2 Sam 23:2, "The Spirit of the Lord spoke by me, And His word was on my tongue. 
	It is an amazing thing to consider that which David proclaimed at this point with his dying words. It is evident that the Holy Spirit was very active in this man as he wrote so many of the songs and prophecies contained in the Psalms. Throughout his life, as a young shepherd, as a chased and hiding outlaw in the eyes of Saul, and as a king over the nation of God, David was filled with a love for Jehovah that was expressed through those words with which The Lord filled his heart and his mind. The legacy of the scripture that was inspired by the working power of the Holy Spirit is beyond the grasp of our human conscious abilities. 
	David proclaimed the truth that Jehovah deserved the very best of humanities’ limited abilities to declare God’s Excellencies and His Majesty and His Honor and His Praiseworthiness and His Holiness. The heart of this man was so set on that which would bring honor and adoration to God, even to the point of that earnest desire to build the Temple of the Lord. Yet, with obedience, he bore his chagrin when the Lord would not permit it. 
Despite this prohibition, David did everything in his power to gather the materials and the workers so that when Solomon, the son of David, would finally build that structure unto the glory of God, he would have everything necessary to accomplish the task. Such was that desire which filled this man whose heart was after The Lord and was seeking the influence and the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. 
	This dedicated heart of David was such that he made certain that God would be worshipped. This was to be to the full measure of the capability of all those over whom David had the influence to make this worship of Jehovah manifest. 
Consider what we read in 1 Chron 16:7-11, as but one example of how David made sure that Yahweh received a measure of the adoration that He Alone was due.
	1 Chron 16:7-11, Then on that day David first assigned Asaph and his relatives to give thanks to the Lord. Oh give thanks to the Lord, call upon His name; Make known His deeds among the peoples. Sing to Him, sing praises to Him; Speak of all His wonders. Glory in His holy name; Let the heart of those who seek the Lord be glad. Seek the Lord and His strength; Seek His face continually. 
	Notice how David instructed those singers of God’s praise, in the same manner as we are to be so instructed in the terms of our praise and adoration and worship of Jehovah. They were to give thanks to the Lord. They were to express, with their songs and words that humble gratitude and appreciation of Yahweh with all the joy which proclaims to all who hear the manifold thanksgiving that fills the hearts and the minds and the souls of those who know how much God has done and provided for His people. 
There is to be that expression of delight and manifested gratitude that God would so make Himself available to meet the needs of everyone whom He has brought into this relationship with Himself. As such, we are to declare His Goodness and His Loving kindness in the midst of the assembly of His people as we are gathered to acknowledge His wondrous and awesome works among us. 
We are to express all glory and admiration and detailed wonderment as we consider the greatness and the splendor and the loving kindness of Our Lord God Almighty, Creator of Heaven and earth and all that is within it. He is to be worshipped and praised for His breathtaking and overwhelming and awe-inspiring work among those whom He has redeemed unto Himself. 
This is definitely the inspiration of the Holy Spirit to bring forth such a fervent and committed stance of how God is to be declared in all His loving kindness and mercy and grace and power! It is no small thing to tell of His wondrous works to those who are part of the gathered community. It is an encouragement in the fact that God is The Lord God, the Only True and Awesome God in Whom all can find help by calling upon His glorious name. 
Another who shared this same commitment and dedication to so honor Jehovah was a descendent of David, King Hezekiah. In 2 Chron 29:29-31, we can read together of his great encouragement to those who were bringing their offerings and sacrifices once more to the house of the Lord.
2 Chron 29:29-31, Now at the completion of the burnt offerings, the king and all who were present with him bowed down and worshiped. Moreover, King Hezekiah and the officials ordered the Levites to sing praises to the Lord with the words of David and Asaph the seer. So they sang praises with joy, and bowed down and worshiped. Then Hezekiah answered and said, "Now that you have consecrated yourselves to the Lord, come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings to the house of the Lord." And the assembly brought sacrifices and thank offerings, and all those who were willing brought burnt offerings.
	Notice that the Levites were ordered to sing the worship songs of David and Asaph to the Lord. These are the Psaltery of the collected songs of the Psalms. This made it extremely evident that the people recognized that the words that were given by David were those words that were inspired by the Lord in the heart, mind, and life of this man. He was regarded as one in whom the Holy Spirit richly blessed the people in the course of declaring the righteousness and the holiness and the magnificence of the Lord God Almighty.
	This was again detailed by the Prophet Isaiah in his declaration of the words so given to him by the Holy Spirit. In Isa 11:1-5, we have that very familiar passage declaring, that from the lineage of Jesse, meaning through the heritage of David, there would come forth the Messiah, the One in Whom all the Holiness and Righteousness of God would be brought to humanity. Isaiah, being fully inspired by the Holy Spirit, would put into words that which exclaimed the very heart of God for the sake of the redemption of those whom He loved so much.
	Isa 11:1-5, Then a shoot will spring from the stem of Jesse, And a branch from his roots will bear fruit. And the Spirit of the Lord will rest on Him, The spirit of wisdom and understanding, The spirit of counsel and strength, The spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord. And He will delight in the fear of the Lord, And He will not judge by what His eyes see, Nor make a decision by what His ears hear; But with righteousness He will judge the poor, And decide with fairness for the afflicted of the earth; And He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth, And with the breath of His lips He will slay the wicked. Also righteousness will be the belt about His loins, And faithfulness the belt about His waist. 
	Please note a portion of the effect that was proclaimed by Isaiah, through the divine inspiration of the Holy Spirit. There is the definitive statement about what the Christ would do, this Son of the Most High God and the son of David. He would be filled with the wisdom and understanding that transcended anything known by human thought or reasoning abilities. 
