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Sunday Bible School- The Theme of Kingship Through the Bible- Tim Dobson- Sept26 · Woodlands Church Academy's Podcast

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SPEAKER_01: And um shouldn't be able to I've got the microphone from when we should song.
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SPEAKER_01: But does it work okay for another microphone?
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SPEAKER_01: Want the microphone.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay, one microphone.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, um well thank you very much for coming up all the stairs.
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SPEAKER_00: Not only we go down this nice cool crypt, but you've probably warmed yourself up coming up upstairs.
2:20
SPEAKER_00: If you've come into Ampha, this is where we have Ampha.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh behind that door there, there's a big kind of uh industrial uh kitchen where we cook all the food.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh but uh because the students happened downstairs, one of the schools up here.
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SPEAKER_00: Um so how many of you have been to Bible school before?
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SPEAKER_00: Can I sort of wave okay, which means that maybe a third of you haven't.
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SPEAKER_00: So if you've not been to public school before, just say um we meet on the third Sunday of each month.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh, one of the sermons happening downstairs, it's just a chance to look at either a Bible book or a Bible theme, uh, and in a bit more of a kind of seminar uh style, rather than a kind of preachy thing uh where at the end you're gonna put your hands up and go for prayer ministry and give you money or whatever it is.
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SPEAKER_00: We might do that, we'll see how we get on.
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SPEAKER_00: Um but uh here it's a chance to think a bit more deeply.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh, and then on Tuesdays, three times a year, we have a sequence of four Tuesday evenings where we can take a book and go even deeper with the book.
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SPEAKER_00: So that's what we're, Dave mentioned, uh, a week on Tuesday, we're going to do four evenings look at the book of Exodus.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh, but this evening, we're going to look at the theme.
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SPEAKER_00: So, uh, in times before we've done Bible books, we're going to look at a theme and say, how, when you read your Bible, uh, how are there some themes that reoccur through the stories, right from the book of Genesis, right through the history books, through the wisdom books, uh, through the prophecy books, into the gospels, into the epistles.
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SPEAKER_00: Actually, there's some themes that run through the whole book of the Bible, and sometimes it's really helpful just to get a handle.
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SPEAKER_00: How do those uh themes work?
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SPEAKER_00: So we're going to talk about the theme of king.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, and and why is the theme of kingship important?
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SPEAKER_00: Uh well I think it's important because um, as people who follow Jesus, uh, Jesus is described as in Matthew's Gospel, kind of the wise men came looking for the king, the king of the Jews.
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SPEAKER_00: As they crucified him at the end of his life, um, people came looking and they saw above the cross uh the big sign saying King of the Jews.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, when people referred to Jesus, particularly on Palm Sunday, they come in waving their palms and they say, Hosanna is the son of David.
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SPEAKER_00: The son of David was a kingly reference.
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SPEAKER_00: David was an Old Testament king, and they were anticipating one of David's sons who's gonna come and put everything right.
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SPEAKER_00: So Jesus was called the son of uh son of David.
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SPEAKER_00: Um Revelation, there's a few terms, ruler of the king of the earth, he's the ruler of the kings of the earth, uh, king of kings, he's the king of nations, king of the ages, uh, and again, king of kings in Revelation and 1 Timothy.
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SPEAKER_00: So if we're someone who follows Jesus, sometimes we can uh read the stories of Jesus and hear his parables, and sometimes we kind of we can miss the the majesty and the kingship and what it was that when Jesus appeared, he came to fulfill the story that was the right way through the Old Testament uh about what was a king, what was God up to, what was God expecting of a king, and and how did Jesus fulfill that kingship?
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SPEAKER_00: And and somehow how do we now, as we follow King Jesus, how do we see his kingdom uh impacting our world?
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SPEAKER_00: So that's kind of where we're going to head.
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SPEAKER_00: So we're gonna start off.
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SPEAKER_00: Um uh actually, yeah, the other thing about Jesus is quite often he's uh uh he's called Jesus Christ or Christ Jesus.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh and Jesus Christ is not uh Jesus' surname, so it's not like Tim Dobson.
5:42
SPEAKER_00: Christ wasn't a surname, uh actually it was a title.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh and a title, it literally meant in the Greek it meant anointed.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh but anointed what?
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SPEAKER_00: Well, people thought it was anointed king.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh you anointed priests in the anointed king.
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SPEAKER_00: So when they call Jesus Christ Jesus or Jesus Christ, it means King Jesus or Jesus the King.
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SPEAKER_00: Um and so even though we don't see the word king so often in the epistles, actually Paul will frequently refer to Jesus as Christ, the Christ, the King.
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SPEAKER_00: That's what Christ means.
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SPEAKER_00: Um so again, it infers anointed kingship.
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SPEAKER_00: So right there through the Bible, into the teachings of the epistles, uh, the kingship is really important.
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SPEAKER_00: So where does it all start?
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SPEAKER_00: Well, I suppose it starts at the very beginning, it's a very good place to start.
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SPEAKER_00: And uh in Genesis, when God creates the heavens and the earth, uh you come to Genesis chapter 1, verse uh 26, and it says, and then God said, Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness.
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SPEAKER_00: Why?
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SPEAKER_00: So that they may rule.
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SPEAKER_00: It's fascinating that when God created the heavens and the earth, when he created uh kind of started with light uh and then land and sea and and plants and seeds and uh sun, moon, uh, when he created uh the birds and the fish, when he created animals and human beings, actually, as he created all of it, humanity was the his pinnacle.
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SPEAKER_00: And his pinnacle, what he anticipated or expected humanity to do was to rule, was to be kings and queens, prince and princesses.
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SPEAKER_00: Actually, he he his anticipation was that we would do something in this world over the kind of stuff that God created.
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SPEAKER_00: Actually, one of the things that he anticipated human beings would do is rule.
