DAVID'S THREE KINGLY ANOINTINGS
DAVID’S THREE KINGLY ANOINTINGS
Sunday Evening Service
August 10, 2014, the Year of Our Lord
David was chosen by the Lord and anointed to be king of Israel. (1 Sam. 16:1; 12).
David had three Kingly anointings:
- 1 Sam. 16:13: “Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him (as King over Israel) in the midst of his brethren; and the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward.” (1 Sam 16:1)
With this first anointing, he killed a bear, a lion, and a giant (while Saul was still ruling).
- 11 Sam 2:4: “The men of Judah came; and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah…” This second anointing, Judah made him King at Hebron. Judah also covers the anointing of praise.
- 11 Sam. 5:3: “All 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.” With this third anointing, all of Israel crowned him King in Hebron. David ruled all things. This took place when he was 30 (the number of maturity, authority, full stature, the throne) --- compare Joseph and Jesus. This was oil upon the beard (of a full-grown man – Eph. 4:13; Psa. 122; Num. 4:30) ---full maturity.
These anointings worked in and energized many areas of his life and ministry:
- Musician (he wrote 73 of the Psalms)
- Just man (11 Sam. 8:15) “David ruled over all Israel; and executed judgment and justice unto all his people.”
- Wise man (1 Sam. 18:14; 30) “David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and the Lord was with him.”
- Meek man. (11 Sam. 16:11) David reasoned that if the Lord had told this Benjamite to curse him, who should say, “Why do you do it?” He also reasoned that if God had allowed his own son to seek his life as part of the chastening, then how much more would he allow a Benjamite of a rival faction to do what he was doing. If God allowed it, the man should be let alone.
- Merciful man (11 Sam. 9:6 19:23) “When Mephobosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came unto David, he fell on his face and did reverence. David said, Mephibosheth, and he answered, behold thy servant! David said unto him; Fear not; for I will surely show you kindness for Jonathan your father’s sake. I will restore to you all the land of Saul, your grandfather; and you shall eat bread at my table continually.”
- Prophet and the “Sweet Psalmist of Israel.” 11 Sam 23: 1-7) “These are the last words of David. The son of Jesse said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said, The Spirit of the Lord spoke by me, and His word was in my tongue. The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, He that rules over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God. He shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun rises, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.”
Saul was the people’s king and a king after the people’s heart and their choice. David was the choice of a king after God’s heart, who experienced sufferings and exile. The spirit of God departed from Saul and an evil spirit (sent by God) began to torment him. David’s anointing of ministry on the harp helped to refresh the harassed and tormented king.
The character of David’s person and ministry cannot be covered in one sermon. His name signified “the Beloved”. As an inhabitant of Bethlehem, this was ordained to point to that place where the Darling of God’s heart was to be born. His beautiful countenance spoke of Him who is “fairer than the children of men.”
His occupation as a shepherd set forth the peculiar relation of Christ to God’s elect and intimated the nature of Christ’s redemptive work. His faithful discharge of the pastoral office forecast the love and fidelity of our Great Shepherd.
His lowly occupation before he ascended the throne prefigured the Savior’s humiliation prior to His exaltation. His victory over Goliath symbolized the triumph of Christ over the great enemy of God and His people.
His perfecting of Israel’s worship and instituting a new ecclesiastical establishment (Tabernacle of David) anticipate our Lord as the Head and Lawgiver of the Church.
Just as the priestly office and work of Jesus Christ our High Priest was foreshadowed by Melchisedec and Aaron, so the kingship and kingdom of the Mediator of a better covenant were in type by both David and Solomon.
There were five great epochs in David’s life:
- The Shepherd at Bethlehem.
- The Courtier at Gibeah (Saul’s court)
- The outlaw in the wilderness.
- The King at Hebron
- The King at Jerusalem
With each anointing, we can expect a new identity. The Lord spoke to me this morning during praise and worship. He said Eastgate Church’s identity had become synonymous with Little White Church. He removed us to give us another anointing and a new identity or epoch in the life of the ministry.
At each level of anointing, there must be death to the carnal soul.
David’s calling and anointing was simultaneous. However, there was a journey of preparation before he was established as King of Israel. This journey is the story of his testings, failures, triumphs, troubles and testimonies
On the journey was the principle of the covenant of David and Jonathan (1 Sam. 18:1-30)
18:1: “...the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.”
This was a noble, but soulish friendship silhouetted against the dark background of Saul’s demonic jealousy and his treachery toward David with regard to his daughter Merab and his other daughter Michal. The latter, however, became David’s wife, in spite of the trap Saul set for David in arranging the marriage. Saul saw and knew that the Lord was with David.
1 Sam 18:12: “Saul was afraid of David, because the Lord was with him, and had departed from Saul…David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and the Lord was with him.”
How is it possible that the demon of jealousy thinks it can destroy the Lord’s anointing by destroyed the anointed? The Sauls of the old order cannot sabotage, trap, kill or destroy that which the Lord has anointed.
Jonathan had watched God’s anointed minister despite the slander of his brothers and the insurmountable odds of the giant. Jonathan stripped himself (unmasked) in humility. He stepped down so that David could rule. Let us relinquish to Jesus our “robe” (right to be king), our filthy garments of our own righteousness, our weapons, and even the girdle of our natural strength.
1 Sam 18:4: “Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle. David went out wherever Saul sent him and behaved himself wisely. Saul set him over the men of war and he was accepted in the sight of all the people and also in the sight of Saul’s servants.”
