Hey everybody. Welcome back to another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. And hello. Hey, we were, out this week and Monday, or not Monday, but Tuesday and Wednesday, we were not in office, but we were down in Dallas at Watermark Church, at their church leaders conference, DLC as they often call it CLC. Yeah. And here are some of the major lessons that we've learned. I can't wait for us to share with you those lessons. Pastor P, why don't you go first. Top three things that we learned there. We're not prophets yet you expect that we will be at some point? At some point. At some point, yeah. No. The reason why we go, this is our third year going to this now, is they're a church that's very much different than we are. They're a large, very large church. I don't know how many they've got going there, but upwards of multiple thousands of people there. Every single week they've. We're getting close. Yeah. Yeah. We're not quite at that 60,000 of that church in Alabama. We're close. They preach a biblical gospel for the most part. We would do things a little bit differently there for sure, but there's a lot that we can learn and they're doing things obviously in a way that is doing. Really well. And so we go it's not so much a doctrine in theology conference, like maybe Shepherd's Conference would be, or G three, right? But there's a lot of just really practical helps for the church that we feel like they have done really well and we can go and benefit from them. So there's breakout sessions for leadership. There's breakout sessions for administration. We're taking our whole team down there breakout session for student ministry for. Kids' ministry, there's all kinds of different ways that we can grow and learn, and it's just a good time for us as a staff and a team to fellowship. So hopefully if you remember, this is Wednesday now that we're recording this, and so this is day two. And maybe you can just be praying for us that it would be a fruitful and profitable time for us that we would learn a good amount and be able to bring it back and be better. Then we would've if we hadn't gone. That's right. We can use your prayers. Yeah. Yeah. Church Leaders Conference, if you wanna check it out they've got it on online. You can not the, I don't they can watch it, not the sessions, but you can go find out what it's about on there. Yeah, we'd love for you to do that. They've got great worship. They're responsible for some of the people they got Shane and Shane, I think they go to their church. Davey Flowers. Davey Fly. Yeah. You might not know who they are, but if they, if you ever heard anything by Worship initiative a lot of their people are included in those projects. So if you know that, then you'll know some of the people that go to this church. Yeah. And sometimes they do their. They're recording there. Yeah, I think they do some of the recording up in those towers that they've got there. So yeah, I don't know what they have, but that's a cool place. Yeah. Should be a good time. Alright, let's get into our reading for today. We've got a shorter amount of reading, not as many chapters because we're not in the Psalms today. We'll be back tomorrow. So if you're missing the Psalms, hey, they're coming back tomorrow. You won't miss 'em for too long. That's right. Second signal six, seven, and first Chronicle 17. Now again, we are reading parallel accounts here, so we're gonna run into some of the same information. Again, don't let that discourage you. Don't let that be like, oh, okay, I get a free pass 'cause we've already read this. Keep going, keep reading. Pay attention. Look for what's different. In fact, I think rather than being a reason why you wouldn't read more closely, I think this gives you a reason to read. Instead more closely so that you can observe and notice what the differences are there. Because God's given us both accounts for a reason. He hasn't just repeated himself because he wanted to. He's given us the accounts of Second Samuel and First Chronicles so that we can hold them together, overlap them, and better understand what's going on in each of these texts and passages. So second Samuel, chapter six, we get the attempts to bring the arc to Jerusalem. Again, you'll remember we've already read about that in one Chronicles. So now we're reading about it in two Samuel and there's two attempts. And remember the the problem was with the first attempt that they put the arc on the cart and the oxen stumbled and ZA dies. We read about all of that in Second Samuel chapter six as well. It's a little bit more condensed, a little bit more compact in Second Samuel six than it is in the first Chronicles account. But but a lot of the same material where. The writer of Second Samuel does expound a little bit more is in a couple of interesting points with the second attempt to bring the arc. For example, it says in verse 13 that when they went back to get the arc from Obed Edam, that the Tite's house, and they were carrying it back, it says, when those who bore the ark of the Lord had gone six steps, they sacrificed a fattened animal. I take this as this was a one and done thing. Some people have said every six steps, six steps they stopped. Sacrificed a, an animal through the, for the whole journey back. But I take this more as this was a one and done thing and some commentators said they took six steps and