Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Good to see every one of you here today. And I got my new bell for Wednesday night suppers. I need to bring it in here for church as well, but glad everyone's here today. And go ahead. We have Taos Tabernacle Trio this morning. Go ahead and come join. I'll have two ladies come and join us. Our Taos tabernacle choir is dwindling. Not only are they going back to their winter homes, those fair weather friends, but then Brenda's out today. But we have Linda and we have Madison. So the Taos Tabernacle Trio. You all join us together. And we have a choir stand together. We're going to sing name songs today. It's all about the name. Hymn number 310. Blessed be the name, blessed be the name blessed be the name of the Lord. Blessed be the name blessed be the name blessed be the name of the Lord Jesus. Let it be the name of the Lord. Let it be the name let me let it be the name of the Lord. I'm the last, I never shall let it be the name of the Lord. When Jesus was like let it be the name of the Lord. Bless. And let's have a word of prayer. Heavenly Father, we are grateful for the name of the Lord. The name upon which we can call, the name which is above all other names. The name at which every knee will bow and every tongue confess Jesus as Lord. We come today to celebrate the name of Jesus Christ in our lives. In the words of our mouth and the meditations of our hearts, we pray that the name is lifted up and honored. And that name, sweetest name of all names, name above all names. We rejoice in Jesus name. Amen. You may be seated. Thank each one of you for being here today and those online joining us from all around the world. We're glad you are here today to America's greatest tiny church. It's a joy to have you. And you got a bulletin there. Hey, would you like to know something unique about the bulletin? This is a first, ladies and gentlemen. You'll either like it or you won't. Well, it is a full page spread, but we have had those before. But it does look nice as a full page spread, doesn't it? Suitable for framing. What's unique about this one is that it was created by artificial intelligence. I said I needed a picture of David the shepherd boy and it just drew it right out there and I said, I'm going for it. There you go. For good or for bad. Well, on the back of your AI bulletin is the announcements for this week. We had steak last week, so we decided you all needed to lay a little low. Or fiesta salad this week. That's fiesta salad. It's Mexican salad, it's whatever you want to call it. Salad. It's salad with a little beef in it and some fritos or Doritos. Depends on who makes it. Frijolis? Got some Frijoles in it? Yes. And it'll be good. That's Wednesday night. So that's kind of a one meal thing. But if you want to bring something, we always need dessert or something like that. But anything you'd like. That's 05:00 in the back at the fellowship hall. And then the Book of Mark. We picked that up again. Looking forward to that men's breakfast, the kids activities this week, fairly normal week. And we look forward to all of that and the good times. A good time will be had by all right. And appreciate all of that. And we are always glad to have guests worshiping with us today. And let's see, eddie, what did I give you last week? Was it a well, you need something different this week. Then Eddie's back, but that's okay because how about a book that I've written by grace alone? Do you have that one, Eddie? I didn't think you did because it's not yet available online. So, Eddie, if you'll reintroduce yourself again, you get a book by grace Alone rethinking Eternal Rewards in Christian Theology. Stand and introduce yourself. Hi, everyone. I'm Eddie. I'm from Los Angeles, and we spent the week in Dallas. So we were here last weekend on the way to Dallas, and now we're here. And what a blessing to get you. The children are sick, and they're at breakfast. Okay. We missed the beautiful children that you've got there. Four kids, right? Five kids. Five kids. And what impressive kids they were last week. Thank you, Eddie, and for coming through on your way home. And let's see, we've got a new couple right here, Michael from Taos. Sort of stand and introduce your wife and your daughter. My name is Michael. This is Sophie, our daughter and my wife. We work from Little Rock, Arkansas. I'm a traveling PC here until the summer. Amen. Good to meet you all. Thank you. We are delighted that you're here in town. And we will be a church full of grandparents who will love and take care of Sophie. She's a beautiful girl. Thank you for being here. I tell you what, I'll give you a book and a coaster. It says, America's Greatest Tiny Church. Taos first Baptist Church Taos, New Mexico Remember your three months here in Taos as a traveling PT. And you can say, hey, I traveled in my job. I travel all over the country. But I was able to go to America's greatest tiny church for three months. We had a contest, and we won the contest for America's Greatest Tiny Church. I started the contest, I invited the participants, and I was the judge. And lo and behold, we won. How about that? Oh, I had a pastor friend send me the other day. Roger in California. You all know Roger. He sent something. What does he call his now? It's a house church. World's greatest, I think world's greatest tiny house church or something close to that. He's in competition, ladies and gentlemen. But we have coasters. There we go. Glad that each one of you are here as well. Why don't you stand and greet someone? We'll start back singing it here in just a moment. There you. SA Ram. SA Ram. Blessed be the name. Blessed be the name. Blessed be the name of the Lord. Blessed be the name. Blessed be the name. Blessed be the name. And now Jesus is the sweetest name I know it's him. Number 307. A beautiful little chorus. Let's sing it together. Jesus is the sweetest name I know and it's just the same as Jesus is why don't we do that one more time? Here we go. And how about that? We had a little intro there. Now let's do it. I know and it's just the same as it's lovely name and that's the reason I jesus is the sweetest name I know and back it up just a few pages. 