And then he found this out. He
said in verse 2, None ought to carry the ark of God but the
Levites, for them the Lord hath chosen to carry the ark of God,
to minister unto him forever. Now, see, he learned his lesson. He learned a valuable lesson
that day. And I tell you, you know how
we learn. You know, I preached last Sunday morning about the
trial of our faith. That's how we learn. It's when
God tries our faith, we learn the ways of God. And we learn
not to trust ourselves. We learn not to trust our flesh.
We learn to trust God's Word and the Lord Jesus Christ. And
so David brought the ark to Jerusalem, and he done everything by the
book of God, and he even acknowledged his sin there in verse 13 of
chapter 15. He said, For because ye did it
not at the first, the Lord our God made a breach upon us, for
that we sought him not after. the due order. We didn't seek
Him after the due order. That's why we have this breach
made on us, because we didn't do it. And believe me, beloved,
God's got a way of doing things. We're going to worship Him in
His way, the way He's ordained in His Word. We're going to worship
and come to His way of salvation, Christ alone. We're not going
to add nothing to His Word, and by His grace, we're not going
to take anything out of it. And there's no place for us when
we gather to worship God except there's a very, keep it simple,
simple, simple. Scott Richardson said this, and
I've heard him say it. He said, the simpler we can keep
the worship, the better and more pure the worship is. Don't let
the flesh get involved. And beloved, you know what we
need to do? Read the Scriptures. That's what
they've done in the Scriptures. They read the Scriptures. Seculate
praying. Pray. And then praise the Lord
from our hearts. Praise Him from the Scriptures.
Preach Him. And then two other things happens in the worship
of God. And that's believer's baptism. When God does something
for somebody and they say, I want to confess my faith in Christ
by being baptized. I want to go and identify with
Him and His life, His death, His burial, and His resurrection.
And then secondly, the only thing that we're allowed to do in the
tabernacle, in the worship of God, is take the Lord's table.
Prayer, preaching, praise, baptism, and the Lord's table. You can't
keep it. Look how simple our worship's
been today. We go by some places, and we will have left here and
went home and went out at eight, and killed an hour, and come
back, and a lot of places ain't even out yet. You know why? They're making a lot of noise
before God. And everything else that happens
in a worship service is an abomination to God, and it's the invention
of men. And, oh, beloved, and I tell you, we've got to do that. And then look over here in chapter
16. Let's look at this together. I love this right here. This
is so good. And David, here comes here, so
they brought the ark of God and set it in the midst of the tent
that David had pitched for it. And watch what it says here.
And they offered birth sacrifices and peace offerings before God.
Before God. That's the first thing they done
when they brought it up there. They began to offer some sacrifices,
burnt offerings. Christ, you know, God got the
whole burnt offering. Christ, God got all of Christ
when He was offered. And the peace offerings, to make
peace with God, to reconcile us to God. So Christ is our peace
offerings by whom we have peace with God. And then look what
happens here in verse 2. And David had made an end of
offering the burnt offerings in the peace offerings, and he
blessed the people in the name of the Lord. We're only blessed
by our King, by our Lord Jesus Christ, because the offerings
have been made. They've been made together, they've
been made! And oh, now we worship, now look
what else it says here. And he dealt in verse 3 to every
one in Israel, both men and women, to every one a loaf of bread,
a good piece of flesh, and a flagging of wine. He gave them bread and wine. Oh my! He gave them all of them, you
know, and God blessed the sinners because of what Christ did. And
then, here he comes, David does it, he gives them a piece of bread and a bottle
of wine. The broken body of our Lord Jesus
Christ and the wine, the sacrifice. And our Lord Jesus Christ said,
except you eat my flesh and drink my blood. And then in chapter
17, what happened was here was, you all know the story of David
wanting to build God a house. David wanted to build a place
for God to dwell in besides the tabernacle, besides the tent.
And God told him, David, that's wonderful. I'm glad you do that.
But it's in your heart to do that. But he said, you're not
going to do that. You've got shed too much blood.
But he said, I'll tell you what I'll do. He said, I'm going to
bless your son after you, and I'll give a man to reign upon
your throne forever and ever and ever. And that first son
he's talking about is Solomon, and which tells us, Behold, a
greater than Solomon is here. And beloved, God promised David
that another son would come up, and his son's throne would be
established forever. And in this promise, we see our
Lord Jesus Christ. Now, I'll tell you something.
Christ's not going to go and sit on the throne over in Israel
the way these pre-millennials says He's going to do. They preach
all the time that Christ, when He comes back, after He takes
the church, He's going to go over to Israel and set up a throne
over there and worship. And everybody's going to have
to come there and worship. Do you believe that's going to
happen? Christ get off of the throne
in glory? That don't even sound right.
And all beloved, and that's why Christ was conceived in the womb
of a virgin, and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne
of his father David, and he shall reign over the house of Jacob
for ever and ever, and of his kingdom there shall be no end."
