Would you turn with me to 2 Samuel
chapter 5? I want to go ahead and read this
entire chapter. 2 Samuel chapter 5. Then came all the tribes of Israel
to David, and to Hebron, and spake, saying, Behold, we are
thy bone and thy flesh. Also in time past, when Saul
was king over us, thou wast he that led us out and brought us
to in Israel. And the Lord said to thee, thou
shalt feed or be a shepherd to my people Israel, and thou shalt
be a captain over Israel. So all the elders of Israel came
to the king, to Hebron, and King David made a league or a covenant
with them in Hebron before the Lord, and they anointed David
king over Israel. David was 30 years old when he
began to reign, and he reigned 40 years. In Hebron, he reigned
over Judah seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem, he
reigned 30 and three years over all Israel and Judah. And the
king and his men went to Jerusalem under the Jebusites, the inhabitants
of the land, which spake unto David, saying, except thou take
away the blind and the lame, thou shalt not come in hither,
thinking David cannot come in hither. Nevertheless, David took
the stronghold of Zion, the same as the city of David. And David
said on that day, whosoever geteth up to the gutter and smiteth
the Jebusites and the lame and the blind that are hated of David's
soul, he shall be chief and captain. Wherefore, they said, the blind
and the lame shall not come into this house. So David dwelt in
the fort and called it the city of David. And David built round
about from Milo and inward. And David went on and grew great.
And the Lord God of hosts was with him. And Hiram, king of
Tyre, sent messengers to David and cedar trees and carpenters
and masons. And they built David a house.
And David perceived that the Lord had established him king
over Israel. and that he had exalted his kingdom
for his people Israel's sake. And David took him more concubines
and wives out of Jerusalem after he was come from Hebron. And
there were yet sons and daughters born to David. And these be the
names of those that were born unto him. And I'm going to go
ahead and skip all those. They're too hard to pronounce.
You can look at them yourself. Verse 17, but when the Philistines
heard that they had anointed David king over Israel, all the
Philistines came up to seek David. David heard of it and went down
to the hold. The Philistines also came and
spread themselves in the valley of Rephium. And David inquired
of the Lord, saying, Shall I go up to the Philistines? Wilt thou
deliver them into my hand? And the Lord said unto David,
Go up, for I will doubtless deliver the Philistines into thine hand.
And David came to Baal-parazim, and David smote them there and
said, the Lord hath broken forth upon mine enemies before me as
the breach of waters. Therefore he called the name
of the place Baal-parazim. And there they left their images,
the Philistines, and David and his men burned them. And the
Philistines came up yet again and spread themselves in the
valley of Rephium. And when David inquired of the
Lord, he said, thou shalt not go up, but fetch a compass behind
them and come upon them over against the mulberry trees. And
let it be when you hear the sound of a going in the tops of the
mulberry trees, then thou shalt bestir thyself. For then shall
the Lord go out before thee to smite the host of the Philistines.
And David did so as the Lord had commanded him. And God smote
the Philistines from Geba until thou come to Gaser." Let's pray
together. Lord, we come into your presence
in Christ's name, and Lord, we come with thanksgiving for our
savior, our redeemer, our king, thy blessed son. Lord, we ask
that his name might be exalted, that you'd give us the grace
to know him, to rest in him, to trust him, and to see him
as all in our salvation. Lord, we thank you for the forgiveness
of sins that we have for his sake. We thank you for all your
blessings to us. Lord, we ask for grace to love
you more, to love one another more. Lord, may your gospel be
preached. Lord, those that are sick of
our number, we ask that you would be with them, those that are
going through trials that we may know nothing about. We pray
for your shepherding hand to be upon them. Pray for all your
people wherever they meet together. Lord, unite our hearts together
to fear thy name. In Christ's name we pray, amen. 13 years before this took place,
God had already anointed David king. He was God's king. And God had taken care of this,
but now the children of Israel are acknowledging it. They didn't
make him king. I think it's almost humorous
when people say things like, won't you make Jesus the Lord
of your life? You can't do that. God has made this same Jesus
whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ. So no, you can't
do that. God made him king. And God's
people now acknowledge him as such. And this is the thing about
God's people. They will always acknowledge
and embrace and glory in his kingship. We love him being king. And we acknowledge this. Now,
I think this is very interesting. Look in verse one. Then came
all the tribes of Israel to David and to Hebron and spake, saying,
behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh. Now, where's the first
time we read of that? Remember what Adam said of Eve? She's bone of my bones and flesh
of my flesh. Speaking of union with her, he
was talking about this intimate act that pictures the relationship
between Christ and the church and the union that exists between
Christ and the church. Now, here's the point. Every
believer may not know exactly how to explain union. I don't. But every believer knows that
the only hope they have is that when Christ lived, they lived.