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SPEAKER_00: So that's the first mention again in uh two verses later, it says the same, therefore God blessed them and said to them, Be fruitful, increase in number, fill the earth and subdue it, rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, and over every living creature that moves on the ground.
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SPEAKER_00: So, right at the very beginning, if we think about kingship, kingship in fact was something to do with human identity, with the image of God, God who was sovereign, sovereignly choose to create humanity and put this to destiny.
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SPEAKER_00: Actually, uh the part of the reason I've created you is so that you would rule.
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SPEAKER_00: So as we go through the story of the of the Old Testament, um, we find other things that want to rule.
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SPEAKER_00: So God wants us to rule over the world, but when we have the fall, um when humanity disobeys God, when his world is fractured, um God gives these here's the consequences, guys, of you going your own way.
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SPEAKER_00: And one of the things is that to the woman he said, I will make your pains in childbirth very severe.
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SPEAKER_00: With painful labour you give birth to children, your desire will be for a husband, here's the word him, rule, and he will rule over you.
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SPEAKER_00: Actually, something we were destined to male and female to rule, but something happened in the fall that kind of fractured humanity.
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SPEAKER_00: And the rule that God anticipated we would always do, which is to be in the image of God, ruling under his auspices and under his care.
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SPEAKER_00: Actually, now that there was the fall, something was going to come, and so that even in the male-female relationship, there was going to be domination, there was going to be rule of the man over the woman, and and throughout church history and still in some parts of the world today, actually we see that's the case in a fractured world.
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SPEAKER_00: It seems to be that men feel they have the right to rule over women, and that's not how God intended it.
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SPEAKER_00: But it's one of the things we find about about rule.
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SPEAKER_00: We should be serving one another, we should be kings like Jesus.
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SPEAKER_00: He came not to be served, but to serve.
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SPEAKER_00: The Gentiles they they use lordship to lord it over one another.
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SPEAKER_00: It shouldn't be the same amongst you.
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SPEAKER_00: You should be one like me who comes to serve.
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SPEAKER_00: Rule, kingly rule should be a servant rule.
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SPEAKER_00: But here in the four we see that there's a rule that creeps in and there's a domination that comes from male over female.
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SPEAKER_00: We see in chapter four that there's another thing that wants to rule.
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SPEAKER_00: Here, this is now Cain and Abel.
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SPEAKER_00: If you know the story of Cain and Abel in Genesis chapter 4, and Cain and Abel they both offer sacrifices to God, and for some reason, Abel's sacrifice is pleasing to God, and Cain's not quite sure why, but it's not, and and and he gets really mad.
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SPEAKER_00: And he gets so mad that he kind of is contemplating kind of killing his brother.
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SPEAKER_00: And God says to him this kind of if you do what's right, uh, will you not be accepted in the way that Abel was?
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SPEAKER_00: But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching your door.
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SPEAKER_00: It desires to have you, but you must rule over it.
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SPEAKER_00: Actually, here's the challenge.
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SPEAKER_00: In a world that's now broken, in a world that's not going according to God's plan, actually, there's something called sin in the world.
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SPEAKER_00: Corruption, evil, wrongdoing.
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SPEAKER_00: Actually, if you don't, it's like crouching over your door.
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SPEAKER_00: Sin's like knock, knock, knock on the outside of your life, wanting to get in.
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SPEAKER_00: Don't let it in.
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SPEAKER_00: You've got to rule over sin.
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SPEAKER_00: If you don't rule over sin, sin will rule over you.
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SPEAKER_00: And there's another kind of kingship that we see that throughout the Old Testament story.
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SPEAKER_00: Sin reigns from Adam until Jesus.
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SPEAKER_00: Sin reigns.
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SPEAKER_00: There's another kind of kingship, there's another kind of reign.
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SPEAKER_00: And now it's the reign not of God or not of humanity under the lordship of God.
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SPEAKER_00: Actually, now there's a different kind of rule, there's a different kind of king that's in charge.
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SPEAKER_00: Actually, we become slaves to sin.
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SPEAKER_00: So, how is that going to be put right?
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SPEAKER_00: Well, we see from Genesis until from Genesis kind of six until uh Genesis 12, um, there's other people who arise, and the first time that um the king is mentioned uh is uh Nimrod.
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SPEAKER_00: So Nimrod in chapter uh 10, verse 9 uh to 10, he was a mighty hunter before the Lord.
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SPEAKER_00: That is why it was said like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord.
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SPEAKER_00: The first centre of his kingdom were Babylon and these other places with strange sounding names.
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SPEAKER_00: Um the first time the word king is mentioned is in the context of kingdom.
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SPEAKER_00: Here's somebody who has power, who has significance, who has human skill, and that through his human prowess and skill actually gets people who admire that and and and follow him, and he has a kingdom, he has a domain over which he holds responsibility.
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SPEAKER_00: So that's the first time in the Bible where rather than just the word rule, the word king in the phrase king in the word kingdom appears.
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SPEAKER_00: So as we go on through the story, um we get then glimpses of different kinds of kings.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh so I'm not going to go through every king, but there's just a few little highlights uh as we go through the Old Testament of things that we see in the Old Testament story that I think really help us to understand what God intended with kingship and how Jesus fulfills uh that idea of kingship.
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SPEAKER_00: So uh in chapter 14 we have a story of Abraham.
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SPEAKER_00: Abram has been called by God, the person who responds to God uh to and moves country, he goes to this uh to this land that God has shown him, and there's a battle, and in a battle, God helps him and he wins.
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SPEAKER_00: And as he's coming back with a split, he meets this uh this king, the king of Salem.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh Salem is the word for like Shalom peace, the king of peace, and Jerusalem is is kind of uh around where he he was king.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh so Melchizedek was his name.
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SPEAKER_00: Melchizedek, the king of Salem, brought out bread and wine.
