The Poetic Books and The Davidic Covenant'

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The Poetic Books -and-
The Davidic Covenant. The third
major time God spoke Job Psalms
Proverbs Ecclesiastes Song of
Solomon
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The Need To have a heart after Gods own heart!
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(The Word in the Heart) The need came when the
Theocracy was at its highest glory!
(all books except Job).
God is ruling His people in
victory and prosperity.
David had a heart after God, so
God raises him up to be an example to us.
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The Content These books are all in poetic form.
This indicates that they are the
inner experiences of these men.
Their are five different experiences
of life that are brought forth.

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A Brief Description of Each Book
Job The heart of a man of
God during suffering.
Psalms The heart of the people of God in
various circumstances.

Proverbs The heart of a man of
God as he wisely faces the
practical affairs of life.
Ecclesiastes The heart of
a man of God as he seeks
meaning outside of God.
Song of
Solomon The heart of a man of God in the
marriage relationship.
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• Job
• The heart of a man of God in suffering.
• The purposes of the book of Job are
• To reveal who God is.
• To show the kind of trust He wants
  His children to have.
• To reveal His absolute control over Satan.
• To answer mans questions about
  why a righteous man may suffer.

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JobSatans charge was that Jobs heart was not
right,but that he served God for protection and
profit.

• God trusted Job! Gods own testimony of Job is
  (18) there is none like him in the earth.
• Jobs testimony is (2310) He knows the way that
  I take when He has tried me, I shall come forth
  as gold.
• The bottom line What kind of trusting heart do
  we have?
• Simple trust in God is the one thing needful,
  because Gods ways are past finding out!

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Outline of the book of JobJob 11-5

• Job before the Trial
  
• Purity, Prosperity, Popularity.
• Job 16-210
• Satan, and the mystery of suffering and pain.
• There is an extent and limit to his power.
• Only the gold is worth putting in the fire

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Outline of the book of Job Job 211 Chapter 3

• The end of Jobs patience
  and the beginning of complaining.
• Job 4 Chapter 37
• Fruitless philosophical discussions
  about the mystery of suffering.
  Each ends with an appeal to repent of sin and
  suffering will cease.
  Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar summed
  it up in 47 with who
  ever perished, being innocent ?

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Outline of the book of Job Job 38 Chapter
42God and the mystery of suffering.Divine
providence is not settled by logic.When God does
not explain, He wants trust.The great issue of
life is the heart.
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• Psalms
• The heart of a man of God before his God.
• The authors of the Psalms
• David Ascribed to him in the Psalms titles.
  (73 Psalms)
• Asaph A Levite, made leader of the choral
  worship by David.
• Solomon Son of David.
• Ethan A wise man in the time of Solomon.
• Heman A wise man in the time of Solomon.
• Moses Wrote Psalm 90.
• Anonymous - However, there is reason to believe
  that some of these were
  written by David.

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• Psalms
• The Psalms give expression to the deep
  experiences of life. They give expression to our
  innermost feelings.
• They show us the heart of a man of God...
• In Praise, Worship, and thanksgiving.
• In Seeking after the Lord.
• In Times of Discouragement and fear.
• In Prayer.
• In Dependence upon God.
• In Crying out for help.
• In Repentance.
• In Rejoicing.

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in Praise, Worship, and Thanksgiving.

• Psalm 1004-5
• Enter into His gates with thanksgiving,
• And into His courts with praise.
• Be thankful to Him, and bless His name.
• For the Lord is good
• His mercy is everlasting,
• And His truth endures to all generations.
• Psalm 291-2
• Give unto the Lord, O you mighty ones, Give unto
  the Lord glory and strength. Give unto the Lord
  the glory due to His name Worship the Lord in
  the beauty of holiness.

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in seeking after God

• Psalm 274
• One thing I have desired of the Lord,
• That will I seek
• That I may dwell in the house of the Lord
• All the days of my life,
• To behold the beauty of the Lord,
• And to inquire in His temple.
• Psalm 278
• When You said, "Seek My face,"
• My heart said to You, "Your face, Lord, I
  will seek."
• Psalm 421-2
• As the deer pants for the water brooks,
• So pants my soul for You, O God.
• My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
• When shall I come and appear before God?

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in Times of Discouragement and Fear

• Psalm 4211
• Why are you cast down, O my soul?
• And why are you disquieted within me?
• Hope in God
• For I shall yet praise Him,
• The help of my countenance and my God.
• Psalm 563
• What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.

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in Prayer

• Psalm 51-3
• Give ear to my words, O Lord, consider my
  meditation. Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my
  King, and my God for unto thee will I pray. My
  voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O Lord in
  the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee,
  and will look up.

