I. EXORDIUM:
Are you blessed with long life?
Yes. and strong life as well in the LORD.
II. AUDIENCE PROFILE:
Believers/unbelievers
III. OBJECTIVES:
To show that GOD honors us with long life here and fullfilling one if we have relationship with Him.
John 17:3 (Amplified Bible)
And this is eternal life: [it means] to know (to perceive, recognize, become acquainted with, and understand) You, the only true and real God, and [likewise] to know Him, Jesus [as the] Christ (the Anointed One, the Messiah), Whom You have sent.
IV. TEXT:
2 Samuel 6:23 (Amplified Bible)
And Michal the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of her death.
V. THESIS:
Praise, worship, glorify, adore, bless, honor, acknowledge and thank You very much LORD JESUS for Your sake I delight in all of these negative things that happened in my life, because when I'm weak then You are strong.
2 Corinthians 12:10 (Amplified Bible)
So for the sake of Christ, I am well pleased and take pleasure in infirmities, insults, hardships, persecutions, perplexities and distresses; for when I am weak [in human strength], then am I [truly] strong (able, powerful in divine strength).
VI. TITLE:
No child until she died
VII. EXPLICATION:
A. Author: unknown
B. Date written: 973 B.C.
C. To whom written: Nation of Israel
D. Keyword: David
E. Main theme: Reign of David
F. Keyverses:
2 Samuel 5:12 (Amplified Bible)
And David perceived that the Lord had established him king over Israel and that He had exalted his kingdom for His people Israel’s sake.
2 Samuel 7:12-13 (Amplified Bible)
And when your days are fulfilled and you sleep with your fathers, I will set up after you your offspring who shall be born to you, and I will establish his kingdom.
He shall build a house for My ame [and My Presence], and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
VIII. MAIN BODY:
2 Samuel 6:23 (Amplified Bible)
And Michal the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of her death.
2 Samuel 6:23 (New King James Version)
Therefore Michal the daughter of Saul had no children to the day of her death.
A. No children for natural women
"Therefore Michal the daughter of Saul had no children"
Michal means "rivulet" or a small brook, that doesn't influence anyone or anything, she's just there like a decoration for the king. Where can she get her "spiritual" teaching if she's the daughter of a disobedient king? She never did anything about her condition. Unlike the Hannah, the mother of Samuel and Elizabeth, the mother John, the Baptist.
1 Samuel 1:6-8 (Amplified Bible)
[This embarrassed and grieved Hannah] and her rival provoked her greatly to vex her, because the Lord had left her childless.
So it was year after year; whenever Hannah went up to the Lord’s house, Peninnah provoked her, so she wept and did not eat.
Then Elkanah her husband said to her, Hannah, why do you cry? And why do you not eat? And why are you grieving? Am I not more to you than ten sons?
Luke 1:25 (Amplified Bible)
Because thus the Lord has dealt with me in the days when He deigned to look on me to take away my reproach among men.
She's contended of being married to king David.
Isaiah 4:1 (Amplified Bible)
AND IN that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread and provide our own apparel; only let us be called by your name to take away our reproach [of being unmarried].
While during their days, being childless is connected with having glory or honor.
Hosea 9:11 (Amplified Bible)
As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird; there shall be no birth, no being with child, and [because of their impurity] no becoming pregnant.
We can say then that Michal is not willing to repent of what she said to her husband, king David and she's without honor and only a natural woman, not a spiritual one, different in all her ways with the proverbs 31 woman who is a spiritual woman.
2 Samuel 6:20 (Amplified Bible)
Then David returned to bless his household. And [his wife] Michal daughter of Saul came out to meet David and said, How glorious was the king of Israel today, who stripped himself of his kingly robes and uncovered himself in the eyes of his servants’ maids as one of the worthless fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!
Proverbs 15:9 (Amplified Bible)
The way of the wicked is an abomination, extremely disgusting and shamefully vile to the Lord, but He loves him who pursues righteousness (moral and spiritual rectitude in every area and relation).
Proverbs 31:15 (Amplified Bible)
She rises while it is yet night and gets [spiritual] food for her household and assigns her maids their tasks.
Spiritual man or woman always understands the way of the LORD GOD
Proverbs 4:1 (Amplified Bible)
HEAR, MY sons, the instruction of a father, and pay attention in order to gain and to know intelligent discernment, comprehension, and interpretation [of spiritual matters].
for they have GOD'S WORDS to always and daily renew their minds.
Romans 12:2 (Amplified Bible)
Do not be conformed to this world (this age), [fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs], but be transformed (changed) by the [entire] renewal of your mind [by its new ideals and its new attitude], so that you may prove [for yourselves] what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect [in His sight for you].
Spiritual man or woman of GOD always lives by faith not by sight.
Proverbs 9:5 (Amplified Bible)
Come, eat of my bread and drink of the [spiritual] wine which I have mixed.
2 Corinthians 5:7 (Amplified Bible)
For we walk by faith [we regulate our lives and conduct ourselves by our conviction or belief respecting man’s relationship to God and divine things, with trust and holy fervor; thus we walk] not by sight or appearance.
That's why spiritual man or woman of GOD does things that can't be understood by physical senses or by even earthly wisdom.
James 1:5 (Amplified Bible)
If any of you is deficient in wisdom, let him ask of the giving God [Who gives] to everyone liberally and ungrudgingly, without reproaching or faultfinding, and it will be given him.
B. Till she died.
"to the day of her death"
Adam was given a chance by the LORD GOD to learn His WAYS but he died a miserable man without knowing and having relationship with his Creator.
Genesis 5:5 (Amplified Bible)
So altogether Adam lived 930 years, and he died.
Unlike Enoch who only lived partial age of Adam but got to know the LORD GOD in a very special way.
Genesis 5:22 (Amplified Bible)
Enoch walked [in habitual fellowship] with God after the birth of Methuselah 300 years and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:24 (Amplified Bible)
And Enoch walked [in habitual fellowship] with God; and he was not, for God took him [home with Him].
1 Samuel 15:35 (Amplified Bible)
And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death, though Samuel grieved over Saul. And the Lord repented that He had made Saul king over Israel.
Isaiah 22:14 (Amplified Bible)
And the Lord of hosts revealed Himself in my ears [as He said], Surely this unatoned sin shall not be purged from you until [you are punished—and the punishment will be] death, says the Lord God of hosts.
Matthew 1:25 (Amplified Bible)
But he had no union with her as her husband until she had borne her firstborn Son; and he called His name Jesus.
John 11:25 (Amplified Bible)
Jesus said to her, I am [Myself] the Resurrection and the Life. Whoever believes in (adheres to, trusts in, and relies on) Me, although he may die, yet he shall live;
If you and I are believers or born again CHRISTians, we believe GOD even though we die physically CHRIST JESUS will raise us up.
It's more tragic than death if you have been given a chance to live a long life, but in that long life you never knew the LORD JESUS and got any relationship with Him.
IX. CONCLUSION:
Praise, worship, glorify, adore, bless, honor, acknowledge and thank You very much LORD JESUS for Your sake I delight in all of these negative things that happened in my life, because when I'm weak then You are strong.