313, take the name of Jesus with you. 313, take it where you praise the name of Jesus every day with temptation and breathe on the birth and joy of joyous. Name again. Precious name. Thank you. Pages number 320. Jesus name above all jesus, name of all things beautiful Savior, gracious Lord, us. Blessed redeemer living word jesus, name of all age, beautiful Savior, glorious Lord, Emmanuel god is with us blessed redeemer living words and you may be seated. Thank you, singers, as we celebrate the name of Jesus today, our Missionary of the Month this month, as you know, is Miguel Mercedes. Jose Miguel Mercedes, who is a pastor in the Dominican Republic and he follows us online and is part of the so called House Theological Seminary and learns from us and preaches in the Dominican Republic. And we rejoice in the work that he and his wife Naomi do and their family there. And so we lift them up before the Lord. And if we mark our gift missions this month, that's where it goes. If you leave it, of course, unmarked, it goes to the work of our church right here locally and around the world, through all the other projects that we do that reach such an audience. You know, it's kind of fun to be part of America's greatest tiny church in house, isn't it? And we forget sometimes, perhaps, or don't forget the joy of our broader audience. We have typically around 5000 different individuals who join us around the world during a given month's time anyway, and about always over 15,000 views of our services and Bible studies, whatnot that takes place all around the world. I had one the other day contact me from Russia, dmitri was his name, asking questions about theology. So your little reach here goes all around the world. And in that we rejoice. Let's have a word of prayer before our time of offering heavenly father. It is great to be able to gather here with fellowship and individuals right here on a beautiful fall morning. And we're thankful for this. We're grateful for the reach that technology allows us to have around the world as well, and the encouragement that that is. Whether they be in Russia or the Dominican Republic or wherever across the United States and around the world is. Bless them today and us today, as we gather here, and all of us, as we study the word together and rest in that beautiful name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, in whose name we pray and trust each and every day, we ask it in Jesus name. Amen. We'll take a little offering before we preach. There's an offering box back there you can either use now or at another time and be ready to go. I don't know what happened to David there. He turned into a mountain, didn't he? We'll get him back. Sam. Ram. Sam. Sam. Sarah. Sometimes our pianist gets carried away. Last week we began a series on the life and times of King David. If I go by what I have planned out, which doesn't always happen, but if I go by what I planned out, we've got about 35 sermons on the life of David, and we'll see here. But we're really not getting into the life of David yet. We're going to do last week was an introduction on the monarchy. Really, that becomes such a fundamental basis for the kingdom of God in the future coming kingdom of God. And today I want us to do a little bit more background on David himself, on the ancestry and the origins of David. You remember there is a fairly well known Bible verse, Luke, chapter two, verse 52, that describes Jesus's childhood and basically life from his birth. We have, of course, his birth and some details about his birth. And then we have the flight to Egypt, and then he returns from Egypt. And then basically we hear nothing other than one little vignette when he's twelve years old and we meet him again when he's about to be 30 and is about to be baptized. And so we miss for the most part the first 30 years of David's, of Jesus's life. And the Bible sums up that 30 years in the little verse Luke 252, and Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man. That's about all we know of his childhood. Well, here we're going to come to David, who I'll speak about at the end of the sermon, in so many ways parallels the life of Jesus. In fact, some have called David a type of Messiah. Now that doesn't mean a kind of Messiah, it means a foreshadowing of Messiah, an image of Messiah prior to the time. And it just so happens that with David we know very little of his earliest part of his life. And before we come to introduce David next week. Next week we'll come to the anointing of David as king. But do you know, the anointing of David as king is really the first introduction we have of David by name in his life, other than, as you'll see one little statement today, which is kind of David increased in wisdom and stature and favor with God and man. It's the equivalent of that the first time we meet him, the guy is being anointed king by Samuel. Who is this god? Who is this man, this king? What is happening with this man and this king? But I want us to go back and try to set the stage a little bit for David's ancestry and origins in Bethlehem and say that in a sense, he comes out of nowhere. And in another sense, if we were writing the story and all we had was the tail end of the Book of Ruth, which is where you can go now, ruth, chapter four. And we'll begin in, I don't know, probably about verse 14, and we will see that if we were to pick up the story