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in Dependence upon God

• Psalm 344-7
• I sought the Lord, and He heard me,
• And delivered me from all my fears.
• They looked to Him and were radiant,
• And their faces were not ashamed.
• This poor man cried out, and the Lord heard him,
  And saved him out of all his troubles.
• The angel of the Lord encamps all around those
  who fear Him, And delivers them.

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in Crying out for Help

• Psalm 1161-7
• I love the Lord, because He has heard
• My voice and my supplications.
• Because He has inclined His ear to me,
• Therefore I will call upon Him as long as I
  live.
• The pains of death surrounded me,
• And the pangs of Sheol laid hold of me
• I found trouble and sorrow.
• Then I called upon the name of the Lord
• "O Lord, I implore You, deliver my soul!"
• Gracious is the Lord, and righteous
• Yes, our God is merciful.
• The Lord preserves the simple
• I was brought low, and He saved me.
• Return to your rest, O my soul,
• For the Lord has dealt bountifully with you.

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in Repentance

• To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David when
  Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had gone
  in to Bathsheba.
• Psalm 511-4
• Have mercy upon me, O God,
• According to Your lovingkindness
• According to the multitude of Your tender
  mercies,
• Blot out my transgressions.
• Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity,
• And cleanse me from my sin.
• For I acknowledge my transgressions,
• And my sin is always before me.
• Against You, You only, have I sinned,
• And done this evil in Your sight-

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in Rejoicing

• Psalm 10722
• Let them sacrifice the sacrifices of
  thanksgiving,
• And declare His works with rejoicing.
• Psalm 11815
• The voice of rejoicing and salvation
• Is in the tents of the righteous
• The right hand of the Lord does valiantly.
• Psalm 1266
• He who continually goes forth weeping,
• Bearing seed for sowing,
• Shall doubtless come again with rejoicing,
• Bringing his sheaves with him.

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Delight yourself in the Lord. Ps. 37 This is
real fulfillment and acceptable worship

• David, the sweet psalmist of Israel,was a man
  after Gods own heart.
• The Psalms give expression to deep experiences
  and innermost feelings from the delights of an
  abundant life to the pit of despair.

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David, the sweet psalmist of Israel,was a man
after Gods own heart.

• Setting your heart to delight in Him is
  acceptable worship.
• The Holy Spirit lusteth to the point of envy!
• No man, devil, or circumstance can stop you from
  delighting in the Lord if it is in your heart to
  do so.
• To know panting and longing, insatiable desire
  for God, is not religion but relationship with
  the living God. Not just a sip but a thirst
  quenching drink.
• A day in Thy courts is better than a thousand.
• Desire the sincere milk of the Word.
• David sought God from the pit of despair to the
  heights of abundant life.

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Proverbs

Purpose of the
book

God gives detailed instructions on how His
people should think and live.


Various forms used

Poetry, Brief
Parables, Sharp Questions, Minute Stories The
primary teaching method is contrast.
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Proverbs

The heart of a man
of God as he wisely faces the practical affairs
of life. Varied Subjects of the Proverbs

Topics Wisdom, Sin,
Tongue, Wealth, Pride, Idleness, Love, Pleasure,
Success, Temperance, Morals, Youth
Contrasting
Subjects God and Man, Time and Eternity, Truth
and Falsehood, Wealth and Poverty, Purity and
Impurity, Justice and Injustice, Pleasure and
Misery
Evil People
Prattling Fool, Talebearer, Whisperer, Backbiter,
False Boaster, Speculator

Social Relations Master and Servant, Rich
and Poor, Husband and Wife, Parents and Children
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Proverbs detail how Gods peopleshould think and
live.

• Note what God gave Solomon (1Ki. 429) wisdom
  and understanding exceeding much, and largeness
  of heart.
• The purpose of the book (Prov. 12-4) is
• to receive Gods instruction, to receive with
  meekness.
• The fear of the Lord is the beginning of
  wisdom.
• Lordship is a heart matter.
• Trust in the LORD with all your heart keep
  your heart with all diligence, for out of it flow
  the issues of life.

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The fool is one who trusts in his own heart
(286), who insists his way is right (1215).

• Where is it that the fool has said, there is no
  God? The fool has said in his heart, there is
  no God.
• The purpose of the book is to receive
  instruction, wisdom, judgment, equity.
• It is a matter of the heart because it must be
  received with meekness.

