Honor the Lord’s Anointed

Hey, hey, hey. Good morning, good morning. Welcome to Coffee and Devotions. This morning, we're going to be at 2 Samuel. 2 Samuel.

We're going to look at the first chapter, the first 16 verses, and find out how does David respond to this outlaw, anointed king, not yet king, not crowned type guy.

How does he respond to the king's death? Let's have some coffee, we'll pray, and we'll get into God's Word.

Let's pray. Father, we thank you so much for this day.

You are such a wonderful God.

We pray that you would please help us to read your Word and understand it.

We pray that it would have instruction for our lives, and that we would leave with something to help us.

Help us to remember the great love you have shown us.

We pray this in Jesus' name. Amen.

Here we go. 1 Samuel, sorry, no, no, wrong. 2 Samuel, chapter 1, the first 16 verses.

Now, it came to pass, after the death of Saul, when David had returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites,

and David had stayed two days in Ziklag, on the third day, behold, it happened that a man came from Saul's camp with his clothes torn and dust on his head.

So, it was when he came to David that he fell to the ground and prostrated himself.

And David said to him,

Where have you come from?

He said to him,

I have escaped from the camp of Israel.

Then David said to him,

How did the matter go?

Please tell me.

And he answered,

The people have fled from the battle.

Many of the people are fallen and dead.

And Saul and Jonathan, his sons, are dead also.

So, David said to the young man who told him,

How do you know that Saul and Jonathan, his son, are dead?

Then the young man who told him said,

As I happened by chance to be on Mount Gilboa,

there was Saul,

leaning on his spear.

And indeed, the chariots and the horsemen followed hard after him.

Now, when he had looked behind him, he saw me,

and he called to me,

and I answered,

Here I am.

And he said to me,

Who are you?

So I answered him,

I am an Amalekite.

He said to me again,

Please stand over me and kill me,

for anguish has come upon me,

but my life still remains in me.

So I stood over him,

and I killed him,

because I was sure that he could not live after he had fallen.

And I took the crown that was on his head,

and the bracelet that was on his arm,

and have brought them here to my Lord.

Therefore David took hold of his own clothes,

and he tore them,

and so did all the men who were with him.

And they mourned and wept and fasted

until evening for Saul and Jonathan, his son,

for the people of Jehovah,

and for the house of Israel.

Because they had fallen by the sword.

Then David said to the young man who told him,

Where are you from?

And he answered,

I am the son of an alien and Amalekite.

So David said to him,

How was it you were not afraid to put forth your hand

to destroy Jehovah's anointed?

Then David called one son of the young men

and said,

Go near and execute him.

And he struck him,

so they died.

So David said to him,

Your blood is on your own head,

for your own mouth has testified against you,

saying,

I have killed Jehovah's anointed.

But we need to ask ourselves three questions.

A,

what is this about?

B,

what's the best for us to summarize this?

And C,

what are we called to do

in response to these words?

So what is this about?

Well,

here we find

an Amalekite,

an alien,

who seems to be fighting with Israel.

And he sees Saul die.

And it seems like he really is at the battle

because he brings his crown

and he brings his bracelet,

right?

These are signia.

These are tokens.

He really is the king

and he really saw Saul die.

And David is distressed, right?

I mean,

we've seen twice in 1 Samuel

where David had the opportunity

to kill King Saul

and he didn't.

Right?

The time where they were in the cave

and his men were trying to

encourage him

because Saul was going to the bathroom

and David cut off the corner of his robe

or the time where Saul

and his men are sleeping

and David takes a spear

and it's right by his head.

Takes the water jug

that is the king's, right?

He had opportunities multiple times,

but he said

that he would not lift up his hand

against the Lord's anointed.

Here this Amalekite comes

and he comes with a story.

Now,

this story is different

than what we found

in 1 Chronicles

and in 1 Samuel.

Now,

I remember I asked my pastor

when I was a new Christian.

I said,

so how do we know

who's telling the truth, right?

What actually happened here?