at the Book of Ruth, which probably lies somewhere in the first half of the period of the judges, that's a long period of time of several hundred, let's just say, of hundreds of years. But if we were to put it in there somewhere around the first half of that, and we are given a word by the writer who's writing long after that, hey, here's David's origins back here. Just so you know, it bing. There it goes back there. And that's what we're going to look at today and see if we can come to know this fellow David just a little bit. And he was a man that had both an impressive ancestry and he had very humble beginnings, not really one that we're expecting to be king. And when he becomes king, we're amazed that a man from these humble beginnings can come to be king. And then yet we look back and say, oh, I should have seen it all along. How's that for chasing your tail? We should have expected it. We didn't expect it. How could we expect it? Oh, yeah, how could it not be? There's the story of David's life, and we're going to try to put some of that together, as I think the early days of David's life definitely had an impact on who he became as king and that we would not really fully understand who he know. I think when you I read and like to read a lot of biography and autobiography and and there's a pattern in biography. They start out on the deathbed. That's the prologue. And he breathed his last. And then you open up into chapter one. It was a cold day in December 1872 when great grandpa and they worked their way then forward. This is that cold day that we're going to back back several generations ago. We're going to pick up on David's lineage as given in the scripture. Here is a picture gleanings by Arthur Hughes. Arthur Hughes is the audience. The audience, the artist. I'll get that, right? Arthur Hughes, the artist. I didn't have an exact date on this. It's actually not a picture of Ruth. It's a picture of Gleaning. But it looked like Ruth Gleaning to me. And that's what we wanted to talk about. So there's your art backdrop for this segment of the sermon. How's that? Now, I want us to come to the Book of Ruth. Of course, you remember the story of Ruth. It is a story that we've spent time in the past studying. It is a story I called it More Than Meets the Eye. It's one of these stories that you read and you say, oh, I think there's more to this. And indeed, there is a lot of typology in the Book of Ruth as well, but certainly a sweet and wonderful and encouraging kind of story that is given the story of Ruth and, of course, Boaz. And you know what kind of man Boaz was before he met Ruth, right? I just figured somebody would put this together. He was ruthless. Well, he was okay. So this wonderful story of Boaz comes together, and you remember how there was Naomi, who is Ruth's mother in law, naomi and her husband Elimelech. Elimelech is kind of interesting because it's two words, or maybe you could say three words, I guess, in Hebrew put together El, the Hebrew word El. You may know that one is let me give you a hint. The word Elohim comes from it, and it means the same thing. God. That's right. El is God. And then it has the letter I on it for Hebrew. When you end a word with the letter I, it's always the possessive, my so le, my God. And then the word melek is the word for king. My God is king. Naomi and Elimelech. But there was a famine in their hometown of Bethlehem. They moved to Moab in order to survive the famine. They were out there about ten years. While they were out there, their two sons, Malon and Killion, both got married to Ruth and Orpa. You got it. To Ruth and Orpa and then Elimelek dies in Moab, and Malon dies in Moab, and Killion dies in Moab. And it is Ruth excuse me. It is Naomi and her two daughters in law, Ruth and Orpah. Naomi says, I hear things are better. I'm going to go back home. You girls stay here. You're Moabites, you got your people here, you got your family here. You stay here. But you remember the story of Ruth, of course. She says, no, I'm going back. And she makes this great commitment that has been heard and echoed around the world. Your people will be my people. Your god will be my God. And she makes this commitment not only to the people of Naomi and that would be, of course, the Jewish people, but to the God of the Jews. The Jewish people, I think. Rightly? So consider this to be her conversion to Judaism. Your god will be my God. And so she becomes no longer a Moabitess in religion anyway. But now she is a Jewish a young Jewish convert and recognized as and so Ruth comes back, but Ruth has no husband and she is the widowed wife of Naomi's son. She is now in the customs of Judaism. One of the customs, in fact, I would even say the laws of Judaism was there is a Kinsman redeemer. That is, someone from the family will carry on the name of the deceased, will take that widow as your wife and will go on, well, Naomi knows about this. Naomi's working the cultural scene in order to bring this about. And through all of it, you know, what happens eventually is that she goes gleaning in Boaz's field. Boaz takes an eye towards her. Boaz is helpful for her, provides for her, goes beyond, in fact, even tells his servants he seems to be a man of some means. Tells his servants, why don't you not only let her glean from the corners of the field but leave some sheaves over there? I mean, just make this easy for her. And then at the end of the day, he basically loads her down and says, There you go. And Naomi knows what this you know, she's a wise, mature woman. She says he's in love. That's what this means. He's in love. And here's what you are supposed to do. And she tells the cultural stories and significance which are a little bit of a mystery to us all these years later. But it ends up first comes love, then comes