We're tracing the theme of the anointed one, a person who gets oil smeared on them to mark

them as a bridge between heaven and earth.

And this isn't just for the benefit of the anointed one.

The whole point is that they bridge heaven on earth on behalf of many.

When God chooses one on behalf of the many, it's always so that through them He can do

something for the many.

Now by mere page number, King David's story is the most thorough portrait of an anointed

one.

In the last episode, we looked at narratives about David's life and we looked at prophecies

about how a future anointed one will come from his descendants.

And what we found is that in David's story, there are two aspects of what it means to be

the anointed.

One is victorious, confronting glius, driving out evil from the land and driving out the

oppressor.

It's kind of a butt-kicking portrait of God's anointed one.

And then right alongside that are stories of this patient, humble, waiting upon God anointed

one who refuses to take vengeance into their own hands and He's going to wait for God to

deliver and exalt Him over His adversaries.

And somehow both of those portraits are alongside each other in David's story.

Today we turn to the Psalms and we read about David's personal reflections on being the

anointed one and we'll continue to see these two aspects there as well.

We're going to see that same back and forth between the victorious masher enemy, Messiah,

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