13 Preaching/Teaching: 1 Chronicles 17
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Sermon Series: Great Expectations.
Title: Allowing God to write your story!
1 Chronicles 17
a. Essence of the text-David’s eagerness almost made him miss out on God’s Story.
b. Essence of the sermon- We must live out God’s story
c. DDST-What changes do you have to make in your life to keep God the author of your story?
d. Title of the sermon: Title: Allowing God to write you into his story!
e. Outline of the sermon. ** Each major point and supporting point must have a verse(s)
referenced. No point, either major or supporting point, will be found outside of or void of a
textual reference! ** Each sermon will be firmly planted in the biblical text.
f. Outline may include an Introduction and Conclusion and any illustrations to be used. If these
components are noted, only abbreviated details are needed. Page limit: 2-3 pages for each
sermon.
Introduction:
Invictus Poem
Invictus Poem
I am the master of my fate: I am the Captain of my soul. William Henley
I am the master of my fate: I am the Captain of my soul. William Henley
Is this not the major idea today.
This was me before I began to follow Jesus. I had my dream, and my vision and I was going to do everything I could to achieve this vision.
When I got to college, God wrote me into his story. When I was eighteen years old I became a believer of the Lord Jesus Christ.
My vision went from wanting the American dream to wanting to know God and make him known.
But even as believers we can try to take over and instead of letting God be the captain of our souls we can try and be the captain of our soul.
Sometimes it is because we are completely selfish.
It could be because we are in control
We fight with God, have you ever heard the statement you can‘t have two cooks in the kitchen.
We can’t have two authors of our story.
But other times it just kind of happens: Maybe because we rush into something we should not.
But today I want us to make sure as we are going through life that we allow God to write our story to be the captain of our ship.
What if we are so eager to do something great for God that we actually miss God’s plan.
What if we are so eager to do something great for God that we actually miss God.
David wanted to do something great for God.
And it came about, when David dwelt in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, “Behold, I am dwelling in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of the Lord is under curtains.”
Then Nathan said to David, “Do all that is in your heart, for God is with you.”
David wanted to do something special for God, this is not a bad motivation. Give some background.
David in wanting to do something great he was literally on the verge of missing out on the story God had for him.
Each person here today, God has a story for you a story that has your name written on it.
And he is a better author than C.S. Lewis, JK Rawling, He is a better author than Shakespeare and he wants to write your story.
Today I don’t want us to settle for anything less than God’s story for our lives.
Today I want to give us 3 encouragement of why we can live out God’s story.
1. We can live out the story of God by saturating ourselves in God’s word (3-6).
1. We can live out the story of God by saturating ourselves in God’s word (3-6).
God graciously initiates with man
God graciously initiates with man
It came about the same night that the word of God came to Nathan, saying,
David did not even know he was off, and God could have blown him off the face of the earth, but isn’t it amazing that from the beginning of time God has initiated with man and here one of his children was off and God initiates with David through Nathan.
Nathan was a spokesperson for God. Notice when David first came to him with the idea it sounded so good he just assumed it was the right thing.
And this is also a reminder that just because someone is a man of God, God’s word always takes precedence.
The Word of God leads us to the grace of God
The Word of God leads us to the grace of God
“Go and tell David My servant, ‘Thus says the Lord, “You shall not build a house for Me to dwell in;
Who in the world likes to be told NO!
David was just told NO!
David here is what you wanted to do, but it is not what I wanted you to do.
What are your kids like when you tell them no.
I throw a pity party sometime when I don’t get my way.
What is God asking you to do right now?
Are you willing to ask him, and let him direct your steps in that. Or are you a lot like me you want to do something now, you are a fast food Christian and you don’t have timer to wait around.
The word of God Corrects our course
2 Timothy 3:16 “All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness;”
Do you need a course correction
David was not lazy, he had vision his vision was just getting a little off. He needed a course correction.
Are you a little off today.
