1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:03,080 Welcome to From the Pulpit and Classic Sermons. 2 00:00:03,460 --> 00:00:05,040 Each week we bring you a different message 3 00:00:05,040 --> 00:00:07,000 from some of history's greatest speakers in the 4 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:09,660 Christian faith, and powerful sermons for modern preachers 5 00:00:09,660 --> 00:00:09,920 too. 6 00:00:10,600 --> 00:00:12,940 This week we have Jim Stimbala with his 7 00:00:12,940 --> 00:00:15,100 message, A Descendant of David and Abraham. 8 00:00:16,740 --> 00:00:18,080 I bet you never heard a sermon from 9 00:00:18,080 --> 00:00:19,800 the first verse of the New Testament. 10 00:00:20,760 --> 00:00:23,400 This is a record of the ancestors of 11 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:27,240 Jesus the Messiah, a descendant of King David 12 00:00:27,240 --> 00:00:29,180 and of Abraham. 13 00:00:30,580 --> 00:00:33,260 This is a record, listen, of the ancestors 14 00:00:33,260 --> 00:00:37,540 of Jesus the Messiah, a descendant of King 15 00:00:37,540 --> 00:00:39,600 David and of Abraham. 16 00:00:40,300 --> 00:00:44,520 And then what follows, and Luke has the 17 00:00:44,520 --> 00:00:46,980 same thing as part of his Christmas story, 18 00:00:48,180 --> 00:00:50,060 is how many verses? 19 00:00:50,300 --> 00:00:54,520 From 2 to 16 is what's called a 20 00:00:54,520 --> 00:00:58,420 genealogy, and it says this, Abraham was the 21 00:00:58,420 --> 00:00:59,380 father of Isaac. 22 00:00:59,960 --> 00:01:01,640 Isaac was the father of who? 23 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:02,780 Jacob. 24 00:01:03,340 --> 00:01:05,520 Jacob was the father of Judah and his 25 00:01:05,520 --> 00:01:05,980 brothers. 26 00:01:06,660 --> 00:01:09,280 Judah was the father of Perez and Zerah, 27 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:10,480 their mother was Tamar. 28 00:01:10,900 --> 00:01:12,420 Perez was the father of Hezron. 29 00:01:12,620 --> 00:01:14,160 All the way, and then when it gets 30 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:17,200 to the end, and Jacob was the father 31 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:19,900 of Joseph, the husband of Mary. 32 00:01:20,600 --> 00:01:22,900 Mary was the mother of Jesus, who is 33 00:01:22,900 --> 00:01:24,580 called the Messiah. 34 00:01:27,170 --> 00:01:32,690 Matthew runs the ancestry of Jesus Christ from 35 00:01:32,690 --> 00:01:39,110 Abraham through Joseph, the foster father, shall we 36 00:01:39,110 --> 00:01:41,790 say, of Jesus Christ, for he was born 37 00:01:41,790 --> 00:01:42,430 of a virgin. 38 00:01:43,070 --> 00:01:45,410 When Luke tells the story, he gives the 39 00:01:45,410 --> 00:01:48,650 Jewish genealogy that leads up to Mary. 40 00:01:49,130 --> 00:01:52,110 Why do you list all these names? 41 00:01:52,290 --> 00:01:54,370 Why are there genealogies in the Bible? 42 00:01:54,550 --> 00:01:55,850 What's important? 43 00:01:55,990 --> 00:01:58,570 If it's all scriptures inspired by God, why 44 00:01:58,570 --> 00:02:00,670 waste all of that stuff with names that 45 00:02:00,670 --> 00:02:01,810 we can hardly pronounce? 46 00:02:03,430 --> 00:02:05,090 What is a genealogy? 47 00:02:05,950 --> 00:02:08,590 A genealogy is a family tree. 48 00:02:09,610 --> 00:02:11,110 You ever look up your family tree? 49 00:02:12,610 --> 00:02:15,090 Someone gave me last Christmas something from the 50 00:02:15,090 --> 00:02:17,850 National Geographic, and if you take a scraping 51 00:02:17,850 --> 00:02:20,250 from inside your mouth, and another scraping, and 52 00:02:20,250 --> 00:02:21,630 you put it in, and you send it, 53 00:02:22,030 --> 00:02:24,490 they check through your DNA, and they tell 54 00:02:24,490 --> 00:02:27,330 you where your ancestry supposedly comes from. 55 00:02:28,070 --> 00:02:31,110 After a couple months, I plugged into it 56 00:02:31,110 --> 00:02:35,030 and found out that my ancestry, as I 57 00:02:35,030 --> 00:02:38,550 thought, came from Eastern Europe, Ukrainian, Polish, but 58 00:02:38,550 --> 00:02:41,170 they go further back from that into the 59 00:02:41,170 --> 00:02:43,490 Middle East, and then down to Africa. 60 00:02:44,150 --> 00:02:47,890 This genealogy is in the Bible to prove 61 00:02:47,890 --> 00:02:50,970 Matthew is the Jewish, called the Jewish Gospel. 62 00:02:51,230 --> 00:02:52,390 What are the four Gospels? 63 00:02:52,570 --> 00:02:53,830 Matthew, Mark. 64 00:02:55,570 --> 00:02:57,910 Matthew is the one written to the Jewish 65 00:02:57,910 --> 00:03:02,270 person in mind, and he wants to prove 66 00:03:02,270 --> 00:03:06,270 that Jesus is the fulfillment of all the 67 00:03:06,270 --> 00:03:09,290 prophecies made in the Old Testament to the 68 00:03:09,290 --> 00:03:12,070 Jewish people that one day God would send 69 00:03:12,070 --> 00:03:12,750 a Messiah. 70 00:03:13,650 --> 00:03:15,430 What does Messiah mean? 71 00:03:15,530 --> 00:03:16,870 He's the promised one. 72 00:03:16,990 --> 00:03:18,290 He's the deliverer. 73 00:03:18,790 --> 00:03:21,170 The Old Testament word is Messiah. 74 00:03:21,370 --> 00:03:23,690 The New Testament word in the Greek language 75 00:03:23,690 --> 00:03:24,590 is Christ. 76 00:03:25,170 --> 00:03:28,650 So Messiah and Christ are the same words 77 00:03:28,650 --> 00:03:31,770 in meaning to a Hebrew word, a Greek 78 00:03:31,770 --> 00:03:32,210 word. 79 00:03:32,710 --> 00:03:35,370 This Messiah was the one everybody was waiting 80 00:03:35,370 --> 00:03:38,430 for, and Matthew wants to make sure that 81 00:03:38,430 --> 00:03:41,170 everyone knows this Jesus was not some Johnny 82 00:03:41,170 --> 00:03:43,690 -come-lately, somebody that was slipped in. 83 00:03:43,770 --> 00:03:47,030 No, he had the heritage starting from Abraham, 84 00:03:47,610 --> 00:03:51,830 and then Luke tells us another genealogy to 85 00:03:51,830 --> 00:03:54,710 prove this is the one who had the 86 00:03:54,710 --> 00:03:57,910 credentials to be qualified to be the one 87 00:03:57,910 --> 00:04:00,650 that the Jewish people could claim as their 88 00:04:00,650 --> 00:04:01,110 Messiah. 89 00:04:01,110 --> 00:04:04,210 In fact, they rejected him, but Matthew wants 90 00:04:04,210 --> 00:04:06,050 to be sure and tell the story. 91 00:04:06,270 --> 00:04:07,930 This is his family tree. 92 00:04:08,270 --> 00:04:10,410 He didn't come from outside of the people 93 00:04:10,410 --> 00:04:12,290 of the covenant, the Jewish people. 94 00:04:12,630 --> 00:04:15,570 Jesus was Jewish, but the mystery of Jesus, 95 00:04:15,730 --> 00:04:17,670 of course, is that that baby that was 96 00:04:17,670 --> 00:04:19,750 born, something we can't fully understand. 97 00:04:20,050 --> 00:04:23,550 He was fully man, fully human baby, but 98 00:04:23,550 --> 00:04:26,250 he was also fully God. 99 00:04:26,810 --> 00:04:29,170 Where did the human stop and the God 100 00:04:29,170 --> 00:04:29,850 part begin? 101 00:04:30,070 --> 00:04:32,170 The Bible doesn't explain that to us. 102 00:04:32,430 --> 00:04:34,850 We just know that his name was Emmanuel, 103 00:04:35,930 --> 00:04:38,310 which means God with us. 104 00:04:38,530 --> 00:04:41,190 In other words, God walked on this planet. 105 00:04:42,190 --> 00:04:44,450 God himself walked on this planet. 