If you turn in your Bibles to
1 Samuel 21, if you will, and you can follow me in your commentary,
1 Samuel 21, as we continue our journey through the life of King
David. Show me a token for good of the
words of King David in a particular psalm It really does have to
do with his struggles and his challenges in his life. And we'll
touch on that a little bit towards our last point, but I would encourage
you to capture that request. Actually memorize that verse.
There's a day when you're gonna need God to show you a token. You're gonna need him to let
you know he's with you. because there's going to be nothing
in your circumstances to affirm that God is with you or anyone
else. And you're going to need God
to come through in the midst of those difficult times and
show you what only God can show you to let you know everything
is all right. Today we are looking at David's
second departure from the kingdom and from King Saul and from his
adversaries. And we saw last week that in
his desperation, in his desperation, he went to the house of God and
some things transpired that were very challenging to us. We began
to understand their redemptive implications, I trust. But now
we have moved not only from his desperation now, but I call this
a diversion that is a consequence of this desperation. Sometimes
we find ourselves in situations where normalcy is not the order
of the day. Sometimes situations occur in
our life where the only thing we can do is be crazy. The only thing available It's
crazy. There's nothing else available.
This is, this is the mold of dust. Some of y'all don't know
what I'm talking about. So just, you got to stick this
card in your back pocket for now. This is a gift card. It's
a gift card. You know what a gift card is,
right? It has potential blessings in it, but you haven't unpacked
it yet. You know that when it's time
to use it, it's going to come through. This is a gift card
for you who have not done crazy yet. Okay, so a lot of what I'm
about to talk about is not going to be experientially relevant.
It might even be somewhat threatening. It's certainly gonna challenge
your philosophy and theology, but just hold on. God might just
bless you with one crazy day and you'll have this revelation.
Now, if you've never been forced to do crazy, then thank God. If God has kept you all your
life in that sane, stable, tranquil place of normalcy and rationale,
reasonability and coherence, thank him. Just thank him. He was good to you. He was good
to you. He didn't press you beyond measure. He didn't cause you to have to
momentarily lose your dignity, depart from your civility, and
temporarily set aside your Christ-like character because you were in
survival mode. Some have experienced what I'm
talking about. where you have had to set aside
what is your normal modus operandi because there was no other route
to go out but through the door of crazy. And it makes you quite
uncomfortable and unappealing to folks. But you have to remember,
you are now in flight mode. You're in flight mode. You are
departing from a harrowing, dangerous situation for your life, for
your spiritual life, for your emotional and psychological life,
for the totality of your whole well-being. I don't know if you
have ever experienced an animal seeking to live, afraid for his
life, how crazy that animal will get. just to survive. Now I'm building this foundation
in order to come to the defense of my brother David. I'm not
really building this to tickle your ears. You can have it if
you want to, but I'm simply going to seek to defend God's servant
in this mode of behavior that is irrational and illogical. And if you were to fall prey
to the assumption once again, that you have full light on the
matter, you may once again judge David as being so fearful that
he is now almost on the brink of apostasy because he's not
trusting God. But you would be wrong again. You would be wrong again. Remember what I said to you last
week? things don't always appear to be what they really are. Do
you guys remember that? Did you get the lesson that your
job is not to judge things too quickly? That as much light as
God may give you, you may not have the total light and you
must wait on God to give you the total light or reserve judgment. Now, if you never had five minutes
five hours or five days of crazy suspend your judgment because
you will not get what's going on see there are things that
happen in people's lives that we just call crazy Crazy. You've heard me use that word
before almost euphemistically and my brothers have heard me
use it quite frequently in my exposition of the scriptures.
I'll come across some passages in the word of God and God will
illuminate them to me and my soul will just go crazy. And
that's because what I'm saying is everything just now disintegrated
within my sense of reason because I was blown away by the revelation. It just dismantled all of my
civility for a moment. And I'm now vulnerable to the
dynamic of that revelation. Crazy has been defined, if you
were to look it up, as mentally deranged. Now, for those of you
who went to public school, the word deranged means off the ranch,
okay? He's off the ranch, out of bounds. Somebody left the gate open.
He's roaming free. He's free ranging. You follow? When we are in crazy mode, we
are free-ranging, we are out of bounds. It's a very dangerous
place to be. Okay, so then they give other
kind of psychological terms like being demented and unhinged. I like unhinged, don't you? Detached
from reality a little bit. So follow the logic. So the idea
is that crazy is that place where you are disconnected from restraints
necessary for what is normally your good. But here's another
definition that they rendered. I thought that this was quite
significant. They have defined crazy as extremely
enthusiastic. You'll get that in a moment.
Crazy is extremely enthusiastic. Now, I think there's some truth
to that, don't you? That when you and I are over
the top in our joy, people can view us as a little bit crazed. Crazed. Or when we are driven
by great levels of adrenaline because we are in flight mode,
we can be crazed. Ladies, some days you wake up
with bad hairdo days, where your hair just doesn't, it doesn't
obey, right? And I'm using a metaphor. You
understand what I'm saying? And you're trying to put it all,
and it doesn't. And every attempt you put at trying to make yourself
look decent, it really unravels everything on the inside of you.
And for several hours, if not for a whole day, you are a bit
crazy. Right? You just are unhinged. You can't wait till this thing
settles down. So this is kind of how David
is. And I'm going to argue for David
being in a state of flight mode for the glory of God. for the
glory of God. I would quickly have you to understand
that David is in the will of God. David is on the road to
the throne. David isn't missing a beat in
terms of what God is accomplishing in David's life, simultaneous
to bearing record to everyone that's watching that David is
God's man. Now, as you and I know that David
is a great type of whom? Jesus Christ therefore we can
constantly refer to New Testament events as parallels to these
Old Testament events when you know how to properly interpret
scripture as Irrational as it is for David to go down to Philistine
country where his enemies are so it was for the Spirit of God
to drive Mary and Joseph down to Egypt and Egypt is a great
anti-type of the Church of the Living God, is it not? And yet
Jesus had to go down there for a couple of years because of
the same pursuant enemy against his soul, and that is the King
of Israel. See the parallels? Now, why did
Mary and Joseph go down to Egypt with Jesus? Was it because they
didn't trust the Lord? Was it because that they were
so fearful that they couldn't simply abide with God, that they
had to do something irrational? I submit to you that the same
reason for which David is going down to the Philistine country,
Achish, is the same reason that the Spirit of God drove Jesus
to Egypt. And that's because God has an
elect in Egypt just as he does among the Philistines, who must
bear record to the Son of God before he goes back home. See,
Jesus is the one mediator between God and man, between God and
all mankind. Are you guys following the logic?
