40 Minutes In The Old Testament - 1 Samuel 15:30-16:13 (Episode 240)

Episode Date: November 11, 2020

Samuel and Saul separate after King Agag meets a violent end. God tells Samuel he has a new king for him to anoint. Samuel is worried about Saul, so God gives him a strange way to remove suspicion. And we finally meet David. Chad and Daniel discuss all of this. Have a listen! 1517 Podcast Network HWSS Conferences 1517 YouTube Donate

Welcome to another episode of 40 Minutes in the Old Testament. 40 Minutes in the Old Testament is a 1517 Podcast Network podcast. You can go to 1517.org slash podcast and check out all the other podcasts that are living over there. while you're over there go to the events page because on the events page you will see the two upcoming events the here we still stand 2021 conference which is taking place in october out in san diego and the here we still stand regional conference which is going to be in bentonville arkansas in april now you want to come to these both i mean i know you haven't been able to do much of anything uh over the last year why not come out to beautiful northwest

arkansas in april spring in the ozarks you can do it uh it's a great it's a great place to be in the spring. All the details are there. It's going to be a good time. Chad's going to be there. I'm going to be there. Loso, Jared C. Wilson, Scott Keith, Andy Gullahorn's going to be there performing an entirely live concert. Gretchen Ronovic, Eric Sorensen. It's going to be a good time. Two-day event out in Bentonville. Come and hang out. Yes, we have an airport here. It's actually 15 minutes from the venue, so you can fly right in. It's going to be great. Chad, we left Saul in an interesting spot last time. We just sort of ran out of time. We weren't really planning on leaving him there. It's not like us to leave someone just straight up in their sin, but this is what we did

with Saul. Saul has confessed that he is a sinner. Samuel, presenting himself as not the greatest of pastors in this moment, refuses to absolve him, and that's where he left him, just unabsolved and desperate, which of course is not what we mean to do. It's not a good place to be. No, just left you guys all hanging there. So we find ourselves in that situation, and we have to pick it up from there. Yeah, imagine going to your pastor and confessing, and then he doesn't give the absolution. Then you've got to go back, and you've got to confess again.

Well, that's what Saul is going to do here. So we're picking up with verse 30 of 1 Samuel 15. So this is the second confession. Then he said, that is, then Saul said, I have sinned, but please honor me before the elders of my people and before Israel and go back with me that I may worship the Lord your God. Now this time, Samuel does. He didn't tell him he was forgiven, but he at least went back with Saul

and Saul worshiped before the Lord. And now, oh my goodness, prepare yourself for what's about to happen next because things are going to get kind of violent with our friend Samuel. So Samuel, at this point, says, bring me Agag, the king of the Amalekites. So if you remember from the previous episode, what precipitated this whole series of events was that God, through Samuel, told Saul to go and wipe out the Amalekites. But Saul and the people and his soldiers, they spared some of the best of the animals for sacrifice. And they also spared Agag, king of the Amalekites.

And that's what led to this whole back and forth between Samuel and Saul and the promise that God is going to tear away the kingdom from Saul and give it to someone else. So here we have King Agag, who probably at this point thinks that he can finally kind of breathe a sigh of relief. You know, everything's going to be okay. It's a little bit uncertain because I'll read you the next verse, the next part of the verse and explain. So most translations have something like this. And Agog came to him cheerfully. And Agog said, that is said to himself, surely the bitterness of death is past. The problem here is we don't know for sure how to translate the end of how Agog came to him.

So did he come to him cheerfully or did he come to him in bonds? Because actually it could be translated both, both ways. And as you can imagine, those are very different. And does he come to him like with handcuffs on, or does he come to him with a smile on his face? But it does seem based upon what he says to himself, that the bitterness of death has passed, that he's in a pretty good mood, you know?

