The text for the sermon this morning comes from 2nd Samuel, Chapter 7.

I invite you to turn there and follow along as I read, 2nd Samuel 7 verses 8 through 17.

Now therefore thus you shall say to my servant David.

Thus says the Lord of hosts, I took you from the pasture from following the sheep

that you should be prince over my people Israel.

And I have been with you wherever you went,

and have cut off all your enemies from before you.

And I will make for you a great name,

like the name of the great ones of the earth.

And I will appoint a place for my people Israel and will plant them that they may dwell in their own place and be disturbed no more.

And violent men shall afflict them no more, as formerly,

from the time that I appointed judges over my people Israel,

and I will give you rest from all your enemies.

Moreover, the Lord declares to you

that the Lord will make you a house.

When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring

after you who shall come forth from your body and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build a house for my

name and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. I will be his father and he shall be my son.

When he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men,

with the stripes of the sons of men.

But I will not take my steadfast love from him as I took it from Saul,

whom I put away from before you.

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