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Text: 2 Samuel 22:1-23:39
Theme: At the end of his life David utters his last words.
A person who rules over others in righteousness is like the light of the morning sunrise.
Date: 10/24/2021 File name: King_David_17 ID Number: OT10-22
Over the centuries, famous Christians have often been remembered for the last words they spoke.
Examples include ...
Robert Murray McCheyne.
He is remembered as one of Scotland’s greatest preachers who died at the early age of twenty-nine of typhoid.
His last words were actually a quote from 1 Corinthians 15:58: ‘Be steadfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.”
John Owen, the most famous of all the English Puritans, on his deathbed said, “I am going to him whom my soul loveth, or rather who has loved me with an everlasting love, which is the soul ground of all my consolation.”
On April 9, 1945, Lutheran pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer is hanged at Flossenburg, only days before the American liberation of the POW camp.
The last words of the brilliant and courageous 39-year-old opponent of Nazism were “This is the end — for me, the beginning of life.”
D. L. Moody, famous 19th century evangelist who was the “Billy Graham” of his era, said shortly before he died, “Earth recedes, Heaven opens before me!
If this is death, it is sweet.
There is no valley here.
God is calling me, and I must go.”
King David’s last words are found here in 1 Samuel 23:1-7.
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We’ve come to the closing years of King David’s life and the author of 2 Samuel is going to provide us an epilogue of a number of events that occurred at different times in David’s reign.
They are not in chronological order, but they serve as a conclusion to the entire narrative of 1st and 2nd Samuel.
I’m not going to offer any commentary on these events, but I do want to mention them so that you’re aware of them.
I encourage you to read of them at your own leisure.
Justice for the Gibeonites (2 Samuel 21:1-14)
Battles against Philistine Giants (2 Samuel 21:15-22).
David’s song of thanksgiving to God (2 Samuel 22:1-51)
David’s disobedience in taking a census of Israel, God’s judgment for doing so, and David’s repentance and worship (2 Samuel 24:1-25)
As we come to 1 Samuel 23, we have the last words of Israel’s greatest and most influential king.
He’s a man from humble beginnings, whom God singles out as His instrument to accomplish His will for His people, Israel.
His final words declare both the secret of a king’s success and the effect of a successful leader of God’s people.
I. A SUMMARY OF DAVID’S LIFE
1. David’s life can be divided into five periods
A. EARLY LIFE
1. these are the preparatory years of David’s life — the years when God will begin to form David’s life through events and the people he meets
2. he was born into an obscure family in the town of Bethlehem, in the Hebrew tribe of Judah
a. he was the great-grand-son of Ruth and Boaz, and the youngest of eight sons of Jesse
b. his family chore was to tend the family’s sheep herd
1) during this time he become skilled in the use of the sling and the harp
3. the shepherd years were interrupted suddenly when the Prophet Samuel shows up in Bethlehem and anoints David as future king of Israel in the presence of his family
B. LIFE IN THE PALACE
1. Saul, because of his disobedience to God, is rejected by God who then sends an angel of judgement to torment Saul’s mind and spirit
a. music is the only thing that seems to calm him when the angel troubles his spirit and thus David is employed to play and sing for the king
2. all is well until David kills the giant Goliath, and the women of Israel begin singing songs of David’s Philistine body-count as greater than Saul’s
a. their relationship quickly sours after Saul attempts to “pin David to the wall” with his spear
3. David flees from Saul’s presence which puts a strain on his friendship with Jonathan, Saul’s son
a. the friendship endured and becomes one of the great examples of deep abiding friendship in all of literature — ancient and modern
4. David lives the life of a fugitive alternating time in the Judean wilderness and refuge with the Philistines
C. KING OF JUDAH: The Unstable Years
1. David is in the wilderness with his followers when word comes that King Saul and Jonathan have been killed in battle with the Philistines
a. the leaders of the tribe of Judah respond by anointing David as their king ... David is thirty years old
b. he conquers the City of Jerusalem and rebuilds it as his capitol
2. it is not a time of peace, however
a. to the north, the remaining Israelite tribes select Ishbosheth, Saul’s son, as their king and civil war breaks out
b. the war ends when some of Ishbosheth’s own men assassinate him on his bed
D. KING OF ALL ISRAEL: The Stable Years
1. these become years of stability
a.
David subdues all of Israel’s enemies
b. he expands Israel’s boarders and influence
c. the nation flourishes
2. David rules over a united Israel for thirty-three years
E. KING OF ALL ISRAEL: The Years of Sorrow
1. David’s greatest years came to a sudden end when he fell into scandal
a. he has a brief affair with Bathsheba, and then has her husband assassinated when she turns up pregnant
b.
Nathan the prophet appears, condemning David for his sin
2. David sincerely repents, but God tells him that the consequences will be far-ranging for David’s family and even the nation
a. a daughter is raped by her own half-brother
b.
Absalom, another son, has the half-brother assassinated and then flees the nation
c.
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