Aug. 4, 2024

Davidic Covenant Pt 2

Davidic Covenant Pt 2

We continue our study of eschatology

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We continue our study of eschatology

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All right, for this hour two, we've been kind of

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on parallel tracks looking at two separate things. It kind

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of ultimately we kind of just ignored one and focused

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on the other. But those two things obviously Saw eighty three,

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Saw eighty three, Saw eighty three, Saw eighty three, Sal

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eighty three, and.

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The other thing was eschatology.

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In some ways, it kind of felt like we made

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a We were focusing on Eskatology and saw MATI three,

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and then we went straight to Saw eighty three. But

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this morning, for this hour, we're going to try to

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now have the two parallel studies kind of merge a

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little bit, and hopefully this will be beneficial and helpful. Right,

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So in our study of Psalm eighty three, we really

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begin to focus on If you look at Ssaw eighty

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three really quick, there was a couple of verses that

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I really pointed out because I thought it was very important.

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If you look at verse one, we have do not

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keep silent, Oh God.

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This is Psalm eighty three.

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Verse one, do not keep silent, Oh God, Do not

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hold your peace, and do not be still, Oh God.

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All right, clearly crying out to God. Right, we have

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in a sense a prayer asking God for specific things.

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Then in verse nine, deal with them as with Midian,

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once again asking God for something specific. Verse thirteen, Oh

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my God, make them like the worling dust, again asking

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something very specific.

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So when we read that, remember I said, well, that should.

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Lead every good Bible student to ask some tough questions, right,

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because they are praying to a god at the very minimum,

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knew what was going to happen and did nothing to

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prevent it from happening. Right, So, if you're praying to

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the very God to do something, how about the very

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situation that that God knew what happened and was not

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doing anything to intervene for it seems kind of ridiculous

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to be praying. And not only that, if you add

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another part of it, it becomes even more complicated because

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they're praying to the very God who, at the very

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most was what, who had decreed it to happen, and

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was guiding and directing it by his providence. So to

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ask him to go against the very thing he decreed

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and was guiding in his providence would seem to be

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that you're praying.

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Outside of God's will? So then how do we pray?

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So we kind of got into a discussion about how

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should prayer work, and we went through all the different

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theological perspectives on it, and we were able to, at least,

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I think, admit that most of the time, if you

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take how people who claim to be Christians pray, they

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pray not on the basis of a thilological understanding of prayer,

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but bas on emotion, need, hope, desire, almost a little

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bit of superstition, and that more governs prayer than theology,

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because if we really prayed according to theology, our prayers

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would sound.

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Very very very very very different.

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So that tends to prove that most of our prayers,

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by their very structure, actually is not in submission to

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God's will, because we're asking for what to God almost

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every situation to change a circumstance or to make a

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circumstance better, rather than coming to God surrendering to said

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circumstance or said situation, which then at raises lots of questions.

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So we talked about that, and then I was like, well,

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we do have to address kind of, you know, an

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issue that in Psaw maybe three and then in much

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of the Old Testament, they pray specifically for God to

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do what to change something, to provide something, to do something.

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So how do we understand that? And I put forth

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the hypotheses that the way we understand the prayer and

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the Old Testament is first we have to draw a

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distinction between that prayer and prayer of a gentile New

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Testament believer, because the prayer of a gentile New Testament

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believer should never sound like the prayer of an Old

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Testament Jew. And what was the reason there should be

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a massive distinction between the two. The covenants, the covenants,

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the covenants, the covenants, the covenants, which then circles us

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right back to our study in eschatology, because we have

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been looking at in Eschatology the covenants, all right, so

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now the two come together this morning we go back

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to the covenants, right, we go back to the covenants.

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We will kind of continue to add to that discussion

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because when we read the covenants, what do we have?

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And the covenants made to Israel very specific promises, promises

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that God will do this or God will do this,

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And even if it's not explicitly, it's always that it's

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at least implied over and over and over God has

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a future for them, that God's going to protect them

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that God's going to provide for them, and so therefore

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they can pray for very specific things. And in a sense,

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they are praying and accordance to God's will because God

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has made promises, and even if the circumstances seem contradictory

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to that, they can still pray for it because they

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know God has in.

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His decree said this is what's going to happen.

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So all they can do is they look at a

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circumstance and going, hey, God, do something, and I know

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that I can ask that because you ultimately have promised

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a future and something for Israel. So their way of

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praying is radically different than our way of praying. Now,

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some people will try to go to some New Testament

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promises and say, well, we've got similar promises, but then

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we end up with lots of difficulties there. So we

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won't go into all of that. But we are going

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to go back to the covenants.

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Now.

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In our study of eschatology, the first covenant we looked

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at was.

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Anybody remember the Abrahamic Covenant.

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Okay, we looked at all the different elements of the

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Abrahamic Covenant, and you could see how that could greatly

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impact prayer.

