1. The King’s Table
2 Samuel 9:1-13

2. Mephibosheth’s place at the king’s table…
was an act of mercy and grace

3. (4) Jonathan, the son of Saul, had a son who was crippled in his feet
(4) Jonathan, the son of Saul, had a son who was crippled in his feet. He was five years old when the news about Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel, and his nurse took him up and fled, and as she fled in her haste, he fell and became lame. And his name was Mephibosheth.
2 Samuel 4:4 ESV

4. (28) For all my father's house were but men doomed to death before my lord the king, but you set your servant among those who eat at your table. What further right have I, then, to cry to the king?"
2 Samuel 19:28 ESV

5. (9) Then the king called Ziba, Saul's servant, and said to him, "All that belonged to Saul and to all his house I have given to your master's grandson. (10) And you and your sons and your servants shall till the land for him and shall bring in the produce, that your master's grandson may have bread to eat. But Mephibosheth your master's grandson shall always eat at my table."
2 Samuel 9:9-10a ESV

6. Mephibosheth’s place at the king’s table…
was an act of mercy and grace
foreshadowed our place in the kingdom

7. (11) May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy, (12) giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light.
Colossians 1:11-14 ESV

8. (13) He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, (14) in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
Colossians 1:11-14 ESV

9. (9) who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began,
2 Timothy 1:9 ESV

10. (28) And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. (29) For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
Romans 8:28-30 ESV

11. (30) And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.
Romans 8:28-30 ESV

12. (9) But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
1 Peter 2:9 ESV

13. (8) And he paid homage and said, "What is your servant, that you should show regard for a dead dog such as I?"
2 Samuel 9:8 ESV

14. Mephibosheth’s place at the king’s table…
was an act of mercy and grace
foreshadowed our place in the kingdom
foreshadowed the Lord’s Supper

15. Luke 22:14-30

16. (1) And you were dead in the trespasses and sins (2) in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience-- (3) among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
Ephesians 2:1-10 ESV

17. (4) But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, (5) even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ--by grace you have been saved-- (6) and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
Ephesians 2:1-10 ESV

18. (7) so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. (8) For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, (9) not a result of works, so that no one may boast. (10) For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Ephesians 2:1-10 ESV

19. Mephibosheth’s place at the king’s table…
was an act of mercy and grace
foreshadowed our place in the kingdom
foreshadowed the Lord’s Supper

20. The King’s Table
2 Samuel 9:1-13