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Ecclesiastes The heart of a man of God as he
seeks meaning outside of God. Purpose of the
Book To show the futility of pursuing
materialistic and earthly goals as an
end in themselves. To
point to God as the source of all that is truly
good. Every pursuit of man is futile if God is
excluded. Only Gods work endures, only
He can impart true value to mans life and
service.
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Content of Book Shows the vanity of achieving
happiness by pursuing worldly values.
The authors conclusion is that
life without God is meaningless. (Ecclesiastes
12-3) The only solution for human life to be
truly meaningful Let us hear the conclusion of
the whole matter Fear God and keep His
commandments, for this is mans all. For God
will bring every work into judgment, including
every secret thing, whether good or evil.
Ecclesiastes 1213-14
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Solomon sought satisfaction
in every area of life
science, philosophy, pleasure,
material wealth, morality,
religion, but nothing
satisfied. He sought out life under the sun.
(28 time this phrase is used) You
can write over all the wells of this world
you will thirst again (John 4). The blessed
man is one who is conscious of God
in all of life.
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Under the Sun(Twenty-eight times)

• Exodus 1237 Rameses means child of the sun.
  Israel was called out of Egypt to the Promised
  Land.
• Only things above the sun can satisfy your heart.
  We must set our affection on things above.
• Everything has value and meaning if the heart is
  right with God cleaning, serving, playing,
  working, resting, living and having our being in
  God.

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• Song of Solomon
• The heart of a man of God in
  the marriage relationship.
• There are various interpretations of the book
• Allegorical Purely figurative, not based on
  historical fact.
• Typical Teaching by example, based in historical
  facts, but viewing these historical facts as
  figurative representations.
• Purposes of the Book
• Literal To honor pure human love and marriage.
• Figurative To show the Lords love for His wife
  Israel and
  Christs love for His bride the Church.

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Comparison of Solomons Writings Song of Solomon
Written when he was young and in
love. Proverbs Written when he was middle-aged,
when his intellectual powers
were at their peak. Ecclesiastes Written
in his old age, when he was
disappointed and disillusioned with the carnality
of much of his life.
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The Method God is speaking through the
experiences of a man who has in his heart what
God wants to communicate. These books are in the
form of a testimony. It seems that it is not
God speaking, but rather man However God is
actually speaking in the experiences
of a man who has in his heart
what God wants to communicate. These
books are just as much God speaking as at Sinai!

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The Response Required Finding you own personal
expression through the experiences of others. We
can make these our very own words. Pray through
a Psalm. Take these words and say them back to
God.
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Poetic Books and The Davidic Covenant

• Need A heart after Gods own heart.
• Content The inner experiences of all areas of
  life.
• Method God speaks through the experiences of a
  man who has in his heart what God wants to
  communicate.
• Response Find your own personal expression in the
  Poetic books. Thy word have I hid in my
  heart.

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Gods Covenant with David
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The Occasion

• 2 Samuel 7
• Now it came to pass when the king was
  dwelling in his house, and the Lord had given him
  rest from all his enemies all around, that the
  king said to Nathan the prophet, "See now, I
  dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God
  dwells inside tent curtains." Then Nathan said to
  the king, "Go, do all that is in your heart, for
  the Lord is with you."

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The Occasion

• But it happened that night that the word of the
  Lord came to Nathan, saying, "Go and tell My
  servant David, 'Thus says the Lord "Would you
  build a house for Me to dwell in? For I have not
  dwelt in a house since the time that I brought
  the children of Israel up from Egypt, even to
  this day, but have moved about in a tent and in a
  tabernacle. Wherever I have moved about with all
  the children of Israel, have I ever spoken a word
  to anyone from the tribes of Israel, whom I
  commanded to shepherd My people Israel, saying,
  'Why have you not built Me a house of cedar?' " '

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The Occasion

• Now therefore, thus shall you say to My servant
  David, 'Thus says the Lord of hosts "I took you
  from the sheepfold, from following the sheep, to
  be ruler over My people, over Israel. And I have
  been with you wherever you have gone, and have
  cut off all your enemies from before you, and
  have made you a great name, like the name of the
  great men who are on the earth.
• Moreover I will appoint a place for My people
  Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell
  in a place of their own and move no more nor
  shall the sons of wickedness oppress them
  anymore, as previously, since the time that I
  commanded judges to be over My people Israel, and
  have caused you to rest from all your enemies.

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The Covenant Given

• Also the Lord tells you that He will make you a
  house
• "When your days are fulfilled and you rest with
  your fathers, I will set up your seed after you,
  who will come from your body, and I will
  establish his kingdom. He shall build a house for
  My name, and I will establish the throne of his
  kingdom forever.
• I will be his Father, and he shall be My son. If
  he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the
  rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men.
  But My mercy shall not depart from him, as I took
  it from Saul, whom I removed from before you. And
  your house and your kingdom shall be established
  forever before you. Your throne shall be
  established forever." ' " According to all these
  words and according to all this vision, so Nathan
  spoke to David.

