Episode Transcript
Good morning.
It's 10 o'clock.
Time for us to begin.
And this morning we'll be in Job chapter 5 and verse 3.
Job chapter 5, verse 3.
And I shared a blessing with Pastor recently.
My mother has uh Begun to tune in online and watch my Sunday school and she's trying to catch up.
So Brandon, thank you for putting those podcasts on our website.
So the messages don't disappear after 30 days on our website.
They stay And so I told Ann, I said, I've got to watch what I say up here.
My mother's watching.
Got to watch what I say anyway, because God's watching, right?
So this morning we're in Job chapter 5, verse 3.
We took a good look at the first part of this verse, which reads like one of Solomon's proverbs.
And the first part of the verse said, I have seen the foolish taking root.
And we looked closely at the words foolish and the word root last week.
And from what we learned, we were able to come up with this truth that the rooting of the foolish will result in their uprooting.
They're rooted in the wrong thing.
And they think that they're on good ground.
And about these foolish people who have taken root, Eliphaz says, look back in your text.
But suddenly I cursed his habitation.
So he did so instantly upon considering that the habitation of the foolish who took root Elapaz took no time to think about whether or not to curse the habitation of those people.
There was nothing about this habitation to be commended.
In fact, Eliphaz didn't look at the foolish and say, boy, they've got a lot of stuff.
I'd like to have some of that.
He didn't covet the foolish.
He cursed their habitation.
Even though they were rooted, they were rooted in the wrong thing.
Now what does it mean?
that he cursed his habitation.
Well just like a lot of other English words, this was The English word in the 1600s, it was used, and in the 1700s, under the revisions, the King James Translation used this word Well now we fast forward 300 years later, and we use it a little bit differently today, don't we?
When you hear about somebody who was cursing, immediately you think of them using profanity And that's not how it was used in the Bible.
So the Hebrew word for cursed means to scoop out or to hollow.
And that's probably not what you thought it would mean.
But there it is.
And I think by looking at another verse with this same Hebrew word translated, we can gain a better understanding of what the word cursed means here in our text.
So I'll read to you from Numbers chapter 24 And in that chapter, there was a king named Balak who wanted Balaam to curse the nation of Israel And every time Balaam would open his mouth, God would cause blessing toward Israel to be spoken rather than cursing.
And here's verse 10 from Numbers 24.
And Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he smote his hands together, and Balak said unto Balaam, I called thee to curse mine enemies.
And behold, thou hast altogether blessed them these three times.
Now what was Balak wanting Balaam to do?
Balak wanted Balaam to hollow out a people whom God had blessed.
God had blessed them.
He wanted Balak by his cursing to hollow it out, to scoop those blessings out.
And those were the blessings God had given.
Now, when God blessed Israel, he filled Israel.
Had God cursed Israel, he would have hollowed them out.
And God certainly did that on some occasions.
And perhaps this is what Balak was counting on.
He had seen God or had known of God through the historical writings.
Through the words of the prophets, he had known that there were times when God hollowed out.
He cursed Israel for their sin, for their disobedience.
But you won't see this Hebrew word for cursed anywhere else in the Old Testament, but in the book of Job and also in the book of Numbers. uh pertaining to that interaction between Balak and Balaam.
Now in cases where God cursed Israel The Hebrew word for curse, it was different than the one it is in our text here And in many of those cases, it was a word that means to lighten or to make light.
Now, what happens if you scoop something out or you hollow it out?
You make it lighter, don't you?
So these words aren't strangers to one another even though they are different in the Hebrew language.
So what happened was Israel thought more highly of itself than it ought to have, so God cursed them in that way.
And in either case, when God cursed Israel, whether we have the word used in our text or we have the other Hebrew word used, it means to lighten.
When God cursed Israel, it was the opposite of blessing them.
And very plainly, if you go back to Deuteronomy chapter 11, verses 26 through 28.
Deuteronomy chapter 11, verses 26 through 28.
Moses says this, Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse.
A blessing if ye obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you this day, and a curse if ye will not obey the commandments of the Lord your God But turn aside out of the way which I command you this day to go after other gods which ye have not known.
So whether the Hebrew word for curse in our text is used or another word with a slightly different meaning, it's evident that cursing is the opposite of blessing.
So for God to curse Israel, like he promised he would do in Deuteronomy, he would remove their blessings.