So here, our brother David is compelled to go down into the
land of the Philistines. And I want to call your attention
quickly to points one through five. Our first point is a moment
of reasonable what? I know that's oxymoronic, but
accept it for a moment. A moment of reasonable insanity. Now, five basic things that I
want to say about that. Is there a place in our thinking,
in our reasoning, in our category of vocabulary where we can put
two words that seem so at odds? Reasonable insanity. Is there
a place where we can fit that? And I suggest to you that there
is. When your options are life or death, then reasonable insanity
becomes a legitimate alter option. See, you got to remember, King
Saul is seeking to kill David. David knows that King Saul is
mad. King Saul doesn't care about
his son, Jonathan. He doesn't care about his daughter,
Michael, or Mirab. He doesn't even care about his
own servants. David has learned something about
this madman. This madman has just went into
the city of the priest, killed 85 priests, and then tore up
the whole city, killing men, women, and what? Is that not
Herod of Matthew chapter 2 and 3 when Israel was troubled and
all Israel went Herod because he had discovered that there
was another king in the land? Do you see the parallels? And
David fully understands that Saul is in hot pursuit of him.
Now I want you to put your feet back in the shoes, sympathize
with him. You got a government coming after you. They're using
all of the tactics, all of the surveillance, all of their apparatus
to get you. All of the tactics, all of the
surveillance, all of the apparatus. They put a hit out on you. They
put a contract out. They have now just scorned and
they have maligned your name. They are telling everybody that
you are a fugitive because you are seeking to assassinate the
king. Are you guys hearing me? And
you have no way to defend yourself. And everyone now wants a piece
of the pie. And you're gonna see that as
we continue. Cities are going to join Saul in hunting down
David. Do you feel his pain now? Do
you feel his pain? And the only place he could go
because the surveillance work of King Saul was to this one
city. This was the only outlet for
David. Saul had surrounded all the other encompassing cities
to hunt David down. Once David had heard that Doag
had heard that he was in the city of refuge among the priests,
there's hardly nowhere else you can hide. So he had to go down
there. I remember what Luther said.
Martin Luther said this when he finally nailed the 95 theses
on Wittenberg's door, by which you and I have once again received
the inheritance of the word of God in total and the doctrine
of justification by faith apart from words so that we can actually
be saved by the grace of God. For Luther to have done that,
reaped the ire of the whole of the Catholic church. And every
cloak wearing priest who had a dagger under his garment was
looking for Luther to kill him. And over the years where Luther
was debating with the Catholic church and the papacy over the
heresy and false doctrine of religion by works, he finally
said to his brother, and when they said, Luther, what are you
going to do? They're coming after you, man. What are you going
to do? Luther said, listen, the papacy owns the whole world. He's got minions everywhere. There is no place for a man to
safely hide from the Antichrist, but in Christ, but in Christ. See, Luther knew what it was
like to be God's man as well. This is where David is. This
is where David is. David is going to a place that
he's being driven by the providence of God to go, and he's going
to learn some things while he is there. And so in verse 13,
we read these words. I want to start back up at verse
11. And the servants of Achish said unto him, that is the king,
is not this David the king of the land? Did they not sing one
to another of hymn and dances saying, Saul has slain his thousands
and David, His 10,000th? See, David heard that, right?
Let's get the picture contextual. Let's do a little geographical
mental imaging. David is at the gate. He's at
the gate, and he wants in. David is hoping for this city
of the Philistines to be another what? City of refuge. He's already done three mediators,
hasn't he? Actually four. His wife, Jonathan,
right? Samuel, the priest. Now he's
seeking another refuge. And that's what we do when we
are in trouble. We seek a refuge. He wants to
get in. He wants to get in. But he's
hearing now the comments of the people of the land actually talking
about who this David is. And what David hears causes him
great alarm, because David is connecting the dots and saying,
wait a minute, if their view of me is this, I'm in trouble. Isn't that right? If their view
of me is, here he is, he's the big dog that took out our head,
honcho, and the Lord has put him in our hands, David knows
he's dead. David is between a rock and a what? Doesn't God often
put his people there? Israel was between Pharaoh and
the Red Sea. All they could do is do what
Moses was told by God to do, be still and behold the salvation
of the Lord. Now, when God shows up and you
be still, things may look crazy on the outside. But let me share
with you quickly, just in case you fall asleep. This is going
to be a successful exit strategy for David. What you and I are
about to read is another day to live. David will go somewhere
and write another Psalm. And you know what he will say?
The Lord delivered me yet again. Even though it was in the midst
of what? Crazy. A momentary, reasonable insanity. Underscoring five quick points. Extreme cases require what? Extreme measures. Did you get
that? That's a survival mode tactic. Extreme cases require
extreme measures. Point two, the crazy day when
all you can do is what? Where? That's good. You'll work with that one day.
Crazy in the Lord. References Psalm 34 verses 15
through 19. I want you to read it in your
own time See what's crazy to me as I'm I'm studying this.
I'm not only seeing the natural and reasonable Exigency of David's
struggle. I'm seeing the redemptive realities
of Christ when he was here But I'm also seeing how David as
a true believer is able to worship God in the midst of his troubles
Isn't that crazy? you're in the midst of your troubles,
but you still have time to pause and pray and You have time to
pause and write. David was our neo-hip-hop writer,
our songwriter, where the midst of your troubles caused you to
sit in your car before you go in your house, because the Lord
then gave you some lines. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
David said, let me write this down, because the Lord has just
revealed his glory to me. And it's amazing when that for
us who are preachers, that's when God gives us a revelation
of his word in the midst of our trouble. We hide behind a building,
take out our note pen, and get our seven points on this particular
proposition. Same thing. That's Psalm 34 verses
15 through 19. You'll see how that works. David
is lauding God for delivering him out of his calamity. See,
now in the crazy day when all you can do is what? End the Lord. I love that. Let them think I'm
crazy. See, now this is called your
liberty in Christ. Let them think you crazy. See,
because you only have one judge for real, and that judge is your
God. Now, if you know that God has
led you to this place where you have had to suspend your dignity
for your survival, you know that God has the true answer to why
you're doing what you're doing. Now, if in the house you are
real people, you can take this principle and you can apply it
to so many things in life. See, we are judges over people's
predicaments and over their circumstances and over their hardships as if
you and I really see what's going on in their life. But you really
don't know what's going on in their life. You don't know the
strength that they're in. And you don't know how God is
working to bring them down in order to lift them up. You don't
know how God is working to help them see that they are a sinner
and need a mercy and that only God is wise enough to put them
in a corner and allow them to do things that they thought they
would never do until God showed up and delivered them from themselves. And yet you and I are judging
them. You and I are judging them. I'm thinking about some of these
ministries of our sisters who are targeting their sisters,
and that's the purpose of ministry. The purpose of ministry is for
our women to help our women, not our women to help our men.
