I'm going to use a text this
morning, but I will give you a reference to where the contents
of this can be found, and it's in the book of 2 Samuel. And if you'd like, you can read
through there this afternoon, or take your time and just read
through there a little bit during the week. But this will be the
basis of what I have to say, along with some other of the
Old Testament prophets. This morning I wanna look at
David as a type of Christ. Of all of the godly kings in
the Old Testament are types of Christ, being kings of Israel,
But there are two that just stand head and shoulders above all
the rest. David is one, and his son Solomon
is the other. And of these two, I believe David
is probably the greater or most complete type of the Lord Jesus
Christ. And there are just countless
ways in which David is a type of Christ and if we have time
at the end of the message I'll give you several just short references
to things. But this morning I want to just
kind of confine ourselves or limit ourselves to the time allotted. So how is David a type of Christ? Well, I believe, first of all,
by his close relativity to the Savior in the prophecies of the
Old Testament. Paul writes in Romans chapter
1, verse 3, of he who was promised before in the Holy Scriptures
concerning God's Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the
seed of David, according to the flesh. Now he said this because
the Old Testament is full of prophecies concerning the coming
Redeemer. You go through there and there's
just prophecy after prophecy after prophecy. To Him give all
the prophets witness to the Lord Jesus Christ. And the Old Testament is also
full of prophecies concerning the coming Redeemer that were
relevant to David and his father Jesse. You'd be surprised how
many times this is referred to in the Old Testament. In Isaiah
chapter 11 and verse 10, it said, in that day there shall be a
root of Jesse, which shall stand as an ensign of the people, and
to it shall the Gentiles seek, and his rest shall be glorious.
And that is quoted in the New Testament as a prophecy fulfilled
in Christ. And then in Revelations 5, you
remember our study in Revelation, we come to Revelation 5 and there
was a search in heaven for somebody worthy to take the book out of
his hand who sat on the throne. And this book had to do with
all of God's counsel, his eternal counsel and purpose of grace
before the foundation of the world. And none were worthy,
none were worthy except one. And he says, behold, the lion
of the tribe of Judah, now listen, the root of David, the root of
David, hath prevailed to open the book and to loose the seals
thereof. And then again in the final chapter
of Revelation, this is the revelation of Jesus Christ, our Lord identifies
himself as the root and offspring of David and the bright and morning
star. So you see the relevancy here
all through the Old Testament to David. And David was so close
in relativity to Christ that Christ is often called in the
scripture, David. Did you know that? Now that's
something I wasn't aware of, and I went back and I studied
and I looked at these scriptures. And I'm telling you, every one
of them calls him plainly David. Now I'm not gonna read these
for you, but if you've taken notes, you can jot these down
and read them for yourselves. In Ezekiel 34, verses 23 through
25. He calls him David. Now David
was long since dead before these prophecies were written in the
scriptures. And again in Jeremiah chapter
30 verses eight and nine, and then in Hosea chapter three and
verse five. And even David himself in the
Psalms refers to Christ calling him David. So David knew, didn't
he? He knew. And then in Luke chapter
one, verse 32, the angel said to Mary, he shall be great. This tiny one born in Bethlehem,
he shall be great and shall be called the son of the highest
and the Lord shall give unto him the throne of his father
David. and he'll reign over the house
of Jacob forever. And of his kingdom there should
be no end. So David is a type of Christ
in the close relativity of the prophecies of the Old Testament
concerning the Redeemer. And he figured him so closely
that he's used perhaps more than any other when it comes to the
prophetic writings of the old prophets concerning the coming
redeemer. And then secondly, David is a
type of Christ in that he was taken from obscurity and raised
to the office of sovereign. Now don't you think about that. God came to his prophet Samuel
and he said, go down to the house of Jesse. He said, and I'll tell
you who, but one of his sons, you're going to anoint, and he's
going to be the king. So the old prophet, he went down
there. He told Jesse, he said, God has
chosen one of your sons. And he said, well, let me get
him. And he got the oldest. And he
just knew, boy, this was all man. This was a man's man. And
he come up before the prophet. The prophet said, no, that's
not him. And so we got another one. The prophet said, that ain't
him. And he looked at all of them. The prophet said, that's not
him. He said, you don't have any more sons? Got one boy. Got one boy. He didn't even acknowledge
David as a man. I got one boy. And I bring him
up here. He said, that's the man. That's
him. David. Raised from obscurity. Oh, Israel wanted Saul. Large
in stature. Great in valor. Mighty man, a
fighter. That's who we want. We want our
king. And they chose him, and they got him, and they suffered
because of their choice. But all the while, David's going
to be king. God anointed him to be king.
