The Highest Vista of All [Part 2]

Pastor author and Bible teacher Alan Wright bring your shame and come is your seat up at the Kings table in there for the rest of your life. Enjoy the banquet of grace Esther Allen another message of good news that will help you see yourself in a whole new light. By being excited for you to hear the teaching today. In the series. Free yourself yourself.

I want to make sure you know how to get our special resource right now could be yours for your donation this month to Helen right ministries as you listen to today's message go deeper as we send you today's special offer. Contact us at pastoralan.org or call 877-544-4860 that's 877-544-4860. More on that later in the program. Now let's get started with today's teaching here Allen right pick up reading the story in first Samuel is always making a covenant saying don't kill them, show them love, David agrees. David says yes and they have made this covenant so the covenant was to assure that David would not extinguish the lineage of Saul and Jonathan, and their descendents. A covenant and agreement between two in the story continues because what happens is that news does come to my favorite chef who is young child just five years old and to the nanny that keeps my favorite chef is in watching worrying about this day. Knowing and fearing as everybody knew that David was overcome the power eventually this day would come. If we read in second Samuel chapter 4 verse four Jonathan, the son of Saul had a son who was crippled in his feet. He was five years old when the news about Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel and his nurse took him up and fled and she fled in her haste he fell and became lame in his name was my favorite chef. He was, he was named shame and now he has suffered a great fall because he and his nanny were running in fear of the king. They didn't know and now he's crippled a great fear of the king that he assumes what Harmon a great fall but left him lame great fear and a great fall and immobilized start sounding familiar a great fear and a great fall. Even though he didn't know the king and didn't know about the covenant that had been made between David and Jonathan so favorite chef goes into hiding because now the purpose of his life is to just not be found out. Just like we learned all throughout our study together. What shame does is it it leads you into hiding because you don't want to be found out, for fear of punishment and and this is my favorite chef and he is he is hiding from from the king that he doesn't know had made a covenant with his father to bless the descendents, including the fish.

What blessing might we forfeit just because we hide ourselves from the very God wants to bless us the story then continues after David has come to power in second Samuel chapter 9 David has come to the throne, and David has expanded the borders of Israel. He has secured them and with military prowess.

He has shown that he loves the people that he loves God he is beloved by all the people. David is is the most wonderful king you could ever imagine having and he is so full of gratitude.

You remember he had been running.

He had been running just for his life from King Saul. And now he's being is not only been spared but God is brought I put on the throne of Israel, and he has all things at his hands.

His life is full. His heart is full of gratitude is full of worship is full of wonder is full of celebration and so this is what happens at chapter 9 verse one. David said, is there still anyone left of the house of Saul, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan's sake. He just is saying is there anybody that I couldn't bless I think sometimes people have a image of God is the reason he created the world and created all of us was because he was sitting up in heaven, lonely, and he was like you know what am I gonna do appear God up there just twiddling his thumbs in his like I know I need to make some people so I won't be so lonely and and any made you and me and and we came in and kind of saved God from his loneliness. What a silly idea God was happy all by himself. Father, son and Holy Spirit sublime Trinity. He he made the world because God is so full of wonder and beauty and creativity that he is like a master painter and he was ready to paint his masterpiece he was. He was the sculptor and he was ready to demonstrate the beauty that was within him everything that is been made, including you, being made in his own image. You were made at the overflow of God's fullness. He is full of life and full of love and so God is pictured here as one like King David he is the king that he is upon the throne of the cosmos in the heart of God.

If you want understand the heart of God understand it like this. God is always saying is there anyone that I could bless anyone that would be ready to receive the magnificence of my love. David is just saying I don't even know if Jonathan has any living descendents. Any children any grandchildren I really know if they exist, but I just feel like blessing somebody because of the covenant that I made with Jonathan, is there anybody Allen right will have more teaching moment from today's important series to be accepted perfectly free to be yourself with no fear of injection rolled her eyes look fun last know my anxious feeling that you feel like the pressure is always on right here in my longing for life with no show in paradise before sin came into the world. This relationship no shaking ever since the fall of the human heart has been riddled with shame you can't be too acceptable to send out tiny perfect in order to meet others to decide who listens on the measure at them as well. Right now the rolled heart is pleasing shame and there is only the grace of God in Jesus Christ.

How we cleaned for yourself yourself exposes the lousy machine he leads you into a revolution of God's love that heals your cell discomfort freedom joy as you shall performance-based rating shame and fear for good life-changing full-length book from Allen right for yourself. The gospel is shared when you get Allen right ministries. This broadcast is only possible because of listener financial support. When you get today. We will send you a special offer were in the final days of this special offer being made available to you.

