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1 Chronicles 20-22

Good evening church, thank you for joining us here at

Calvary Chapel Victorville.

Before we start I would like to remind you that next

week will be the last time we meet at 7pm on

Wednesday nights, starting in November we will meet

at 6pm on Wednesday nights.

Also, I would like to remind you about our Exalt

Worship Night this Friday at 7pm.

There are a couple church’s worship teams joining us,

and those nights have been fruitful.

The vision for those nights is just to have a night where

we celebrate our God, and take our eyes off of the junk

of this world and turn them to the One who is Above it

All.

It is also a night for those who have written new songs

of praise to sing them with the church.

Many of the songs are original and written by Pastor

Josh and those who join him that night.

Some songs of course are familiar songs for us to

praise our God with.

So invite a friend, and come out this Friday for a special

night of praise.

So with that being said, lets pray, and we will get into

our Study tonight.

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We have come to 1 Chronicles Chapter 20 now here on

our Mid-week study through the Old Testament, we

will be going through Chapters 20-22 tonight.

Remember now, we have come through the high point

for Israel and for King David.

God has unified the Kingdom under his rule, and given

him incredible victories on the Battle Field, and now

they are in a time of rest for the most part.

But you see, it is after the Victory that we as believers

need to be even more vigilant in our walk with the

Lord.

We have times of walking by still waters and through

green pastures, but they are not times to let our guard

down.

We must never forget the warning Peter laid out for us

in… 1 Peter 5:8-10 Be sober, be vigilant; because your

adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion,

seeking whom he may devour. 9 Resist him, steadfast

in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are

experienced by your brotherhood in the world.

Our enemy waits for weakness, and he is patient to

wait for you to put your guard down, and when you

are not fully suited up in your armor, he strikes.

Now, these Old Testament studies are given to us as

examples on how to live for the Lord.

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Paul makes this clear after giving a few Old Testament

examples in 1 Cor. 10:11 Now all these things

happened to them as examples, and they were written

for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages

have come.

And as we get into our text tonight, understand David’s

life is given to us as an example to learn from.

The Bible always portrays its heroes with warts and all,

it never hides the fact that these are mere men, and

struggle just like you and I do.

Let’s look now at verse 1 of Chapter 20…

Rabbah Is Conquered (2 Sam 11:1; 12:26-31)

20:1 It happened in the spring of the year, at the time

kings go out to battle, that Joab led out the armed

forces and ravaged the country of the people of

Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David

stayed at Jerusalem. And Joab defeated Rabbah and

overthrew it.

Now, this is the parallel passage to 1 Samuel chapter

11, the story of David and Bathsheba.

David was taking it easy, idle, at a time the king should

have been out at battle.

And there, as he looked out from his rooftop, was

Bathsheba bathing, who was the wife of one of David’s

mighty men Uriah, and David was overcome with lust,

brought her up to his room, and committed adultery.

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David, after some incredible victories decided to take it

easy, to cruise, and he set himself up for temptation.

He was in the wrong place there in Jerusalem, he

should have been in the battle.

Now, the temptation was not the sin, David seeing

Bathsheba, but when David acted upon the

temptation, that is when it became sin for him.

Early on in my walk, I was a part of a men’s bible study,

and one week, the leaders brought up a discussion,

where they proudly tried to define when temptation

becomes sin.

They said, well you really cannot help that first look,

when a beautiful woman passes by, so the first look is

not sin, but when you look again, you have entered

into sin.

So in my thinking, I found a workaround, I would just

make sure that first look was worth it.

But this is the reality, as I grew in the Lord, I learned to

hear Him on the matter, verses men trying to

determine when sin is sin.

Jesus said… Matt 5:28 But I say to you that whoever

looks at a woman to lust for her has already

committed adultery with her in his heart.

There are no workarounds on that one, once the

thought enters your heart, you are in sin.

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No matter what technicalities you can come up with in

your justifications, first look, second look, none of that

matters, it is when you lust.

Of course you can entertain sin and then you can

progressively move onto worse sins.

James 1:14-15 But each one is tempted when he is

drawn away by his own desires and enticed. 15 Then,

when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and

sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.

David saw Bathsheba, then in his mind he entered into

sinful lusts, and then he brought her up, and sin

became full-grown.

And of course, David didn’t stop there, he lied to cover

it up, then murdered, and ultimately it led to him

losing a child over the matter, sin led to death.