And for Balaam to curse Israel as King Balak wanted him to, he would implore God to hollow out or to scoop out Their blessings.
Now looking back now at the word curse in our text and how it means to hollow out or to scoop out, listen to what the psalmist wrote.
The psalmist wrote this in Psalm 107, verses 8 through 9.
Psalm 107, verses 8 through 9.
Oh, that men would praise the Lord for his goodness and for his wonderful works to the children of men, for he satisfieth the longing soul and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.
Now that word filleth is translated on two other occasions as the word overflow.
And that's the meaning of this, to overflow.
So God caused Israel to overflow with blessing.
He didn't just give them a flat load, as truckers would say, if you've ever seen a dump truck going down the highway That dump truck is trying to take as much product to its destination as legal and sometimes a little bit more.
And that's why I had one of the jobs I had is because they usually took a little bit more But you'll see a big hump in the middle of that dump truck.
Now that's overflow, especially when it's coming off the side and hitting your windshields when you try to pass it.
A flat load goes across like this.
It doesn't stick up over the top and when they have a flat load they're more likely to be in compliance with the weight law than uh if they have a big hump.
Now that was pretty exciting stuff, wasn't it?
I did that for seven years.
What a job.
But God, when God blessed Israel, he didn't just give them a flat load.
He put a big hump in the dump truck, in the bed.
It was overflowing.
And so that's the image that comes to mind for me.
And so Eliphaz's use of this word Is not in regard to God hollowing out the blessing He gave His people But he's using the word cursed.
He said I cur him suddenly I cursed his habitation, meaning that of the fool He's using that word cursed to signify the hollowing out of the overflow, the abundance that the foolish has.
The foolish one has in his habitation.
Remember, it was the foolish who took root, who were the object of this saying, but suddenly I cursed his habitation So let's look at the word habitation, and then we can return to the phrase, suddenly I cursed his habitation.
Habitation is the dwelling place.
It could be a barn, a tent.
A condo or a connex box, you know, whatever it is you want to live in.
But it's a habitation just the same.
It's where someone lives And the foolish man has taken root in earthly things, and many of the foolish people on this earth have a lot of earthly wealth.
And I'm not the least bit jealous of them because my wealth is spiritual and it's priceless and it doesn't change with the stock market or with whether I have a job or not It doesn't depend on my next raise or pay cut.
And you you know what uh my wife and I do a lot of driving around One of our favorite parts of the week is when we just go drive somewhere.
Now that sounds pretty exciting, doesn't it?
You young people should aspire to take drives out in the country And so we go by houses, and sometimes there are some really nice looking big houses out there in the country.
And my wife will say Look at that, that is a beautiful house.
And do you know what I say?
Because I'm a good conversationist.
I say, looks like a lot of vacuuming to me And that's how I talk myself out of the desire to have a big house.
I've have vacuumed our house.
And it's uh it's a chore.
So I certainly don't want more of that And that right there keeps me from ever wanting to have such a large house.
But not everyone who has a large house or a lot of possessions is foolish.
Abraham and Solomon were men of great riches, and they were not foolish.
They trusted in God.
Job was also one of those men.
But some who have much in the way of possessions are foolish.
And they think they have it made.
They think they have everything they could ever ask for And I've been around some of those people, and maybe you have too.
And do you know what I find is the case with the majority of the ones I've been around who are like that?
They're never satisfied.
They want more and more and more and covet and covet and can't ever just be content with what they have.
And many of them have no desire for spiritual things at all.
God's word's not on their radar.
And they live in abundance.
They're overflowing with things, with power, influence, money.
And I want us to see one of the primary differences between the foolish and the wise.
And that difference is found in what they covet.
Paul wrote about it in 1 Timothy chapter 6.
1 Timothy chapter 6, and I'll read verses 6 through 10.
But godliness with contentment is great gain.
For we brought nothing into this world And it is certain we can carry nothing out.
Remember when Job said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither.
The Lord hath given, the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord.
He understood this principle Paul was telling Timothy about.
And having food and raiment, that means clothing, let us there be therewith content.
But they that will be rich, that means that's their primary desire, they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish There's our word, foolish, and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition, for the love of money is the root of all evil.
Which while some have coveted after, they have erred from the faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
Now a wise person, a biblically wise person, will be content with food and clothing.
Now that'll that ought to reset your baseline right there.
