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Psalm 132 - The Story of David and the Ark · Tabernacle Talk - A Bible Study Podcast with Pastor Bryon Self

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  Welcome to Tabernacle Talk. Tabernacle Talk is a Bible study
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  podcast brought from Tabernacle Baptist Church in Essex, MD.
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  I'm your host, Brian Self. We hope this podcast encourages
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  you to know Christ, grow in his word, and show his love to
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  others. Let's dive right in.
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  Welcome back to Tabernacle Talk. We're at the end of another
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  week, and today we are going into Psalm 132, Psalm 132, and
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  after several psalms that have all been about the various
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  aspects of life, like really generally this particular Psalm
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  talks specifically about David. And we're going to see the
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  phrase the anointed one, or if you will, the Messiah that shows
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  up multiple times within this Psalm.
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  And so we're going to learn some things about Jesus, about God's
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  ultimate plan for our world, and what we will enter into what the
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  Kingdom of God looks like. And so I think it'll be a great
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  encouragement to us. If you are somewhat new to
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  Christianity or some of the stories in the Bible, you're
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  going to hear some more stories, some new stories that we haven't
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  even gone over yet in Tabernacle Talk.
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  And so I'm looking forward to this time together.
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  Let's read through a beginning in verse #1 this is the either
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  second to last, no third to last one of the song of a sense.
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  So this was something as people were going to Jerusalem to
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  worship in the Temple, they would sing about this Psalm that
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  talks about why there is a temple there in Jerusalem.
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  There was not always a temple in Jerusalem.
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  That was something that began with David finding the location
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  for it, and he purchased the property that the temple would
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  go on. And then his son Solomon was the
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  one that actually built the temple.
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  So let's begin reading in verse #1 I think I'm going to read
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  through and then give the stories and then a couple of
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  things that we need to know for our lives today.
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  Verse #1 Yahweh. Remember David and all the
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  hardships he endured and how he swore an oath to Yahweh, making
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  a vow to the mighty one of Jacob.
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  This was the vow that David made.
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  I will not enter my house or get into my bed.
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  I will not allow my eyes to sleep or my eyelids to find
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  slumber until I find a place for Yahweh, A dwelling for the
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  mighty one of Jacob. We heard of the ark in Efratha.
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  That's Bethlehem. We found it in the fields of
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  jar. That is by.
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  I'm going to get this pronunciation wrong and I
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  apologize. Kiriathira.
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  No, actually, that was a little easier than I thought.
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  We heard of the ark in Nephrotha.
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  We found it in the fields of Kiryath Jahim.
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  Let's go to his dwelling place. Let's worship at his footstool.
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  Rise up, Yahweh. Come to your resting place, you
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  and your powerful ark. May your priests be clothed with
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  righteousness, and may your faithful people shout for joy.
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  For the sake of your servant David, do not reject your
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  anointed one. That's the Hebrew word Messiah
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  verse 11. You always swore an oath to
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  David, a promise he will not abandon.
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  I will set one of your offspring on your throne.
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  If your sons keep my covenant and my decrees that I will teach
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  them, their sons will also sit on your throne forever.
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  For Yahweh has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his home.
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  This is my resting place forever.
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  I will make my home here because I have desired it.
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  I will abundantly bless its food.
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  I will satisfy its needy with bread.
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  I will clothe its priests with salvation.
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  And its people, its faithful people, will shout for joy
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  there. I will make a horn grow for
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  David. I've prepared a lamp for my
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  anointed 1 Messiah. I will clothe his enemies with
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  shame. But the crown he wears will be
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  glorious. All right, If you, as I
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  mentioned at the beginning, if you're new to the Bible, you're
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  like, OK, what in the world is going on here?
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  So couple of things that we need to remember #1 God does not need
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  any physical location here on earth to be worshipped.
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  He is omnipresent, as we talked a little bit about last episode,
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  and so he is anywhere that he desires to be, as opposed to the
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  idols and false gods that were worshipped all across the
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  ancient Near East. They those people always thought
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  that the gods needed a container in order for their greatest
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  powers to be there. There needed to be a
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  representative that could receive praise and worship and
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  offerings and all of that. And so they would build out of,
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  you know, gold or silver or bronze or out of things like
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  stone or wood. They would build idols that in
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  their mind there was an inhabitation of that physical
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  thing by the spirit of whatever God that they were attempting to
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  worship. And it was a way that a God
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  could receive worship or food or different things.