Because we got sisters hurting all over the world, and our sisters
are doing crazy stuff to survive. Are they not? They're doing crazy
stuff because they're in the midst of crazy situations and
all they can do is crazy to survive. And some of them are saved as
you are. And they haven't known a day
of peace in their life. Can you find Jesus in the midst
of the storm? Does Jesus walk on the water
when all hell is breaking loose around you? When the storms are
rising up and the clouds are suddenly with their massive weights
of torrents and rain on your soul, does Jesus speak peace
be still to you? Can he do that? And yet your
circumstance is not changing. The only thing you know is that
God is with me in the midst of this mess. So let them think
I'm crazy. You got it? Let them think I'm
crazy. Let them think I'm crazy. And
the reason why is point D. Here it is. This is merely a
point of what? That's good. I'm not going to
be here all the ways. I'm not going to have this trouble
all the time. I'm not going to be in this particular situation
for the rest of my life. See, now that statement there
is another aspect of what we call biblical faith. Is that
true? Faith is the substance of things what? That means I'm
not going to be here always because my God's going to deliver me
at some point. So all I need to do, here it is, is wait on
the Lord. Wait on the Lord for him to show
up, open the door, and let me escape. That's what's going to
happen for Brother David. This is merely a point of transition.
Psalm 57 verse 1. Psalm 57 verse 1. I'll quote
one for now just in order to affirm that in the midst of all
of these experiences, David was definitely hearing from God. Listen to Psalm 57 verse 1. Here
it is. Be merciful unto me, O God. Be merciful unto me, for my soul
trusteth in you. Yea, in the shadow of thy wings
will I make my what? Until these calamities be overpassed. I will cry unto God most high
Unto God that performeth all things for me He shall send from
heaven and save me from the reproach of him that would what swallow
me up God shall send forth his mercy and truth My soul is among
lions I'll leave it lie even among them that are set on fire
Even the sons of men whose teeth are spears and arrows and their
tongue sharp sword Can you see how David is calling God his
refuge in the midst of his trouble? See now that's faith right now
watch this on the outside Nobody sees it. You know what they see
on the outside a man that has held his peace a man that has
begun to go deeply inside himself and because he knows his circumstances
are such that he cannot continue looking outwardly because that
will distract him. A man that has chosen in this
moment to humble himself to such a degree that he is slobbing
and spitting. He's saying nothing. He's saying
nothing, but his actions are desperate. He's leaving the interpretation
up to everyone around him. He's letting everyone make their
own judgments about this man. Are you hearing me? His soul
is saying, God, deliver me. God, deliver me. And again, for
those of you who cannot retain the concept of an external crazy
with an internal faith, just think about being in prison. incarcerated in places where
you know 24 hours a day you got to deal with how to keep yourself
from being abused and how it can weigh down on your mind and
cause you to do exactly what David is doing cry out and you
know some days when the faucet is cut on I'm talking about really
own. Anybody know what I mean when
the faucet gets cut on? I only had a few people now see you.
The rest of you, God's been good to you. When I talk about the
faucet being cut on, I'm talking about when the tears flow at
a level where the faucet breaks, the handle breaks, the faucet
breaks, and the water gushes out, and the soul cries out in
an indignified way because you need God. And every, every fluid
in your body wants to now express itself in need of God. You look
crazy. You look crazy. Do you look crazy? You look crazy, but you are communing
with your God at that moment and you're waiting on God to
get you out of your trouble See, I'm seeking to defend David because
it's so true our last sub point David escapes Saul through the
what? once again David escaped salt
through the flesh once again So I want to make the brief a
tie and then go to point two What you don't know is that the
narrator is keeping you and me connected to the Philistine country
He's keeping us connected to Philistine country. And he's
going to keep us connected to Philistine country until Saul
is dead. Because what he wants us to understand
is that the flesh is the biggest aspect of God's redemptive work
that he's dealing with. We talked about it a little bit
this morning. The mystery, the hypostatic union of the divine
nature and a human nature, which is, again, one of the most extreme
oxymorons we could ever imagine. that God in his infinite, impeccable,
immutable, unchangeable being would assume a human nature.
That he would come in the likeness of sinful flesh and force sin,
condemn sin, where? In the flesh. Watch this now.
The stumbling block comes at not understanding how God in
flesh is able to redeem us through flesh by condemning sin in the
flesh. so that all you see externally
is weakness. But for those of us who have
eyes of faith, we see the power of God and the redemptive work
of God in Christ on the cross. Do we not? We see the glory of
the God-man in his humility. And what God is showing us is
that David is a partaker of the sufferings of Christ now because
he represents the King. Remember, no suffering, no glory. No suffering, no reigning. And
what God is doing is bearing witness to the Gentile world
of the humility of Christ and David. Are you there? The humility
of Christ and David. It's a great, great strategy.
Don't get me wrong. It's an absolutely phenomenal
strategy. Chapter 21, verse 13. I'm gonna
share with you an insight that shows us how David gets delivered.
