February 19, 2023 - The Coming King
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How many of you enjoyed these when you were younger?
SLIDE: *Where’s Waldo
I used to love these - still do - and enjoy doing these sorts of things with my kids now.
What’s the point?
To find - Waldo
When we would TRY to find Waldo - we went into it KNOWING a couple of things...
We KNEW he was in there somewhere!
We knew NO MATTER what page we turned to - HE WAS THERE...
And he ALWAYS looked - the same!
THEREFORE - we knew WHAT to look for!
Was it the striped shirt? - OR the hat?
OR - the wide-eyes with glasses?
TODAY - we’re going to take a break from our trek through the Samuels...
And focus today on - FINDING Christ in 1 Samuel.
Last week - we finished up the book of 1 Samuel...
a Book that records the establishment of Israel’s monarchy...
ABOUT 1050 B.C.
So - 1000 years BEFORE Christ....
YET - IN this book - if we KNOW WHAT TO LOOK FOR - we will see Jesus Christ in its pages.
If you have any experience with biblical hermeneutics / Interpretation...
You more than likely have heard of - Biblical Typology.
Typology is basically - the study of - OR - analysis of TYPES or Categories.
And so - when applying this concept to - JESUS...
You’ll hear it spoken of as - Christological Typology
A more formal definition would be this...
SLIDE:
Christological Typology is primarily concerned with identifying and interpreting the parabolic representations of the person and work of Jesus Christ that are found in the people, things, and events of the Old Testament.
And so today - we’ll see some TYPES of Christ.
We’re going to look at CONTRASTS and COMPARISONS to Christ...
And we’ll START with the Constrasts.
And so - I guess to START - we’ll look at an ANTI-TYPE of Christ.
To DO that - we’ll look at Saul.
The first contrast - -
SLIDE:
A Contrast in Kingship:
Where Saul shrunk back from the role of King, Christ stepped forward and fulfilled it.
Where I want us to go is to Saul’s anointing!
20 Then Samuel brought all the tribes of Israel near, and the tribe of Benjamin was taken by lot.
21 He brought the tribe of Benjamin near by its clans, and the clan of the Matrites was taken by lot; and Saul the son of Kish was taken by lot. But when they sought him, he could not be found.
22 So they inquired again of the Lord, “Is there a man still to come?” and the Lord said, “Behold, he has hidden himself among the baggage.”
I hope we REMEMBER this section of text...
It tells us that when Saul was first PROCLAIMED KING before all the people of Israel...
He couldn’t be FOUND...
And it says he couldn’t BE FOUND - BECAUSE - what does this verse say?
“he hid HIMSELF among the baggage”
Saul had CHOSEN to HIDE himself...
and LOOKING BACK NOW at what ended up playing out - OH WHAT a foreshadowing that was - TO WHAT WOULD COME!!
Saul - AS WE KNOW - fell SHORT of ALL that was expected of him...
SURE - he had some good moments...
Had some good victories...
BUT - when a KING was NEEDED - he was often - absent...
hiding in the caves - AWAY from the battle.
Choosing NOT to step forward and fight the Philistines...
Choosing NOT to step forward and fight Goliath…!
Here we had - a KING - choosing cowardice - over conviction
THAT’s SAUL.... How about Christ?
Did Christ ALSO - hide amongst the baggage?
Let’s see...
1 When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples across the brook Kidron, where there was a garden, which he and his disciples entered.
2 Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, for Jesus often met there with his disciples.
3 So Judas, having procured a band of soldiers and some officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, went there with lanterns and torches and weapons.
4 Then Jesus, knowing all that would happen to him, came forward and said to them, “Whom do you seek?”
5 They answered him, “Jesus of Nazareth.” Jesus said to them, “I am he.” Judas, who betrayed him, was standing with them.
Think through the CONTRAST...
SAUL - NOT KNOWING how life would play out - KNOWING he would be king...
HIDES himself - in the baggage...
When it was TIME to SHOW the PEOPLE who would LEAD THEM...
Who would lead them economically...
Who would lead them INTO BATTLE...
he takes the opportunity - and HIDES!
BUT JESUS - What does the song say?
Oh, let me tell ya bout my Jesus!
Read it again - VERSE 4!
“Then Jesus, KNOWING ALL THAT WOULD HAPPEN TO HIM…
(knowing all the BETRAYAL)
Knowing ALL the humiliation
knowing ALL the PAIN
What did he do?
