Davidic Covenant Pt 2

0:00 All right, for this hour two, we've been kind of on parallel tracks looking at two separate things. It kind of ultimately we kind of just ignored one and focused on the other. But those two things obviously Saw eighty three, Saw eighty three, Saw eighty three, Saw eighty three, Sal eighty three, and. The other thing was eschatology. In some ways, it kind of felt like we made a We were focusing on Eskatology and saw MATI three, and then we went straight to Saw eighty three. But this morning, for this hour, we're going to try to now have the two parallel studies kind of merge a little bit, and hopefully this will be beneficial and helpful. Right, So in our study of Psalm eighty three, we really begin to focus on If you look at Ssaw eighty three really quick, there was a couple of verses that I really pointed out because I thought it was very important.

0:56 If you look at verse one, we have do not keep silent, Oh God. This is Psalm eighty three. Verse one, do not keep silent, Oh God, Do not hold your peace, and do not be still, Oh God. All right, clearly crying out to God. Right, we have in a sense a prayer asking God for specific things. Then in verse nine, deal with them as with Midian, once again asking God for something specific. Verse thirteen, Oh my God, make them like the worling dust, again asking something very specific. So when we read that, remember I said, well, that should. Lead every good Bible student to ask some tough questions, right, because they are praying to a god at the very minimum, knew what was going to happen and did nothing to prevent it from happening. Right, So, if you're praying to the very God to do something, how about the very situation that that God knew what happened and was not doing anything to intervene for it seems kind of ridiculous to be praying. And not only that, if you add another part of it, it becomes even more complicated because they're praying to the very God who, at the very most was what, who had decreed it to happen, and was guiding and directing it by his providence. So to ask him to go against the very thing he decreed and was guiding in his providence would seem to be that you're praying.

2:23 Outside of God's will? So then how do we pray? So we kind of got into a discussion about how should prayer work, and we went through all the different theological perspectives on it, and we were able to, at least, I think, admit that most of the time, if you take how people who claim to be Christians pray, they pray not on the basis of a thilological understanding of prayer, but bas on emotion, need, hope, desire, almost a little bit of superstition, and that more governs prayer than theology, because if we really prayed according to theology, our prayers would sound. Very very very very very different.

3:04 So that tends to prove that most of our prayers, by their very structure, actually is not in submission to God's will, because we're asking for what to God almost every situation to change a circumstance or to make a circumstance better, rather than coming to God surrendering to said circumstance or said situation, which then at raises lots of questions. So we talked about that, and then I was like, well, we do have to address kind of, you know, an issue that in Psaw maybe three and then in much of the Old Testament, they pray specifically for God to do what to change something, to provide something, to do something.

3:47 So how do we understand that? And I put forth the hypotheses that the way we understand the prayer and the Old Testament is first we have to draw a distinction between that prayer and prayer of a gentile New Testament believer, because the prayer of a gentile New Testament believer should never sound like the prayer of an Old Testament Jew. And what was the reason there should be a massive distinction between the two. The covenants, the covenants, the covenants, the covenants, the covenants, which then circles us right back to our study in eschatology, because we have been looking at in Eschatology the covenants, all right, so now the two come together this morning we go back to the covenants, right, we go back to the covenants.

4:39 We will kind of continue to add to that discussion because when we read the covenants, what do we have? And the covenants made to Israel very specific promises, promises that God will do this or God will do this, And even if it's not explicitly, it's always that it's at least implied over and over and over God has a future for them, that God's going to protect them that God's going to provide for them, and so therefore they can pray for very specific things. And in a sense, they are praying and accordance to God's will because God has made promises, and even if the circumstances seem contradictory to that, they can still pray for it because they know God has in.

5:23 His decree said this is what's going to happen. So all they can do is they look at a circumstance and going, hey, God, do something, and I know that I can ask that because you ultimately have promised a future and something for Israel. So their way of praying is radically different than our way of praying. Now, some people will try to go to some New Testament promises and say, well, we've got similar promises, but then we end up with lots of difficulties there. So we won't go into all of that. But we are going to go back to the covenants. Now. In our study of eschatology, the first covenant we looked at was. Anybody remember the Abrahamic Covenant.

6:08 Okay, we looked at all the different elements of the Abrahamic Covenant, and you could see how that could greatly impact prayer. Right, And of course, what was the major issue we looked at in the Abrahamic Covenant land Right, land land land. Land land, Okay, because and there's a lot of things that come along with that promise. Right. If God promised them a land, well, then they're going to have to exist in order to. Possess that land. Right, God's gonna have to preserve them. God will provide for them so they can be that land. That would greatly impact prayer. So when it comes to the covenants, if you want to just write these principles down, I think it's important one of the because nobody ever considers this that now we will say from this point moving forward that at least my hypothesis is is that the covenants, clearly one of the importance of understanding the covenants God made with Israel is a clearly influence the way an Old Testament Jew or even a Jew today can pray.