This all started when David neglected his duty to go to

battle, his idle heart was susceptible to sin, and it came

with terrible consequences.

Idleness is the Devil’s playground, men need to be

busy, and women at that.

It is in idleness, that you are looking into places you

shouldn’t, your curiosity starts drifting, and today with

those screens continually in our faces, Bathsheba’s are

easier to find than ever.

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Sin always progresses, before long you are in places

you never thought you would be, compounding sin

upon sin.

This is when it is so vitally important to identify the

temptation immediately and turn from it, a little here

and a little there, and pretty soon you are so far gone

and lost, it almost feels hopeless to ever get back.

Apart from the Grace of God, your life will be left in

shambles.

Even with the Grace of God, the consequences still

linger.

God gives us an eternal pardon, that is indisputable,

but we still live with the consequences in this life.

Now, the writer of Chronicles leaves this account out

of David’s life, he skips it.

And we would think this would be David’s worse sin

and mistake, but later on the writer of Chronicles will

actually give David’s greatest error.

J. Vernon McGee says the account of Bathsheba is left

out here because Chronicles is written from God’s

viewpoint, and God heard David’s prayer that he

prayed in response to this sin… Ps 51:1 Have mercy

upon me, O God,

According to Your lovingkindness;

According to the multitude of Your tender mercies,

Blot out my transgressions.

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2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity,

And cleanse me from my sin.

And the scriptures reveal how God deals with

repentant sin, Ps 103:12 As far as the east is from the

west, So far has He removed our transgressions from

us.

There was no need for it to be recorded again.

So the incident is bypassed, and we move on to verse

2…

2 Then David took their king's crown from his head,

and found it to weigh a talent of gold, and there were

precious stones in it. And it was set on David's head.

Also he brought out the spoil of the city in great

abundance. 3 And he brought out the people who

were in it, and put them to work with saws, with iron

picks, and with axes. So David did to all the cities of the

people of Ammon. Then David and all the people

returned to Jerusalem.

God was merciful to David, and even allowed victory,

because David responded with confession and

repentance, God showed him favor.

David also wrote in that famous Psalm 51, Ps 51:3-4

For I acknowledge my transgressions,

And my sin is always before me.

4 Against You, You only, have I sinned,

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And done this evil in Your sight —

That You may be found just when You speak,

And blameless when You judge.

So David again increases in might and in wealth,

bringing incredible riches back to Jerusalem for the

sake of later building the Temple.

Verse 4 now…

Philistine Giants Destroyed (2 Sam 21:15-22)

4 Now it happened afterward that war broke out at

Gezer with the Philistines, at which time Sibbechai the

Hushathite killed Sippai, who was one of the sons of

the giant. And they were subdued.

5 Again there was war with the Philistines, and Elhanan

the son of Jair killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath the

Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver's

beam.

6 Yet again there was war at Gath, where there was a

man of great stature, with twenty-four fingers and

toes, six on each hand and six on each foot; and he

also was born to the giant. 7 So when he defied Israel,

Jonathan the son of Shimea, David's brother, killed

him.

8 These were born to the giant in Gath, and they fell by

the hand of David and by the hand of his servants.

David was now well beyond his giant slaying years, yet

his example inspired others to follow his step of faith.

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These men, who were close to David were now

stepping up and trusting the Lord for their own battles,

slaying giants fearlessly.

David Guzik says, “David’s legacy lay not only in what

he accomplished, but in what he left behind – a people

prepared for victory. David’s triumphs were

meaningful not only for himself but for others who

learned victory through his teaching and example.

So giants continued to fall, as David inspired faith in his

men.

We are told in verse 8 that these were born to the

giant in Gath, who were brothers of Goliath.

Now, this speaks to us today, that we too have an

persistent enemy taunting us, although Goliath was

long dead here, there were always other giants in the

land.

Eph. 6:10-13 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord

and in the power of His might. 11 Put on the whole

armor of God, that you may be able to stand against

the wiles of the devil. 12 For we do not wrestle against

flesh and blood, but against principalities, against

powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age,

against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly

places. 13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God,

that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and

having done all, to stand.

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You see, we are commanded to stand our ground, to

stand on the Truths of God’s Word, to live according to

its Truths, to live with this understanding that we are

in a battle whether we like the thought of it or not.

And today, more than ever we are seeing immense

opposition against Christianity, and we cannot waiver

or surrender, but it is vital that we stand on God’s

Word at any cost.