And Saul despised him. He just despised him. There's
nothing royal about David. He just, every time David come
out, he embarrassed him. He embarrassed him when he went
out there and defeated Goliath. He embarrassed him over and over
and over. David had killed his 10,000.
Oh, don't you know that just went all over him when he'd hear
stuff like that. Turn with me to Acts chapter
two. Mary and Joseph were poor. They brought the sacrifice of
the poor. I don't know if you knew that
or not, but a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons, according
to the law, that was the law concerning the poor, and they
could bring this instead of a lamb. And yet God set him above all
men, giving him power over all things. And the same thing is
said of David. When it came time to anoint one
of Jesse's child, David wasn't even considered, yet God raised
up such a king and David that Israel become the chief of all
nations. And how much more Christ, who
is the son of David and the son of God. Now hear what Peter says
on the day of Pentecost, what he says to these Jews. He said,
God hath made this same Jesus whom you crucified, both Lord
and Christ. He's Lord of the dead and the
living, Lord over Satan and his demon spirits, and he is, Paul
said in Colossians 2.10, the head of all principality and
power. Now look here in Acts chapter
two, verse 29. Men and brethren, let me freely
speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and
buried, and his grave is with us unto this day. Therefore,
being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath
to him that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh,
he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne. And he seeing
this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was
not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption. This
Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we are all witnesses. Therefore
being by the right hand of God exalted and having received of
the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, He has shed forth
this which ye now see and hear. For David is not ascended into
the heavens, but he saith himself, the Lord said unto my Lord, sit
thou on my right hand, until I make thy foes thy footstool.
Therefore, let all the house of Israel know assuredly that
God hath made that same Jesus whom you despised, whom you crucified,
both Lord and Christ. God chose David and anointed
him to be king and arranged his providence to see that he was. Even so, it was with the Son
of God. He said, I put my king upon my
holy hill in Zion. And men will despise it. They'll
swear they're going to break that yoke. He said, I'll laugh. God hath made him both Lord and
Christ. And then thirdly, David is a
type of Christ in his character. In his character. Now I do not
in any sense of the word mean that David had a perfect character
or was sinless in his life. Don't go tell somebody I said
that because I didn't say that. But God said of David, he's a
man after my own heart. He said it more than once. David
is a man after my own heart. David lived his life as a just
man, a merciful man, a forgiving man, and tried to pattern his
life after the God he loved. If you look at the tenor of his
life, not his lows and not his highs, but the tenor of his life,
he patterned his life after the God that he loved. But more than that, David was
a man of faith. He was a man of faith. He believed
in the coming Messiah. He understood who was coming. He understood why he was coming. He understood what he must do
when he did come. And even of his resurrection
and ascension into glory. Now as the character of the God
he loved appeared in the tenor of his life, even more the character
of God was manifested in the life of Jesus Christ. He alone could say he thought
it not robbery to be equal with God. Where is the man who could
say that to God? Christ did. He thought it not
robbery to be equal with God. Of him alone, the Holy Ghost
said, in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. Of him alone, it could be said,
thou hast loved righteousness and hated iniquity. Therefore
God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness
above thy feathers. Jesus Christ had no sin. He thought no sin and he did
no sin. He was a perfectly righteous
man. In fact, Jesus Christ is said
to be the image of the invisible God. Colossians 115. And then in Hebrews 1 verse 3,
he said to be the brightness of the Father's glory and the
express image of his person. And even further, he's so perfect
in his character, in the character of God, that the scripture said,
to see him is to see God. If you've seen me, you've seen
the Father. That's what our Lord said to
his disciples. In John 14, verse 9, our Lord
said to Philip, he that hath seen me hath seen the Father.