Now, when David laid up these words in his heart, and he was
so afraid of Achish, the king of Gath, He changed his behavior
before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled
on the door of the gate, and let a spittle fall down on his
beard. I've had those days. Didn't have
a beard, but I've had those days. Didn't have a beard to catch
it, but I had those days. Now I want you to get this. This
is amazing. This is amazing. Then Achish
said unto his servant, Lo, you see this man? He mad. Wherefore
then have you brought this madman to me? Do you see the door of
escape opening? What am I going to do with this
crazy man? So again, I'm going to go back
to the definition because David now is the personification of
crazy. You know what crazy is? Crazy is unreasonable, irrational,
nonsensical. Watch this now, nonsensical,
but it's also unpredictable. Unpredictable. It's troublesome. It's dangerous and it's useless. When the king looks at David,
he says, this guy's useless to me. I can't do nothing with a
fool. And watch this. And when you
read the text carefully in the Hebrew, here's what it intimates
in the Hebrew. Why have you brought yet another fool to me? This is so funny. What the king
is saying is, I got a whole bunch of fools in my kingdom. All these
Philistines and fools. You bringing another fool to
me? Let this man out of my presence. Because David is a picture of
the gospel of the grace of God in Christ, which to the carnal
man is foolishness. But to those of us who are believing,
it is the power and wisdom of God under salvation. The world
rejects Christ as foolishness. We receive him as the wisdom
of God. They reject him as insane and
useless, but we find him to be the power of God. Is that not
true? They reject him as being moronic
and nonsensical and problematic and the trouble. We receive him
as the answer to all our problems. Is that so? See, it's all how
you see that man slobbing. It's all how you see it. I guarantee
you our Lord slobbed a bit as he was bearing that cross. on
the Via Dolorosa as he was headed to glory and bore the weight
of my sin and your sin and the sin of all God's people all around
the world from the beginning to the end, an infinite weight
of immeasurable guilt and condemnation. I bet you his form broke down
too. I bet you he didn't look good on that day. I bet you he
didn't look good to none of us. I bet you you and I were inclined
to turn our faces from him I bet you if you and I were hiding
behind the high refuge of our intellectualism and our prowess
and our knowledge and our accomplishments, we might have thought him to
be a fool. This can't be the Messiah with him going through
what he's going through. And yet on the third day, he
manifested his glory to those whom God had kept. And he showed
up. with all power and authority
in his hand. And he said to his elect, now see, I'm jumping way
ahead, because that's chapter 24, chapter 23, the cave of Adullam,
the cave of Adullam. But see, you see the parallels. You see the parallels. There's
something that takes place that I think is remarkable, and I
want you to capture it. Point number two, this is amazing
to me. As David is driven to go down
to Achish, and the men recognize David for what he is, and they
say what they say in verse 11, and the servants of Achish said
unto him, the king, is not this David the king of the land? Did
not they sing one to another of him and Dan, saying Saul has
slain his thousands and David his 10,000? Point number two,
the praise of David by the Gentile. Do you not see this as a foreshadow
of the Gentiles acknowledging Christ as King. Do you see it? Do you not see this as a foreshadow
of the Gentiles acknowledging Christ as King, point B, when
his own people would not? Do you see the parallels? I love
preaching the gospel. I love putting the pieces together
I love helping you understand how the old points to the new
and how the new affirms the old and how as one Synthetic overarching
redemptive reality in God. Do you see the parallels? see
he came to his own his own received him not they end up trying to
kill him and won't me kill him and calling him mad But the Gentiles
said we seek Jesus and And right here as a point of revelation
of the character of God in the midst of your troubles, I want
you to get this, as a point of revelation of the character of
God in the midst of your trouble, God does things for us when we're
in trouble that sometimes we don't see when we're in the midst
of the trouble. So I'm going to just give you
a little foretaste of the next scene here in this scene. David gets to hear them talking
about him. Now, why did that happen? Because
God let it happen. Because God is with him. Now,
I'm telling you, when you are in harrowing situations, when
it's really bad, the one overarching question we keep asking is, Lord,
are you what? Are you with me? Boy, I'm with
you. Listen to what they say. Listen
to what the Gentiles say. Listen to what they say. They
are acknowledging David to be the king. Did you see the text? Look at it. Is this not the king
of the land? Isn't that wild? Are y'all with me? Huh? Y'all
with me? Watch what God has done. He has caused the Gentiles to
see who the true king is. They're not even making mention
of Saul. They're not making mention of Saul. and see the Bible is
clear. I'll just take you to one or
two passages just to underscore that this is a foreshadow of
him who said to us, Lo, I come, and the volume of the book is
written of who? Malachi chapter 1 verse 11. Malachi is the last
Bible of the Old Testament. He's the last prophet speaking
for God to Israel. And here's what he says as he
once again chastises Israel from the rising of the sun even to
the going down of the same. My name shall be great among
the Gentiles. And in every place incense shall
be offered unto what? My name. And a pure offering
for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the Lord.
Did you see the foreshadow? And again, in Matthew 2, 1, we
don't have to go there. Did not the Gentiles come down
to worship the newborn king? Did they not come down? They
came down because they knew him to be the king when his own people
rejected him. Do you see the paradigm? You
can't miss it unless you want to. Point number three. Point number three. Because I
want to leave this alone for a second. The powerful prophetic
nature of the song of David. Verse 11 again. Listen to what
they say. And the servants of Achish said
unto him, Is not this David the king of the land? That would
have been cool enough. Did not they sing one to another of him
in dances? In other words, the battle that
David accomplished against the giant, the man in between, Goliath,
the ladies had made a song out of it. And it was number one
on the charts for weeks and months. The song was rolling all through
Israel. and the aroma of the song left
Israel and went to the Philistine country. They was bopping it
on their radio. Saul has slain his thousands,
David his 10,000s. It was a catchy beat so much
that they had learned the words. The first thing that came to
these cats mind is the song. Songs are powerful in that way.