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SPEAKER_00: He was a priest of God, most high, and he blessed Abraham, saying, Blessed be Abraham, thy God most high, creator of heaven and earth, and praise be to God most high, who delivered your enemies into your hands.
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SPEAKER_00: Then Abraham gave him a tenth of everything.
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SPEAKER_00: So here's this mysterious king, this mysterious king called Melchizedek, and the book of Hebrews says that we don't know quite what his ancestry was, uh, but he seems to appear, and and this king again just he appears with bread and wine.
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SPEAKER_00: And you think, well, now that we know about Jesus, of course we think later on, kind of two and a half thousand years later, actually there's going to be another king who's gonna come with bread and wine as he sits with his friends at the last supper, and he gives sprays of bread and and passes round the wine and says, actually, here is my body broken for you, and here's my blood, shall I feel?
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SPEAKER_00: And actually, here's a king, and this king with him brings uh bread and wine.
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SPEAKER_00: And he's a priest, he's somebody who is an intermediary between God and people, between people and God, and so somehow he can receive the tithe that uh Abraham gives to him as if he was receiving it, as if God was receiving it, but he also brings the blessing of God to Abraham.
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SPEAKER_00: And here's this little glimpse of uh a priest king.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, a priest king in the Old Testament, and as we look at um in Psalms there, again Psalm 109, I guess, mentions uh Melchizedek, and uh and uh a little Hebrew says, actually, this uh king is the kind of king that Jesus is, a priest king.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, what are the kings we see as we go through the Old Testament?
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SPEAKER_00: Um well there's a promise to Jacob, who uh when God gives him the name Israel, um uh uh Jacob changed his name to Israel, so his uh twelve sons form the the tribes of Israel, the nation of Israel.
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SPEAKER_00: Um and God says to him, God says to him, I am God Almighty, be fruitful and increase in number.
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SPEAKER_00: Does that sound familiar?
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SPEAKER_00: Genesis chapter one be fruitful and increase in number.
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SPEAKER_00: And Genesis one said, Rule over everything.
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SPEAKER_00: Here it says, uh, and you'll increase in number, a nation and a community of nations will come from you, and kings will be among your descendants.
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SPEAKER_00: So here's a promise to when it's just Abraham, Isaac, here's Jacob, kind of the promises that they're gonna have a huge number of ancestors, and but actually amongst their ancestors there's gonna be kings, and so even at this stage there's this idea that from Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, that some of their descendants will actually be kings.
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SPEAKER_00: We were all called to to reign, but there will be some people specifically in the Old Testament that will be called to be uh to be kings.
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SPEAKER_00: Um at the end of uh Jacob's life, he's about to die, and he calls his twelve sons around him.
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SPEAKER_00: And if you know the story, it's kind of it's it's the story of Joseph, and and Joseph, sold as a slave, becomes kind of prime minister, second in command to Pharaoh, and uh his brothers come and bow down before him.
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SPEAKER_00: And so here's Jacob, uh he's blessing all his children, and uh he comes to Judah and he says this to Judah the scepter will not depart from Judah, nor will the rule of the staff from between his feet.
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SPEAKER_00: And the other brothers might say, Oh, hang on, Dad, you're getting a little bit old.
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SPEAKER_00: Kind of, it's Joseph.
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SPEAKER_00: Joseph is the one who's the king, Joseph's the one who's the ruler, you've picked the wrong child.
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SPEAKER_00: Kind of come this way, Dad.
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SPEAKER_00: They said, No, it's Judah.
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SPEAKER_00: Judah will be the one, and the staff will not uh um will not leap between his feet until he to whom it belongs shall come.
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SPEAKER_00: The obedience of the nations shall be his.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, that's all indication of the nations that we have bad eye before this kind of king, a king that's gonna be from the tribe of Judah.
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SPEAKER_00: And this king is gonna be kind of a king that he will turn this donkey to the vine, a cult of the uh to the choicest branches.
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SPEAKER_00: Again, what kind of king is gonna ride on a donkey?
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SPEAKER_00: I mean, kings come on white stallions and war horses, but actually, no, this king, this king of Judah, this is right right back at the beginning of the book of Genesis.
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SPEAKER_00: Actually, this king is gonna come and he's going to come ride on a donkey.
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SPEAKER_00: And uh he will wash his garments in wine, his robes, in the blood grapes.
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SPEAKER_00: There's something about unrighteousness.
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SPEAKER_00: When we meet the blood of Jesus, there's something that's going to be washed inside of us.
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SPEAKER_00: And and here in this little prophecy, kind of hundreds and hundreds of thousands of years before Jesus even thought about, here's a prophecy that talks about how a king is going to come from the tribe of Judah.
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SPEAKER_00: And it's a king that's to do with donkeys and washing clothes, and and again, it's like looking in the far distance.
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SPEAKER_00: You can kind of just make out the shape of what this king is going to be like and what this king is going to do.
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SPEAKER_00: So that's at the end of the book of Genesis, and and come to Exodus.
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SPEAKER_00: And Exodus is the story of where um this is 400 years later, 400 years since that promise, and and and now God's people are slaves in Egypt, and and God delivers them and sets them free from slavery.
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SPEAKER_00: And they're going to go back to the land that God promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
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SPEAKER_00: And on the way back, uh God speaks to Moses and He speaks to Moses about the destiny.
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SPEAKER_00: It's the destiny of this people of God and the people of God through all time.
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SPEAKER_00: He says to this, now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasure to earth possession.
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SPEAKER_00: Although the whole earth is mine, you will be for me a kingdom of priests, a holy nation.
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SPEAKER_00: Actually, the way you're going to represent me is like it's like this king-priest kind of deal.