That when he died, they died. When he was raised from the dead,
they were raised from the dead. Now they might not be able to
put terms and names on everything, but they know this, the only
hope I have is that I'm bone of his bone and flesh of his
flesh. And that's what they're saying. You know, that's what
we confess in baptism, isn't it? When we confess Christ in baptism,
we're saying publicly, the only hope that I have is that when
Christ lived, I was in him and he lived for me and kept the
law for me. When he died, I was in him and he paid for my sins.
When he was raised, I was raised with him. So they come to David
saying, We're bone of your bone and flesh of your flesh. That's
the only hope we have. Now, this is mysterious union
with the Lord Jesus Christ, yet it's the ABCs of the gospel,
isn't it? And this is the way they came. Now look what they say to David.
Also in times past, verse two, and Saul was king over us. Thou
was he that led us out and brought us to Israel. Even though we
were looking at Saul as king, you were the king. We were wrong. You were the king. You were the
one who led us out and brought us in. And the Lord said to thee,
thou shalt feed or shepherd my people Israel, and thou shalt
be captain over Israel. Now, what a shepherd. What a
prince or captain. The Lord is my shepherd. And
because my shepherd's the Lord, I shall not want. What a king
to rule and reign over me. What a king to rule and reign,
period. And they acknowledge this, verse
three. So all the elders of Israel came to the king in Hebron, and
King David made a league, and that word league is the same
word that's generally translated covenant. David made a covenant
with them. They didn't make a covenant with
him. He made a covenant with them. And all of our salvation
is in the covenant that he made with us. How often do we quote
this scripture? Although my house be not so with
God, yet have he made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered
in all things, ensuring this is all my salvation and all my
desire. Do you feel that way about his
covenant? It's all your salvation and it's all your desire. Now,
the king made a covenant with him in Hebron before the Lord,
and they know any David king over Israel. David was 30 years
old when he began to reign. That's a very young man. That's
when our Lord began his public ministry, isn't it? When he was
30. In Hebron, he reigned over Judah seven years and six months.
And in Jerusalem, he reigned 30 and three years over all Israel
and Judah. Now this talks about David's
70 years. He was 17 when he defeated Goliath. He spent six years on
the run from Saul and the Lord was training him all this time,
all these events he was going through and trials he was going
through, the Lord was using this to prepare him to be king over
all of Israel. He was king of Judah and Hebron for seven and
a half years and then 40 years over all of Israel. Verse six,
and the king and his men went to Jerusalem under the Jebusites.
Now remember, this is one of those seven nations that God
said, drive them out. And they couldn't drive them
out. They were still in Jerusalem. This is before it was called
Jerusalem. When David took it over, it became Jerusalem, but
they had this city, the Jebusites, and they had control of it. It
was a walled city and they felt very secure. Look in verse six,
and the king and his men went to Jerusalem under the Jebusites,
the inhabitants of the land, which spake unto David, saying,
except you take away the blind and the lame, thou shalt not
come in hither, thinking David can't come in hither. Now this
was a taunt. This was a taunt. We're so secure, all we gotta
do is have the blind and the lame watch out for us. They can
watch the walls, you can't get in here. This was their taunt,
saying, we're safe, we don't need to worry about you. Verse
seven. Nevertheless, David took the
stronghold of Zion, the same as the city of David. It had
never been defeated before, but now David, no doubt supernaturally
aided, defeats the city and takes possession of Jerusalem. Verse
eight, and David said on that day, whosoever giveth up to the
gutter and smiteth the Jebusites and the lame and the blind that
are hated of David's soul, he shall be chief and captain. Wherefore
they said the blind and the lame shall not come in this house,
but David took it over. Then he was taunting back about
the blind and the lame. Verse nine, so David dwelt in
the fort and called it the city of David. And David built around
about him from Milo and inward And David went on and grew great,
and the Lord God of hosts was with him." Now, I love that verse
of scripture. David went on and he grew great,
and the Lord of hosts was with him. That's why he went on. That's
why he grew great. Now, I want to say this the right
way. I don't know whether I know how
to say it the right way, but do you know every child of God ought to be
ambitious to be great in the kingdom of God? Now, I don't
mean in a fleshly way. I don't mean in a way that draws
attention to yourself, but every child of God ought to be ambitious,
to be a servant, to be great in the kingdom of God. Ask the
Lord to give you the right, ask him to give me the right attitude
about that. I don't want this in a self-promoting way or trying
to be, you know I'm not talking about that. But David went on
and he grew great by the grace of God. The Lord was with him. Verse 11, now this is a Gentile
king, a heathen king in Haram. King of Tyre sent messengers
to David and cedar trees and carpenters and masons, and they
built David a house. I don't know if he's scared of
David and trying to get on his good side. I'm not real sure
what was going on there, but we do know that at some point,
it says the fear of David came upon every nation. He became
the most powerful man in the world. He became the top military
