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Did we sing #230?
Oh Lord, when we the path retrace which thou on earth has trod to man, thy wondrous love and grace, thy faithfulness to God #230.
And grace like.
To come cry on my hands.
So sorry.
Our love of God and our Father.
We have just been singing before thee of thy Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, that we wonder at his lowly minds and fame would like Him be.
Arrest and pleasure find learning more of these and so we would ask for thy health for this time before us, Lord Jesus, that there would be a word for our conscience, a word that would stir us up from my heart of love, and that would.
'Cause us to walk in a right path, in a way that's pleasing to be Lord Jesus, as we would ask for help, that the prophets would have the courage to speak two or three, and that we each would listen and would judge. And so it asked for thy help for this time, giving thanks and thy name we pray, Lord Jesus, Amen.
The verse I read a couple weeks ago.
And.
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Try to find it.
It's in Chronicles.
First Chronicles.
First Chronicles, chapter 27.
And there's a review of some of the events of David's administration of the Kingdom.
Of Israel.
And in verse 33 of First Chronicles 27 it says this, and Ahithophel was the King's counselor.
In Hoshi, the architect was the King's companion.
And after a hitherto was Jehoiada's son of Binaya and Abiathar, and the general of the King's army was Joab.
A hitherto full.
I read this verse.
Suddenly things started cascading.
Through my mind that I hope I can put together.
I hit the full was in a position of great honor and authority. He was a wise man. His wisdom was sought out.
And yet there is something in his life, if we go back to Second Samuel.
There is something that.
Disturbed.
The equilibrium shall we say?
Considerably.
And if we go to.
Chapter 17 of Second Samuel.
Moreover, a hippophile said unto Absalom.
Let me now choose out 12,000 men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night, and I will come upon him while he is weary and weak handed, and will make him afraid, and all the people that are with him shall flee, and I will smite the king only.
I thought it hit the full was counselor to King David.
I thought he was well respected.
And now he wants to get out and personally kill David.
And take with him what was it, 12,000 people, 12,000 men.
What has happened?
Well, let's turn to David's mighty men.
Which is actually in chapter 23 of Second Samuel.
And this chapter?
Lists out 37 people, of which one is not named.
If I remember correctly.
But that's not our concern towards the end of the chapter. Second Samuel 23.
We read this. There's two of the mighty men mentioned in verse 34.
And a little bit is not the one we want to notice, but we want to notice the second one, who is a Liam.
Or Ilium. I suppose it would be more correct Ilium the son of Ahithophel.
The gala night.
You know these mighty men, 37 of them. Like any group like this, there's probably a lot of camaraderie. They obviously know each other quite well, and they are kind of a unified force.
And if we go down just a couple verses, we find another one of these mighty men and let's see who that is.
39 The last verse of the chapter.
In Uriah the Hittite.
30 and seven in all.
So out of these 37, there's Helium and Uriah.
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And what's our storyline?
Helium.
Is.
A hippopotamus.
Son, but also happens to be Bathsheba's.
Father.
And.
Uriah the Hittite happens to be Bathsheba's husband.
And so the plot thickens.
You know, David.
Took Bathsheba.
As his wife.
King David.
And he saw to it that Uriah the Hittite was killed.
Anahithophel, the grandfather of Bathsheba.
Never forgot.
Would not let it go.
And when the opportunity arose where Absalom, David's son, rose up against his father.
And wanted to do his father in.
Notice who stepped forward hit the full, who would have been probably bit elderly at this point.
He stepped forward and says look.
I'll do the job for you Absalom, just give me 12,000 men.
I have a bone to pick.
This is actually going to be an account of connections.
Rather than.
Necessarily the moral issues that are pretty obviously now in front of us.
Helium apparently kept the father of Bathsheba apparently kept his equilibrium.
And maintained himself.
Within the ranks of David.
What is the rest of the story?
David and Bathsheba had children.
The first child as we know because of David's incredible sin.
Against Uriah the Hittite, Bathsheba's husband, by having him murdered.
And by then taking Bathsheba's wife into his.
Harem, shall we say? Because he did. We're told that David had concubines.
And God took their first child.
In death.
But they had other children.
They had other children.
David and Bathsheba.
From a relationship that was not good.
Initially comes forth Solomon.
King Solomon, the man who has.
An incredible.
Place in history, but in the.
The presentation in scripture he is like a picture or foreshadowing of Christ.
In his kingly millennial glory.
Do we see a story of grace? Maybe?
As well in this story.
And so.
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Solomon reigned for 40 years, just like his father David had reigned for 40 years, and Saul before that for 40 years. So 120 years kingship. And there is these 3 kings, of which each was in a sense more mighty.
And certainly Solomon is lauded with many accolades. How how wealthy he was, how great was his Kingdom, the peace of his Kingdom, the extent of his Kingdom, and it all foreshadows the Kingdom of Christ that's to come.
As a matter of fact, if we turn and we will.
