Okay, if you'd like to follow
along, I'm gonna be in 1 Chronicles 29. Now 1 Chronicles is right before 2
Chronicles. If that helps. It's near the front of the Bible.
1 Chronicles 29. And I want to begin reading in
verse 20. This is, before we start, this
is the occasion of Solomon being made king, being declared to
be king by David, still living at this time. And David said
to all the congregation, now, bless the Lord your God And all
the congregation blessed the Lord God of the fathers and bowed
down their head and worshiped the Lord and the king. And they
sacrificed sacrifices unto the Lord and offered burnt offerings
unto the Lord. On the morrow after that day,
even a thousand bullocks, a thousand rams, and a thousand lambs with
their drink offerings and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel,
and did eat and drink before the Lord on that day with great
gladness. And they made Solomon the son
of David king the second time, and anointed him unto the Lord
to be the chief governor and Zadok to be priest. Then Solomon
sat on the throne of the Lord as king instead of David his
father and prospered. And all Israel obeyed him. And all the princes and the mighty
men and all the sons likewise of King David submitted themselves
unto Solomon the king. And the Lord magnified Solomon
exceedingly in the sight of all Israel and bestowed upon him
such royal majesty as had not been on any king before him in
Israel. And I'm gonna stop right there. Okay. Biblical lesson number one for
the day. Just the very fact that there
are shadows. That actually means that there
has to be light somewhere. Okay? Because there is no shadow
without the light shining. It doesn't happen. Just as there
can be no type. without the reality that it typifies. I've entitled this sermon Solomon,
the Son of David. The Son of David. Now, you might
think by my entitling this sermon that, that I'm gonna tell you
about Solomon being a type of Christ. And you'd be exactly
right, because he is. Walter had pointed this out quite
well in the Song of Solomon, where you're talking about the
king and his lover. His love. And Solomon and the
what, Shunammite? In both of those you see Christ's
love for the church. And you see, and this is, I like,
the church's love for Christ. That's what a lot of people leave
out. You know, they all say, oh, Jesus is love, and Jesus
loves you. No, no, no, that's true, but that's not all, because
he has given us a love for him, him as he really is, our good
shepherd. Where does he resort with his
sheep? Well, you answered the question
when you asked it. He's with his sheep. He's with his sheep,
you understand? The shepherd likes to be with
his sheep, and the sheep like to be with the shepherd. What'd
it say? To his voice they'll listen,
and a stranger they won't follow. I like that, I do. But here, we see Solomon, and
I'm gonna basically be speaking about verse 25. I'm sorry, not
verse 25. Verse 22, there it is. Because
of two statements in this verse that just hit me really, really
hard. We'll get to it here in a minute, but I do want to mention
this, that they did eat and drink before the Lord on that day with
great gladness. That's verse 22. Eating and drinking before the
Lord is a great gladness. For who? For the congregation. That's who David was addressing
here. This is the congregation of Israel, and he's talking about
the king of Israel, his son Solomon. You understand, the world does
a lot of eating and drinking and being merry, but there is
a preciousness to the gathering of the saints
together to eat and drink before the Lord, to fellowship one with
another. And it's a family we have that
we don't share. And it's not because we can't,
we won't share it, it's because we can't. Because in the fellowship,
both fellows have to be in the same ship. That's just the way
it is. Both fellows have to be in the
same ship. If they won't hear of the Christ we preach, I can't
fellowship with them. I can talk with them, I can work
with them. I might have to live with them.
But I can't fellowship with them. Because there is no common, not
ground, common Lord. There's no common Lord. But I
like this, and they did eat and drink before the Lord on that
day with great gladness. Because the congregation of Israel
was here, gathered together at the words of the King David.
At the command of King David, what? To rejoice and praise the
Lord for the King that he has given them. That's what we do every Sunday,
folks. We gather together to ask the
Lord's blessing and to receive the Lord's blessing because he
has blessed us in heavenly places, in all things, what? In Christ
Jesus. Before the Lord, even without
the eating and drinking, before the Lord is a great gladness. Gathering together before the
Lord is a time of great gladness. or it's not. Now the problem
doesn't lie with gathering before the Lord. The problem doesn't
lie with the great gladness. If it doesn't, the problem is
you. This is all we got. But then
they made this statement. He wrote this statement, and
they made Solomon the son of David king the second time. Now the first thing I wanna look
at is Solomon, the son of David. The son of David. Now I wanna
state clearly here also, David the king is a type of Christ. And here also we're gonna see
Solomon here is a type of Christ. Isn't that strange? Some people
think it's weird that there are multiple types of Christ in the
same era, at the same time. I was looking at things, and
I'm not gonna go into it, but some of that stuff that some
commentators write is crazy, let's just put it that way. But
I do wanna point this out, that both David and Solomon, father
and son, are both types of Jesus Christ, our Lord. Because I can tell you this,
this is biblical lesson number two, I thought of this yesterday.