So if you came in today and you you don't need to confess anything to me.
I'm not a Catholic priest and they can't do anything for you anyway.
You tell God about it, he already knows.
But if you came in today with a discontented heart, if you had something to eat, and all of you have clothes on, thank you.
You have raiment.
Then right there, stop right there, you ought to be content because the Bible says so.
Not because I say so.
Bible says it And yes, I like having a roof over my head.
I like having air conditioning in the summer and an electric blanket in the winter.
But without those things, I have a biblically commanded duty to be content.
If man had been content with the food God gave him, he would have never needed clothing in the first place.
Did you know that?
You might think, well, that sounds kind of weird, Brother Andy.
You just said you're glad we're all clothed today, and I am.
Genesis chapter 3, verses 1 through 3.
We always go back to Genesis, don't we?
Genesis chapter 3, verses 1 through 3.
Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made.
And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden.
And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, ye shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it lest ye die.
Now, at this time in history, man's clothing was the skin God put on his body, on her body.
And going back to the chapter before the one I just read you, Genesis chapter 2, verse 25 says This is talking about Adam and Eve.
And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed In other words, at that time, they were content with food and raiment.
There was no sin in the world God gave them plenty of good food to eat, and they were satisfied.
God kept them, now you think about this, they were naked and not ashamed.
So things like thermoregulation come to my mind.
I bet you think about thermoregulation often as well God kept them warm enough so they wouldn't freeze.
He kept them cool enough so they wouldn't overheat.
Which tells me Eve had not come to menopause just yet.
That would be after the garden.
Imagine that.
Eden, the Garden of Eden had the perfect thermostat.
And Ladies, I'm sorry, death brought not only, or sin brought not only death, but it brought hot flashes too.
And those are going away when Jesus comes.
I can hear my wife saying amen all the way over here in the fellowship hall.
But I want what I want you to see here is that until The serpent deceived Eve and Adam.
They did not covet any earthly thing.
God provided all they needed, and they were perfectly satisfied.
Now, once they coveted the things that the serpent promised, they ate of the forbidden fruit.
Once they did that, they not only realized that they were naked, but they tried to hide it from God.
In other words, they were ashamed then.
They made themselves aprons of fig leaves to try to cover their nakedness.
And from that day forward.
Man has coveted his neighbor's ox, ass, manservant, maidservant, his power, his influence, fame, anything else you can name, man has coveted it.
Exodus chapter 20, verse 17 says, Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife Nor his man servant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor's.
Covetousness is a sin that leads to all kinds of other sins.
Once you go down the road of coveting, it's very hard to turn back.
And social media has made it worse, not better.
When I was a kid, in order to see what someone else had, They either had to wear it to school, take a picture of it, and show you, you know, member the Polaroids, and tell you about it in person or over the phone, or perhaps you saw it on television Today, you can find out what everyone has in the blink of an eye through social media.
In fact, many social media influencers make their living appealing to people's covetousness, appealing to people who want what they have, who want to look like they do.
And it's a destructive force, and God knew it before he made man.
He knew that the result of sin would be covetousness.
When he told Adam, In the day thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die, he could have also said, In the day thou covetest thereof, thou shalt surely die.
The foolish covet, they covet the wrong things, and then they take root in what they covet once they get it.
However, did you know that not all coveting is wrong?
1 Corinthians chapter 12.
I always got Bible when I say stuff like that because I just love the look on your face.
What?
You just got through talking about coveting.
I always got Bible for it.
I wouldn't go without it.
1 Corinthians 12, 27 through 31 Paul wrote to that church, Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets Thirdly, teachers.
After that, miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.
Are all apostles?
Are all prophets?
Are all teachers?
Are all workers of miracles?
Have all the gifts of healing?
Do all speak with tongues?
Do all interpret?
Listen to this.
But covet earnestly.
Now God's telling us not only covet, but covet earnestly.
The best gifts.
And yet show I unto you a more excellent way.
So in this New Testament passage, the word covet is a Greek word That's also translated as the words zealously affected.
Zealously affected, or to be zealous.
And if you were to read the list, I just read you to a foolish person who's taken root in the things of the world.
He would think you to be a fool.
He'd say, how how are though why would you covet any of that?
Why would I want any of that?