Right now, turn to the first chapter of Matthew.
And we find right off in the book of Matthew, we find the genealogy.
From Abraham.
Down to the birth of Jesus.
And so let's look at verse.
5.
And Salman begat Boaz of Rahab.
Rahab.
Was it Rahab that one in the Canaanite city?
Of Jericho.
And wasn't she a harlot?
Like how did she get into Matthew chapter one?
This is how she got into Matthew chapter one.
Because.
She married a man named Boaz.
Excuse me? She married a man named Salman.
And Boaz was the little boy.
Have you ever wondered how?
Boaz.
Seemed so readily.
Latch on to Ruth.
His mom was rehab.
Huh.
So Sal and begat Boaz of rehab, and Boaz begat Obed of Ruth. There's Ruth.
Obed begat Jesse, Jesse begat David the king, and David the king begat Solomon of her. That had been the wife of Urias, that was Bathsheba.
And Solomon begat Rehoboam and so forth, and these are the Lion of Kings that you can go back into the Book of Kings and read about this next list.
If I can find the verse, we need to go back into the Old Testament again.
And it will be in Chronicles.
And I hope I can find it. If not, I'll call on someone to.
To help me find it.
It's a verse that and maybe someone helped me out here. It's a verse where the Lord is speaking to Solomon.
And says that if he does not follow on to follow the Lord, that he will take away his posterity from him.
Umm.
I'm sorry, here, let's.
Thought was the first part.
Second Chronicles, but.
If someone could somehow look it up on their little.
Ah, thank you very much, Steve. Appreciate that.
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Yes, Lord, speaking to Solomon and let's go to verse 17.
And As for thee, if thou will walk before me as David thy father walked and do according to all that I have commanded thee.
And shalt observe my statutes and my judgments, then I will establish the throne of thy Kingdom, according as I have covenant with David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man to be ruler in Israel.
But.
If you turn away and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods and worship them.
Then will I pluck them up by the roots and?
Out of my land which I've given them in this house, which I've sanctified by my name, will cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations. Well did Solomon remain faithful to the Lord, And the answer is no, he did not. So what's going to happen? We just read in Matthew that the son of Solomon was Rehoboam, and we can go to the Book of Kings and find Rehoboam.
And we go to the next one there in Matthew listed up, and we can go to the Book of Kings and find the history of their reign.
So what happened?
Turn with me to the book of Luke.
And just for.
There's a reason why the list in Luke is is in a different.
Presentation than the one in Matthew, but I'm going to read the one in Luke with the same sort of pattern as we had in Matthew just to.
Follow. So what that means is we're going to have to read the verses backward.
OK.
So, so let's start with verse 34. And in the middle of verse 34 is Abraham. And so bear with me, we're going to go backward, okay?
Abraham begat Isaac.
I'm sorry, Luke 3.
Top of my page is 4 because the beginning of chapter 4 OK.
On that page, Sorry, Luke 3, verse 34.
And we'll start with verse with verse 34 with Abraham. Abraham begat Isaac, Isaac begat Jacob, Jacob begat Judah, Judah begat Pheres begat Estrom, Ezram begat Aram, Aram begat Minidab.
Minidab begat Naisant.
Naison begat Salman.
Salman begat Boaz. Boaz begat Obed. Now listen carefully here. Obed begat Jesse.
And Jesse begat David.
Begat, Nathan.
Nathan Begat, Matt.
Do you read about Martha in the Book of Kings?
No.
In fact, he's not mentioned anywhere else in the Bible.
What's going on?
Was Luke clueless as the genealogy of Christ?
We won't turn back.
But back in the history of.
Kings and Chronicles.
We find that David and Bathsheba had another son.
And his name was Nathan.
And that's the Nathan that's mentioned here in verse 31 of Luke 3.
Nathan, which was the son of David.
Unknown. We know nothing about him. Probably about the only thing we know about him was that he was the son of David Bathsheba and he was probably named after the prophet Nathan.
Who had come to David to upbraid him for his sin with Bathsheba?
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So maybe you know two things about Nathan. Other than that, we know nothing. He disappears and his family line disappears into history.
Let's keep going in Luke chapter 3. Now let's start at verse 24.
And we'll go backwards.
And may, if that which begat hell, I and he lie begat.
Joseph.
And it says as being supposed.
That Jesus was the son of Joseph.
So with that in mind, let's please start in verse and 22. We're familiar with the baptism, and now we'll read forwards. The Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, upon Jesus, and a voice came from heaven which said, thou art my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased. And Jesus himself began to be about 30 years of age, being, as was supposed, the son of Joseph, which was the son of hell, I which was the son of method, and on down until you get to Nathan.
And then to David.
What is going on? Is this one confused story or what?
It is no doubt.
The line of Mary that is in the book of Luke, and that's why it throws in the little parentheses.
As was supposed the son of Joseph.