It is impossible for a man, one man, and by that, any man, to
be a complete picture or type of our Lord Jesus Christ. It
can't be done. It can't be done. And multiple
types will be found all throughout the scriptures existing side
by side. Well, just a couple examples. Moses was a type of Christ in
that he was the deliverer of Egypt. His brother was right
there with him, Aaron, was a type of Christ as the high priest. Sitting side by side at the same
time. You have two types of Christ
in two different men. Now you look at Moses later and
Joshua. You have Moses then sort of representing
the law as a type and you have Joshua representing as a type
of Jesus Christ as the savior that pulled him across the Jordan
where Moses couldn't go. And here with David and Solomon,
you have David. Before he was king, he was the
slayer of Goliath. He was, after he became king,
the warrior king who defeated God's enemies. And you have Solomon. What is
Solomon mostly known for by the world? Wisdom. Solomon the Wise, you know that,
threatened to cut a baby in half, and then give the two halves
to the women, and the one woman said, no, no, let her have it.
It's a true story. But Solomon was given wisdom
by our Lord. He prayed for wisdom, and he
said, you did wisely. And if you look at Proverbs chapter
eight, you'll see wisdom spoken of in great detail. And you will also see that wisdom
is a type of Christ. In Proverbs eight, I'm not gonna
go into it. But Solomon was the wisest king
that Israel ever had. It comes up, Solomon was the
most powerful king that Israel ever had, and Solomon was the
richest king that Israel ever had. So both David and Solomon are
both types of Christ, because Jesus Christ is described in
the New Testament as what? The power of God, Christ, the
power of God, and Christ, the wisdom of God. And he has more riches than this
world has ever seen. There's one other type of the
Old Testament where there's two in one, I wanna point out, just
because I like it. You know, on the Day of Atonement,
there were two scapegoats. Both those goats are types of
Christ. Both are sacrifices. One was killed, its blood was
shed, and it was sprinkled on the mercy seat. That's one goat. The other goat is the scapegoat.
The priest laid his hand on it, transferring symbolically the
sins of the children of Israel all the children of Israel and
all their sins to the head of that goat and that goat was taken
away. What did John say? Behold the
Lamb of God which taketh away the sins of the world. The blood's
gotta be shed and the scapegoat's gotta go. The sins are gone. And both are
a type of Christ. At the same time, at the same
day, and it's done by a high priest
who's also a picture of Christ. But how in particular is Solomon
a type of Jesus Christ? Well right here in this verse
it says, they made Solomon the son of David. David says it himself
here earlier. God gave me many sons, but here,
In Chronicles, 1 Chronicles 29 verse 22, we have the title,
They Made Solomon the Son of David King. God put a difference between
Solomon and his brothers. Absalom's gone. Absalom had already
rebelled against David. And Anijah was still there. And
we're gonna get to him in a little bit. That was Absalom's younger
brother, but he was still older than Solomon. He's a half-brother. But if we look at, just for a
second, look at Matthew chapter one and verse one. The book of the generation of
Jesus Christ. What's that next phrase? the
son of David, comma, the son of Abraham. Our Lord Jesus Christ
was called the son of David. You know why? Because our Lord
Jesus Christ was the son of David. He was the son of Abraham. He, Jesus Christ, is Abraham's
seed. and he is the son of David, when
David said, the Lord said unto my Lord, sit thou on my right
hand. They call him the son of David,
and he is the son of David, but he is also David's Lord. Matthew 9 and 27 and Matthew
20 and 30, I'm not gonna go there, You'll find it when a couple of blind
men cry out. It's also in Mark. And what do
they say? They say, Jesus, thou son of
David, have mercy on me. Solomon, the son of David, is
a type of Christ. He is the chosen one, the one
chosen, it says chosen by the Lord. to be king over Israel. And Jesus Christ, the righteous,
is the one chosen, the elect, precious, chosen from before
the foundation of the world as king before, and king over all,
and king now, and king forever. Of all the people of God, all
the world, actually, Solomon became the wisest and
most powerful king of Israel. And those that are called know
Jesus Christ, the power of God and the wisdom of God. But here was the thing that really
kind of caught my eye. They made Solomon king, and it
says it the second time. the second time. David has declared Solomon to
be king twice. You'll find this in first Kings
chapter one. And it starts off with David
old and stricken in years. And then in verse five, this
is Solomon's older brother by a different mother. Then Adonijah,
the son of Haggath, exalted himself saying, I will be king. And he prepared him chariots
and horsemen and 50 men to run before him. Adonijah Solomon's brother, a
son of David, a true son of David, said, I will be king. But you
notice how the writer wrote it. Adonijah, the son of Haggath,
what? Exalted himself. We have been surrounded by people
who exalt themselves for all of our lives. And verse nine says, and Adonijah
slew sheep, and oxen, and fat cattle by the stone of Zoheleth,
which is by Enrogel, and called all his brethren the king's sons,
and all the men of Judah the king's servants. But Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah,
and the mighty men, and Solomon his brother, He called not. You understand, Jesus Christ told us to watch
out sometime when there'll be coming people to you and say,
lo, here is Christ, lo, there is Christ. He said watch out
because it's not so. There are people who will exalt
themselves as king. And if you want to, you can apply
this to an individual in the fact that the parable that Christ told
when they said, we will not have this man to reign over us. You know what they're doing?
