David — 2 Samuel 7

0:00 That you would give me clarity of speech and lord, help those things that you would have. Stick, stick, and let the rest blow away. It's in your son's precious name that we pray. Amen. Amen.

0:13 Ready for you here. When you're ready. Nope. That ain't it. Here we go.

0:27 So, let's let's start off a little quiz. I like starting off with a little quiz. Get you thinking. Maybe wake you up or put you to sleep whichever one. We'll start off quickly but I have five names here.

0:37 Soon as you know what they have in common, I want you to raise your hand, okay? Don't shout out the answer. Some of you, I I slipped like Doug Torok last week. I should learn from your lesson and told somebody what I'm talking about. I know the answer to that.

0:50 Please, don't shout it out yet. So, oh, okay. Here we go. When when you know who they what they have in common, let's figure out what it is. So, two.

1:04 Alright. Three. Come on, Don. I'm counting on you there. He knows.

1:09 Oh, there we go. Oh. Next one. There we go. And finally.

1:17 Okay, Phil, I'll give you the chance. They all what? Good guess. All right. Who else had their hand up?

1:28 Laura? Oh. All sons of David. There they are. All sons of David.

1:33 Alright. Now, I want you to think in your mind, okay? Of your favorite David story, okay? I mean, David's not unknown here. What's he picking up David for, right?

1:44 Why are we talking about David? Well, we'll we'll try and explain that to you but we know a lot about David, don't we? And we learn a lot about David from the very first day, from Sunday school, don't we? We think of David as a shepherd, right? A smiling shepherd, playing his harp in the field.

2:02 He he played it so well that Saul was soothed by it. We we think of David that way, right? And then we think of David with his staff after the the bear or the lion, right? A young man and that's that's a story we know and of course, who doesn't know this one, right? David slays Goliath with his sling and a stone and away goes and down goes the giant and he cuts off his head.

2:30 We we know David that way, right? So, we also know David as a friend. He had a friend named Jonathan who was the the son of the king at the time, Saul, right? Very close and very tight and we hear about that and then we think of David as a mighty warrior. He won many battles and and because of that and other things, he was anointed.

2:53 He's raised up. He was popular. He was a young king. Now, did I hit all the stories that were in your mind? Anybody have a story in your mind about David that are not up here?

3:07 What was that? Go ahead. I saw in the cave and they despaired his life. That's right. Saul spared his life.

3:13 Cut off the piece of his tunic or something there to to let him know that he knew what was in there. Any others? Any others that you you're thinking of? Go ahead. Oh, you're stealing my thunder, Zach.

3:27 So, no. We're going there but that's a good one. So, yeah, we we normally think of David this way but I want to think about David beyond Sunday school because this is a Sunday school, David. No offense. Sunday school, David's great.

3:41 The things that we know about him that we learned from when we were this big are important but I want to think about him in this in the terms of when his kingdom begins, okay? So, let's talk about that. We're going to head this direction. So, keep this in the back of your mind. I want to try and dispel some lies, alright?

4:02 There's there's a study of David that we hope to do today that that will help to spell some lies from the father of lies that we learn about in John chapter eight. So, there's not going to be enough time for me to read all the passages that we're going to talk about today. So, I want you to have some homework today. Go home and at least read second Samuel and first Kings, okay? Over the next week, if you have time, hopefully, this will back up what we're going to talk about today.

4:31 This is my view of history across biblical times if you will and if you've been following along, you know that I've been sort of stomping around in the weeds of the Old Testament here for over a year. It's hard to believe. Back in May of last year, we talked about, remember guy, Naishan? He was the guy in the line of Judah, in the line of Christ that died in the wilderness, okay? Then, we talked about three ladies in the genealogy of Jesus.

4:57 Tamar, Ruth, and oh boy, names just slipped me. Rahab, thank you. You got to be careful about what you try and do in front of people. Did an overview of Judges and that was interesting. There's some characters in Judges, isn't there?

5:18 Some stories that some we don't want to repeat but we did that. In January, we talked about Samuel and really the transition from the time of the judges to the kingdom with Saul, right? Well, here we're going to stop squarely in the time of David, okay? So, that just gives you overall perspective to look at. Have any of you ever thought of this?

5:42 One of these is in your future? Probably. Okay? And it looks something like this, know. Your name goes here.