Today supposed Christian leaders are instead choosing

the path of being Woke, rather than the path of

Ultimate Truth.

They are surrendering to the pressures of the culture,

and no longer living to impact culture.

We are supposed to be the Salt and Light in our

society, we are to have a preserving witness to the

world around us, not a conforming commitment.

Stand church; that is our command, until our King

comes for us…

So David and his army are given incredible victories,

and next, once again while sitting on the mountain top

of success, David will grow complacent, and he will

commit his greatest sin.

It is interesting that we here in the church are appalled

at anyone who would commit adultery, we look down

our noses at those trapped in a pornographic world,

and we just disdain those who fall into sexual sin.

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But for God, there is an even greater sin, and it is one

that we often tend to let slide in ourselves and in

others.

A selfish pride, remember Jesus rebuked no sin more

than hypocrisy and Phariseeism which was the sin of

religious pride.

Jesus lifted up the adulterous woman and asked her

where her accusers were.

But he sharply rebuked those proud accusers that

caught her in the very act in John 8:7.

And here in David, his pride will be his greatest sin,

remember God found him a mere shepherd boy, and

his success came from his God alone.

Remember when he faced Goliath, he came with only

5 stones in his hand, he even understood then, that his

victory would only come because of his God.

1 Sam 17:45 Then David said to the Philistine, "You

come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a

javelin. But I come to you in the name of the Lord of

hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have

defied.

But David was somebody now, his Kingdom vast and

powerful, and for some reason, he will forget from

where he came and from where God found him.

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And this is a perilous place for any believer to find

themselves in, forgetting from where God found us,

and thinking that we are somebody.

1 Cor. 10:12 Therefore let him who thinks he stands

take heed lest he fall.

The sin of pride is the greatest affront to our God, it

was the very sin that Satan fell from heaven

committing, and it is the sin he tempts all our hearts

with now…

Let’s start chapter 21 now… Look at the first 2 verses…

The Census of Israel and Judah (2 Sam 24)

21:1 Now Satan stood up against Israel, and moved

David to number Israel. 2 So David said to Joab and to

the leaders of the people, "Go, number Israel from

Beersheba to Dan, and bring the number of them to

me that I may know it."

We see the true culprit here is Satan, the enemy of our

God and of our souls.

He plays on the pride of King David.

We have to be continuously on guard against the wiles

of the Devil, he is relentless.

We not only have to stand firm against the culture, but

also against the Devil.

If we stand on God’s Word, we are comforted by the

fact Isa 54:17 No weapon formed against you shall

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prosper, And every tongue which rises against you in

judgment You shall condemn.

This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord,

And their righteousness is from Me,"

Says the Lord.

We are also told in James 4:7 Therefore submit to God.

Resist the devil and he will flee from you.

David fell into the trap here.

Maybe you are wondering why it is a sin for David to

take a Census here, why is numbering the people such

a big deal, Moses did it twice and it was fine.

Well, the difference here, was the purpose behind it,

firstly God did not order it, and David was only doing it

to see how many warriors he had amassed to see how

strong he has become, since the days of hiding in a

cave from Saul.

We understand that this is pride, because of Joab’s

response next…

3 And Joab answered, "May the Lord make His people

a hundred times more than they are. But, my lord the

king, are they not all my lord's servants? Why then

does my lord require this thing? Why should he be a

cause of guilt in Israel?"

4 Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab.

Therefore Joab departed and went throughout all

Israel and came to Jerusalem.

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This is one of the rare times we see Joab in a good

light, as he tries to persuade David that this is not a

good idea.

But in the end he is submissive to the King’s command.

David was not delighting in the Lord, but in the Might

of his army.

His pride has now brought him to the sin of unbelief,

David was trusting in numbers instead of Trusting God.

Verse 5 now…

5 Then Joab gave the sum of the number of the people

to David. All Israel had one million one hundred

thousand men who drew the sword, and Judah had

four hundred and seventy thousand men who drew

the sword. 6 But he did not count Levi and Benjamin

among them, for the king's word was abominable to

Joab.

7 And God was displeased with this thing; therefore He

struck Israel. 8 So David said to God, "I have sinned

greatly, because I have done this thing; but now, I pray,

take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have done

very foolishly."

In 2 Samuel 24 it says it took 10 months to complete

the Census, David had a lot of time to reconsider and

repent.

Once completed Joab delivered the numbers to David,

minus the tribe of Levi and Benjamin.