So maybe he does walk up, you know, with a little kind of a light step because he thinks that he is actually going to survive this whole ordeal well he's wrong samuel as soon as the king gets there samuel says as your sword has made women childless so shall your mother be childless among women and samuel hewed hacked agog to pieces before the lord at gilgal yeah this makes you think that that he is probably bound Samuel's like an old guy right yeah

yeah he's not like some 25 year old warrior he's an old prophet it also I think it also kind of speaks to the whole mood probably too weak of a word but the state that Samuel is in he is not

a happy man he's unhappy with God we talked about that last episode he's clearly unhappy with Saul he's unhappy with the whole situation, it does seem as if he has been unhappy for quite a while. Ever since the people rejected him and his sons and instead wanted a king instead, Samuel does not seem to be in the best of moods. And it's almost as if this particular breaking point was when it kind of all came out and the object of his fury ended up being the Amalekite king, Agag, whom he hacked to

pieces before the Lord. The only thing we have from God in this story is that God tells Samuel that he's rejected Saul as king. Samuel is not happy. We know that he's angry. We argued that he's angry in general and also kind of angry with God as well. But you see this frustration play out in the way that he engaged with Saul. And now he just sort of is like, I'm not here to forgive anybody give me that sword i'm gonna hack this guy to pieces like this is a this is a dude that is upset yeah yeah uh like like i say it does seem as if everything everything that was still pent up is finally released in this in this moment and even in the manner of death i mean this is not if you know from the rest of the the you know the rest of the stories about the death

penalty this is not the typical way that people are put to death now maybe in battle yeah i mean If you're engaged in battle and you have a sword and the other guy has a sword or spear and you end up killing him with a sword, sure. But this is not the typical way that captives are put to death. So even the violent and gruesome way in which this execution is carried out tells us a little bit about the state of Samuel's mind. Yeah, it seems that he does not realize that Samuel is a very ticked off dude and comes up with the exact wrong

disposition. So he kind of strolls up like a little cocky, a little happy, and this is the exact wrong attitude to take with this particular angry prophet. Yeah, that was probably not a worse

way to approach Samuel at this particular point than with an air as if he had everything made and was going to actually get off the hook for this. Yeah. So anyway, there's two more verses in this chapter, but to be honest, this is really where the chapter ends as far as this particular account. Verses 34 and 35 really belong to chapter 16 because

that is going to shift the story to a different focus. And as we will soon see, this is really where, in some ways, the book truly begins in the sense that this is when the story of David begins. I've mentioned more than once that 1 and 2 Samuel really could have been called 1 and second David. Because ultimately these books are not about Samuel. They're all leading up to and then documenting the life of David, not of Samuel and not of Saul. So Samuel is there to prepare the way for David and Saul is in many ways there to prepare the way for David. But the books are really all about the preparation, kind of laying the groundwork for his emergence, and then telling the story of his gradual ascendancy to the throne of Israel, and then what happens when he

becomes king. So we're going to meet the man of the hour in these verses that are coming up here. He's been hinted at a couple times. Saul has been told that God is going to look elsewhere. He's going to look for another man. So we've had David hinted about more than once, but we have not yet been introduced to him. Well, the moment has arrived. So let me finish off 34 and 35 and then we will launch into the introduction to David. So after Samuel kills the king of the Amalekites, Samuel went to Ramah, which was his hometown, and Saul went up to his house at Gibeah of Saul. So they both part ways and they both go to their hometowns. And then we have this verse, which is looking forward to what is to come.

Samuel, it says, did not see Saul again until the day of his death. Samuel grieved over Saul and the Lord regretted that he had made Saul king over Israel. That verse in itself tells us that something big is coming up if the prophet never sees him to the day of his death. Yeah, and I think this is the sort of verse that really lets you know when Samuel is angry and crying out with God and, you know, that he is upset and not angry at Saul in a way that he hates Saul or something like this.