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Right, And of course, what was the major issue we

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looked at in the Abrahamic Covenant land Right, land land land.

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Land land, Okay, because and there's a lot of things

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that come along with that promise.

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Right.

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If God promised them a land, well, then they're going

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to have to exist in order to.

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Possess that land.

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Right, God's gonna have to preserve them. God will provide

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for them so they can be that land. That would

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greatly impact prayer. So when it comes to the covenants,

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if you want to just write these principles down, I

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think it's important one of the because nobody ever considers

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this that now we will say from this point moving

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forward that at least my hypothesis is is that the covenants,

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clearly one of the importance of understanding the covenants God

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made with Israel is a clearly influence the way an

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Old Testament Jew or even a Jew today can pray.

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And it is very different than the way I can pray,

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all right, So I know, and typically when you listen

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to sermons on prayer, they never connect it to the

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Old Testament covenants. No, I don't think anyone has right.

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I don't think anyone ever draws that correlation. But you

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have to draw that correlation because they are praying literally

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in accordance with God's will, all right. So that's one

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of the big issues of the covenants is that they

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now show us why Israel could pray in a way

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that with seemens, and we'd be like, well, wait, if

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they can pray that way, I can pray that way. No,

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I don't have the same promises, right, So that's the

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first big thing. The second big thing about the covenants.

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I cannot stress the significance of the covenants as it

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relates to hermeneutics, because if.

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How you approach.

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The covenants really determine how you're going to interpret a

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good portion of the Bible, right, And when it comes

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to hermonutics and the covenants, what's the big question? What's

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the big question in hermoneutics about the covenants? Well, everyone

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would say they're literal to a point, but I know

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what you're saying that The issue is are they made

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with with the nation of Israel or are somehow do

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we say the nation of Israel is actually the Church?

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For example, the New Covenant, it's made with the it

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is in Jeremiah, House of Israel, and the house of you.

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Literally that's the terminology used, right, What does most people

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do with it?

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Make it about us? In fact, it's so.

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I mean I just reviewed a sermon the other day

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on the podcast from the Ezekiel where they it was

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all about us. They didn't even mention Israel one time

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in the sermon, and I'm like, how in the world

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are you in Ezekiel? I think thirty six and not

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one time mentioned Israel, Like I give up, Like, I mean,

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because we went through that chapter. Remember remember I told

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you to count how many times Israel's mentioned. Remember we

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did all of that thirty six, thirty seven that passes

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where you have the new Covenant. I'm gonna put a

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heart of flesh and remove the hardest stuff. Everyone applies

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that to us. It's Israel, Israel, Israel Israel. Yeah, I

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think thirty seven is the dry Bones, which is about Israel.

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I mean, the whole thing is about Israel.

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So I think when it comes to the Covenant, it

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really is a hermeneutical test, right, is a hermoneutaical test.

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And I think everything once you determine that you're going

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to interpret that based off the words that are used,

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then that's gonna impact what how you interpret the rest

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of the entire Old Testament, how you're going to interpret everything.

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And so I think that those are some key elements

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to the Covenant.

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So here's what we're gonna do. We need to get

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back to the dividic Covenant. We need to finish that.

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But before we do that, I'm.

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Just gonna add to this, not so much for its

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significance to eschatology, but just because.

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I think it's significant. Go to Deuteronomy twenty eight. We've

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referenced this numerous times, but go to Deuteronomy twenty eight,

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because once again I think this is very important. All right,

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Deuteronomy chapter twenty eight will start in verse one. All right,

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everybody there, all right, Deuteronomy chapter twenty eight.

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Verse one.

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Now I shall come to pass if you diligently obey

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the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully

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all his commandments, which I command you today, that the

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Lord your God will set you high above all nations

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of the earth, and all these blessings shall come upon

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you and overtake you because you obey the voice of

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the Lord your God. All right, now, this section is

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very important. Go to chapter twenty nine. What we're going

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to come back and read most of this.

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Right.

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So God is speaking at chapter twenty eight, verse one, right,

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and it tells everyone to obey the voice of the Lord.

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Everybody see that? And how many verses are in twenty

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eight sixty eight.

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There's a lot of words. Now look at twenty nine

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to one. Look at the very first verse. What does

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it say? These are the words of the covenant which

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the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of

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Israel and the land of Moab, besides the covenant which

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he made with him. All right, So this is a

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separate covenant, an additional covenant, all right. This covenant is

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sometimes referred to as what we covered this in detail. Okay,

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do what Palestinian covenant or the was another term for it.

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We covered this when we covered all the covenants. Do

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I look at verse one at chapter twenty eight. Just

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read verse one and maybe verse two.

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It should give it away.

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No, Okay, Now it shall come to pass if you

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diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God, to

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observe carefully all his commandments, which I command you today,

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that the Lord your God will set you high above

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all the nations. Of the earth, and it shall come

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to pass, and all these blessings. She'll come upon you

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and overtake you because you obey the voice of the Lord.