5:51 You were born on one day and you died in another day and that little dash in the middle is what we did while we were here, right? Mine will look something like this and I'm working on that little dash at the moment. I was born just a little bit after Ray on 03/08/1964. If he were to tell it, he would say, I was born just a little few hours before. If my mom tells it, unfortunately, she says the same thing.

6:15 So, but anyway, there it is. Now, usually on a tombstone at our gravesite, we would have two things, right? This name and you know, dates and then also something written below. Now, have you ever thought about what you would write below? You know, if I had to do it today, I've thought about this.

6:34 This is what I would like to have written, right? He never quit. But that's not exactly true. I did quit saxophone when I was in fifth grade and I stepped out on wrestling when I was in the tenth, and there's a couple jobs that I've left behind. So it's not true.

6:50 And the simple fact is this, when that gets written, I'm pushing up the flowers. Right? So somebody else gets to put that on the stone and so, I could only hope that maybe I would have one like this David, son of Jesse. Have you ever considered what would be written on his tombstone if if there was Zach, what would it be? Go ahead.

7:30 So, I'm going to read a portion of it. It's a clipped a little bit but it says, now, it came to pass when David, the king, I added David, was dwelling in his house and the lord had given him rest from all his enemies all around that the that David, the king, said to Nathan, the prophet, see now, I dwell in a house of cedar but the ark of god dwells inside tent curtains and and god said in response, would you would you build a house for me? That's the way I look at it. For me to dwell in, have I ever spoken a word to anyone from the tribes of Israel saying, why have you not built me a house of cedar? So, did I ever bring that up?

8:16 Where does that come from? When your days are fulfilled, continue with what god's saying and your rest with your and you rest with your fathers, I will set up your seed after you who will come from your body and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build a house for my name. My mercy shall not depart from him as I took it from Saul whom I removed from before you. And your house and your kingdom shall be established forever before you.

8:43 Your throne shall be established forever. So here we have god's promise to David, okay? And and and the way I understand or the way I I read this is the lord saying to David, you know, you're thinking about me. You you have me on your heart. When you think, I never asked you for this.

9:06 I've never asked anyone in Israel for such a thing as a house. I'm perfectly happy with where I'm at. But but David, the fact that you're thinking about me, that's important. And and that wasn't just that one thought. David had god on his own heart.

9:26 He was a man after god's own heart if you figure this is as it summarized in Acts chapter 13. So there you are, Zach, you're way ahead of me. Right there. Written right there. Good job.

9:37 So so this this idea that he made him a promise because he was a man after god's own heart. Now, you may have thought this through and you may have thought, oh, this is what I'd want on my stone when I die. Right? And is there anybody that wouldn't want to have this? Would that...

9:57 Could you do worse? Let's put it that way. Could you do worse than than having that written on your stone? So a man after god's own heart, a woman after god's own heart, someone that loved god. So in order to understand this, we have to think about he promised to him.

10:15 Right? He promised that your seed... Now what does that mean? It means your generation's beyond you. Your your body will be procreated into another human being, and in the the times of the Bible, that was the son.

10:30 Right? The lineage of the son traveled down and continued on. So we need to think about the sons of David. Okay? And in order to think about the sons of David, we we have to think about the wives of David.

10:43 Okay? And and the first one was this Michelle. Now, now, that's a little bit controversial, right? She was his wife but she wasn't, you know, Saul took her away, gave her to somebody else. So, let's move on from there.

10:55 We know that we know that David reigned. We're told that David reigned in Hebron for seven and a half years, right? And while he was there, it says, he picked up wives along the way. First, there was Ahinoam, Ahinoam, and she bore him Ammon. Then there was Abigail.

11:17 That's the wife of Nabal, the fool. Chiliab, otherwise sometimes known as Daniel. Maka or Maka or Absalon. Haggith with Adonijah and I'll just keep going there. There are six wives, six sons.

11:36 Now, he may have had daughters in the middle of that. We don't. We do know a little bit going forward. We'll talk about that. But then he went to Jerusalem, right?

11:44 He moved to Jerusalem. Lord gave him Jerusalem, and he reigned there for thirty three years. And while he was there, he had four sons are recorded as sons of Bathsheba. Okay? Now here's the trick.

11:59 You saw that first name on the quiz. It said son of Bathsheba. Well, in one Chronicles, that's the way it's spelled. Bathsheba, same woman. Okay?