We are happy to send this to you as I thanks from Allen right ministries, seven 877-544-4860 877-544-4861 come to our website past Rowan.org today's teaching. Now you once again is and so the servant verse number two, whose name was Eva was called to David and the king said to use eBuddy set I'm your servant, and the king said, is there not still someone of the house of Saul, that I might show the kindness of God to him and Zima said to the king. There is still a son of Jonathan. He's crippled in his feet and the king said to him, where is he, Zima said to the king. He is in the house of my care, the son of Miele at low bar.

Scholars say that loader bar either means the place of no pasture or it may just mean no place barren place.

The man whose name was shame who was crippled because he fell during the great anxious run was hiding out in the place of no pasture, no life, no productivity, fearing being found out existing but not really living with OSHA and all the while he had no idea that there was a king in Israel that was calling out for someone just like if we could just understand the heart of God. If we could just get a glimpse into the heart of the king of the cosmos. What we would see is that he is pursuing us with his Majesty with his love and he wants us to experience these that loader bar verse five and King David sent, and brought him from the house of Mark here, the son of a Miele at loader bar. Can you imagine that day. Can you imagine that day for much of a chef when the Kings soldiers showed up at the door when they just showed up at the door knocking at the door for a chef.

Someone opens the door and there is the Kings Regiment in the king's horses. He said where is my favorite chef for a chef is hiding in them most remote part of the house. This is the day they'd feared this is the day they'd worried about.

This is the day that the bishop had dreaded every day of his life. He had thought about this day in which he would be found out and taken to the king and executed us wonder what it was like when he came soldier said, with us, the king wants to see. So off they go in with him a chef son of son verse six came to David and fell on his face and paid homage. He was falling down her trembling certain that he would be doomed at this point, you can never ever imagine what King David was say to him. In verse seven, David said to him, do not fear. Don't be afraid. Fear not, fear not, do not be afraid someone is that these counted up and found 365 instances in the Bible where God says do not be afraid enough, one per day. Don't be afraid.

He said do not be afraid, for I will show you kindness for the sake of your father Jonathan and I will restore to you all the land of Saul your father and you shall eat at my table always and he paid homage and he said this is a voice of shame speaking with Deborah chef said what is your servant you should show regard for a dead dog such as I can't be the hardest thing about the gospel is about faith is it is seems too good to be true to have a friend a preacher who said it lets you preach the gospel, and it sounds too good to be true, but you haven't really heard the gospel nor has it been proclaimed. He said don't be afraid to show you kindness for the sake of your father Jonathan and the king said Zima Saul servant, he said to them all that belong to Saul and all his house. I've given to your master's grandson and you and your sons and your service shall till the land for him shall bring in the produce your master's grandson might have bread to eat.

But my favorite chef your master's grandson shall always eat at my table so it said in the next verse of my favorite chef ate at David's table like one of the king's son and then it says again it verse 13 for Bishop lived in Jerusalem. 48.

Always at the king's table 3 times is repeated for Bishop you eat at my table. My finish up the king's table for Bishop eight at the Kings table discs toward beautiful story is a story not about my fit was chef.

It's a story about the king. It's a story about a covenant, because the reason that my fit was chef was blessed at absolutely nothing to do with chef. The only thing that my favorite chef had going for them was that his father had made a covenant with the king of Israel, and so in a very real sense what you could say is that my fit was chef was blessed because he was in Jonathan and because the king had made a covenant with Jonathan promising to bless Jonathan and Jonathan had made a covenant with the king promising to be faithful to King David and they had agreed in their covenantal faithfulness and their obedience to one another to keep their word to one another. What happened was that Jonathan was 1/3 party was just benefiting from this covenant, that it been made.

He just he was just brought into it just brought in the cages. I want to bless somebody for the sake of the promises that I made to Jonathan so if you were in Jonathan, then you were going to be at the Kings table. That's a covenant. Here is the highest Vista of all for Christian theology for the exhilaration of your soul to understand what the gospel is all about, and this has transformed my life and healed my shame as much as any single revelation. I always thought that I was in a confident with the father and that God had said, essentially, if you will be a good disciple and if you will be faithful and if you will you will serve me and you will keep up your part in this covenant, then you will really be blast and what I discovered is that the new covenant is new because yes, there's a divine representative and there's a human representative there is in this covenant, God and man, but I'm not the one, and you're not the one that is the representative because we are told in Hebrews that Jesus has obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as he is also mediator of a better covenant, which was of better promises. In this we learn, for there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Jesus Christ that Jesus of being both God and man was able on behalf of humanity to be the human representative in the covenant promising to obey, promising to be faithful, and he also because he was the God man he in Jesus himself. He was God.