106 00:04:44,710 --> 00:04:46,730 He put two feet on the planet and 107 00:04:46,730 --> 00:04:48,230 put one foot in front of the other, 108 00:04:48,330 --> 00:04:50,070 and he walked, and he wept, and he 109 00:04:50,070 --> 00:04:52,670 cried, and he got hungry, and he got 110 00:04:52,670 --> 00:04:55,390 tired, and he felt pain, especially on the 111 00:04:55,390 --> 00:04:55,770 cross. 112 00:04:55,850 --> 00:04:57,770 So he was fully man, but he was 113 00:04:57,770 --> 00:04:58,630 fully divine. 114 00:04:58,810 --> 00:05:01,070 He was the one that was promised, but 115 00:05:01,070 --> 00:05:03,170 none of the people who were waiting for 116 00:05:03,170 --> 00:05:06,430 him understood what he would be like, because 117 00:05:06,430 --> 00:05:09,790 they had a preconception from their religious traditions 118 00:05:09,790 --> 00:05:12,050 of what the Messiah would look like. 119 00:05:12,150 --> 00:05:14,570 So now Jesus was five feet in front 120 00:05:14,570 --> 00:05:16,790 of the religious leaders with their big Old 121 00:05:16,790 --> 00:05:19,190 Testament Torahs, and they didn't even know that 122 00:05:19,190 --> 00:05:20,390 God was in front of them. 123 00:05:20,990 --> 00:05:22,790 How in the world could you be that 124 00:05:22,790 --> 00:05:24,570 blind that God was in front of you, 125 00:05:24,790 --> 00:05:26,670 and you're a religious leader, and you don't 126 00:05:26,670 --> 00:05:29,150 pick it up, which warns us every time 127 00:05:29,150 --> 00:05:29,970 we come to church. 128 00:05:30,290 --> 00:05:32,030 We have to say, God, open our eyes 129 00:05:32,030 --> 00:05:33,530 every time we read the Bible. 130 00:05:33,650 --> 00:05:36,390 God, give me illumination in my heart that 131 00:05:36,390 --> 00:05:39,090 I might hear your voice and understand what 132 00:05:39,090 --> 00:05:39,590 you're doing. 133 00:05:39,710 --> 00:05:40,430 How many say amen? 134 00:05:41,610 --> 00:05:43,770 Otherwise, we can get religiously blind. 135 00:05:44,670 --> 00:05:47,710 The first verse, though, just picks two people 136 00:05:47,710 --> 00:05:48,230 out. 137 00:05:49,430 --> 00:05:52,190 He says, this is the list of the 138 00:05:52,190 --> 00:05:54,350 ancestors of Jesus the Messiah. 139 00:05:55,110 --> 00:05:59,850 He was a descendant of King David and 140 00:05:59,850 --> 00:06:00,490 of Abraham. 141 00:06:02,050 --> 00:06:04,990 David and Abraham. 142 00:06:05,510 --> 00:06:07,990 Then it starts all over, starting with Abraham. 143 00:06:08,310 --> 00:06:09,590 Abraham is mentioned again. 144 00:06:09,910 --> 00:06:13,450 David is mentioned again, but in some unique 145 00:06:13,450 --> 00:06:16,290 way, Matthew, inspired by the Holy Spirit, says 146 00:06:16,290 --> 00:06:19,770 Jesus is the Messiah, and he's the son, 147 00:06:19,910 --> 00:06:25,270 he's the descendant of David and then Abraham 148 00:06:25,270 --> 00:06:26,190 before that. 149 00:06:27,550 --> 00:06:30,110 So today, in these brief moments, I want 150 00:06:30,110 --> 00:06:32,710 to talk to you about why is that 151 00:06:32,710 --> 00:06:33,370 in the Bible? 152 00:06:34,070 --> 00:06:35,730 Why is David special? 153 00:06:36,490 --> 00:06:38,910 Why is Abraham specially named? 154 00:06:39,810 --> 00:06:41,170 And what does it have to do with 155 00:06:41,170 --> 00:06:41,490 us? 156 00:06:41,590 --> 00:06:43,730 How do I apply this verse to my 157 00:06:43,730 --> 00:06:46,270 life, and how can I learn something to 158 00:06:46,270 --> 00:06:47,130 encourage me? 159 00:06:47,350 --> 00:06:49,230 What is God trying to say to me 160 00:06:49,230 --> 00:06:54,090 through Jesus the Messiah, a descendant of David 161 00:06:54,090 --> 00:06:55,810 and of Abraham? 162 00:06:56,510 --> 00:07:00,230 I understand Abraham, because Abraham was the father 163 00:07:00,230 --> 00:07:01,270 of the Jewish people. 164 00:07:01,950 --> 00:07:04,050 So his name is prominent in the Old 165 00:07:04,050 --> 00:07:07,490 Testament and in the New Testament, because he's 166 00:07:07,490 --> 00:07:10,530 the progenitor of all the Jewish people. 167 00:07:10,710 --> 00:07:14,490 The Jewish race, the Hebrew people, start with 168 00:07:14,490 --> 00:07:19,030 Abraham, who himself was an idolater living in 169 00:07:19,030 --> 00:07:23,290 Ur of the Chaldees, and God spoke to 170 00:07:23,290 --> 00:07:25,970 him, and he obeyed God, followed God, trusted 171 00:07:25,970 --> 00:07:28,690 God, and he began to have children, Isaac 172 00:07:28,690 --> 00:07:30,670 and Jacob and so forth, and that's the 173 00:07:30,670 --> 00:07:31,330 Jewish people. 174 00:07:31,570 --> 00:07:32,910 And Jesus was born of a Jew. 175 00:07:32,970 --> 00:07:33,750 So I understand that. 176 00:07:33,870 --> 00:07:36,310 Okay, so Matthew, I know what he's saying 177 00:07:36,310 --> 00:07:36,750 to us. 178 00:07:36,850 --> 00:07:38,230 He's saying Jesus is Jewish. 179 00:07:38,830 --> 00:07:40,570 Jesus was Jewish. 180 00:07:41,970 --> 00:07:44,970 Now David, I understand that in a way, 181 00:07:45,070 --> 00:07:48,450 because I keep thinking Jesus in the New 182 00:07:48,450 --> 00:07:50,890 Testament is always called never son of Moses, 183 00:07:51,090 --> 00:07:53,530 never son of Isaiah, never son of Abraham, 184 00:07:53,630 --> 00:07:55,810 but what is Jesus always called in the 185 00:07:55,810 --> 00:07:56,090 Bible? 186 00:07:56,810 --> 00:07:59,050 Jesus, son of David. 187 00:08:00,730 --> 00:08:03,850 But what's the spiritual lesson behind it? 188 00:08:04,550 --> 00:08:05,690 Jesus is Jewish. 189 00:08:05,810 --> 00:08:07,110 He's a descendant of Abraham. 190 00:08:08,390 --> 00:08:10,650 Jesus is the son of David, because David 191 00:08:10,650 --> 00:08:14,750 was God's choice as the king, and Jesus 192 00:08:14,750 --> 00:08:18,110 is a king, the king of kings and 193 00:08:18,110 --> 00:08:18,950 the Lord of lords. 194 00:08:19,630 --> 00:08:22,750 But let's probe deeper, shall we, just briefly, 195 00:08:22,870 --> 00:08:25,090 and see what we can gather from this. 196 00:08:26,130 --> 00:08:28,850 Jesus is a descendant of David. 197 00:08:29,690 --> 00:08:33,909 How can I link Jesus to David and 198 00:08:33,909 --> 00:08:35,890 then David and Jesus to me? 199 00:08:36,190 --> 00:08:38,270 Because I'm connected to Jesus. 200 00:08:38,530 --> 00:08:40,770 If you're a believer, you're connected to Jesus. 201 00:08:41,150 --> 00:08:43,430 So I know my connection to Jesus, but 202 00:08:43,430 --> 00:08:45,470 now what can I learn that Jesus is 203 00:08:45,470 --> 00:08:46,470 connected to David? 204 00:08:46,470 --> 00:08:47,890 What's the lesson for me? 205 00:08:48,390 --> 00:08:51,110 Because David stands out, and so does Abraham. 206 00:08:52,430 --> 00:08:54,770 Jesus a descendant of David. 207 00:08:54,970 --> 00:09:02,410 Well, David was like Jesus, a prophetic symbol 208 00:09:02,410 --> 00:09:05,090 of Jesus in this way. 209 00:09:05,810 --> 00:09:11,350 God spoke a word about David, but it 210 00:09:11,350 --> 00:09:14,930 was to an obscure person who nobody cared 211 00:09:14,930 --> 00:09:18,410 about, and before that word was fulfilled, oh 212 00:09:18,410 --> 00:09:20,030 my goodness what he went through. 213 00:09:21,110 --> 00:09:22,170 For those of you who don't know the 214 00:09:22,170 --> 00:09:24,270 story of David, David was a little shepherd 215 00:09:24,270 --> 00:09:29,330 boy, and yet the Lord had been tracking 216 00:09:29,330 --> 00:09:32,550 him, had him on his radar, and he 217 00:09:32,550 --> 00:09:36,730 told the prophet Samuel, this king Saul that's 218 00:09:36,730 --> 00:09:38,510 on the throne, the one the people wanted, 219 00:09:39,010 --> 00:09:40,990 who was the first king of Israel, he 220 00:09:40,990 --> 00:09:42,150 was the people's choice. 