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  For that God was totally different.
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  And so as He is creating His people Israel, both in Exodus,
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  Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy, He does not tell
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  them that there needs to be a physical idol created that he
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  would inhabit. Now the Israelites foolishly
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  tried to make an idol that the spirit of Yahweh would inhabit
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  as they made the golden calf when Moses was on Mount Sinai
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  for those 40 days. And so Israel misunderstood.
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  They thought God was like the other gods, and He just
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  emphatically was not. So God actually had them make
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  the Tabernacle, and we talked about that at length when we
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  went through Leviticus. I think it was about 22 or so
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  episodes that we walked through that might have been a little
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  more than that. If you have any questions, go
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  back there. We talked about the priests.
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  We talked about worship, what made people ceremonially
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  unclean. We talked about what made people
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  morally unclean and the difference between those.
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  And so all of that came into play.
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  But the Tabernacle was a movable tent that was an actual physical
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  reminder of God's presence with the children of Israel.
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  It was a place that was modeled after God's throne room in
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  heaven. That's what God tells Moses.
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  He says, all right, I've shown you what my throne room looks
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  like. And now I want you to make a, a
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  tent that you will put together and then tear down, you know,
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  walk for a day and then you'll set it back down and you'll set
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  it up. So it, it seems like such an
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  endeavor to me as I think about that, that you are both at the
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  same time going. I am carrying this reminder of
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  God's presence and His Holiness and his throne room with me
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  wherever I am going. And it stayed with the children
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  of Israel as they went through their wilderness wanderings.
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  And then it finally set up shop when they came into the land of
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  Canaan. And so you can read about that
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  both in Joshua and then in Judges, but then a lot in First
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  Samuel, which I know that I will get to at some point in
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  Tabernacle talk. I don't know the when of that
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  yet. So it was set up shop in Israel,
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  and one of the most important things that was there, in
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  addition to the regular sacrifices that people would
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  make, all of the tithes and offerings that were brought to
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  the Lord and to the Levites and the priests, the Day of
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  Atonement ritual, hear all of the feasts that everyone was
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  coming to worship the Lord during the time of David, He
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  moved that worship over to Jerusalem, but it was not
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  originally there. And so people would come to the
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  Tabernacle for all of these events.
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  Unfortunately, in the book of First Samuel we read that there
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  was fighting with the Philistines that when Israel
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  came into the land, they did. The children of Israel did not
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  choose to obey the Lord and either defeat or drive out all
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  of the Philistines from the land they chose.
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  No, we're we're just going to be in the same place as them, which
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  caused them countless heartaches over the course of centuries
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  because they did not move them out.
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  Now, as I've mentioned many times on here before, any of the
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  people of the land that wanted to be a part of what God was
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  doing of worshipping the Lord, of being part of this new people
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  of God, They were more than welcome to.
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  And I'm so grateful that God chooses even people that quote,
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  UN quote, aren't part of the the chosen group that he had, you
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  know, Rahab the harlot that he had the Gibeonites, that he had
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  so many others that became a part of his family through their
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  faith and belief in him. But for those that wanted to
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  persist in evil and wrong and just horrible actions that you
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  can read all about that in in Judges that there was constant
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  oppression of the Israelite people through the Philistines
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  invading and doing great harm during one of these times of
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  battle during the days of the Judges, the people thought,
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  well, the ark of the covenant, this is where God lives, which
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  was not true. Like God is wherever he wants to
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  be. He's not contained in the ark of
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  the covenant like Bale would be contained in some sort of an
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  idol. And so they say if we bring the
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  ark of the covenant, then we will win the battle.
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  And so they bring out the ark of the covenant.
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  It really encourages Israel for a second, but the Philistines
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  freak out. They go, man, their God has now
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  come into the camp. And so they're like, OK, well, I
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  guess we're pretty much just dead.
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  And so they go full, if you will, berserker mode.
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  And they actually defeat Israel and they capture the Ark of the
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  Covenant and they bring it back into Philistine territory.