I mean, we see that Samuel never wanted Saul to be king. Obviously, he didn't want anyone to be king. But it does seem that Samuel, in some ways, loves Saul and feels badly for him. And we see this play out as he, like, grieves over Saul. And then we have this thing, you know, as Samuel says, hey, you know, God's not a God that has regrets. And we end this chapter with this statement again, even though we are told he is not like us, that he would have regrets. yet uh here he says the lord regretted that he had made saul king over israel and i think that even that is i don't read any anger into that either i think i think that that is also that

god is saddened by the the entire thing i mean he's saddened that in the rejection of him and then demanding the king in the first place and then saul is ill-suited to be king and this hasn't worked out well for a saul hasn't worked out well for the people of israel hasn't god doesn't like it's easy to sort of read the story, especially as Saul begins to lose it more and more, and think that God really doesn't like Saul very much. And I would say that this is not true. I would think that God loves Saul, and that at the end of the day, you see that men, no matter who they are, this will include David, they're all imperfect, and they're all ill-suited to reign over the children of God. Yeah, that's a great point to make. When you think about the pressures that

are placed on Saul, you think about the pressures that are placed on David, you think about the responsibilities that a person in that particular vocation have, no one is ready for it. I mean, we still have that, of course, in the church today, as well as in our nation. I mean, anyone who is under the kind of responsibility and stress that a leader with these kinds of responsibilities has. Well, humanity is sinful humanity, weak humanity, flawed humanity. You're just not able to bear up under that. You can almost be certain that there's going to be some breakage in that person. And that's going to be exemplified in a variety of ways, sometimes in major, sometimes in minor ways. But humanity is not made to bear up under that kind of burden.

So what should surprise us? What should surprise us are those rare occasions when something catastrophic does not occur to a leader. And what should not surprise us is when something catastrophic does occur to our leaders. When you think about the kind of weight that is placed upon their shoulders. So my heart goes out in many ways to Saul. Yes, he made his mistakes. He never wanted this job. He wasn't really equipped for this job. God didn't want the job to be held by any human being to begin with. So he was almost set up to fail from the beginning. I mean, this doesn't excuse his mistakes.

It's no excuse for his sins, of course. But the situation that he was thrown into was one in which it was just about impossible for him to, to succeed anyway. And as we'll see in the life of David, I mean, it wasn't much different with him either, because even though he was a better person in many ways, a better leader in many ways than, than Saul was, it all got to him too. And I'm not talking about just the whole deal with Uriah and Bathsheba, but, but other things as well. We'll see his, we'll see his weaknesses exemplified in, in some other ways. So. Yeah. I think it's just too easy to, to read a line like god regretted making saul king and say oh he regrets it because saul sucks

um i think what i think it's deeper than that i think it's i regret putting this person in this position yeah well the whole situation you know they they it was never good they wanted a king was wasn't good that he was in that situation just uh yeah the whole the whole uh debacle was regrettable yeah okay so really continuing the story but beginning chapter 16 here uh here's what we have in this first verse now the lord said to samuel so samuel's back home god's speaking to him now in a different situation how long this is telling isn't it how long will you grieve over saul so we don't know how much time has gone on uh but samuel's back home in ramah he's he's been And just, I guess, grieving this whole time.

He's in a state of mourning because of this situation. So God says, how long will you grieve over Saul? Since I have rejected him from being king over Israel. Fill your horn with oil and go. I will send you to Jesse, the Bethlehemite. For I have selected a king for myself among his sons. There's a couple of parallel statements we have to kind of bear in mind when we read this opening verse. Notice God says, I have rejected him for being king over Israel.

The parallel to that is way back here in chapter 8, where the Lord says to Samuel, listen to the voice of the people in regard to all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me. so the way this whole kingship thing got started was by the people rejecting god as their king and now god turns around and says i have rejected saul for being king over israel so the rejection is working first worked from the human to the divine now it's working from the divine down toward toward the human and then secondly he says fill your horn with oil and go i will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite.

Now, my translation, and I think the ESV as well. Okay, the ESV has, I have provided for myself a king from among his sons. Mine has, the New American Standard has, for I have selected a king for myself among his sons. In the Hebrew, it has, for I have seen to it, or for I have seen for myself a king who will reign over the Israelites, or a king for myself among his sons. So this introduces this idea of seeing that we're going to see throughout the 16th chapter where God doesn't look at the outward appearance.

He sees the heart. And we have Samuel seeing the sons, looking for the one that he thinks God has chosen, but God is not seeing as man sees. So the introduction of vision and the difference between what people see and what God sees is going to become a theme that's developed throughout this chapter.