He would be able to counsel even the most desperate of souls. He would stand strong in the truth of God. He would know the ways of The Lord in a manner that no one else could ever know because He would be filled with the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord. 
His decisions would not be made on the basis of how humanity so inferiorly and imperfectly tries to judge things. Rather, the Messiah, the shoot of the stem of Jesse, would judge in perfect righteousness and understanding. He would hear the cries of the poor and respond with fairness and with equity among the afflicted. His heart would recognize and seek to help those who could never help themselves in any manner whatsoever. He would be the manifest representation of the righteousness and the faithfulness of God on this earth. 
	Such is the description of Jesus, as He now sits on the throne of all His creation. This was not something that Isaiah could ever have dreamt or conceived of by his own thought processes. This was the divine inspiration to which he set forth in these words that were given by the Holy Spirit. 
Isaiah was evidently a person who was dedicated to taking time to study the Torah. He sought The Lord and His wisdom and His insight and His declared majesty in the manner of God’s way and will concerning the times to come.
	Another such prophet, who could say the same as David did in this morning’s text, was Jeremiah. He was very much attuned to the ways and the purposes and the plans of God as revealed by the Holy Spirit. His inspired writings were definitively descriptive of the Christ to come as we find before us in Jer 33:14+15.
	Jer 33:14+15, 'Behold, days are coming,' declares the Lord,' when I will fulfill the good word which I have spoken concerning the house of Israel and the house of Judah. 'In those days and at that time I will cause a righteous Branch of David to spring forth; and He shall execute justice and righteousness on the earth. 
	This was almost the identical description and detailing of the work of Our Lord Jesus Christ as was the depiction of Isaiah. The Promised Branch of David was going to bring to the whole of humanity that justice and righteousness that Jehovah, Alone, could establish. 
In the Messiah, in the Christ, the hope of all mankind would find complete fulfillment and satisfaction. The Son of God, that Son of David, would show the full measure of how the heart of God would work to express the Love with which He created us. 
There would be, through this Son of David, that care and keeping of those who were the marginalized, the weak, the poor, the widow, the orphan, the outcast, and the powerless. These would find the vast treasury of God’s grace and mercy and loving kindness and provision to be their sustenance in the midst of a world order that had no use or concern for their substantial needs.
	When Jesus came, He gathered those disciples unto Himself through whom the Word of God would go forth into the entire world. As He sent them out, and as we are to take as our encouragement in our age and mission, He told them, as recorded in Matt 10:16-20, that they too would receive the words to speak by the power of the Holy Spirit. 
This was not in order for any to puff one’s self up with the idea that we are able to proclaim our greatness as expressing those holy things of God. Rather, it was for the support of each as we face the perils and the snares and the entrapments of our walk on this earth as a disciple of Our Lord Jesus Christ. This is in the midst of a hateful and deceitful generation of those who would seek to have His name eliminated from the face of the earth.
	Matt 10:16-20, "Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; therefore be shrewd as serpents, and innocent as doves. "But beware of men; for they will deliver you up to the courts, and scourge you in their synagogues; and you shall even be brought before governors and kings for My sake, as a testimony to them and to the Gentiles. "But when they deliver you up, do not become anxious about how or what you will speak; for it shall be given you in that hour what you are to speak. "For it is not you who speak, but it is the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you. 
	They were, and we will be given the words needed when the time is set that we declare the truth of Who Jesus is and how we know Him so richly and intimately in our lives. We will receive the appropriate words to declare His Majesty and the truth of His Sovereignty even as we face the persecution and the abuse of this age. This in no way means that we are to be considered as wise or intelligent of our own volition. Rather, it will be fully evident that we honor and trust and speak forth only as we receive the words that are so manifestly made known to us by the working power of God in us.
	This truth was shown vitally by Our Lord as evidenced in Matt 22:41-46. The Pharisees were trying to trap Jesus into betraying Himself as a fraud, in order to put Him to death for heresy. Rather, The Lord made known, through the very words that were given to David, just Who He was as the Son of God on this earth. This question and response is the reality of the Messiah, The Promised One.
	Matt 22:41-46, Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question, saying, "What do you think about the Christ, whose son is He?" They said to Him, "The son of David." He said to them, "Then how does David in the Spirit call Him 'Lord,' saying, 'The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit at My right hand, Until I put Thine enemies beneath Thy feet"'? "If David then calls Him 'Lord,' how is He his son?" And no one was able to answer Him a word, nor did anyone dare from that day on to ask Him another question. 
	This question and response of Jesus set them back to the point that they no longer tried to entrap Him with any more questions. There was that recognition that Jesus was much more than versed in the Word that they so cherished. He was able to bring forth wondrous realities that were never before understood by the minds of even those who spent their lives in the study of the Torah. It was His to use freely and magnificently because it was His very word spoken through those prophets and writers so inspired by the Holy Spirit.
	When we continue, we will look more fully into the manner and the means of our encouragement that God will give us the words and the ability of dealing with the expression of His heart of love to those with whom He brings us into contact. We walk and live on this earth through the power of God as He expresses His so great love through His Church to those who are in such need of His saving grace. Thus we share with others the manifested Word of God as the Spirit so works through us for the sake of their coming into a living relationship with Jesus, Our Lord. So be it.
	"The Spirit of the Lord spoke by me, And His word was on my tongue. Amen. 

	This morning’s benediction is Gen 49:10. "The scepter shall not depart from Judah, Nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, Until Shiloh comes, And to him shall be the obedience of the peoples. Amen.