marriage, then comes Ruth with a baby carriage. Okay, that's the end of the story there, right? And that's where we pick up in Ruth, chapter four. That was a long introduction there for that. But ruth, chapter four. In fact, let's go with chapter four, beginning in verse 13, where it says so Boaz took Ruth and she was his wife. And when he went into her, the Lord gave her conception and she bear a son. And the woman said unto Naomi, blessed be the Lord which hath not left thee this day without a kinsman that his name may be famous in Israel. Okay? That's the lady's prayer for Grandma here is that his name would be famous in Israel, verse 15 and he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life and a nourisher of thine old age for thy daughter in law which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons hath born him. And Naomi took the child and laid it in her bosom and became the nurse unto it. In verse 17, the women, her neighbors gave it a name, saying there is a son born to Naomi, and they called his name Obed, and he is the father of Jesse, the father of David. Therein in our life and times of David is the first mention in scripture of David. If you had never, ever read the Bible before and you were reading it from COVID to cover, you would come to this point and you would say, ah, we've been introduced to a guy named David. I have no idea who he is, but he must be somebody. And you would have it right, he is somebody. David mentioned these three generations prior to him being anybody. This point at which we don't know if David's going to be a good guy, a bad guy, he's going to be notorious in some way. He's introduced or foreshadowed here in all of this and given a story and some insight that's given. So there he is. There's the genealogy, if you will. You have Ruth and Boaz followed by their son Obed, followed by their son Jesse, who is the father then of, I think it's nine boys altogether, if memory serves me correctly. And the youngest of those boys is a guy named David, and that's the guy who is going to become the king of Israel. Now, with that, that's a little bit of history even right there, you say, well, that's a pretty distinguished history. You know, sometimes when we work on our genealogies, you like to work on genealogy every now and then. I mean, everybody does it like the day after Thanksgiving. Let's work on genealogy. I don't know what else I'm going to do. So you do a little of that and you find out things that are interesting about your life. Grandma's second uncle had a crazy cousin who was a horse thief. All these stories that are there, and every now and then you run across someone who I'm a descendant of George Washington or whatever it is, and that's a little bit of point of pride. I've heard John tell two or three times that his grandpa met Billy the Kid after Billy the Kid was dead. Did I get that story right? Yes. Okay, so was he really dead? This is what we want to know, Bill, stay tuned. But anyway, you get these stories in your genealogy. Well, David had a pretty good story. I mean, it would be a pretty good story, just even if you're not king, even if you're just a shepherd boy to say what was it? Let me get this right here, verse 17. We got dad, grandpa, great grandpa, great great grandpa. My great great grandpa was Boaz and his wife Ruth. You remember them, don't you? Oh, yeah. Everybody knows Boaz and Ruth. I would get a pen or know fourth generation Ruthite. So this is a big deal for David, but even if it was, that because really, at this point, even studying the book of Ruth, we don't know much more. Obviously, you and I, we're in the advanced class at the Taos Theological Seminary. We know more. We know that Ruth comes into the lineage of the Messiah. We know that it goes back to Abraham, all that. But all the way through the book of Ruth, all we know is there's this guy Elimelech and his wife Naomi, and they go off and death and destruction, and they come back and it's a sweet story, and it's quoted at weddings. That's what we know. So we've got something so much more here. So we see our man David. His picture is no longer there. Our man David is, first of all, from at least a very famous family. Now, several generations later, when you get to Jesse and his children, they're shepherds. There's nothing spectacular about what they have done. Even if Boaz, as I mentioned earlier, was a man of means, jesse might have been as well, but it's not pointed out. And what they do in their family is to tend sheep. Now then, let's go on and look. Beginning in verses 18 through 18 through the end of the chapter there, there is a picture from artist, french artist Mark Chagal. He's a modern artist. That was 1960. And that is a picture of Tamar, beautiful daughter of Judah. I'm just telling you that's what he tells us it is. It's Tamar, beautiful daughter of Judah. So Mark Chagal is a Jewish painter, and he does lots of biblical Jewish kind of paintings. By the way, if you ever find a Mark Chagal painting for sale in a garage sale for $5, buy it. Don't tell anybody till later, okay? Anyway, what does Tamar have to do with this story? Let's pick up Ruth. Chapter four. So in the end of verse 17, we've got this obed, he's the father of Jesse, the father of David. Then there's I don't know, can we call it a postscript? In verses 18 through 22, it says, now these are the generations of Pharaoh. Pharaoh? You remember Pharaoh, don't you? That is kind of out of the blue. Where did that come from in the story of Ruth? Well, it assumes that it assumes that the reader has some access to scripture and could go back and reference it and see what it is. King James here is spelled Ferrez. Other places you might see it spelled Perez. P-E-R-E-Z. It's just an issue of how you get it from Hebrew into English. It's