God himself was representing himself through Jesus to all humanity and he is a covenant partner. So in this one man in in Jesus Christ there is both God's side of the covenant and the human side of the covenant. In other words, the new covenant is new because it is not about me and God is about the father and the son is about one God man Jesus made the covenant with the father and the father said, if you will be obedient on behalf of all humanity. I will pour out unlimited blessing upon you and the son said to the father. If I remain obedient when you promise that you will never remove your steadfast love for me and the father promised.

This was this was a covenant that was made between the father and the son. There's one mediator.

We are not the mediator. The son is the mediator and there's a new covenant and and other words were taken out of it once were just like chef and in the bottom line of this was the question is not whether my fit was chef was obedient not worth my fit was chef was beautiful, not where the chef could run like the wind whether my favorite chef could contribute to the Kings army yet nothing to do. It just it is her somebody had to bless for the sake of Jonathan and what the father says now is is her somebody who is in Christ that I could just blessing for the sake of my son who kept my covenant went faithfully, even to the cross and scorned it. Shame to complement the sin of the world. The new covenant is, is the gospel truth that says anyone who is in Christ is blessed forever with every spiritual blessing if my favorite chef got blessed because he was in Jonathan, how much more are we blessed because we are in Christ. This goes far to explain what Paul means in Ephesians chapter 1, when he said we are blessed in Christ with every spiritual blessing to me this informs what Paul says and what he means. We were chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world because anybody that accepts Christ becomes Christ's and in Christ, we are blessed and it takes us out of the picture as a what it means instead is it the Christian life is not about me trying to keep my end of a bargain.

Instead, the Christian life is about me being like my fit was chef and the invitation of God is come and bring your crippled legs and bring your shame and come and scoot your seat up at the Kings table and there for the rest of your life. Enjoy the banquet of grace.

This all gives new meaning to me every time that I take communion and I hold up the cup or someone else holds it up and reminds us of the words of Jesus who says this is the cup of the new company. This is the fulfillment of what Jeremiah had prophesied when he said this time is coming when I'll make a new covenant with my people and it won't be like the old, it'll be a new company.

The new covenant is an invitation to anyone who would simply place their trust in Christ.

For whoever would receive Christ. The Bible says has the right to become a child of God. In other words, through Jesus Christ, all of us must fit was shafts are invited to dine with the king now and forever more. That's the new covenant that is the gospel. Alan running today's teaching the highest Vista of all Boyd's good news from the series for yourself.

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Good news all for today. Stick with this would be like to be accepted perfectly free to be yourself with no fear of ejection rolled her eyes make fun of you. I love you last no more anxious feeling that you feel like a pressure is always on really that lax) longing for life with no show in paradise before sin came into the world Bible tells us in this relationship notion since the fall of the human heart has been riddled with shame around camp into the acceptable seem condescending, small, tiny, perfect in order to meet others to decide who listens on the measure at them as well. Right now the road heart is pleasing shame and there's only grace of God in Jesus Christ.

How we cleaned look for yourself yourself exposes the lies of shame. He leads you into a revolution of God's love that heals your cell discovered freedom joy as you shall performance-based living shame a few from good life-changing full-length book from Alan Wright for yourself.

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We will send you a special offer. We are happy to send this to you as I thanks from Alan Wright Ministries were in the final days of this special offer being made available to you. Call us at 877-544-4860 877-544-4861 come to our website past Rowan.org back down to three with Pastor Alan and somebody's listening right now boy they've they've heard something that has really put their hardness. It is as good. This is where this is.

This is good theology is talking about this is if it's like what happened to me when I really saw the new covenant it will rock your whole world because we spent so much of our lives thinking that the covenant is sort of a modified old covenant like no little people mill government agreed that they would do their best for God to know and they'd be blessed and somehow we just bring Jesus into the equation and think that we got a new covenant discuss don't have Jesus and he talked about grace. That's not what it is all it is an entirely new covenant that is rendered the old fulfilled and obsolete. The writer of Hebrews says therefore we are in a covenant that is rooted in the finished work of Jesus and his shed blood for us on our behalf and this covenant is altogether better, because it does not depend upon my righteousness, but upon Jesus. Now when you understand the covenant and that terms. It is the highest Vista of all and point doesn't change everything. Today's good news message listener supported production Alan Wright Ministries