Spotless Sovereign: Beholding The Eternal Glory Of The King - 2 Samuel 7:11-16 Series

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2 Samuel 7:11 …"'The LORD declares to you that the LORD himself will make a house for you: 12 When your days are over and you rest with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring to succeed you, who will come from your own body, and I will establish his kingdom. 13 He is the one who will build a house for my Name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. 14 I will be his father, and he will be my son. When he does wrong, I will punish him with the rod of men, with floggings inflicted by men. 15 But my love will never be taken away from him, as I took it away from Saul, whom I removed from before you. 16 Your house and your kingdom will endure forever before me; your throne will be established forever.'"

Introduction: Now that’s a house

There is an old movie about a man from the Australian outback who visits his friend New York City and as they are out walking at night a mugger comes up and pulls a knife on them. The friend is scared to death and says, “Give him your wallet.”

“Why?”

“He’s got a knife.”

“That’s not a knife. This is a knife.”

Then he pulls out this huge, giant knife that he uses to kill crocodiles and the mugger runs for his life. In 2 Samuel 7 David unveils the blueprints for the spectacular Temple he was going to construct for God and says, “God, look at this house I plan to build for You.” And God takes one look at David’s blueprints and says, “That’s not a house. This is a house…” And He goes on to describe the house He is going to build for David. The word house can refer to a building or to a dynasty, so this is a play on words.

“You want to build a building for Me?”

“No, I’m going to build a dynasty for you.”

What we give to God is not impressive. What is impressive is what God gives to us. And that is a principle that should pervade every nook and cranny of our lives. Divine workmanship, not human, is best for both glorifying God and for benefiting people. Nothing we give to God or to others or to ourselves is of any value unless it is the product of divine workmanship.

So we strive to seek divine workmanship in all we do. What if your marriage had more divine workmanship and less human innovation? What about your career? Or ministry? “How do I do that? How do I make my marriage or work or ministry a product of divine workmanship?” By following God’s will. That is why we seek God’s will. We do not seek God’s will so that our lives will go more smoothly. Many times God’s will is the bumpiest, most trouble-filled path there is. The reason we seek God’s will, and the reason we want to walk on the path where God guides us, is so that all that we do ends up being a product of God’s workmanship.

I think a lot of people say, “God show me Your will” and what they really mean is “God show me which decision will be the most profitable financially.” Or “Show me which option will end up with the least problems.” If that is what a person means by “Show me Your will” then that person is not really seeking God’s will. “Show me Your will” means “God, I want to be doing nothing but the things You call me to do, so that You will be at work in all I do. I want all of my life to be divine workmanship.” Well that is what we are seeing here in 2 Samuel 7 – divine workmanship in David’s life.

Messianic Hope

Conditional and certain (Righteousness of the Messiah)

God is going to build a house for David – a lasting dynasty so that David’s line of descendents will reign on the throne forever. But that brings up the tricky question of who this prophecy is referring to, because David’s son Solomon did not hold on to the throne forever. He did build a temple, but most of the kingdom was taken away from him.

1 Kings 11:10-11 Although [God] had forbidden Solomon to follow other gods, Solomon did not keep the LORD's command. 11 So the LORD said to Solomon, "Since this is your attitude and you have not kept my covenant and my decrees, which I commanded you, I will most certainly tear the kingdom away from you and give it to one of your subordinates.