He.CAME.FORWARD!
Man! I want to be MORE like this....don’t YOU?
You mean - there’s a chance to speak about Jesus with my longtime friend?
He.CAME.FORWARD! - Can I?
You mean - there’s a chance to show MERCY to that person who WRONGED me greatly?
He.CAME.FORWARD! - Can I?
You mean - there’s a chance to give money to the poor / to the downtrodden / to the hurting / to the church?
He.CAME.FORWARD! - Can I?
Not ONLY did Jesus NOT shrink back from His Kingship - but He EPITOMIZED what it MEANS - to RULE AS KING!
To STEP FORWARD - for the sake of HIS PEOPLE!
SAUL - Shrunk back...
CHRIST - Stepped Forward!
The next CONTRAST…?
SLIDE:
A Contrast in Obedience
Where Saul disobeyed God at will, Christ did only the will of God.
We’ve walked thru this AT LENGTH...
Saul was known for disobedience...
In Chapter 13 we read of Saul’s UNLAWFUL sacrifice...
He was told to wait 7 days for Samuel…And Samuel would come and perform the sacrifice!
He didn’t wait long enough - and decides to do it himself
In Chapter 15 Saul was told to destroy the Amalekites…to wipe them out...
INSTEAD - he keeps the best of the livestock…and brings back their king…alive.
Later on - as we read a couple weeks ago - Saul seeks to hear from God but God doesn’t respond...
What does he do?
He DISOBEYS God by going to a medium...
He wanted to talk to the spirit of Samuel - SO HE COULD hear from God.
At every turn it seems - Saul chooses disobedience!
How about Christ?
All we really need to do is listen to Jesus’ own words...
To start - Jesus KNEW the will of the Father!
49 And he said to them, “Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father’s house?”
OR - about my Father’s business...
He also SOUGHT the will of the Father:
30 “I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.
He SURRENDERED to the will of the Father...
38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me.
19 So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise.
AND OF COURSE - Jesus DID the will of the Father!
34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.
31 but I do as the Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go from here.
Jesus Christ only did the WILL of the Father...
No WAVERING!
As true as THIS verse is...
5 The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
As TRUE as this verse is...
SO TRUE is the reality...
THAT Christ’s OBEDIENCE to the Father...
was… ONLY PERFECTION CONTINUALLY
So far - we’ve seen a Contrast in Kingship and a Contrast in Obedience...
To close out the CONTRASTS - let’s look to the last...
SLIDE:
A Contrast in Glory
Where Saul sought his own glory in his life, Christ glorified the Father in all He said and did.
On Saul’s side - we talked about it last week -
When Saul wasn’t in danger - he was willing to SIN - or - DISHONOR God - to make sure he stayed alive...
AND -
When we WAS in danger and about to die - he spent his last breaths DEFENDING his OWN honor....
not wanting the Philistines to DISHONOR him in death.
And so SAUL SOUGHT his own GLORY in his life...
But what about Christ?
I think we just need to go to 1 passage to find that answer...
1 When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you,
2 since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him.
3 And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
4 I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do.
5 And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.
Pretty clear!
Jesus sought to GLORIFY the Father in His living AND His dying...
in COMPLETE contrast to Saul.
SO - in SAUL - we see CONTRASTS to Jesus Christ!
A Contrast in Kingship
A Contrast in Obedience
A Contrast in Glory
And so in LOOKING at Saul - we can see an ANTI-TYPE of Christ - and THEREFORE see who Christ IS...
Now - That’s the CONTRASTS....
How about some COMPARISONS…?
We start with Samuel!
SLIDE:
A Comparison of Speech
Surrendered to God in Speaking for God
From the very beginning of his life - Samuel was dedicated in service to God...
If you remember Samuel’s mom - Hannah…she made this vow to God back in chapter 1...
10 She was deeply distressed and prayed to the Lord and wept bitterly.
11 And she vowed a vow and said, “O Lord of hosts, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your servant and remember me and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a son, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and no razor shall touch his head.”
And so Samuel began to grow...
18 Samuel was ministering before the Lord, a boy clothed with a linen ephod.
26 Now the boy Samuel continued to grow both in stature and in favor with the Lord and also with man.
NOW - This is the boy - Samuel...
How about the boy Jesus?
52 And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man.
Let’s look at both verses together...
