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Good morning.

Today we are moving into episode 17 of the plan.

If you haven't been with us in this series.

So far.

What we're doing is we're going through the story of the Bible.

From beginning to end, we started in September.

And our goal is to meet up with the Resurrection on Easter Sunday.

And we've been trying to focus on the story that the single story that's being told throughout the whole Bible.

The one story that all the little stories are about the reason we've been focusing on that is because as Christians, we are part of that story.

This is the Bible is telling us what story we are living in and who we are meant to be what God wants for us.

And it's also the story that we're inviting others into when we share the gospel.

And what we've been saying throughout the series is that the Bible is the story of God's plan, to establish a Place.

Full of people who live out their purpose in his presence.

So God made the world and he put people in it and gave him a job to rule on his behalf.

And then he came down to live with them and a human beings.

Messed it up.

And so, ever since, then God has been working to re-establish, that plan at design for Humanity.

At this point in the story week.

God is working through one group of people, the Israelites and he has put them in a particular place and he's giving them a particular set of laws.

And he's come down to live with them in that specific place so that everybody can look there and see these people and the way they're living with God and understand who God is, The last couple of weeks we've been talking about this transition that Israel's been going through into becoming a monarchy.

They asked for a king and they asked for a king because they really just didn't want to follow God themselves.

They wanted someone to follow God for them and they could just follow that person.

And so God gave them a king.

Like what they were looking like they were asking for, they gave him saw turns out that the kind of thing.

They wanted wasn't really the kind of thing they needed.

They wanted a king who would be assertive in and when battles for them and and and be a strong leader who are they?

Got was a king who took shortcuts and and took action but often and rash foolish ways that were not particularly obedient to God.

And so last week, we talked about the fact that God anointed another King David to take his place.

And as we've been comparing, the two lies solid steel King, but we know that David is the king that God actually want comparing their their personalities and our actions, and we found that they were very differently.

Cuz David obeyed God Saul took shortcuts saw disobey God when it made, life easier for him, David obeyed, even when it made life harder for it.

And that's where we left off.

The story was when David was refusing to kill saw when you had the opportunity because you trusted the God would take care of things in his own good time in between last week's, and this week's story.

God does take care of the situation.

Saw this in the battle against the Philistines and he, and most of his sons died in battle and It's actually a little more complicated than this with basically, eventually Israel comes to ask David to be their King and that's where we're going to pick up in the story and 2nd Samuel chapter 5.

And so as a reading, remember that, this is how we keep our our coordinates keep Barbarians.

In.

The story is focus on, who is the story about What is, where is their home?

How can they meet with God and what did God tell them to do?

All the tribes of Israel, came to David at Hebron and said, who we are your own flesh and blood in the past.

While saw was King over us.

You were the one who led Israel on their military campaigns and the Lord said to you you will Shepherd My People Israel and you will become their ruler.

When all the elders had come with all the Elders of Israel had come to King, David have Ron the king, made a covenant with them and hedron before the Lord and the anointed David King over Israel.

I tell, who is the story about the last week.

We had two annoying to people at the same time, Saul and David, but now this all has died and Israel has called David to be king.

It's just David and the Israelites.

I ain't the situation is much simpler.

Now, there's no tension about who's supposed to be king.

It's David, their home.

Now, we're calling it.

The Kingdom of Israel, there in this process where you don't just put a guy in charge of a loose group of tribes and keep doing things.

The way you've always done, it becoming a monarchy and involves a lot of changes in rushing to see David.

Make those changes this week.

So they're, they're transitioning to be the kingdom.

How can they meet with God?

What this point in the story that we know where the Tabernacle is.

The Tabernacle is in the city called gibeon, but the ark is in a city called curious jarom.

It's still in the place where we left it in the care of Canaanites.

And so, the ark is not in the Tabernacle.

The ark is basically, is still in Exile.

And so what that means is it is the Israelites are still worshipping at the Tabernacle, but there's some sense in which there's a disconnect between them and God because God isn't home.

God is not in the tent where they're supposed to meet with him.

And so they can continue worshiping with him and he continues to be active, but there's still some sense.

Distance between God in Israel that needs to be resolved.

Finally, what did God tell them to do?

Well, the point that has been made very clearly so far in the story of Saul and David is that the king is supposed to obey.

God, that is the main difference between Saul and David and that's what we learned last week.

Obey, God, right now.

We can also, if you memorized the Bible, if you've memorized Deuteronomy, apparently it if I was much easier, understand if you just memorize Deuteronomy, so I should just sit down and do that.

But there is a passage in Deuteronomy that gives a few rules for the king.

We've already looked at part of it, where it's Gabriel's for choosing a king this week.

We're going to look at another section in the next week.

We'll look at the last section.

So here's another thing that says in Deuteronomy.

It takes the Throne of his kingdom.

He is to write for himself on a scroll, a copy of this lot taken from that of the levitical priests.

It is to be with him and he is to read it all the days of his life.

So that he may learn to Revere the Lord, his God and follow carefully.

All the words of this law and these decrees, and not consider him.

Stuff better than his fellow Israelites and turn from the law to the right or the left.

Then his descendants will reign a long time over his kingdom in Israel.

The king is supposed to obey God but a key part of that obeying God, in this Covenant relationship that they have with him, is that the king is supposed to know in force and keep the law.

He supposed to make his own copy of the law, which means every King, when they become king is supposed to have a fresh copy of the law made so that he will know it.

He's supposed to enforce it, to make sure that the people of Israel follow the law.

But perhaps most importantly, he is supposed to keep the law himself because the king stays in the special relationship to God.

This is true in every culture.

The King was was often called the son of the Gods because the king had to have been chosen by the gods.

And so the king if you wanted understand what the gods were like, you looked at the king and so the king takes on special responsibility and showing the world what God is like.

So it's really important that the king keep the law alongside all the Israelites to show that they all answer to the same God.

So that's the mission that David has as we go into his career as king.

We're going to see some great successes in that area and significant failure.

So, the story of his reign as little bit out of order, so, you'll see, we're jumping back and forth at the.

Here's the first thing that happens after David becomes king.

When the Philistines, her the David anointed king over Israel.

They went up in full force and search, but David heard about it and went down to the stronghold.

Now, the Philistines should come and spread out in the valley of rephaim.

So, David inquired of the Lord.

Shall I go and attack the Philistines.

Will you deliver them into my hands?

The Lord answered him.

Go for, I will surely deliver the Philistines into your hands.