stopped in reference to the Sabbath, that they were consecrating the whole journey of the arc bring back, being brought back to Jerusalem to the Lord. There's just a greater level of intentionality in worship. This is not just about, Hey, let's celebrate because this is a great idea to bring the arc. Back the second time around, it's let's do this because this is a good thing for us to do and this is an act of worship before the Lord and David ends up praising and worshiping God on the way back with the ark. Yeah. I always thought that it was every six steps that's, that sounds like a lot. Sounds like a really generous. Gift on David's part, but I think after what happened with Za the first time, he's we're not doing this wrong this time. We're gonna make sure that if we're sinning, even unknowingly, we're gonna make sure that we're squaring up with God, so that as we take this thing, we're not ac accruing wrath or God's judgment upon us. So I think that's what he did. That's the way that I've read it. However, either way it does show David's intentionality, which I think is appropriate. Sometimes we're so cavalier with God, we just show up and if we wanna worship, we worship. And if we don't. I. There's just so many times that we're just casual with God and I, if there's anything that I miss about the old Covenant, and I've never been under it, thank God. But I do miss that sense of reverence that's built into the system because of the sacrifice. You get a visceral understanding of what your sin does between you and God. And we don't have anything like that, at least not in a physical sense. We could, we have the bread and the wine. Or the grape juice in our case. But we don't have something that's oh man, that's really violent and bloody, and I feel really bad for that animal. It takes extra effort on our part, intentionality, as you said, to be. Aware of who God is as we approach him. Yeah, for sure. And I think there's that side of things. There's the weightiness of witnessing the sacrifices and then there's also just the desire to feel the austere and the reverence and the atmospheric elements, that are there. And it's hard to do that. We meet in a. In a school cafeteria. In a school gym, and the lights are what they are. We, we can't really do much about that. It's these bright, tube lights that I'm sure there's microplastics in them and other things. Microplastic tube lights. I'm just saying as it rains, it's a fluorescent lighting on us. Exactly. Absorbing all of those microplastics Exactly. From the air. It's hard because we have to be careful 'cause you can do too much with the atmosphere, where you can manufacture something that's not genuine. That's true. I think there's also a room in place for it and right now we don't have the luxury to be able to try to do that intentionally, at least with our current setup. But yeah, when we get our own building, we're gonna do incense. We're gonna drop the lights way down. Low stain glass windows. Stain glass wind. Yeah. We're gonna put some, we'll put some feathers in the air ducts so that when the AC turns on I see what you're, the feathers just diamond crusted feathers. Yeah. Yeah. Put some some sparkle, some glitter in there. Yeah. You'll note here in second Samuel chapter six that me call takes a little bit more of a front row position than she does in the first Chronicles. Account, not in a good way. She's despising David saying, Hey, David, you're humiliating yourself. Which really was about humiliating her more than it was anything else. And David chastises her and says, look I'll become even more undignified than this. And I'm not really worried about your opinion. And it seems that Mical is shut up for the rest of her life. Not verbally, although maybe but metaphorically, and she dies childless, she. She is. I think what we're to understand here is put away from David's court. I don't think she really is going to be considered as one of his intimate companions anymore, if we can put it that way. Because of these actions of her despising, David's worship of the Lord, because he was not trying to draw attention to himself or trying to be acting in un unbecoming way and worship. He was worshiping God. And she despised him for that. Yeah. And there's a, there's clear information here that she is a daughter of Saul. There's a con comparison and a contrasting with the prior leadership and God's leadership. God's leadership is unconcerned with the disapproval of man or woman in this case when it's Right, a right disposition toward God. And I think that's really helpful for us to see that the preeminent king of Judah. Israel was a man who was unconcerned, what people thought when he was worshiping, and I think that is probably more helpful to us than to say hey guys. You're drawing too much attention to yourselves. You're dancing in the alleyways and you're yelling. In some churches that might be the case where they need to hear a little bit more. Hey guys, just let's tone it down a bit. Think about your neighbors. Maybe. In churches like ours, the tendency is probably more to be more toned down, more subdued, and maybe inappropriately. Little frozen chosen a little bit, yeah. Chapter seven is one of those hallmark chapters of the Bible. There's ones that you'll remember and you'll go, okay, there's this, there's second Samuel seven is one of those, because in second