THE LORD'S ANOINTED (Captioned)

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This message explains what it means to be the LORD's anointed, chosen by God, with the Spirit's power. To contact Pastor Dave: www.ziontorrance.info

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Pastor Dave, Zion Ev. Lutheran Torrance, CA 1-10-2010
Let us rise.
(Audio difficulty) Text 1 Samuel 16:1-13
THE LORD SAID TO SAMUEL, "HOW LONG WILL YOU MOURN
FOR SAUL, SINCE I HAVE
REJECTED HIM AS KING OVER ISRAEL?
FILL YOUR HORN WITH OIL AND
BE ON YOUR WAY;
I AM SENDING YOU TO JESSE OF BETHLEHEM.
I HAVE CHOSEN ONE OF HIS
SONS TO BE KING."
BUT SAMUEL SAID, "HOW CAN I GO?
SAUL WILL HEAR ABOUT IT AND KILL ME."
THE LORD SAID, "TAKE A HEIFER WITH YOU AND SAY,
'I HAVE COME TO SACRIFICE TO THE LORD.' INVITE JESSE TO
THE SACRIFICE, AND I WILL SHOW YOU WHAT TO DO.
YOU ARE TO ANOINT FOR ME THE ONE I INDICATE."
SAMUEL DID WHAT THE LORD SAID.
WHEN HE ARRIVED AT BETHLEHEM, THE ELDERS OF THE TOWN
TREMBLED WHEN THEY MET HIM. THEY ASKED,
"DO YOU COME IN PEACE?" SAMUEL REPLIED,
"YES, IN PEACE; I HAVE COME TO SACRIFICE
TO THE LORD. CONSECRATE YOURSELVES
AND COME TO THE SACRIFICE WITH ME."
THEN HE CONSECRATED JESSE AND HIS SONS AND INVITED THEM
TO THE SACRIFICE. WHEN THEY ARRIVED,
SAMUEL SAW ELIAB AND THOUGHT, SURELY THE LORD'S ANOINTED
STANDS HERE BEFORE THE LORD."
BUT THE LORD SAID TO SAMUEL, "DO NOT CONSIDER HIS
APPEARANCE OR HIS HEIGHT, FOR I HAVE REJECTED HIM.
THE LORD DOES NOT LOOK AT THE THINGS MAN LOOKS AT.
MAN LOOKS AT THE OUTWARD APPEARANCE, BUT THE LORD
LOOKS AT THE HEART." THEN JESSE CALLED ABINADAB AND
HAD HIM PASS IN FRONT OF
SAMUEL. BUT SAMUEL SAID, THE LORD HAS NOT CHOSEN
THIS ONE EITHER." JESSE THEN HAD SHAMMAH PASS BY,
BUT SAMUEL SAID, "NOR HAS THE LORD CHOSEN THIS ONE."
JESSE HAD SEVEN OF HIS SONS
PASS BEFORE SAMUEL, BUT SAMUEL SAID TO HIM,
"THE LORD HAS NOT CHOSEN THESE."
SO HE ASKED JESSE, "ARE THESE ALL THE SONS
YOU HAVE?" "THERE IS STILL THE YOUNGEST,"
JESSE ANSWERED, "BUT HE IS TENDING THE SHEEP."
SAMUEL SAID, "SEND FOR HIM; WE WILL NOT SIT DOWN
UNTIL HE ARRIVES." SO HE SENT AND HAD HIM BROUGHT IN.
HE WAS RUDDY, WITH A FINE APPEARANCE AND
HANDSOME FEATURES. THEN THE LORD SAID,
"RISE AND ANOINT HIM; HE IS THE ONE."
SO SAMUEL TOOK THE HORN OF OIL AND ANOINTED HIM
IN THE PRESENCE OF HIS BROTHERS, AND FROM THAT DAY ON
THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD CAME UPON DAVID IN POWER.
SAMUEL THEN WENT TO RAMAH.
This is the Word of our Lord. Let us pray:
Glorious and gracious God, may the words of
my mouth and the meditation of each of our hearts,
be acceptable in Your sight, our only source of
hope and comfort.
Amen.
(Text from the HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION.)
Pastor Dave motions
for the congregation to be seated.