12:08 But here we have Bathsheba. It's interesting to me that there's four sons from the same woman, and there's six from six other women. So there's something about this woman that was special to him. Okay? Now, do you remember there was another one, wasn't there, for Bathsheba?

12:27 There was one that died. It was unnamed. Now, I'm not exactly sure if, you know, somebody was naming that unnamed son as Shimiya, or... I don't think so. I think it would probably be a son that was...

12:44 Had grown to full age was in his chronology. And then if you look at the chronologies in second Samuel second Samuel five as well as first Chronicles three, this is the comforted by David and she had another son, Solomon. So somebody, Don, this is your homework. Go figure this out, right? Figure out how, why is it listed this way?

13:20 Because normally, these would be listed in the order of birth, okay? And there's probably a good answer for this, but Solomon is the one that comforted her heart, we do know later. So, these are the sons of Bathsheba. Says there was nine others, nine other sons born to other wives in Jerusalem and there were concubines that also had other offspring. Okay?

13:45 So David was a prolific guy. I mean, he had a lot of children. Alright? We know only about the sons with one exception, and that's Tamar. Mark that up there.

13:56 Get that picture in your mind. Okay? Where is Tamar? Tamar is the sister of Absalom, daughter of Makkah or Makkah. Okay?

14:06 But a daughter of David. We'll come back to that. So there they are in order. Okay? Ammon through Solomon and others.

14:17 Alright. There's our five guys. You had it right, Laura. Ammon, Absalom, Adonijah, the unnamed baby in my, view here, and then Solomon. Okay?

14:29 Those are the five. We're gonna talk about those five individuals here. So we do know that the the lineage of Jesus, right? At at some point, goes from Abraham. Hey hey, Samuel.

14:43 You up there? Let's see if I can move it forward a little bit. Okay. We do see... It, you know, David and then Solomon.

15:05 So we talked about nation. His son was Solomon, Boaz, Obed, Jesse, the father of David, Solomon, and then on down the line through Jesus Christ. Okay? We we remember that. For some reason, you know, we're not we're not told much about this guy Chili yet.

15:24 I could create a story in my mind, but he he's kinda left off of the record here, but we'll talk about these other guys now. So here's David. Remember, he had a promise. Through your seed, through your lineage, through you will be a house built, will be a kingdom established, and the throne will not continue... Will not end.

15:48 Okay? So if he got a picture David, in his mind, what's he thinking about? He's thinking about these boys. Right? He's thinking about this lineage here.

16:13 And we do know that we'll call it... Or David had a rooftop affair, right? He went out and one night when he should have been off to war, he's out looking around. He sees a beautiful woman. He says, bring her up.

16:27 They have a relationship and pretty soon he finds out she's pregnant. So he decides, you know, I've got to get rid of her husband somehow so that I don't... Right? I've gotta I've gotta show that that the husband could have fathered the baby. That doesn't happen.

16:44 He ends up killing Uriah. We know this story well, don't we? After Uriah is dead and Bathsheba finds out, she mourns for him for a while. And then David says, you know what? Come to my house and be my wife.

16:59 Now, if there's a widow, and in this day in particular, if he married her, that was a noble thing, wasn't it? I mean, a widow in that day would not have been well cared for. Okay? She would have had to find a source, either through her children or other means of support. So he's gonna support her noble thing.

17:18 Well, so the baby's born, you know, it takes nine months. Isn't that right, Katrina? Nine months. She's at 8.5, 6.5, 7.5, where you at? 7.5, congratulations, by the way.

17:30 Very glad to see you today. Seven and a half of nine months to have a baby, right? And then some commentators would say that when the baby finally died, a year old. So it's basically two years of her being around, her being in the castle, if you will, in the house, in and amongst the family. And you can imagine a new baby brings on a lot of excitement, right?

17:57 We anticipate a baby. We anticipate when's the baby going to be born? Is it going to be a boy or a girl at that time in particular? Is it what's going to happen? Oh, and then what happens when the baby is born?

18:09 It's a boy, right? Oh, aren't we excited? Show him off. Have you met my new son? There's this excitement building you could imagine throughout the first year and what else happens?

18:21 Moms, you know this in particular. What happens when a baby is born? There's a bond that's built. Right? One that is grown from the time that you know there's a baby there until this baby's born and and you feed that baby and you care for that baby and there's this bond built and so now all of a sudden, Nathan confronts David, doesn't he?

