13 Preaching/Teaching 1 Chronicles 28
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Do you remember a time when you were on fire in your relationship with Jesus.
Maybe it was when you were younger, maybe college, or a time when God changed your life to a point that your greatest desire was to be with him and to talk with him. Can you remember a time like this?
I remember as a new Christ follower I could not contain my passion. I had this burning passion that could not be contained.
Then I think back to a couple of weeks ago, when I am just worn out. And as I think about this moment in time, I just felt beat up and wore down like I was doing nothing right. Then I had this though to myself: If this was my last season in life, if today was my last day would I be finishing strong.
-The bulk of people who failed to finish well in scripture failed in the last half of their life. Howard Hendricks
-The bulk of people who failed to finish well in scripture failed in the last half of their life. Howard Hendricks
The statistics show that most people in ministry do not finish their walks strong with Jesus.
They also show that most Christians do not finish their walks with God strong.
This quote:
The bulk of people who failed to finish well in scripture failed in the last half of their life. It just kept coming back to me. It is so easy to start strong with God, but how does one finish strong with God.
David wanted to finish strong.
If this was your last season of life,
Would you be finishing strong!
Had did biblical figures finish:
Running: Abraham, Joshua, Daniel, Paul, Peter;
Walking (fell short of God’s intention, ramifications of disobedience plagued them, even though they finished with God): David, Jehoshaphat, Hezekiah;
Limping (on a decline in the latter phases of their life): Gideon, Eli, Solomon;
Disqualified: Absalom, Ahab, Saul.
Summary: The real problem is obedience and character development, not skill.
If we look at David’s life as a whole he had some high highs and he had some low lows. But at the end of the day at the end of his life he was the king of Israel and he has some great insights that I think we all need to hear today so that we can finish our race strong.
A pastor did a study of 95 year olds and asked them if they could do it over what they would do differently. Here is what these old timers said:
Reflect More-David wrote a lot of the Psalms
Risk More -David Risked-We see him early in his life risking his life to kill a giant that the king was scared to fight.
Do mire that will live on after your life.
These old timers were giving advice on how to live life more to the full.
Just like this pastor had some components to live a full life David wants to give us some components so that we can finish strong.
3 Components that will allow us to finish strong!
If we want to finish our walk strong:
The 1st Component is we must embrace our lane (1-6)
The 1st Component is we must embrace our lane (1-6)
Who is bigger than David.
I mean if you were wanting to be an NBA bball player could you picture hearing Michael Jordan’s last words.
There is a huge crowd here. The King is about to give his last state of the Union address in front of the country.
Now David assembled at Jerusalem all the officials of Israel, the princes of the tribes, and the commanders of the divisions that served the king, and the commanders of thousands, and the commanders of hundreds, and the overseers of all the property and livestock belonging to the king and his sons, with the officials and the mighty men, even all the valiant men.
The leaders were here to hear the last words from their king:
Old Testament 28:1-21: Charge to Solomon to Build the Temple
28:1 royal administration in the ancient Near East. The categories listed in this verse include representatives of each tribe (a vestige of the twelve-tribe system that preceded the monarchy), all officers of the military (both king’s bodyguard and national army), royal stewards, administration of the palace (scribes, eunuchs, advisers, “cabinet” officials) and David’s special forces (an elite group of operatives that did not necessarily function within an organized military structure). No reference is made to priests or Levites, but perhaps their presence is assumed (v. 21).
a. Embracing our lane means we can’t do everything
a. Embracing our lane means we can’t do everything
I want to do it all sometimes, I mean who has as many kids as I do but David had to realize he needed to play the part that God had for him.
Then King David rose to his feet and said, “Listen to me, my brethren and my people; I had intended to build a permanent home for the ark of the covenant of the Lord and for the footstool of our God. So I had made preparations to build it.
David had to come to the point where he realized I have a plan but I am willing to lay down my plan for God’s plan.
David had to come to the point where he realized I have a plan but I am willing to lay down my plan for God’s plan.
Do you remember what Jesus said:
And He went a little beyond them, and fell on His face and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; yet not as I will, but as You will.”
Why?
“But God said to me, ‘You shall not build a house for My name because you are a man of war and have shed blood.’
There was a reason David could not build the house.
We all have baggage and our baggage may mean there are certain things we cannot do, but it does not mean we cannot walk with God and finish strong with God.
Summary: To finish well means we have to deal with those weaknesses and sins that tangle us up by being authentic and confessional (repentant) about them.