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Blessed shall be you be in the city, Blessed shall

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you'll be in the country. Blessures shall be the fruit. Okay, Well,

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immediately we kind of have well, I guess it's not

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specifically laid out in twenty eight, but if you kind

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of understand what's going on, it becomes pretty clear this

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I thought it mentioned the land right there. It's kind

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of implied. But hey, when you go into the land,

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you do what you do this and good things are

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going to happen. You don't do this, bad things are

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going to happen. Right, It's called the land covenant. Now,

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what would we be able to say about the land covenant?

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to get around it. All Right, you're gonna we're gonna

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as we read through it, you'll see that. Okay, not

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only that, though, this is very important, Okay, I can't man,

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who is the famous pastor. I don't remember the name

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of the famous pastor, but we went to hear him

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preach in Nebraska, and his text was Deuteronomy twenty eight

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and twenty nine. And his whole argument in that sermon

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in Nebraska, and I don't even remember where we went

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to hear him preach, but his whole argument is basically,

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Deuteronomy twenty eight and twenty nine applies to all of us, right,

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The Deuteronomy twenty eight and twenty nine applies to.

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That if we obey this, then we get the good,

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and if we don't, we get the bat and all

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of that, to me is massively problematic.

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I can't all the covenants. I cannot stress this.

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They are all hermeneutics, like your hermonutics. Really, how you

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handle the covenant really kind of determines your hermeneutical system.

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It's best not to ask someone what their hermeneutical system is, because,

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just like with prayer, their prayer never is consistent with

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their theology. Most people's hermeneutical system, they are never consistent

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with it, right, ma. It's one of the things that

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drives me crazy about a millennialist. Right, Well, Israel's really

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the church and Land isn't land. But then they'll go

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to these very passages in Isaiah or Ezekiel, and guess

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what virgin means virgin? You know that Babylonian captivity means

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Babylonian captivity, and it's like part of it'll be real,

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part of it will be spiritual, and it's like they're inconsistent,

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and it drives me crazy.

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So when it comes to Deuteronomy twenty eight, people want

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to make this about us, or they want to make

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it about our country, and they say that this principle

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is applicable to us. Well, this becomes very problematic, right.

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It becomes problematic because, first and foremost, it destroys what

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the proper distinction between.

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Second, it destroys the proper distinction between Israel and the Church. Third,

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it destroys the proper distinction between Israel and America. Israel

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is not the Church and Israel is not America, right,

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and it completely destroys the proper distinction between law and gospel.

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So let's look at it and just see how this

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plays out. All right, are you ready Deuteronomy chapter twenty eight.

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Now this shall come to pass if you diligently obey

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the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully

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how many of his commandments, all his commandments, which I

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command you today, that the Lord your God will set

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you high above.

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All the nations of the earth.

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All right, So clearly this is a specific promise, and

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it's specifically to Israel. There's no way to say this

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is not Israel. It would be ridiculous to say this

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is not about Israel.

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as soon as you start reading verse twenty eight, what

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should be your reaction to it?

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If you react to.

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Things you read, if you talk back to the things

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you read, what should you be saying immediately at the

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beginning of Deuteronomy twenty eight one?

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Not going to do it? Not going to do it? Now,

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I take that back.

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Most of your Christian friends and most of the people

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you know who go to church will say they could

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do it, which is trash. Okay, that that look that's

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not even a philological dispute. Make sure we understand to me,

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you know what what this is. I've always stated this,

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there's a lot of things that push me that being

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that close to becoming an atheist, right, I mean really

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sometimes sometimes I don't even know if I can see, Like,

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I'm like almost right there, I could be an atheist, right.

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But one of the things that always disturbs me is

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why would people write a Bible that contains a law.

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That they can't keep.

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That's the most ridiculous thing, Like, who would do that?

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Right now?

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The atheistic agnostic argument is, well, religious people wrote it

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in order to enslave dumb people. The religious people who

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wrote it, it enslaves them as much as it enslaves

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the dumb people. Right, because we're all left what anyone

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who reads the Bible?

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What are we all left with?

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We all end up in the exact same place, which

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is condemned. We all feel and heiress, we all feel shame,

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we all feel guilt. You may have less guilt than me,

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but you still have guilt if you're even remotely honest

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with the text correct, even remotely honest. So as soon

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as I read this, I'm like, well, this is going

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to be the most worthless thing ever given to these.

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People because they can't keep it. And what happened they didn't? Okay,

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look and so look what happens.

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set high above all the nations, and all these blessings

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shall come upon you and overtake you because you obey

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the voice of the Lord your God. Now look at

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the specific blessings that that will occur here, right, This

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is very important.

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So if they obey, look at what happens. Are you ready?

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What happens? In verse three?