7:12 And it is very different than the way I can pray, all right, So I know, and typically when you listen to sermons on prayer, they never connect it to the Old Testament covenants. No, I don't think anyone has right. I don't think anyone ever draws that correlation. But you have to draw that correlation because they are praying literally in accordance with God's will, all right. So that's one of the big issues of the covenants is that they now show us why Israel could pray in a way that with seemens, and we'd be like, well, wait, if they can pray that way, I can pray that way. No, I don't have the same promises, right, So that's the first big thing. The second big thing about the covenants.

7:59 I cannot stress the significance of the covenants as it relates to hermeneutics, because if. How you approach. The covenants really determine how you're going to interpret a good portion of the Bible, right, And when it comes to hermonutics and the covenants, what's the big question? What's the big question in hermoneutics about the covenants? Well, everyone would say they're literal to a point, but I know what you're saying that The issue is are they made with with the nation of Israel or are somehow do we say the nation of Israel is actually the Church?

8:47 For example, the New Covenant, it's made with the it is in Jeremiah, House of Israel, and the house of you. Literally that's the terminology used, right, What does most people do with it? Make it about us? In fact, it's so. I mean I just reviewed a sermon the other day on the podcast from the Ezekiel where they it was all about us. They didn't even mention Israel one time in the sermon, and I'm like, how in the world are you in Ezekiel? I think thirty six and not one time mentioned Israel, Like I give up, Like, I mean, because we went through that chapter. Remember remember I told you to count how many times Israel's mentioned. Remember we did all of that thirty six, thirty seven that passes where you have the new Covenant. I'm gonna put a heart of flesh and remove the hardest stuff. Everyone applies that to us. It's Israel, Israel, Israel Israel. Yeah, I think thirty seven is the dry Bones, which is about Israel.

9:46 I mean, the whole thing is about Israel. So I think when it comes to the Covenant, it really is a hermeneutical test, right, is a hermoneutaical test. And I think everything once you determine that you're going to interpret that based off the words that are used, then that's gonna impact what how you interpret the rest of the entire Old Testament, how you're going to interpret everything. And so I think that those are some key elements to the Covenant. So here's what we're gonna do. We need to get back to the dividic Covenant. We need to finish that. But before we do that, I'm. Just gonna add to this, not so much for its significance to eschatology, but just because.

10:26 I think it's significant. Go to Deuteronomy twenty eight. We've referenced this numerous times, but go to Deuteronomy twenty eight, because once again I think this is very important. All right, Deuteronomy chapter twenty eight will start in verse one. All right, everybody there, all right, Deuteronomy chapter twenty eight. Verse one. Now I shall come to pass if you diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all his commandments, which I command you today, that the Lord your God will set you high above all nations of the earth, and all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you because you obey the voice of the Lord your God. All right, now, this section is very important. Go to chapter twenty nine. What we're going to come back and read most of this.

11:29 Right. So God is speaking at chapter twenty eight, verse one, right, and it tells everyone to obey the voice of the Lord. Everybody see that? And how many verses are in twenty eight sixty eight. There's a lot of words. Now look at twenty nine to one. Look at the very first verse. What does it say? These are the words of the covenant which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel and the land of Moab, besides the covenant which he made with him. All right, So this is a separate covenant, an additional covenant, all right. This covenant is sometimes referred to as what we covered this in detail. Okay, do what Palestinian covenant or the was another term for it.

12:22 We covered this when we covered all the covenants. Do I look at verse one at chapter twenty eight. Just read verse one and maybe verse two. It should give it away. No, Okay, Now it shall come to pass if you diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all his commandments, which I command you today, that the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations. Of the earth, and it shall come to pass, and all these blessings. She'll come upon you and overtake you because you obey the voice of the Lord.

13:03 Blessed shall be you be in the city, Blessed shall you'll be in the country. Blessures shall be the fruit. Okay, Well, immediately we kind of have well, I guess it's not specifically laid out in twenty eight, but if you kind of understand what's going on, it becomes pretty clear this is being given. To them right before they do what the land. So this is sometimes known as the land covenant. Okay, I thought it mentioned the land right there. It's kind of implied. But hey, when you go into the land, you do what you do this and good things are going to happen. You don't do this, bad things are going to happen. Right, It's called the land covenant. Now, what would we be able to say about the land covenant?

13:47 What kind of covenant would this be? Well, definitely conditional. This is a law, base works based covenant. No way to get around it. All Right, you're gonna we're gonna as we read through it, you'll see that. Okay, not only that, though, this is very important, Okay, I can't man, who is the famous pastor. I don't remember the name of the famous pastor, but we went to hear him preach in Nebraska, and his text was Deuteronomy twenty eight and twenty nine. And his whole argument in that sermon in Nebraska, and I don't even remember where we went to hear him preach, but his whole argument is basically, Deuteronomy twenty eight and twenty nine applies to all of us, right, And that's the way I was always taught.