Are you staying in your lane?
Are you being authentic with God?
Time this kid came and worked out with my brothers team.
b. Embracing our lane sees the possibilities.
b. Embracing our lane sees the possibilities.
A two year old who has a fence blocking them in sees the fence as restriction and not as protection.
David saw this fence in his life not as a restriction but as a freedom to serve God.
“Yet, the Lord, the God of Israel, chose me from all the house of my father to be king over Israel forever. For He has chosen Judah to be a leader; and in the house of Judah, my father’s house, and among the sons of my father He took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel.
David was chosen
“Yet, the Lord, the God of Israel, chose me from all the house of my father to be king over Israel forever. For He has chosen Judah to be a leader; and in the house of Judah, my father’s house, and among the sons of my father He took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel.
“Of all my sons (for the Lord has given me many sons), He has chosen my son Solomon to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel.
“He said to me, ‘Your son Solomon is the one who shall build My house and My courts; for I have chosen him to be a son to Me, and I will be a father to him.
David was free of comparisons
David was free of comparisons
What God called David to do
What God called Solomon to do
They were on the same team, but had different roles.
We are free to be who God created us to be.
If we want to finish our walk strong:
2. The second component is we must have a vision bigger than ourself (7-8)
2. The second component is we must have a vision bigger than ourself (7-8)
a. An Eternal Vision lives for eternity.
a. An Eternal Vision lives for eternity.
‘I will establish his kingdom forever if he resolutely performs My commandments and My ordinances, as is done now.’
Why did David not throw a pity party when God told him it is not you because David believed that God’s plan was bigger than his plan.
David wanted to build a building
God wanted to build an eternal kingdom.
David said I will give up my small vision for God’s greater vision.
David got to be a part of something bigger
GOSPEL MOMENT-David Covenant
DAVIDIC COVENANT DEFINITION
Their hope must not be in David, whom they see but whose strength and wisdom are limited, but in God, whom they do not see but whose presence, power, goodness, and wisdom are forever. It was God who chose the house of David, God who determined who would build the temple, God who gave the commandments in which are life and peace, and God who would remain when David was gone. Israel must not despair the loss of their great king but realize that their only hope is in God.
The record of the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah, the son of David, the son of Abraham:
Are you living for eternal things?
An eternal vision desires to obey (ALL)
An eternal vision desires to obey (ALL)
“So now, in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of the Lord, and in the hearing of our God, observe and seek after all the commandments of the Lord your God so that you may possess the good land and bequeath it to your sons after you forever.
Heather and I had a great vision for our life when we got married:
To know God and make him known!
Have money is not a bad things in itself. I have peers who have made a lot of money-when things have gotten tight, it has been easy to think what am I doing?
This last week we had a coming to Jesus meeting with my family because even though this is and has been our vision it is not always easy to live out. But God reminded me that this is the most important thing for me, for my family for our church is that this is who we are we are a church that knows God and makes him known. In those hard times it is easy to want to live for the temporal but God was reminding me to live for the eternal.
This part of the address is to the leaders of Israel and Israel itself.
Here is the reality church: If we cannot get it right we cannot expect the world to get it right.
If we do not love God how are we going to expect the world to get it.
David was about to be gone: Their hope had to be in the only eternal being, Jesus Christ Himself.
Application:
This last week we had a coming to Jesus time with our kids.
We had to slow down and remember what our original vision as a family is: To Know God and make Him Known.
Is your life going to live beyond the grave?
If we want to finish our walk strong:
3. The last component is we must invest our lives in others (9-10).
3. The last component is we must invest our lives in others (9-10).
I just want to say something. This last week we saw a tragedy unfold right before our eyes, but you know what may be the biggest tragedy in America right now are there are so few fathers who are involved in their kids lives. Fathers are absent in American.
J-Bow-Stole 20 dollars from me-Made him get back in the car.
“As for you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve Him with a whole heart and a willing mind; for the Lord searches all hearts, and understands every intent of the thoughts. If you seek Him, He will let you find Him; but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.
“Consider now, for the Lord has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary; be courageous and act.”
Three things he invested in his son:
He wanted him to have a heart for God.
He wanted him to have a heart for God.
He wanted him to have a desire for God.
He wanted him to have a desire for God.
He wanted him to be courageous.
He wanted him to be courageous.
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Great leaders make things better after they are gone
Great leaders make things better after they are gone
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David Gave Solomon all he needed to succeed
