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So, tomorrow, something is going to happen, that for most all of us, will be a historical event in our life times.
Something that will not happen again, like this, for nearly another 100 years!
So here is your multiple choice question to see if you know what is going on:
Tomorrow, August 21, 2017, beginning at 12:02 pm (here in Crossville, TN), an event is going to occur across this nation that hasn’t taken place in the US from coast to coast since, June 8, 1918.
This event is:
The Democrat and Republican parties are going to set aside all differences and actually WORK TOGETHER for the good of our country!
Another conference in the NCAA is going to actually pose a threat to the SEC in football this year!
A Total Solar Eclipse is going to take place across the United States.
Elvis is going to come out of retirement and do a major worldwide tour starting in the US!
(SHOW PICTURE) There are many people who are asking about this event and if it means something significant is about to happen, that is, is there some eschatological/Biblical significance to this total solar eclipse?
To that, I will say with a full assurance and confidence, YES, most definitely, it means something of significance!
It means that the same God who spoke the earth, the moon and the sun into existence, thousands of years ago, is still in control and that the orbital pattern that He put these celestial bodies upon, has not changed.
It is predictable and accurate to the point to where about 99 years ago, we knew when the next one would be occurring and was predicted and it is happening tomorrow, the same exact way again!
I do find it interesting that NASA has reported that every year, the moon moves about 3.8 centimeters (1.5 inches) farther away from Earth.
So, what does that mean?
Well, a paper that was published by NASA predicts total solar eclipses will end in about 563 million years, due to this movement!
Anyway, moving on to today’s lesson!
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I have always been completely fascinated by the great king David and his amazing life.
I have shared with many of you over the last few years about my fascination with his story found within the word of God.
David and his tenacity, his strength, his passion were off the charts in comparison to his contemporaries.
Everyone and anyone who has ever been in church for very long and even outside of the church, has probably heard the amazing story of little David slaying the great warring giant known as Goliath, with just a sling and a stone!
But beyond this one story, there lies something else to this great man that goes beyond what many if not most people understand in the world today!
David was not just a shepherd and a skilled hunter with his sling, there was more to this young lad than just bravery above most in his age and time, he was not just the second king of Israel, he was not just a poet and song writer, he was more than a worshipper and he was more than a prophet of God.
There was something about David that captured the eyes of Yahweh.
For, as the Bible tells us, the eyes of the LORD search the whole earth in order to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him.
David and his heart were found to be committed to the God of Israel and because of this, God chose him to be placed upon the throne as the next king over Israel!
However, it goes much deeper than that, as to what God saw in that young man and it is this very thing that I am mentioning to you today, as a reference point for our own relationship with the Lord!
In and also .
we see the same description for David that God gave and that I will read right now, as it found in , “And when he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, of whom he testified and said, ‘I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my heart, who will do all my will.”
So, is that it, the fact that David was willing to listen to and do God’s will?
Is that what made him a man after God’s own heart?
I believe that the description, the title, “A man after God’s own heart” and the willingness of David to follow God’s will, is the outward working of something much deeper within David and in fact the very thing that drew God’s eyes towards David to begin with!
But what was it about David that made him different than his other brothers and his father and their household?
Why was David chosen above other more astute servants in the tabernacle, or someone more prominent as we read of in the description of the first chosen king over Israel, Saul.
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Look at who God chose as the first king of Israel: a prominent wealthy young man, who was the best looking man in the land and tall in stature well as status.
Think about it guys, if you were the best looking man in the nation (hands down), you had money and status and then you were made the US President, how would you feel?
Now there is more to the whole process of Saul becoming the first king or ruler over Israel, but something that I want to mention here is the way in which God elects Saul versus the way that David is chosen.
In , we read
Note the verbiage that God uses about the election of Saul, “you shall anoint him to be prince over my people Israel”.
I Samuel 16
The word used here in the Hebrew for prince is, nā·ḡîḏ, and it means, a leader, a ruler, a prince.
The other thing about the choosing of Saul by God, was the way that God specifically chose to relate Saul’s title to Himself, “prince over MY PEOPLE Israel”.
OK, so now let’s flash forward a few chapters and see how David is chosen by God.
Let’s read ,
Pay close attention to what God says here to Samuel.
“You have mourned long enough for Saul.
I have rejected him as king of Israel, so fill your flask with olive oil and go to Bethlehem.”
Israel leading up to all of this, in , had demanded of Samuel a king to rule over them, like all of the other nations had.