They stick in your cranium, particularly when they're short, sweet, and
prophetically accurate. Did you get that? I don't know
what the tune was behind that music, because it was really
condemnation of the Gentiles. But you know, sometimes we'll
sing songs that we ain't got no business singing just because
the melody is smooth. That's how the Lord will hook
it up. The Lord will hook up a nice melody so he can send
his gospel truth in there. And you go, wait a minute, that's
condemning me. Nothing just hung me, but I still
like the melody. Oh, I love the Bible. I love the Bible. Show you two
quick truths here that I discovered when I was going through that
text back in 1 Samuel chapter 17. I said, Lord, why did the
sisters use that little catchy phrase? Saul slayed his thousands,
but David his ten thousands. Now, syntactically, because I'm
going through the Psalms, You guys know that the Psalms are
songs, and they are sung in meters, and so it has a very clear meter
symmetry there. That's fine, but that's not theological. That's simply in terms of what
we call musicology. Theologically speaking, what
they were prophesying was that the success of Saul was largely
human in origin, but that the success of David was of a divine
nature. that the slaying of thousands
is very reasonable on a human level. But for one man to slay
10,000 means that God has to be with him. Are you guys hearing
me for a moment? I just want to show you a couple
of verses to underscore it. Deuteronomy chapter 32, Deuteronomy 32 verse
30. Deuteronomy 32 verse 30. Here's how God explains it. This is one of the promises about
God delivering in victory. He says it in Deuteronomy chapter
32 verse 30. You can go with me there in your
Bibles just to make sure we have it here It is how should one? Chase a what and how should to
do what? Except their rock had sold them
and the Lord had what? God is owning the fact that he
manages and governs wars and the outcome is because of God
and yet Here we have that principle of thousands and 10,000. And
this Psalm is talking about Israel actually being brought under
the judgment of God. And all that requires is one
of the enemy to run off 10,000 Israelites. Or two of the enemy
to run off 10,000 Israelites as we see in the pathetic case
of Israel in the land of Judah. Frequently their enemies routed
them. Is that true? And so here we have a poetic
phraseology around that. But what I want you to mark is
that this terminology of a thousand versus ten thousand is seen in
Leviticus 26 7 through 9 but go with me just one chapter over
to Deuteronomy 33 verse 2. Deuteronomy 33 verse 2. Here's
how God says it again in Deuteronomy 33 verse 2 about this idea of
thousands and ten thousand. Here it is. Verse one, and this
is the blessing wherewith Moses, the men of God, blessed the children
of Israel before his death. And he said, and he said, the
Lord came from Sinai and rose up from Seir unto them. He shined forth from Mount Paran
and he came with what? 10,000 of what? From his right hand went a fiery
law. Verse two is giving us a picture
of the coming of Christ and the power of his divinity when he
lays down his law for his covenant people. And it always describes
him coming with his angelic army to defeat all his foes. Now let
me show you the New Testament version of this. And it's gonna
make you feel good for a minute because the Old Testament angels
that served Jehovah in his battles correspond to the New Testament
saints who served the Lord Jesus Christ in his battles. I don't
have time to take you to the book of Revelation but it's there
too. Jude, the book of Jude chapter 1 verse 14. Listen to what Jude
says as he describes the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ to destroy
all antichrist systems all apostate churches that turn so apostate
that they begin to fight against the true gospel in the book of
Jude chapter 1 verse 14 and Enoch also the seventh from Adam prophesied
these saying behold the Lord cometh with what ten thousands
of his what Look at verse 15 to execute judgment upon all
and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their
ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed of all their
hard speeches and ungodly sinners have spoken against who against
him Here the language is describing the power of God accompanying
the Lord Jesus Christ and the saints of God Or what some of
us are learning in eschatology will be one of the privileges
of the saints on the last day. As we are going through the sequential
events of what happens when Christ returns. Some of you guys have
begun to learn that, right? One of the awesome realities
is this. God's elect will sit with King Jesus on thrones judging
this world. You got that? Judging this world.
The song is describing David as the Theanthropos man, the
God man, whose victories are a consequence of God being with
him to subdue his foes to such a degree that he is slain ten
thousands, ten thousands. It's just a superlative term
or phrase that says God has to be in this kind of battle. Is
David actually fighting a spiritual battle? Remember what I told
you? Going back now, I want to deal
with point number three. Remember what I told you? Think about this
now, just so you don't get lost. When David heard the giant defying
the true and the living God, the spirit of God came upon David
so heavily. that David was compelled to press
through all of the opposition of his brethren. Remember? Go
back home, you mischievous child. But the Spirit drove him into
the presence of King Saul. He made his plea with King Saul
and he fought the giant without human armor. Do you guys remember
that? Was he trusting God? Did he believe
that God was going to fight his battles for him? Did he believe
that God had 10,000 of his saints, 10,000 of the angels of God with
him? And this is remarkable. David did all that without the
affirmation of one man. And this is a picture of our
Lord Jesus Christ, who by himself accomplished eternal redemption
for us, without us, apart from us. Because at a point, you and
I were just like Saul and the rest of them, so scared, so frightened,
and so uncommitted to Jesus. If it had not been for the mercy
of God to keep Jesus headed to Calvary, because he loved us
enough to die for us, even though we all had forsaken him. I mean,
all had forsaken him. We would have been on the other
enemy's team if God had let us. And yet here comes David, a great
type of Christ, accomplishing such victories that his song
reaches the top of the chart. Point number three, you are mad. Now, in our present culture where
we are so emotionally and psychologically hypersensitive, for someone to
call you mad, You might want to appeal, file a lawsuit, pay
somebody to kill him in the name of Jesus, just because they call
you mad. And the only reason you would
do that is because you do not have a category of madness in
your sanctification. Get one now. Is that a good revelation? Get one now. Get one now. Get
a category of mad in your doctrine of sanctification. Are you hearing
me? Because there's going to always
be people who don't like you. Second one, there's going to
always be people who don't understand you. And that's enough to have
somebody calling you mad all the time. Are you hearing me?
So now, my argument is this. If you think you have to be approved
by everybody on planet Earth, you're gonna end up not being
approved of God at all. If you think everybody's got
to like you, everybody's got to love you, that you shine so
much, that everybody got to love you, then you have failed to
put on Christ. That man loved us enough to be
called crazy. Are you hearing me? Three examples
in your PowerPoint. I love me some Paul. Oh Lord,
let me be like Paul. Everyone thought Paul was crazy.
They actually thought he was crazy before he was saved. And
he redeemed that element and brought it over into the camp.
And for the glory of God, stayed crazy in Jesus' name. Did he
not? And did not God work mightily through him? He's in Acts chapter
26, verse 24 and 25, when Felix, the governor, is sitting there
and the rest of the semi-religious folks with the big Bibles and
the big crosses on them go to church once a year when it's
time to do politics. And Paul is talking to them about
the revelation of the glory of God that he actually had. See,
you can't live for Christ like you ought to live for Christ
until you have a revelation of his glory in your soul. And you
can't understand why some people live with the kind of passion
and commitment to Jesus that they do because you don't understand
how revelation impacts your life. People cannot understand why
Paul could talk like he did, act like he did, and did like
he did because they never were confronted with the kind of glory
he had. But it was a revelation of God's
glory that so radically changed Paul that put him on a trajectory
for glory that everything he did was designed and estimated
to bring honor to Christ. whether it was in life or death,
whether it was in bondage or freedom, whether he was being
imprisoned, beaten, stoned, whatever, Paul was always redeeming everything
that he went through for the glory of God. Are y'all hearing
me? For the glory of God. And so the common thought about
Paul was this, he crazy. Paul being Paul crazy. Now, you
know, we like to use that term for most of us in the hood as
a nice little phraseology, because when we love you, we'll say,
now, you know, that girl crazy. Right? You know she crazy. And
we'll say, man, you know, homie crazy. So you, you know, the
gates always open. He can always get out. Right? And cause we're little used to
that. Some of y'all not, but most of us are. I'm very comfortable
with crazy people. If you've been, if I've been
your pastor for the last 10 years, you know, I'm quite comfortable
with crazy. Cause a lot of times y'all will say, pastor, why won't
you close the gate? Why won't you close the gate?