Do you remember the story in Luke chapter 12?
about the rich man who wanted to tear down his barns and build new ones to hold all of the stuff that he had, all the excess that he had.
Imagine telling him that rather than coveting more riches, sir, you should covet the gifts of which the Apostle Paul wrote.
And even those gifts, which Paul wrote about, he said were exceeded by a more excellent way than that.
So don't expect the foolish person to understand why you desire spiritual things over earthly things.
If somebody were to say, well, you know, Brother So-and-so here works at a job, and let's say He works Monday through Friday and the boss tells him, hey, look, we have uh voluntary overtime on on Sunday.
If you want to come in Sunday, we'll pay you time and a half for that whole shift You don't have to do it, but but if you want to, it's good money.
And so that employee says, you know what, thanks for the offer, but I've I'm gonna be in church.
And then that worldly boss would say, well, you gonna give up that money?
Oh yeah.
Yeah, I'm gonna give up every bit of that money I got plenty of money.
God's provided.
And I'm going to church because I'm going to feed on the Word of God.
Worldly person does not understand it.
And don't expect them to you can explain it to them and you should.
Tell them why it's precious to you But don't expect them to go, oh well that makes sense, because it doesn't.
Not to them.
You who would make that decision have been rooted and grounded in Christ, but the foolish man has taken root in anything and everything except for Christ.
And the great irony here is that all the earthly things in which the foolish man has taken root And on which he's formed his habitation, his dwelling place, are things God created.
Jesus warned his disciples about this covetousness and how to avoid it.
In Matthew chapter 6, which is the Sermon on the Mount.
And I'll read verses 19 through 21.
So remember, he's talking to his disciples.
That's you and me, right?
Matthew 6, verses 19 through 21.
He said, Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal.
But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal.
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Now when the foolish take root, They lay up treasures that are corruptible.
And the emphasis here is that that's what their desire is.
It's Jesus isn't telling us, don't have a savings account.
There are some people who take it that way.
I say well we're not supposed to have anything, so they walk around uh barefooted with a sheet over 'em and and don't have anything at all and don't want to live anywhere and I guess they sleep on the street.
That's not what he's telling us to do If you notice, and this is what happens when you study things in context versus out of context.
He said, where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
So where is your heart?
If my heart is toward the things of God, then that's the most important thing to me.
The earthly treasures are secondary.
Whether I have earthly treasures or not, I'm laying up treasures in heaven.
Perhaps you remember our lesson when we studied chapter 4 in Job.
It's been a while, back in verse 19, where Eliphaz said this to Job.
Speaking of why God wouldn't trust a man, how much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
Now in the Matthew text that I just read you, Jesus said, one of the instruments of corruption of earthly treasures is the moth.
Did you remember that?
Where maws eat it up.
And I wish I had taught this during the lesson on Job 4. 19, but we get to do it here.
Because back then you may have been wondering, how can a moth crush me by corrupting your treasures?
If that's where your heart is, if that's where your desires are, and the moth can break through and eat them up And literally, when in practically speaking, those treasures in these days could have consisted of fancy clothing, draperies, uh finely woven blankets, things that a moth could literally destroy And as Jesus continued teaching his disciples not to lay up treasures on earth for themselves, he told them in Matthew 6, 25.
Therefore I say unto you, take no thought for your life what ye shall eat, or what you shall drink, nor yet for your body what you shall put on.
Is not the life more than meat and the body than raiment?
And then skipped down to verse 28, it's still Matthew 6, 28, Jesus said, and why take ye thought for raiment?
That's clothing again Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow, they toil not, neither do they spin.
And then finally, down in verses 31 through 33. 31 through 33, Jesus continued, Therefore take no thought saying, what shall we eat, or what shall we drink, or wherewithal shall we be clothed?
For after all these things do the Gentiles seek.
Now, what Jesus is saying right there is, those are the things the Gentiles, meaning the unbelievers.
Those are the things the Gentiles consider treasures.
That's what they lay up for themselves.
That's what they pine after day after day.
He said, For your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
Beseek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.
Seeking God's kingdom is taking root in God's kingdom.
And by taking root in God's kingdom, not only will you have all that you need, which is food and clothing, But you will be content, or you should be content, in all that you have.
We're not to even covet food or raiment.
Because God already provides those things for us.
However, according to Psalm 14. 1 and Psalm 52.
1.
Both of them say this.
The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God.
