WEBVTT - 1 Chronicles 17

0:00:02.720 --> 0:00:06.680
<v Speaker 1>Life Audio. For more resources to help you in your

0:00:06.760 --> 0:00:10.760
<v Speaker 1>walk with Christ, please visit us at Bible Study Headquarters

0:00:11.080 --> 0:00:15.320
<v Speaker 1>dot com. You're listening to the Chapter a Day Audio Bible.

0:00:15.960 --> 0:00:20.880
<v Speaker 1>I'm John Stangey, and today we're in First Chronicles, chapter seventeen,

0:00:21.760 --> 0:00:27.120
<v Speaker 1>and we'll be reading from the New English translation. When

0:00:27.200 --> 0:00:30.280
<v Speaker 1>David had settled into his palace, he said to Nathan

0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:33.640
<v Speaker 1>the Prophet, Look, I am living in a palace made

0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:36.800
<v Speaker 1>from cedar, while the ark of the Lord's covenant is

0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:41.080
<v Speaker 1>under a tent. Nathan said to David, you should do

0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:43.680
<v Speaker 1>whatever you have in mind, for God is with you.

0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:49.320
<v Speaker 1>That night, God told Nathan the Prophet, go tell my

0:00:49.520 --> 0:00:54.320
<v Speaker 1>servant David, this is what the Lord says. You must

0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:57.160
<v Speaker 1>not build me a house in which to live. For

0:00:57.280 --> 0:00:59.240
<v Speaker 1>I have not lived in a house from the time

0:00:59.280 --> 0:01:02.640
<v Speaker 1>I brought Israe up from Egypt to the present day.

0:01:03.400 --> 0:01:05.360
<v Speaker 1>I have lived in a tent that has been in

0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:10.080
<v Speaker 1>various places wherever I moved throughout Israel. I did not

0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:12.760
<v Speaker 1>say to any of the leaders whom I appointed to

0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:16.000
<v Speaker 1>care for my people Israel, why have you not built

0:01:16.000 --> 0:01:20.119
<v Speaker 1>me a house made from cedar. So now say this

0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:23.760
<v Speaker 1>to my servant, David, this is what the Lord who

0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:28.720
<v Speaker 1>commands armies says. I took you from the pasture and

0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:31.600
<v Speaker 1>from your work as a shepherd to make you a

0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:35.720
<v Speaker 1>leader of my people Israel. I was with you wherever

0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:38.960
<v Speaker 1>you went, and I defeated all your enemies before you.

0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:42.840
<v Speaker 1>Now I will make you as famous as the great

0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:46.080
<v Speaker 1>men of the earth. I will establish a place for

0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:49.440
<v Speaker 1>my people Israel and settle them there. They will live

0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:53.200
<v Speaker 1>there and not be disturbed anymore. Violent men will not

0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:56.080
<v Speaker 1>oppress them again, as they did in the beginning and

0:01:56.200 --> 0:01:59.040
<v Speaker 1>during the time when I appointed judges to lead my

0:01:59.120 --> 0:02:04.760
<v Speaker 1>people Israel. I will subdue all your enemies. I declare

0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:07.639
<v Speaker 1>to you that the Lord will build a dynastic house

0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:10.639
<v Speaker 1>for you. When the time comes for you to die,

0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:15.320
<v Speaker 1>I will raise up your descendant, one of your own sons,

0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:19.800
<v Speaker 1>to succeed you, and I will establish his kingdom. He

0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:22.000
<v Speaker 1>will build me a house, and I will make his

0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:26.400
<v Speaker 1>dynasty permanent. I will become his father, and he will

0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:30.440
<v Speaker 1>become my son. I will never withhold my loyal love

0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:33.080
<v Speaker 1>from him, as I withheld it from the one who

0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:36.880
<v Speaker 1>ruled before you. I will put him in permanent charge

0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:41.000
<v Speaker 1>of my house and my kingdom. His dynasty will be permanent.

0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:46.120
<v Speaker 1>Nathan told David all these words that were revealed to him.

0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:50.560
<v Speaker 1>David went in sat before the Lord and said, who

0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:54.240
<v Speaker 1>am i, O Lord God, and what is my family?