221 00:09:42,430 --> 00:09:45,290 God said to Samuel, I'm displeased with Saul. 222 00:09:45,590 --> 00:09:47,570 I want you to go and anoint one 223 00:09:47,570 --> 00:09:48,950 of Jesse's children. 224 00:09:50,150 --> 00:09:53,350 Samuel goes at a difficult time when Saul 225 00:09:53,350 --> 00:09:56,090 is persecuting the people who really believe in 226 00:09:56,090 --> 00:09:58,890 God, and he gets to Jesse's house, and 227 00:09:58,890 --> 00:10:01,130 he says, all I know is that God 228 00:10:01,130 --> 00:10:02,990 has shown me one of your boys is 229 00:10:02,990 --> 00:10:04,410 going to be the next king of Israel. 230 00:10:04,550 --> 00:10:05,850 Could I please see the boys? 231 00:10:05,850 --> 00:10:08,790 Listen, the father thought so little of David, 232 00:10:08,970 --> 00:10:10,470 he didn't even bring him in the house. 233 00:10:11,930 --> 00:10:14,650 He lets all the other sons pass by, 234 00:10:14,810 --> 00:10:16,690 and the first couple of them were so 235 00:10:16,690 --> 00:10:19,850 big, and strapping, and bulked up, and looked 236 00:10:19,850 --> 00:10:24,030 so charismatic, and handsome, that Samuel, who was 237 00:10:24,030 --> 00:10:26,390 a prophet, said surely that's the one that 238 00:10:26,390 --> 00:10:27,950 God is going to pick, and God said, 239 00:10:28,050 --> 00:10:29,450 no, I don't look at people the way 240 00:10:29,450 --> 00:10:30,230 you look at people. 241 00:10:30,570 --> 00:10:32,670 People look at the outside, but I look 242 00:10:32,670 --> 00:10:33,350 at the inside. 243 00:10:33,830 --> 00:10:36,430 So then all the sons go by, and 244 00:10:36,430 --> 00:10:38,730 the Lord doesn't indicate any of them, and 245 00:10:38,730 --> 00:10:40,710 he turns to Jesse, and he says, is 246 00:10:40,710 --> 00:10:41,150 this it? 247 00:10:41,690 --> 00:10:42,790 These are all your boys? 248 00:10:43,670 --> 00:10:45,090 He goes, no, I got another one, but 249 00:10:45,090 --> 00:10:48,810 he's like, it's not even, it's just, he's 250 00:10:48,810 --> 00:10:50,450 out there watching the sheep. 251 00:10:50,990 --> 00:10:51,790 He's just a kid. 252 00:10:52,710 --> 00:10:54,350 He says, I'm not eating until you bring 253 00:10:54,350 --> 00:10:57,670 them in, and when he walks in, the 254 00:10:57,670 --> 00:11:00,190 Lord speaks to Samuel, and says, get your 255 00:11:00,190 --> 00:11:01,610 horn of oil, and anoint him. 256 00:11:02,890 --> 00:11:09,330 Obscure, insignificant, and then that word is given, 257 00:11:09,470 --> 00:11:11,230 you're anointed, you're going to sit on the 258 00:11:11,230 --> 00:11:13,090 throne, you're going to be the, you're telling 259 00:11:13,090 --> 00:11:15,810 a kid, you're telling a shepherd boy, he's 260 00:11:15,810 --> 00:11:16,810 going to be the king of Israel. 261 00:11:16,870 --> 00:11:17,890 Does that make any sense? 262 00:11:19,590 --> 00:11:22,030 Saul's in charge, and Saul is not from 263 00:11:22,030 --> 00:11:23,090 the house of Judah. 264 00:11:23,770 --> 00:11:25,850 He's going to want his sons to sit 265 00:11:25,850 --> 00:11:28,510 on the throne, but God speaks an unlikely 266 00:11:28,510 --> 00:11:31,790 word, and now David has this anointing on 267 00:11:31,790 --> 00:11:33,730 him, and God's blessing is on him, and 268 00:11:33,730 --> 00:11:35,970 he begins to achieve certain things through the 269 00:11:35,970 --> 00:11:37,830 strength of the Lord, but what does it 270 00:11:37,830 --> 00:11:38,350 bring on him? 271 00:11:38,670 --> 00:11:39,150 Persecution. 272 00:11:39,870 --> 00:11:42,630 Most of the Psalms were written because David 273 00:11:42,630 --> 00:11:44,690 was running for his life from King Saul, 274 00:11:44,810 --> 00:11:45,790 who was trying to kill him. 275 00:11:46,410 --> 00:11:47,730 He's hiding in caves. 276 00:11:48,070 --> 00:11:49,330 He's out in the desert. 277 00:11:49,450 --> 00:11:52,150 He's writing Psalms that say, God, where are 278 00:11:52,150 --> 00:11:52,410 you? 279 00:11:52,710 --> 00:11:54,770 You know, that was great that Samuel anointed 280 00:11:54,770 --> 00:11:56,170 me, and I'm supposed to be the king. 281 00:11:56,370 --> 00:11:57,330 Forget the king. 282 00:11:57,390 --> 00:11:58,930 How about just keep me alive? 283 00:12:00,170 --> 00:12:02,950 I'll just take live, rather than king. 284 00:12:04,750 --> 00:12:06,070 Persecution for no reason. 285 00:12:06,290 --> 00:12:07,430 Hated for no reason. 286 00:12:08,550 --> 00:12:14,670 Helps people, even Saul, hated, turmoil, cut off 287 00:12:14,670 --> 00:12:19,290 from his family, but in the end, God's 288 00:12:19,290 --> 00:12:21,150 word is fulfilled, and he sits on the 289 00:12:21,150 --> 00:12:21,470 throne. 290 00:12:22,510 --> 00:12:24,870 Jesus, a descendant of David. 291 00:12:25,050 --> 00:12:26,470 Jesus was born the same way. 292 00:12:27,850 --> 00:12:28,370 Obscure. 293 00:12:29,230 --> 00:12:31,650 We don't capture that in Christmas because Christmas 294 00:12:31,650 --> 00:12:33,390 is so popular and so worldwide. 295 00:12:33,670 --> 00:12:35,950 Do you realize nobody knew about this baby? 296 00:12:36,230 --> 00:12:37,610 Do you realize he was born in a 297 00:12:37,610 --> 00:12:40,170 stinking manger with the smell of manure? 298 00:12:41,610 --> 00:12:43,710 Do you understand there was no room at 299 00:12:43,710 --> 00:12:44,250 the inn? 300 00:12:44,590 --> 00:12:46,870 Do you realize that Joseph and Mary were 301 00:12:46,870 --> 00:12:47,650 nobodies? 302 00:12:48,070 --> 00:12:50,230 Do you realize that they were so poor 303 00:12:50,230 --> 00:12:52,630 that when they brought an offering, when they 304 00:12:52,630 --> 00:12:54,550 presented him in the temple, they had to 305 00:12:54,550 --> 00:12:55,410 give little birds? 306 00:12:55,590 --> 00:12:57,190 They didn't even have money to buy an 307 00:12:57,190 --> 00:12:58,430 animal, a real animal. 308 00:12:59,570 --> 00:13:00,810 He was a nobody. 309 00:13:01,050 --> 00:13:01,830 He was obscure. 310 00:13:02,270 --> 00:13:03,870 He had no halo over his head. 311 00:13:04,030 --> 00:13:06,450 He didn't look like anybody fancy or important, 312 00:13:06,610 --> 00:13:09,730 but God spoke over him before he was 313 00:13:09,730 --> 00:13:10,090 born. 314 00:13:10,710 --> 00:13:12,850 God spoke over him at the Jordan River. 315 00:13:13,910 --> 00:13:15,790 This is my son, my beloved son, in 316 00:13:15,790 --> 00:13:17,010 whom I am well pleased. 317 00:13:17,590 --> 00:13:20,170 It was spoken about him in the prophets. 318 00:13:20,490 --> 00:13:23,550 His name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Prince 319 00:13:23,550 --> 00:13:28,210 of Peace, Everlasting Father, and all kingdoms of 320 00:13:28,210 --> 00:13:30,290 the earth will come under his rulership. 321 00:13:30,690 --> 00:13:32,090 How in the world can that happen to 322 00:13:32,090 --> 00:13:33,290 a kid born in a manger? 323 00:13:33,570 --> 00:13:35,050 If a kid's going to be great, send 324 00:13:35,050 --> 00:13:36,190 him to the best schools. 325 00:13:36,870 --> 00:13:38,470 Let him be born in a palace. 326 00:13:38,610 --> 00:13:40,910 You don't let somebody important be born in 327 00:13:40,910 --> 00:13:42,090 a stinking manger. 