SLIDE: Both 1 Sam 2:26 and Luke 2:52
Clearly Samuel was a TYPE of Christ…!
Throughout this book of 1 Samuel - we find Samuel SPEAKING for God - to the PEOPLE of God...
Samuel WARNED the people
Samuel ENCOURAGED the people
Samuel JUDGED the people
Jesus was NO different - SPEAKING only what the Father had told Him to say...
16 So Jesus answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.
Could Samuel had said this same thing??
YES!
26 I have much to say about you and much to judge, but he who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him.”
Could Samuel had said this?
Of course!!
Why?
Because LIKE Christ - Samuel surrendered himself to SPEAK for God!
Samuel - a TYPE of Christ!
But what else?
Another comparison!
SLIDE:
A Comparison of Trust
Surrendered to God in Trusting God Through Life
For this - we look to Jonathan!
You guys remember this quote from Jonathan?
“Perhaps God will work for us?”
What was the scenario?
Jonathan and his armor bearer were on a ridge, and Jonathan had plans to ATTACK...
4 Within the passes, by which Jonathan sought to go over to the Philistine garrison, there was a rocky crag on the one side and a rocky crag on the other side. The name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.
Needless to say - this wasn’t the IDEAL terrain to launch an attack!
AND YET!
We read this...
6 Then Jonathan said to the young man who was carrying his armor, “Come and let us cross over to the garrison of these uncircumcised; perhaps the Lord will work for us, for the Lord is not restrained to save by many or by few.”
PERHAPS God will work for us!
Jonathan was confident in WHO GOD WAS...
AND - What GOD COULD - DO...
He wasn’t confident that VICTORY would be theres!...
But he was confident that...
YES - He was 100% CERTAIN that God - COULD do it. COULD bring victory!
YES - God is ABLE to DO IT
YES - God MAY WELL be PLEASED to do it...
and because THAT’S true...
We’ll NEVER KNOW unless we - STEP OUT and - - SEE!
**YESTERDAY - on the way to Trey’s meet (Columbus) - LONG LINE on highway
In saying “PERHAPS” - Jonathan was confessing the POWER of God (God CAN do this)
But in saying “PERHAPS” - He’s also acknowledging the FREEDOM of God to do as He pleases!!
Faith is NOT the MASTER of God!
Faith recognizes its own - ignorance!
“PERHAPS God will work for us”
Jonathan was willing to walk INTO - the “Perhaps” of God!
He TRUSTED God in his LIVING!
How about Jesus?
Well - with Jesus we can ALSO say that He TRUSTED God in His living...
Remember the story of Lazarus?
He dies - and Jesus goes to the tomb to raise him from the dead?
Listen to what Jesus said...
39 Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, “Lord, by this time there will be an odor, for he has been dead four days.”
40 Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?”
Is Jesus speaking here - using “PERHAPS” language?
Did Jesus comes to the tomb of Lazarus - to KINDA / SORTA / MAYBE see if something powerful was gonna happen??
NO - Jesus came to the tomb - CERTAIN that this was GOING TO HAPPEN!
“Did i not tell you - that if you believed - YOU WOULD see the glory of God?”
41 So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me.
42 I knew that you always hear me, but I said this on account of the people standing around, that they may believe that you sent me.”
43 When he had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out.”
There was no - PERHAPS God will bring him out of the tomb...
And so - what we saw from Jonathan - we see MORESO in Christ!
SLIDE:
The “perhaps of God” with Jonathan becomes certainty with Christ.
and so JONATHAN - a TYPE of Christ...
a TYPE of something Greater!
And look at how Christ’s CONFIDENCE - rubs off on those who believe...
3 And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
4 Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God.
5 Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God,
ONLY THROUGH Christ - are we confident before God!
And so - SO FAR we’ve seen...
a comparison of SPEECH (between Samuel and Christ)....
and
a comparison of TRUST in God in our LIVING (between Jonathan and Christ)
Our last comparison is between DAVID and Christ
SLIDE:
A Comparison of Trust
Surrendered to God in Trusting God in Death
How many of you remember these famous last words of Jesus on the cross?
46 Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” And having said this he breathed his last.
What we might not know is that Jesus here - was actually quoting David...
IF we look at Psalm 31:5, we’ll see this...
5 Into your hand I commit my spirit; you have redeemed me, O Lord, faithful God.
Why would David say this?