And he said,

well,

this is one of these hard things,

but we have the Spirit of God

telling us

in 1 Chronicles

and in 1 Samuel

what actually happened.

And then you have this guy

who thinks

he's going to get favor

with David.

He thinks

he may actually be grieving, right?

But why does he run

straight to David?

Why doesn't he go

to the generals

who are still

with Benjamin?

Why does he go

straight to David, right?

He's trying to

buy favor with David.

He thinks he's going

to get a good hearing.

And he talks about

how he was mortally wounded

and so he knew

he wasn't going to die

and so he went ahead

and killed him,

put him out of his misery.

So after David

and his men,

they weep

and they fast

and this is horrible.

We can't believe

this happened, right?

The king of Jehovah's people

and Israel,

there's so many people

who have died

and they're lamenting.

David said,

why were you not afraid

of killing

the Lord's anointed?

Right?

Mercy, suicide

is still murder.

You still took

the life of the king.

It's not right.

To kill the king,

the Lord's anointed

is a big deal

and why weren't you afraid?

So David sees this

as treachery,

treasonous.

If this is how

he's going to treat

the Lord's anointed,

how would he treat

David himself?

See, David, I think,

is walking with wisdom here

knowing that

this is how it happens

if somebody's

willing to kill a king.

It's only a matter of time

until they might even

turn against him.

The new

anointed king.

So David has him

executed

by his own mouth.

Now that brings up

questions of perjury

and false witness

against yourself

and things like that.

David has no other

witnesses here.

Everybody else

is dead in the battle.

for all he knows

is that this guy

is telling the truth.

If we didn't have

the inspiration

of the Holy Spirit

to tell us

what actually happened,

we might want

to believe this guy.

So for all the evidence

that David has

at hand

with this guy's mouth,

he has him put to death

for justice

for high treason.

So what's this about?

This is about David's reaction

to King Saul dying

and him putting to death

the Amalekite.

What's the best verse

to summarize this?

Well, in my Bible,

I would underline

verses 1 and 2.

So this is

the man coming

into David's camp

and telling him

about Saul's death.

So that's

what I would underline

in my Bible.

But maybe you might

underline

verses 14 and 15 instead

or maybe even 16.

Maybe you would underline

where he actually talks

about how Saul

asked him to kill him

and things like that.

I don't know.

You tell me down

in the comments

what would you underline.

Last seek calling.

What are we called to do?

Well, one is

Romans chapter 13.

We should honor the king

as a part of,

I believe,

the fifth commandment.

Honoring those

who are our superiors.

Praying for them

and doing good to them.

Obviously,

that has limits.

We're to obey God

rather than man

when God tells us,

but I'm not going down

the civil disobedience route here.

That's not where I'm going.

And I don't want to just

put this into moralism.

But I do want to show

the respect that

David has

for the Lord's anointed.

David himself

is the next

anointed one

anointed here

in Messiah.

Christos.

The one who's marked out

for that office

and as we read

in the book of Hebrews,

Jesus is our

king.

He's our anointed king

and as we read

in Revelations,

he is very much

the king in heaven.

And so,

we get to follow

after our king.

We get to know

that God

was orchestrating this.

Even this scenario here

to raise up

David as king

because David

was just a type

and a shadow

of a greater king

that would come.

The true Messiah,

Jesus himself,

our Joshua,

Yeshua,

the one

whom God would send

because God

saves his people.

Let's pray.

Father,

we thank you

for Jesus.

We thank you

for giving us

our great king

who has conquered

sin

and the spread

and reign

of death.

and Father,

we pray that we

would follow

after our king

Jesus.

Lord,

we pray that you

would please

give us

a healthy

reverence

for who you

are,

to walk

in your ways,

to follow you

with all of our

hearts,

for you are

wonderful,

a great God,

the orchestrator

of all history.

Lord,

we pray that you

would please

let us follow

walking in your

ways.

In Jesus'

name we pray.

Amen.

May God bless you.

May you walk

in the joy

of Jesus Christ,

your great

high king.

I'll see you

next time.

Bye.