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Blessed in the city and blessed in the country. Blessed

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shall be the fruit of your body, the produce of

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your ground, the increase of your herds, increase of your cattle,

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and the offspring of your flocks. Blessed shall be your

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basket and your kneading bowl. Blessed shall you be when

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you come in, and blessed shall you be when you

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go out. I've heard entire sermons about being blessed when

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you come in, blessed when you go out.

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Right, But all of this is about Israel. Now, when

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you start seeing these specific blessings that are promised.

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Can you not then see why they would pray in

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a way that would be very much saying, what.

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God do this? God do this?

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God do this, God do this, God do this, and

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it would be very specific. And why could they be

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so specific? He made a specific promise that he would

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do that. Now, sometimes they may forget their own, the

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conditioned part, but we would all we all do that, right,

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I mean we all do that. But continue, let's go

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through some of these blessings. Okay, what else the Lord

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will cause your Look at verse seven. Your enemies who

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write against you to be defeated before your face, that

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shall come out against you one way and flee before

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you seven ways. Now and again, I've heard pastors apply

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that to us. Look, when pastors start applying this to

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us or to our country, they are doing a total

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complete They're abusing the scripture. They're they're molesting it, they're

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violating it.

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They're corrupting. It.

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Has not a thing to do with you. Do you

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understand that? But you can see when dn Israel is

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facing enemies, why would they not then pray for God

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to do what to intervene and destroy them? Is that

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them going against God's eternal decree or God's providence. No,

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they would be in praying what and accordance to it.

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But where does the problem become when we pray that

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way because we don't have those specific promises. Okay, Now,

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some people will go to the New Testament and try

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to find verses. I will argue all day the way

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we should understand most of those verses in the New

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Testament first and foremost some of those cases, it's probably

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directed towards the Jews.

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In our case, we can almost always only apply it

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to the spiritual and not to the practical and to

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the physical. Because if we could, if we could truly

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apply it to the practical and the physical, well then

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there's a lot of questions. And then why God doesn't

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ever answer those prayers? Okay, because of all the different

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realities that we see.

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But what else continues? Look at some of the other

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things going on here. Verse eight.

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The Lord will command the blessings on you in your

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storehouses and all to which you set your hand. He

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will bless you in the land which the Lord your

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God is giving you. There's the land verse verse eight.

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There it is.

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I thought the land got mentioned before that that's why

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it's called the land covenant. There you go, right, Who's

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giving them the land?

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God?

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And when they go into that land, he is promising

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blessing after blessing after blessing.

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It is conditional. But you can see why this would

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impact the prayer, right, So it ssaw maybe three.

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It's pretty consistent with this, right, okay, So that's why

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they can pray this way. Look at verse nine. The

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Lord will establish you as a holy people to himself,

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just as he has sworn to you. If you keep

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the commandments of the Lord your God, and walk in

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his ways, then all the people of the earth shall

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see that you are called by the name of the Lord,

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and they shall be afraid of you.

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And the Lord will grant.

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You plenty of goods, and the fruit of your body,

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and the increase of your livestock and the produce of

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your ground.

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I mean, it's.

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Very practical promises, is it not. Yes, it's very practical.

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And then what are all the curses starting?

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What verse? Where do the curses start? Verse sixteen? Curse

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will you be in the city.

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It's the direct opposite of the blessings. Right, Do you

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either get the blessing or you get the curse. And

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the way it's preached in almost every church when they

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get to Deuteronomy twenty eight is that this establishes a

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principle for all of our lives. If we do good,

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God will bless us, and if we do bad, God

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will curse us. So if things are going bad in

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your life, you're being cursed, and if things are going

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good in your life, you're being blessed. And what is

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the reason you're getting the blessing or you're getting the curse?

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You do you understand how utterly destructive that is. And

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I've heard that preached a million times in my Christian life.

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I've been taught that in Bible, college, Bible institute, seminary, everywhere.

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It's just complete, utter trash. I receive all blessings. Go

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to Ephesians one and see if you can tell find

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the answer. Go to Ephesians one. I think it's Ephesians one.

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Tell me if you can find a verse that talks

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about us being blessed.

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Yeah, yeah, y'all find it.

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Believe it's Ephesians one. I'm going with. I don't have

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this in my notes, so if I'm wrong, see.

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If you can find it. A spiritual.

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And that's Ephesians one three. Everybody see that Sesians one three.

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I receive all spiritual blessings and whom and Christ. So

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if you're gonna take good around me twenty eight. Now,

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first of all, you see the problem. If you take

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Deuteronomy twenty eight and twenty nine and make it about me,

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and then I go to Ephesians and say, well, I

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have all spiritual blessings in Christ, then every Christian practically

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should then be what blessed in the city, blessed in

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the field, blessing the fruit, blessed in your possessions, blessed it.

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That's not the way it works, because Deuteronomy twenty eight

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doesn't have anything to do with you. It was about

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Israel going into the land, and it placed them under

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a covenant of.

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Works.