14:38 The Deuteronomy twenty eight and twenty nine applies to. All of us, not only that accused by many pastors. They will say that this applies to our country. That if we obey this, then we get the good, and if we don't, we get the bat and all of that, to me is massively problematic. I can't all the covenants. I cannot stress this. They are all hermeneutics, like your hermonutics. Really, how you handle the covenant really kind of determines your hermeneutical system. It's best not to ask someone what their hermeneutical system is, because, just like with prayer, their prayer never is consistent with their theology. Most people's hermeneutical system, they are never consistent with it, right, ma. It's one of the things that drives me crazy about a millennialist. Right, Well, Israel's really the church and Land isn't land. But then they'll go to these very passages in Isaiah or Ezekiel, and guess what virgin means virgin? You know that Babylonian captivity means Babylonian captivity, and it's like part of it'll be real, part of it will be spiritual, and it's like they're inconsistent, and it drives me crazy.

15:49 Right. So when it comes to Deuteronomy twenty eight, people want to make this about us, or they want to make it about our country, and they say that this principle is applicable to us. Well, this becomes very problematic, right. It becomes problematic because, first and foremost, it destroys what the proper distinction between. Long and Gospel. Second, it destroys the proper distinction between Israel and the Church. Third, it destroys the proper distinction between Israel and America. Israel is not the Church and Israel is not America, right, and it completely destroys the proper distinction between law and gospel.

16:30 So let's look at it and just see how this plays out. All right, are you ready Deuteronomy chapter twenty eight. Now this shall come to pass if you diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully how many of his commandments, all his commandments, which I command you today, that the Lord your God will set you high above. All the nations of the earth. All right, So clearly this is a specific promise, and it's specifically to Israel. There's no way to say this is not Israel. It would be ridiculous to say this is not about Israel. Okay, But.

17:11 If you're good with theology and you're a good Bible student, as soon as you start reading verse twenty eight, what should be your reaction to it? If you react to. Things you read, if you talk back to the things you read, what should you be saying immediately at the beginning of Deuteronomy twenty eight one? Not going to do it? Not going to do it? Now, I take that back. Most of your Christian friends and most of the people you know who go to church will say they could do it, which is trash. Okay, that that look that's not even a philological dispute. Make sure we understand to me, you know what what this is. I've always stated this, there's a lot of things that push me that being that close to becoming an atheist, right, I mean really sometimes sometimes I don't even know if I can see, Like, I'm like almost right there, I could be an atheist, right.

18:11 But one of the things that always disturbs me is why would people write a Bible that contains a law. That they can't keep. That's the most ridiculous thing, Like, who would do that? Right now? The atheistic agnostic argument is, well, religious people wrote it in order to enslave dumb people. The religious people who wrote it, it enslaves them as much as it enslaves the dumb people. Right, because we're all left what anyone who reads the Bible? What are we all left with?

18:51 We all end up in the exact same place, which is condemned. We all feel and heiress, we all feel shame, we all feel guilt. You may have less guilt than me, but you still have guilt if you're even remotely honest with the text correct, even remotely honest. So as soon as I read this, I'm like, well, this is going to be the most worthless thing ever given to these. People because they can't keep it. And what happened they didn't? Okay, look and so look what happens. Right, So if they do this, you're going to be set high above all the nations, and all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you because you obey the voice of the Lord your God. Now look at the specific blessings that that will occur here, right, This is very important.

19:43 So if they obey, look at what happens. Are you ready? What happens? In verse three? Blessed in the city and blessed in the country. Blessed shall be the fruit of your body, the produce of your ground, the increase of your herds, increase of your cattle, and the offspring of your flocks. Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out. I've heard entire sermons about being blessed when you come in, blessed when you go out. Right, But all of this is about Israel. Now, when you start seeing these specific blessings that are promised. Can you not then see why they would pray in a way that would be very much saying, what.

20:31 God do this? God do this? God do this, God do this, God do this, and it would be very specific. And why could they be so specific? He made a specific promise that he would do that. Now, sometimes they may forget their own, the conditioned part, but we would all we all do that, right, I mean we all do that. But continue, let's go through some of these blessings. Okay, what else the Lord will cause your Look at verse seven. Your enemies who write against you to be defeated before your face, that shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways. Now and again, I've heard pastors apply that to us. Look, when pastors start applying this to us or to our country, they are doing a total complete They're abusing the scripture. They're they're molesting it, they're violating it.

21:25 They're corrupting. It. Has not a thing to do with you. Do you understand that? But you can see when dn Israel is facing enemies, why would they not then pray for God to do what to intervene and destroy them? Is that them going against God's eternal decree or God's providence. No, they would be in praying what and accordance to it. But where does the problem become when we pray that way because we don't have those specific promises. Okay, Now, some people will go to the New Testament and try to find verses. I will argue all day the way we should understand most of those verses in the New Testament first and foremost some of those cases, it's probably directed towards the Jews.

22:11 Okay. Number two. In our case, we can almost always only apply it to the spiritual and not to the practical and to the physical. Because if we could, if we could truly apply it to the practical and the physical, well then there's a lot of questions. And then why God doesn't ever answer those prayers? Okay, because of all the different realities that we see. But what else continues? Look at some of the other things going on here. Verse eight. The Lord will command the blessings on you in your storehouses and all to which you set your hand. He will bless you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you. There's the land verse verse eight.