Sometimes we can get caught up in good things and they can become primary things. A good job can tun into what is consuming our lives and instead of being a vehicle to live it become what we live for. The American dream can easily become our idol.
Do you need a course correction?
God’s word gives us the Why!
God’s word gives us the Why!
for I have not dwelt in a house since the day that I brought up Israel to this day, but I have gone from tent to tent and from one dwelling place to another.
“In all places where I have walked with all Israel, have I spoken a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd My people, saying, ‘Why have you not built for Me a house of cedar?’ ” ’
Now he dealt with the golden calf!
God’s answer is from the word of God. God never wanted him to build a house for him.
God never commanded David to build him a house of cedar.
Don’t we see this in marriage so much. We love our spouse like we want to be loved and not how they want to be loved. There is a book titled the five love languages. Our spouses greatest need may be time and we give them a gift. Or it may be a gift and we give the words of encouragement.
David was giving God what he wanted and not what God wanted.
This would like bringing someone the two worst gifts to a birthday party
A dog
A Cellphone
David’s intentions may have been good but he wast brining God a dog.
Instead of embracing God’s image we try to recreate God in our image.
God tells us plenty of things that he does what us to bring him.
Deuteronomy 6:5 ““You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.”
Genesis 1:27 “God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.”
Genesis 12:3 “And I will bless those who bless you, And the one who curses you I will curse. And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.””
Psalm 1:3 “He will be like a tree firmly planted by streams of water, Which yields its fruit in its season And its leaf does not wither; And in whatever he does, he prospers.”
Micah 6:8 “He has told you, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of you But to do justice, to love kindness, And to walk humbly with your God?”
2. We should live out the story of God because His vision is glorious (7-15).
2. We should live out the story of God because His vision is glorious (7-15).
His vision is connected to who we are
His vision is connected to who we are
David needed to remember what God had done in his life- (PAST)
David needed to remember what God had done in his life- (PAST)
“Now, therefore, thus shall you say to My servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, “I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, to be leader over My people Israel.
“I have been with you wherever you have gone, and have cut off all your enemies from before you; and I will make you a name like the name of the great ones who are in the earth.
David had humble beginnings. God humbles the proud and exalts the humble. David was exalted by God to be the king of Israel.
But more than that God had been with David from his youth.
Do you remember when God has done something mighty in your life?
Do you remember when you trusted in him for the first time?
Do you remember when you were going through
We don’t have to live someone else’s plan.
Don’t settle on a lesser vision!
Don’t settle on a lesser vision!
David was on verge on settling for a lesser story.
We believe in believers baptism at RCC. But if God just wanted to send us to heaven when we trusted Christ we would hold you down when we baptized you.
God is at work right now and he has a plan for you right now.
Look what God was doing when David was around.
“I will appoint a place for My people Israel, and will plant them, so that they may dwell in their own place and not be moved again; and the wicked will not waste them anymore as formerly,
even from the day that I commanded judges to be over My people Israel. And I will subdue all your enemies.
Moreover, I tell you that the Lord will build a house for you.
The house God was building for David is greater than the house that David was going to build for God.
God was going to build a dynasty through David
this is referred to the Davidic Covenant
FBC Paris-Huge church building-it had so many repairs that it could barely be maintained -They almost sold the church.
But the dynasty that David got to be a part of would lead to the saviour of the world.
GOSPEL FOCUS RIGHT NOW!
GOSPEL FOCUS RIGHT NOW!
You get to be a apart of settling.
What story are you living for right now?
Jim Elliot said:
Jim Elliot said:
He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose!
He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose!
Your son is going to build me a house:
even from the day that I commanded judges to be over My people Israel. And I will subdue all your enemies.
Moreover, I tell you that the Lord will build a house for you.
“When your days are fulfilled that you must go to be with your fathers, that I will set up one of your descendants after you, who will be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom.
“He shall build for Me a house, and I will establish his throne forever.