Samuel chapter seven, we get the Davidic covenant. And so the chapter opens with David saying to Nathan, Hey, I'm sitting in my palace, which is great, but the arc sits in a tent. I wanna build a house for God. And Nathan originally says, go for it. But God. Sends Nathan back to David and says, not so fast, David. I'm not gonna let you build me a house. I'm gonna build you a house. And this is a promise from God that he is going to establish David's house and his name and his fame, but also most importantly his line and that the Davidic throne would last forever. And. Ever. Verse 13, he shall build a house from my name, speaking of the offspring of David. So here Solomon 13 A is Solomon. He shall build a house from my name, that's King Solomon, but 13 B, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. That's gonna be one of the offspring of Solomon. That's gonna be one of the offspring of David. That's gonna be way down the line. That's Jesus. So we are in the already not yet of the fulfillment of the Davidic covenant in the, already in the sense that Christ has come the first time and he is now you could say ruling and reigning even in heaven. But the ultimate fulfillment of this fifth kingdom from Daniel that the kingdom without end, the kingdom that's in the future that is yet in the future, in that we believe will be inaugurated the millennial kingdom. But then from that point forward Jesus is king for the rest of time. And so he's king right now, but in the fullest reality of that's yet. Future, and that will be the fulfillment of two Samuel Chapter seven, this Promise of the Davidic King. No, in verse 14 again what I mentioned yesterday or two days ago from Psalm two, that here again, God promises of this king that I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. And so again, you've got the ancient Near Eastern background. Backdrop of the fact that the kings of these foreign nations were considered to have been adopted by their gods. But here it's, God is saying, no, my son is gonna be the ultimate fulfillment of the Davidic King. It's not gonna be somebody that I'm gonna have to adopt because it's gonna be the begotten one. Jesus Christ is going to be the one that is going to fulfill this ultimately. Yeah. Second Samuel, chapter seven is really important. This is one you wanna remember because it's gonna have strings or tentacles into other texts where we're gonna refer back to this and say, remember when God promised to build David A. House? That's really important. So this is one you want to keep in the back of your mind, one of those chapters that kind of hinges a lot of other texts in the Bible. So second Samuel, chapter seven. Keep that one in your mind. Secondly, lemme just point out to you this something important. Na Nathan tells David, yeah, dude, whatever's on your heart, man, do that. God's clearly with you. Let's go do what you wanna do, man. God wants to do this, and Nathan, the prophet, speaks presumptuously upon God such that God has to say, hold on a second buddy. Let me correct you. You might have thought that I wanted to do what you say, but that's not the case here. Let me redirect you. And so God says, I don't want you to do this. I'm gonna make you a house instead of you making me a house. Really important that you don't presume upon God, even if you have a good, noble desire where it's I wanna do something good for God. That doesn't mean God wants you to do it for him. Does this also mean that pastors sometimes make mistakes? No, I'm not saying that at all. Some pa Yeah, maybe some pastors, some places. But just because something is inherently a good thing doesn't mean that God's endorsing it. Here. Here's the takeaway. Please be prayerful. Don't presume upon the Lord. Make sure that you're seeking the Lord's will, even on things that you might think there's nothing wrong with this. Certainly Nathan was commending David. David, this is a good thing. This is a great thing that you wanna do something so noble for God. Sure, surely God's gonna be okay with this. And he assumed as much, but he was wrong. Don't presume upon the Lord. Yeah. Yeah. And in the, after this, David gets the point and David is humbled to the, to a great degree here. In fact, he says in verse 18, who am I? And what is my house that you've brought me this far, and what can I say to you? Verse 20. And yet he says in verse 19, and yet, this was a small thing in your eyes. A Lord I love that because for David, he's saying this is massive, and yet his view of God is so big that he says of God, yet this is small for you. Like this is no bigs. This overwhelms me. And yet for you, this is a small. Small issue, a small matter. And and then like I said yesterday, David goes on and ask God to do that. Verse 25. And now, oh Lord, confirm forever the word you've spoken concerning your servant. And so he's calling on God to do what God has done. And he's bold in this. It's a imperative in the Hebrew. There, he's commanding God in a sense to be God. And you say how is that? Okay because God cannot do other than that, God cannot do other than to be true to his word and to be who he is. And david is not creating a scenario where he's saying, Hey, God, if you're unsure of what to do, this is what you need to do. And he's not taking a position of authority over God, but he's telling God I'm calling on you to be who you are, which