22:51 There it is. I thought the land got mentioned before that that's why it's called the land covenant. There you go, right, Who's giving them the land? God? And when they go into that land, he is promising blessing after blessing after blessing. It is conditional. But you can see why this would impact the prayer, right, So it ssaw maybe three. It's pretty consistent with this, right, okay, So that's why they can pray this way. Look at verse nine. The Lord will establish you as a holy people to himself, just as he has sworn to you. If you keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and walk in his ways, then all the people of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of the Lord, and they shall be afraid of you.

23:38 And the Lord will grant. You plenty of goods, and the fruit of your body, and the increase of your livestock and the produce of your ground. I mean, it's. Very practical promises, is it not. Yes, it's very practical. And then what are all the curses starting? What verse? Where do the curses start? Verse sixteen? Curse will you be in the city. It's the direct opposite of the blessings. Right, Do you either get the blessing or you get the curse. And the way it's preached in almost every church when they get to Deuteronomy twenty eight is that this establishes a principle for all of our lives. If we do good, God will bless us, and if we do bad, God will curse us. So if things are going bad in your life, you're being cursed, and if things are going good in your life, you're being blessed. And what is the reason you're getting the blessing or you're getting the curse?

24:44 You do you understand how utterly destructive that is. And I've heard that preached a million times in my Christian life. I've been taught that in Bible, college, Bible institute, seminary, everywhere. It's just complete, utter trash. I receive all blessings. Go to Ephesians one and see if you can tell find the answer. Go to Ephesians one. I think it's Ephesians one. Tell me if you can find a verse that talks about us being blessed. Yeah, yeah, y'all find it. Believe it's Ephesians one. I'm going with. I don't have this in my notes, so if I'm wrong, see.

25:36 If you can find it. A spiritual. And that's Ephesians one three. Everybody see that Sesians one three. I receive all spiritual blessings and whom and Christ. So if you're gonna take good around me twenty eight. Now, first of all, you see the problem. If you take Deuteronomy twenty eight and twenty nine and make it about me, and then I go to Ephesians and say, well, I have all spiritual blessings in Christ, then every Christian practically should then be what blessed in the city, blessed in the field, blessing the fruit, blessed in your possessions, blessed it. That's not the way it works, because Deuteronomy twenty eight doesn't have anything to do with you. It was about Israel going into the land, and it placed them under a covenant of.

26:28 Works. And anytime day under the covenant of works, where were you always end up. Cursed? Anytime you try to follow the law, where will you end up cursed? That's why your hermeneutical system has to be able to see this. The law is always given to demonstrate what you can't. The law is never given to make you better. It can't make you better. The law is simply there to condemn you and show you that you can't. They receive a covenant of works, they fail. So then what's our hope that in Christ? All that obedience that gives blessing is found In Christ?

27:11 He does it for me. I put my faith in him. I have all spiritual blessings. Those blessings are what kind of blessings? Spiritual? That's no guarantee of the practical blessings, because those practical blessings are for whom Israel. But there will come a day that Israel will get. No, they will get the practical physical blessings when they then possess the land that was promised in the Abrahamic Covenant. Even in the New Covenant land is mentioned, is it not? Yes? So you see how it works.

27:53 If we want blessing, our blessing will not come. I know, I know, man, Every Christian you know would disagree with everything I'm saying, but they can't. Look, if if God's blessing is dependent upon my obedience, then what kind of obedience would I need in order to be blessed? Perfect? Even in Doode running me twenty eight? How much of the loss are they to obey? All of it? Well, then you'll never be blessed because you never will obey all of it. You can't do that. So when you look at these covenants, then do psaw?

28:34 Maybe three makes sense that the way they are praying, yes, can I pray that way? No, because I don't have the same promises right now. I can pray to God's submitting to the what is happening around me, saying I don't like it, but I can do this. I do know that what I see currently God will change dramatically permanently in the future because of what I have in Christ, which is eternal life. So there will come a time there will. Be no more pain, no more suffering, no more tears, no more death, no more sin. And almost everything we pray about deals with either pain, suffering, death, sin is something along those lines, right, and we want God to make that permanent. We want him to bring that solution to the present, when in most cases it's promise for the future. But for Israel, they could pray for that to happen in the present because God promised present blessings, did he not? The only thing Israel kept forgetting was those promises were conditional. So even pastors do this all the time.

29:54 They go to they'll say the word blessed. Do you want to be blessed today? Everbody in the congregation will say amen, And so then they will tell you all the things you have to do in order to be blessed. You got to meditate on his word day and night. Now, I used to think I could pull that off, right. That's one of the things that used to take me off with Christianity is all these Christians are. Like, Well, the Bible is the Word of God, and it's treasure and I love it, and I'm going to meditate. Nobody meditates on it day and night. Nobody even tries to meditate on it day and night. Okay, you're supposed to treasure it. You're supposed to memorize it, you're supposed to read it, you're supposed to study it. Does anyone come close to doing those things?