the same guy. So it says, these are the generations of Pharez. Pharez. It says begat Hezron, hezron begat Ram, ram begat Amenadab, amenadab begat Nashon, nashon begat Salman, salman begat Boaz, boaz begat Obed, obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David. Basically, verses 18 through 21 are tying things back to say, hey, just in case you forgot or didn't know, boaz is a descendant of Phares, who is, everybody knows, a descendant of Judah. But how did Judah come along. Well, we know Judah is the son of this is where we get into the basic class. Judah is the son of Jacob, Jacob and Esau. That one judah, yes. Judah is the son of Jacob. Jacob is the son of Isaac. Isaac is the son of Abraham. So Boaz is in the line of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. This covenanted line, the line through which the genealogy through which by the time you get to Ruth, again, if you've never read the Bible and you're just reading it cover to cover, by the time you get to Ruth, you will have figured out genealogy seemed to play an important role here. And the specific genealogy of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, then Judah. By the time you get to Ruth, chapter four, you know that Judah is the line to watch. By the time you get to Ruth, chapter four, you probably will have figured out we're looking for the promise, the fulfillment of the promise of Genesis 315, which says, if I can paraphrase it a little bit, god says to Eve, I will send through the seed of a woman the child of a woman, someone to crush the serpent on the head. We're looking for the serpent crusher. That's the plot of the Old Testament. Who's going to crush the serpent from the beginning of the story? And we begin to follow through the genealogies and weed out that which is not the families, which are not going to bring it out pretty quickly. We see it's not Cain's family. We don't need to follow that genealogy much. It can't be abel's family. He's dead. Let's follow Seth's family. And again, it just keeps getting narrowed down. Well, by the time you get to Ruth, chapter four, it is narrowed down to the line of Judah. And so the line of Judah is important. So here is a guy in the line of Judah. There's going to be a lion of Judah as well. That's the one who's going to crush the serpent on the head. And he comes through. Now, there's also something interesting here, a couple of things interesting. One is that there is a story about Pharaoh's mother. Her name is Tamar. Tamar was Judah's daughter in law whose husband died, and there was not a kinsman redeemer. And so this sort of plays back here to the kinsman redeemer of Boaz. Boaz comes through and says, I am going to be the kinsman redeemer. Let's get this done legally and let's get this done right. Earlier in the family line, Judah had said, too bad, so sad. And Tamar, it's one of these interesting stories in the Bible, but Tamar is the one who dresses up as a woman of the red letter district, and she ends up with her father in law, and she ends up bearing a child whose name is Phares. So here you got, shall we say we've got some dysfunction in the family. It appears that you've got. This illicit thing going on back there and yet God uses that. You've got this thing with Ruth the Moabitess, and yet God uses that. There's a lot of the flow of God's hand going in this river here towards David. We see something is cooking for generation after generation. It is coming about. And so you bring this out. By the way, if you go from Abraham to David, you have 14 generations. 14 generations. You may know if you read the Book of Matthew, the genealogy in the Book of Matthew, there are 14 generations from Adam to Abraham, another 14 generations from Abraham to David, and another 14 generations from David to Jesus. The Messiah. Good guess. Who else would it be? Right? It's got to be Jesus this time. And you're exactly right. So there's this triple play of 14 going on. I don't want to get into too much Twilight Zone here, but I might also mention 14 is a significant redemptive number in the Scripture. And here you got 14, 1414. Typically when something is tripled, that just intensifies. It like six, six, six later on in the Scripture. And what you've got in David's name, even some people run with this and go the wrong way, I'll just tell you up front. But there is some significance to it that Hebrew letters have a numerical value. And if you take the three letters of the name David, the Hebrew name David, in Hebrew, there really are no vowels, they're only consonants. Just imagine that. And so you substitute your own consonants in between the vowels to make a word, and therefore three consonants. And I don't know what percentage, but a huge percentage of Hebrew words are three letters. And then you can put a different vowel sound in between and you get a completely different word often. So it is if I can put this into the English alphabet, it's the three letters DVD, and we get, of course, David from that, or David by the time you get here to where we are in the English language, we call him David. By the way, he's prominent, I mentioned this last week, he's prominent in the Quran also, where they call him dawood dawood. Well, that's because that V's and W's down through history. And in the Hebrew language there's only one. So which one you want to use and what vowels do you want to use? It's all the same guy. But before I get away those three letters, would anyone like to guess what they add up to? Good guess, mary? 14. Exactly. You are on a roll here. So they add up to 14. So if I wanted to go 40 or 50 sermons on David instead of 35 or 40, I would stop more and talk about the significance of the number 14 in David's life. But that will be extra credit for you someday. You can check it out. So