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SPEAKER_00: It's like there's going to be a priest that knows how to encounter God and encounter the world, encounter the world, encounter God, but actually there's something about it that's going to be kingly, there's something about it that's going to be about a rule and a reign.
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SPEAKER_00: And this is kind of prophesied again, just right back there with um uh in Exodus.
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SPEAKER_00: As we follow through the theme, um, at the end of Deuteronomy, is they're about to enter the promised land.
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SPEAKER_00: Moses kind of says this actually, when you enter the promised land, I kind of know that you're going to you're gonna have a human king.
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SPEAKER_00: Now, I've always thought you should have God as your king.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, other nations have kings, and kind of well, he says this when you enter the land, the Lord gives is given to you, and taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, Let us set a king over us, like all the nations around us, be sure to appoint for you a king the Lord your God chooses.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, he's a king chosen by God.
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SPEAKER_00: He must be from among your fellow Israelites, from amongst the people of God.
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SPEAKER_00: Do not place a foreigner over you, one who is not an Israelite.
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SPEAKER_00: The king, moreover, must not acquire a great number of horses for himself, right?
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SPEAKER_00: Not by power, not by might, but by Mr.
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SPEAKER_00: says the Lord.
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SPEAKER_00: Um uh make people return to Egypt to get more of them.
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SPEAKER_00: For the Lord has told you, uh you uh uh you are known to go about that way.
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SPEAKER_00: He must not take many wives, or his heart would be led astray.
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SPEAKER_00: We'll go on to the story of King Solomon.
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SPEAKER_00: King Solomon he had 700 wives and 300 concubines, that was women he had sex with and couldn't be bold to marry.
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SPEAKER_00: And what happened to Solomon?
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SPEAKER_00: Bad news of Solomon.
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SPEAKER_00: Here Moses says, Don't have many wives.
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SPEAKER_00: Um uh uh it is to be um when he takes the throne of his kingdom, he's to write for himself a scroll on a scroll a copy of this law taken from that of the litigal priests.
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unknown: Actually, he's got no script, actually, he uh he's got a copy.
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unknown: I've not to read the Bible, he's got a copy.
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unknown: This king's got a copy of the Bible.
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SPEAKER_00: Why so that he ingests the word of God?
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SPEAKER_00: You want a king that knows God's words.
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SPEAKER_00: Knows God's ways.
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SPEAKER_00: It's to be with him, is to read it all the days of his life, so that he may learn to revere the Lord his God and follow carefully all the words of this law and these decrees.
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SPEAKER_00: So that was the kind of prophecy that Moses came.
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SPEAKER_00: Actually, when you went to the Promised Land, you're gonna want to be like other nations.
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SPEAKER_00: I can see it coming.
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SPEAKER_00: If you do, here's what some of the things that a true king should do.
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SPEAKER_00: So we go through the book of Judges, and the book of Judges is chaotic.
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SPEAKER_00: It's a real tragedy.
22:34
SPEAKER_00: And it ends with a conclusion.
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SPEAKER_00: Four times it says this in those days Israel had no king.
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SPEAKER_00: Everyone did what they saw fit in their own eyes.
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SPEAKER_00: And there's this realization that actually, when you have no view of a king, no view of a kingship, all you do is what you do is what's right in your own eyes.
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SPEAKER_00: Actually it seems very familiar to today.
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SPEAKER_00: You do you.
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SPEAKER_00: Just you do you.
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SPEAKER_00: Do what you seem is seems right in your own eyes.
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SPEAKER_00: Actually, don't be bothered about anything else, don't let anyone else tell you what's what.
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SPEAKER_00: Don't submit to any kind of higher power or any other rules.
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SPEAKER_00: Actually, just do what yourself.
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SPEAKER_00: And that's what happened in the book of Judges.
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SPEAKER_00: And it ends with such blatant uh immorality and idolatry.
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SPEAKER_00: And that's what happens to our lives when we have no king.
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SPEAKER_00: No king in our lives.
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SPEAKER_00: So we go into the book of Samuel and um in 2 Samuel um uh he says this uh the Lord um uh Samuel appoints first of all Saul, then appoints David to be king.
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SPEAKER_00: In some ways, Saul fails as a king, but um David he he fails.
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SPEAKER_00: In fact, uh David was probably the pinnacle of kingship.
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SPEAKER_00: So if you looked at the Old Testament and say, what was the best, who was the best king?
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SPEAKER_00: David.
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SPEAKER_00: What did what did he kind of do?
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SPEAKER_00: Well he started up really well.
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SPEAKER_00: He was somebody who loved God, put him first, wrote worship songs, kind of somebody who obeyed him.
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SPEAKER_00: When he was fighting uh uh uh uh Goliath, he kind of said, Well, you come at me, those I come at you in the name of the Lord.
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SPEAKER_00: And that was just divine trust and hope.
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SPEAKER_00: And even when Saul was pursuing him and persecuting him, he maintained his honour, his integrity, his dignity.
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SPEAKER_00: Actually, he was someone in the way that the kings worked, actually, he was probably the top dog, and in some ways, God appreciated that.
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SPEAKER_00: In fact, God appreciated all that David did, and particularly in the first part of his life, that he made this promise.
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SPEAKER_00: And although he made some very serious mistakes, like with Bathsheba, actually says this the Lord declares to you that the Lord Himself will establish a house for you, like for David.
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SPEAKER_00: When your days are over and you rest with your ancestors, I will raise up from your offspring to succeed you your own flesh and blood, and I will establish his kingdom.
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SPEAKER_00: He is the one who will build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
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SPEAKER_00: I will be his father, and he shall be my son.
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SPEAKER_00: Now, when David heard that, he thought, oh, I know what you're saying.
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SPEAKER_00: You're saying that my son Solomon is gonna reign.
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SPEAKER_00: Actually, he's gonna reign forever.
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SPEAKER_00: Ah, well, I'm gonna die, I'm gonna kind of go to my ancestors.