30:43 Come? No, we do not. Most of our thoughts and things are so then we would not get that blessing. And then what do they all? The worst part of this is then they go to the Sermon on the Mount, which drives me utterly. Man, I wish the Sermon on the Mount could be just removed from the Bible because what has happened to it? All right? And then immediately people will go and you'll get Hey, we're gonna do a sermon series this week. Make sure you invite your family and friends, because we're gonna explain to them how they can be blessed, how they can have happiness, how they can have joy in their life.

31:24 And all they have to do is everything Jesus tells them to do in the Sermon on the Mount, which at that point you should just be like, your church is trash because nobody can do that right. And so how does the Sermon on the Mount begin? Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be confront comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the king, the inherit the earth. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled. Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the. Verse pure and heart, for they you'll see God. At that point, what should you do? You should just throw up your hands and go, well, I'm gonna leave now, because there's no point staying in this church because is anybody that is anybody pure in heart?

32:17 Now you know why? You know why You're Christian friends and family believe they can be pure in heart? Do you know why your Christian friends and family will tell you that they can they can accomplish that. Does anybody know? No, nobody knows why your Christian friends and family believe they can. No, because of Ezekiel thirty six. Nobody go to Ezequel thirty six.

32:59 Because this is taught in almost every church in America. Remember we covered this in great detail. Yeah, yeah, this is where I want to throw my Bible across the room and give up and become an atheist. Right iseku Will thirty six twenty five. Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. I will give you a a new heart out and put a new spirit within you. I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statues, and you will keep my judgments. Well, guess what every church I guarantee, you just go find a church in appline, ask them about that verse just to who.

33:53 They'll say that verse is about you, me us. So if you believe that, then every Christian should have what a new heart? And what does that say? That you'll start obeying that you'll try to obey, that you will want to obey. It says you will obey many Every Christian then should be perfect. Well, clearly we're not perfect. Clearly we don't have a pure heart. So what's the problem. Well, you've got a couple of options. God is a liar and the Bible is stink and false and we should just get rid of it.

34:34 Or does it apply to us? And look at the beginning of Ezequel thirty six. I think starting in verse one, I think it's gonna be really quick. Starting verse one, verse two, you're gonna be able to see who is exequal thirty six is. Two and who it's about. You don't need me to figure that out for you. In fact, I remember I told you on account how many times Israel's mentioned in Ezekul thirty six. How quickly do you see who it's two? Hey, he starts immediately about Israel. It's about Israel. It's about Israel. It's about his world's about Israel. In fact, when I des sermon that I was reviewing just the other day, just where he guess where he stopped. He stopped in twenty seven, he did not read twenty eight.

35:20 What does twenty eight say? After this happens? What does verse twenty eight say? So, I want to look at verse twenty. Eight, the King James to new King James. Then no meaning after this? After what after you receive this new heart? Everybody read it verse twenty eight. Then you showed a will in the land that I gave to your father's immediately. That tells you who it's too right. There has nothing to do with you or me to do with you.

36:01 You've got Christian friends who will go to church, and may even today hear that verse quoted, they will say it's about them. They think then they have a new heart. Therefore they think that they are pure in heart. Therefore they can get the blessings of the Sermon on the Mount. No, all the things required for the blessings and the sermon on the Mount, only one person can accomplish that, and that is whom the person who preached the sermon. How do I get those blessings by being Christ Jesus? And I get the blessings because I cannot obey the sermon on the Mount. Nobody can obey the Sermon on the Mount because the Sermon on the Mount takes the Old Testament law and does what.

36:41 Shows you that the obedience to the law is not. An external practice, it's an internal practice, meaning that. You are guilty. You're gonna be guilty. Other of the law, either externally or internally. Therefore, you're never going to be blessed. But Christians will convince themselves to have a new heart or a new heart, new heart, new heart, new heart. What are you told from day one after you become a Christian? Day one, you're a new creation. The old is gone and everything is new. And then you walk away, And what do you do with almost five seconds after hearing that you do something that's very much like what the old In fact, what do you realize, if you're really honest with yourself, you're not much different than you were when you walked into that church and said the prayer in the first place.

37:43 Now every testimonial is set up to do what. This is what you were and Now this is what you are see the dramatic change. You've been transformed. And then every church has what the reality of all the people who aim to be transformed? Who or what not transformed? Now? Are we a new creature? Have the old passed away? Absolutely in that way? And Christ not practically? Not practically? You see why these covenants are so important? Right? These covenants determine so much.

38:24 They can pray a specific way because they've got specific promises. That Ezekiel promise is for Israel. Now, I know people will try to go to the New Testament and find parts of it. We are ingrafted into the Ultimate, We are ingrafted in And what do we receive? We received a spiritual promise, do we not? We don't have those physical promises given to us? All right, So that I cannot stress why all of these covenants are important. Now, let's go quickly through the Dividic Covenant. All right, everybody ready, we're gonna go quick. Some of this should already be in your notes, but I know it's been a long time.