now we understand that this guy David who we've not even met yet. This guy David is in the line of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Judah. The line that matters in the Bible. That is to say, even if we don't know the guy, we should keep an eye on him. Even if he pops up and is just a shepherd boy, we ought to say, yeah, but he ain't just a shepherd boy. He's number 14. This is 14 generations. This is all these things ought to come to play, to where if we were well trained linguistically and well trained in Hebrew history, I think we would come and say, something's going to happen to that boy. Not just, I have a feeling or he was born under an eclipse or something like that. That was kind of cool yesterday, wasn't it? Or whatever. But this all lines up to, we've got somebody here, and indeed we have that express foreshadowing that's given at the end of the Book of Ruth. Now let's go from there, away from Tamar. And here we have the shepherd David by Elizabeth Gardner in 1895. He's got his knee down on the lion and rescuing the lamb, and there he is as a young boy shepherd and at least Elizabeth Gardner's view of him. Let's continue. David. David's. Father. We're going to meet next week officially when we come to the coronation. Excuse me, the anointing of David, but his father already mentioned is Jesse. His father is Jesse. How many of you think this will be a harder one? Mary, how many of you think that David had a mother which himself? Okay, we're going to go. Yes, David had a mother, but the Bible doesn't mention David's mother. We never have anything other than David is the son of Jesse. Everybody knows that. But Jesse had to have a wife or a liaison or something and to bring about David. So who is this? Now, there is a tradition I only want to go to tradition. This is not into scripture at all. We might die and go to heaven someday and ask David, hey, David, who is your mother? And he might say, well, there was a dumb tradition about my mother, but that's not my mother. So this could be completely wrong. But let me say, sometimes I think speculating a little bit of curiosity going down through a little tradition, oral tradition that is handed down from one generation to the next. There's some value to that because we know we had a mother. My feeling is, I look across this room, I say, we've all got a long time to live. So we just as well speculate a little bit during that time, right? Who was David's mother? Well, it's obvious that her name was Nitzevet. Do you know, if we went across the street to the Chabad Jewish house there and said, Rabbi, who was David's mother? He would that quick say, Nitzevet, jesse and Nitzavet. Everybody knows this because the Jewish people do know this, but it is Jewish oral tradition. Now, I know we kind of want to dismiss Jewish oral tradition, but we have nothing to replace it with. And we know we had a mother, and so it's kind of interesting to say, okay, Rabbi, well, who is Nitzevet then? And to hear more of the story, and I won't give you much of the story here, and there's a couple of different versions of, you know, one version of it goes that Jesse began to be a little concerned on whether or not his line and his children were actually in the line of Judah. This is an important line to be in. Were they really in the line of Judah? Not only because of the Tamar thing that we saw, but some questions about know, coming from outside. So is there a modern version of moripovich? Is that just a thing of the 80s? Okay, you guys can Google it. There's a little Moripovich going on in this family line, wouldn't you say? And then you got Ruth, the Moabitess. So Jesse's saying, are my children really all that special? I mean, here we are, just poor shepherds taking care of sheep. That's all we do. And that maybe even Nitzhavet came from outside. And the story goes that Jesse has older children. We know he has older children. We'll find that out next week. He has older children of a different wife. David is born of Mitsavet, and he's pretty convinced David is not of the line. And maybe that's why when Samuel shows up, they don't even call David in. But afterwards, when Samuel says, David is our guy, the Jewish oral tradition anyway, is that it's not those other children of Jesse and his other wife, it's the child of Nitzvet that is of the line that comes in and is chosen. Again, that's oral tradition. But you can take all that in family lore as we study the life of David and come to see him. But he lived as a shepherd. We know, of course, and I would suppose as a shepherd. In fact, we know this because of some of the psalms that David has written, which we'll study in a week's future. But we know that his life as a shepherd had an indelible imprint upon him in his leadership and how he looked at the world and how he looked at people and how he looked at evil and protection and all these kind of things, even as you would see here. We know one of his very first testimonies we'll see when we get there is given to King Saul. He says, hey, I was out as a shepherd. I fought lions and bears. I took care of that all by myself. And that was part of who he was. And so I think that it would be very hard, if not impossible, to understand David without understanding him as a shepherd. This was very much his life he was born a shepherd. His early days were as a shepherd. I suspect if you catch David in the I don't know, let's make it up a little bit. If you catch David in the 7th grade and say, david, what are you going to be when you grow up? He says, I'm going to be a know, my grandpa was a shepherd, my great grandpa was a shepherd. I'm a shepherd. The shepherding is what we do. I'm going to be a shepherd. And he is even called, of course, the Shepherd King and had so much influence in his life that