leader in the world. And the fear of him fell on every
nation. People were afraid of death,
David. I don't know if that's what was going on with Hiram. Maybe
he just liked him. But the point is, the Lord uses
everybody for the advancement of his kingdom. Hiram's a Gentile. I don't know that he had any
worship of God, but I know this, the Lord put it in his heart
to send masons and carpenters and everything else in order
to build this house in this city of David. Everybody's God's pawn. Don't you like thinking about
that? Everybody is in his hand, including Hiram, this heathen
king. And David perceived, now look at this perception of David,
verse 12. And David perceived that the
Lord had established him king over Israel and that he had exalted
his kingdom for his people Israel's sake. Now David perceived that
the one reason the Lord was using him was not because of any goodness
in him. He perceived that, he understood that. He understood
that the Lord was doing this for Israel's sake. And you know,
we understand everything we have of the Lord, he gives us for
Christ's sake. not because of any merit in us,
but for Christ's sake. Verse 13. And David took him
more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem after he was come
from Hebron. And there were yet sons and daughters
born to David, and these be the names of them that were born
unto him in Jerusalem. And you can try to pronounce
them yourself, but what I thought about is why this detail? This was wrong on David's part. And he had Deuteronomy 17, 17,
just like you and I do. The king shall not multiply wives
unto himself. Yet it's pointed out that he
did this anyway in disobedience to God's command. This was sin
then and it's sin now. And this reminds us that although
David is a glorious type, he's just a type. He's just a type. And he proves
that by his actions and his conduct. Now you think about the position
a king was in at that time. A king could do whatever he wanted
to do and nobody could say anything about it. Now you think of the
power he had. If he wanted to have your wife
as his wife, he could say, she's my wife now, she's no longer
yours. He had the power to do that. You know, people say power
corrupts. No, it doesn't. It just reveals
corruption. That's all it does. It doesn't
corrupt. I've heard people say absolute power corrupts absolutely. Well, God has absolute power.
It didn't corrupt him. Power reveals corruption. How
many times have you seen people get into a position where they
think they have some power and it ends up, it doesn't ruin them.
It just reveals what they already were beforehand. And David had
this power that he could just do whatever he wanted to and
what what would I wonder how you and I would Be if we didn't
have any consequences to our actions here on earth We could
just do what we wanted to do because we're the king. Well
David had that power He's the king and he revealed to us what
a sinful weak man he was in himself by doing this There was no excuse
for this He was wrong, but the Bible points this out to us,
so we might know that David's just a type. The best of men
are men at best, and David is a reminder. You know, we love
David, don't we? We see his weaknesses, we see
his flaws, we see ourselves in him. Now, verse 17, but When the Philistines heard that
they'd anointed David king over Israel, all the Philistines came
up to seek David. And David heard of it and went
down to behold. Now, I think this is interesting.
When are the Philistines once again interested in smiting Israel
when David becomes king? Now, here's the point. Men are
not too concerned about God, religion, or anything else until
they hear of the utter kingship of Christ, his absolute sovereignty. Now when we hear that Christ,
not that he's going to be king, but that he is king right now,
and that everybody is in his hand, and he can do with me and
you whatever he's pleased to do, he's absolute king. That's
when men start showing their opposition. Nobody is mad at
a Jesus who He loves everybody and wants to have his way, but
he can't have it unless we let him and all that kind of stuff.
Nobody's mad at that king, but the one who's king of kings and
Lord of lords, the absolute sovereign of the universe, that's the one
people get upset with. And so the Philistines gathered
themselves up together against him at this time. Verse 18, the
Philistines also came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephium. And David, I love this. David
inquired of the Lord, saying, shall I go up to the Philistines?
Will thou deliver them into my hand? And the Lord said unto
David, go up, for I will doubtless deliver the Philistines into
thy hand. What an assurance. Now, David understood, if they're
delivered into my hand, it's because the Lord did it. We understand,
if we're believers, We understand that every aspect of salvation
is of the Lord. It's Him. Not us. It's Him. And we glory in that. And so the Lord gave him this
assurance. Now you'll remember when he got
in trouble is when he said in his own heart, I'm going to do
this or I'm going to do that. That's where it went into the
land of the Philistines. But he's back to inquiring of
the Lord. And you know, we ought not make
a move. We ought not even think about
anything with that inquiring of the Lord. May the Lord put
this in our hearts. David inquired of the Lord, and
the Lord said, doubtless, I'm going to deliver them into your
hand. Now, verse 20, and David came to Baal-parazim, and David
smote them there, and said, the Lord hath broken forth upon mine
enemies before me as the breach of waters, like a big flood,
and just washing them all away. And I couldn't help but think
about The Lord broke forth on our enemies on the cross, didn't
he? My enemies are my sins. They're my deadly enemies that
I can't do anything about, but he did something about them.