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  Well, then God brings judgment on to the Philistines.
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  It's great story I absolutely don't have time to tell right
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  now. So the Philistines send the Ark
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  of the Covenant back. Well, it doesn't actually get
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  back to the Tabernacle. It instead goes to this little
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  town of Kiryathjirim. So David about a generation
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  later goes I I have this great palace.
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  I have this place where I am living, but the, you know, quote
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  UN quote, the House of God lives in tents.
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  He's just in this Tabernacle. I want to give God a permanent
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  place where he can be worshipped.
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  That's, you know, as nice as what I'm enjoying right now.
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  And so he tells the prophet Nathan about this.
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  The prophet Nathan's like, awesome, that's great, do it.
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  And then God has to tell Nathan, no, no, no, no, no.
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  David has, you know, he's spilled too much blood.
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  This is not the person that I have to build the temple.
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  He doesn't say David is unworthy and his son Solomon is worthy,
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  but God says there is a separate role that is designed here, that
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  David's goal, David's role was king and warrior.
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  Solomon's role is going to be that he builds this temple.
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  Now we know Solomon's sins in ways that David never did and
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  even took some of David's sins that he committed to the next
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  level. I think in particular of his
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  multiplying of wives as we read about in Scripture.
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  So as this is occurring, David goes, all right, well, God said
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  I can't build the temple, but he didn't say that I can't amass
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  the materials so that it's as easy as possible for my son to
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  build the temple. And so I want to do my part in
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  my generation for what I believe God will do in the next
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  generation. And what a thought that that is
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  that even though David was told no by God, that David didn't
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  say, well, I'm going to be, you know, really heard about this,
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  he says and said, no, I'm going to make it so that God's will in
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  the next generation is able to be accomplished.
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  So I'm going to acquit the next generation with what they need.
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  Let the reader understand. So David, part of what he does
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  though, is he has the Ark of the Covenant taken from that random
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  little town of Kiriathjirim, and he brings it to Jerusalem.
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  And so that then meant that a lot of the worship and different
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  things would now take place there in the capital city of
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  Israel. So with that being said, now I
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  have to take it back to Psalm 132.
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  Now you've heard the story, and I'm going to very, very quickly
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  just have a couple of highlights for us.
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  There's these 4 sections of the Psalms of this Psalm and I'm
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  going to give maybe just one application for us as we think
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  about this Psalm. So in the first section, he
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  says, God, remember David, everything difficult that he
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  endured in his life and how he made a promise to go.
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  I'm, I am not going to live in comfort and joy myself until I
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  find a place for God. Can I ask you for your life?
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  Are you content with your life being Kush?
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  Are you content with enjoying all the comfort and all of the
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  financial security in your own life?
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  Well, how is your local church doing?
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  Is there something that they would want to accomplish that
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  maybe through your generosity, through your sacrificing, that
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  you might be able to make something amazing happen for the
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  Lord through you stepping out of faith and going, I will
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  experience discomfort and so that God's work gets
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  accomplished. Or maybe there's a ministry at
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  your church that needs someone to volunteer in it, that needs
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  someone to lead, and you might be the person that God has that
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  you would step in. Will you choose?
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  I'm going to pursue God with all of my heart.
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  I'm going to give Him of the best of me so that His will gets
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  accomplished. I don't know what that is for
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  every person, but I want to encourage you here, David said.
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  I'm not resting until God's work, God's place gets
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  accomplished. And so I know for our little
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  church, we've got things we're praying for.
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  We've got ministry areas that need people to, to lead and to
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  serve in a big way. If you are a part of Tabernacle
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  and you're like, OK, well, I'm, I'm convinced Pastor Brian, what
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  do I need to do? Let me know.
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  Like send me Adm, send me a text or a call.
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  I would love to talk with you about some things that we're
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  praying for even as a church, but I want to encourage you with
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  that. That's verses kind of one
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  through 5. The section there, verses 6
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  through 10. He says we've heard of the ark
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  in that area. We found it in the fields.
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  Let's go to God's dwelling place.
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  Let's worship at his footstool. You have the ark is kind of a
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  picture of the sorry, the Ark of the Covenant is a picture of the
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  footstool of God, like of his throne.