328 00:13:42,990 --> 00:13:45,070 Then when he's ministering, he has nowhere to 329 00:13:45,070 --> 00:13:45,870 lay his head. 330 00:13:46,730 --> 00:13:49,230 Then when he begins his ministry, people begin 331 00:13:49,230 --> 00:13:49,930 to hate him. 332 00:13:50,650 --> 00:13:51,370 Hate him why? 333 00:13:51,770 --> 00:13:53,230 He didn't say anything wrong. 334 00:13:53,390 --> 00:13:54,510 He didn't hurt anybody. 335 00:13:54,510 --> 00:13:56,490 Why do you hate somebody like that? 336 00:13:57,510 --> 00:13:59,290 Because such is the human heart. 337 00:13:59,970 --> 00:14:01,690 He was dragging people into the light. 338 00:14:01,830 --> 00:14:03,450 And a lot of people who love evil, 339 00:14:03,550 --> 00:14:04,890 they don't want to be brought into the 340 00:14:04,890 --> 00:14:05,210 light. 341 00:14:05,670 --> 00:14:07,170 They want to live in the dark because 342 00:14:07,170 --> 00:14:08,870 they don't want their deeds to be exposed. 343 00:14:09,550 --> 00:14:11,390 But when you met Jesus and he looked 344 00:14:11,390 --> 00:14:13,310 at you, he brought you into the light 345 00:14:13,310 --> 00:14:13,710 quick. 346 00:14:15,250 --> 00:14:17,310 Everything you knew was revealed to him. 347 00:14:18,330 --> 00:14:19,310 And then the cross. 348 00:14:20,070 --> 00:14:21,890 I mean, where is this word about king 349 00:14:21,890 --> 00:14:23,050 of kings and lord of lords? 350 00:14:23,270 --> 00:14:25,190 They're sticking spears in his side. 351 00:14:25,390 --> 00:14:27,270 They're putting a crown of thorns on his 352 00:14:27,270 --> 00:14:27,530 head. 353 00:14:27,730 --> 00:14:28,790 They're spitting at him. 354 00:14:29,030 --> 00:14:31,070 You realize when he was crucified, there was 355 00:14:31,070 --> 00:14:33,710 still spittle running down his face and neck. 356 00:14:34,650 --> 00:14:36,450 I mean, where is all this fulfillment? 357 00:14:36,770 --> 00:14:38,570 Where is this king of kings and lord 358 00:14:38,570 --> 00:14:39,030 of lords? 359 00:14:39,270 --> 00:14:40,810 His name shall be called wonderful. 360 00:14:41,150 --> 00:14:41,830 Oh, but listen. 361 00:14:42,810 --> 00:14:44,590 They buried him, but on the third day, 362 00:14:44,730 --> 00:14:46,410 God raised him from the dead. 363 00:14:46,530 --> 00:14:48,350 Can we all put our hands together? 364 00:14:49,150 --> 00:14:50,070 Do you get it? 365 00:14:52,780 --> 00:14:54,420 Listen, do you get it? 366 00:14:55,480 --> 00:15:00,420 It was spoken about David, obscure, obscure. 367 00:15:01,220 --> 00:15:04,540 Jesus was raised in an obscure place, Nazareth 368 00:15:04,540 --> 00:15:07,600 up in Galilee, which was looked down like 369 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:08,400 podunk. 370 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:11,180 He's from podunk. 371 00:15:11,500 --> 00:15:13,020 He's from nowheresville. 372 00:15:13,500 --> 00:15:16,960 Just like David, a shepherd boy, nobody caring 373 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:19,140 about him, nobody acknowledging him. 374 00:15:19,440 --> 00:15:23,880 Jesus, then trouble, persecution, being hated, being rejected, 375 00:15:24,260 --> 00:15:25,800 fighting battle after battle. 376 00:15:26,020 --> 00:15:27,500 But the word of the Lord came true 377 00:15:27,500 --> 00:15:28,360 for David. 378 00:15:28,500 --> 00:15:30,120 The word of the Lord came true for 379 00:15:30,120 --> 00:15:30,500 Jesus. 380 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:33,680 For every knee will bow and every tongue 381 00:15:33,680 --> 00:15:36,760 will confess one day that Jesus Christ is 382 00:15:36,760 --> 00:15:37,100 Lord. 383 00:15:38,280 --> 00:15:40,360 Right now, he's seated at the right hand 384 00:15:40,360 --> 00:15:42,540 of the father, and he's waiting for all 385 00:15:42,540 --> 00:15:44,800 of his enemies to submit to him and 386 00:15:44,800 --> 00:15:46,020 to be made his footstool. 387 00:15:46,840 --> 00:15:49,300 But the people who mock Jesus now, the 388 00:15:49,300 --> 00:15:51,800 people who curse Jesus now, the people who 389 00:15:51,800 --> 00:15:54,740 hate Christmas, they want him now replace Christ 390 00:15:54,740 --> 00:15:55,460 with an ex. 391 00:15:56,840 --> 00:16:00,240 This board of education, these mayors and senators 392 00:16:00,240 --> 00:16:03,420 and governors, godless, anti-christian. 393 00:16:04,580 --> 00:16:06,420 Every one of their knees will bow. 394 00:16:07,060 --> 00:16:09,160 Every one of their tongues will confess. 395 00:16:09,320 --> 00:16:11,400 Come on, do we say amen to that? 396 00:16:14,590 --> 00:16:17,210 Just like they had to acknowledge David as 397 00:16:17,210 --> 00:16:19,990 king, they're going to acknowledge that Jesus Christ 398 00:16:19,990 --> 00:16:23,210 is king of kings and lord of lords. 399 00:16:23,690 --> 00:16:25,750 Hey listen, we're on the winning side here. 400 00:16:27,230 --> 00:16:29,190 And isn't that the same about us in 401 00:16:29,190 --> 00:16:29,790 another way? 402 00:16:31,090 --> 00:16:34,150 Paul says in first Corinthians, speaking to the 403 00:16:34,150 --> 00:16:36,130 Christians, he says there's not many wise among 404 00:16:36,130 --> 00:16:36,390 you. 405 00:16:37,410 --> 00:16:38,830 Not a lot of rich people. 406 00:16:40,170 --> 00:16:41,710 Not a lot of famous folks. 407 00:16:42,230 --> 00:16:45,010 Not a lot of PhDs. 408 00:16:45,150 --> 00:16:45,630 No. 409 00:16:46,870 --> 00:16:49,250 For his church, God has chosen the foolish 410 00:16:49,250 --> 00:16:50,250 things of this world. 411 00:16:51,070 --> 00:16:52,290 Just common people. 412 00:16:53,270 --> 00:16:57,190 Oh yeah, there's a couple, especially educated, especially 413 00:16:57,190 --> 00:16:57,670 wealthy. 414 00:16:59,030 --> 00:17:00,630 If you're one of those especially wealthy ones, 415 00:17:00,710 --> 00:17:02,250 I'd love to meet you for coffee at 416 00:17:02,250 --> 00:17:03,250 the end of the service. 417 00:17:06,569 --> 00:17:08,770 No, God has chosen the foolish things of 418 00:17:08,770 --> 00:17:10,470 this world to confound the wise. 419 00:17:10,470 --> 00:17:12,650 He chooses the things that are not. 420 00:17:12,770 --> 00:17:13,630 Does that bother you? 421 00:17:13,890 --> 00:17:15,810 Are some of you wrestling against that? 422 00:17:15,890 --> 00:17:17,930 Your ego and your pride says, no, don't 423 00:17:17,930 --> 00:17:19,349 define me like that. 424 00:17:19,569 --> 00:17:21,290 I'm not defining you, I'm telling you what 425 00:17:21,290 --> 00:17:22,329 God's word says. 426 00:17:23,050 --> 00:17:24,650 There's not many of us that are super 427 00:17:24,650 --> 00:17:27,250 wise and smart in the eyes of this 428 00:17:27,250 --> 00:17:27,569 world. 429 00:17:28,550 --> 00:17:30,930 In fact, God has chosen the people that 430 00:17:30,930 --> 00:17:32,750 are not to bring down the people that 431 00:17:32,750 --> 00:17:33,070 are. 432 00:17:34,870 --> 00:17:38,550 An obscure person, just like us. 433 00:17:38,670 --> 00:17:40,770 We're not well known and famous and all 434 00:17:40,770 --> 00:17:43,110 of that, but God has put his hand 435 00:17:43,110 --> 00:17:44,730 on us and he's spoken a word over 436 00:17:44,730 --> 00:17:45,090 us. 437 00:17:45,690 --> 00:17:47,250 He spoke a word over David and it 438 00:17:47,250 --> 00:17:49,130 came to pass, but there were trials and 439 00:17:49,130 --> 00:17:49,770 tribulations. 440 00:17:50,230 --> 00:17:52,210 He spoke a word over Jesus and it 441 00:17:52,210 --> 00:17:53,970 came to pass even though it led through 442 00:17:53,970 --> 00:17:54,610 the cross. 