1 Kings 9:4+5, And as for you, if you will walk before Me as your father David walked, in integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you and will keep My statutes and My ordinances, then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, just as I promised to your father David, saying,' You shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.' 
 We are deep into our consideration of the great promise that was made to David and to Solomon concerning the eternal kingship of the line of David upon the throne. These two monarchs obviously were concerned, as are so many leaders of the nations and corporations and family dynasties and projects of varied and diverse functionalities, of the legacy that would be left. 
There has been that human desire within the powerful and the rich and the famous to have a heritage that will stand the test of time. Each one of those earthly megalomaniac endeavors has failed with the passing of the years. 
No matter how rich, no matter how famous at the time, no matter what the earthen works of the hands of man, it all fades away. Time, like the winds blowing across the desert sands, just blows and moves the swirling granules until there is nothing left to recognize or remember.
As an aside, even history tends to be written and rewritten by those who would desire to place their own imprint upon the pages of what was and what should be remembered and what will be erased from the annuals of historical documentation. This has happened over and over again as the powers that be write their own take on what should be passed on to the generations that follow. It is not just historical accounts, but literary works, works of artistic endeavor, political policies, economic realities, and on and on. All are at the whim and the fancy of those who hold the current strings of power to change and to rearrange what was, in order to mold it into what they think it should eventually be. 
As evidence of this continually evolving manipulation of what was into what will be, consider how our once humble and welcoming nation, under the influence of thankfulness to God as the source of our beginning and the means of our throwing off the shackles that bound us to England, has been writing God out of the history books. There is that effort to show that it was all the work of men and nothing in terms of the might and awesome power of absolute reliance upon The Lord God Almighty by which this nation evolved into a powerhouse of democracy over the past few hundred years. 
To have the desired, supposedly enlightened modern society, there can be no recognition of the divine power and provision of God. If this country is to become the melting pot of all religions and all walks of life and an all-inclusive, socially accepting place, the commandments of God have to be set aside. The Lord can no longer be preeminent where anything can and will be seen within an ever evolving consideration of what is good and acceptable! There can be no absolute right and wrong, but rather a fluid and ever changing modality of what is right for you, although not right for me is fine and not to be judged or condemned. 
To have this type of moral deference means that the Word of God must be taken as an abstract construct of a social order that is no longer able or willingly acceptable as the guiding principle of our land. A consideration of God would cause us to completely reevaluate what we are doing through the submission to our self cravings and self justified moral compasses. That would then place massive restrictions on our senses of enjoyment of the cravings of our self-centered hearts and desires. 
All of this is simply to highlight what mankind tries to constantly do within the structure of making oneself the means of greatness within the memories of those who would follow. Bringing this back to our current consideration, that might well have been the thoughts that were in the minds of David and Solomon in thinking that through their heritage, the throne of Israel would forever have someone from the line of David sitting on the throne into perpetuity. 
When one of the human kings died, there would be another son to take the place, and on and on and on. From king to king to king, there would always be someone from the Davidic lineage upon the throne, even though it would be for mere years within the scope of human life. This was possibly the limited concept of human understanding of that which was to come. Maybe!
What we do know is that it was eventually highly accepted that this promise of God to both David and Solomon was taken to refer to the Messiah to come, the Son of David who would be the Christ. He would take reign over the nation of Israel and, in the hopes of those human idealists, end the dominion of other nations over the Jews. He would establish them as the dominant nation throughout their world. 
In the time of Jesus, it was the Roman Empire with all its evil influence and inhumane treatment of anyone who was not of the Roman heritage that subjugated Israel. The hope of the oppressed people was that the Messiah would come with such force and power as to knock Rome into the dustbin of history and release the Hebrews from their misery as had happened to their forefathers under the bondage of slavery to Egypt. They wanted the Son of David on their own terms with all the power of heaven being wielded against the eagle of Roman oppression.
What they got, what we got in the Son of David and the Son of God, was an infant, born in the foulness of a stable in the village of Bethlehem. The lineage was from the House of David, as detailed by the Apostle Matthew in Matthew 1:1. 
Matt 1:1, The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. 
From that humble and inglorious beginning, the full measure of how God would answer and fulfill that promise to these two earthly monarchs has become the one and only legacy that will stand the test of not only time, but of all the eternal ages upon ages to come. The vast episodic concourses of the history of mankind will all point to and be accomplished in the detailed accounting of how the Lordship of the crucified and resurrected Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ, the Messiah, the Son of God and the Son of Man has absolutely been established! Praise His name now and forevermore! 
He is the Lord of not just one nation, but of all that He has created! Heaven and earth bow to the glory and the splendor and the majesty and the honor of the Lord of lords and the King of kings.
John, the writer of the Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ ,manifestly declares and proclaims that which is our fundamental reality of hope and faith and joy and peace both today and for every age to come. Let us spend a few moments highlighting how the kingship of Christ will be in evidence as God fulfills and maintains the promise that from the lineage of David, there will be the One Who will sit on the throne. He will and does rule and reign and maintain justice and righteousness for every man, woman, and child for all of eternity!
Please turn in your Bibles to the 5th Chapter of the Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ. We will begin reading verses 11-13. 
Rev 5:11-13, And I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne and the living creatures and the elders; and the number of them was myriads of myriads, and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice, "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing." And every created thing which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all things in them, I heard saying, "To Him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb, be blessing and honor and glory and dominion forever and ever." 