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SPEAKER_00: Actually, Solomon's gonna die too.
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SPEAKER_00: How can his kingdom reign forever?
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SPEAKER_00: Well, maybe there'll always be somebody on the throne of David.
25:39
SPEAKER_00: So maybe it might not be Solomon, but maybe Solomon and all his offspring, maybe there'll always be a king on the throne of David.
25:46
SPEAKER_00: And that was part of their thinking, is that uh the promise to David and his son.
25:51
SPEAKER_00: Actually, when we read that about who's a king that comes and is the son of the father, actually, who's the one who comes to build a house for the Lord?
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SPEAKER_00: Well, Solomon's going to build a physical temple, but when Jesus comes, Jesus the Son of God, actually he's gonna build a spiritual temple, a spiritual house.
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SPEAKER_00: He's a king with a a task, uh a mandate to see through his death and through his resurrection a new kind of temple being built.
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SPEAKER_00: Do you not know that you are the temple of the Holy Spirit?
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SPEAKER_00: You're a spiritual building being put together by the king.
26:28
SPEAKER_00: And so here there's a prophecy to David, and he anticipates that means that Solomon's going to build a physical temple, but but in it there's echoes of another king.
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SPEAKER_00: Another king who will come, who's going to be the son of a father.
26:41
SPEAKER_00: There was this promise that um uh that there would always be somebody on David's throne, but um things didn't go so well.
26:50
SPEAKER_00: In fact, there was civil war and and and the kingdom divided, and actually, now there was not just one king, David's ancestor over Israel.
26:58
SPEAKER_00: Actually, now there were two kings.
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SPEAKER_00: There was the northern ten tribes formed what they called Israel, and the southern two tribes were called Judah.
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SPEAKER_00: And if you read through the Gospel of the Bible accounts, you'll sometimes you wouldn't read about kings of Israel, kings of Judah, and the kings of the northern tribes of Israel, actually some of them followed God, but they were the first ones to time and time again do things that were wrong.
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SPEAKER_00: And the southern tribes, again, many of them followed God wholeheartedly.
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SPEAKER_00: They had the temple in the southern uh southern part of the southern tribes, they had the places to worship God, they had the priesthood that was there, and um, but as you read through, what were these kings like?
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SPEAKER_00: Well, some kings, this little phrase did what was right in the eyes of the Lord.
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SPEAKER_00: If you read through one or two kings of one two chronicles, this little phrase, the king's name became king, he reigned for so long, and some of them says he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord.
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SPEAKER_00: Or some of them said he follows the way of David.
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SPEAKER_00: Actually, there were some things that they actually they did what was right, but actually, many of them did evil in the eyes of the Lord.
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SPEAKER_00: Actually, they didn't follow, they they relinquished their soul worship of God as their king, and they started worshiping Baal and Asheroth and the sex and fertility gods of the Canaanites, and and and time and time again there were people who disobeyed God, they should have been a king that was should have been serving God's people on God's behalf, and yet sin was crouching at their door.
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SPEAKER_00: You should have ruled it, and they couldn't rule the sin, and therefore they couldn't rule the nation.
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SPEAKER_00: And time and time again, until those northern ten tribes, eventually God says, Actually, if you're not going to submit to my kingship to my rule, if you're gonna submit to the other nations, well, you might as well go and be exported and go to exile to the other nations.
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SPEAKER_00: And that's what happened to those northern ten tribes.
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SPEAKER_00: They they were cast out into exile.
28:54
SPEAKER_00: And in the southern tribes, Hezekiah, he he was somebody who kind of even when the Assyrians came to take over his little bit of uh the um his uh Judah actually trusted God and and there was a great deliverance.
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SPEAKER_00: So the the southern tribes didn't get taken into captivity until later, but eventually they're so um dismissive of God, dismissive of his covenant, dismissive of his law, dismissive of following him, that actually God says, I've I've I've had enough, and uh nation invades, they destroy Jerusalem, they destroy the temple, and they take the brightest and the best uh away into exile.
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SPEAKER_00: And as they're doing this, Jeremiah recalls this um um this kind of prophecy that although they was promised to be uh uh a king of the son of David on the throne forever, actually this prophecy comes to him and says, This, as sure as I live, declares the Lord.
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SPEAKER_00: Even though you, Joachim, son of Joachim, king of Judah, were like a signature ring on my right hand, I will pull you off, I will deliver you into the hands of those who want to kill you, those you fear Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon and the Babylonians, I will hurl you and your mother who gave birth to you into another country where neither of you uh where neither of you were born, and there you will both die.
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SPEAKER_00: And then just as if to see it, he says this in verse 13 this is what the Lord said recall this man, this king, as if a child, a man who will not prosper in his lifetime, for none of his offsprings will prosper, none will sit on the throne of David or rule anymore in Judah.
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SPEAKER_00: And then there's a son that, like, no, God, you can't say that.
30:56
SPEAKER_00: You promised that there would always be a descendant of David that will be sitting on your throne, and now you've said, right, that's it.
31:02
SPEAKER_00: Here's this person who's who's a descendant of David, and it's like you've taken his ring of authority, this single ring off, and you've thrown it away, and you've said, you can then and this big question for 70 years was what's happened to that promise?
31:15
SPEAKER_00: What's happened to the promise that there would be a son of David who would always be on the throne?
31:21
SPEAKER_00: What's happened 70 years now?
31:23
SPEAKER_00: This this question, where's the king?
31:25
SPEAKER_00: Where's the son of David?
31:27
SPEAKER_00: There's nobody on the throne, we're taking into exile until we come to the book of Habakkuk.
31:32
SPEAKER_00: In the book of Habakkuk, as the nation of Israel, some start to return to rebuild the temple.
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SPEAKER_00: Habakkuk gives a prophecy to uh Zerubul.
