SERIES: The Life of David
TEXT: 1 Kings 2:1-4
MESSAGE: “David and Solomon”
“Now when David had served God’s purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep; he was buried with his ancestors and his body decayed.” — Acts 13:36
“Accepting your lot is the beginning of your responsibility for it, not the end. Like a plot of land, every person’s lot calls for cultivation…Receiving your lot rightly teaches you to care for the lot you have, not lust for one you don’t..And your lot bears within itself the potential to yield joy: joy in the work, joy in its fruits, and joy in discovering the goodness and wholeness that come from adapting to your limits rather than trying, godlike, to bend the world to your will.” — Bobby Jamieson
TEXT: 1 Kings 2:1-4
Q: What lessons do we gain from this final scene with David and Solomon? The simplicity of David’s…(1. Last Days 2. Last Words 3. Last Hope)
1. Last Days (v. 1)
“When David’s time to die drew near, he commanded Solomon his son, saying…”
2. Last Words (v. 2-3)
“I am about to go the way of all the earth. Be strong, and show yourself a man, 3 and keep the charge of the Lord your God, walking in his ways and keeping his statutes, his commandments, his rules, and his testimonies, as it is written in the Law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn…”
“This is the end – for me, the beginning of life.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
3. Last Hope (v. 4)
“…that the Lord may establish his word that he spoke concerning me, saying, ‘If your sons pay close attention to their way, to walk before me in faithfulness with all their heart and with all their soul, you shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.”
“…The branch of David has roots in eternity that stretch into the heavens of history and culminate in Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the last Adam (Matt. 1; John 1; 1 Cor. 15:45). The last Adam fulfills the broken covenant of works by paying the penalty for its fracture and by fulfilling the original commission that God gave to Adam.” — J. V. Fesko
“Build your life on the Word of God and worship the hero of the Word: Jesus. What a King we have! Sin is our attempt to make ourselves king; salvation is in Christ, the King substituting Himself for His servants. He lived the life we could not live and died the death we should have died. Now He is the risen and reigning exalted Lord. Glorify and enjoy Him.” — Tony Merida
TAKEAWAYS: How can we apply this to our lives?
- What present reality is God asking you to embrace?
“We almost never think of the present, and if we do think of it, it is only to see what light it throws on our plans for the future. . . . Thus we never actually live, but hope to live, and since we are always planning how to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so.” — Blaise Pascal
- What words are you allowing to shape your life?
“Either this book will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from this book.” — John Bunyan (handwritten note in the cover of his Bible)
- What kind of hope do you think will brighten your future?
“The grass always seems greener on the other side, but Scripture reveals the folly of such thinking…the transformative allure of newness is so often a mirage. Indeed, for many of us, we don’t attach our hope so much to the new thing itself as to the feeling of novelty that accompanies it.” — Eugene Park
GOSPEL: “Now when David had served God’s purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep; he was buried with his ancestors and his body decayed.” — Acts 13:36-37