Why won't you keep the crazies out? No, I get it. Now you're
putting up with him, but pastor, you know he got a problem. You
know she got a problem. Why are you putting up with him?
I put up with him because I'm trying to look past the things
seen to what's really in the heart. That's John 7 24. By the
way, our master told the rulers you judge according to the appearance.
I judge no man according to the appearance. But my judgment is
righteous judgments. Are you guys benefit from what
I'm talking about right now? Follow the logic, follow the logic.
See, crazy externally is just designed for you to stop and
ask the question, do I really see it for what it really is?
Or am I uninformed, misinformed, or am I offended? Because sometimes
you're offended at people's zeal for Christ. And in your rationale,
you want to call it crazy. What God has already told us
to do is let you call us crazy. So long as we know that what
we are doing, we are doing by right of God's favor in our life.
Because God knows, God knows that the vast majority of the
world does not see God. Will you hear me? The vast majority
of people don't see God. Can I talk to you for a minute?
I'm gonna let you go in a minute. The vast majority of men in this
world do not see the glory of God. They therefore cannot judge
true believers rightly. That's 1 Corinthians chapter
2. The natural man cannot receive the things of the Spirit. They
are spiritually discerned. For him, they are foolishness.
So when a man or a woman seems extra zealous for Jesus, you
want to call them crazy. because they're not as lazy as
you. When a believer is committed
to the honor of God and he realizes that he has only so many breaths
to breathe in and out. One day I'm going to breathe
my last breath and I'm out of here. So every breath that I
have to breathe in and out, I want to use it for the glory of God.
I want to be able to breathe in and out for his honor. I want God to take my life and
let it be consecrated, Lord, unto thee. I want to be able
to spend all of my life. I want to burn up for Christ. But I have to be willing to let
people think that I'm over the top. I'm 5150. I'm crazy. I'm two cars short of a full
deck. I'm two pieces off of the chessboard. All of that. The slice of bread
is still missing. Everything like that. I have
to be willing to let that happen. I have to. Because that's exactly
what they said about Jesus. He said unto them, for himself,
Festus said with a loud voice after hearing Paul preach to
Gotham, boy, you're besides yourself. Much learning hath made you mad. See what happens when you're
serious about Jesus? Now this is what we call reverse
psychology. Here, Festus is crazy. Because the Bible tells me in
Proverbs chapter 30, Proverbs chapter eight, verse 35 and 36,
All that hate me love death. Now to me, if you live in this
world without God, but we'll work that out on the
last day. We'll work it out on the last day. We're gonna work
that out. See, you can call me crazy. And I can say that you
are certifiably nuts because you are living in God's universe
and you think you're going to end up in God's heaven with your
fist in God's face? I actually think that that's
insane. That's irrational. That's illogical. That makes
no sense. You didn't miss a whole half a deck of cards in my sense. But we're going to leave all
of the ad hominem attacks alone because my job is to actually
point you to Christ and hope that he reveals his glory to
you so you can regain your insanity just like Nebuchadnezzar had
to regain his insanity when he thought he was foolish enough
to say by his power he got all these things. Paul was called mad and Jesus
was called mad too. Was he not? I love it. I'm in
good company. the Lord Jesus Christ was called
mad in John's gospel chapter 10. And this is where the rulers
really see every time Jesus just simply hinted that he had a special
relationship with his daddy, all those devils got mad. And
ad hominem attacks went all over the place. John's gospel chapter
10 verse 20. You remember the debate between
our Lord Jesus Christ and his disciples. You guys go there.
John's gospel chapter 10 verse 20. So you can see it with your
own eyes. Here's what it says. Just marking these words, you
see the parallels between David and Jesus. John's Gospel, chapter
10, verse one. And many of them said, do you
see? And many of them said, he hath the what? And is what? Why are you listening to him?
Now I want you to mark the strategy. This was the rulers of Israel.
First of all, they said he was demon possessed. They completely
missed the boat, didn't he? He was very God of very God.
Then they said he's mad. Do you see that? Now that rumor
went around. Are you with me? And guess who
it caught up with? His mama and his brothers and
his sisters. I'm going to share with you a
point that hurts right now, but it's true. Your most difficult
and challenging conflicts are coming in your own house. I'm
just going to let you know now. I'm going to let you know now.
Do you know why? Because our master said a prophet
is not honored in his own home. And the people of God are going
to be rejected first and foremost by those who see you and know
you to be who you are in the flesh and will refuse and will
refuse to see the grace of God. Refuse to see it. Do you hear
me? Now, this is wild. Stay with
me. This is wild. Isn't the Bible comforting? Crazy
in Jesus. Isn't that comforting? Crazy
in Jesus. Now watch this. Mark's gospel
chapter 3 verse 23. Mark's gospel 3 23. You can mark
it down. The Lord's parent, the Lord's
mother and his brothers tried to come take Jesus. Because when
they heard that he had went to the high mountain and started
calling folks to himself and ordaining them to preach the
gospel, They said that boy just went straight nuts. Do you see
it? Mark's gospel chapter three verse
twenty-three. Y'all follow me there in your
Bible just so you can see it for yourself. I thought about this years ago.
I said, she didn't get it. The one that had him didn't get
it. That's because premier reality
breeds what? And those who are closest to you, especially in
the matters of redemption are often people that do not know
you or know you the least. That's verse 21, please. Mark
3, 21. Here it is. I'm going to start back at verse
20. And the multitude cometh together again, so that they
could not so much as eat bread. And when his friends heard of
it, they went out and lay hold on him, for they said, He is
beside himself. See the word beside? That's our
Greek term for being bad. Now literally, this is how, I
want you to get what this means so I can move on. I got about
10 minutes. It means that you are actually outside of your
body. When you beside yourself, you outside looking at your body. That's an out of body experience. They're saying Jesus is outside
of himself. Now watch this. That means they
are judging his true self based upon his flesh and not upon his
spirit and not upon his action. See what they're doing? They're
rationalizing that he could not be of God, even his own family. I say, no, that's too much. Jesus,
it's all right to be a preacher. We like preachers. Religion likes
preachers. It's a dignified term. Well,
what do you do? He's a preacher. Oh, good, good,
good. I told my men in our meeting three weeks ago, when I die,
I hope that my family doesn't boast about me being a preacher.