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And anytime day under the covenant of works, where were

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you always end up.

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Cursed?

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Anytime you try to follow the law, where will you

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end up cursed? That's why your hermeneutical system has to

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be able to see this.

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The law is always given to demonstrate what you can't.

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The law is never given to make you better. It

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can't make you better.

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The law is simply there to condemn you and show

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you that you can't. They receive a covenant of works,

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they fail. So then what's our hope that in Christ?

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All that obedience that gives blessing is found In Christ?

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He does it for me. I put my faith in him.

476
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I have all spiritual blessings. Those blessings are what kind

477
00:27:20.559 --> 00:27:25.599
of blessings? Spiritual? That's no guarantee of the practical blessings,

478
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because those practical blessings are for whom Israel.

479
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But there will come a day that Israel will get.

480
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No, they will get the practical physical blessings when they

481
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then possess the land that was promised in the Abrahamic Covenant.

482
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Even in the New Covenant land is mentioned, is it not? Yes?

483
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So you see how it works.

484
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If we want blessing, our blessing will not come. I know,

485
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I know, man, Every Christian you know would disagree with

486
00:28:01.559 --> 00:28:06.000
everything I'm saying, but they can't. Look, if if God's

487
00:28:06.039 --> 00:28:09.240
blessing is dependent upon my obedience, then what kind of

488
00:28:09.279 --> 00:28:11.680
obedience would I need in order to be blessed?

489
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Perfect? Even in Doode running me twenty eight?

490
00:28:16.119 --> 00:28:19.119
How much of the loss are they to obey?

491
00:28:19.160 --> 00:28:19.720
All of it?

492
00:28:22.359 --> 00:28:25.200
Well, then you'll never be blessed because you never will

493
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obey all of it.

494
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You can't do that. So when you look at these covenants,

495
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then do psaw?

496
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Maybe three makes sense that the way they are praying, yes,

497
00:28:38.680 --> 00:28:39.799
can I pray that way?

498
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No, because I don't have the same promises right now.

499
00:28:46.559 --> 00:28:49.480
I can pray to God's submitting to the what is

500
00:28:49.519 --> 00:28:52.720
happening around me, saying I don't like it, but I

501
00:28:52.759 --> 00:28:56.400
can do this. I do know that what I see

502
00:28:56.759 --> 00:29:04.440
currently God will change dramatically permanently in the future because

503
00:29:04.440 --> 00:29:06.799
of what I have in Christ, which is eternal life.

504
00:29:06.960 --> 00:29:08.400
So there will come a time there will.

505
00:29:08.279 --> 00:29:13.920
Be no more pain, no more suffering, no more tears,

506
00:29:14.119 --> 00:29:19.119
no more death, no more sin. And almost everything we

507
00:29:19.200 --> 00:29:24.680
pray about deals with either pain, suffering, death, sin is

508
00:29:24.680 --> 00:29:27.920
something along those lines, right, and we want God to

509
00:29:27.960 --> 00:29:32.000
make that permanent. We want him to bring that solution

510
00:29:32.079 --> 00:29:34.559
to the present, when in most cases it's promise for

511
00:29:34.680 --> 00:29:38.680
the future. But for Israel, they could pray for that

512
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to happen in the present because God promised present blessings,

513
00:29:43.160 --> 00:29:46.319
did he not? The only thing Israel kept forgetting was

514
00:29:46.440 --> 00:29:53.759
those promises were conditional. So even pastors do this all

515
00:29:53.799 --> 00:29:54.240
the time.

516
00:29:54.519 --> 00:29:57.480
They go to they'll say the word blessed. Do you

517
00:29:57.519 --> 00:29:59.279
want to be blessed today?

518
00:30:00.079 --> 00:30:03.839
Everbody in the congregation will say amen, And so then

519
00:30:03.880 --> 00:30:05.480
they will tell you all the things you have to

520
00:30:05.519 --> 00:30:07.680
do in order to be blessed. You got to meditate

521
00:30:07.720 --> 00:30:14.400
on his word day and night. Now, I used to

522
00:30:14.440 --> 00:30:19.319
think I could pull that off, right. That's one of

523
00:30:19.319 --> 00:30:21.599
the things that used to take me off with Christianity

524
00:30:21.839 --> 00:30:22.960
is all these Christians are.

525
00:30:22.839 --> 00:30:25.119
Like, Well, the Bible is the Word of God, and

526
00:30:25.319 --> 00:30:28.440
it's treasure and I love it, and I'm going to meditate.

527
00:30:28.559 --> 00:30:31.720
Nobody meditates on it day and night. Nobody even tries

528
00:30:31.759 --> 00:30:35.440
to meditate on it day and night. Okay, you're supposed

529
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to treasure it. You're supposed to memorize it, you're supposed

530
00:30:38.440 --> 00:30:41.119
to read it, you're supposed to study it. Does anyone

531
00:30:41.160 --> 00:30:42.799
come close to doing those things?