Dear Followers of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
God's people, have for all of their history
wanted to be like
the people that were around them.
As the people of God, He had brought them together and
separated them. Made them
separate and distinct and unique. They were
His children. But when those people looked around at the
other nations, and the other peoples around them, they were
envious of something.
They wanted someone who could lead them. Someone
they could see. Not a god who was
detached from them. They wanted a king.
They wanted to be like all of the other nations
on the earth. And they went to God
and they pleaded with Him: Give us a king!
We want a king.
So the LORD said: All right. I will give you what you want.
And He selected for them: Saul ...
to be their king.
And then they realized,
that they were going to be like every other nation
on the face of the earth.
Immediately they were happy. They were thrilled.
They had a leader. They had a king. They rejoiced.
They put all of their hope and strength in Him.
And then Saul didn't do what they wanted.
Then Saul was not being the king that they wanted
him to be. And guess what? They became very disgruntled.
They were very unhappy and
then all of a sudden comes this young warrior.
This young man who takes a stone and
slays the biggest giant that was against them.
And they loved him!
They go after him. They sing wonderful
songs of praise to him.
They rejoice because David is the wonder child.
He's the one that we want.
He's the one that we like.
And Saul went into a spiral of despair and
jealousy and anger and
suicidal behavior.
And he beomes almost crazy,
to the point that he hates David.
It's NOT a good time
to be living as God's children,
let alone to be the prophet
that God had sent to speak to God's people.
But yet, that's where Samuel finds himself ...
dealing with Saul, who is obsessed
with getting rid of David, and God
coming to him and saying: I have selected
a new king and I want you to go
and anoint him. And Samuel's immediate
reaction was: I can't do that. If Saul
finds out about this, the state of mind that he is in,
this is not going to be good.
Notice how God doesn't really argue with Samuel?
Doesn't say: No. You're still going to do this.
God just says: This is what you're going to do.
You're going to take the heifer and you're going to go
down and say: We're going to have a sacrifice and
in the middle of that party, I'm going to show you
who you are going to anoint as the next king.
It will be someone from Jesse's family.
So Samuel takes this heifer and off they go
so that they can
anoint the next king.
Brings Jesse's family there, his seven sons ...
they consecrate them ... they set them apart for
this holy activity and the sons start parading themselves
before Samuel.
And the oldest son comes first and Samuel thinks
in his head: This has GOT to be the one.
Here stands before me, the LORD's anointed.
This one has GOT to be it.
And the LORD said to him:
Absolutely not.
I don't select things
the way you people select things.
I don't look at what's on the exterior and say:
This is the one that I want. I don't judge things by
appearances, I look at the heart.
Because appearances can be deceiving.
And it was not only the oldest son
that was rejected, but the
second son that was rejected and the third son
that was rejected. And the fourth son
that was rejected and the fifth son
that was rejected and the sixth son that was rejected
and the seventh son. All of them that were there
were rejected. And Samuel
finally had to say to Jesse: Don't you have any more?
And Jesse said: Oh yeah ... there's the youngest one.
He's out with his sheep.
Samuel said:
Go and get him.
He said: We're not going to do anything ...
We're not going to sit down and eat until he comes.
And in comes David. Handsome,
ruddy in appearance.
But we know that's NOT what he was selected for.
Because the LORD looks INSIDE,
at the heart and
it was God who picked that youngest son ...
the most unlikely to be His anointed.
And He had him anointed by
Samuel with the oil
to be the next king.
That was a shadow
of what was to come when God sent His Messiah,
the heir to David's throne.
The One who was going to reign on David's throne forever.
He sent Christ into this world
in the appearance of a man.
And the outward appearance didn't mean a thing.
People weren't attracted to Jesus
because He was a stunningly handsome man.
He wasn't selected
for the way He looked.
He was selected for Who He was ...
the Son of God,
who appeared in human flesh
and yet ... was truly the Messiah of the world.
The wise men came from afar to worship Him ...
to bring him gifts, great gifts
of gold and frankincense and myrrh,
to lay at His feet.
Because He was the Lord's anointed ... the chosen One
who was going to take care of people's greatest needs.
That He would be greater than David himself was
because He was going to be eternal and
take care of people's sins.