So God will see to it that he gets a king for himself among his sons. So he's got a mission. He takes his horn of oil and he goes down toward Bethlehem. But he's worried. Samuel says, how can I go? When Saul hears of it, he will kill me. And the Lord said, take a heifer with you and say, I have come to sacrifice to the Lord.

Just pause and think about that for a minute. God is engaged in a, this is a, this is an act of divine deception, right? Yeah. Yeah. There's no other really way to, uh, to get around this. God, God says to, to Samuel, well, just lie more or less. Maybe it's a half truth, half lie, but still, you know, you're going to have to, you're going to have to cover this up. Evidently. Now, whether it's, whether it's perceived or whether it's real,

Samuel truly is worried that if Saul finds out that he's going to, he's going to kill him, you know? So I don't know. I mean, is it true that Saul is already kind of this murderous and afraid he's going to lose his throne? Or is this Samuel just kind of being overly concerned and unrealistically worried about what might happen? I really don't know. I mean, there's nothing so far that I remember in Saul's character, which would indicate that he is just like has spies out watching Samuel and he's going to take him down. He's going to take him out if there's any hint whatsoever of him trying to anoint somebody else well it seems like maybe what samuel is is concerned about is that saul is going to respond poorly somewhat

understandably to to this whole arrangement because i'm you know yes all has confessed his sin and stuff and this is these you believe like i don't know why would he be so upset it doesn't seem like he's we didn't leave him in some seemingly enraged you know place uh but you know samuel might be like look um i know he messed up but i think that is he's not gonna love this and this is gonna seem a little unfair to him a little it's always dangerous to anoint someone as king when there's already another king yeah and especially when it's like yeah well i told he rejected you and maybe other people aren't as sympathetic to saul as i as i apparently am uh but i would i would understand why he'd be like yeah i guess i'll just go back to my house then i mean

like what if i was saw i'd be like i so i didn't ask for this now you've given this to me i didn't do i didn't mess up horribly like everything it wasn't like the kingdom has been taken over or something crazy like it's right i've done a decent job and it's like yeah you're out we're gonna he didn't introduce any idolatry like most of the kings of israel did yeah like it's a you know samuel's probably like i don't know uh he might not take that great and i think the reason samuel thinks and maybe he's maybe he's right maybe he's wrong but i think the reason he thinks there's a distinct possibility is because most people wouldn't take that great because the thing to point to for the rejection, it almost seems like the punishment doesn't fit the crime, right?

Right, right, right. Yeah. Whatever's going through his mind, he's certainly worried. And God acknowledges that and says, okay, all right, well, here's what you do. Just take a cow with you. Everything will be fine. Take a heifer and tell him that you're going to sacrifice, which I don't know. It seems like it's a pretty flimsy cover story because Samuel is way up north. Why in the world would he take a heifer with him all the way down to Bethlehem? So Saul's area is mainly the northern part of the tribes. And Bethlehem is way down south. I mean, it's below, it's south of Jerusalem.

So it's in the far-flung, not far-flung, but the southern part of where the tribes are at. So that's a long way for Samuel to go just to make a sacrifice. but i mean i guess well i guess as far as cover stories it's it's gonna have to work well you can imagine this uh samuel's coming down he's got that heifer so i was like what are you doing he's like i'm coming down here to make a sacrifice and saul knows if there's one thing he should not be talking to samuel about is how you should and should not sacrifice things yeah well this is true that is part of their history isn't it maybe it's the perfect cover story it's like i'm gonna do the sacrifice and Saul might be thinking like why would you do that but he's like I'm probably not

going to bring it up I'm not going to bring I'm not going to bring up I'm not going to bring up like how you should or shouldn't sacrifice or what you should or where you should I just I'm going to leave I'm not I'm not really wanting to wade into the the sacrificial conversation with this guy so maybe it was actually the perfect cover story well he gets there oh and then he Well, there's more to it. Verse 3, it says, once you get there, you shall invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do. And you shall anoint for me the one whom I say to you, the one whom I designate to you. So it's kind of interesting that, I mean, he tells them, of course, where to go. He tells them which father to look for, but he doesn't. He doesn't tell him which son it's going to be.