532
00:30:43.759 --> 00:30:46.240
Come? No, we do not.

533
00:30:47.119 --> 00:30:50.200
Most of our thoughts and things are so then we

534
00:30:50.240 --> 00:30:51.480
would not get that blessing.

535
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And then what do they all?

536
00:30:53.799 --> 00:30:55.960
The worst part of this is then they go to

537
00:30:56.079 --> 00:31:00.720
the Sermon on the Mount, which drives me utterly. Man,

538
00:31:01.720 --> 00:31:03.240
I wish the Sermon on the Mount could be just

539
00:31:03.279 --> 00:31:06.240
removed from the Bible because what has happened to it?

540
00:31:07.240 --> 00:31:07.640
All right?

541
00:31:08.279 --> 00:31:12.039
And then immediately people will go and you'll get Hey,

542
00:31:12.200 --> 00:31:14.880
we're gonna do a sermon series this week. Make sure

543
00:31:14.880 --> 00:31:18.119
you invite your family and friends, because we're gonna explain

544
00:31:18.160 --> 00:31:20.880
to them how they can be blessed, how they can

545
00:31:20.920 --> 00:31:23.839
have happiness, how they can have joy in their life.

546
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And all they have to do is everything Jesus tells

547
00:31:27.000 --> 00:31:28.559
them to do in the Sermon on the Mount, which

548
00:31:28.559 --> 00:31:30.680
at that point you should just be like, your church

549
00:31:30.799 --> 00:31:34.480
is trash because nobody can do that right. And so

550
00:31:34.519 --> 00:31:39.160
how does the Sermon on the Mount begin? Blessed are

551
00:31:39.200 --> 00:31:41.680
the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven.

552
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Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be confront comforted.

553
00:31:45.960 --> 00:31:47.759
Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the king,

554
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the inherit the earth. Blessed are those who hunger and

555
00:31:50.920 --> 00:31:53.599
thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled. Blessed are

556
00:31:53.640 --> 00:31:55.519
the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

557
00:31:55.680 --> 00:31:56.480
Blessed are the.

558
00:31:59.599 --> 00:32:03.920
Verse pure and heart, for they you'll see God. At

559
00:32:03.920 --> 00:32:09.559
that point, what should you do? You should just throw

560
00:32:09.640 --> 00:32:11.519
up your hands and go, well, I'm gonna leave now,

561
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because there's no point staying in this church because is

562
00:32:13.759 --> 00:32:15.640
anybody that is anybody pure in heart?

563
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Now you know why?

564
00:32:18.319 --> 00:32:21.599
You know why You're Christian friends and family believe they

565
00:32:21.599 --> 00:32:28.400
can be pure in heart? Do you know why your

566
00:32:28.480 --> 00:32:30.680
Christian friends and family will tell you that they can

567
00:32:30.720 --> 00:32:44.680
they can accomplish that. Does anybody know? No, nobody knows

568
00:32:44.680 --> 00:32:51.319
why your Christian friends and family believe they can. No,

569
00:32:53.960 --> 00:32:58.960
because of Ezekiel thirty six. Nobody go to Ezequel thirty six.

570
00:32:59.480 --> 00:33:03.720
Because this is taught in almost every church in America.

571
00:33:03.839 --> 00:33:07.599
Remember we covered this in great detail. Yeah, yeah, this

572
00:33:07.640 --> 00:33:09.799
is where I want to throw my Bible across the

573
00:33:09.839 --> 00:33:12.480
room and give up and become an atheist. Right iseku

574
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Will thirty six twenty five. Then I will sprinkle clean

575
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water on you, and you shall be clean. I will

576
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cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols.

577
00:33:20.920 --> 00:33:28.400
I will give you a a new heart out and

578
00:33:28.480 --> 00:33:31.240
put a new spirit within you. I will take the

579
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heart of stone out of your flesh and give you

580
00:33:33.680 --> 00:33:36.319
a heart of flesh. I will put my spirit within

581
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you and cause you to walk in my statues, and

582
00:33:42.200 --> 00:33:49.119
you will keep my judgments. Well, guess what every church

583
00:33:49.319 --> 00:33:51.279
I guarantee, you just go find a church in appline,

584
00:33:51.319 --> 00:33:52.960
ask them about that verse just to who.

585
00:33:53.000 --> 00:34:01.839
They'll say that verse is about you, me us. So

586
00:34:01.920 --> 00:34:04.480
if you believe that, then every Christian should have what

587
00:34:07.799 --> 00:34:09.880
a new heart? And what does that say?

588
00:34:10.039 --> 00:34:14.000
That you'll start obeying that you'll try to obey, that

589
00:34:14.119 --> 00:34:17.760
you will want to obey. It says you will obey

590
00:34:18.119 --> 00:34:23.360
many Every Christian then should be perfect. Well, clearly we're

591
00:34:23.400 --> 00:34:26.039
not perfect. Clearly we don't have a pure heart. So

592
00:34:26.360 --> 00:34:29.000
what's the problem. Well, you've got a couple of options.