443 00:17:55,210 --> 00:17:56,850 He has spoken a word over you and 444 00:17:56,850 --> 00:17:57,090 me. 445 00:17:57,590 --> 00:17:59,870 The good work that I have begun, I'm 446 00:17:59,870 --> 00:18:00,890 going to finish it. 447 00:18:01,150 --> 00:18:03,090 One day you will wear a crown. 448 00:18:03,830 --> 00:18:05,830 One day you and I are going to 449 00:18:05,830 --> 00:18:08,330 wear a crown and we're going to be 450 00:18:08,330 --> 00:18:10,130 in that choir in front of the King 451 00:18:10,130 --> 00:18:11,750 of Kings and the Lord of Lords. 452 00:18:11,910 --> 00:18:13,690 Come on, can we put our hands together 453 00:18:13,690 --> 00:18:14,730 and celebrate it? 454 00:18:20,360 --> 00:18:22,380 So when you go through trials, you go 455 00:18:22,380 --> 00:18:25,640 through tribulations, when people mock you and make 456 00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:27,900 fun of you and say this or say 457 00:18:27,900 --> 00:18:31,760 that, that's something we can just dismiss and 458 00:18:31,760 --> 00:18:33,560 say it's all part of the process. 459 00:18:34,120 --> 00:18:37,920 Jesus Christ, a descendant of David, and we're 460 00:18:37,920 --> 00:18:40,740 descendants of Jesus Christ through being born again. 461 00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:43,820 But then there's of course this about Jesus. 462 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:44,800 He was a king. 463 00:18:45,760 --> 00:18:47,680 That's what they came, the wise men came 464 00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:49,520 to Jerusalem and said, where is this one 465 00:18:49,520 --> 00:18:50,760 who's born King of the Jews? 466 00:18:50,760 --> 00:18:52,240 Herod didn't like that. 467 00:18:52,700 --> 00:18:54,360 He didn't want to hear about another king. 468 00:18:55,420 --> 00:18:57,680 So Jesus, like David, came to be a 469 00:18:57,680 --> 00:18:57,880 king. 470 00:18:58,020 --> 00:19:00,260 But David sat on a throne and ruled 471 00:19:00,260 --> 00:19:03,340 people and if they didn't obey, he, you 472 00:19:03,340 --> 00:19:04,940 know, had to use force. 473 00:19:05,760 --> 00:19:07,880 But Jesus is a different kind of king. 474 00:19:09,020 --> 00:19:10,760 Jesus's kingdom is right in here. 475 00:19:11,340 --> 00:19:12,920 Now you might say, I don't want a 476 00:19:12,920 --> 00:19:13,140 king. 477 00:19:13,240 --> 00:19:14,740 The days of kings are over. 478 00:19:14,840 --> 00:19:16,660 Oh no, the days of kings are right 479 00:19:16,660 --> 00:19:19,120 now for today, because all of us here 480 00:19:19,120 --> 00:19:19,760 has a king. 481 00:19:20,320 --> 00:19:21,660 All of us have a king. 482 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:25,260 Everyone here has a king that you submit 483 00:19:25,260 --> 00:19:25,580 to. 484 00:19:25,720 --> 00:19:26,620 Yeah, it's true. 485 00:19:27,100 --> 00:19:28,660 And the people who say, no, I don't 486 00:19:28,660 --> 00:19:29,480 want any king. 487 00:19:29,580 --> 00:19:30,340 I don't want Jesus. 488 00:19:30,540 --> 00:19:32,080 I don't want anybody telling me what to 489 00:19:32,080 --> 00:19:32,200 do. 490 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:33,880 I don't want the Bible telling me what 491 00:19:33,880 --> 00:19:34,140 to do. 492 00:19:34,280 --> 00:19:36,280 You just have another king other than Jesus. 493 00:19:37,160 --> 00:19:39,140 Sometimes it's greed that's your king. 494 00:19:39,640 --> 00:19:40,660 Money is your king. 495 00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:43,520 And you make decisions based on the king 496 00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:44,520 who rules over you. 497 00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:47,020 Sometimes it's a lust, a desire of the 498 00:19:47,020 --> 00:19:50,200 flesh, like these terrible things they were hearing 499 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:53,960 about, scandals, men driven to hurt innocent little 500 00:19:53,960 --> 00:19:54,880 boys. 501 00:19:55,300 --> 00:19:55,520 Why? 502 00:19:55,660 --> 00:19:56,720 Because they had a king. 503 00:19:56,880 --> 00:19:58,600 But what a tyrant they had as a 504 00:19:58,600 --> 00:19:58,860 king. 505 00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:02,760 What a horrible king to have, to be 506 00:20:02,760 --> 00:20:03,820 driven like that. 507 00:20:04,580 --> 00:20:06,380 Other people, it's pride. 508 00:20:06,660 --> 00:20:08,940 Everything in life is based on how I 509 00:20:08,940 --> 00:20:10,960 look and I want people to be impressed 510 00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:11,360 by me. 511 00:20:11,420 --> 00:20:13,080 Other people, it's peer pressure. 512 00:20:13,080 --> 00:20:13,860 That's your king. 513 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:15,980 You want to fit in with everyone, how 514 00:20:15,980 --> 00:20:18,640 you dress, how you act, who accepts you. 515 00:20:18,780 --> 00:20:21,520 You compromise your principles because you're king. 516 00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:23,660 My king becomes my peer group. 517 00:20:23,740 --> 00:20:24,620 I want acceptance. 518 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:27,100 But everyone has a king. 519 00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:29,020 But I want to tell you today, the 520 00:20:29,020 --> 00:20:31,400 best king that you could ever have is 521 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:31,780 Jesus. 522 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:37,400 Because when Jesus becomes your king, he rules 523 00:20:37,400 --> 00:20:40,220 over you and he brings peace and joy. 524 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:43,860 He brings peace and joy. 525 00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:47,600 He's the best king you could ever have. 526 00:20:47,660 --> 00:20:49,620 He's the shepherd who protects you. 527 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:52,500 He brings you into green pastures where you're 528 00:20:52,500 --> 00:20:55,420 refreshed and renewed on the inside. 529 00:20:56,280 --> 00:20:58,300 Brothers and sisters, ladies and gentlemen, if you're 530 00:20:58,300 --> 00:21:00,260 sitting here and Jesus is not your king, 531 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:02,140 you're not going to enjoy Christmas the way 532 00:21:02,140 --> 00:21:03,020 he wants you to. 533 00:21:03,540 --> 00:21:05,560 You've got to bow and say, Jesus, I 534 00:21:05,560 --> 00:21:07,700 have other kings in my life and they're 535 00:21:07,700 --> 00:21:08,540 wearing me out. 536 00:21:08,620 --> 00:21:09,220 Look at me. 537 00:21:09,580 --> 00:21:10,400 Look at me. 538 00:21:10,500 --> 00:21:12,080 I had other kings in my life. 539 00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:14,000 I went through college with a whole bunch 540 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:15,580 of other kings and I was the most 541 00:21:15,580 --> 00:21:17,940 miserable, empty person you could meet. 542 00:21:19,540 --> 00:21:22,200 But my goodness, when Jesus is the king 543 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:25,740 of your life, oh, he changes everything about 544 00:21:25,740 --> 00:21:26,300 your life. 545 00:21:27,380 --> 00:21:28,920 How many have found him as the best 546 00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:30,040 king, best friend? 