That's a little open-ended. And so, you know, as a reader of the story, we're like, oh, this is interesting. You know, we don't even know at this point, like, how many sons there are to choose from. Are there two? Are there three? Are there ten? So it's kind of open-ended at this point. But you can also see God kind of, almost as it were, maybe testing Samuel. See, like, we're going to see which son Samuel thinks is going to be the king. so anyway we'll see what happens as the story goes on so samuel did what the lord said he went

down to bethlehem and by the way bethlehem you know it kind of has a uh has a spotty reputation i mean it when we think bethlehem we think oh little town of bethlehem how still we see the lie you know this is sweet village well if you remember that from this sweet village we have two of the most horrific dark stories in the history of the Bible, all from judges. Because the concubine that eventually got cut into 12 pieces and gang raped, she was the, she was a daughter of Bethlehem. And then the Levite in the story preceding that one, who ended up kind of, you know, making himself a priest for hire in this temple of idols. Well, he was from Bethlehem or he passed through Bethlehem anyway.

Now, Naomi and Ruth were from Bethlehem, so that's a good story connected with this particular city. But it's not as if at this point in the biblical narrative, we think Bethlehem and we think, oh yeah, great place, just awesome little village

where everybody's pious and holy. Yeah, in reality, Bethlehem is kind of a big nothing too. Yeah, just a backwater village. Yeah, it's not that special about Bethlehem. Yeah, this is true. I mean, it really is. And it continues that.

The only thing that's big about Bethlehem is the fact that it's David's hometown. I mean, even to the point of the New Testament, Bethlehem was still just kind of a bedroom community to Jerusalem. I think it's seven miles, something like that, south of Jerusalem. But anyway, that's where they go. And I love the response of the elders of the city. They're not happy to see Samuel. It says the elders of the city came trembling to meet him and said, do you come in peace? They're probably thinking this is not good.

Anytime like a powerful man like Samuel comes all the way down here to us in this kind of no account village, it can't be good. might be the last thing that they heard about samuel like hey uh that's that prophet freaking hacked this king to pieces and then went and disappeared for a little bit like you see him come wandering down the road you might be like oh who did it who did what right yeah this this is not gonna end well whatever he's here for it's not gonna end well so there do you come in peace i mean like shaking all over they're trembling and he uh he reassures them he says shalom you know, it's all good. I come in peace. He said, I've come to sacrifice to the Lord. So he tells them to consecrate themselves and then to come with him to the sacrifice. And then Jesse shows

up. I'm, I'm thinking probably Jesse is one of these guys. Like he's one of the elders of the city. We're not told that, but I'm just assuming that because it says that he also consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice. I wish I knew what it meant when he says that he he consecrated them uh i honestly don't know i mean what exactly that looked like i mean i'm not a hebrew scholar play one on the podcast but the as far as i can tell like this whole thing is a little bit weird like these sort of like sacrifice like impromptu sacrifice is a weird thing i mean this is not normal i mean there's not a lot of instances where a guy just show up like yeah i'm gonna do a sacrifice so uh you know get ready like we're gonna sacrifice it

Usually something needs to happen, or you're seeking the Lord's wisdom on some matter, or it's a day in which you typically sacrifice. This is a pretty random sacrifice, and I would think that not just Saul, but other people involved in this are like, what's going on? Yeah, it is. It's very strange. I mean, we know from the Torah that sacrifices are supposed to take place at one spot, at the Lord's altar. well clearly the lord's altar is not in bethlehem so even the fact that god's prophet is here to

offer a sacrifice a little strange yeah this whole ordeal is is odd maybe you have a non-typical sacrifice if you just you know the philistines came running down on you and then you beat them all you might say let's make a sacrifice this makes sense right this is just like yeah just travel down here think about doing a little sacrifice and it's very strange yeah it's very very uh very out of the ordinary so he gets everybody ready he's uh he's getting everybody consecrated ready for the sacrifice verse six uh picks up the story of the sons so verse six says they that it came about when they entered that is when jesse specifically when jesse and his sons entered that he looked at eliab so eliab is going to be the oldest of these sons of jesse