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God shows his displeasure in all of this, and David

realizes the mistake he has made.

And although he repents, there will still be very severe

consequences for the King.

9 Then the Lord spoke to Gad, David's seer, saying, 10

"Go and tell David, saying, 'Thus says the Lord: "I offer

you three things; choose one of them for yourself, that

I may do it to you."'"

11 So Gad came to David and said to him, "Thus says

the Lord: 'Choose for yourself, 12 either three years of

famine, or three months to be defeated by your foes

with the sword of your enemies overtaking you, or else

for three days the sword of the Lord — the plague in

the land, with the angel of the Lord destroying

throughout all the territory of Israel.' Now consider

what answer I should take back to Him who sent me."

And incredibly enough, David gets to choose his

consequence.

And although we do not get to choose our

consequences today, like David consequences are

inevitable when we sin.

The only hope we have as we dredge through the

consequences of our own choices is to focus on Jesus,

and price He paid eternally for our sins.

David must choose here between Famine and running

from his enemies for three months, both of which

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would have weakened Israel and caused them to be

subject to other nations.

Or thirdly, to fall under the hand of God, and have a

plague sweep through the land.

13 And David said to Gad, "I am in great distress.

Please let me fall into the hand of the Lord, for His

mercies are very great; but do not let me fall into the

hand of man."

David concludes that if he is going to suffer

consequences from his sin, he would rather do it at the

mercy of God rather than men.

God has an incredible reputation of being merciful and

gracious, man has a terrible reputation of being

merciless and wicked.

David accepts his discipline at the hand of God.

14 So the Lord sent a plague upon Israel, and seventy

thousand men of Israel fell. 15 And God sent an angel

to Jerusalem to destroy it. As he was destroying, the

Lord looked and relented of the disaster, and said to

the angel who was destroying, "It is enough; now

restrain your hand." And the angel of the Lord stood by

the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

Although 70,000 died at the hands of this powerful

angel, the Lord is the One who looked and relented,

showing mercy.

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God is a merciful God, we all deserve the full wrath of

our sins, yet in Jesus we find mercy and Grace.

I imagine many of us in this room worship Him daily for

the terrible wrath He saved us from, we are so grateful

that He did not wipe us out completely for our sin and

rebellion against Him.

David counted on God being more merciful than man,

and he was correct in his assessment, God halts the full

penalty due to David.

16 Then David lifted his eyes and saw the angel of the

Lord standing between earth and heaven, having in his

hand a drawn sword stretched out over Jerusalem. So

David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their

faces. 17 And David said to God, "Was it not I who

commanded the people to be numbered? I am the one

who has sinned and done evil indeed; but these sheep,

what have they done? Let Your hand, I pray, O Lord my

God, be against me and my father's house, but not

against Your people that they should be plagued."

This here is true repentance and true leadership, he

understood now the full weight of sin, that it impacts

those we care about the most, and here his kingdom is

affected by his mistake.

I wonder sometimes if parents, it seems they live so

selfishly that they seem to care less for their children’s

well-being or future.

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Mom and dad fighting relentlessly in front of their

children, living out their addictions without any

afterthought of those little eyes watching everything

they are doing.

Talking with the greatest of filth disregarding those

little ears that hear them.

They live as though they are on an Island and their

actions have no recourse or impact on those around

them.

So many kids today don’t even have a chance because

of their twisted and wicked parent’s selfishness.

Your sins have an impact on others.

You see the Grace of God covers our sins, and some

people even look at that selfishly, they sin knowing

God will forgive them, but they rarely consider the fact

that consequences of those sins will still be played out.

David’s repentance here comes from the reality that

his choices are destroying the innocents around him.

Verse 18 now…

18 Therefore, the angel of the Lord commanded Gad

to say to David that David should go and erect an altar

to the Lord on the threshing floor of Ornan the

Jebusite. 19 So David went up at the word of Gad,

which he had spoken in the name of the Lord.

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This is where David met the angel of the Lord and

where God relented from the plague before it reached

the capital city of Jerusalem.

Now, it is interesting here, that God wanted David to

meet Him here in worship.

This place of worship will have historic implications, it

is the very place Solomon will build the Temple.

2 Chron. 3:1 Now Solomon began to build the house of

the Lord at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the

Lord had appeared to his father David, at the place

that David had prepared on the threshing floor of

Ornan the Jebusite.