593
00:34:29.199 --> 00:34:32.239
God is a liar and the Bible is stink and

594
00:34:32.360 --> 00:34:34.119
false and we should just get rid of it.

595
00:34:34.320 --> 00:34:39.039
Or does it apply to us?

596
00:34:39.079 --> 00:34:41.079
And look at the beginning of Ezequel thirty six. I

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think starting in verse one, I think it's gonna be

598
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really quick. Starting verse one, verse two, you're gonna be

599
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able to see who is exequal thirty six is.

600
00:34:48.280 --> 00:34:50.599
Two and who it's about. You don't need me to

601
00:34:50.639 --> 00:34:51.519
figure that out for you.

602
00:34:51.920 --> 00:34:53.719
In fact, I remember I told you on account how

603
00:34:53.719 --> 00:34:55.880
many times Israel's mentioned in Ezekul thirty six.

604
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How quickly do you see who it's two?

605
00:35:02.519 --> 00:35:05.079
Hey, he starts immediately about Israel. It's about Israel. It's

606
00:35:05.079 --> 00:35:08.639
about Israel. It's about his world's about Israel. In fact,

607
00:35:09.360 --> 00:35:11.280
when I des sermon that I was reviewing just the

608
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other day, just where he guess where he stopped. He

609
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stopped in twenty seven, he did not read twenty eight.

610
00:35:20.960 --> 00:35:25.960
What does twenty eight say? After this happens? What does

611
00:35:26.039 --> 00:35:28.519
verse twenty eight say? So, I want to look at

612
00:35:28.559 --> 00:35:29.199
verse twenty.

613
00:35:28.960 --> 00:35:38.519
Eight, the King James to new King James. Then no

614
00:35:38.880 --> 00:35:43.280
meaning after this? After what after you receive this new heart?

615
00:35:45.239 --> 00:35:50.199
Everybody read it verse twenty eight. Then you showed a

616
00:35:50.239 --> 00:35:53.199
will in the land that I gave to your father's immediately.

617
00:35:53.239 --> 00:35:56.280
That tells you who it's too right. There has nothing

618
00:35:56.320 --> 00:36:01.000
to do with you or me to do with you.

619
00:36:01.000 --> 00:36:03.199
You've got Christian friends who will go to church, and

620
00:36:03.239 --> 00:36:06.199
may even today hear that verse quoted, they will say

621
00:36:06.239 --> 00:36:08.639
it's about them. They think then they have a new heart.

622
00:36:08.840 --> 00:36:11.119
Therefore they think that they are pure in heart. Therefore

623
00:36:11.159 --> 00:36:14.079
they can get the blessings of the Sermon on the Mount. No,

624
00:36:14.480 --> 00:36:17.400
all the things required for the blessings and the sermon

625
00:36:17.440 --> 00:36:20.800
on the Mount, only one person can accomplish that, and

626
00:36:20.840 --> 00:36:23.440
that is whom the person who preached the sermon.

627
00:36:23.639 --> 00:36:29.119
How do I get those blessings by being Christ Jesus?

628
00:36:29.119 --> 00:36:31.639
And I get the blessings because I cannot obey the

629
00:36:31.679 --> 00:36:34.119
sermon on the Mount. Nobody can obey the Sermon on

630
00:36:34.159 --> 00:36:36.119
the Mount because the Sermon on the Mount takes the

631
00:36:36.159 --> 00:36:37.960
Old Testament law and does what.

632
00:36:41.480 --> 00:36:44.119
Shows you that the obedience to the law is not.

633
00:36:44.119 --> 00:36:48.599
An external practice, it's an internal practice, meaning that.

634
00:36:48.519 --> 00:36:51.199
You are guilty. You're gonna be guilty.

635
00:36:50.880 --> 00:36:55.679
Other of the law, either externally or internally. Therefore, you're

636
00:36:55.719 --> 00:37:02.239
never going to be blessed. But Christians will convince themselves

637
00:37:02.239 --> 00:37:03.920
to have a new heart or a new heart, new heart,

638
00:37:03.960 --> 00:37:06.280
new heart, new heart. What are you told from day

639
00:37:06.320 --> 00:37:12.840
one after you become a Christian? Day one, you're a

640
00:37:12.880 --> 00:37:17.920
new creation. The old is gone and everything is new.

641
00:37:18.960 --> 00:37:21.400
And then you walk away, And what do you do

642
00:37:21.519 --> 00:37:27.719
with almost five seconds after hearing that you do something

643
00:37:27.760 --> 00:37:34.280
that's very much like what the old In fact, what

644
00:37:34.400 --> 00:37:38.199
do you realize, if you're really honest with yourself, you're

645
00:37:38.320 --> 00:37:41.199
not much different than you were when you walked into

646
00:37:41.199 --> 00:37:43.360
that church and said the prayer in the first place.