547 00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:31,500 Lift your hand up high. 548 00:21:31,620 --> 00:21:32,820 How many have him as king? 549 00:21:32,900 --> 00:21:33,820 Just wave it at me. 550 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:34,940 He is our king. 551 00:21:35,120 --> 00:21:37,220 That's why we're not embarrassed to worship him. 552 00:21:37,740 --> 00:21:40,360 They bow down to superstars and athletes and 553 00:21:40,360 --> 00:21:42,720 royalty and people scream and all of that. 554 00:21:42,940 --> 00:21:44,420 And then when we make a little noise 555 00:21:44,420 --> 00:21:46,400 and praise our king, they call us all 556 00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:47,000 kinds of names. 557 00:21:47,220 --> 00:21:49,160 I don't care what anybody calls us. 558 00:21:49,420 --> 00:21:51,280 Come on, let's put our hands together for 559 00:21:51,280 --> 00:21:53,100 the king, for the king. 560 00:22:01,610 --> 00:22:02,830 David was obscure. 561 00:22:03,830 --> 00:22:06,330 David went through trials and tribulations, but the 562 00:22:06,330 --> 00:22:08,050 word of the Lord came to pass and 563 00:22:08,050 --> 00:22:09,590 it did for Jesus and it will do 564 00:22:09,590 --> 00:22:10,190 it for you. 565 00:22:10,630 --> 00:22:11,570 Don't give up today. 566 00:22:12,130 --> 00:22:13,870 He who has begun a good work in 567 00:22:13,870 --> 00:22:15,350 you, he's going to complete it. 568 00:22:15,630 --> 00:22:17,550 I know right now it's tough, but he's 569 00:22:17,550 --> 00:22:18,430 going to bring you through. 570 00:22:18,590 --> 00:22:19,530 He brought David through. 571 00:22:19,610 --> 00:22:20,590 He brought Jesus through. 572 00:22:20,790 --> 00:22:21,270 What do you think? 573 00:22:21,310 --> 00:22:22,510 He's not going to bring you and I 574 00:22:22,510 --> 00:22:22,710 through? 575 00:22:22,790 --> 00:22:25,870 He's going to bring us through as we 576 00:22:25,870 --> 00:22:27,850 make him king and submit to his rule. 577 00:22:28,930 --> 00:22:31,350 But you know, the writer Matthew, he's very 578 00:22:31,350 --> 00:22:35,610 risky in mentioning David because in some ways, 579 00:22:35,930 --> 00:22:38,990 if you had David as an ancestor, that 580 00:22:38,990 --> 00:22:40,490 would be something you would hide. 581 00:22:42,820 --> 00:22:45,120 My late father-in-law went to the 582 00:22:45,120 --> 00:22:47,060 Alamo because he had heard that he had 583 00:22:47,060 --> 00:22:51,040 ancestors who fought in the Alamo in San 584 00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:52,020 Antonio, Texas. 585 00:22:52,420 --> 00:22:54,480 And he wanted to check the registry to 586 00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:57,120 see how his ancestor fought there and did 587 00:22:57,120 --> 00:22:58,000 he really die there. 588 00:22:58,860 --> 00:23:00,740 He looked up the record and found out 589 00:23:00,740 --> 00:23:02,900 that he had a great, great, great, great, 590 00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:06,320 great, whatever uncle, grandfather, whatever who was at 591 00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:06,780 the Alamo. 592 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:09,460 And when the battle ensued, he got afraid 593 00:23:09,460 --> 00:23:12,980 and ran and the officers told him to 594 00:23:12,980 --> 00:23:14,440 stop running and he didn't. 595 00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:15,140 And he shot him. 596 00:23:15,740 --> 00:23:17,120 That was what his ancestor did. 597 00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:19,540 He said, boy, Jim, I came home disappointed 598 00:23:19,540 --> 00:23:19,780 here. 599 00:23:19,860 --> 00:23:21,500 I thought my great, great, great, great had 600 00:23:21,500 --> 00:23:24,020 fought and, you know, showed valor and was 601 00:23:24,020 --> 00:23:24,420 a hero. 602 00:23:24,660 --> 00:23:27,180 He turned coward and he ran and his 603 00:23:27,180 --> 00:23:28,620 own side had to shoot him dead. 604 00:23:29,380 --> 00:23:30,180 His own side. 605 00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:32,280 He never went back to the Alamo again. 606 00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:34,400 After that, he said, let it go. 607 00:23:35,220 --> 00:23:37,960 Did you know about David that Jesus is 608 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:38,820 the son of David? 609 00:23:39,540 --> 00:23:41,700 Did you know that when David became king, 610 00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:44,580 he went out one night when he should 611 00:23:44,580 --> 00:23:46,300 have been fighting and he saw a woman 612 00:23:46,300 --> 00:23:51,340 taking a bath on a rooftop and he 613 00:23:51,340 --> 00:23:53,520 desired her and he brought her to his 614 00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:57,020 house, even though she was married to one 615 00:23:57,020 --> 00:23:58,920 of his generals, Uriah the Hittite. 616 00:23:59,820 --> 00:24:03,860 And he slept with her, but his little 617 00:24:03,860 --> 00:24:06,840 one night stand turned nasty because she became 618 00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:07,240 pregnant. 619 00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:10,680 So then David, who wrote all those Psalms, 620 00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:12,620 the Lord is my shepherd, I shall not. 621 00:24:14,140 --> 00:24:17,140 That David said, how am I going to 622 00:24:17,140 --> 00:24:17,980 get out of this? 623 00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:21,940 So he brought Uriah home for leave. 624 00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:23,840 You know, the king can do anything he 625 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:24,040 wants. 626 00:24:24,140 --> 00:24:25,340 Send him home with some for R and 627 00:24:25,340 --> 00:24:25,560 R. 628 00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:27,060 I got to get him home to be 629 00:24:27,060 --> 00:24:29,280 with his wife so that he won't count 630 00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:31,540 the days and the months and he'll be 631 00:24:31,540 --> 00:24:32,140 with his wife. 632 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:33,900 When the baby's born, nobody will know the 633 00:24:33,900 --> 00:24:34,160 better. 634 00:24:34,540 --> 00:24:35,940 But you know, the guy was so loyal, 635 00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:36,900 he wouldn't go home. 636 00:24:37,180 --> 00:24:39,360 He said, no, David, your men are fighting 637 00:24:39,360 --> 00:24:40,960 and I'm so loyal to you. 638 00:24:40,980 --> 00:24:42,220 I won't even go home to be with 639 00:24:42,220 --> 00:24:42,800 my family. 640 00:24:43,060 --> 00:24:44,620 I'm going to sleep right here on the 641 00:24:44,620 --> 00:24:45,720 steps of the palace. 642 00:24:45,860 --> 00:24:48,500 And David is going like, what is wrong 643 00:24:48,500 --> 00:24:49,200 with this guy? 644 00:24:50,820 --> 00:24:53,900 So then he thinks craftily, I'll get him 645 00:24:53,900 --> 00:24:54,240 drunk. 