That it was a common cultural courtesy to use Joseph instead of Mary, even though it was Mary's lineage that was going to be told out.
So in Matthew, the line goes to Joseph.
But was Joseph in any way the father of Jesus?
No. So this line of Solomon.
Is out.
So now the question comes, well, where did Mary come from?
What's her genealogy?
And indeed, you trace it back in the book of Luke.
And it goes back to a man named Nathan and then back to David.
You know, it's a story of the grace of God.
David and Bathsheba, they lost their first baby.
Their second child, Solomon.
Did not follow on with the Lord, and so by all rights he is not part of the genealogy of the Lord Jesus.
But there is a hidden son, Nathan, by name.
And through the quietness of the years, about 1000 years, generation after generation, the eye of God was on this family line.
And.
Progenitors.
Came from David. But not just David. It was David and Bathsheba.
You know.
The Lord.
Is a God of grace and mercy.
And you know, you say, well, what promises, you know, it really wasn't a sense Bathsheba's fault was Davis''s fault. David repented. And we know he did.
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But some amount of logic might have said to my mind, well because of the mess.
You know God's going to send this lineage some other direction.
But he doesn't. It's still through David and Bathsheba.
But you know what?
Hereforeful was Bathsheba's grandfather.
So 1/2 of all was in the line of Jesus also.
Adam and Eve are in the line of Jesus also.
Is sin going to stop the purposes of God?
No. Instead of stopping the purposes of God, we look back at a story like this and we say God is a God of grace.
How is the Lord Jesus going to be coming into this world as the as the Son of man and as the Son of God and miraculously in this world and yet have a human connection and not have that human connection tainted in some way? It'd be impossible, right?
Mary was a Sinner.
She spoke of God, her Savior.
I want to read one other verse in Galatians.
Galatians, chapter 4.
I.
A verse I guess I've had in my heart for a bit of this summer, actually.
Galatians 4, verse 19. My little children.
Of whom I travail in birth again.
Until Christ.
Be formed in you.
There's no Christian that can ever throw up their hands and say I.
Have formed a dead end life.
None. I don't care who you are, where you are, where you've been, how you've been there.
The Lord Jesus Christ.
Wants to be formed in your heart.
To be a witness and testimony to His glory and His honor in this world.
There's no such thing as a true believer in Jesus Christ throwing in the towel.
It's not a reality in the Christianity that Scripture teaches.
Christ can be formed in each of our hearts as we shine forth.
His glories in this world.
Never forget.
There's no dead end.
Christian life, ever.
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Like to look at a verse first in Hebrews?
Chapter 12.
Part of a verse 15 Hebrews 12/15 Looking diligently lest any man fail or fall from the grace of God.
And then back in Second Samuel.
Chapter 12.
Second Samuel 12 and verse 7.
Nathan said to David, Thou art the man.
Thus saith the Lord God of Israel. I anointed the king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul, and I gave thee thy master's house, and thy master's wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the House of Israel and of Judah. And if that had been too little, I would moreover have given unto thee such and such things. Wherefore hast thou despised?
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Commandment of the Lord to do evil in his sight. Now has killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and has taken his wife to be thy wife, and has slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
Was read to us previous meeting from 2nd Corinthians 5.
That we thus judge if Christ died for us, Christ died for all, then we're all dead.
We owe everything that we have to him.
David fell into this sin, if we look back earlier.
In the previous chapter, it was the time in verse one when kings should go out to battle, and he didn't. He stayed in his house. He tarried in Jerusalem.
And then the next thing that happened is he went out in the evening and he saw a woman washing herself. And instead of turning away and going back in his house, he stayed and watched.
And that led to the next thing. He sent for that woman, and we know the story.
Well, when Nathan comes to David, he doesn't say. Why didn't you go out to the battle? It was a time for Kings to go out.
Why, when you went out on your roof and out of your house and looked out on the rooftops and saw that woman, why didn't you turn back and go back in the house?
And so on.
He doesn't take any of those things up.
Because you know, the work of the Spirit of God to restore our souls when there is sin and failure is not necessarily to address firstly the sin itself, but to get to the root. And there was a wonderful restoration with David.
And it's so beautiful that he would name that son Nathan.
After the man who charged him with that sin by the word of God. But Nathan being a prophet and by the Spirit of God, he goes back to the root cause of that sin.
David, I gave you everything that you have, everything you are.
And all that you have, you owe to me.
My Sovereign Grace put you in the place that you have.
And maintained you there and you forgot.
That it was grace that put you there.
And then you reached out and took what did not belong to you.
Dear ones, just to tie in with what our brother had to in the previous meeting.
It has impressed me that those who have gone on to serve the Lord in their lives in a wonderful way are those who have been deeply impressed that they owe everything to the Lord.
And that that is the reasonable basis of their service for Christ is that they owe everything to sovereign grace, lest any man fall from the grace of God. How we need to be kept in our souls, that we owe everything to him.
It will keep us from that great transgression.