So the fool will not take root in God's kingdom.
He will not have a habitation in God's kingdom.
And it's those people.
Of whom Eliphaz is speaking in our text in Job chapter 5, verse 3, when he says, But suddenly I cursed his habitation.
In his thoughts, he scooped out all the overflowing abundance of the foolish who took root in the wrong things.
In other words, Those things didn't matter to him.
Those were a light thing to him.
He could look at that mansion and say, That's too much vacuuming for me He didn't say, oh, I wish I had something like that.
Let me tell you something else.
There's a bunch of lawn mowing too.
There's a particularly annoying plant called the oxalus or the wood sorrel.
And if you don't know what it is, you've probably seen it.
And in fact, you've heard me lament its existence before today because it migrated from my neighbor's yard into mine long ago.
And I love my neighbors, but I don't love their yard keeping habits.
And oxalus is rooted in the soil.
And when I pull it up, I try to get the roots to keep it from growing back And if I didn't care about Oxalus taking over my yard, I'd just stand back and admire its fruitfulness and go, wow boy, that stuff really can crawl.
It can climb.
Did you know that the little yellow flower, when it opens, it shoots out the seeds up to 10 feet?
So plants them again.
I mean it doesn't take long for you to see it all over your yard.
But when I look at Oxalus, I mentally hollow out its habitation.
I curse its habitation.
It's a foolish weed taking root, even and it's nigh under cursing as far as I'm concerned.
But unfortunately, when Elifaz made this statement He seemed to have insinuated that Job was such a one as the foolish who've taken root You know, Job's habitation overflowed at one time.
But it's been hollowed out.
It's been reduced to almost nothing and nobody.
But we know that it was not because God cursed him for being foolish.
And that's the mistake Eliphaz is making is I believe he's insinuating that here.
Now let's look back in verse 4.
We're in Job chapter 5.
Now in verse 4, speaking of this same group of people, his children are far from safety.
This means the children of the foolish ones are far from safety.
Now, you think about the foolish man who built his house on the sand As told to us by Jesus in Matthew chapter 7, verses 26 through 27, and I'm going to read that.
Matthew 7, 26 through 27.
Jesus said, and every one that heareth these sayings of mine and doeth them not shall be likened unto a foolish man. which built his house upon the sand.
And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat upon that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.
Now that habitation or that house of that foolish man was built on a foundation of sand And applying that to our text, not only is that man's habitation cursed, but none of the people who are in that habitation are safe from the flood.
Now even the foolish man who builds his house on the sand knows that when the weather gets rough, bring your kids inside.
Bring your family inside.
Let's go inside.
It's starting to lightning outside, kids.
It's hailing I think that's one of the reason boys get brain damage so early is we just like to stay out and see how do that until the hail gets too big You know what I you never did that did you?
Well there you go.
I'll tell you what I can take hail about that big before I scream like a little girl and go in the house.
That's that's all I can take But even that foolish man knows, bring your family inside during the bad weather.
So in this analogy, Jesus gives Such a man would bring his family or his household inside that habitation that was built on the foundation of sand.
And when the rain and the floods and the winds came and beat on the house, it fell.
And when it fell, all who were in it fell.
They perished.
And from this outcome We can understand what Eliphaz was saying when he said, his children are far from safety.
Now back in our text, let's look at the words, are far.
Because that's the distance between the children of the foolish man and safety.
Now those words are far also are translated a good way off.
Now that almost sounds like you had somebody from Maybank on the King James Translation Committee I can promise you that wasn't the case.
That's a phrase we might use in our day.
In fact, that phrase is used in Genesis chapter 21.
Where we read about a handmaid named Hagar who bore Abram a child named Ishmael.
And in verse 15 and 16, Genesis 21, verses 15 through 16, it says, And the water was spent in the bottle, and she, that's Hagar, cast the child under one of the shrubs.
And she went and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were, a bowshot.
Imagine an arrow.
A bowshot, for she said, Let me not see the death of the child.
And she sat over against him and lift up her voice and wept.
Now Hagar wanted to be far away from Ishmael.
So far away that she couldn't see him die.
And that was a good way off or far, which is the word in our text.
So the word far is relative.
When we tell our children, don't go too far.
And we usually find their definition of far is a whole lot different than ours, don't we?
Dad, the earth is round, I'll eventually get home.
That's too far.