(How many of you know, that wanting what all of the other people have, is not the best choice?!)
Samuel, after having spoken with Yahweh about the matter, warns the people about what would happen if God allowed them a king: ,
“We want to be like the nations around us”!
This problem stems from the early part of the Bible and all the way to the end in Revelation!
When your desire is to be like the world around you and this is what you choose for your covering, there will always be repercussions!
It was never God’s plan for men to have another man serve as king over them; God was to be their king.
(However, God gave them the right and freedom of choice and with that choice, the problems that would follow after!)
So, back to what God said to Samuel and His rejecting Saul as king over Israel.
Remember, God said that Samuel was to anoint Saul as what?
Prince over God’s people, Israel.
(God didn’t says to Samuel anoint Saul as My king over Israel, but rather, anoint him as prince over my people Israel!
Now, we turn back to passage where god tells Samuel, stop your belly aching and get over Saul, “I have REJECTED him as king of Israel”!
God is saying, this man that I appointed to be a ruler over my people, I am officially telling you now, I have rejected him as to what the people wanted, A KING!
At this moment, God then tells Samuel the following, “for I have provided for Myself a king”.
Not a prince, a “nā·ḡîḏ”, but rather, a king, a “mě·lěḵ”.
Melek in Hebrew means, A KING!
And not a king over my people Israel, as God has appointed Saul, but rather, a king for MYSELF, is what God said of David!
God is saying, in a sense, the people, out of their heard hearted and sinful ways, demanded a king and I provided someone to rule over them; not for me, but by me!
Now, God says to Samuel, I have hand picked a king for myself; someone who is not the popularity vote based on looks and money and notoriety (like the world looks for).
This one that I have picked, God is saying, has a heart that is already desiring Me and is attuned to Me!
So, God chose David, purposefully and with a special calling, but what was it within David, that drew God and His divine favor over the young man?
It was more than just David had reverential fear and respect of God (Samuel had that).
It was more than just saying that David had love for God (there were probably many that say they loved God and to a certain limit, they did!)
This same thing goes for today, as Christians and the way that we walk with the Lord; there are many who fear God and many who have love for God.
However, as we are about to look at all the way back to the Old Testament and coming forward to Jesus, this mentality and heart of “having a love” for God, was never what was required of us!
It goes to a MUCH DEEPER level than that!
Did any of you guys ever see the movie, City Slickers?
The main gist of the movie is about 3 friends who pay to go to a dude ranch for an old fashioned cattle drive and in the process they try to recapture some aspects of their lives that they lost in the hustle and bustle of their every day, normal (worldly) lives.
The foreman, a rough and tough old fashioned cowboy, who is forever scaring them, because of his toughness, is finally given the chance to just talk with the main character in one scene.
In this scene, the hardened old cowboy, asks the younger man, “Do you know what the meaning of life is”, at which the younger man replies, “No, what is it?”
The older cowboy holds up his index finger and says, “This!”
To which the younger man says, “Your finger is the answer?”
The older cowboy tells him that the finger represents “the one thing”; that is the meaning of life, the “one thing!”
The young man says, “That’s great, but what is the one thing?”
The older cowboy says, “That’s what you have to figure out.
You figure that out and everything else won’t mean squat!”
That is what I am talking about with David and what made him different and set apart in the eyes of almighty God; THAT ONE THING!
Turn with me to the book of ,
“The ONE THING I ask of the Lord— the thing I seek most— is to live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, delighting in the Lord’s perfections and meditating in his Temple.”
The ONE THING that set David apart was his desire to be in the presence of the Lord!
And this wasn’t a figurative thing; David desired to truly in and around God’s presence at ALL times.
This was before any concept of Holy Spirit dwelling within us as the living temples of almighty God ever existed!
All David knew was that God’s divine presence was in and around the tabernacle and with the Ark of the Covenant.
This is obvious with the account of David preparing a special place for the Ark and then bringing it back into Jerusalem!
David was so ecstatic to have the presence of God within their midst that he had had priests to go before the Ark and praise and thank and invoke the presence of the Lord, all while others were playing instruments and leading praise to God.
All the while, David was so enraptured and happy with God’s presence coming into their city (and around him at all times) that David was passionately dancing before the Lord and singing!
Listen to one line from the song of praise that David sang before the Lord as the Ark was being brought back in, “Oh give thanks to the Lord; call upon his name;
make known his deeds among the peoples!
Sing to him, sing praises to him;
tell of all his wondrous works!
Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice!
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