“I will be his father and he shall be My son; and I will not take My lovingkindness away from him, as I took it from him who was before you.
“But I will settle him in My house and in My kingdom forever, and his throne shall be established forever.” ’ ”
According to all these words and according to all this vision, so Nathan spoke to David.
Tom Constable’s Expository Notes on the Bible The promises of the Davidic Covenant 17:1–15
“Often we may have to accept that the work which we would dearly like to perform in terms of Christian service is not that for which we are best equipped, and not that to which God has in fact called us. It may be, like David’s, a preparatory work, leading to something more obviously grand. Recognition and acceptance of our true measure is the first and necessary step towards seeing the significance of what, in God’s purposes, we really can achieve and have achieved.”
3. We can live out the story of God by praising God continually (16-27).
3. We can live out the story of God by praising God continually (16-27).
We praise what we love.
When you are first in love with your girlfriend, you don’t have to
Then David the king went in and sat before the Lord and said, “Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my house that You have brought me this far?
“This was a small thing in Your eyes, O God; but You have spoken of Your servant’s house for a great while to come, and have regarded me according to the standard of a man of high degree, O Lord God.
“What more can David still say to You concerning the honor bestowed on Your servant? For You know Your servant.
“O Lord, for Your servant’s sake, and according to Your own heart, You have wrought all this greatness, to make known all these great things.
Then David the king went in and sat before the Lord and said, “Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my house that You have brought me this far?
“This was a small thing in Your eyes, O God; but You have spoken of Your servant’s house for a great while to come, and have regarded me according to the standard of a man of high degree, O Lord God.
“What more can David still say to You concerning the honor bestowed on Your servant? For You know Your servant.
“O Lord, for Your servant’s sake, and according to Your own heart, You have wrought all this greatness, to make known all these great things.
“O Lord, there is none like You, nor is there any God besides You, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
“And what one nation in the earth is like Your people Israel, whom God went to redeem for Himself as a people, to make You a name by great and terrible things, in driving out nations from before Your people, whom You redeemed out of Egypt?
“For Your people Israel You made Your own people forever, and You, O Lord, became their God.
“Now, O Lord, let the word that You have spoken concerning Your servant and concerning his house be established forever, and do as You have spoken.
“Let Your name be established and magnified forever, saying, ‘The Lord of hosts is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel; and the house of David Your servant is established before You.’
“For You, O my God, have revealed to Your servant that You will build for him a house; therefore Your servant has found courage to pray before You.
“Now, O Lord, You are God, and have promised this good thing to Your servant.
“And now it has pleased You to bless the house of Your servant, that it may continue forever before You; for You, O Lord, have blessed, and it is blessed forever.”
3. His Grace allows us to remember who we are in Him.
Illustration:
Hook movie-Robin Williams could not remember that he was Peter Pan.
Exposition:
16-David goes into God’s presence in prayers and praise
David describes himself as Who am I Lord that you have brought me this far [he went
from being a shepherd to being Israel greatest king under the unified kingdom]
(16). [This could be connected to our salvation we are the kings kids], as being regarded by God of a high degree (17), The things that God had done in David’s life led to praising the greatness of God (19-20).
David accepted what God had for him-For your servant’s sake and for your own heart-the two things came into line with each other, God is about making his greatness known (17).
David Describes God as great {the great things he does in our lives is small in his eyes},
God is so great that David is left speechless (17 &18), brings about greatness, and makes known his greatness (19), There is none like God, nor is there any God besides you,
Evidence of the greatness of God from the past
He redeemed the Israelites as a people {he made them a name by great and
terrible things} He drove nations out from before you, whose he redeemed from Egypt, He made the Israelites His people forever, and became their God forever.
Application:
We don’t build a house for the Lord he builds a house for us
We don’t have to write our own story we can allow God to write it.
Conclusion:
irony is that whatever plans we have God has something so much greater and bigger that it is not even comparable to what we could imagine.