0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:58.440
<v Speaker 1>That you should have brought me to this point? And

0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:00.760
<v Speaker 1>you did not stop there? Oh God, God, you have

0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:04.440
<v Speaker 1>also spoken about the future of your servant's family. You

0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:07.600
<v Speaker 1>have revealed to me what men long to know, O

0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:11.760
<v Speaker 1>Lord God, What more can David say to you? You

0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:15.639
<v Speaker 1>have honored your servant. You have given your servant special recognition,

0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:19.760
<v Speaker 1>Oh Lord, for the sake of your servant, and according

0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:22.720
<v Speaker 1>to your will, you have done this great thing in

0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:27.040
<v Speaker 1>order to reveal your greatness. Oh Lord, there is none

0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:30.600
<v Speaker 1>like you. There is no god besides you. What we

0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:34.520
<v Speaker 1>heard is true, and who is like your people? Israel,

0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:38.960
<v Speaker 1>a unique nation in the earth. Their God went to

0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:42.040
<v Speaker 1>claim a nation for himself. You made a name for

0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:45.280
<v Speaker 1>yourself by doing great and awesome deeds. When you drove

0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:48.800
<v Speaker 1>out nations before your people, whom you had delivered from

0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:53.400
<v Speaker 1>the Egyptian Empire and its gods. You made Israel your

0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:58.360
<v Speaker 1>very own nation for all time. You, O Lord, became

0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:02.520
<v Speaker 1>their God. So now, O Lord, may the promise you

0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:07.080
<v Speaker 1>made about your servant and his family become a permanent reality.

0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:11.120
<v Speaker 1>Do as you promised, so it may become a reality,

0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:15.240
<v Speaker 1>and you may gain lasting fame. As people say, the

0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:19.600
<v Speaker 1>Lord who commands armies is the God of Israel. David's

0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:23.560
<v Speaker 1>dynasty will be established before you. For you, my God,

0:04:24.000 --> 0:04:27.279
<v Speaker 1>have revealed to your servant that you will build a

0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:31.240
<v Speaker 1>dynasty for him. That is why your servant has had

0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:35.160
<v Speaker 1>the courage to pray to you. Now, O Lord, you

0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:39.240
<v Speaker 1>are the true God. You have made this good promise

0:04:39.320 --> 0:04:42.839
<v Speaker 1>to your servant. Now you are willing to bless your

0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:47.159
<v Speaker 1>servant's dynasty so that it may stand permanently before you.

0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:51.240
<v Speaker 1>For you, O Lord, have blessed it, and it will

0:04:51.279 --> 0:05:00.599
<v Speaker 1>be blessed from now on into the future. Let's pray. Lord,

0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:02.400
<v Speaker 1>we thank you for your word, and we thank you

0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:05.159
<v Speaker 1>for allowing us to look at this portion of scripture today.

0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:08.640
<v Speaker 1>And Lord, we know that David was overjoyed as he

0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:12.120
<v Speaker 1>contemplated the many blessings that you had promised him, and

0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:13.960
<v Speaker 1>the fact that you had promised that one of his

0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:17.680
<v Speaker 1>own sons was going to rule and reign on his throne,

0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:20.600
<v Speaker 1>and that you would establish the kingdom of that son.

0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:25.520
<v Speaker 1>And Lord, we know from reading the totality of your word,

0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:29.800
<v Speaker 1>that these were references to your son Jesus Christ, who

0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:34.440
<v Speaker 1>physically speaking, was born through David's line when he took

0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:38.880
<v Speaker 1>on flesh, being one hundred percent God and then one

0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:42.600
<v Speaker 1>hundred percent man at the same time. And Lord, you

0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:46.599
<v Speaker 1>pledge that the kingdom of your son Jesus Christ will

0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:50.800
<v Speaker 1>be built and established forever. And we're so grateful that,

0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:53.000
<v Speaker 1>through faith in Christ, we have the privilege to be

0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:55.680
<v Speaker 1>part of that kingdom. Lord. We thank you for your

0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:58.560
<v Speaker 1>love for us. We thank you for your goodness toward us,

0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:01.320
<v Speaker 1>and we pray Lord that today and every day, that

0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:04.960
<v Speaker 1>our hearts would express the same kind of sincere praise

0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:08.320
<v Speaker 1>that David expressed in this passage. We're grateful for all

0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:10.279
<v Speaker 1>these things, Lord, and we thank you for your love

0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:13.039
<v Speaker 1>in Jesus' name. Amen.