Living Hope Fellowship Church

THE KEY OF DAVID

Training Material

by Pastor Kevin Badgley

THE KEY OF DAVID

Preface

 (worship opens the door)

          Jesus said in Matthew 16:19, “And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven. . . .”

It takes the key of David to open that door to the kingdom of heaven, and it takes the key of David to shut it.  It is open to men who really want God, and it is shut in the face of the devil and all who try to deceive or manipulate the Word of God. 

Let’s worship God, because that is how you get into the Spirit.  2 Corinthians 3:17 says, “Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” 

God is awesome.  He can take the feeblest man and turn him into something special if he will lay down all his own ways and devices and yield to God.  Be thankful for what God has done and worship Him for He is worthy.  Worship is the key.

KEY OF DAVID

by Pastor Kevin Badgley

You can live in God’s anointing 24 hours a day!  Jeremiah 33:3 says, “Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.” 

Jesus said in Matthew 16:19, “And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”

In John 10:9 Jesus said, “I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.”  Get in Christ and you can go in and out of the natural realm into the spiritual realm.  That is exactly what He meant.  You can get so much so with the Lord that you can become a pillar in the house of God and go no more out (see Revelation 3:12).  He said He will give us the keys of the kingdom of heaven. 

Matthew 12:22-23 says, “Then was brought unto him one possessed with a devil, blind, and dumb: and he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both spake and saw.  And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David?” 

They brought to Jesus the devil possessed person, and He delivered them.  The people could not understand the concept of the Christ, the Son of God.  However, they understood the concept of the “Son of David”.  The blind man cried out to Jesus, the Son of David.  The people had been taught for hundreds of years that Christ would be of the seed of David. 

When they saw the miracle, they called Jesus the Son of David, not the Son of God.  They did not understand that He was the Son of God and that they could become the sons of God.  John 1:12 says, “But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:” 

First you receive Jesus; you get saved.  Then you get power to become a son of God.  Whatever the Son of God did, the sons of God can do.  John 14:12 says, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.” 

Revelation 5:4-5 says, “And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon.  And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed. . . .”  That is Jesus.

Revelation 22:16 says, “I Jesus . . . am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.”  Jesus was with God when He created the world (see Genesis 1:26).  He is the offspring of David because He became flesh so he could save us from sin (John 1:14 & Romans 3:25), and he came through his lineage. 

Revelation 1:5 says, “. . . Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. . . .”  He is the prince of all the kings of the earth in the natural realm and in the spiritual realm.  He is PRINCE over all kings, and He can bring up one and put down another. 

Revelation 3:7 says, “. . . These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;” 

Revelation 3:8 says, “I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it. . . .”

It takes the key of David to open that door to the kingdom of heaven, and it takes the key of David to shut it.  It is open to men who really want God, and it is shut in the face of the devil and all who try to deceive or manipulate the Word of God. 

David was a prophet and a king, and because he was in the presence of the Lord, he was also a priest like Jesus.  Acts 2:25 says, “For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved:”  In other words, I saw a time where the Lord would always be with me, in my sight, in my reach, in my grasp for every need, because he is at my right hand.

David could enter into the presence of the Lord through praise, thanksgiving, and worship.  That is the Key of David.  Yes, other things will be going on, but every time John saw God do something in heaven, the twenty-four elders, the beasts, and the angels fell down at His feet and worshipped Him.  Praise and worship was always going on.  God was being glorified, because God created all things for His pleasure.

Worship gives God pleasure.  John 4:23-24 says, “But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.  God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.”

This was not possible under the old covenant for the common man, unless he was elected of God as a prophet to be anointed by His Spirit.  Jesus broke the barrier between God the Spirit, and man the carnal.  Jesus made the way, and He tells us that we have the key to get in there!

Jesus taught us to praise as He first taught us to pray.  (See Matthew 6:6-13 and Luke 11:1-4.)  Many people are filled with the Holy Ghost and the power of God to become sons of God like Jesus - under the anointing of praise. 

Psalm 100:4 says, “Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.”  As you enter into his gates with thanksgiving you are in the outer edge, the outer court.  You enter into the second court with praise.  You enter into the veil with worship. 

It is a breaking down of the natural man.  One of the biggest wars you fight is trying to step out of the natural and go into the Spirit and worship God.  People worry about what others think. 

David danced before the Lord, and his wife tried to make him ashamed of what he did.  That is one time God hit a woman.  God is no respecter of persons.  Michal attacked his worship, and God killed her ability to make any more like her.  Later on she adopted some of her orphaned relatives so she could raise them, but later on God killed them.  There is the good Spirit of God, and there is the evil spirit of the devil.  You choose which one you listen to. 

David appointed singers and musicians.  He praised the Lord as a little boy out watching the sheep.  He killed a lion and a bear to protect the sheep.  All nations feared David after he became king.  He was also the most glorious worshipper of God.  You could not stand in the presence of David and call him effeminate.  His sword was the one he took from a Philistine giant named Goliath.  He took the devil’s weaponry and started using it against him.  Goliath was approximately 10 feet tall, so figure how big his sword was!  Because God stood at his right hand, David was able to swing it all of his life, and he was the size of a regular man.  God started him out with a pebble.  Then God had him take away the sword of the enemy. 