39:05 All right. We have basically the provisions of the Covenant, and the main passage for this is Second Samuel, chapter seven, verses twelve, through sixteen if you want to turn there and at least have it open. Okay, I'm gonna have you do more of their referencing it than trying to just read it all out, because I just saw the time and we're never gonna get any further. But we've established some basic principles here and all of this Second Samuel seven twelve through sixteen, you can just have it marked and look at it, all right. David desired to build a temple for the Lord to replace the temporary tent like tabernacle.

39:45 Since David himself lived in a house of cedar, it seemed only fitting that there be a more permanent building for the worship of God. But God revealed to Nathan the prophet that he had something far greater in mind for David, and that revelation is what we would refer to as the Davidic. All right, do you see a little bit of that at Second Samuel seven twelve through sixteen. Does he start offering some of the promises there? Does he not? Yes? No? Okay, all right, So here are some of the promises given in this covenant. All right, you're ready. These are the promises related to David. David would have a son who would succeed him and establish his kingdom?

40:30 Is that in verse twelve? All right, it's. Gonna have a son, it's gonna succeed him and going to do what. Build a house? And does it say something about establishing a kingdom or throne? Okay? Forever? Right? Uh? Oh, there's that forever word. Okay, all right, let's not get into that. Okay, Number two a kingdom, David's house thrown and kingdom would be established forever. Look at verse sixteen. I believe everybody see that. Now, the Covenant did not guarantee an uninterrupted rule by David's family, though it did promise that the right to rule would always remain with David's dynasty. The Babylonian captivity did, of course, interrupt the Davidic rule. All right, then we have promises related to Solomon. All right, Look at verse thirteen.

41:22 I think the beginning of verse thirteen. Does it say Solomon or the Sun would build the temple? Yeah, buildings that he would build the temple. Now, and just always remember this, It just drives I get so irritated by this. All right, pastors do this all the time. Well, see, when you commit certain sin. See God does something certain things because David couldn't build the temple because David was ungodly. That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. Who built the temple? The serial adultera of polygamist and idolatry. I mean, come on, people like oh, whenever I see that all the time, we'll see God he holds people accountable and there's consequences to your actions.

42:07 And that's why David couldn't build the temple. Yeah, he can only write by he can only write scripture, but he couldn't build the temple. Well, I'm sorry, who could build the temple? Someone who took David's Now what's the And let's make it very clear. David has someone killed and Solomon has people killed. Then Solomon becomes David's hit man at the beginning of his reign, and we looked at it. In fact, Solomon killed whom was a half brother, killed his own brother half brother. Right, So I mean, come on, don't even get me started on all of this. That's just so we our ability to judge things sometimes as Christians drives me to the point of insanity. Okay, So we have the temple, what happens on the second part of verse thirteen.

42:58 Talks about the throne. It's gonna be established for what forever? All right? What's about verse fourteen and fifteen? What happened in verse fourteen fifteen? He's going to be chasing for his sins, right, but his mercy won't depart, which always shows what God's faithfulness in light of our unfaithfulness. All right. God did not promise specifically that the posterity of David would be through the line of Solomon. Jack Andiah or Kanaiah, one of Solomon's descendants, was decreed by God to be childless. Actually, Kanaiah had seven sons, perhaps adopted first Chronicles three, though none occupied the throne. And so we can get a we can get into a whole discussion there.

43:53 We went through. We discussed a lot of that. Thus, as far as continuing dynasty was concerned, Kanaiah was childless. His line did attained legal throne rights, which were claimed for Jesus through the lee his legal father Joseph and Matthew. Chapter one. We're not going to get all back through the Jackaniah. That whole situation, it gets confusing, it gets crazy. Just make sure we realize God made a promise to David that his descendants would ultimately do what one of his descendants would build the temple, and then a throne would be ultimately established. And there's a forever part to it. How that works? And look, I'm the first to acknowledge it's confusing at times. Right, Hey, I'm going to establish the throne forever, but yet it's interrupted.

44:37 How can have something forever be interrupted? Well? Okay, well, how do we understand that there's lots of discussions about all of that. I'm not gonna I got to kind of figure out what we're going to cover and what we're not here. Okay. Basically, it says that it's important to remember that these promises were made unconditionally. This is an unconditional promise. Hey, I'm gonna do this irregardless of what happens. All right now. Some argue that it was not an unconditional, claiming that the covenant could be broken, and they cite Second Samuel seven fourteen.

45:20 Look at Second Samuel seven fourteen. Tell me what you find. Okay, that doesn't make it conditional. It just makes that if he sends, there's gonna be chastening but it doesn't. In fact, does it not promise that he's still not gonna. Depart for him or something along the Yeah. So that, yeah, that doesn't make it. Doesn't make it conditional, really right? Agreed? Okay, they also look at First Kings two four. Tell me what you find in First Kings two four. I don't know if any of these arguments are any good, but we'll look at some of the arguments. What happens in First Kings two fourth?

46:09 There's children, all right? That is spoken kind of a conditional language. Does everyone kind of see that? Alright? So you can see why some may may use that to make it conditional. Alright, alright, look at First Kings eight twenty five, eight twenty five? What do you see there?