we know God will be. And so there's no other op option, but for God to remain faithful to his word. And so David is just calling on him to be faithful here in this this part. Yeah. That's a really good way to pray. I know I made this connection already, but it's good to remind yourselves when you're praying to the Lord. One way to pray is to pray the promises that God has given you to pray about what you know to be true about God. Obviously you're not commanding God to do anything than other anything other than what he wants to do, but that's a great place to be, Lord. You've proven yourself to be righteous. You are righteous. The the foundations of your throne are righteousness and justice. Therefore, God, I'm asking that you will fill in the blank. It's taking God's word and taking him at his word and saying, Lord, I want you to do what your word says. And I think that's a really interesting and powerful way to pray and to, I'm not gonna say bargain with God, but you're interceding on someone's behalf. Maybe be your behalf or the behalf of your loved one to ask God to fulfill his promises. That's a good place to be. Yep. First Chronicles 17 then is gonna give us a lot of the same information again as a parallel account. But one thing that jumped out to me in one Chronicles 17, verse 11, when God says through Nathan, when your days are fulfilled to walk. With your fathers this is something that's come up a few times with us. What was the concept that they had of the afterlife? And here it seems that there was an understanding that, hey, I'm gonna go be with my forefathers. I'm gonna go be with the ones that have gone before me. 'cause Nathan says, when the days are fulfilled for you to go walk with your fathers he doesn't say for you to go to the grave. He could have said that when the days are filled for you to go to shield, for you to go to the grave. Instead he says, no, for you to go to life beyond this life to walk with your father. Whatever their concept was it as, as robust and fulfilled as what ours is in the New Testament? Certainly not. But they did have an understanding of the fact that there is a life after death. And what's even more cool in this is that life after death is only gonna be possible because of the one that's being. Prophesied about here in one Chronicles 17. That is the Davidic Messiah, Jesus, who's gonna be the foundation of our righteous standing before the Lord. For both those in the Old Testament and the New Testament we just have the advantage of looking back at him on the backside of the cross rather than trying to anticipate what God was gonna do, like the Old Testament saints had to do. Yeah. It's called progressive revelation as God makes more and more clear things that are a bit obscure and fuzzy on the front end. Another thing that stood out to me, pastor PJ, was, so as I was reading, I noticed in verse 16, king David went in and sat before the Lord. That stood out to me because I, in my mind, I don't know, I, I assume that he was standing, was a regal. He's a king. He stands before the Lord. Maybe he holds his hands out and says, thank you, Lord, that you, I could just, in my mind, I'm imagining what that scene looked like, but here he sits, and I think this is important because it conveys the attitude and the posture of David's heart. It's humility. He sits before the Lord. A child would sit before his parent, as a just to connect with the parent, to enjoy the parent. He's sitting I don't know if he's crisscross applesauce, but he's sitting down and he's just praising the Lord. Yeah, and just I think he's overwhelmed and overcome and what God has just said, who am I? Oh Lord, that you would do this. I just see such an interesting. And helpful and even attractive display of David's faith and that's, this is why he's the preeminent king in the Old Testament. He's the one that is foreshadowing the true king Jesus because of his humility, his posture. His love of the Lord. It is so pure, it is so sincere. And would that we would all grow this kind of heart before the Lord. It would do us all such good to have this kind of humility before the Lord. Because it would encourage us, it would encourage the Lord. I think we can sincerely do that, and it would be such a blessing to the people that are able to see and witness our faith before God. Amen to that. Let's pray and then we'll be done with this episode. God give us that mindset, that humility like we see here with David. We certainly want that. We don't wanna presume, we don't wanna be arrogant or or those that, that assume that we've even got tomorrow. Even thinking about James, when James says, when you say, Hey, today or tomorrow we're gonna go into this town and do such and such a thing. You should say, if the Lord wills God give us the humility to. To trust you, to trust your hand of guidance, and not to to claim things that aren't ours to claim. And certainly the future is not ours to claim. We don't know what tomorrow's gonna hold. And so help us to trust in you today, for today and all we need today. And certainly the word is part of that. And help us to spend time in the word today and to grow from it. We pray in Jesus name, amen. Amen. Keep in your Bibles tuning in again tomorrow for another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. We'll see you. Bye.

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