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SPEAKER_00: In Hagelai chapter 2, verse 23 says this on that day, declares the Lord, I will take you, my servant Zerubabal, son of Sheltiel, declares the Lord, and I will make you like my signet ring.
31:55
SPEAKER_00: For I have chosen you, declares the Lord.
31:57
SPEAKER_00: So here's your choice, Jehovah, and like you're like the king, and you're like my signature, you're the person that had authority.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm chucking you away.
32:04
SPEAKER_00: And for 70 years I thought, where's the king?
32:07
SPEAKER_00: Where's that signal ring of authority?
32:09
SPEAKER_00: And here that God says to the rubber ball, which is a rubber ball.
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SPEAKER_00: You are my signal ring.
32:15
SPEAKER_00: Actually, you're going to be a king on the throne.
32:18
SPEAKER_00: And if you look at the beginning of the book of Matthew or the beginning of the book of Luke, and you look at the genealogy of Jesus, guess who's in the genealogy of Jesus?
32:28
SPEAKER_00: It's a rubber ball.
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SPEAKER_00: He's there, somebody who followed God's heart, who left captivity to come and start rebuilding.
32:35
SPEAKER_00: He became the person obedient to God.
32:37
SPEAKER_00: He's a king, once again, obedient to part of God, knowing his word, knowing his ways, and he's like a signaling, a man that carries the authority of God into this world.
32:50
SPEAKER_00: So once again, here's somebody on the throne David.
32:54
SPEAKER_00: Now a broken nation, then but where is the king that should be like David?
33:02
SPEAKER_00: Where's the king that's going to come that's going to restore the fortunes of Israel?
33:06
SPEAKER_00: And for many years, the nation was thinking, kind of, God, we want you to do something new, we want you to do something again.
33:14
SPEAKER_00: We want there to be a king in Israel that could once again do the things that you promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the things you promised to Moses, the things you promised to David, and the prophets, as they come, the prophets give a little inkling that one day there will be a king.
33:29
SPEAKER_00: Jeremiah says, The day is coming, declares the Lord, when I will raise up for David a righteous branch, a king who will reign wisely, and do what is just and right in the land.
33:43
SPEAKER_00: Although Jeremiah's prophesying is the city of Jerusalem has been destroyed, actually the day will come when there will be this branch of David will rise.
33:53
SPEAKER_00: Micah says, But you, Bethlehem of writer, though you are smaller than the plans of Judah, out of you will come for me, one who will rule over Israel, whose origins are from of old, from ancient times.
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SPEAKER_00: There's going to be this ruler, this king who's going to come and Bethlehem, the city of David, is where he's going to arrive.
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SPEAKER_00: Zechariah, rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion, shout, daughter of Jerusalem, see your king comes to you, righteous, victorious.
34:24
SPEAKER_00: That's what we want.
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SPEAKER_00: Bring in justice, bring in victory.
34:28
SPEAKER_00: Ah, lowly and riding on a donkey, on a cold of fall.
34:32
SPEAKER_00: Ah, that's not quite the king we want to, but we'll take the first bit.
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SPEAKER_00: Somebody's coming with justice and victorious.
34:40
SPEAKER_00: So there's these echoes, these prophecies throughout the Old Testament.
34:45
SPEAKER_00: So when Jesus arrives, he comes and there's a king who's born.
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SPEAKER_00: Shepherds come to worship.
35:02
SPEAKER_00: Here God, who is looking for humanity to rule, God himself becomes a human being.
35:09
SPEAKER_00: And in the person of Jesus, he demonstrates what it's like to be a true king.
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SPEAKER_00: To be a king that doesn't come kind of with money and pomp and armies and military mind.
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SPEAKER_00: He's born into a stable.
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SPEAKER_00: The king of the Jews.
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SPEAKER_00: And we see of Jesus that again he they realize as he enters Jerusalem, here comes the son of David.
35:33
SPEAKER_00: We've been waiting for a king who's going to be on David's throne.
35:36
SPEAKER_00: Maybe Jesus is going to be the one.
35:38
SPEAKER_00: And so they welcome him into Jerusalem.
35:40
SPEAKER_00: Son of David, come to Jerusalem.
35:43
SPEAKER_00: Hosanna, praise God.
35:44
SPEAKER_00: The king of the son of David's coming.
35:48
SPEAKER_00: And what they wanted is they wanted a king who's going to be like David, who's going to kick out all the enemies.
35:55
SPEAKER_00: This enemy had to be the Romans.
35:58
SPEAKER_00: It was going to make Israel top dot again.
36:00
SPEAKER_00: Israel was going to be kind of important.
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SPEAKER_00: In David's time, in Solomon's time, kind of here comes Jesus, who's going to be the son of David.
36:09
SPEAKER_00: But again, it's a kingship that's not like a human kingship.
36:15
SPEAKER_00: Human kingship has been distorted by the rule of sin.
36:21
SPEAKER_00: And so as Jesus comes, he comes as the true king, to rule as kings were truly meant to rule.
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unknown: I'm a great law over you.
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unknown: I'm here amongst you serve us.
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unknown: And he in his kingly way, he serves people with wisdom.
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unknown: That's what kings should do.
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unknown: He is people wisely, parables and teaching.
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unknown: He serves his people with healing and well-being.
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unknown: He serves people with blessing.
36:50
SPEAKER_00: He serves people with his own life, his death, his resurrection.
36:56
SPEAKER_00: I could show you what kind of king I am by calling down a thousand angels, but actually I'm not going to display my kingship like an earthly king.
37:06
SPEAKER_00: I'm going to display my kingship like a heavenly king.
37:10
SPEAKER_00: And a heavenly king expressed kingship through sacrifice, through laying down his life.
37:22
SPEAKER_00: When Jesus demonstrates what it is to be a true king, he comes in fulfillment as someone who now will reign on the throne of David forever.
