Lesson 19: David's Departure

These are the final days of the David and our last three lessons in the life of David. But they are very telling lessons as to how people of Character depart.

In these three lessons we will see how that David did all that he could promote the Lord, promote the welfare of his people and promote the welfare of his own family all in at this time in his life.

That is our calling as well. Balance involves all three of those things as well. How we depart tells a lot about us.

I have seen people try to leave a hole in the church when they leave. I’ve been in churches where people left and preachers left. Some left well, some not so well.

We should be like David and whenever we depart from Yokosuka or this life, that we left in a way that was honorable and we left the way easier for some others around us. So in this last chapter of David’s life, we are going to be lookinga t David’s Provision for the Temple; his protection of the throne and his Preparation of an heir.

So tonight we will look at:

I. David’s Provision for the Temple

David, like Christ, was preparing for the future kingdom.

The Lord is busy in two ways in this, he setting things up for his coming kingdom on earth which will last a 1,000 years and he setting up his coming kingdom that will last for eternity in the new heaven and the new earth.

David’s provision was twofold in a way also – as he was setting up the temple for the worship of the Lord, he was also making a way for the success of his heir which would ultimately bear the legal right and lineage to Jesus Christ.

A. Forbidden to build

1 Chronicles 22:6-10

You know you and I may not be able to do a lot with our lives, but if we will be faithful with what we can do, we can make it so that our children can accomplish anything for God.

We might have had glorious ideas as to what God would have us to do in our Christian life, so be it; God knows.

Sometimes our past preclude us from doing some things.

But there is nothing that can prevent our children from being all that God wants them to be.

1. Give thanks in all things

In 2 Samuel 7:18-22 he thanks God even thought he didn’t get to do what was on his heart.

2. Seek other ways to support the cause

1 Chronicles 22:14 Now, behold, in my trouble I have prepared for the house of the LORD an hundred thousand talents of gold, and a thousand thousand talents of silver; and of brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance: timber also and stone have I prepared; and thou mayest add thereto.

In his trouble he found a way to get involved and God blessed it and prospered the preparations.

3. Get behind the one who is does take the lead

1 Chronicles 22:11 Now, my son, the LORD be with thee; and prosper thou, and build the house of the LORD thy God, as he hath said of thee. 12 Only the LORD give thee wisdom and understanding, and give thee charge concerning Israel, that thou mayest keep the law of the LORD thy God.

4. Forging ahead

Forging ahead means to move forward with increased speed and effectiveness.

David now has rest from his enemies, he fought the battles from within, he has dealt with the curses from his sin with Bathsheba and Uriah and now he starts to forge ahead, press on that he might make a difference and make it easier for those that would leading in the future.

a. David is the first to give

1 Chronicles 22:3-5

1 Chronicles 22:14 ...I have prepared for the house of the LORD an hundred thousand talents of gold, and a thousand thousand talents of silver; and of brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance: timber also and stone have I prepared; and thou mayest add thereto.

Now lets turn to 1 Chronicles 29 for awhile:

The King gave personally in:

1 Chronicles 29:3–4 AV

Moreover, because I have set my affection to the house of my God, I have of mine own proper good, of gold and silver, which I have given to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house, Even three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the houses withal:

The Princes gave willingly it says in

1 Chronicles 29:6 AV

Then the chief of the fathers and princes of the tribes of Israel, and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, with the rulers of the king’s work, offered willingly,

When the king and the princes give willingly - then the people will give joyfully

1 Chronicles 29:9 AV

Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because with perfect heart they offered willingly to the LORD: and David the king also rejoiced with great joy.

b. David recruits the manpower

1 Chronicles 22:15 AV

Moreover there are workmen with thee in abundance, hewers and workers of stone and timber, and all manner of cunning men for every manner of work.

c. David prepares abundantly

1 Chronicles 22:16 AV

Of the gold, the silver, and the brass, and the iron, there is no number. Arise therefore, and be doing, and the LORD be with thee.

d. David draws up a plan

1 Chronicles 22:17-19

David may not have gotten to do what his heart desired but he was able to foresee the needs of others and help

David didn’t just see the need of others but he looked for the promotion of others.

