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www.rossvillechurch.com
781 Salem Road, Rossville, GA 30741
March 10, 2013
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2. Jared Thompson will be
preaching tonight.
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3. King Saul is Ishbosheth David is King
dead. is killed and of Judah.
beheaded.
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4. 2 Samuel 5 1 Then came all the tribes of Israel to
David unto Hebron, and spake, saying, Behold, we
are thy bone and thy flesh. 2 Also in time past,
when Saul was king over us, thou wast he that
leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the LORD
said to thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and
thou shalt be a captain over Israel.
Kinship with one another.
David had been a hero of Israel even when
Saul was king.
That David would be king was foretold by God.
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5. 3 Soall the elders of Israel came to the king to
Hebron; and king David made a league with them
in Hebron before the LORD: and they anointed
David king over Israel. 4 David was thirty years old
when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.
Samuel anointed David as a teenager,
signifying God’s choice of him as king.
Now the people anointed him, agreeing with
God’s choice of David as king of Israel.
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6. 5 InHebron he reigned over Judah seven years and
six months: and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and
three years over all Israel and Judah.
Israel will first have to take
Jerusalem from the
Jebusites who live there.
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7. (TLB) 6 David now led his troops to Jerusalem to
fight against the Jebusites who lived there. "You’ll
never come in here," they told him. "Even the blind
and lame could keep you out!" For they thought
they were safe. 7 But David and his troops defeated
them and captured the stronghold of Zion, now
called the City of David.
The devil often thinks his strongholds are
strong enough to stand against God.
He is always wrong.
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8. Devils build strongholds in the minds of God’s
people, just as they had done physically in Jerusalem.
2 Corinthians 10 3 For though we walk in the flesh, we
do not war after the flesh: 4 (For the weapons of our
warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the
pulling down of strongholds;) 5 Casting down
imaginations (human reasoning; logic), and every high
thing that exalteth itself against the Knowledge of
God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the
obedience of Christ;
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9. Just as God defeated the stronghold of the Jebusites
in Jerusalem, He will destroy the strongholds of
devils in the minds of God’s people.
Just agree with our God.
He will fight the battle within us.
He will cast down the vain
imaginations of our mind.
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10. Romans 12 1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by
the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a
living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which
is your reasonable service. 2 And be not conformed
to this world: but be ye transformed by the
renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is
that good, and acceptable, and perfect, Will of God.
We best fight the spiritual battles within us by
letting the Word of God crowd out the vain
imaginations of our mind.
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11. (TLB) 8 When the insulting message from the
defenders of the city reached David, he told his
troops, "Go up through the water tunnel into the
city and destroy those ’lame’ and ’blind’ Jebusites.
How I hate them." (That is the origin of the saying,
"Even the blind and the lame could conquer you!")
1 Chronicles 11:6 (TLB) So David captured the
fortress of Zion, later called the City of David, and
said to his men, "The first man to kill a Jebusite
shall be made commander-in-chief!" Joab, the son
of Zeruiah, was the first, so he became the general
of David’s army.
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12. 9 SoDavid dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of
David. And David built round about from Millo
and inward. 10 And David went on, and grew great,
and the LORD God of hosts was with him.
Taking Jerusalem and making it his
capital showed the world that David
was a king to be reckoned with.
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13. Romans 8 (NIV) 29 For those God foreknew he also
predestined to be conformed to the likeness of His
Son, that He might be the firstborn among many
brothers. 30 And those He predestined, He also
called; those He called, He also justified; those He
justified, He also glorified. 31 What, then, shall we
say in response to this? If God is for us, who can
be against us?
That’s the whole secret of victory!
Be on God’s side; agree with God.
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14. 11 AndHiram king of Tyre sent messengers to
David, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and
masons: and they built David an house. 12 And
David perceived that the LORD had established
him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his
kingdom for His people Israel's sake.
Hiram king of Tyre was a powerful king.
For him to recognize David in this way sent a
message to the rest of the nations.
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15. 13 And David took him more concubines and wives
out of Jerusalem, after he was come from Hebron:
and there were yet sons and daughters born to
David. 14 And these be the names of those that were
born unto him in Jerusalem; Shammua, and
Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon, 15 Ibhar also,
and Elishua, and Nepheg, and Japhia, 16 And
Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphalet.
Even the man after God’s Own heart
made mistakes, and this is one that
brought David much sorrow.
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16. 17 Butwhen the Philistines heard that they had
anointed David king over Israel, all the Philistines
came up to seek David; and David heard of it, and
went down to the hold. 18 The Philistines also came
and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
Psalm 2:1 (TLB) What fools the nations are to rage
against the Lord! How strange that men should try
to outwit God!
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17. 19 And David enquired of the LORD, saying, Shall
I go up to the Philistines? wilt Thou deliver them
into mine hand? And the LORD said unto David,
Go up: for I will doubtless deliver the Philistines
into thine hand.
Prayer before battle
Prayer before anything.
And wait for the answer.
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18. 20 And David came to Baalperazim, and David
smote them there, and said, The LORD hath
broken forth upon mine enemies before me, as the
breach of waters. Therefore he called the name of
that place Baalperazim. 21 And there they left their
images, and David and his men burned them.
David didn’t take credit for the victory.
God gave the victory to Israel, and
demonstrated that it was God’s
victory over their gods.
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19. 22 And the Philistines came up yet again, and
spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
23 And when David enquired of the LORD, He said,
Thou shalt not go up; but fetch a compass behind
them, and come upon them over against the
mulberry trees.
God gave David a different strategy this time.
God doesn’t always have us do things the same way.
Pray every time and get instructions.
Don’t get in a rut.
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20. 24 And let it be, when thou hearest the sound of a
going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then
thou shalt bestir thyself: for then shall the LORD
go out before thee, to smite the host of the
Philistines.
When the Holy Spirit moves, we
move, and not before.
Move with the Spirit; neither ahead nor behind.
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21. 25 And David did so, as the
LORD had commanded
him; and smote the
Philistines from Geba
until thou come to Gazer.
Psalm 20:7 (KJV) Some trust in chariots, and some
in horses: but we will remember the Name of the
LORD our God. Be always on God’s side.
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