46:55 My children. Are? I don't see anything there that would be conditional? Do you what do you think? Do you see conditional language? All right? So out of the out of the verses, provided that some say prove that it's conditional, the only one we've come close to is. First Kings two four. Agreed? All right? How about chapter nine of First Kings, verses four through five, do you see any conditional language? Okay? If what?

47:46 Okay, that's a definite, conditional if you do this. But what's the requirement he's got to do what? He's got to obey everything? Right? Who's who's who's that about? Who is this about? No? Who's the person that has to do this in order to be established. The throne in the lord of this is Solomon? Right? Okay, Wait, I got some There seems to be some disagreement. Is it Solomon or no? Okay Solomon? Okay, alright, I give you, Okay, alright, they see that. Alright, now it's okay.

48:28 I wanna make sure run the same page now immediately, though you should stop. Wait a minute. If this is conditional and the requirement is for Solomon to obey everything, then what would be the end result, okay, which would be. Your children will. Statutes said before you? Which I guess. Okay, Now the condition here if you don't obey there Israel's going to be put away? Now does that negate the promise? The dividic covenant promises. Look look at exactly what happens there, What happens if they if if they if he doesn't obey, what exactly happens.

49:30 They're cut off or moved from the land. Right, isn't it? What the focus is? Okay, does that negate the promises and the dividic Covenant? Still it doesn't. It doesn't. Remember, the argument is that these verses make the dividic Covenant conditional. What I'm trying to are, what I'm trying to. Get you to see, is that those consequences would not gate the Dividic Covenant, would it. It would only simply do what bring chastisement in the midst of the dividic Covenant? Right? And is that not exactly what happened? I mean, who is this being spoken to? He violates everything? And then what happens because of his violation?

50:19 Ultimately you end up with a divided kingdom. And then guess what happens to Judah Babylonian captivity and what happens to israel Assyrian captivity? Right? And then there, in a sense they're still facing the consequences of all of that. Right, But that does not negate the dividic Covenant, because will a descendant of David be upon the throne? Yes? Christ? Okay, all right? Does everybody understand that? So I'm saying, even if you make this conditional, it's the condition is there's going to be chastisement as a result of the But it doesn't negate the covenant. Does that make? All? Right?

51:00 Look at Isaiah twenty four to five. We're gonna run out of time here, Isaiah twenty four to five. I'm just going through all these arguments that trying to make it a conditional win. Isaiah twenty four to five. I know we could have gotten slower, and I could do more of the reading, but I'm trying to have you see it is. Isaiah twenty four to five. Do you see conditional language here? All right? Well, they have broken every Look, we can we argue that any covenant that tells Israel to do something, what do they always do? Every covenant that tells Israel to do something, they don't do it? Okay? Can we can? We can we all agree to that? All right? Why?

51:49 Because anytime the Bible tells you to do something that is classified as what law, no one ever keeps the law. All right, this is the law all gospel distinction. Okay, go to Ezekiel sixteen fifty. Nine, sixteen fifty nine, which as. All right, he's acknowledging they've broken the covenant. Now, which covenant they ultimately break any and every covenant, right, I mean, they ultimately.

52:32 Don't follow anything. Okay, go ahead, nevertheless, established, there you go. He's going to establish what kind of a covenant and everlasting covenant? And some people say that everlasting covenant is the new covenant? Right? And why does they have to make the new covenant? They broke all the others? Okay, all right, So I'm here is how Roda tries to fix these problems because Ririy's like, Okay, let's say all of these verses offer. A conditional element to it. What is the solution. I don't think you need much of a solution. I think I've kind of already offered it. But let me quote Rri specifically, and you tell me what you think about his solution.

53:17 Are you ready? The breaking or conditionality can only refer to personal and individual invalidation of the benefits of the covenant, but it cannot affect the transmission of the promise to the lineal descendants. Right. Let me here, Let me read that again. The breaking or conditionality can only refer to personal and individual invalidation of the benefits of said covenant, but it cannot affect the transmission of the promise to the lineal descendants, so the promise of the cove to be passed on will continue even if someone else invalidates promises or can't experience some of the promises because of their disobedience.

54:10 All right, so you're ready, listen carefully. This is why God would staunchly affirm his fidelity and perpetuity of the covenant to David in spite of succeeding rascals. Who would appear in his lineage. For in that case, he finds fault with them, but he does not find fault with his covenants. God maintains his fidelity to what. The covenant. The individual may face. Chastisement consequences, but God will still maintain loyalty to the covenant.

54:56 Does Israel violate everything? Do they face severe chastisement? Are they still facing that chastisement? Does that negate the ultimate promise of land of someone ruling and reigning. No, it's some within the reform world. Who basically says these covenants were conditional. They didn't meet the covenant, So guess what. God took the covenant from them and gave it to whom. Us, right right? Yeah, Well, then for us then it's it's not a conditional covenant. Now it's unconditional that but that just destroys there's so many problems with that. Everything begins to fall apart, all right, everything begins to fall apart. I always hate running out of time, but we're gonna run out of time, all right. Right, let's see if we can get just a little bit more.