37:32
SPEAKER_00: Actually, he calls us to be part of his kingly rule, his kingly reign.
37:39
SPEAKER_00: Actually, which is why again Peter quotes Moses and he says, What's happened through Jesus is kind of like what Moses said would happen.
37:49
SPEAKER_00: It didn't happen in Moses' day.
37:50
SPEAKER_00: It didn't happen in David's day.
37:52
SPEAKER_00: It didn't happen actually in Jesus' day, but you now are that chosen people.
37:56
SPEAKER_00: You are a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's special possession.
38:00
SPEAKER_00: You may declare the praise of him who bought you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
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unknown: Jesus brought you out of darkness, the rule and the reign of sin.
38:11
SPEAKER_00: And he brought you into another kingdom, the kingdom of light, the kingdom of his son.
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SPEAKER_00: That wonderful light followed Jesus.
38:18
SPEAKER_00: And now there's the kingship of Jesus is expressed in our life, which is why we don't only have Jesus as our Savior and all the wonderful things he brings for us.
38:26
SPEAKER_00: But actually we want Jesus as our king or Jesus as our Lord.
38:36
SPEAKER_00: That's part of our experience here on earth.
38:39
SPEAKER_00: But actually, it's just some strange little things in the book of Revelation that maybe indicate that ruling and being a kingly rule alongside Jesus isn't just for this life, actually, it's for the eternal life as well.
38:50
SPEAKER_00: That somehow in the new heavens you've made them to be kings and priests that serve God and they will reign on earth.
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SPEAKER_00: New heaven and new earth forever.
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SPEAKER_00: There's something bad.
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SPEAKER_00: This kingly rule that will go on forever.
39:05
SPEAKER_00: Any other any questions before which I've got just got five more minutes, but any questions or comments before I just give some final conclusions?
39:14
SPEAKER_00: A sweep of the king, the king theme to go out of scripture.
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SPEAKER_02: You might be a king, you might be a patriarch.
40:08
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
40:10
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's not my might, it's Zachariah, not my mind on my power, but my spirit said the Lord.
40:15
SPEAKER_00: Uh Abraham tried his own might with Hagar and it didn't work out.
40:19
SPEAKER_00: Uh there was something about God's power and God's kingdom.
40:25
SPEAKER_00: Okay, just just the last few thoughts before we finish.
40:30
SPEAKER_00: Um there's a book by Stock McGovern Knight called Kingdom of Spirit Conspiracy.
40:36
SPEAKER_00: And he talks about kind of uh tries to say, well, what is, if there is a king, what is the kingdom of God, and then how do we respond to the kingship of Jesus?
40:45
SPEAKER_00: So if the king thing comes all the way from scripture, and now we're living in an era that kind of what does it mean for Jesus to be king?
40:53
SPEAKER_00: Now, when Jesus talked about the kingdom, uh Scotland says that they would have expected a king, uh they would have expected the king to rule, so he would have a way that he would rule.
41:05
SPEAKER_00: And again, the way that Jesus choose to rule was not to lord over them, but to serve.
41:11
SPEAKER_00: And so he had, not only was there a king, but was there a way that the king rules?
41:16
SPEAKER_00: Um the king obviously has a people over which he's ruling there's the the people that belong to the king.
41:24
SPEAKER_00: There's uh sort of geography, there's a land demarcation of where the king's influence uh extends.
41:32
SPEAKER_00: And then there's a law, there's a culture uh that um the king uh says actually, here's the way that this kingdom is going to operate and going to work, and so each uh nation that had a king would have a king that had certain rules.
41:47
SPEAKER_00: This is how you operate within my world.
41:49
SPEAKER_00: And um, in some ways, when Jesus talks about the kingdom of God, and as we look at a king throughout history, there is a king, God who's king, and Jesus who comes to be that perfect king has a way that his kingdom rule is going to be extended, which is graceful, loving, merciful, forgiving, healing, redemptive.
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unknown: He has a people that who own him.
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SPEAKER_00: So the church are the people of God who say that, yes, Jesus, we don't only want you to be our Savior, but you don't want you to be our king.
42:23
SPEAKER_00: There's a kingdom people.
42:25
SPEAKER_00: Uh there's a land that for old Israel was a specific part of the Middle East, but in Jesus, now he the the whole land is like Genesis 1, the whole earth.
42:37
SPEAKER_00: Go and make disciples of every tribe and nation.
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SPEAKER_00: Actually, now the land that the kingdom's going to influence is not just one small patch of the Middle East, but now it's the whole of the world.
42:48
SPEAKER_00: And how is that going to work?
42:49
SPEAKER_00: When there's a law of love, there's a way of living that we live under the Lordship of Jesus.
42:55
SPEAKER_00: And so when Jesus comes, of course, you take this thought of kingship, and Jesus will frequently talk about the kingdom.
43:02
SPEAKER_00: In fact, uh, when Jesus is kind of um has been preaching, and his disciples find more in the morning and say, Let's go back to that village to preach.
43:13
SPEAKER_00: He says, This, I must preach the good news of the kingdom of God to other towns also, because that is why I was sent.
43:20
SPEAKER_00: We might have other reasons, other ideas of why Jesus was sent, but to save the world, to show us what God was like.
43:25
SPEAKER_00: Actually, Jesus thought the reason he was sent was to declare a new kind of kingship.
43:30
SPEAKER_00: I've come to declare the kingdom of God, the kingdom of God that's at hand.
43:35
SPEAKER_00: That's why I've been sent, which is why in his teaching, Jesus' teaching littered with this idea of king, this idea of kingship, this idea of kingdom.
43:44
SPEAKER_00: He talks about the kingdom of God, the kingdom of heaven.
