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As the Son of David, Jesus Christ was heir to the throne of the Kingdom of Israel. King David was promised by God that his seed would build a temple to the Lord, and the throne of this son would be established forever. David's son Solomon built a magnificent temple to the LORD, established his father's kingdom in peace, and had wisdom above all other men of the earth. However, Solomon's temple was eventually toppled, and his kingdom destroyed - testifying that Solomon did not fulfill God's promise to David.
Jesus built another temple to the LORD (his resurrected body), had wisdom greater than Solomon (he was able to discern the thoughts of people's hearts), and will establish the kingdom of his Father when he returns to earth again in complete fulfillment of God's promise to David that "I will be his father, and he shall be my son."
The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. (Matthew 1:1)
And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever. I will be his father, and he shall be my son. (II Samuel 7:12-14)
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Christ was like David his father
- Now, God has lived through the age through His people. It was God that was in David, that made him set upon the mountain and--as a rejected king and weep. That same Spirit was manifested in Jesus the Son of David, Who was rejected in Jerusalem and wept.
- Sermon: Q & A on Hebrews #2, Jeffersonville, IN, Oct 2, 1957
- And it was in Bethlehem where David was borned. And his greater Son Jesus was also had to be born in Bethlehem, because there's such a close knit between the two, as father and son. Not only was this great Son only the Son, He was the Root and the Offspring of David; He was even before David; He'll be after David; He was for everlasting, from everlasting on. But according to the flesh and all the things to be fulfilled, He was the Son of David. He was to be born years later in this same Bethlehem, this little forsaken city.
- Sermon: Why little Bethlehem, Jeffersonville, IN, Dec 28, 1958
The wisdom of Solomon, foolishness of man
- Now, we all know that Solomon's age was the Millennium, almost, of the Old Testament. It was the greatest time, of all Israel ever had, was under the reign of Solomon; no wars to speak of, and they had a great time. God gave Solomon, which was a son of David, gave him a gift of discernment, and now he could discern the thoughts in the people's heart....And Solomon was the son of David, but he was the lesser son of David, by the flesh; and Jesus was the Son of David, by Seed of the promise, the royal Seed. And here was a greater than Solomon standing there, doing the same thing that Solomon done, only being a greater than Solomon, and they called it "Beelzebub."
- Sermon: A greater than Solomon is here now, Dallas TX, March 6, 1964
- Solomon was a great man. And he was a son of David and prefigured the Lord Jesus. So his kingdom, of course, was earthly and it perished. But the Son of David which is Jesus, His Kingdom will never perish.
- And we notice that in the days of Solomon... And Jesus declared that the day that they lived in was greater than the day that Solomon lived. And how much greater then even if the blasphemy would be forgiven then, and in this day it cannot be forgiven. What a greater day this is than it was then. Even when He walked in Galilee, His actions and His works today before men is all more sinful to turn it down than it was when He was here on earth. Oh, if the Church would only wake up to these things.
- Sermon: The Queen of Sheba, Chicago, IL, Jan 7, 1958
Building a temple
- And David desired to build Him a house..."But I just can't let you build a Temple, because I'm going to let your son build it." For it was in types and shadows. Solomon built Him a temple. But the true Son of David is Jesus Christ, that built the real Temple, that was borned a virgin birth. And in His body is the everlasting Temple of God. But in types and in dedication, Solomon built the temple. Remember, it was cut out of every different kind of stone. It was cut this way and that way. And for forty years in its structure, there was not heard the buzz of a saw or the pounding of a hammer. It was so perfectly cut out.
- Sermon: Dedicaton of Building to the Lord, Cleveland, TN, July 8, 1959
The Gentile approach to the Son of David
- Now, this woman, this Syrophenician woman, she believed also, this Greek....First she said, "Thou Son of David." A Gentile has no hold on Christ by the Son of David; that was through King David, the race of Jews. He never paid any attention to her. But when she turned and said, "Lord, help me," (Amen.), that got Him. He was her Lord; not a Son of David, but He was her Lord. "Lord, help me." That caught Him. And...He disgraced her; He said, "You're... I'm not sent to you. You're dogs in your generation. Your races are nothing but dogs. I'm not sent to you."
- She said, "It's truth, Lord." There's the Word. Amen. Stay with the Word. Faith will always recognize the Word. "But the dogs eat the crumbs under their masters' table." That got Him. "Lord, help me."
- He turned and He said, "For this saying... O woman, great is your faith. And for this saying, the devil's left your daughter." What? She got what? She approached God's gift in the right way.
- Sermon: Perseverance, Jeffersonville, IN, Feb, 18, 1962
Blind Bartimaeus: The Jewish approach to the Son of David
- Did you ever read the Bible 'fore you lost your sight?"
- "Many times."
- "Do you know the Son of David?"
- "Yes. He's to come."
- "There, He's just passed by."
- Then Bartimaeus must've said, "If that's Him, my voice... I'm weak and old. The only thing I can do is say, 'Jehovah, have mercy. Oh, Jesus, thou Son of David, have mercy on me.'"
- And the faith of that beggar stopped Him.
- Sermon: IT is I, be not afraid, Columbia, SC, June 11, 1962
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| II SAMUEL 7:8
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Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel:
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And I was with thee whithersoever thou wentest, and have cut off all thine enemies out of thy sight, and have made thee a great name, like unto the name of the great men that are in the earth.
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Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as beforetime,
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And as since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel, and have caused thee to rest from all thine enemies. Also the LORD telleth thee that he will make thee an house.
| | II SAMUEL 7:12
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And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.
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He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever.
| | II SAMUEL 7:14
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I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men:
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But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before thee.
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And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.
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According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David.
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Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;
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Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.
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As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.
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Hath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was?
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Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh;
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Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to my gospel:
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And Samuel did that which the LORD spake, and came to Bethlehem. And the elders of the town trembled at his coming, and said, Comest thou peaceably?
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And he said, Peaceably: I am come to sacrifice unto the LORD: sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice. And he sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.
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But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.
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Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which travaileth hath brought forth: then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel.
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And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God; and they shall abide: for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth.
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And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:)
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Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,
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When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.
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And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born.
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And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judaea: for thus it is written by the prophet,
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And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel.
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Both Mary and Joseph were of the lineage of King David
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| MATTHEW 1:20
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But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.
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Jesus never called himself the Son of David
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| MATTHEW 9:27
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And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed him, crying, and saying, Thou Son of David, have mercy on us.
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And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David?
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And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.
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And, behold, two blind men sitting by the way side, when they heard that Jesus passed by, cried out, saying, Have mercy on us, O Lord, thou Son of David.
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And the multitude rebuked them, because they should hold their peace: but they cried the more, saying, Have mercy on us, O Lord, thou Son of David.
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And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest.
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Saying, What think ye of Christ? whose son is he? They say unto him, The Son of David.
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And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out, and say, Jesus, thou Son of David, have mercy on me.
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| II CHRONICLES 30:26
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So there was great joy in Jerusalem: for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was not the like in Jerusalem.
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