But what we mean is we don't want them to go where we can't see them. or where they can't hear us or to where they're in danger.
So sometimes we have to be specific and say, do not leave the front yard.
And they know if they cross that curve and hit the street, they're in trouble.
So however far a man could shoot an arrow, or what the Bible calls a bowshot, that was the distance Hagar was from Ishmael.
So we have an idea of what it means to be far from safety.
So let's look at the word safety and what that means in our text.
Now, those of you who are new to our class, whether online or in person, you may not be used to Bible teachers who talk about the Hebrew and the Greek languages And in our study on Daniel, we also hear about the Chaldean language, don't we?
Because that's primarily what was used there.
And the reason those languages are important.
Is those are the languages the Bible was originally written in.
And for us to know what was meant by those words that we read in our Bibles, which were translated many, many years later.
We have to study original words from which those English words are translated.
And if we don't, we can get off track in a big hurry.
I promise you, a grown man would be upset if I said, you're wearing gay clothing today.
But in the Bible, gay clothing was nothing more than bright or goodly clothing.
And James chapter 2, verse 3 is where you find that, by the way.
So you see why it's important that we slow down and learn about the meanings of the Hebrew and the Greek and the Chaldean words that came before our English words did.
I once had a pastor many years ago, he's dead But he said, in my presence, he said, I get so tired of hearing the Greek, the Greek, the Greek.
And I looked at him, and ironically, he had a doctorate in biblical studies, and he had studied Hebrew and Greek formally.
Well, friend, I will never tire of hearing the Greek, the Greek, or the Hebrew, or the Chaldean, or the Aramaic.
I'm a language dummy when it comes to these.
So I need all the help I can get in order to show you what the words mean because that's my job.
That's my calling as a teacher of the Bible, is to take God's word, study it.
Learn what it means and then try to show you what it means.
That's what God ordained.
Now, we are far from the word safety, so let's get right back to it.
Safety comes from a Hebrew word that means salvation.
In fact, the majority of the time that Hebrew word is used in the Old Testament, it is translated as the word salvation.
Now the root word for the English word safety is safe, right?
And the root word for salvation is save.
They're from the same family, so if you're saved from a fierce rabid dog, then you are also safe from that fierce rabid dog.
2 Samuel 22 verses 1 through 4 2 Samuel 22 verses 1 through 4 has the word salvation from the same Hebrew word as safety in our text, so it's important that we read it.
It said, And David spake unto the Lord the words of this song in the day that the Lord had delivered him out of the hand of all of his enemies.
And out of the hand of Saul, and he said, The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer.
The God of my rock in him will I trust.
He is my shield and the horn of my salvation.
There it is.
My high tower and my refuge, my savior, thou savest me from violence.
I will call on the Lord who is worthy to be praised, so shall I be saved from my enemies.
And yes, there's a beautiful song that has that in there.
Now these words also began Psalm chapter 18, but 2 Samuel is the first time you see the Hebrew word for salvation and safety used in the Bible.
And David was originally speaking of the physical deliverance that God gave him from his earthly enemies, and he had a bunch of them.
But particularly God's deliverance of David from the hand of his very own king, King Saul.
And one thing you'll learn about David if you have not already done so is that David was a type, a representation of the Lord Jesus Christ in his role as King of Israel.
And just as David was the king of Israel and sat on the throne of Israel for a total of 40 years, Jesus would sit on the throne of David.
However, Jesus would sit on the throne of David forever.
And similarly, the physical deliverance The salvation God gave David from his enemies was a type of the salvation God gives us from our greatest enemies.
Sin, Satan, and death And when David's foundation was rooted in the Lord, he was never far from safety.
He was no fool.
He was never far from deliverance.
But the children of the foolish are far from safety, and they're far from salvation.
Why is that so?
Well, as we have seen, the children of the foolish have taken root in the same habitation as their foolish father and mother.
A habitation that's built on sand, built upon the riches of this world which they coveted and worthy of cursing.
And next week we'll look at that word children a little more closely than you might imagine.
But that's all the time we have for today.
Father, thank you so much for everyone who came and for all those who've tuned in.
Thank you for your word and all the teaching we get through your Spirit.
And I pray you'd help us to meditate upon the lesson today, to consider it strongly, Lord, and to apply it in our own lives, and to walk away from here content with what we have in you.
In Jesus' name.
Amen.