I hope that people don't have as the only thing they have to
say about this pastor is that he was a preacher. Because you
can be a hell bound preacher. You could be a hellish preacher.
You could be a demonic preacher. You could be a hypocritical preacher.
You can be a self-righteous, pompous preacher who doesn't
know God. You can be the run-of-the-mill
preacher that everyone is that got his suit on and his Bible
in his hand with the nice picture and everybody thinks for sure
he's going to heaven. And he's going to the lowest
hell. Will you listen to me? Listen
to me. I don't want to be known as a preacher. I wanna be known
as a man of God. I wanna be, listen, listen. I
wanna be known as a man who was committed to God. A man who was
committed to God's glory. I want my grandchildren to know
that their grandfather was crazy for Jesus. Did you get that? Did you get that? We can all
play church. I want them to be moved by the
fact that their grandfather burned up for Christ. Did you get that? I will be happy if I can die
with that witness in their heart, because religion will deceive
you. It will deceive you. It will deceive you. Let me move
on so I can shut this down. I'm getting ready to get into
some tough stuff, and I may hold off for some of this toward the
end of the year. So under point number three,
you are mad. Psalm 56 verses 1 through 9 is powerful in developing
this. But we close out. Paul seemed to be mad. Christ
appeared to be mad. And we will be presumed mad too.
Those texts affirm it. Point number four. I want to
quickly run through these last two points. Show you something
about the goodness of God. Can I do that? Here, we left
off last week with this. The meaning of the what? Now,
here is where David had gone into the temple you guys remember
that and Into the temple and the priest gave him five loaves
of bread to feed his men I told you those loaves were about three
and a half pounds and that would have fed about 50 men comfortably
for a day or two So let me give you the picture of what's going
on as David is serving as a fugitive running from his own kingdom
God is watching over him God gave him a handful of men to
be with him David did not lie David was not a liar. True believers
can't be what we call liars. We can lie, but we are not liars. You got to work through that.
Because to be a liar is not to believe God. To be a liar is
not to trust God. To be a liar is to not have faith.
Now, when you trust God and you have faith, other people are
going to call you a liar. Because they don't understand.
Watch this now. They don't understand the plumb
line. They don't understand the anchor. that's attached to your
life that dictates your choices. So when they look at what you
do, they're going to see inconsistency. They're going to see strange
behavior. They're going to see contradictions. But because you're
anchored to Christ, you are hoping and trusting and you are deliberating
with your master to make it all work out. You are walking by
faith. And where you are messing up
before your God, you are going to the throne of grace in time
of need, calling upon God. You're taking a bath in the blood
of the lamb. You're washing yourself clean
because priests get to do that. And then you come out of the
labor and you go to the showbread and you get to eat and strengthen
your soul. And then you get on back to the work of the gospel.
But see, unbelievers don't understand that. Are you hearing what I'm
saying? A whole lot of saints have been killed by civil courts. under false judgments that they
were liars and blasphemers. Jesus died under what was called
calumny or subordination or subversion rather. People said, he said
this, because he made himself the son of God, they killed him. Because he made himself the king
of Israel, they killed him. You see how his truth was their
lie? I'm telling you, judge nothing
before the time. Make sure that your motives and
actions are rooted in faith, connected to God. And let people
call you what they want to call you. You keep doing the will
of God. Because see, on that last day,
am I boring you? On that last day, watch this.
On that last day, the light's getting all cut on. All the light's
getting cut on. All the light's getting cut on.
The roaches won't be able to hide. Stay with me. And this, I walk with this quorum
day, I walk with this every day. I know one day that all the lights
getting cut on. All the lights gonna get cut on. And whatever
people have viewed of you in the shade, from the angles, from
the distance, with their blinders on, with their assumptions and
presuppositions and their presumptions about you, all that's gonna be
removed. And God's going to judge every man in the light of perfect,
infinite truth. That's why he tells you and me,
judge nothing before the time. Vengeance is mine, saith the
Lord, I'll repay. And for every one of God's elect,
he will see to it that they are justified. while the whole world
will condemn you. Are you guys hearing what I'm
saying? Now watch this now. Watch this now. This is powerful. The meaning of the sword. Remember
when David says, do you have a sword in this place? That's
why I allow verse 9 to be the verse that we read. Is there
a sword in this place? Because the master's business required
haste. And I left all my gear. He didn't lie. God help you. He didn't lie. He was about his
heavenly father's business. And his heavenly father wanted
him to be totally dependent upon him. But the Holy Ghost moved
David to ask for a sword, because David knew there was one sword
that was in the city of the priest, because David had dedicated that
sword to the Lord, having won the battle against the Philistine.
Isn't that amazing? Remember what he did? He slew
him with the gospel. and then he cut his head off
with justice. That's the two-fold paradigm of the redemptive work
of Christ. The gospel is the cross work
of Christ that nails Satan in the head. The sword is the judgment
that comes on the last day. You'll get that. He's coming
back on the last day riding on a white horse and a sword, a
rump file sword is coming out of his mouth to execute judgment
upon all his enemies. Are you guys hearing me? This
sword of justice was in the temple as a dedication to God. God kept
it there because God knew David was going to need his sword again.
It's God on your side. When you're running from your
enemies, and you don't have no weapons, and you come to discover
that God was gracious enough to you to bless you in your hour
of prosperity, and you go back to the spot and say, is the sword
still there? And now David has the best sword
in the land. There's a lot of redemptive truth
there that is so deep that I don't have time to unpack it. So I'm
going to give you a bunch of gift cards enclosed. Can I do
that? Here's a bunch of gift cards. I got to do this because
I don't have time. PowerPoint number for the meaning
of the sword mercy and justice The high priest gave David mercy
God gave David the sword of justice David is the true King the sword
represents capital punishment as Romans 13 for you guys know
that right the court the system the judgment system the minister
does not bear the sword what in vain The sword of final doom
for Satan is Revelation 19 11 through 15 and 21 where Christ
comes back See the sword of death for the what flesh the flesh
This is the thing that has to constantly be subdued now when
I give you line C. Do you guys see line C? I want
you to mark this This is why I told you that Saul and Goliath
are two sides of the same coin. That Saul is Goliath and Goliath
is simply Saul on what? Steroids. How will Saul die? By the sword. How will he die? Falling on his own sword. How will he die? In the battle
with the Philistines. They will kill him because he
is not of God. And so long as you are not of
God, the flesh will ultimately overcome you. And you will fall
on the sword of justice, seeking to live by your own strength.
