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Throne of David Revisited
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| The church doesn't understand that he's coming back to rule from the earth. | |
| That's a concept. | |
| See, Gabriel promised, this is not an Old Testament idea, it's in the New Testament too. | |
| Gabriel told Mary that her child would sit on the throne of David. | |
| The throne of David did not exist in the Roman period. | |
| Rome ran things. | |
| And yet that was the promise. | |
| He's never sat on that throne. | |
| He's going to sit on that throne. | |
| And we need to understand the church in general has blinded itself to the whole concept of David's throne. | |
| They don't understand the difference between the temple of Solomon and the palace of the king. | |
| They're different. | |
| And the palace of the king is what is promised to him all through the Old Testament, all through the New Testament. | |
| He reconfirmed it at his Annunciation. | |
| He reconfirmed it at the Ascension. | |
| And so part of what the church needs to be able to preach is a piece of perspective that many of them rejected. | |
| It's astonishing to discover. | |
| It's my suspicion, I don't know the numbers, it's my suspicion that nine out of ten churches have no grasp of what the throne of David really means. | |
| When we say the Lord's Prayer, thy kingdom come, when we pray for that, they don't know what they're praying for. | |
| They're praying for Jesus to take his throne. | |
| And he's going to. | |
| He's going to. | |
| And that's staggering. | |
| One of the things we should do, all of us, how many are looking ready for him to come back? | |
| Do you realize that when he comes back, that sets the date for our final exam? | |
| 2 Corinthians chapter 5, verse 10 points out that we have an appointment at a place called the Bema seat of Jesus. | |
| Everyone present will be saved. | |
| Their salvation is not at issue. | |
| What is at issue is the fruit that's come from the activities the Holy Spirit's been able to do in their life. | |
| How many of you are Christians? | |
| Can I see the show's hands? | |
| Great. | |
| How many of you are in the full-time ministry? | |
| Now, why isn't your hand up? | |
| If you're saved, aren't you in the full-time ministry? | |
| Yes, you are. | |
| Okay. | |
| I have fallen in love with a quotation from Mark Twain, of all people. | |
| Okay. | |
| Mark Twain suggested that the two most important days in a person's life is the day he was born and the day he discovers why. | |
| That's true. | |
| The question is, have you discovered your calling? | |
| How many know what your calling is? | |
| Now, you notice not all the hands can go up. | |
| People are puzzled by that. | |
| I think the primary quest that we each have is to discover why Jesus gave us salvation. | |
| I believe there is a specific reason for each of us, and it's not the same for each of us. | |
| Each of us have a calling. | |
| And the challenge is to find out what that calling is, because it's our fruit bearing from that calling that is going to be measured at the Demon seat. | |
| Not what we've created, what he was able to create through us by our submission to the Holy Spirit. | |
| And so that's the challenge. | |