The Anointed: Any Last Words?

Jonathan Ledbetter

The Anointed • Sermon • Submitted 3 years ago

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Previously:

We Looked at a Song of David that We Can Also Find in Psalm 18

We Read Some Pretty Amazing Things About God and His Care for His People

2 Samuel 23

2 Samuel 23:1 (NASB)

Now these are the last words of David. David the son of Jesse declares, The man who was raised on high declares, The anointed of the God of Jacob, And the sweet psalmist of Israel

Last Words of David?

This Might be Referring to His Final Teaching

David is Described in Several Different Ways

The Son of Jesse

The Man Raised On High

Lifted Up from Obscurity to King Over an Entire Nation

The Anointed One (Messiah) of God

God’s Chosen One

The Sweet Psalmist of Israel

Whoever Wrote this Had High Regards for King David

2 Samuel 23:2–4 (NASB)

“The Spirit of YHWH spoke by me, And His word was on my tongue. The God of Israel said, The Rock of Israel spoke to me, ‘He who rules over men righteously, Who rules in the fear of God, Is as the light of the morning when the sun rises, A morning without clouds, When the tender grass springs out of the earth, Through sunshine after rain.’”

God Compares the Person Who Rules Over Others Righteously and in Fear of God to a Sunrise in the Morning on the Damp Grass

Many Have Been Confused as to What this Means

The Original Hebrew Text is Hard to Figure Out

But When I Think about a Beautiful Cloudless Sunrise on Fresh New Grass, I Think of Peace, Blessings, and Hope

Righteous, God-Fearing Leaders Bring Peace, Blessings, and Hope to Their People

2 Samuel 23:5 (NASB95)

“Truly is not my house so with God? For He has made an everlasting covenant with me, Ordered in all things, and secured; For all my salvation and all my desire, Will He not indeed make it grow?”

This First Sentence Can Be Translated 2 Opposite Ways

Truly David’s House Ruled with Righteousness and the Fear of God

Truly David’s House Did Not Rule with Righteousness and the Fear of God

One Says that God Made an Everlasting Covenant with David Because of the Righteousness of His House

The Other Says that God Made an Everlasting Covenant Despite the Unrighteousness of His House

2 Samuel 23:5 (NKJV)

“Although my house is not so with God, Yet He has made with me an everlasting covenant, Ordered in all things and secure. For this is all my salvation and all my desire; Will He not make it increase?”

I Don’t Know for Sure Which Translation is Correct, but it Doesn’t Really Matter to Understand the Heart of the Verse

Regardless of Why God Made an Everlasting Covenant with David, He Made it None the Less

What was this Everlasting Covenant?

2 Samuel 7:1–16 (NASB)

Now it came about when the king lived in his house, and YHWH had given him rest on every side from all his enemies, that the king said to Nathan the prophet, “See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells within tent curtains.”

Nathan said to the king, “Go, do all that is in your mind, for YHWH is with you.”

But in the same night the word of YHWH came to Nathan, saying,

“Go and say to My servant David, ‘Thus says YHWH, “Are you the one who should build Me a house to dwell in? For I have not dwelt in a house since the day I brought up the sons of Israel from Egypt, even to this day; but I have been moving about in a tent, even in a tabernacle.

Wherever I have gone with all the sons of Israel, did I speak a word with one of the tribes of Israel, which I commanded to shepherd My people Israel, saying, ‘Why have you not built Me a house of cedar?’

Now therefore, thus you shall say to My servant David, ‘Thus says YHWH of hosts, “I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, to be ruler over My people Israel.

I have been with you wherever you have gone and have cut off all your enemies from before you; and I will make you a great name, like the names of the great men who are on the earth.

I will also appoint a place for My people Israel and will plant them, that they may live in their own place and not be disturbed again, nor will the wicked afflict them any more as formerly, even from the day that I commanded judges to be over My people Israel; and I will give you rest from all your enemies. YHWH also declares to you that YHWH will make a house for you.

When your days are complete and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, who will come forth from you, and I will establish his kingdom.

He shall build a house for My name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. I will be a father to him and he will be a son to Me; when he commits iniquity, I will correct him with the rod of men and the strokes of the sons of men, but My lovingkindness shall not depart from him, as I took it away from Saul, whom I removed from before you.