18:48 You are the man. You are the one that did this. You are doing this and so, he ends up praying for the baby. Can you imagine losing a baby at a year old? People have had this happen and it's awful, you know?

19:03 So the the turmoil that was created here was horrible in his heart. In some sense, I considered a fate worse than death. Having to suffer because of your kids or suffer. I'd rather suffer for my kids, but to see my kids suffer because of me. That's tough.

19:25 That's hard to deal with. That's a hardship. You could imagine where David's at here. But the baby dies, and now I can imagine I can imagine David doubling down on this lineage. I lost one, but I still got these guys.

19:42 Right? The promise can still be fulfilled. Okay. So let's talk about that first guy, the oldest son. We know about Amnon.

19:50 Right? Here he is. I might have spelled it wrong in one spot, but I apologize. So remember remember this this woman, Tamar? The sister to Absalom, but also sister to Emma.

20:02 Right? We would call this in today's parlance a stepsister. So he falls in love with his stepsister and he wants a relationship with her. And I don't know that I would call it love. I think I would call it lust.

20:14 He wants a relationship with his stepsister and he doesn't know how to figure that out. It's so bad that he's getting sick and he's getting thin and his cousin Jonadab comes by and says, hey, what's the matter with you? He says, yeah, I'm really tore up about this woman. He says, let's cook up a plan. They cook up a plan and she comes to cook for him, believe it or not.

20:35 And there he finally forces himself upon her, and he has a relationship with her. You know, no means no. Fellas, ladies, if you haven't heard that it does, but that's not what happened here. He raped her and then he had regret. He had remorse.

20:56 He had this awful feeling to the point where he says now get out. Get out. I took what I wanted now get out. It's a miserable thought, isn't it? Miserable thought.

21:09 But guess what? This is the number one son. This is the king of Israel. Right? After David dies, this guy would be first in line.

21:20 David's got to be thinking that, right? He kind of looks the other way. Maybe this is what you got to put up with. Maybe this is what happens. We're not all perfect.

21:31 What could have happened? I don't know what to do. There's David as a king, Right? What an awful thing. No response.

21:38 If there's anything good that comes out of this story, it's Absalom. Absalom takes the woman in and cares for her in his own house. It's his blood sister. Right? So let's talk about Absalom.

21:52 So Absalom, how I'm moving along here, cares for his sister, comes up with a deceptive plot. He's really mad at Amnon. Okay. Rightfully so. What you did to my sister, but he didn't say anything, Has a party, gets his buddies together, and says when Amnon is merry, when he's had enough, know, when we can get up next to him, kill him.

22:12 That's what we're gonna do to Absalom. Now, in some ways, that was... Amnon deserved that. Right? For what he did in some respects, he deserved that.

22:23 Now do I defend Absalom for doing that? No. But I believe that I believe that David did. He did the right thing. He did the kingly thing.

22:33 Maybe this is the guy. We've cleaned house now. We got rid of that bad blood at the top. Now we're down to Absalom. Maybe he's gonna be the guy.

22:42 He runs away for a few years. Joab comes in, you know, the commander of the army and he says, hey, David, come on. Enough time's been gone by. It's time to move on. Bring him back.

22:53 He does. And then maybe David's thinking, okay, alright, maybe this is a better guy to be king. So let's talk about Absalom. We'll call it part two. David's kindness is rewarded here.

23:20 And he's not only that, but he's charismatic. He stands at the gate, which is where everybody would have come in. You got a problem? I can help you. You need to solve this.

23:27 I can judge it. You know, and he wins the heart of the people. He gathers an army and he returns to Hebron. Oops, sorry. He returns to Hebron and he proclaims himself king.

23:40 Right? Drives David out of Jerusalem with his army and then denigrates the family. Look it up. You can figure out what that's all about. As he's going to fight David's army with his army, he gets hung up in a tree.

23:58 Of all things, he's riding... It says he's riding his mule. Now I understand that riding a mule is a lot better than riding a horse. Just what I've been told, you know. A donkey is not so good.

24:07 They're too short. Right? Your feet drag. But the the riding the mule is real smooth ride. So a smooth ride under a tree and he's hung up in the tree.

24:16 Somebody comes back and says, you ain't gonna believe what I just saw. What did you just see? I saw Absalom hanging in the tree. And what does Joab say? Did you kill him?

