- Chapters: - [[2 Samuel 22]] : 1-3, 20-30, 47-51 - [[2 Samuel 23]]:1-7 # Everlasting People - Behind these chapters is as if there is a job advert for a real living man applying for a significant role in your life: [[Jesus]] - We will fill in this job description as well as the life of the real candidate - These 4 chapters are the epilogue - [[2 Samuel 22]] === [[Psalm 18]] when he was around 30 - [[2 Samuel 23]] is the last song of [[David]], when he was around 70 ## Why did things go well for you, [[David]] - First Psalm: "[[God]] delighted in me"; reward for how good - Second Psalm: "if my house was not right in [[God]], surely ... no everlasting convenant" - Yet end of [[Samuel 23]] -- [[David]]'s failures cannot be whitewashed and are not forgot - Recall the sins/soldiers/song structure from [[2025-04-27 All Souls 1130am -- House of Blood]] - 70 year old [[David]] disagrees with 30 year old [[David]] ## [[God]] the rock who saves his humble king - [[2 Samuel 22]] is about how the Lord rescues [[David]] again and again - Human beings in general call out for a purpose -- really calling out for [[God]] - Chapter points out ahead the job advert for [[Jesus]] - Like when we invite someone to go up and tell their testimony at church - But not the whole truth and end of [[David]]'s life - If he had stayed humble, how good it could have been! - To be humble is to think that [[God]] will do it all > Where will we find a humble king? ## [[God]] the rock who wants a righteous king - [[2 Samuel 23]] is about how things should have been - "gardening" -- think how good all the institutions in our life would be if the "thorns" of evil were removed - Chapter does not want us to think that [[David]] "passed the test" - Verse 39 tells us that there should be 37 good names. But the list only has 36 - the person missing is [[Joab]], the great general - because he is an evil man, some body [[David]] should have really dealt with - see [[1 Kings 2]]:5-6 - verse 5 -- does [[David]] really think his house is right with [[God]]? - translation here is particularly difficult - see notes (PhD thesis) by [[Ben Thompson]] from [[Singapore]] - see also Young's literal translation - It's likely that [[David]] is actually puzzled about why [[God]] is sticking with him even though he sins - final question: where will we find a righteous king? What will we do with sin? - [[David]] was a good man but sin ruined him - find out next time on [[2 Samuel 24]] - building an altar and making a sacrifice to deal with sin