Your house and your kingdom shall endure before Me forever; your throne shall be established forever.”

When David Wanted to Make God a House, God Promised to Make David a House/Dynasty

God will Establish the Kingdom of One of David’s Descendants

And that Descendant will Build a House for God

And God will Establish His Throne Forever

God’s Lovingkindness will Never Depart from Him

There are Hints of this that Point to Solomon, but its Ultimate Fulfilment is Absolutely in Jesus

God Has Arranged and Secured this Great Covenant

And Through this Covenant, David Finds All of His Salvation and All of His Desire

Jesus, the Fulfilment of God’s Covenant with David, is the Source of All of Our Salvation and Desires as Well

2 Samuel 23:6–7 (NASB)

“But the worthless, every one of them will be thrust away like thorns, Because they cannot be taken in hand; But the man who touches them Must be armed with iron and the shaft of a spear, And they will be completely burned with fire in their place.”

David Sees His Salvation Through His Descendant Who will Sit on the Throne Forever

But He Also Sees the Wicked as Dangerous Thorns that will be Uprooted by Force and Burned Up in Fire

This is the Same Imagery that His Descendant Would One Day Use to Speak of the Wicked at His Return in Judgement

The Rest of this Chapter is Dedicated to the Might Men Who Served David Faithfully

We are Told about Some of the Most Amazing Things that They Did in Their Faithfulness to Their King

Josheb-Basshebeth Killed 800 Men at One Time

Eleazar Killed so Many Philistines that His Hand Became Tired

Shammah Defended a Field of Crops from the Philistines While Everyone Else Fled, and God Brought about Victory Through Him

3 of David’s Mighty Men Heard David Say that He Wanted Water from Philistine Occupied Bethlehem (His Home)

They Broke into Bethlehem and Brought Water Back to Him

Since They Showed Such Zeal and Faithfulness to the King’s Needs, David Poured Out the Water as an Offering to God

David Didn’t See Himself Worthy of Such a Sacrifice

Abishai (Joab’s Brother) Killed 300 Men with His Spear

Benaiah Killed 2 Lion-Like Warriors of Moab

He Also Killed an Actual Lion in a Pit on a Snowy Day

He Also Killed an Egyptian with the Egyptian’s Own Spear

After Telling Some of These Impressive Stories, We are Given a List of the Rest of the Names

The Final Name:

2 Samuel 23:39 (NASB)

Uriah the Hittite; thirty-seven in all.

Uriah was One of David’s Mighty Faithful Men

Applications

There are 3 Things that Stood Out to Me While Studying this Chapter

With God, All Things are Possible

I Learn this from the Might Men of David

They Did Impossible Things that are Hard to Believe

But We Know that God can Make All Things Possible for Those Who Choose to Be On His Side

With God We See:

Christians Who Joyful in Their Sufferings

Wicked and Unrighteous People Completely Change to Gentle, Humble, Righteous People

With God People Become the Opposite of Who They Were Before

Enemies Become Brothers

Our Resurrection When Jesus Returns

With God, Our Death Turns into Life

Our King Never Fails

Uriah Never Failed His King, but His King Did Fail Him

We Don’t Have to Worry About That

Our King Will Never Fail Us

He Will Never Lie to Us, Hurt Us, Wrong Us, or Destroy Us

He Only Lives to Tell Us the Truth, Heal Us, Do Right by Us, and Save Us

We Can Put Full Trust into Jesus and Know that Our King Never Fails

Jesus is My Salvation & My Desire

David’s Last Prophetic Teaching Dealt with His Covenant with God that Leads Us to Jesus

Isn’t that Fitting for the Last Teaching of David?

He Looked Forward with Hope to the Fulfilment of God’s Covenantal Promise

He Saw Jesus as His Salvation and His Desire

Jesus is the Salvation and Desire of His People Still Today

I Desire Life Never Ending, Joy Never Fading, and Peace Forever

Jesus Gives that Through the Salvation He Offers

When Placing Our Faith and Allegiance in Him, We are Given a Promise of Salvation Until it is Ultimately Fulfilled at His Return

Jesus Can Be Your Salvation and Desire

He Gave His Life for You, so that You Would Give Your Life to Him, so that He Can Give His Life to You