and samuel says to himself ah surely the lord's anointed is before him and so the lord says to samuel uh think again just do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature because i have rejected him that's the same verb by the way we had in verse one where god rejected uh saul for being king i have rejected him see this is one of the reasons also where i'm like yeah be careful with this word rejected god has rejected saul therefore he hates him same word here this is not a like a rejection in some kind of like uh election sense or something like this or a salvific sense this rejection is that's not the one that's precisely right yeah he's not the one i've chosen yeah i got my eye on somebody else and then it goes on

this is the Lord speaking kind of self-referentially. He says, for God, meaning me, for God sees not as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart. So this is what I mentioned earlier back in verse 1 where God will see to it a king for himself

and that same verb is used here. So of course this this makes sense i mean when when we're when we're looking at people especially on first impressions we're not looking at their heart i mean first of all we can't really that doesn't mean literally it just means that you know what's going on inside what kind of person they are because we don't know when we first meet somebody yeah you know when we first meet someone we're looking at the outward appearance that's just the way it works with uh with humanity now sure as we as we get to know them we get to know more about their strengths and weaknesses their personalities all that kind of stuff that makes up what the Bible describes as the heart

because the heart is the, the epicenter of the human being. When we tend to think of a person's, you know, they're we'll sometimes speak loosely like the emotions are connected with the heart and the thoughts are connected with the mind. And we'll make these kinds of distinctions, but in the Hebrew mindset, the heart is everything. The heart thinks the heart feels the heart is where the essence of a person is so the heart is is the central organ that does all the stuff for for people so god looks at that rather than the outward appearance yeah it's also uh what you

shouldn't take this to be which i've heard many times but what god is looking at he's looking at david which is where he'll land obviously he's looking at his heart and he can tell like david's just a better person than all these other guys and we know that this is probably not true uh that that what god is looking for like we and i know we mentioned this you know david would be called a man after god's own heart all of this is uh god looking for a heart that is like his but also like a heart that he is going to make like his right this is not it's not strictly like oh good finally the super moral, upstanding, good, right down to his heart person I've been looking for, because this is not David. Yeah. In fact, we have great proof for that. We have proof from

David himself for that. So if you look in Psalm 51, where David prays, create in me a clean heart, oh God. The verb that's used there is bara, which is the word used in Genesis 1.1, in the beginning, God Barad. He created the heavens and the earth. And that's the verb that always and only has God as the subject. So only God can do Barad. Only he can create. And that's ultimately what he has to do for David. He creates in him a clean heart, the kind of heart that God desires. So keep that in mind. Keep Psalm 51 in mind when you read about God looking at the heart here in verse 7. So we have Eliab, the oldest, rejected, not chosen. So Jesse calls the next in line. He calls Abinadab and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, neither has the Lord chosen this one.

Then Jesse made Shammah pass by, and he said, neither has the Lord chosen this one. All right, So we got three sons so far and the first one is clearly explicitly rejected. The second two are just kind of dismissed. Nope, not him. Third. Nope, not him. So far, actually, at this point, we still don't know how many sons Jesse has. We're about to find out. So verse 10 says, thus Jesse made seven of his sons pass before Samuel. But Samuel said to Jesse, the Lord has not chosen these. so we got one left right this is a this is a great time to pause and remember that the number eight

has significance in the scriptures uh we have circumcision taking place on the eighth day eight is connected with the with the week of creation because it's like it's like the day after the fullness or the completion of something and we have multiple examples of this in the scriptures, where seven things, seven days, seven events will pass. And then the eighth one becomes the chosen one, becomes the significant one. And that's what we're going to have here in the case of David as well. So he makes the seven sons pass. Samuel says to Jesse, is this it? Are these all the kids? And he says, I love this. This has always been one of my favorite passages because it's almost as if jesse has kind of forgotten about his youngest son like he didn't mind he

didn't think about bringing him in he's like uh oh yeah there remains one more i got the youngest but look he's out he's out taking care of the sheep so samuel says to jesse send and bring him because we will not sit down until he comes here you just gotta love this whole scene you're like i mean how far out is he i mean is he like right outside of town is he three four miles away from bethlehem we don't even know but they're just all standing around and i'm just kind of imagining this really quiet room this is a weird thing to say no one's gonna sit until you get him we're not even gonna relax nobody's gonna sit down we're not gonna eat we're just gonna have this awkward silence until somebody brings me your youngest son. So he's out taking care of