43:46
SPEAKER_00: In fact, over a hundred times uh the gospels talk about about a king and a kingdom uh that we should be submitting to.
43:54
unknown: And Jesus is so desperate to say the Old Testament king should look like this, but now there's a new kingdom.
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SPEAKER_00: The kingdom of God is at hand.
44:01
SPEAKER_00: The kingdom of heaven is near.
44:03
SPEAKER_00: Actually, respond to Jesus the King.
44:06
SPEAKER_00: Respond to His His Kingdom, His Kingship.
44:08
SPEAKER_00: Which is why when he sent His disciples out, actually, He said to them, All I want you to do is to preach the Kingdom of God.
44:19
SPEAKER_00: You've been with me for a little while, go on a mission trip.
44:21
SPEAKER_00: Tell people about the Kingdom of God.
44:23
SPEAKER_00: And when there's the question, well, what's the kingdom of God like?
44:25
SPEAKER_00: Well, heal sick people that are there.
44:28
SPEAKER_00: So whether it's the 12 or whether in chapter uh chapter 10, it's um uh 72.
44:37
SPEAKER_00: Jesus wants to talk about this king, this kingship.
44:39
SPEAKER_00: And in fact, between uh his ascension and his resurrection, he's only got 40 days, and it says that he wants to tell them about 40 days he spoke about the kingdom of God.
44:49
SPEAKER_00: You need to understand what kingship means.
44:52
unknown: You need to understand what the kingdom reign means because this is what you should be living your life for.
44:57
SPEAKER_00: Seek first God's kingdom and his righteousness, Jesus' king and his rule and his reign.
45:02
SPEAKER_00: Actually, that should be your first priority.
45:06
SPEAKER_00: And so, and maybe um this I'll finish with this where he says to his followers in the Old Testament there was a king, some did well, some different well.
45:21
SPEAKER_00: Actually, David was the one, and the son of David was the promised one, and and and and I now I've been embodying the king, the rule of Jesus.
45:30
SPEAKER_00: But now, little flock, don't be afraid, it's the Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
45:36
unknown: Actually, this kingdom rule, you're good, you ought to be a kingdom of priests.
45:40
SPEAKER_00: Actually, you want to take on something of the rule, take God's thoughts, God's dreams, and God's hopes.
45:46
SPEAKER_00: And now there should be something about like the Genesis mandate.
45:49
SPEAKER_00: Actually, you should go into all the world, make disciples of all nations, teach them to obey, submit themselves the lordship of Jesus, everything I've commanded.
45:57
SPEAKER_00: I'm with you, the king will be with you.
46:00
SPEAKER_00: King Jesus will be with you until the very end, until the day when King Jesus returns, and then his kingdom will fully be known.
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SPEAKER_00: Full forgiveness, kind of will come not need the Son anymore because God will be there.
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SPEAKER_00: We'll live in the new heaven and new earth with him forever.
46:17
SPEAKER_00: And some of us, it seems to be, we'll carry on reigning and rule, that king should rule into eternity as well.
46:24
SPEAKER_00: So as we think about the role of kings of scripture, as you read the Bible, whenever you come to King say, What does this tell me about Jesus?
46:33
SPEAKER_00: How does this point towards Jesus?
46:35
SPEAKER_00: And then the second question is how does this point towards a kingly rule that maybe we're called to as well?
46:42
SPEAKER_00: For each woman, each man is rather following Jesus, you're called to be, to be somebody who rules in this world, that sin has a rule over you as you take something to God's kingdom and you see this world being changed.
46:57
SPEAKER_00: You see something of his, um, as Paul says, something of his righteousness and his um peace and his um and his joy uh the Holy Spirit.
47:12
SPEAKER_00: These are things that we see that something of the kingdom will be poured out of God, seeing a society that shall have peace happening, seeing people think out of the joy of Jesus they came to break, and find that the Holy Spirit is poured out.
47:24
SPEAKER_00: The Spirit of King Jesus is the spirit that lives in us.
47:27
SPEAKER_00: Seeing his kingdom will come.
47:31
SPEAKER_00: We're gonna finish there.
47:32
SPEAKER_00: Um, and maybe where Jesus says, um, seek first his kingdom, seek first the king and his kingdom, and all the other things that you worry about in life, do you know what they'll be added to you?
47:43
SPEAKER_00: Let's pray.
47:46
SPEAKER_00: Well, thank you so much for your word.
47:49
SPEAKER_00: Thank you for the arc of the story of what a king should be, starting from your desire for every human being to rule over the uncertainty and chaos in this world.
48:02
SPEAKER_00: The way that sin is broken, and we see a rule that is distorted where power and manipulation brings darkness, where people are ruled by sin.
48:15
SPEAKER_00: We say thank you that's through King Jesus, a kingdom of light.
48:24
SPEAKER_00: Help us to live our lives seeking you first, Jesus, King Jesus, help you as Lord and King of our lives, and help us to seek first your kingdom, your righteousness, your peace, and the joy in others.
48:36
SPEAKER_00: Fulfill the destiny of what you intended humanity to be.
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SPEAKER_00: A kingdom of priests.
48:42
SPEAKER_00: Help us out pray in Jesus' name.
48:45
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
48:48
SPEAKER_00: Great.
48:49
SPEAKER_00: Thanks so much, folks.
48:51
SPEAKER_00: Dave mentioned downstairs.
48:52
SPEAKER_00: Just to say, um, on the 4th of October we're starting Adult Sunday School.
48:57
SPEAKER_00: Uh, if you're kind of new to church, maybe you're in a small group of people who maybe went to Sunday school when they were children, went to a Church of England school.
49:05
SPEAKER_00: Um, just therefore as an adult, just have some background ideas about how the Bible works, but something none at all.
49:12
SPEAKER_00: And so just a four.
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SPEAKER_00: And four Sundays.
49:17
SPEAKER_00: Um,