was all involved in it, and yet it is shepherd. The youngest boy, the one not even called to it, that gets called to be later the Shepherd King and is anointed as we will see next week. Now let's talk a little bit about there's Caravaggio's painting of David and Goliath, 1599. I don't know if Caravaggio didn't like his first painting. This is his first one. He painted like five of them and they were all different. I think he was like, I can't quite get this David and Goliath thing. And so he kept working on it. But there's the first of his let's talk a little bit now that we know, okay, this guy David has some undercurrent in Numerology that points to him. He has some genealogy that points to him as something specific. He has some foreshadowing in the Book of Ruth that points to him as something specific. He's a guy that we ought to look at. Now could we go further and say not only can we look ahead and see David and almost predict David, but from David's life, could we even look forward and see the ultimate King, the ultimate messiah, the ultimate prince of peace? I think we can. And there is again, a lot of typology. Every now and then we talk about typology not all that often, but as you see the type on the page there, you know that the letter C on the page is just an imprint of the real C. If you had a typewriter, it would be the imprint of the actual sea. So David is the imprint. He is the shadow, he is the mark of that which is ultimate. The type, the ultimate thing, by the way, in theology is called the Antitype. That's the real thing. Could it be that David is the type of Jesus the Christ, Jesus the King, he's a foreshadowing that goes there. There is a lot to go for it. As a matter of fact, we're not going to go to the passages, but we could look at a number of passages in the Book of Ezekiel and we would find that many times Ezekiel refers to the coming Messiah under the name of well, you should not necessarily admit that, Mary. But that reminds me, rich and Jody from West Virginia, he was a police officer. You've sidetracked me here for just a moment. You all stay tuned. He was telling me, as a police officer for many years, he said, I stopped a lot of people over the years. And he says, I didn't really have any equipment. This was West Virginia. I just could tell they're going so too fast. And so I would go up and I would say, ma'am, do you know how fast you were driving? She would say, 68. Says yes, exactly 68. He says, A lot of people talk themselves into a ticket. So, Mary, you do not have to tell everybody you are not paying attention. You just keep that to yourself, okay? Now back to the sermon. You're going to be sorry you came back today, aren't you? Yeah, she cleaned the kitchen the other day. Y'all are going to go back to it and look at the clean kitchen that way. There were things in those cabinets I didn't even know we owned. If anybody needs a hot dog, warmer. Anyway, back to it. Where was I? Now, david foreshadowing the Messiah. Oh, yeah. Ezekiel actually calls the messiah David david the prince. And clearly he's not talking about David the King. He's talking about David the Messiah. When Ezekiel talks. Now, Ezekiel at this point, of course, does not know that his name is going to be Jesus. And so he substitutes, if you will, the name David, which tells us, by the time of Ezekiel, people understood, jewish people understood, our God is going to send a Messiah, and he is going to be in like manner of David. David is a type or a mirror of the Messiah in many ways. Now, as you consider that, there's a couple of interesting things. Of course, we know that Jesus was born in Bethlehem. We know that Bethlehem, by the New Testament, was called the city of David, because David, of course, was born in Bethlehem. We know that David was a shepherd. We know that Jesus introduces himself as the good shepherd. He never was an actual shepherd in terms of career. He came from a carpentry background, but he often referenced himself as the shepherd that is given there. We also know that Jesus was rejected by his brothers, and David was rejected by his brothers. Now, we see in the first instance that David is not even called. But later, when it comes to David and Goliath, you may remember that his brothers said, when he comes and he's like, who is this uncircumcised philistine taunting the armies of the living God? They said to him, who are you and who's taking care of the sheep? Get back where you belong. You're not a warrior. You don't belong here. And so they rejected him as having anything to offer to the situation. Now, just because I've given you some weird stuff today, if you'd like to add one more weird thing to it. Do you know that there is a Christian tradition anyway, and I think it has more substance than we normally give to. It a Christian tradition that Jesus'brothers, like Jude and James remember them Jesus'brothers are actually older than him and that they were children of a different wife from Joseph. And that Joseph had been married, his wife had deceased. He had had these brothers and then he married Mary and that they had Jesus. That Jesus was the youngest of the brothers then. Now, I won't go into the merits of the case there. I'm just telling you that there is a scenario even in which you've got the same sort of child of the second wife, youngest, rejected by his brothers kind of scene that is possible to carry on, and yet then David, even at one time David is rejected by his kingdom. They turn on him in the time of absalom, who comes as the can I say, anti David, as in terms of the antichrist. And we'll see this again as we go along and put David's life together. There's a lot of parallelism. I suspect, as we carry out the life and times of David, that we're going to see more and more, that if you look closely, you