24:25 And the guy, see you kidding me? I heard David tell you specifically don't kill that guy. When Joab says, don't worry about that. And he went and stuck three spears in his heart says. Right?

24:35 And then others followed suit with him and stuck him. He was dead after they got done with him. And maybe Absalom deserved this. Okay? But what happened?

24:45 What does David do? I mean, here where we've had all this grief, hopelessly mourns. Hopelessly mourns. Have you ever seen this picture? I believe I saw it when I was at the National Gallery of Art.

24:58 I'm sorry. It's a little bit dark up there in Washington DC. And this is intended to be, the guy's name was Friedrich, I believe, painted this. It's intended to be David mourning after the loss of Absalom. Okay.

25:14 There he is at the gate, above the gate where everybody knew where he was and could see him. And he's mourning. Oh, Absalom, Absalom, my son Absalom. He lost his son. He lost the next in line for the crown.

25:27 His crown's on the ground here. You can picture the guy just mourning his son. And then Joab has to come up and say, buddy, what are you doing? We just killed the guy that ran you out of here. The one that was gonna take your throne from you.

25:43 Son or nothing. Get up. People are waiting for you down there. David gets up and moves on. Those are hard things to do.

25:54 A miserable, miserable experience no matter what. You lose a son under any circumstances. I can't imagine. It's an awful thing. So Hamnon, Absalom, well, let's see what Adonijah does.

26:10 He does the same thing. He repeats the treason basically raises an army, gets everybody going, gets everybody to salute him. But by this time, David is infirm. He's in bed. He's about ready to die.

26:22 Right? Fortunately, unfortunately, however it goes, who steps in? Nathan and Bathsheba. And they said, wait a minute, David. You're almost to the end of your life.

26:34 Don't you remember saying to us that Solomon would reign in your step? Don't you remember telling us that he was the one that should have the crown? Let's put him on the throne. Now's the time to do it because Adonaijah's walking around there like he's the man. So we better do it now or forever hold our peace.

26:54 Right? And so they do. If you ever want to see some real good advice to a young man, look at first Kings two:two and thereabouts to hear David's advice to Solomon. Okay. Solomon begins his reign with the execution of his enemies, one of which is Adonijah.

27:15 Now, was David indifferent? Had he lost hope? He was dependent upon others. This is not looking good. You know?

27:37 Right? We know that Solomon had great wisdom because he asked for it. We know he had great wealth. They said that there were other kings and queens that came to see what he had. It was amazing.

27:50 At time must have been something to see. And he had great wives here in this portion says he had 700 wives and 300 concubines. I don't even want to comment on that. But we know he did a great work though, too. He had a...

28:10 He built the temple, didn't he? It's the part of the promise that David was given. He built the temple. He did a great work. So can we say his life was a great waste?

28:20 No. I don't think so. He gave us the Proverbs. He was still used by God. His heritage is what came down is in the lineage of Christ.

28:30 So the Lord has his reasons and his ways, and that's who he was. So he had a real strong start, but a real bad finish. Okay. We won't read this portion, but says that he married all these wives, created all these alliances, and then started worshiping those other gods and following against what the Lord would have him do. And the Lord says, because of that, I am going to reject your kingdom.

28:57 I'm going to split it. I'll save one tribe, the tribe of Judah to stay in Jerusalem because because of why? Because of my servant David. The Lord remembers. My servant David, the love that he had for me.

29:13 He was a God, a man after my own heart. Because of that love, he's going to retain that. So there it is. What a group, The prophecy was fulfilled though, and is be... Was being in...

29:28 Was being fulfilled as the lineage went on. But there they are. Five guys. Right? What do we think about Amnon, Absalom, Adonijah, this poor baby, and then Solomon.

29:40 It didn't didn't look good from some respects. And not only that, but consider David throughout this whole thing. Do you think he skipped through life with this going on? Do you think he suffered? Tremendously.

29:58 Do you think that his heart was broken? More times than you wanna count. Okay. But that's the David. That's not the Sunday school David, is it?

30:10 Okay. So if we look at what David went through, I think there's several lies that we can pull out here. Because if if David was loved by God, and David was a man after God's own heart, right? Certainly, he still suffered, didn't he? So let's think about some of these.

30:33 Everything we need to know about faith, we learn in Sunday school. How many of us stopped at Sunday school sometimes and said, you know what? That's it. Just need to know that all you do when there's trouble is you pull out your staff and you smack the bear and he goes away and it's all over with. David learned more after that.