they're exalting themselves as king right there. When people emphasize and preach
and believe and teach the free will of man, you are emphasizing
someone to exalt themselves over the word of God. You're saying you've got the
final decision. And I'm gonna tell you something,
Here in, wait a minute. Verse 13 of 1 Kings 1. Go and get thee unto King David
and say, oh no, I'm sorry, that's where Nathan tells her to go.
I'm at the wrong place. There. Verse 33. The king also said unto them,
take with you the servants of your Lord and cause Solomon my
son to ride upon mine own mule and bring him down to Jehon and
let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him their
king over Israel and blow ye with a trumpet and say, God save
King Solomon. Then ye shall come up after him
that he may come and sit upon my throne, for he shall be king
in my stead, and I have appointed him to be ruler over Israel and
over Judah. Lots of people can say lots of
things about lots of other things. But here's the truth. The king
says who sits upon his throne. The king says, who rules and
who reigns. Adonijah said one thing, David
said something else. Guess who won? The Lord wins,
always, always. And here's the thing, that was
the little one. Here in First Chronicles 29,
this was the big feast, the big announcement, and this was the
second time. This was the second time that Solomon was declared
to be king, the second time. And it hit me, our Lord Jesus
Christ was king while he was here on this earth. Now, not
that many people knew it. the first time, just those to
whom he revealed himself to. But he's coming a second time.
Now you understand, he's not gonna be made king the way we
think of. But there's gonna be a public
declaration of exactly who is the king of kings and the lord
of lords, but the second time. His second coming is not gonna
be like his first. Now the first coming was glorious,
but the second coming's gonna be even more glorious. And it's
gonna be what? More public. What did they do? They sacrificed sacrifices unto
the Lord and offered burnt offerings unto the Lord. On the morrow
after that day, even a thousand bullocks, a thousand rams, a
thousand lambs with their drink offerings and sacrifices in abundance
for all Israel. There's no way anyone could have
ignored that was there that this was going on. They offered 1,000 bullocks.
How long does that take? How many priests are there? I
don't know. And guess what? It doesn't matter. They did it. It was public and
it was open. It was before all of the congregation
of Israel. and our Lord's second coming
is gonna be before. What all the world. David declared that Solomon was
king in first Kings one. And you know what? He was king
all the way up to here and beyond. Adonijah could say whatever he
wanted to, and his followers could declare Adonijah the king.
But man's sayings never changed God's purpose. Because Solomon was king. And
God was fulfilling his word while Adonijah lied on God. Solomon was king when nobody
knew. when no man knew, because Solomon
was king when God knew. And Jesus Christ was king in
his first incarnation, and he's coming again. And he will be
declared, coming with it written on his vesture and on his thigh,
with the name King of Kings and Lord of Lords. He's coming again. and it's not
gonna be like the first. Then Solomon, verse 23, sat on
the throne of the Lord as king instead of David his father and
prospered, and prospered. And all Israel obeyed him. Where does a king sit? He sits
on a throne. He sits on a throne. Solomon
sat on the throne, the emblem of the king's authority. It's
the king's seat. Nobody else gets to sit there. And what happens to a king whom
the Lord has chosen? He prospers. He prospers. So you understand, some people
thought They put the Lord Jesus Christ to death. They put above
him on that cross. He said he was the king of the
Jews. No, they just put the king of the Jews. The Jews wanted
him to say, he said he was the king of the Jews. But he didn't. It said on there, king of the
Jews. That was a true saying. And it was just as true before
he died as it was after he died. And it's just as true when he
was resurrected, and just as true when he ascended, and it's
gonna be just as true when he comes again. Our Lord was put
to death as king for our sins, which he carried, which he bore
in his own body. What? On the tree. You understand? The king was sacrificed for his
people. And you know what happened? The
pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. See, they think
that was a defeat. It wasn't, it was the greatest
victory the world never saw. Because the world has never seen
it. The world doesn't understand
it. And they won't understand it.