And he, he came forth on my enemies like a mighty flood, putting
them all away on Calvary's tree. The Lord did that for every believer. And David came to Baalperazim,
and David smote them there, and said, the Lord hath broken forth
upon mine enemies before me as the breach of waters. Therefore
he called the name of that place Baalperazim. And there they left
their images. Now, the Philistines had brought
their images with them. I guess they thought they would
help them in battle. And I guess in their fleeing and being destroyed,
they left them there. And what did David and his men
do with them? They burned them. They burned them. Now, here's
the point. If I love Christ, I hate idolatry. I hate false images of God. I
hate false gospels, if I love him. I think it's interesting,
a lot of people under guise of love for people, they'll just
keep quiet about that which is contrary to the gospel, that
which is contrary to Christ. But if I love him, I'm going
to burn those idols. That's what they did at this
time. They burned them. They revealed them to be what they
really were, and they burned them. May the Lord give us this
zeal for His glory, love to Him, that causes us to
want to burn up idols. That's what they did. Now, let's
go on reading, verse 22. And the Philistines came up yet
again. And you can be sure they're going
to come again. They're going to come again. They've been defeated
soundly, but they're going to come again. Your enemies will
always be coming again. They came again. The Philistines
came up yet again and spread themselves in the Valley of Rephiam.
And when David inquired of the Lord, he said, thou shall not
go up. Remember he first, he said, shall
I go up? He said, yes. And this time he says, no, no,
thou shall not go up. But fetch a compass behind them,
and come upon them over against the mulberry trees. You go behind
them. You don't come in front of them on a direct attack. You
go behind them. And let it be when thou hearest
the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees. You'll
hear the wind going through the trees. Then thou shalt bestir
thyself. For then shall the Lord go out
before thee to smite the host of the Philistines. And David
did so as the Lord commanded him and smote the Philistines
from Geba until they came to Geiser. Now this time, he doesn't
say give a full frontal attack. He says, go behind them. And
you wait for the sound of the wind in the mulberry trees. And when you hear the rustling
of that wind, when you hear the sound of the wind, go out and
smite them because the Lord has delivered them into your hand.
Now, what does the wind represent in scripture? God, the Holy Spirit. Do you remember the day of Pentecost,
that rushing mighty wind? And through that rushing mighty
wind, the apostles were all enabled to preach the gospel in other
languages. And on that day, Peter preached
that message where 3,000 people were made to bow the knee to
Christ, crying out after they heard the message, men and brethren,
what shall we do? We're in trouble. What shall
we do? And that's when Peter said, repent and be baptized
every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission
of sins and you shall receive the Holy Spirit. But the point
is, First, in the first battle, the Lord shows how he does it
all. In the second battle, he does it all, but he does it all
through the ministry of the Holy Spirit, through the preaching
of the gospel. Don't ever underestimate the
importance of the preaching of the gospel. It pleased God by
the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. That's why preaching is so important. The preacher's not important.
The person hearing's not important. We realize that. It's the gospel
message that God uses, the preaching of the gospel. And that's what
this sound in the mulberry trees represents when you hear. When
you hear the sound of the wind in the mulberry trees, the work
of God the Holy Spirit in the preaching of the gospel, stir
up yourself and go and smite because the Lord is before you.
And this is what takes place in the preaching of the gospel.
So we see two victories. One victory where David didn't
do anything. He just watched the Lord put
a breach on his enemies. And the other, he was to wait
for the wind, because this is how the Lord achieves his victories,
through God the Holy Spirit anointing the preaching of his truth to
the salvation of his people. I like that. I'm real excited
about this sixth chapter. We'll get to that next week.
But this is where the Lord kills Uzzah, and it's where David is
afraid of the Lord after that. And then David comes back the
right way. And then Michael, his wife, despises
him. There's about three lessons in
there I want us to look at, but I'm very, pray for me that the
Lord will give me some light on dealing with this passage
of scripture. I think one thing, I think it's
so funny, you know, where David was dancing mightily before the
Lord, and I listened to God just, he spent the whole time proving
how you ought not ever dance. I thought, why use a passage
of scripture like that to try to prove something like that?
But, oh well, thanks.