Understand too this is the same place that Abraham

offered his son Isaac up, and on this continuous ridge

line you would also have Calvary, the place Jesus died

upon the cross.

This Threshing Floor of Ornan is rich with History past,

present and future from the time David is called to

make a sacrifice upon it.

20 Now Ornan turned and saw the angel; and his four

sons who were with him hid themselves, but Ornan

continued threshing wheat. 21 So David came to

Ornan, and Ornan looked and saw David. And he went

out from the threshing floor, and bowed before David

with his face to the ground. 22 Then David said to

Ornan, "Grant me the place of this threshing floor, that

I may build an altar on it to the Lord. You shall grant it

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to me at the full price, that the plague may be

withdrawn from the people."

23 But Ornan said to David, "Take it to yourself, and let

my lord the king do what is good in his eyes. Look, I

also give you the oxen for burnt offerings, the

threshing implements for wood, and the wheat for the

grain offering; I give it all."

24 Then King David said to Ornan, "No, but I will surely

buy it for the full price, for I will not take what is yours

for the Lord, nor offer burnt offerings with that which

costs me nothing." 25 So David gave Ornan six hundred

shekels of gold by weight for the place.

David realized that this place for the altar of God will

not be something that comes without personal

sacrifice.

He is not looking for a cheap place to worship God, he

does not want to worship God cheaply.

And the Christian life is one of sacrifice as well, and

even sacrificial giving.

It is not the amount we give to God, it is the sacrifice

behind the giving.

Remember how Jesus illustrated this in the New

Testament as He was watching the worshippers put in

their gifts at the Temple.

Luke 21:1-4 And He looked up and saw the rich putting

their gifts into the treasury, 2 and He saw also a certain

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poor widow putting in two mites. 3 So He said, "Truly I

say to you that this poor widow has put in more than

all; 4 for all these out of their abundance have put in

offerings for God, but she out of her poverty put in all

the livelihood that she had."

Jesus still notices those sacrificial gifts…

Look now starting in verse 26…

26 And David built there an altar to the Lord, and

offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called

on the Lord; and He answered him from heaven by fire

on the altar of burnt offering.

27 So the Lord commanded the angel, and he returned

his sword to its sheath.

28 At that time, when David saw that the Lord had

answered him on the threshing floor of Ornan the

Jebusite, he sacrificed there. 29 For the tabernacle of

the Lord and the altar of the burnt offering, which

Moses had made in the wilderness, were at that time

at the high place in Gibeon. 30 But David could not go

before it to inquire of God, for he was afraid of the

sword of the angel of the Lord.

We see the offerings were still being made at Gibeon

in the Tabernacle, but we also see a shift, as God chose

this location here at Moriah, David honored God there.

Let’s look now at verse 1 of chapter 22.

David Prepares to Build the Temple

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22:1 Then David said, "This is the house of the Lord

God, and this is the altar of burnt offering for Israel."

David understood that this place was appointed by

God and this is where God wanted the offerings made.

Moses prophesied of this in Deut. 12:11 then there will

be the place where the Lord your God chooses to make

His name abide. There you shall bring all that I

command you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices,

your tithes, the heave offerings of your hand, and all

your choice offerings which you vow to the Lord.

This was the place God chose…

Let’s read now starting in verse 2…

2 So David commanded to gather the aliens who were

in the land of Israel; and he appointed masons to cut

hewn stones to build the house of God. 3 And David

prepared iron in abundance for the nails of the doors

of the gates and for the joints, and bronze in

abundance beyond measure, 4 and cedar trees in

abundance; for the Sidonians and those from Tyre

brought much cedar wood to David.

King David was not permitted to build the Lord a

Temple because he was a man of war, but there was

nothing keeping him from preparing for the building of

the Temple.

He puts in place the labor force and the finest

materials in abundance.

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Then we read in verse 5…

5 Now David said, "Solomon my son is young and

inexperienced, and the house to be built for the Lord

must be exceedingly magnificent, famous and glorious

throughout all countries. I will now make preparation

for it." So David made abundant preparations before

his death.

Solomon was young and inexperienced and David did

not know that the Lord was going to give Solomon

incredible wisdom.

David was passionate about the Temple being

magnificent and he desired Solomon to share in that

passion.

And when we see Solomon’s commitment to the

Temple, we can understand that David was faithful to

breathe this vision into his son.

It is so important to breathe God’s vision into our

children’s life.

So many get lost in pressing the success of this world

into their children’s hearts and minds, the things of

God often times become an afterthought.