Only his people will understand what it say and all the princes
and the mighty men and all the sons likewise of King David What
is that? submitted themselves under Solomon
the King Hmm All the princes and mighty men
of Israel and the sons of David submitted to the king. And I'm gonna tell you this.
You will submit to the king now, or you will submit to this king
later. Because our Lord has given him
a name which is above every name. That at the name of, and this
is, what is it? The name of Jesus. His earthly name. His human name,
every knee's gonna bow and every tongue's gonna confess that he
is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. That's gonna happen
just as sure as I'm standing here. But here, all the princes and
the mighty men and the sons of King David, they submitted themselves
to the king. You understand, there is a people,
there is a people of God whom he is calling out, who he is
assembling together, and they right now have submitted themselves
to the king of glory. Because if you won't, you cannot,
well you can, but I'm gonna say, You cannot claim to be a child
of God if you won't bow to God. Now, I know people can lie and
do it all the time, but you cannot truthfully be a child of God
if you haven't bowed to the king. You understand? We call upon
the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. I know there are millions of
people out there who are believing Jesus, but they don't know the
Lord Jesus. They're bowing, but it's a half
bow and it's a mocking bow because they haven't submitted themselves
to the Lord of glory. They think they had something
to do with their salvation. No. No. Salvation is of the Lord. Salvation is of this king, Jesus
Christ the righteous. What's it say? Kiss the son. Kiss the son, lest he be angry. What happens when he's angry?
You'll perish. You'll perish. Some preachers
don't wanna talk like that. But you understand, see, we've
got David and we've got Solomon. You understand? David was the
slayer of Goliath. David was the warrior who destroyed
the enemies of Israel. That's Christ. You understand? Our Lord Our
God, our Savior, Jesus Christ, kills and makes alive. Now, you can take that physically
and you can take that spiritually because they're both true. A lot of people don't want to talk
about God killing people. See, that's the main difference
people talk about is between the Old Testament and the New
Testament. God was mean in the Old Testament and Jesus is nice.
It's the same guy. It's the same Lord. There's only
one Lord. Verse 25. And the Lord magnified Solomon
exceedingly in all the sight of Israel. Very quickly, Solomon's
fame was legendary. Whether the Queen of Sheba came
to see him and said what? I didn't believe what I heard.
And then I got there and the half wasn't ever told to me.
It was more than I could ever understand. And she was right. Solomon was given wisdom and
power and riches beyond belief. Our Lord Jesus Christ has all
power. He is all power. He has all wisdom
and he has riches beyond even our wildest imaginations. But listen very closely, it says
this, the Lord magnified Solomon exceedingly in the sight of all
Israel. Understand this, Jesus Christ,
our Lord, is exceedingly magnified in the eyes and the minds of
believers. And I'll tell you this, believers
alone, the world doesn't care in the least bit. The world doesn't
recognize him as king, doesn't believe he is king, and doesn't
care that he's king. But we do. We do. Believers do. He is exceedingly
magnified in our sight. You understand? It just boggles
my mind to think that I know Christ, the Lord of glory. And by knowing Him, I know the
Father. And it's nothing in me. It's
His Spirit, the Holy Spirit, within me. I went 20 some years
without knowing anything. and I've been spending the next
30 catching up with what I didn't know. And bestowed upon him such royal
majesty as has not been on any king before him in Israel. You
know, David was not allowed to build a house of God. He wanted to, but he wasn't allowed
to. And God told him, He said, thou shalt not build
a house for my name because thou hast been a man of war and has
shed blood. But Solomon would. And Solomon
did. Why? Solomon's the type of Christ,
the wise and the powerful and the rich. And exceedingly magnified
in the sight of the people of Israel. given royal majesty. I looked that up, you know what
that is? That's kingly glory. And he built the house of God. And guess what we are right now?
We're the house of God. And you know how we're built?
The king of glory has built this house of God. And he's continuing
to build it. until the fullness is come in,
and all Israel shall be saved. Heavenly Father, we're thankful
again for this time, this place, most of all for you, our son. Your son, our Lord, gave himself for us, bought us,
redeemed us, given us life, given us faith, We believe him, our Lord Jesus Christ. Be with
Walter as he comes to preach your word and help us, Lord,
to rejoice in you and all you've done and do. In Christ's name
we pray, amen.