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Speaker 1: I'm John Stangey, and today we're in First Chronicles, chapter seventeen,

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Speaker 1: and we'll be reading from the New English translation. When

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Speaker 1: David had settled into his palace, he said to Nathan

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Speaker 1: the Prophet, Look, I am living in a palace made

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Speaker 1: from cedar, while the ark of the Lord's covenant is

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Speaker 1: under a tent. Nathan said to David, you should do

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Speaker 1: whatever you have in mind, for God is with you.

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Speaker 1: That night, God told Nathan the Prophet, go tell my

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Speaker 1: servant David, this is what the Lord says. You must

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Speaker 1: not build me a house in which to live. For

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Speaker 1: I have not lived in a house from the time

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Speaker 1: I brought Israe up from Egypt to the present day.

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Speaker 1: I have lived in a tent that has been in

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Speaker 1: various places wherever I moved throughout Israel. I did not

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Speaker 1: say to any of the leaders whom I appointed to

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Speaker 1: care for my people Israel, why have you not built

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Speaker 1: me a house made from cedar. So now say this

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Speaker 1: to my servant, David, this is what the Lord who

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Speaker 1: commands armies says. I took you from the pasture and

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Speaker 1: from your work as a shepherd to make you a

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Speaker 1: leader of my people Israel. I was with you wherever

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Speaker 1: Now I will make you as famous as the great

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Speaker 1: men of the earth. I will establish a place for

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Speaker 1: my people Israel and settle them there. They will live

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Speaker 1: there and not be disturbed anymore. Violent men will not

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Speaker 1: oppress them again, as they did in the beginning and

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Speaker 1: during the time when I appointed judges to lead my

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Speaker 1: people Israel. I will subdue all your enemies. I declare

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Speaker 1: to you that the Lord will build a dynastic house

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Speaker 1: for you. When the time comes for you to die,

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Speaker 1: I will raise up your descendant, one of your own sons,

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Speaker 1: to succeed you, and I will establish his kingdom. He

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Speaker 1: will build me a house, and I will make his

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Speaker 1: dynasty permanent. I will become his father, and he will

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Speaker 1: become my son. I will never withhold my loyal love

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Speaker 1: from him, as I withheld it from the one who

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Speaker 1: ruled before you. I will put him in permanent charge

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Speaker 1: of my house and my kingdom. His dynasty will be permanent.

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Speaker 1: Nathan told David all these words that were revealed to him.

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Speaker 1: David went in sat before the Lord and said, who

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Speaker 1: am i, O Lord God, and what is my family?

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Speaker 1: That you should have brought me to this point? And

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Speaker 1: you did not stop there? Oh God, God, you have

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Speaker 1: also spoken about the future of your servant's family. You

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Speaker 1: have revealed to me what men long to know, O

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Speaker 1: Lord God, What more can David say to you? You

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Speaker 1: have honored your servant. You have given your servant special recognition,

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Speaker 1: Oh Lord, for the sake of your servant, and according

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Speaker 1: to your will, you have done this great thing in

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Speaker 1: order to reveal your greatness. Oh Lord, there is none

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Speaker 1: like you. There is no god besides you. What we

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Speaker 1: heard is true, and who is like your people? Israel,

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Speaker 1: a unique nation in the earth. Their God went to

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Speaker 1: claim a nation for himself. You made a name for

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Speaker 1: yourself by doing great and awesome deeds. When you drove

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Speaker 1: out nations before your people, whom you had delivered from

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Speaker 1: the Egyptian Empire and its gods. You made Israel your

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Speaker 1: very own nation for all time. You, O Lord, became

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Speaker 1: their God. So now, O Lord, may the promise you

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Speaker 1: made about your servant and his family become a permanent reality.

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Speaker 1: Do as you promised, so it may become a reality,

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Speaker 1: and you may gain lasting fame. As people say, the

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Speaker 1: Lord who commands armies is the God of Israel. David's

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Speaker 1: dynasty will be established before you. For you, my God,

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Speaker 1: have revealed to your servant that you will build a

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Speaker 1: dynasty for him. That is why your servant has had

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Speaker 1: the courage to pray to you. Now, O Lord, you

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Speaker 1: are the true God. You have made this good promise

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Speaker 1: to your servant. Now you are willing to bless your

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Speaker 1: servant's dynasty so that it may stand permanently before you.

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Speaker 1: For you, O Lord, have blessed it, and it will

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Speaker 1: be blessed from now on into the future. Let's pray. Lord,

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Speaker 1: we thank you for your word, and we thank you

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Speaker 1: for allowing us to look at this portion of scripture today.

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Speaker 1: And Lord, we know that David was overjoyed as he

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Speaker 1: contemplated the many blessings that you had promised him, and

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Speaker 1: the fact that you had promised that one of his

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Speaker 1: own sons was going to rule and reign on his throne,

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Speaker 1: and that you would establish the kingdom of that son.

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Speaker 1: And Lord, we know from reading the totality of your word,

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Speaker 1: that these were references to your son Jesus Christ, who

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Speaker 1: physically speaking, was born through David's line when he took

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Speaker 1: on flesh, being one hundred percent God and then one

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Speaker 1: hundred percent man at the same time. And Lord, you

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Speaker 1: pledge that the kingdom of your son Jesus Christ will

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Speaker 1: be built and established forever. And we're so grateful that,

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Speaker 1: through faith in Christ, we have the privilege to be

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Speaker 1: part of that kingdom. Lord. We thank you for your

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Speaker 1: love for us. We thank you for your goodness toward us,

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Speaker 1: and we pray Lord that today and every day, that

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Speaker 1: our hearts would express the same kind of sincere praise

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Speaker 1: that David expressed in this passage. We're grateful for all

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Speaker 1: these things, Lord, and we thank you for your love

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Speaker 1: in Jesus' name. Amen.