1 In you, O Lord, do I take refuge; let me never be put to shame; in your righteousness deliver me!
2 Incline your ear to me; rescue me speedily! Be a rock of refuge for me, a strong fortress to save me!
3 For you are my rock and my fortress; and for your name’s sake you lead me and guide me;
4 you take me out of the net they have hidden for me, for you are my refuge.
11 Because of all my adversaries I have become a reproach, especially to my neighbors, and an object of dread to my acquaintances; those who see me in the street flee from me.
13 For I hear the whispering of many— terror on every side!— as they scheme together against me, as they plot to take my life.
David felt the pressure of his enemies ALL AROUND him...
PLOTTING to take his life...
Sounds like something Christ COULD say...
They’re out to take my life...
NOW - David doesn’t die here in this Psalm...
But David ISN’T GOD -
He didn’t KNOW for certain how things were going to play out…!
By HIM saying these words - - David shows us that he trusted God - IN HIS DYING...
And it’s this SAME THING we see with Christ! - EXCEPT kicked UP a DIVINE notch!
Jesus makes this same statement - as His last words on the cross...
46 Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” And having said this he breathed his last.
NOW - we want to dive into the ramifications of these words…by Christ
How painful was crucifixion - do you think?
Dangerous?
Was it - LIFE Threatening?
Were the Romans professional killers?
YES - to all....
YET - understand this - At NO TIME - was Jesus’ life - AT THE MERCY of the Romans, or the Jews, OR EVEN the cross itself!!
Jesus said what? - - I COMMIT my spirit to you Father!!
Jesus is saying - I’M IN CHARGE here!!
And this makes complete sense with what else we see Jesus say in Scripture...
11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
15 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.
17 For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it up again.
18 No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from my Father.”
Jesus WILLINGLY gave up His life!!
NO ONE took His life from Him...
His AUTHORITY is such that if He chooses to be killed - then man will MAKE DECISIONS to put Him on a cross - and Jesus will freely surrender His spirit to the Father!
NOW - I get it, that sounds like premeditated somethin!
Well - yeah it is...
27 for truly in this city there were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel,
28 to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place.
Jesus on the cross - PLAN A of God.
And so when Jesus - on the CROSS - says - into Your hands i commit my spirit...
it shows His DEEP trust in the Father - that His enemies would NOT BE victorious!!
There’s no = PERHAPS here!!
The word Jesus uses here for - COMMIT...
It has the meaning - TO SET BEFORE - to make a DEPOSIT
Jesus entrusted His spirit to the Father! He TRUSTED the Father!!
And think about THIS - Christ’s CONFIDENCE before the Father - His ENTRUSTING His spirit to the Father -
actually PURCHASED David’s CONFIDENCE before the Lord!!
AND - by implication....
is WHY WE can be confident in death as WELL!!
We - AS BELIEVERS - should find GREAT comfort in Jesus’ statement!!
His TRUST in the Father - IN HIS DYING...
Has PURCHASED for us - a REASON to be confident as well!!
Our spirits DO NOT cease to exist upon death!
We can be CONFIDENT - that BY FAITH in Christ - our spirit’s TOO - will be found SAFE with the Father - in the end!
What have we seen today…?
We’ve seen CONTRASTS and COMPARISONS...
Looking at SAUL - we see a form of Anti-Type to Christ...
CONTRASTS:
A Contrast in Kingship
A Contrast in Obedience
A Contrast in Glory
Contrast in Kingship:
Saul shrunk back from his kingship (often)
Jesus - STEPPED forward - walked toward the suffering - embraced it - For HIS people!
Contrast in Obedience:
Saul OFTEN walked away from obedience - did his own THING!
Jesus - was OBEDIENT unto DEATH...
Jesus ONLY did the will of the Father!
Contrast in Glory:
Saul lived his life - Often for his own glory…for his own honor...
Jesus - Glorified the Father in his living - completely OBEDIENT to the Father’s will - and IN HIS dying
ON the FLIP SIDE - we looked at Comparisons as well!
We looked at TYPES of Christ!
COMPARISONS:
SLIDE:
Like Christ...
SAMUEL - Surrendered to God in Speaking for God
JONATHAN - Surrendered to God in Trusting God in Life
DAVID - Surrendered to God in Trusting God in Death
And so looking back at 1 Samuel - we hopefully see these men - POINTING to Christ...
JESUS CHRIST - the POINT of all of it!
Jesus Christ - the coming - King of Kings!
Let’s pray