646 00:24:54,420 --> 00:24:56,200 So the next night he feeds him wine 647 00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:57,980 and he goes, woozy, go home. 648 00:24:58,580 --> 00:25:01,320 He got so drunk, he fell asleep before 649 00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:02,200 he could get home. 650 00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:06,360 So now David, as in Jesus, the Messiah 651 00:25:06,360 --> 00:25:08,560 is a descendant of David. 652 00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:11,080 He sends him back to the battle and 653 00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:12,200 then he sends a note. 654 00:25:12,820 --> 00:25:14,700 How crazy was he to put this in 655 00:25:14,700 --> 00:25:15,860 writing through a messenger? 656 00:25:15,860 --> 00:25:18,700 And he tells Joab, his main general, when 657 00:25:18,700 --> 00:25:22,540 you attack, suddenly everybody withdraw from the enemy, 658 00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:25,600 but leave Uriah dangling out there. 659 00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:26,400 And he did. 660 00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:29,400 And sure enough, Uriah got killed. 661 00:25:29,900 --> 00:25:31,180 And did you know they sent a message 662 00:25:31,180 --> 00:25:33,700 back to David and said, by the way, 663 00:25:33,740 --> 00:25:34,600 we won the battle. 664 00:25:34,860 --> 00:25:37,520 We got a lot of spoils and we 665 00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:39,160 took over a lot of new territory. 666 00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:41,240 Oh, and by the way, on the downside, 667 00:25:41,660 --> 00:25:43,700 Uriah the Messiah died in battle. 668 00:25:44,120 --> 00:25:45,820 And David said, you know what? 669 00:25:46,100 --> 00:25:47,620 It's a shame, but that's what war is 670 00:25:47,620 --> 00:25:47,940 about. 671 00:25:48,500 --> 00:25:49,840 Some live, some die. 672 00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:52,740 Jesus, son of David. 673 00:25:53,300 --> 00:25:54,760 And then for months he couldn't write a 674 00:25:54,760 --> 00:25:57,160 psalm because he was blocking out God and 675 00:25:57,160 --> 00:25:59,120 all that conviction that God was trying to 676 00:25:59,120 --> 00:26:00,060 bring to his heart. 677 00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:02,580 And the baby was born, but the baby 678 00:26:02,580 --> 00:26:03,260 got sick. 679 00:26:03,820 --> 00:26:05,920 And the baby hung between life and death. 680 00:26:07,360 --> 00:26:08,760 And he lost the baby. 681 00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:12,120 But in that process, a prophet came to 682 00:26:12,120 --> 00:26:15,240 him and told him a story about somebody 683 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:18,900 who robbed somebody else's choice lamb and killed 684 00:26:18,900 --> 00:26:20,380 it so he could feed some people. 685 00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:23,480 And David, like we are, full of righteous 686 00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:27,080 indignation, said, tell me, who did something like 687 00:26:27,080 --> 00:26:29,600 that and robbed a little choice lamb from 688 00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:31,360 a family to feed it when he could 689 00:26:31,360 --> 00:26:32,840 have used his own supplies? 690 00:26:33,380 --> 00:26:35,240 And the prophet said, you want to know 691 00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:36,140 who the man is? 692 00:26:37,100 --> 00:26:37,700 You're the man. 693 00:26:39,120 --> 00:26:40,440 That's where that all started. 694 00:26:40,540 --> 00:26:41,080 You're the man. 695 00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:44,520 You're the man. 696 00:26:45,900 --> 00:26:49,360 And David said, I'm the man. 697 00:26:51,380 --> 00:26:52,960 How many times has God told me that? 698 00:26:53,220 --> 00:26:53,780 How about you? 699 00:26:54,860 --> 00:26:57,280 When we're judging other people and we're acting 700 00:26:57,280 --> 00:26:58,500 so self-righteous. 701 00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:01,200 And we've all been like sheep and gone 702 00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:01,740 astray. 703 00:27:02,180 --> 00:27:03,900 Why would God put that in the Bible? 704 00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:05,960 I mean, even if it happened to David, 705 00:27:06,120 --> 00:27:06,980 couldn't you leave it out? 706 00:27:07,220 --> 00:27:08,820 Every day of David's life is not in 707 00:27:08,820 --> 00:27:09,200 the Bible. 708 00:27:09,620 --> 00:27:11,300 Every day, every month is not in the 709 00:27:11,300 --> 00:27:12,680 Bible of David, nor Jesus. 710 00:27:13,380 --> 00:27:14,780 So couldn't you skip over that? 711 00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:17,900 If you're going to do a biography of 712 00:27:17,900 --> 00:27:19,520 somebody, couldn't you leave out that you had 713 00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:21,960 a loser of an ancestor like that? 714 00:27:22,580 --> 00:27:26,220 Do something that dirty, that low-down, God 715 00:27:26,220 --> 00:27:28,220 put it in so you and I could 716 00:27:28,220 --> 00:27:33,380 be encouraged, that we're sin about grace, even 717 00:27:33,380 --> 00:27:37,320 more about that Jesus came to help people 718 00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:40,700 like David, like you, like me, who have 719 00:27:40,700 --> 00:27:42,480 broken down and messed up. 720 00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:44,700 Am I the only person here who's ever 721 00:27:44,700 --> 00:27:47,300 broken down and messed up and failed God? 722 00:27:48,580 --> 00:27:50,300 How about you up in the balcony? 723 00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:52,980 Haven't you ever broken down and messed up 724 00:27:52,980 --> 00:27:55,100 and the devil comes and accuses you? 725 00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:57,680 You can't even sleep at night, your conscience 726 00:27:57,680 --> 00:28:00,300 is tormenting you, you're afraid of dying. 727 00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:03,280 And he tells you that God has no 728 00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:05,680 use for you, that God will never pick 729 00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:07,860 you up again, that you've gone too far, 730 00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:10,180 that thing that you did, that sin you 731 00:28:10,180 --> 00:28:13,180 committed, it's over, it's too much, you had 732 00:28:13,180 --> 00:28:15,120 too much light to do it. 733 00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:17,260 And to have that much light, didn't it 734 00:28:17,260 --> 00:28:19,380 ever attack anybody like that? 735 00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:23,640 And that's why when the Holy Spirit inspired 736 00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:26,240 Matthew to write the first verse of the 737 00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:29,720 New Testament, he said, do it this way. 738 00:28:30,580 --> 00:28:33,420 These are the ancestors of Jesus the Messiah, 739 00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:37,780 who was a descendant of David and Abraham. 740 00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:39,820 Can you believe that? 741 00:28:39,980 --> 00:28:41,540 Because that's what Abraham's about. 