He tried to make it so that he blazed a trail for his son to follow so that he might have greater success.

1 Corinthians 10:24 AV

Let no man seek his own, but every man another’s wealth.

God wants us to promote each other, prefer each other.

1 Kings 1:1-35

We must remember that tonight’s study is after a period of time of relative peace in the kingdom. It is at the end of the time that all of the preparations for the house of God have been accomplished under David. It is at a time when to everyone’s knowledge, their king is likely in latter days, death seems imminent within a year or a few years.

There are no more great advancements coming for the kingdom, but it is a time of real danger still. Though they may not conquer new territory; they could easily lose some.

It is a time to stay vigilant. We need to remain vigilant as well. Summer months are usually slow here in MBC, but we need to stay faithful all the more and still seek fruit for the Lord.

II. David’s Protection of the Throne

David has some work to be done yet in his life and in this passage we are going to look at six things.

A. The securing of Abishag

1 Kings 1:1-4

A strange side-note it seems, but not one at all really.

Two things it shows us:

With all of his wives, he had no one to care for him in his old age.

Shamefully so, his wives probably each had their own homes and their own riches to use and their pursuits to chase, but none of them cared enough to come back and care for their dieing husband.

It also sets up the death of Adnoijah later. Certainly, none of the older wives would do for young Adonijah, but he asked for the hand of Adonijah in marriage, which ultimately cost him his life because it was seen as a way to infiltrate the throne by marrying the wife of the former king by someone who wanted the throne.

B. The subversion of Adonijah – 1:5-9

1. The danger of self-exaltation

Self exaltation and manipulating situations in our lives is very unwise. We need to realize that we as born again believers have a God in heaven that simply wants us to do our best in life for His sake.

We need to trust him.

Matthew 23:12 AV

And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.

Now we can exalt others, the Bible says that we should seek another man’s wealth.

Ceratinly we are to exalt the Lord, the Bible commands that.

But the Bible commands us not to exalt ourselves.

It says to sit in the lowest room.

There is no need to exalt ourselves when have a God in heaven who can do a whole lot better than we can anyway.

2. The similarities to Absalom

Of course we know that he was the younger brother of Absalom but notice the ways these two were alike.

Those running before him

1 Kings 1:5 Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be king: and he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.

Absolom did the same thing in 2 Samuel 15:1

A goodly man

1 Kings 1:6 And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why hast thou done so? and he also was a very goodly man; and his mother bare him after Absalom.

Bitter friends

Joab, when will you be faithful, when will you get over your bittereness?

Abiathar the priest, he had been with David since the days he was running from Saul. He is the one that brought the news of Ahimelech and the other priests that were slain. Perhaps he was a bitter man.

In 2 Samuel 15:12 Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite,

The lack of concern of David

I don’t know if it was ignorance of the fact; because of old age or because of indifference, but David did not show concern or react to what was going on. At the very least he was disconcerted.

This could have been very problematic and injurious to the kingdom, but hope was not lost yet.

3. The steadiness of Nathan – 1:10-27

Praise the Lord for servants like Nathan.

He was not seeking his own glory; I don’t even think he was seeking to help David as much as I believe he was seeking to honor God and what God had planned. He wanted to things God’s way.

Every church member should not seek their own glory, not even serve because of the Pastor, but to serve in the church because of the love God.

a. It was not a welcome message, he was not invited v.10

b. His timely advice to Bathsheba vv.11-14

Proverbs 25:11 AV

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.

c. The reminder to David vv.15-27

d. The surety of David – 1:28-35

v.35

III. David’s Death

1 Kings 2:10–11 AV

So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David. And the days that David reigned over Israel were forty years: seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in Jerusalem.