The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-07-23
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.


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ARRANGED from Peloubet's Notes.l
GOLDEN TExT.-In Thee. o Lord. do I
put my trust.-Psa. III.
THE SECTION covers the whole Messi-.
anic idea Of David's time, including Chap.
Z, and the parallel, Chron. HI-N. Psalm
no. the conquering King; Psalm O. the err
throned Messiah: Psalm 72, the righteous
King; Psalm IS, the burial of the Messiah,
and Psalm Is, the advent OF Jehovah as
Deliverer, are Messianic psalms.
TIME.-Probably not long after the last
lesson, B. c. 1892 David was about "A years
old.
PLACE.-Jerusalem.
LESSON NOTES
I. David's Desire to Build Temple
VS.. 1-3. The Kingdom was now fairly
launched. The people were united, the
ark was on Mount Zion, religious serv-
ices were renewed. David lived in a
magnificent palace, from which he
looked out upon the place of worship for
the nation and saw only tent. 1t did
not seem right and fitting that any
house, even kings, should be more
beautiful and costly than Gods house.
David accordingly consulted the
prophet Nathan whether he should not
build fitting temple for the worship
of Jehovah. The proposal struck the
prophet favorably, and he bade him
Godspeed, for God approved of it.
II. The Desire Not Granted in the
Form Proposed.-Vs. 4-10. That night
the word of the Lord came to Nathan
in vision forbidding David to build
the house. The prophet was right in
the assurance that the object of David's
desire was pleasing to God, but there
was need of light upon the best way of
accomplishing it. The reasons why
David should not build were probably:
az The temple was to be type of the
church, a kingdom of peace carried on
by peaceful measures, and bringing
peace, while David was man of war.
(2) The kingdom had not yet reached
it's promised limits, and not yet suffi-
ciently established to allow David to
take the time from it's organization
be built much more magnificently by
David's son in the peaceful times which
David, as warrior and statesman, would
bring to the Kingdom. Here follows a
very brief historical resume, given that
David's faith should be confirmed in the
promises about to be given him, be-
cause God had proved Himself able and
willing to fulfill them. And in looking
back over his history he could see that
God had sometimes dealt with him mys-
teriously, as he was doing now, in re-
fusing him the desire of his heart in
the form he had planned, but that in the
end Gods plan was always wisest and
best.
III. David's Desire Granted in Other
and Better Ways.--Vs. lilo. These
promises look far beyond David's time,
are the further unfolding of the Mes
sianic prophesies which began with
Adam in the promise that the seed of
the woman should ultimately triumph
over the serpent, and the promise TO
Abraham that in his seed all the ma
tions of the earth should be blessed.
Now the Messianic promise becomes
more definite in David, unfolding in
larger promises and clearer visions.
The covenant promised to David was
threefold.
First, the house of David was to be
established forever. Solomon recog-
niz ed the fulfillment of this promise
in his elevation to the throne, then
the line of David's descendants who
succeeded him on the throne of Ju-
dah, and finally Christ came, in whom
the prophecy reaches it's highest full
f1llment. But it is only in Jesus Christ
that it becomes an eternal throne.
Second, the house of the Lord should
be built by David's seed. The glorious
temple that David desires to build was
built by his son Solomon, while David
himself had the privilege of making
great preparations for this temple, at
least s150,Oo0,OOO in gold, besides vast
quantities of other material. But this
temple was but one expression and
symbol of Gods spiritual temple,
"built upon the foundation of the
apostles apd prophets, Jesus Christ
Himself being the chief cornerstone;
in whom all the building, fitly framed
together, groweth unto an holy temple
in the Lord; in whom ye also are build
ed together for an habitation of God
through the spirit" (Eph. 2: 2O-22).
AhC VSAuPiC VI ASOAoAAOh voc viz AAAS-
torical movement toward realization
of the prediction, for that ideal was
something higher and more glorious
than the temple of Solomon."-Messi-
anic Prophecy, p. 129. Thus David's
son Solomon built the temple at Jeru-
salem. David's greater son built the
spiritual temple of the whole world.
Third. David's Seed Should be the
Son of God in Peculiar Sense: This
prediction applied to Solomon, but he
is chiefly ''only the herald Of its reali-
zation," through David's line TO its
elimination in David's greater Son, the
Messiah. In Jesus, the Son of God,
is Gods fatherhood best made known,
through Him to all who love and obey
Him. There was only one way in
which David's descendants could en-
Joy this promised blessing, and that
was by obedience. II they refused 70
be obedient sons, they must suffer the
punishment and loss due to their sins
"But," even II they were punished be-
cause of disobedience the Lord said,