Because He goes right INTO THE HEART
of every person, and there He
finds a heart that is filled with sin
and hatred for God and is dead to
anything that is good.
He is the One that is taking care of that sin
with His death on the cross of Calvary.
And it is our baptisms that unite us with Christ
in that death. It is as if
we had died with Him as well.
And we are united with Him in the resurrection for
the forgiveness of our sins.
So that we, too, will have eternal life.
At Jesus' baptism, He was anointed
by the Holy Spirit and with power
to accomplish that will.
Just as David was anointed with the Holy Spirit
and with power to do what God had asked of him.
A difficult, a horrendous job,
because for years,
Saul would trace him down, track him,
go after him ... to kill him!
That he establishes himself
as the King over Israel after Saul's death and
Saul's family is upset with David, and
comes after him.
David, thinking that he was above reproach
in his sin with Bathsheba, brought so much evil
into his own life and his own family
that his sons fought forever to the death
over who was going to reign.
Yet the Spirit of the LORD
was on David, not because he was perfect,
but because the LORD had chosen him
to lead His people ...
set him apart to do His work.
It's the Spirit of the LORD that in David caused him
to understand that.
That he was NOT a perfect human being;
but he was a HORRIBLE sinner,
someone who needed God's forgiveness and
went to God daily and REJOICED in the fact that
he WAS forgiven. And was reminded of
the blessings of God and reminded God's people of that:
Put the worship of God first and foremost
before God's children, to do
what God had selected him to do.
Just as God's own Son ... did the work that God the Father
had selected for Him to do,
which was EXTREMELY difficult.
It was horrifyingly painful.
Yet He did that work
because it was what God had selected,
chosen, and appointed Him to do
to accomplish the salvation
of all people. And we remind ourselves today
that that ... same ... Spirit
has come on us.
And today is the day for us to realize
that in our baptisms, we have been given power.
Power enough to sit back
and complain about everything that's not being done and
who's not doing work and what we can't do.
The time for all of us
to stand up on our God-given Christian feet
and say: This is what God
called ME to do.
God has given you the power of His Holy Spirit
to do His work, to accomplish His will,
to carry out His ministry.
And THAT is a TREMENDOUS gift.
And it is NOT going to be easy.
We just need to get that out of our heads right away.
It never WAS easy; it never WILL BE easy.
It is always going to be difficult.
Because we're not like the world and
the world is going to make it a struggle. But look what
God's people did when they wanted to be like the world
God gave them to it.
And they hated it. We're to fight with the power and
the strength of our baptism each and every day.
To get up
and say once again: I'm not a perfect person.
I'm a horrible, terrible miserable sinner but
God loves me and He has
forgiven me once again today.
And today I wake up and say:
I CAN bless His Name. I can praise Him.
I WILL do His work.
I WILL carry out His ministry in my life
as a husband ... as a wife as a parent ... as a child.
As someone who goes to work
and carries out their God-given work. I will
proclaim Christ through my congregation. I will be here
active in worship. I will be here actively
seeking to support the ministry that goes on here
because God has called me to do it.
He has given us all unique and varied gifts
for the ministry of the Word
in this building.
So that others may know that Jesus Christ is
the Lord's anointed. So that children may be
instructed and taught that their sins are forgiven.
That we, as adults, can struggle together through
the difficulties of this life
knowing that our eternal life is secure.
We will be free ... free from all of the sin and
corruption that is here.
We are the Lord's anointed.
Anointed in our baptisms
with the power of the Word and the power of the Holy Spirit.
That same Spirit and Word
that came to David; that came to our Lord and Savior,
Jesus Christ ...
has been poured out on us generously.
We see the LORD's anointed.
All we have to do is look around at each other
and see God's power
at work. His Word alive
in people's lives.
And we support that work. We encourage that work.
Together we do that work.
As we're reminded by the prophet Isaiah: So those
blessings of God will go to the ends of the earth
and all people will know that
Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior of all.
God's beloved Son, His Holy
and anointed One.
Amen.
Let us rise.
Now may the peace of God which goes beyond all of our
understanding, keep your hearts and your minds and
especially your lives, in the one true faith unto
life everlasting. Amen.

THE LORD'S ANOINTED (Captioned)

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