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Davids Response

• Then King David went in and sat before the Lord
  and he said "Who am I, O Lord God? And what is
  my house, that You have brought me this far? And
  yet this was a small thing in Your sight, O Lord
  God and You have also spoken of Your servant's
  house for a great while to come. Is this the
  manner of man, O Lord God?
• Now what more can David say to You? For You, Lord
  God, know Your servant. For Your word's sake, and
  according to Your own heart, You have done all
  these great things, to make Your servant know
  them. Therefore You are great, O Lord God. For
  there is none like You, nor is there any God
  besides You, according to all that we have heard
  with our ears.

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Abrahams Covenant emphasized the land and
seed. The Davidic Covenant confirms the
seed.

• 2 Sam.712 I will set up thy seed after thee,
  who will come from your body, and I will
  establish his kingdom.

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The Isaiah gives a Confirmation

• Isaiah 96-7
• For unto us a Child is born,
• Unto us a Son is given
• And the government will be upon His shoulder.
• And His name will be called
• Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God,
• Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
• Of the increase of His government and peace
• There will be no end,
• Upon the throne of David and over His
  kingdom,
• To order it and establish it with judgment
  and justice
• From that time forward, even forever.
• The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform
  this.

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Abrahams Covenant emphasized the land and
seed. The Davidic Covenant confirms the
seed.

• Ps.893,4,34-36 I have made a covenant with my
  chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant, Thy
  seed will I establish forever, and build up thy
  throne to all generations My covenant I will
  not violate, nor will I alter the utterance of My
  lips. Once I have sworn by My holiness I will
  not lie to David. His descendants shall endure
  forever, and his throne as the sun before Me.
• Jer.3322-26 As the host of heaven cannot be
  numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured
  so will I multiply the seed of David If I have
  not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth
  then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and
  David my servant.
• Note God confirms Davids kingdom, throne, and
  house.

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What does the Kingdom, Throne, and House mean?

• Kingdom Throne means Davids right to rule
  political Israel.
• also the royal throne rights, the dignity and
  sovereign power belong to David.
• House means his physical descendants, the right
  to rule will never be transferred to another
  family.
• Note Gods Covenant Promise to David
• And thy house and thy kingdom shall be
  established forever before thee thy throne
  shall be established forever 2 Sam.716.

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What are the Provisions of 2 Samuel 712-16?

• Thy seed after thee David is to have a child
  who succeeds him and establishes his kingdom.
• He shall build a house for My name This son,
  Solomon, built the temple instead of David.
• I will establish the throne of his kingdom
  forever.
• My mercy shall not depart away from him, as I
  took it from Saul, whom I put away Solomons
  sins justified Gods judgment, yet Gods mercy
  prevailed.
• Davids house, throne, and kingdom - shall be
  established forever. This is confirmed by God
  again and again
• (Isa.96-7 Jer.3314-17 Ezek.3724-25 Daniel
  713-14 Hosea 34-5 Amos 911 Zechariah 144,9)

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The Davidic Covenant is unconditional.

• It is called eternal in (2Sam.713,16 235
  Isa.553 Ezekiel 3725). If called eternal it
  is unconditional in that it rests upon the
  faithfulness of Gods oath.
• Psalm 13211
• The Lord has sworn in truth to David
• He will not turn from it
• "I will set upon your throne the fruit of
  your body.

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Christ is seated now at the right hand of the
Fathers Throne. Is this the Davidic Throne?

• When Christ returns from the right hand of the
  Fathers throne, He will then effect a literal
  earthly kingdom (Mt.251-3 31-46 Lk.131-33).
• Obviously, Christ is not now on the throne of
  David bringing blessing to Israel, but He is
  waiting for operation footstool to be complete
  (Ps.1101) The Lord says to my Lord Sit at My
  right hand until I make Thine enemies thy
  footstool.

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The Eschatology of the Davidic Covenant

• Israel must be preserved as a nation for His Word
  to be fulfilled literally.
• Israel must be in their homeland of inheritance
  (definite geographical boundaries).
• Davids literal-physical Son must return to rule
  and reign over his promised kingdom.
• A literal kingdom must be established over which
  the Messiah will reign, seated upon Davids
  throne.
• This kingdom must become an eternal kingdom and
  there must be no end to the Messiahs reign.
• The first two of these has happened literally.