742 00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:43,880 Can you believe that God is that good? 743 00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:45,660 Can you believe that he'll give you a 744 00:28:45,660 --> 00:28:46,280 new start? 745 00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:48,160 Can you believe that he'll wipe out the 746 00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:49,180 record against you? 747 00:28:49,380 --> 00:28:50,820 Can you believe that you can have a 748 00:28:50,820 --> 00:28:52,040 new beginning in your life? 749 00:28:52,220 --> 00:28:54,420 Because if you can believe, all things are 750 00:28:54,420 --> 00:28:54,920 possible. 751 00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:58,340 This is why Jesus came, he provided a 752 00:28:58,340 --> 00:29:00,780 way for us so we can overcome the 753 00:29:00,780 --> 00:29:01,960 mess-ups of David. 754 00:29:02,340 --> 00:29:05,040 He wasn't embarrassed to link himself to David 755 00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:06,920 because he wanted all of us to know, 756 00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:08,300 that's why I came. 757 00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:10,740 I didn't come for a perfect world, I 758 00:29:10,740 --> 00:29:12,360 came for people who mess up. 759 00:29:12,900 --> 00:29:15,200 But I love them so much, despite their 760 00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:18,500 mess-ups, that I want them to come 761 00:29:18,500 --> 00:29:20,160 so that I can cleanse them and give 762 00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:21,060 them a new start. 763 00:29:21,580 --> 00:29:22,900 Let's close our eyes together. 764 00:29:23,540 --> 00:29:25,600 We want to just proclaim in one way 765 00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:27,940 or another the good news of Jesus Christ. 766 00:29:28,940 --> 00:29:31,120 The good news of Jesus Christ. 767 00:29:31,820 --> 00:29:33,740 Is there anybody here in the balcony or 768 00:29:33,740 --> 00:29:36,220 downstairs to say, Pastor Simba, I needed to 769 00:29:36,220 --> 00:29:36,780 hear that. 770 00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:41,320 I am so glad that Jesus the Messiah 771 00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:43,740 is a descendant of David. 772 00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:47,260 And I want to make Jesus my king 773 00:29:47,260 --> 00:29:47,680 today. 774 00:29:47,900 --> 00:29:48,980 I want a new beginning. 775 00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:51,240 I've got a lot of baggage, I got 776 00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:54,020 a lot of junk that only Jesus can 777 00:29:54,020 --> 00:29:54,720 take care of. 778 00:29:54,780 --> 00:29:57,100 I got a lot of pain that only 779 00:29:57,100 --> 00:29:57,960 he can lift. 780 00:29:58,220 --> 00:30:01,440 I've got my situation and I've been convicted 781 00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:03,620 today that Jesus is the only one who 782 00:30:03,620 --> 00:30:04,300 could help me. 783 00:30:05,140 --> 00:30:06,620 Would you just get out of your seat 784 00:30:06,620 --> 00:30:07,340 and come up here? 785 00:30:07,420 --> 00:30:09,420 I would love to pray over one person 786 00:30:09,420 --> 00:30:12,940 or a hundred people and say, God, Jesus, 787 00:30:13,420 --> 00:30:15,200 give them a new beginning. 788 00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:16,520 Give them a new start. 789 00:30:17,180 --> 00:30:18,560 Maybe you've never been born again. 790 00:30:18,700 --> 00:30:21,300 Maybe you've never confessed your sins and asked 791 00:30:21,300 --> 00:30:22,200 Christ to come in. 792 00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:24,560 Just come out of your seat, come up 793 00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:24,860 here. 794 00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:28,040 Or maybe you've drifted away like David drifted 795 00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:28,380 away. 796 00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:32,620 David drifted so far away after living so 797 00:30:32,620 --> 00:30:34,340 close to God, being so blessed. 798 00:30:35,500 --> 00:30:37,580 And the Lord gave him a new start. 799 00:30:38,420 --> 00:30:39,780 Anybody here want to come up? 800 00:30:39,900 --> 00:30:41,540 I would love to pray for you. 801 00:30:41,860 --> 00:30:43,980 Just come out of your seat and come 802 00:30:43,980 --> 00:30:44,360 up here. 803 00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:45,380 We'll pray together. 804 00:30:50,280 --> 00:30:51,640 Pray with me everyone out loud. 805 00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:59,350 Dear God, forgive us our trespasses as we 806 00:30:59,350 --> 00:31:03,910 forgive those who have trespassed against us. 807 00:31:05,510 --> 00:31:06,910 Give me a new heart. 808 00:31:08,450 --> 00:31:09,790 Give me a new mind. 809 00:31:11,750 --> 00:31:12,730 Cleanse me. 810 00:31:13,970 --> 00:31:15,650 Make me a new person. 811 00:31:17,450 --> 00:31:18,410 Live through me. 812 00:31:19,230 --> 00:31:20,430 Think through me. 813 00:31:21,250 --> 00:31:22,350 Speak through me. 814 00:31:23,210 --> 00:31:24,270 Love through me. 815 00:31:26,030 --> 00:31:27,630 I crown you as my King. 816 00:31:28,710 --> 00:31:29,730 King Jesus. 817 00:31:30,950 --> 00:31:35,350 Give me your thoughts and your ways and 818 00:31:35,350 --> 00:31:38,490 I submit to them because I love you 819 00:31:38,490 --> 00:31:42,090 and I believe in you that you died 820 00:31:42,090 --> 00:31:44,750 for me, that you shed your blood for 821 00:31:44,750 --> 00:31:45,090 me. 822 00:31:48,150 --> 00:31:49,490 In Jesus name. 823 00:31:51,490 --> 00:31:52,010 Amen. 824 00:31:53,330 --> 00:31:54,370 Now look at me. 825 00:31:54,510 --> 00:31:55,810 Those of you in the front, just look 826 00:31:55,810 --> 00:31:56,710 up at me, okay? 827 00:31:58,370 --> 00:32:01,090 Today is the first day of the rest 828 00:32:01,090 --> 00:32:03,590 of your life and God's going to do 829 00:32:03,590 --> 00:32:06,130 something beautiful now in your life. 830 00:32:06,550 --> 00:32:08,890 Congregation, can we encourage them by just putting 831 00:32:08,890 --> 00:32:09,850 our hands together? 832 00:32:10,710 --> 00:32:11,490 Do you believe? 833 00:32:12,330 --> 00:32:13,330 Do you believe? 834 00:32:14,290 --> 00:32:16,190 I know you're crying, but do you believe? 835 00:32:16,390 --> 00:32:18,650 Because when you believe, God begins to work 836 00:32:18,650 --> 00:32:19,610 on your behalf. 837 00:32:20,310 --> 00:32:22,350 Congregation, would you turn and hug one another 838 00:32:22,350 --> 00:32:24,050 and greet one another in the name of 839 00:32:24,050 --> 00:32:24,510 the Lord? 840 00:32:25,670 --> 00:32:27,410 You've been listening to the From the Pulpit 841 00:32:27,410 --> 00:32:28,590 in Classic Sermons series. 842 00:32:29,150 --> 00:32:31,230 This week, you heard Jim Cimbala with his 843 00:32:31,230 --> 00:32:32,990 message, A Descendant of David and Abraham. 844 00:32:33,790 --> 00:32:35,310 Tune in next week to hear Leonard Ravenhill 845 00:32:35,310 --> 00:32:38,070 speak about Abraham and Lot on From the 846 00:32:38,070 --> 00:32:39,530 Pulpit in Classic Sermons.