Lucifer used to walk as one of the arch angels in heaven.  He sinned and preached blasphemy against God, and God threw him out.  God is no respecter of persons.  He saw iniquity in him, and no place was found for him. 

Jesus said in John 14:2, “. . . I go to prepare a place for you.”  Everything the devil used to walk in, God gave to David and to us.  Where the devil used to praise, I can praise.  No wonder the devil fights the way he does.  That does not mean we lose our ability to choose.  David took Bathsheba.  That was sin, and he paid for it, but he prayed through in Psalm 51.  He still had trouble in his family, but his ministry was kept.  You don’t turn into a God.  You have free will, and you can botch things, but you don’t have to botch it. 

There are keys to the kingdom of heaven, and God said in Psalm 84:11, “. . . the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.”  Don’t listen to the howl of the flesh, and the world, and the devil trying to drown out the cry of the Spirit in your soul that says, I must have Jesus.         

David prayed before every battle!  God answered him what to do and how to do it.  In 2 Samuel 5:23 David enquired of the LORD and the Lord said, “Thou shalt not go up; but fetch a compass behind them, and come upon them over against the mulberry trees.”  The Lord told David when he heard the sound of going in the mulberry trees, then he was to go.  That would be the Lord going before him to smite the Philistines.

For most of us, the real battle is waiting on God and believing Him no matter what goes on!  We have to wait on God till He moves.  Isaiah 40:31 says, “But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength. . . .” 

1 John 4:4 says, “. . . greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.”  David swung a sword at 86 and beyond.  That takes away every excuse we’ve got.  We can’t say we are too old, because at age 80 Moses’ natural force was not abated.  Romans 8:31 says, “. . . If God be for us, who can be against us?” 

Isaiah 54:17 says, “No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper. . . .” 

David had a key to get to God, because he was a man after God’s own heart.  1 Corinthians 2:10 says, “. . . the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.”  The Holy Ghost in the believer has the answers we need, but we have to get past carnality and a lack of faith.  With God all things are possible!

Galatians 5:16 says, “This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.”  If you are to enter into the presence of the Lord, you cannot sin.  1 John 3:9 says, “Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.” 

2 Samuel 7: 1-11 says, “And it came to pass, when the king sat in his house, and the LORD had given him rest round about from all his enemies; That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in an house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains.  And Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that is in thine heart; for the LORD is with thee.  And it came to pass that night, that the word of the LORD came unto Nathan, saying, Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the LORD, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in?  Whereas I have not dwelt in any house since the time that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle.  In all the places wherein I have walked with all the children of Israel spake I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying, Why build ye not me an house of cedar?  Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel:  And I was with thee whithersoever thou wentest, and have cut off all thine enemies out of thy sight, and have made thee a great name, like unto the name of the great men that are in the earth.  Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as beforetime, And as since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel, and have caused thee to rest from all thine enemies. Also the LORD telleth thee that he will make thee an house.”  Verse 16 says, “And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.”

David thought to build a house for God, but the Lord said He was going to build David a house!  He wasn’t talking about a natural house.  Look at the next three scriptures.

2 Corinthians 5:1 says, “For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.”

Jude 1:20 says, “But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,”

1 Peter 2:5 says, “Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.”

There is something about dying to the world and self that ushers us into the spirit realm with God.  There is something about worshiping God.  David found the key, and it made his throne established forever. 

The unbelieving do not enter into the holy place of the kingdom of God.  Hebrews 3:18-19 says, “And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?  So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.”

1 Peter 2:11 says, “Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;”  We ought to be spiritual children, because we are spiritually bought and paid for.  We are spiritually raised up, filled with the Holy Ghost and gifted.   

2 Corinthians 5:17 says, “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” 

Ephesians 4:24 says, “And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.”  If you are saved, you have the new man, even though he fights and struggles.  The Holy Ghost is dealing with him, because He won’t talk to the old man.  The new man tells the old man to be still. 

Romans 6:16 says, “Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?”  If your tongue speaks like the devil, you are his servant at that time.  It is the same with the hands, feet, and tongue. 

We need to call on God while we can.  Isaiah 55:6 says, “Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:”  See also Matthew 5:6 and James 4:8.

The key of David shuts doors against the devil and opens doors to heaven.  Let’s worship God, because that is how you get into the Spirit.  2 Corinthians 3:17 says, “Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” 

God is an awesome God.  He can take the feeblest man and turn him into something special if he will lay down all his own ways and devices and yield to God.  Be thankful for what God has done and worship Him for He is worthy.  Worship is the key. 

CONTACT INFORMATION:

PASTOR KEVIN BADGLEY

LIVING HOPE FELLOWSHIP, P. O. BOX 111, GRAND CHAIN, IL  62941

CHURCH / FAX (618) 634-2541

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These condensed Bible studies have been published to help new Christians in their new walk with the Lord.  Kevin Badgley, the author, is the pastor of Living Hope Fellowship Church.

This is a Living Hope Fellowship publication.

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