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Discipleship Focus: Obedience
- Obedience: Genuine and satisfying obedience comes out of our identity. Our true identity comes only from our Father.
David
sets out to acquire the possessions needed to build the temple. You might recall that a few chapters back
that God prohibited David from building the temple. So how is it that David’s action here can be
a model of obedience?
David doesn’t
actually plan on building the temple.
What David is doing is providing the means for the temple to be
built. Solomon will build the temple
after David in no longer king. The adult
leaders around Solomon will make sure that the temple is built.
What we
actually have here is David being supremely obedient. God told David that he would not build the
temple. He’s obeying god and not
building the temple. God also told David
that His Son would build the temple. David
is finding a way to make sure that the task can be properly undertaken by
Solomon. Not only is David being
obedient, but David is finding a way to be obedient and demonstrate his love
for God and his desire to praise Him.
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