Incline your ear and come to Me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant—My loving devotion promised to David.Turn your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul will live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.Incline your ear, and come unto me; hear, and your soul shall live: and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
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… Delight yourselves in rich food. Come and hear that your soul may live and I will make with you an everlasting covenant my steadfast, sure love for David. God, I pray that the effect of this moment and the closing of this conference would be that these pastors would know and feel afresh that they are stunningly beneficiaries of the covenant made with David. And all the blessings that David reveled in are theirs. and so they may they go out with a sense of my rock will hold and carry on for another 10 or 20 or 30 or 40 or 50 years. So do that work and more, I pray, in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. I invite you to turn to 2 Samuel chapter 22. there came a point where David's relentless conflict with Saul and his ongoing conflict with the Philistines ceased. It stopped. And until that time, it says in 1 Samuel, Saul was David's enemy continually. No let up once he had turned against him. …
that's a lesson for all of us Isaiah 55, verse 3. Incline your ear and come to me here and your soul shall live. Next verse. Proverbs 3, 12. For whom the Lord loves, he corrects, just as a father, the son, in whom he delights. Think of that. That is the, by the way, I think that's the verse behind this. Son, I'm going to have to discipline you now because of your disobedience. And I got to tell you, buddy, it's going to hurt me much more than it's going to hurt you. When you're a kid, you think your parent is lying until you become a parent. As a parent, wouldn't you rather be the one disciplined if your kid would get it? Think about it. If the option was this, if the dad would wind up being injured for the child's disobedience, the dad would do it if he knew the child would learn from it. Are you hearing me? Anybody who doesn't have kids yet, listen up. …
… David, David's greater son that's prophesied We saw Jesus lurking in the shadows there in Isaiah 55, verse 3 I will make with you an everlasting covenant My steadfast, sure love for David And then we turn to Isaiah 53 And we saw the purchase of the suffering servant Isaiah is saying that 700 years before Jesus that's stunning prophecy but then he comes and fulfills it and for Christians there's no doubt he's the suffering servant the water the milk, the wine the feast of Isaiah 55 we saw are without cost because Jesus the suffering servant made the costly purchase so there's some of how Jesus fits he bought the feast he makes the invitation possible but is there more? is there more place for Jesus in the system? so this morning we turn to the New Testament and we turn to the earthly life of Jesus and we ask what does this vision that we're talking about this weekend of real joy to the glory of God look like in the human life of Christ? …
listen diligently to me and eat what is good and delight yourselves in rich food incline your ear and come to me here that your soul may live father you've spread a banquet out before us you're inviting us here in these verses to a fountain of living water. Forgive us for spending our money on food that does not satisfy. Forgive us for pursuing fountains, wells which do not satisfy. Give us ears to hear you this morning. Give us eyes to see you, to want you, to feast on you, to drink from you and never be thirsty again. I pray this in Jesus' name. Amen. Okay, so we read here verses 1 through 3 that Jesus leaves Judea because of pressure from the Pharisees, the rulers there. They were getting jealous and angry and he's feeling the pressure and so he heads for Galilee. And you had to go through Samaria to get to Galilee. but Samaria was a bad word in Jerusalem for Jews Jews hated Samaritans and Samaritans hated Jews but he had to pass through Samaria to get to Galilee and as he did he gets tired from all of that walking and so he finds a well where he can stop and get a drink text tells us about the six hours so it's noon the hottest part of the day no one draws water in samaria at noon they come either earlier in the day or later when it's cooler no one comes at this time and yet while he's there a woman stops …