the sheep. That's important. David being a shepherd by vocation is not just kind of an unimportant detail. As it turns out, it's very common in the ancient Near East for kings to be referred to as shepherds because they would of course shepherd the nation and i can't remember which psalm but in one of the psalms it says that god took david from tending the sheep to shepherd the people of israel so the very fact that he's a shepherd is has a hint of of regality to it there's a kind of a almost a wink that this one is going to be the one who will shepherd the people of israel based upon his his vocation of shepherding sheep and of course you know the the you have uh david is the line that christ will come from david prefigures christ in a bunch of

ways and of course it and christ will take up this this good shepherd mantle uh all over all over the new testament right right yeah i mean we are really we are about to come face to face with arguably and i think in my opinion decisively the most important prefigurement of christ in the old testament yeah i mean you can you can point to a lot of examples adam noah joseph joshua moses i mean there's a there's a plenty of examples of how various figures give us kind of a pencil sketch that christ fills out in full color but none would compare to david in fact jesus doesn't go around saying he's the son of joshua yes exactly yeah yeah in fact i think uh i think i think i had this line in the book i'm writing right now about christ the old

testament something like you know if you if you were so you're in the first century jerusalem you stop some random stranger on the street and ask him hey uh you know who who of all of your your forefathers is the messiah mostly going to be like i don't think there'd be a moment's hesitation i think they would have said oh david of course i mean what what other option would there be of course he's the he's the son of david so we're gonna we're gonna see just how many ways david is providing the blueprint for for the messiah but we have to get him anointed first so let's uh let's get that done so they they're they're standing awkwardly around waiting for him to get there so he sent brought him in we have a physical description of david which is kind of funny

because we were just told that the physical appearance doesn't matter it says he was this is hilarious by the way they're like god doesn't look out look on the outward appearance he only looks at the heart they go get this kid they're like and this dude was handsome and man knows it's like they just we just can't resist you know we've got to tell you a little about what he looked like yeah god doesn't look at the heart go get justin bieber yeah we're told he was uh ruddy uh admoni in the hebrew that that can mean either redheaded or or ruddy like red complected the same description we have esau by the way uh back in genesis so he was either a redhead or he He was kind of, you know, reddish complected with beautiful eyes and a handsome appearance.

But don't worry. All that matters. All that matters is the heart. And the Lord said, Arise, anoint him for this is he. That's the man. So Samuel takes the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers. and the spirit of the lord came mightily upon david from that day forward and samuel got up and went to rama which sounds kind of an anticlimactic way to in this particular this

particular section he was done he's like and uh he's like yeah that's the end yeah put a bow on that i'm done be funny if he took the heifer back with him like you know what sacrifice is off i don't know if he's i don't think it's in the text that they actually did this thing No, it's not. There's no record of a sacrifice. Yeah. So, uh, yeah, that's, uh, I mean, we're, we're at up at our 40 minutes, but, uh, check out if, uh, if you're, if you have your Bible close by check out Psalm 45 or seven, there's a great tie in there because it talks about the Messiah being anointed in the midst of his brothers, which of course is exactly what just, what just happened here. But, uh, we'll, we'll see, we'll see what happens next time because

we've we've met we met david all right he's a shepherd he just got anointed in a secret sort of way there's nothing that's like this isn't a big pr moment here this is all all really uh really under undercover at this point but as we'll find out in the next half of the chapter all of a sudden david is going to be launched really into the limelight because as we'll see in the verses that follow he ends up being the the court musician for the king himself yeah well this is the one way that david does not prefigure christ is that we see we hear that christ says not there's nothing about him uh his appearance that would be memorable but apparently david this is not the case apparently not yeah apparently he's got the heart and the looks no wonder all the girls

were singing songs about him yeah right right well guys uh be back next week as we uh switch uh main characters uh in the the book of first samuel uh make sure you go over to uh to the website and register for uh the upcoming events uh in april and october we'd love to see you at one or both of those events chad i'll see you next week all right see you then