can find these. Now, here's what you ought to look for typology. One thing you can know about typology is every single part has to go together. For example, the type of the letter O is different than the type of the letter Q, right? What if you get a letter O that isn't exactly perfect in type and has a little slash through the bottom corner? Whoops. So typology every point has to carry across. So we'll test that as we go along and see about all of that. But David emerges again to be the ultimate shepherd king, defending his people, providing a time of peace and prosperity, as ultimately the Messiah is going to come to do. And so we will have a little enjoyment then as we continue to study the life and times of David, the one who is from Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Judah, Pharaez on down through Boaz, Obed, Jesse, David. And then 14 generations, we would come again to the Messiah, the one who comes from these very, I would say humble beginnings as a shepherd. Remember that Jesus also has a kind of important genealogy, doesn't he? That has to do with 14 also. But Jesus, who is the rightful heir to the throne, is working in a carpenter shop in Nazareth. He comes out of these humble beginnings and is rejected by those around him and others, just as David did. And I think that we begin to see, as we see not only here, but so many places down through the Scripture, that what you see now might not be the rest of the story. And yet what you see now is a very important part to the rest of the story. I wonder, as a pastor, I'm not one that feels like I have to make an application to every little point to your life, your big boys and girls, you can apply that as you need. And I want you to go away with knowledge, biblical knowledge. But I wonder if that theme that we seem to see through scripture is not just a theme that we have in our lives and other lives as well. That sometimes the things of God are most unexpected and subtle and hidden within little things. And you just simply don't expect that that little nobody is going to have any impact or that little event is going to be a turning point. And the ability to look at, I don't know, even a young shepherd boy, I don't know, when I look at that picture, I realize that he's just killed a lion, but he looks like kind of a wimp to me. And yet to say that's the guy who foreshadows, the one who ultimately is going to crush all enemies and to reign over the nations of the earth in the coming kingdom, I think that many times it's not exactly as we expected. And I think we're going to find lots of twists and turns in the life of David and find some encouragement even in the foreshadowing of the Messiah that is to come. You know, David is not our Savior, is he? I have been to the tomb of David, so called Tomb of David, been there many times in Jerusalem. I would have to say it's a let down. You kind of think, we're in Jerusalem, we're going to go to the tomb of David. This is going to be fabulous. Our humble little church building is nicer looking than the room in which the Tomb of David, it's just underwhelming. But I kind of wonder, should it maybe it should be that way, that David's not a savior. He's a good king. There's many great things about him. But after all, it's 3000 years ago. Yeah, that's right, 3000 years ago. But what I can see of the Savior in David's life, that's worth remembering, that's worth looking at. A Savior who indeed became the Lamb of God, who took away the sins of the world. And as the Lamb became the shepherd. Let's have a word of prayer. Heavenly Father, as we venture into life of King David over these next few months, we pray that it indeed would point us to the Savior Jesus Christ. The one who ultimately is going to be the King of kings and the Lord of Lords who will crush every enemy. The one who will bring about the day in which lions and wolves and lambs and children all play together and there is peace on earth. The government will rest upon his shoulders. He will be wonderful counselor everlasting Father, mighty God, so much more than David ever could be for us. We focus our attention to Him as we see this type today and pray that through the journey we would be accurate in coming to depict David and getting to know him and understand who he is as such a pivotal figure in the history of Israel and in our theological understanding of Scripture as well. We pray this in Jesus name. Amen. Well, before we go today, we have let's see if I can get there. There we go. Sylvia Wagner I introduced last week, but I didn't have the picture. Sylvia Wagner is from hang on. I have to look at it to pronounce it right. Mishawak, I think it is. I'm going to mishawaka. Mishawaka. I said to Sylvia, how do you spell that? She said mishawaka. Just like it sounds. Mishawaka. There you go. Now you know how to spell it. You know where Sylvia's from? South Bend. It's in the South Bend. She's with us here today. And isn't that a lovely looking lady there? Sylvia, I wish you could come to Wednesday night supper. We're having fiesta salad. We would love to have you. And then there is Jeff and Allison Williams. They live in Eagle, Idaho. They are also with us every single Sunday and Wednesday and all the other times. And they have been here with us a number of times in house, but normally are up there. So our three new members from afar, the Williams and Sylvia Wagner, we are delighted to have them. And you say amen, right? I thought so. God bless you. Thanks for being here tonight. Again. We will have some fiesta salad Wednesday. We'd love to have you. And why don't we just go from here off the hike to you at the back door? God bless you. Mar umbrella. But that's different. Yes, Captain teacher. Yeah, I know. Now, all of our well, I know, David, you went over to Texas.