30:57 We can hide from God. See David kind of thought, you know what? I can just tuck her in. There's a few people that know, but after a while everybody will have forgotten what I did to Bathsheba, what I did to Uriah. God didn't forget, you can't run, you can't hide.

31:17 Sin is not a big deal to God. If you believe that lie, take a look at what David had to go through. Because of what you've done to Bathsheba and Uriah, the baby will die. Kill me. No.

31:31 I'd rather it be me. I know I did wrong. Kill me. That's probably what David was saying. On his knees before the Lord.

31:39 Lord, take me. He didn't get that. He got a fate worse than death. You may believe this one. My family is the only one that's messed up.

31:53 We're the only ones that had a problem. All those other Christians, it's all real good. All those other believers in God, it's smooth sailing. We don't have to suffer. Not true.

32:07 Not true. Ask David whether he suffered. Those who we love will never hurt us. Believe that one? Have you believed that one?

32:20 Have you found it to be true? Maybe your neighbor. Maybe somebody here. Maybe somebody in your family. Maybe somebody has hurt you and you didn't believe it was gonna happen.

32:36 It shouldn't happen, should it? It does. That's David after Absalom. Pain and suffering is not part of a believer's life. Well, I'll just move on from that one.

32:46 I think we've made that case. There's no help in the pain. David was destitute. David was on his back. He was almost dead.

32:56 He didn't think it was gonna work. Maybe this isn't, maybe I misunderstood, I don't know. But Nathan and Bathsheba were there when he needed them. A good start guarantees a strong finish. Ever believe that lie?

33:13 There it is. I know that if I start off and I'm a Christian, right? I've made a profession in high school. When I was a little kid, I told the Lord that I loved Him. That's good enough, isn't it?

33:28 It's a good start. And that means I'll finish strong. Right? When I'm 58, I'll have it all figured out. I've been to Sunday school.

33:37 I learned everything I need to know. Good start doesn't guarantee a good finish. The company that we keep doesn't matter. The company that we keep, those that we hang out with, it doesn't make a difference. Ask, you know, Amnon was following the advice of Jonadab.

33:57 And I think Absalom was too. And I think David followed the advice of Jonadab. Looking back, probably not very good advice. Okay? Solomon found out that the wives that he married were influencing him.

34:12 Maybe he didn't realize it, but they did. Right? The end of his life, he got astray. He was hanging out with the wrong crowd. Used to have an old timer that I worked with that said, if you're not rubbing off on your friends, they're rubbing off on you.

34:39 Did that come true for Abraham? How many generations... I'm not gonna quote the number because I get it wrong. Is it 42? 42 generations, some generations from Abraham to the Christ.

34:51 Can you believe God has a plan even though you don't see it in your life? Can you believe He's working through you even though you may die before you see it? Those are 10 things that I think that are lies that we believe that I wanna relieve you of today. Okay? Think of this cycle of sin and death.

35:14 David's sin results in the death of the baby. Amnon's sin results in the death, if you'll call it socially, emotionally, trauma wise of Tamar. Absalom kills Amnon. Solomon kills Adonijah. The kingdom is split in the third generation.

35:33 Now that looks like a kingdom. But you know what? After all that, and after all these lies that sometimes we believe, guess what? The Lord's still in it. He remembered David.

35:47 And you know what? He's gonna remember you and you and you. He wants to know what we're gonna do for him. He'll remember. He remembers.

36:26 Okay. So he was a prolific father and he was a prolific poet. That's an interesting combination, isn't it? Most fathers are not poets, but there he was. He he put out a lot of Psalms.

36:39 When you read the book of Psalms, I challenge you to think not just about the Sunday school David. Think about this David. Think about this David in addition to or rounded out from the Sunday school David. The one that suffered greatly. The one that had his heart broken many times.

37:02 The one that can encourage us with his writings that he made. Let's pray. Father, we're grateful again. You've you've blessed us in so many ways. You've left history and just a story that we we can learn from over and over again.

37:28 We do thank you for the example of David. Lord, we're thankful that that we didn't just hear about the high points of his life, but some of the low points as well. Lord, we may we be encouraged that that you still are there. You have a plan for our lives. You are working through us.

37:42 You intend to work through us. Even though we may not see it, you will accomplish it. We do pray these things in your son's name. Amen.