55:47 All right. So all of that was the provision of the covenant, and the promises related to David, the promises related to Solomon, and then we looked at the conditionality possibly of it. All right, now Old Testament confirmation of the covenant. Now listen carefully to this. All Old Testament passages that describe the Messiah as king and his coming kingdom confirm the promises of the Davidic Covenant. So every passage that describes the Messiah as king confirms the promises. Of the Davidic Covenant.

56:27 All the Royal Psalms, for example, give more information about the Davidic kingdom, and we could go through all of them. We don't have time right now. There's a lot. Okay, these provide strong confirmation of the immutability of the covenant. It seems almost as if God was anticipating the all millennial claim that the Kingdom promise should be spiritualized into the Church when he said that even though chastisement for sin would come, the Covenant would not be broken or would not be broken or altered.

57:09 All right, everybody got that right. So God acknowledges sin will come. He also acknowledges chastisement may occur. But what does he not alter the Covenant? What does he not change who the Covenant was made with? He does not change how it will be fulfilled to them we're grafted in. But those promises to Israel are promises specifically to Israel. And so ultimately the divided Covenant promised that David's descendant would sit upon the throne and rule and reign forever.

57:52 Correct. Has there been a and well, you could argue on one hand, and in some sense there was a pause, of which I don't like that, but there was kind of a pause. But in the other way, there really wasn't a pause because Christ and well, I. Guess there was a pause into the coming of the Messiah. Because once the Messiah comes, what does Jesus start preaching right from the beginning? What does even John the Baptist start preaching right at. The beginning, the Kingdom of God is at hand, all right, Okay, Now, so in one hand, Jesus is Jesus on the. Throne right now, yes, on the spiritual kingdom. Right.

58:34 Remember, Israel was looking for the physical kingdom. But that does not negate the physical kingdom coming, because the physical kingdom has to come because it was that was the promise, all right, So any failure there does not negate that. Right. I'll read just this part. A number of passages in Isaiah predict and describe the visible earthly kingdom promised. In the Dividic covening. Isaiah predicted the reign of Messiah on the throne of David and over his kingdom and other places. He described some of the characteristics of that kingdom. Other significant Old Testament promises concerning the divided kingdom include Now we need to read all of these, but we will not because we don't have time right now, all right, So what can we Here's what I want us to understand. What is the significance of the covenant. They greatly impact how people who receive that covenant can pray versus, how those of us who are not part of those covenants, can pray? Second, everything about hermeneutics comes into play right here, does it not?

59:41 It does. So we looked at these covenants, especially the land covenant made with Israel has nothing to do with us, and we found out that in some cases where the covenant is workspace, we are only going to demonstrate what that they will never ever fulfill it on the workspace system. That's why we need the Gospel. When we come to the Dividic Covenant, the Dividic Covenant made specific promises to David and to Solomon ultimately that a descendant of David or David's descendants would rule for ever upon a kingdom that would be established for ever. And yes Sin is mentioned, Yes sin occurred. Yes there is some interruptions and chastisement to it. But as not negate the Dividic Covenant and the Dividic Covenant, for it to ultimately be fulfilled would require what at least, this is the argument for a descendant of David to sit upon the throne literally ruling and reigning from Jerusalem. That would argue for a millennial kingdom.

1:00:50 All right? Does that make sense? And when that happens then Israel will be what restored, brought back, regathered, brought back to the land, and then all of those promises, all of that will be there, right, all of those promises will be there, and in what kind of a way, a real literal way, because these equals seems to say that the new heart will will come. Before they do what enter into the land, they will be restored, you know, you could say resurrected, you can say regenerated all the work.

1:01:36 Then they will go into the land, and then Christ will rule and reign there. Does that make sense? All? Right? So that's a lot of concepts all coming together. But you see how the Psalm eighty three and this fit together in a perfect way. Now, in the next hour we'll go back to Psalm eighty three and see if we can try to get past some of those we can move forward and Ssa Maitie read so that we can finally wrap it up, and then what we'll do with eschatology after we do the Davidic Covenant, then we're gonna look at some other specific areas related to eschatology. And we'll look at the Millennial Kingdom. But we have a lot of verses right there to read about the dividic kingdom and which ultimately will be the millennial kingdom. And we'll see how those verses are read, and we'll see if we could how we could interpret them spiritually, if we could possibly make it work, and well, if we can make it work, we'll make it work.

1:02:27 But I guarantee if you try to start making it spiritual, you're gonna end up in problems because you're gonna be in what books You're gonna be in Isaiah, Ezekiel, and Jeremiah. And if you start making those parts spiritual, then what do you do with the rest of the books? Right? Are the rest of the book Like when it says a virgin's gonna conceive, do we think that's spiritual? No, well, then if that's real, then the other things have to be you see, like it becomes very subjective at that point. All right, we'll start right there. Look, got we come before you this morning forgive us for all of our mishandling of your word. Lord. We pray that we continue to be dedicated in challenging our past understanding so that we can grow in our present understanding.

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