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  There's not an image and idol of Yahweh sitting on it, but it's
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  designed kind of like a throne, his footstool.
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  So here there's this. Let's worship at the feet of
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  God. And then verse 8, rise up
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  Yahweh, come to your resting place, you and your powerful
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  ark. May your priest be clothed with
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  righteousness. If we're going to worship you,
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  we need to be right with you, says, and may your faithful
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  people shout for joy. Worship of the Lord involves a
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  joy and a happiness. About worshipping, He says, for
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  the sake of your servant David, do not reject your anointed one.
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  This is Messiah, this would be the King.
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  Can I encourage you be passionate and joyful about
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  worshipping the Lord, about gathering with God's people to
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  learn from the word of God, to bring praise to Him, to bring
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  him, yes, even your money, but to bring Him your life first and
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  foremost. May we be clothed with
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  righteousness as those that are made a Kingdom of priests to our
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  God, with Jesus Himself as our great High Priest.
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  May we be clothed with righteousness and be happy about
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  our worship of the Lord. Then verses 11 and 12, you
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  always swore an oath to David, a promise he will not abandon.
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  I'll set one of your offspring on your throne.
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  If your sons keep my covenant and my decrees that I will teach
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  them, their sons will also sit on your throne forever.
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  There was only one of David's offspring who kept the covenant
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  of God and every decree that the Father taught him, and that is
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  Jesus Christ. And so Jesus is the one that is
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  the fulfillment of Psalm 130 to that He is the one that sits on
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  the throne forever. And we are his children.
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  He is our as we sing often at Christmas.
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  He is the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.
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  And so we get to worship, we get to enjoy the Kingdom brought in
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  by this physical descendant of David, Jesus Christ, who was the
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  perfect one, who obeyed everything that the Father
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  commanded. And then lastly, in verses 13
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  through 18, Yahweh has chosen Zion.
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  He has desired it for his home. It's why the great city that's
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  coming from heaven to earth one day is called the New Jerusalem,
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  because that is where God has selected that his home will be
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  forever. He says, this is my resting
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  place forever. I will make my home here because
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  I have desired it. You might wonder what's so
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  special about Jerusalem that there has been millennia of
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  fighting over this one piece of land.
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  And the answer is it is because God has desired it for himself.
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  Now, God will not get Jerusalem because the nation of Israel
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  that's currently there does anything.
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  God is not going to get Jerusalem because the USA or the
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  UK or because you know, Egypt or someone does anything.
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  The only reason that God gets Jerusalem is because He is the
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  conquering king and He is the one that will make His home
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  there. Right now He is not worshipped
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  by the people that are there, whether Jews or Muslims that are
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  often there. I know we also have some
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  Christian brothers and sisters that are there, but God is not.
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  Preeminent, they are worshipped in Jerusalem right now.
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  What is there is not the ultimate fulfillment.
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  But when God returns, then there will be ultimate fulfillment
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  there. God says I will abundantly bless
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  its food. I will satisfy its needy with
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  bread. God loves to feed those that are
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  disenfranchised and poor and hungry and in need.
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  May we have that same desire as well.
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  He says I will clothe its priest with salvation and it's faithful
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  people will shout for joy there. I will make a horn grow for
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  David. That is strength.
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  There is might, specifically the person of the Messiah that Jesus
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  is there. He says I've prepared a lamp
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  like the light that is in the Tabernacle.
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  That's a constant reminder of God's presence, that candle
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  that's always lit. And so here God's presence is
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  always with the Messiah that his spirit is always with Jesus.
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  Verse 18 I will clothe his enemies with shame, but the
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  crown he wears will be glorious. How true that is.
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  But I also think of the shameful crown of thorns that Jesus wore.
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  He was shamed so that we could experience glory.
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  And what an amazing Savior that Jesus is, that he wore the crown
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  of shame so that we would be recipients of the crowns that
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  God gives to us, that then we cast at his feet to go, no, we
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  don't deserve these glorious crowns made by God himself.
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  Jesus is the only one that is worthy.
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  Well, I love this Psalm. I hope that Psalm 132 was an
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  encouragement to you today and looking forward to Psalm 133
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  next time. Thanks for tuning in.