And John said, and we know that the Son of God is come, and given
to us an understanding that we may know him that's true, that
we're in him that's true, even in his son Jesus Christ, and
this is the true God and eternal life. So David is a type of Christ
in his character. And then fourthly, David is a
type of Christ in his marriage to Bathsheba. Huh? Think about it. Think about it. David loved a woman whose first
husband must die. Now listen to me. Her first husband must die for
him to legally marry her and maintain the integrity of his
name. He had to die. He couldn't just
take her and live with her and let You know, it won't work. Uriah has to die. He has to die. Now, I'm not suggesting that
David was justified in his taking of Bathsheba from Uriah, or for
having ordered his trusted captains to leave him to be killed in
the front of the battle. I'm not suggesting that David
did this as an act of faith. I'm simply saying this is a beautiful
type of the Lord Jesus Christ. And God often does this. He overrules things in our lives
that of themselves are wicked. But he turns them around and
he orders them and he makes them to work together for our good
and his glory. Listen to these verses over here
in Romans chapter 7. Romans 7 verse 2. For the woman
which hath a husband is bound by the law to her husband so
long as he liveth. But if the husband be dead, she's
loose from the law. She's loose from the law of her
husband, so then if while her husband liveth she be married
to another man, she should be called an adulteress. But if
her husband be dead, she's free from that law, so that she is
no adulteress, though she be married to another man. Wherefore,
my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of
Christ, that you should be married to another, even to him who is
raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto
God. And I have not had time to study
this into its details, but I was just thinking this morning and
contemplating what I'm saying to you right now, is this is
a type of Christ. And I was looking at, Uriah was a faithful servant
of David. He wanted to go back out into
battle, and David tried to work things out when he knew she was
pregnant, and tried to get him back in, let him go down and
sleep with his wife so he'd have some excuse. He wouldn't do it.
He slept right on the king's porch. He said, I'm not going
to go home and lie with my wife while all my friends and those
that I love are out there dying in battle. And so David, he had to kill
him. He had to kill him. Well, there's
no compromise in the law. The only way you can be free
from the law, you have to be dead. The law has to exercise
its authority. The law has to be satisfied.
Justice has to be satisfied. And that took place in the Lord
Jesus Christ. And then I thought about this.
Who killed Uriah? Who killed him? His own brethren. Those he trusted. He went out
there in a battle, believe me, These were with Him. Who forsook the Lord? Huh? Those who pretended to be with
Him, like Judas, betrayed Him with kids. But His death is imminent. Jesus Christ, by way of covenant
union with us, is put to death by the law. And when he died,
we died. Know ye not that so many of us,
as we're baptized into Jesus Christ, we're baptized into his
death? Buried with him in baptism into
his death. And it is only by his death that
we're free to marry the Lord Jesus Christ. And the Lord Jesus Christ is
our date. So David is a type of Christ
in his marriage to a fallen woman, and Uriah must die for David
to have his wife and maintain the integrity of his throne. Now God didn't let him get away
with it. He suffered for it. He suffered for it. But even
so, with Christ, we're justified freely by his grace through the
redemption that's in Christ Jesus. whom God has set forth to be
the propitiation through faith in his blood. And it is by the
death of our Lord that we're freed from the law to marry him. And then, fourthly, David was
anointed to be king in the 30th year of his life. Now I'm just
gonna mention these briefly. David was about 30 years old
when he was anointed to be the king of Israel. And the Lord
Jesus Christ, the same thing can be said. He was baptized
and anointed by the Holy Ghost at about 30 years of age. And then also David in his battles
for the kingdom. Who made up his armies? Who was
behind him in these armies that David led? Huh? They were the poor, poor men
that followed him. Not men of renown, not rich men,
but poor men. And you think about that in the
kingdom of God, God's armies. And he does that on purpose so
that he gets all the glory. And then, sixly, David was a
prophet. And in that, he typifies the
Lord Jesus Christ. In Acts chapter two, verse 30,
it says him being a prophet. There can be no doubt about it.
David wrote scripture as he was moved by the Holy Ghost so that
his words were by divine inspiration and therefore infallible. But
Christ himself was perfect in his understanding and his words
are to be received as the word of God. You know, when he told
the disciples, he said, you go into all the world and preach
the gospel. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved.
He that believeth not shall be damned. There he talks about
believing the gospel. In John chapter three, verse
36, it says, he that believeth the Son hath eternal life. He that believeth not the Son
shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him. So the gospel is concerning the
person of Jesus Christ. And if you go back there to John
chapter 3, John the Baptist is saying these things. He said,
he that cometh from above is above all. That stands to reason,
doesn't it? Well, you know about heaven.
I don't know anything about heaven. But he came down from heaven.
Isn't that what he said? I came down from heaven. Not
to do my own will, but the will of him that sent me. I don't
know anything at all about heaven, but he does. He that cometh from
above is above all. He that is of the earth is earthy,
speaketh of the earth. He that cometh from heaven is
above all. And what he hath seen and heard,
that he testifies. And no man receiveth his testimony.
And he that hath received his testimony hath sent to his seal
that God is true. Did you know that the Word is
the name, that Christ's eternal name is the Word? In the beginning
was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He's the Word. Why would they
give him that name? Because all communication from
God to men comes through him. Everything you're ever gonna
know about God, you're gonna know through the Lord Jesus Christ. And therefore, his eternal name
is the Word.