As long as youth group does not interfere with school

or practice, then you can go, it is a second thing for

most families.

Moms kill themselves driving to practices, recitals, and

school events, and the children are brought up that

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church, and spiritual things fit in where they may, but

they cannot interfere with “real life.”

Whatever your passion is in life, will be the passion you

pass on to your kids.

Solomon will catch David’s passion for the building of

the Temple.

Look now starting in verse 6…

6 Then he called for his son Solomon, and charged him

to build a house for the Lord God of Israel. 7 And David

said to Solomon: "My son, as for me, it was in my mind

to build a house to the name of the Lord my God; 8 but

the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 'You have

shed much blood and have made great wars; you shall

not build a house for My name, because you have shed

much blood on the earth in My sight. 9 Behold, a son

shall be born to you, who shall be a man of rest; and I

will give him rest from all his enemies all around. His

name shall be Solomon, for I will give peace and

quietness to Israel in his days. 10 He shall build a house

for My name, and he shall be My son, and I will be his

Father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom

over Israel forever.'

Here is the first time the reason is given for David not

being allowed to build the Temple.

We were not given the reason in 2 Samuel.

God wanted a man of peace and rest to build His house

for Him.

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Perhaps setting forth the picture of David’s ultimate

son, the Prince of Peace, Jesus.

11 Now, my son, may the Lord be with you; and may

you prosper, and build the house of the Lord your God,

as He has said to you. 12 Only may the Lord give you

wisdom and understanding, and give you charge

concerning Israel, that you may keep the law of the

Lord your God. 13 Then you will prosper, if you take

care to fulfill the statutes and judgments with which

the Lord charged Moses concerning Israel. Be strong

and of good courage; do not fear nor be dismayed.

You see David knew this incredible task that was

before his son could not be accomplished if his heart

did not stay true to the Lord.

David knew firsthand the cost of compromise and

following the fleshly dictates of his heart.

David is hoping his son can learn from his mistakes.

You know, it is so important that we let our children

know about our mistakes.

So many kids are disillusioned by their parents never

being real with them.

It is important that they know your failures, or you will

teach them to pretend religion just as you did in front

of them.

Be real with them, and let them learn from your

mistakes.

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So let’s finish out this chapter, starting in verse 14

now…

14 Indeed I have taken much trouble to prepare for the

house of the Lord one hundred thousand talents of

gold and one million talents of silver, and bronze and

iron beyond measure, for it is so abundant. I have

prepared timber and stone also, and you may add to

them. 15 Moreover there are workmen with you in

abundance: woodsmen and stonecutters, and all types

of skillful men for every kind of work. 16 Of gold and

silver and bronze and iron there is no limit. Arise and

begin working, and the Lord be with you."

17 David also commanded all the leaders of Israel to

help Solomon his son, saying, 18 "Is not the Lord your

God with you? And has He not given you rest on every

side? For He has given the inhabitants of the land into

my hand, and the land is subdued before the Lord and

before His people. 19 Now set your heart and your soul

to seek the Lord your God. Therefore arise and build

the sanctuary of the Lord God, to bring the ark of the

covenant of the Lord and the holy articles of God into

the house that is to be built for the name of the Lord."

So David leaves an incredible amount of Gold, Silver,

and Bronze and even Iron beyond measure for

Solomon’s endeavors.

This was going to be the greatest Temple in all the

world.

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David not only charged Solomon with seeking the Lord

with all of his heart, but also the leaders here.

They were going to have a season of rest from their

enemies, but that did not mean that they could take it

easy.

They had work to do…

And church in the good seasons, and in the mountain

tops, the work of the Lord does not cease.

When the enemy is defeated for a while, we need to

build up, and prepare.

Church, may we never rest or take it easy, but always

be seeking to know God and to serve His purposes.

We were not supposed to live for ourselves, to chase

comfort and ease, we are supposed to stay busy, with

all that we have, serving God with everything in us.

When we do it keeps us on the right path, we don’t get

caught in the snares of the Devil as easily.

I will end with this verse, the Words of Jesus…

Matt 6:33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His

righteousness, and all these things shall be added to

you.

Too many today are seeking first their own wellbeing,

and that is backwards thinking.

Seek first His Kingdom and His Righteousness, Serve

God’s Will and His Purposes, and you will be right

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where you are supposed to be, that is the path of

contentment verses the path of compromise.

Let’s pray…