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SAA Notes
Promise, prayer, victory! A house (extended family) and throne forever! Verses 17:11-14 are fulfilled in the birth, ministry, death, resurrection, ascension and return of Jesus Christ. Nathan said: your offspring will build My house. Jesus said: destroy this house and I will rebuild it in three days!
SJA Notes
* Holy God, unless You build the house, those who build it labour in vain.
“Who am I, O LORD God, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far?”
We see much of God’s wonderful sovereign design reflected in David’s prayerful response to the Lord.
David had thought to build an earthly house for God, and instead God say,
“Moreover, I declare to you that the LORD will build you a house.”
David though to build God a house. Instead, God gives a full-of-hope promise, that a son (Solomon, but then deeper the SON in Jesus) to come who would build the temple.
How much we can see in these words, in this design!
That God instead builds a house for David, an eternal inheritance.
And it is a house He has built for us too!
This temple – Jesus, God’s word become flesh – Broken down on the cross and then raised up into glory on the third day, the Lord’s day, the new Sabbath – Praise His Name!
We can be encouraged to find hope in what God says to David here. Jesus is David’s greater son. And Jesus is the true reality of the temple that we are a part of (living stones, 1 Peter 2).
Hallelujah, what a Saviour!
* Dear God,
Thank You for your promises to David here – Please help us to find hope in them.
Thank You for David’s response here – Please help us to find example in his words.
Thank You for Jesus, our king and saviour – Please help us to see Him today!
Amen.