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Prayer
The last two weeks we have talked about Christ being the epicenter of the New Creation...
As well as Christ being the blessing of Abraham to the nations!
This week, we turn our attention to the last title we see here in Matthew’s genealogy.
If you have ever seen or read the Chronicles of Narnia...
there is a magical land of Narnia that a young girl finds in her wardrobe.
The land of Narnia had been under the control of the White Witch who kept the land in continuous winter.
Narnia experienced continual winter but never Christmas.
This meant there was bitter cold for hundreds of years without the slightest bit of celebration.
This kind of Christmas-less winter is an experience all too familiar to us as humans.
We understand it from a core level of our being.
Our world can often seem marked by perpetual winter and NO Christmas.
Perpetual bitter coldness without the slightest ray of hope and joy.
World wars which are like blistering winter air on our face.
Hunger and poverty that feel like cold ice on wind bitten fingers.
All of it the bitter cold reminder that we live in a fallen world.
Just like Narnia was under the power of the White Witch that kept winter for hundred’s of years without Christmas…
So is the situation we find ourselves to when we turn to the NT.
The world is under the power and sway of the evil one.
Now before we go diving into what Matthew meant by this title, we need some background!
Acknowledge the Need for a King
“Prone to Wander”
Unlike the people of Narnia, we were active participants in the winter season.
We were not simply just fallen pray to winter, we helped make winter, winter.
In the OT, at the end of the period we call the Judges we see the people of Israel in their darkest season yet.
There was no king in Israel.
Which meant everyone was their own judge and ruler.
Everyone did what was right in their own eyes.
We Have Wayward Hearts
“Wandering Hearts”
We can’t think ourselves any better than them.
We would have been just as rebellious and wayward if we would have been in their position.
After the Judges, the people demand a king that they want and Saul becomes king.
But King Saul was a rebellious king who was not pleasing to the Lord.
The fact that God could give us a king and the king act as all the other nations shows us also that we…
We Have Rebellious Hearts
“Bad to the Bone”
Not only do we have wayward hearts that wander without a king.
When we finally get a king, he is worst than we are…
We Have A Need
“Just Ruler”
We need someone to lead us out of the perpetual state of winter.
We need someone to break this cycle of winter and introduce spring again.
How is this need going to be fulfilled?
1 Samuel 13:14 (ESV)
The Lord has sought out a man after his own heart, and the Lord has commanded him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept what the Lord commanded you.”
Samuel is commanded to go to Jesse (David’s fathers) and anoint the next king.
There he will find the next king of Israel.
Not just any young man will do.
Not just any son of Jesse.
There is ONE particular son and by all appearances David is not that one..
The LORD is the ONE who looks at the heart.
He does not look on the outward appearance.
All of Jesse’s sons passed by and Samuel rejected them all.
Why do you think Jesse kept this son back?
It wasn’t because he was too young.
This is the same man who would later have said that he killed lions and bears.
When we think about Jesse’s view of David we need to have in our minds that he was rejected by his own family.
They didn’t enjoy having David around.
God saw the heart and saw that David was after His.
He would be anointed and go on the slay giants, fight wars, and become king of Israel.
Upon becoming king, David had to choose where his throne would be…
Where would David build the kingdom?
Remember the trajectory…
Abraham was God’s promise of blessing to the nations.
Now if you were David, and you wanted to be faithful to God’s promise, where would you build your kingdom?
The city of Jerusalem is only mentioned in Genesis 14:18-20 prior to David.
Jerusalem was the city that Melchizedek was prince over from which he blessed Abraham.
God has promised the land to Abraham like we saw last week.
David begins to pursue the land that he knew was God’s promise to Abraham.
it is appropriate to think of the city of Jerusalem in terms of God’s promise to Abraham.
David came to Jerusalem to fulfill that promise.
We need to have in our mind the trajectory of fulfillment from Abraham to David and trending upward.
The presence of the Lord eventually came to dwell in the city of David.
(2 Sam 6)
It is in this context that I want us to pause and consider the promise that God makes toward David.
God reiterated his promise to David in terms that prepare us for its fulfillment in Jesus.
Jesus must be understood in the light of God’s promise as it was made to David.
Now it’s still blistering cold outside.
At this time, winter is still upon everyone.
We need to recognize the kind of king we need so we can begin to anticipate His arrival.
Recognize the Kind of King We Need
“God’s Promise”
God tells David that His presence has never dwelt in a house.
He has always dwelt with the people in tents.
Instead of God allowing David to build, God promises to build a house for David.
The promise that God makes to David is astounding.
God promises David that when he passes away one of his offspring/seed will sit on his throne forever.
It’s important to recognize the kind of kingdom God promises...
The Kind of Kingdom
The promise is for a kingdom.
This promise is for a established kingdom.
Established forever
This son of David will…
Now it is easy to see that immediately after David will come Solomon who will build the temple.
But God’s promise for David is much larger than simply Solomon or the kings after him.
He is promising an eternal throne to a singular “seed”, “offspring”
Promised Son
But this promise from God to David is bigger than simply building the temple.
2 Samuel 7:14 (ESV)
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