	… And every created thing which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all things in them, I heard saying, "To Him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb, be blessing and honor and glory and dominion forever and ever." 
	It will not be just the Jews. It will not be just the Christians. It will not be just humanity. Every created thing, all the powers and beings of the spiritual realm, all the created elements of this universe, all things will be giving Jesus the acclaim and the honor and the glory and the blessing and the declaration of His dominion forever and forever!
	As the redeemed of the Lord, we have been given that privilege to declare the Lordship and to live in the freedom of His rule and reign over everything and every aspect of our lives right now! We see Him, high and lifted up, ruling and overruling despite the smokescreens and the attempts of this age to camouflage the truth that He reigns even at this very moment in the history of humanity, today and forevermore!
All will proclaim this truth! Even those, who have denied His very being, will be forced to acknowledge His Lordship, though it will be with the fear and the shame of the utmost defeat! Everything that they held to be of truth and reality, in their deceived and evil intents to dethrone Him from His place of glory, will be cast aside in the truth of His preeminence over all that He has put into place! In their absolute defeat, on bended knees of acquiescence, they will have to concede that He is Who He said He was and ever will be!
	Then in verses 15b-19 of Chapter 11, we have the dominion of Our Lord once more proclaimed! This will be from the throne of His utmost power and might. 
Rev 11:15b-19, "The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord, and of His Christ; and He will reign forever and ever." And the twenty-four elders, who sit on their thrones before God, fell on their faces and worshiped God, saying, "We give Thee thanks, O Lord God, the Almighty, who art and who wast, because Thou hast taken Thy great power and hast begun to reign. "And the nations were enraged, and Thy wrath came, and the time came for the dead to be judged, and the time to give their reward to Thy bond-servants the prophets and to the saints and to those who fear Thy name, the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth." And the temple of God which is in heaven was opened; and the ark of His covenant appeared in His temple, and there were flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder and an earthquake and a great hailstorm. 
	I wonder how many of us have sat through the thundering of the heavens and the unleashing of the rain and the hail and the brilliance of the flashing lightening and considered the vast unleashing of all that power? To witness all the glorious brilliance of the heavens pound ferociously with a power against which nothing can stand, is an awesome spectacle. 
When the full force of God’s nature rages and foments and shatters everything that man has built in a futile attempt to withstand that which can not be resisted as the breath of God blows against it. How many of us have thought about the fact that this is nothing in the scope of God’s power? The greatest hurricane, the severest earthquake, the deepest flood, the most powerful tornado, none of it will even be a consideration in the breadth of that which is unleashed by the Sovereignty of Christ against every futile attempt to overthrow or even diminish, in any measure the glory due His name! The power of the heavens will respond to the merest whisper of Jesus from the throne of His majesty!
	Continuing forward, please read verses 11-16 of Chapter 19. In it, we get a glimpse of that which will be revealed with all the pageantry and the majesty and the magnificence of Jesus Christ being heralded forever and forever. This will not be hidden away from the eyes of creation, but rather the evidence that God has always had all things well in hand in the manner in which He has determined to express His so great love to those who are His own, called, redeemed, and restored to His Beth Ab.
Rev 19:11-16, And I saw heaven opened; and behold, a white horse, and He who sat upon it is called Faithful and True; and in righteousness He judges and wages war. And His eyes are a flame of fire, and upon His head are many diadems; and He has a name written upon Him which no one knows except Himself. And He is clothed with a robe dipped in blood; and His name is called The Word of God. And the armies which are in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, were following Him on white horses. And from His mouth comes a sharp sword, so that with it He may smite the nations; and He will rule them with a rod of iron; and He treads the wine press of the fierce wrath of God, the Almighty. And on His robe and on His thigh He has a name written, "KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS." 
	The writer of this book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ was shown what would be the eventual result of all that Jesus, the Son of David and the Son of God, the perfect Lamb that was slain and then rose in all glory and power and adoration, would bring forth. Please continue to read along in Chapter 21, verses 1-7.
Rev 21:1-7, And I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and there is no longer any sea. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, "Behold, the tabernacle of God is among men, and He shall dwell among them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself shall be among them, and He shall wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there shall no longer be any death; there shall no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away." And He who sits on the throne said, "Behold, I am making all things new." And He said, "Write, for these words are faithful and true." And He said to me, "It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to the one who thirsts from the spring of the water of life without cost. He who overcomes shall inherit these things, and I will be his God and he will be My son. 
	Then, in Chapter 22, verses 16 and 17, we have the declared pedigree to the throne forever established as Jesus makes the declaration for all to hear and to acknowledge! He is the only One Who has the very eternal birthright and place of honor upon the throne of not just all creation, but of your heart and of my heart! He is the Bright Morning Star Who shines forevermore as the fulfillment of all God’s promises and the establishment of all our hopes!
Rev 22:16+17, "I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things for the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright morning star." And the Spirit and the bride say, "Come." And let the one who hears say, "Come." And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who wishes take the water of life without cost. So be it!
And as for you, if you will walk before Me as your father David walked, in integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you and will keep My statutes and My ordinances, then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, just as I promised to your father David, saying,' You shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.' Amen and amen.

	This morning’s benediction is Ps 10:17+18. O Lord, Thou hast heard the desire of the humble; Thou wilt strengthen their heart, Thou wilt incline Thine ear To vindicate the orphan and the oppressed, That man who is of the earth may cause terror no more. Amen.