Oh, David and a greater than sovereign. And then let me show
you this in chapter 21. And this is where David, David
really, David done some Not very bright things in his life. He's
like everybody else. He's had flesh. He fell, and here's what he decided
to do. It says in verse 1, Satan stood
up against Israel and provoked David to number Israel. David
said to Joab, Go number the rulers of the people. Go number Israel
from Bathsheba to Dan. Job answered, The Lord make His
people a hundred times more than my Lord the King. Don't do this!
God knows His people. He knows where they are. But
David just would not have it. And you know why David wanted
the children of Israel, all the people numbered? He wanted everybody
to know what a great king he was and what a great kingdom
he had. I want everybody to know how many subjects I've done.
How many servants I have. And all he wanted to show his
personal pride was what his problem was. He wanted everybody to see
the greatness of his kingdom. And David thought that his success
was because he had so many people, and it depended upon the number
of those who was with him in the work. And he wanted glory
in the physical strength of his realm. But I tell you, God never
ever has worked with a majority. He said, God said, despise not
the day of small things. You know what God did? If we
think that the cause of Christ is losing because we're small
in numbers, we dishonor God and His gospel. Now, we do that. You know, our Lord Jesus Christ
chose twelve disciples. One of them was a devil. He was
left at eleven. He took Paul over to Damascus Road and took
twelve men and turned the world upside down with nothing but
His Word. And that's all Christians has
ever had, is Christ's Word, His Gospel. That's all we ever need. Do you remember that God's Word
calls doesn't depend upon us, but we depend on Him. Our God's
Word doesn't depend on our strength, but our strength depends upon
Him. God's work does depend upon our abilities, but any gifts
or abilities we have, we got them from Him. And He certainly
doesn't need our numbers. There was 32,000 men that gathered
around Gideon. Do you know how many God ended
up using? 300. He whittled them down from 32,000
to 300. Samson slew over 1,000 people. Philistines was the jawbone of
an ass. He had an old bone about that
long. Big old mule bone. And he whipped over a thousand
Philistines. And all that Dave had done here,
he showed that he neglected Christ and His sacrifice. And when he
numbered Israel, and remember here a couple of weeks ago, I
preached on the ransom money. When Israel was numbered, Every
male had to bring a half a shekel, remember that? And David, when
they numbered Israel, he never had any ransom money. He said,
bring your half a shekel. He didn't do that. He didn't
even look into the Word of God. And I'll tell you, beloved, and
let me show you quickly here, and I'm just about done. Here
we see substitution, here in chapter 21, in verse 17. David wants to take the blame
for this, because God gave David three choices. God gave David
three choices. He says, you know, you can have
three years of famine, three months to be destroyed before
your enemies, or else three days, or else even the patience of
the Lord and the angels destroying throughout your coast. Three
things to choose from. David said, let me fall into the hands
of the Lord. Let him do what he'll do. But David said here
in verse 17, and David said unto God, is it not I that commanded
the people to be numbered? Even it is I that hath sinned
and done evil indeed, but as for these sheep, what have they
done? Left on hand, I pray thee, O Lord my God, be on me. Charge me with this sin, and
on my father's house, but not on your people. And that's what
Christ did. So charge the sin on them, charge
it to me. That's what Christ did. He took
our sin upon Himself. And then look what he says in
verse 15, and he says in the middle of the verse, and he says,
The Lord said to the angel, It's enough. Stay now thy hand. And when God came to Christ and
He put our sin upon Him, our Lord Jesus Christ said, It's
enough. God said, It's enough. Stay now
thy hand. And then, beloved, when Look
at God's people, and I'll show you that here in a minute, but
all the people in chapter 29 and verse 9, and I'll close with
this. And God's people, I'll tell you
something about them. When David had finished his work,
he died. He died. David died. And when
our Lord Jesus Christ had finished His work, when He had brought
in that everlasting righteousness for His people, when He put away
that sin by the sacrifice of Himself, when He had magnified
the Lord and made it honorable, when He had done all that God
required Him to do, He said, It is finished. And when Jesus,
therefore, received the vinegar, He said, It is finished, and
He bowed His head and gave up the ghost. And all the people
worshiped God with a willing heart. Look what it says here
in verse 29 of chapter 29. Now the acts of David, the king,
first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Samuel
the seer, in the book of Nathan the prophet. And am I in the
right, am I in chapter 29? In verse 9, let me excuse me,
I'm in the right chapter on the wrong verse. Has that ever happened
before? Verse 9. Then the people," here's
what I'm talking about, how they rejoiced, "...then the people
rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because with perfect
heart they offered willingly to the Lord. And David the king
also rejoiced with great joy." And beloved, because of what
Christ did for us, we rejoice and worship God with a willing
heart. And oh, beloved, God, help us
to have that willing heart and worship God with a perfect heart,
to worship God with a heart made perfect by the blood and with
righteousness of our Lord Jesus Christ and worship Him alone.
And all the Acts of David, they're written. And all the Acts of
our David, they were just written in 1st and 2nd Samuel, but all
the Acts of our David is written in the whole book. It's written
in the volume of the book of me. I delight to do Thy will. Thy will, O Lord, I delight to
do. What a blessed Savior we have.