The Coming King

CITheology: A King was Promised; that King was Jesus

CIS: Serve King Jesus; He’s good; He Wins

SO: Apply - A subject of the King is devoted to him. One with divided loyalties is vulnerable to become an insider threat (enemy of God). Reinforce the continuity of the entire Scripture.

Why is it important to know about King David? -David was king who the Old Testament believers idealized and believed would return. Jesus more than fulfilled this expectation.

Intro:

Cyber Awareness Training annual requirement

Recent Change - One Point: Bring Awareness about Insider Threats and Deter/prevent you from becoming one.

Because Airmen are privileged to certain information due to our status as members of the Air Force we must remain aware of the threats to our country and not fall prey to our enemies’ tactics.

Transition: Christians are members of God’s kingdom. Let’s learn about our King so that we can remain devoted to him and remain vigilant against the strategies of the enemy.

Context:

The Bible is a thread from the beginning to end of God’s acts to redeem the world and the people who were used to bring it about.

Sometimes it is suggested that the OT is unnecessary for Christians or that it is a wholly different (God, means to salvation, people focused on)

God revealed his plan progressively and today we can see what the earlier believers couldn't. From our vantage point, we can see the amplifications of God’s truths as we progress from the Old Covenant to the New.

The concept of God’s anointed king is announced early in the Scriptures, grows and become specially focused in David in the OT, and finally is ultimately consummated in Jesus. He will rule in the future.

Content:

The Believers Anticipate a King

Exp:

In the Garden, God promises that the offspring of Even would conqueror Satan

Gen 3:15 “15 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.””

A child of Adam and Father of the Israelite nation, Abraham, receives a covenant promise from God which would bless all nations.

Gen 12:1-3 “1 Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. 2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.””

The children of Abraham grow into a large clan of people. They become subjected to slavery in Egypt. The are miraculously delivered from Pharaoh. Along the way to the Promised Land, there leader Moses receives the Law that would govern the Old Testament Saints. (Gen-Deut)

As God reveals the Law to the people through Moses, God allows them to set up a King over themselves

Deut 17:14-20 “14 “When you come to the land that the Lord your God is giving you, and you possess it and dwell in it and then say, ‘I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me,’ 15 you may indeed set a king over you whom the Lord your God will choose. One from among your brothers you shall set as king over you. You may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother. 16 Only he must not acquire many horses for himself or cause the people to return to Egypt in order to acquire many horses, since the Lord has said to you, ‘You shall never return that way again.’ 17 And he shall not acquire many wives for himself, lest his heart turn away, nor shall he acquire for himself excessive silver and gold. 18 “And when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself in a book a copy of this law, approved by the Levitical priests. 19 And it shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord his God by keeping all …”

The Books of Joshua, Judges, and 1/2 Samuel compare the early leaders and first two kings of Isreal to this standard.

Application: God is in charge of all the human agents in the world. Through the good and the bad, God works to see his plan for redemption accomplished and nothing can stop it. Nothing stops the King

David’s Rule and its Lore

The first king, Saul, fails to honor God and lives selfishly

1 Sam 13:13-14 “13 And Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly. You have not kept the command of the Lord your God, with which he commanded you. For then the Lord would have established your kingdom over Israel forever. 14 But now your kingdom shall not continue. 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.””

The prophet Samuel anoints David King

1 Sam 16:11-13 “11 Then Samuel said to Jesse, “Are all your sons here?” And he said, “There remains yet the youngest, but behold, he is keeping the sheep.” And Samuel said to Jesse, “Send and get him, for we will not sit down till he comes here.” 12 And he sent and brought him in. Now he was ruddy and had beautiful eyes and was handsome. And the Lord said, “Arise, anoint him, for this is he.” 13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers. And the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon David from that day forward. And Samuel rose up and went to Ramah.”

David is faithful to God. He called a friend of God and he receives a promise from God.

2 Sam 7:12 “12 When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom.”

Through his efforts the Nation of Isreal is fully established.

He is not perfect: He’s a murder, an adulterer, a man of war and bloodshed.

2 Sam. 12:9-10 “9 Why have you despised the word of the Lord, to do what is evil in his sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites. 10 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.’”

Similar to the Gospels there are two accounts of David’s life. The first is the earlier one recorded in the books of Samuel and Kings. The second is book of 1 Chronicles, written near the end of the Old Testament period.

Because he repents from many of his wrong deeds and his son Solomon goes on to build the First Temple in Jerusalem, he is remembered in the second account without many of his faults recorded in the first.

He becomes the model King in the Jewish Mind. They anticipated a king in the line of David who will rule forever.

Jer 23:5 “5 “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.”

App: David was a good, but human king. He lead the nation of Isreal to become a strong nation. But he was unable to become a blessing to the whole nation. One after him would come.

Jesus’ Incarnation and Future Rule

The genealogies of both Mary and Joseph demonstrate Jesus’ human ancestry through David.

Jesus’ first coming was to come to seek and save the lost.

Luke 4:18-21 “18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, 19 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.” 20 And he rolled up the scroll and gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him. 21 And he began to say to them, “Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.””

Jesus Returns as King

Satan will be defeated and Jesus will rule for 1000 years.

1 Cor 15:24-28 “24 Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power. 25 For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. 26 The last enemy to be destroyed is death. 27 For “God has put all things in subjection under his feet.” But when it says, “all things are put in subjection,” it is plain that he is excepted who put all things in subjection under him. 28 When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things in subjection under him, that God may be all in all.”

App:

Jesus is the promised King.

He is good.

He wins.

Which Kingdom are you loyal to? You can’t straddle the line?

A subject of the King is devoted to him. One with divided loyalties is vulnerable to become an insider threat (enemy of God).

Response