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Cinderella part 2. Cinderella came home from the palace and reconnected with her sisters.

How was she gonna be treated?

She is the princess now would there be redemption, right?

Well step mother was still step mother, but one of her sisters Anastasia reconciled with Cinderella and she helped her with a boy she liked.

In the end, we witness forgiveness on Cinderella's part and the development of a relationship with her step sister.

Cinderella part 2. Cinderella came home from the palace and reconnected with her sisters.

How was she gonna be treated?

She is the princess now would there be redemption, right?

Well step mother was still step mother, but one of her sisters Anastasia reconciled with Cinderella and she helped her with a boy she liked.

In the end, we witness forgiveness on Cinderella's part and the development of a relationship with her step sister.

Like Cinderella, Christ is coming back.

We will be in the presence of the King of kings.

We will be in the presence of royalty.

Will we be like the step mother, using it as a self-centered opportunity?

Will we be eager for claim our rewards?

Will we be repentant?

Will we be found faithful?

Will we simply be happy that Christ is back?

What will we do at the King’s homecoming?

As we saw last time, David was cast out of the kingdom because of Absalom.

The final battle for the kingdom took place and Absalom was defeated and paid for it with his life.

Now David, the rightful king, was coming back to Israel.

What was everyone going to do? Well Israel eventually moved past their hesitancy and decided that they would welcome David back to the throne of Israel, but for some reason, Judah, David's own tribe, was hesitant and still not committed to welcoming him back to the throne.

After an appeal from David, he finally won their hearts and Judah finally called him back to the kingdom.

And now before David even got to the palace, he had 3 important encounters with some key figures in David being exiled.

What will they do with this homecoming?

Shimei fell before the king, knowing that he will be judged, and repented for all that transpired when David had to flee.

Not only that, we saw that he would come face to face with Ziba and the found to be faithful, Mephibosheth and would have to make a judgement as to what actually happened and what should be done because of all that transpired.

Not only that, he would come face to face with a man who was consistently obedient and faithful to David and David tried to reward him.

But, Barzillai showed a wonderful picture of true godliness with contentment.

Something we can all learn in our consuming culture today.

And in this passage, we see repentance, the finding of faithfulness, and consistent obedience with David's homecoming.

Hear the word of the Lord.

2 Samuel 19:

The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever.

The Hesitance

The Encounters

The Gospel

Today as we go through this passage, I will first look at the Hesitant people in accepting the homecoming of the king and how this would be experienced by Christ in his coming.

Then we will look at each of the encounters faced by David on his return and how it will parallel the coming of Christ and His return.

Will we be repentant, found to be faithful, and consistently obedient?

Finally, we will see how Christ was obedient and found to be faithful for our sake for all eternity.

Thesis: Though sin and the pattern of this world cause us to look out for our own interests, as always it is the presence of the king that will draw us to repentance, faithfulness, and obedience by the power of the Spirit.

I.

The Hesitance

I.

The Hesitance

-How will we respond when the King comes back?

A. What is up with the people?

Why all the hesitance?

Is David not the undisputed king of Israel anointed and confirmed by the prophet Samuel and shown to be divinely sanctioned blessed in all of his exploits?

We see that Israel came to their senses, but why not Judah?

Is this even possible?

B. Judah is David's tribe.

They were his immediate family... they are David's ... using David's words... my flesh and blood.

Why the hesitance?

So David appeals.

C.

He appeals to their sense of ethnicity.

Look at who you are.

How could you let the other tribes to bring me back?

He appealed to relationship.

We are flesh and blood.

He appeals to the elimination of their anxiety by appointing Amasa showing that there will be no retribution against the people who supported Absalom.

David overcame the hesitance.

David once again won the heart of the people.

D. And did not our Lord receive similar hesitance at His coming?

The people did not know how to receive him.

Many even rejected Him.

Those of his own flesh and blood.

But in the end, He won the hearts of many.

He won the hearts of His people.

He overcame our hesitance.

He won our hearts did he not?

E. Some of us today may have a hesitance to accept the king, but it is my hope and prayer that he will win our hearts today with the Gospel.

II.

Encounters

- Repentance, faithfulness, and contentment.

A.

Here are the moments David has with some who played an integral role when he was exiled.

Now that David is back what will they do?

Encounter number 1. Repentance.

Shimei falls at the feet of David and apologizes for all that he did before.

You remember him, right?

He is the guy that cussed at him, verbally abused him, and threw rocks at him when he David was fleeing.

He was the abusing enemy of David.

His men wanted to cut off his head.

But David saw him as an instrument of the Lord's judgement.

B. Now Shimei's repentance may not have been all genuine.

As we will see later.

But it is clear that he has gathered men and came before the king appealing to David's mercy.

All of what he did in gathering the army was appeal to David’s policy of mercy.

The mercy given to a surrender.

But, why would he appeal to the mercy of king if there was no mercy to be found.

Because there was mercy.

C. In the coming of our Lord.

Will we appeal to His compassion?

We should because there is mercy to be found in Him.

- Now why would John declare repentance if there was no possibility of the King being merciful to us? Repentance comes because we believe that our Lord is one full of mercy and rich in love.

Lloyd H. Steffen wrote in The Christian Century how when King Frederick II, an eighteenth-century king of Prussia, was visiting a prison in Berlin, the inmates tried to prove to him how they had been unjustly imprisoned.