In 1 Sam. 19, Saul tried to get Jonathan to kill David. The deranged king, in spite of his oath to Jonathan, was overwhelmed with his mania and tried to pin David to the wall with his javelin. Michal, by a ruse, saved David’s life. David fled to Samuel. The grace of God dealt with Saul, but his disobedience was his ruin.
There were nine useless attempts of Saul to kill David in this chapter.
1 Sam. 18: 18-24 – David fled for refuge to Samuel and his school of the prophets in Ramah. (Ramah means heights – heavenly places). Saul sent messengers to take David. They saw “the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as president over them.” The aura of the Spirit of God came upon the messengers and they prophesied as did the second and third delegations from the old order. Saul himself went and the anointing came upon him until he came to Naioth.
David opened his soul for three areas of vulnerability.
- He married Michal, the daughter of the old order.
- He turned to Jonathan for a soulish deliverance.
Then is chapter 20, David left Samuel and fled from the prophetic flow.
20:1: “David fled from Naioth in Ramah. He came and said before Jonathan, What have I done? What is my iniquity? What is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?”
When you are in the midst of a battle, don’t go to a soulish friend looking for answers. Stay with the true prophet.
I noted as I was reading this, it was at the time of the “new moon”. This was a feast which lasted 2-3 days. David made one final attempt to bring the old and the new together. David lied—(20:6).
24-34 – David hid himself. At the new moon feast, Saul sat on his seat. The new anointing is missing. Jonathan reinforced David’s lie. Jonathan has a crisis and turning point. He entered David’s sufferings as he felt the wrath of Saul. Jonathan’s anger and grief was not only for David. For like David, Jonathan had been fully released from Saul’s authority. Saul also threw his javelin to kill Jonathan. When a javelin was thrown at a freedman, and he escaped from it…he was thereby absolved from all allegiance to his master. Thus Saul gave both David and Jonathan complete liberty to choose.
Jonathan couldn’t lay down his defenses and eventually followed them unto his death. Jonathan’s weapons will now be used to defend the reputation of the old order! He will have to justify his rebellion! These things would not be exchanged for the uncertainty of the wilderness. Let us not fear to go into the unknown, so that we may receive the promise of God.
In chapter 20:41b – “David exceeded”. This means David overcame his grief and decided that he must go on, say goodbye to Jonathan and went to Nob. Following after the Lord will cause us to leave many things behind and separate us from our loved ones.
Chapter 21: Nob is (north of Jerusalem) where Ahimelech was High Priest. Hungry and unarmed, David arrived on the Sabbath and asked for food. David and his men ate the Shewbread…. (To be continued).
Again, a lapse in David’s faith was seen. This great Philistine fighter feigned insanity among the Philistines.
David was now openly an outlaw and an outcast to many of his former friends and brethren. This principle has not changed as God is gathering his remnant.
All in all, David was a grand character. He did some things that were very wrong, but, he was a most remarkable man. He was, heart and soul, devoted to God and the ways of God. In a world of idolatry, and in a nation that was continually falling away into idolatry, David stood like a rock for God.
In every circumstance of life, he went directly to the Lord in prayer, thanksgiving, and praise. His greatest accomplishments were the bringing back the Ark of the Covenant; the Tabernacle of David; the establishing of Jerusalem and Zion; and the writing of the Psalms.
David was not only an individual, but also an institution. He was not only a sovereign, but also a symbol. His place in the historical unfolding of the redemptive purposes of God can hardly be exaggerated. David fell lower than some men, but he also rose higher. His lapses should be to us a perpetual warning, and his virtues a perpetual inspiration.
David is, in a real sense, the embodiment of all Israel’s ideals; he compassed the gamut of all her varied life and institutions. He is a personification of the nation itself: shepherd, soldier, king priest, prophet, musician, poet, diplomat, administrator, hero and saint; “a man after God’s own heart;” albeit a sinner, sadly sinning, but greatly repenting. In David, Israel reached the zenith of the Kingdom ideal and so he is a type of the Messiah, great David’s Greater Son.
Jesus Christ is the “Shepherd-King”; our “Great Shepherd” and “Chief Shepherd”. Jesus is the royal seed who was appointed “heir of all things”. According to the Davidic Covenant of 1 Chron. 17:4-14: “…I will raise up a seed after you, which shall be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build Me a house, and I will establish his throne forever. I will be his father, and he shall be My Son; and I will not take My mercy away from him, as I took it from him that was before you: but I will settle him in My house and in My kingdom forever; and his throne shall be established forevermore.”
This great covenant of kingship, based on a father-son relationship, establishes the Lord Jesus Christ as the ultimate Ruler of the earth.
Jesus is King of kings and Lord of lords, root and the off-spring of David, and the bright and morning star. The lion of the tribe of Judah has prevailed over all enemies. The Messiah has been given all executive authority in Heaven and in hearts. He has inherited the throne of David, and of His Kingdom there shall be no end. King Jesus has been anointed with the oil of gladness above his fellows. He fulfilled the type of David’s three-fold anointing as exalted son, as king over Judah and as head over all things. Of the increase of His government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon His kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice.
Carolyn Sissom, Pastor
Eastgate Ministries, Inc.
Scripture from K.J.V. – I entered into the labors of Principles of Present Truth on 1 and 11 Samuel. Comments and conclusions are my own and not meant to reflect the views of those who I entered into their