It goes on to say, our next point then, I got a fourth point under
here, I'll leave it alone. Point number five. Here's the
last thought that I want you to run with. And this is where
I'm appealing to you in the midst of your troubles. This is a good
closing point. when you and I are struggling through issues and
life is crazy and we make no sense of what's going on. You
know what David said in Psalm 86 verse 17? He said, Lord, show
me a token. Show me a token. I need a token
for good. I want you to hear this. I'm
not gonna exegete this. I have, this is a beautiful verse
to develop, but I'd need another 20 minutes. But I just want you
to see the appeal. And think about this in your
time of trouble. Don't you want God to show you something? To let you know that you're all
right. Show me a token for good. See line one? Literally in the
Greek, in the Hebrew it goes, Show with me a token for good. Now I want you to mark what this
means. What this means is David is appealing to God to bring
something into his life that's exclusive to David. That will
not only show David that God is with him, but to show others
that God is with him as well. Show me a token. Show with me a token. The word
token there is a powerful term that means a mark or an evidence
or a sign, a symbol. It's the word that's used for
circumcision as a sign between God and Israel. It's the word
that was used for Cain when God put a mark on Cain so no one
in the world could kill him. What David was saying is, God,
I need you to give me such evidence that you are with me And such
an evidence that you are with me, watch this now, that when
other people see me, what they will know is that you are with
me. This is amazing. This is amazing.
And those that hate me may see it and be what? Now, ladies and
gentlemen, this is not David's desiring the doom of his enemies.
This is David desiring the conversion of his enemies. Because you see,
when people misinterpret you, When they misjudge you, when
they misjudge the gospel, misjudge Christ, when they say wrong things
about you, when they reproach you for Christ's sake, their
only hope is that one day God would shame them, bring them
to shame, that they might be saved before they die. Are you
guys hearing me? Our only hope is that God would
shame them because in order to be saved, you and I have to first
be shamed. God has to show us our nakedness
and then we have to flee to Christ for covering and God has to show
the sinner that is really hating God through you. Gotta show them
their shame and sometimes it happens when people don't like
you and they find every reason to make you the object of their
hate and ridicule and then God shows a token of good in your
life so large, so magnificent, so clear that everyone knows
the Lord is with him The Lord is with her. The Lord is with
them. It brings people to shame. That's
what it's designed to do. And that's why you are called
to take hits for Jesus. But while you're taking hits,
ladies and gentlemen, the hardest thing to do is to see the Lord
with you. Is that true? I mean, the lens gets so narrow.
It doesn't get so narrow. Lord, I can't see nothing. Help
a sister. Help a brother. Because this
is a mess right here. So now watch this. I want them
to be ashamed because you, Lord, have helped me and you have comforted
me. Show you seven things here. I'm
done. David runs from Saul's house,
him and his men. They have nothing. God runs him
to the priest because he's saved by grace and he believes in the
provisions of the commonwealth of Israel. So here's one of the
reasons. Oh, Jesse, don't do it. I'm ready
to keep teaching. One of the evidences that you're
not God's is when you get in trouble, you don't come to God.
You won't pray. You won't seek the saints. You
won't come to the house of God. See, this is why we knew David
was a man after God's own house, heart. He went to the house of
God for the refuge. And you know what God did? God
met him in the house and gave him bread. Fed his soul. First token. First token. Was
God with him? You know what God also did? God
also gave him a mind to ask for the sword. And a limerick said,
here, here's the sword, it's yours. Second token. Did you
get that? The brother went to God, God
gave him bread and gave him a sword. After all, he's the king. God
has made him king. He's getting ready. You know
what David is getting ready to build? He's getting ready to build right
in front of your eyes an administration, a whole kingdom. He's getting
ready to have all of the framework for his kingdom right here. Do
you guys see it already? Do you see it already? Is the
Lord good? The bread of presence for the
priest only. The sword to execute what? And a high priest to mediate
in his kingdom. It's crazy. What did that boy,
Abbey Arthur, do when the whole house was consumed? He came running
to David, said, hey David, they destroyed everything. Brother,
but I'm with you. God gave him a high priest, and
he gave him the ephod. Do you know what you do with
the ephod? You talk to God. God gave David
a token that he was with him, that all David had to do was
talk to God, and God would lead him through his whole fugitive
process. In a word, God is stripping Saul
of the kingdom right here. Are you guys hearing me? Stripping
him of the kingdom. When you don't have a priesthood,
you're in trouble. When you don't have a mediator, you're in trouble.
When you don't have somebody to give you the bread of life,
you are in trouble. When you don't have the righteousness
of God as a sword of justice to affirm your calling, you are
in trouble. When you don't have a mediator.
And what I love about the fact that he received the ephod was
that David himself talked to God through the ephod. Oh, that's
another message. But what it points to is the
combined offices of prophet, priest, and king. See, David
was the only king that could actually take the ephod and go
talk to God. Bless little brother Abiathar.
Bless him. But he was just David's sidekick.
You know what he would tell Abiathar to do? Go get me the ephod. Now,
king, unless that king is really in with God, don't get to mess
with the ephod. All Abiathar did was bring the
ephod to David. And David went and talked to
God and God led him all the way. Did God show him a token for
good? And as believers, we have access to the father by the spirit
through Christ to talk to God in time of trouble. Is it true?
This was an affirmation of his kingdom. This is how he escaped
from all of his enemies. And the next study is his refuge
in the cave of what? It's called the cave of the doodle.
It's God with David. You know what he's getting ready
to do in the cave of Adullam? Establish his government. You know what
he's getting ready to pick up? A whole bunch of new citizens
in the kingdom. You know what those citizens are going to be
described as? Broke folk. Sick folk. Weak folk. Fearful folk. Folk in doubt. Folk that are
miserable. Distressed. Yeah. Toe up. From the bottom up. Needing help from God. Humbled
by life. Troubled by their sin. Needing
a refuge. But they had a revelation. And
do you know what that revelation is? The cave of Adullam. And
they found that in the cave of Adullam was God's king, with
God's priests, with God's ephod, with God's bread, with God's
army, with God's people. And it's going to be that band
of lowly sinners. as it was for Jesus and his knuckleheads
whom he drew out of the land of Galilee to ride posse with
him all the way to Calvary. And then when he rose again on
the third day, sent his Holy Ghost to anoint 12 of those men
to lead the church of the living God to become a worldwide institution
by which sinners from every nation, kindred, tribe, and tongue would
bow the knee to Jesus Christ and call him Lord of all. Lord
of all, give him glory. Give him glory. Give him glory. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.