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1 Chronicles 17, Now it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in the house of cedars, but the ark of the covenant of the Lord remaineth under curtains. Then Nathan said unto David, Do all that is in thine heart, for God is with thee. Now I know it was a few weeks ago when we were in the previous chapter, but in chapter 16, you remember David brought the ark of the covenant to Jerusalem, and if you go back to chapter 16 there in verse 1, it says, So they brought the ark of God, and set it in the midst of the tent that David had pitched for it, and they offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings before God. Now if you remember, before the temple, they had the tabernacle, right? And that's actually the structure that God designed for them and commanded them to build when they came out of the land of Egypt, when you read the book of Exodus, God gives these very detailed instructions on building the tabernacle. And sometimes we think of the tabernacle as just being one tent, but here you can see in chapter 16 it says, the tent that David pitched for it, it doesn't say the tabernacle, and in chapter 17, Nathan the prophet's going to talk a little bit later about how the ark of the covenant went from tent to tent, because obviously a tent is something that's not going to last, it's not a permanent structure, and so over the course of many centuries, the tabernacle had actually gone from tent to tent, so David sets up a tent for it, but he decides here that it would be better for there to be a permanent housing for the ark of the covenant, and so he says, you know, it just doesn't seem right that I would be in a house of cedars, I have this magnificent palace, and you know, the house of God is a tent, and the ark of the covenant is a tent. So when Nathan hears this, he responds to David by saying, do all that is in thine heart, for God is with thee. But look at verse three, and it came to pass the same night that the word of God came to Nathan saying, go and tell David my servant, thus saith the Lord, thou shalt not build me an house to dwell in. Now one of the things that we can learn right away here is that even a good preacher can give you the wrong advice sometimes. Even a good preacher can preach something or say something that's wrong, because there's no question that Nathan is a great man of God, and it's obvious when you read this that Nathan didn't have any ill will or bad intentions, he's not trying to mislead David or teach false doctrine, but what he said was actually wrong, wasn't it? He tells David go build the house, God's with you, do it, it's a great idea, but then God reveals to him that night, actually, no, David's not going to build this house, so Nathan has to come the next day and set things straight with David and say, hey, I know I told you this advice, but actually, here's what God told me. So what we can learn from that is that even a great preacher, even a godly man could sometimes give you the wrong advice or could teach something that's incorrect, even if he's completely sincere, even if he's a man who loves the Lord and the spirit of God has come upon him frequently as with Nathan the prophet. And then the other thing we can learn from this is that when a preacher does say something that's wrong or give bad advice or preach something that's wrong, he should set the record straight. You know, when God shows him the truth on that subject, then he needs to come in and correct that and say here's what the Bible actually says. And so at the end of the day, even though God gave us pastors and teachers and evangelists, even though God uses men of God in our lives to preach to us and to guide us and to motivate us and to teach us sound doctrine, at the end of the day, the word of God must be our final authority because no man is infallible. Even great men of God like Nathan could steer you wrong, so make sure that you get the word of God as your final authority, the Bible that you read for yourself to check and make sure that what you're being taught from the pulpit jives with what the Bible says.