647
00:37:43.679 --> 00:37:47.320
Now every testimonial is set up to do what.

648
00:37:48.880 --> 00:37:50.920
This is what you were and Now this is what

649
00:37:51.000 --> 00:37:53.519
you are see the dramatic change.

650
00:37:53.719 --> 00:37:55.320
You've been transformed.

651
00:37:56.039 --> 00:37:59.280
And then every church has what the reality of all

652
00:37:59.320 --> 00:38:00.920
the people who aim to be transformed?

653
00:38:00.960 --> 00:38:07.039
Who or what not transformed? Now? Are we a new creature?

654
00:38:09.360 --> 00:38:14.599
Have the old passed away? Absolutely in that way? And

655
00:38:14.760 --> 00:38:19.760
Christ not practically? Not practically? You see why these covenants

656
00:38:19.800 --> 00:38:24.559
are so important? Right? These covenants determine so much.

657
00:38:24.840 --> 00:38:29.599
They can pray a specific way because they've got specific promises.

658
00:38:29.760 --> 00:38:32.280
That Ezekiel promise is for Israel.

659
00:38:33.320 --> 00:38:34.639
Now, I know people will try to go to the

660
00:38:34.679 --> 00:38:37.360
New Testament and find parts of it. We are ingrafted

661
00:38:37.440 --> 00:38:40.239
into the Ultimate, We are ingrafted in And what do

662
00:38:40.320 --> 00:38:46.119
we receive? We received a spiritual promise, do we not?

663
00:38:46.960 --> 00:38:50.079
We don't have those physical promises given to us? All right,

664
00:38:50.360 --> 00:38:54.119
So that I cannot stress why all of these covenants

665
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are important.

666
00:38:54.679 --> 00:38:58.039
Now, let's go quickly through the Dividic Covenant. All right,

667
00:38:58.079 --> 00:39:01.119
everybody ready, we're gonna go quick.

668
00:39:01.760 --> 00:39:03.360
Some of this should already be in your notes, but

669
00:39:03.400 --> 00:39:04.599
I know it's been a long time.

670
00:39:05.199 --> 00:39:05.559
All right.

671
00:39:06.679 --> 00:39:09.840
We have basically the provisions of the Covenant, and the

672
00:39:09.880 --> 00:39:13.400
main passage for this is Second Samuel, chapter seven, verses twelve,

673
00:39:13.480 --> 00:39:15.360
through sixteen if you want to turn there and at

674
00:39:15.400 --> 00:39:21.000
least have it open. Okay, I'm gonna have you do

675
00:39:21.119 --> 00:39:23.199
more of their referencing it than trying to just read

676
00:39:23.199 --> 00:39:25.199
it all out, because I just saw the time and

677
00:39:25.239 --> 00:39:28.000
we're never gonna get any further. But we've established some

678
00:39:28.039 --> 00:39:32.760
basic principles here and all of this Second Samuel seven

679
00:39:32.840 --> 00:39:35.199
twelve through sixteen, you can just have it marked and

680
00:39:35.280 --> 00:39:40.760
look at it, all right. David desired to build a

681
00:39:40.800 --> 00:39:44.800
temple for the Lord to replace the temporary tent like tabernacle.

682
00:39:45.199 --> 00:39:47.440
Since David himself lived in a house of cedar, it

683
00:39:47.440 --> 00:39:50.199
seemed only fitting that there be a more permanent building

684
00:39:50.199 --> 00:39:52.840
for the worship of God. But God revealed to Nathan

685
00:39:52.880 --> 00:39:55.440
the prophet that he had something far greater in mind

686
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for David, and that revelation is what we would refer

687
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to as the Davidic. All right, do you see a

688
00:40:01.840 --> 00:40:04.840
little bit of that at Second Samuel seven twelve through sixteen.

689
00:40:07.559 --> 00:40:09.800
Does he start offering some of the promises there?

690
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Does he not? Yes? No?

691
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Okay, all right, So here are some of the promises

692
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given in this covenant.

693
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All right, you're ready.

694
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These are the promises related to David. David would have

695
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a son who would succeed him and establish his kingdom?

696
00:40:30.360 --> 00:40:35.480
Is that in verse twelve? All right, it's.

697
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Gonna have a son, it's gonna succeed him and going

698
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to do what.

699
00:40:40.599 --> 00:40:42.920
Build a house? And does it say something about establishing

700
00:40:42.960 --> 00:40:46.960
a kingdom or throne? Okay? Forever? Right? Uh?

701
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Oh, there's that forever word. Okay, all right, let's not

702
00:40:49.559 --> 00:40:53.519
get into that. Okay, Number two a kingdom, David's house

703
00:40:53.599 --> 00:40:55.559
thrown and kingdom would be established forever.

704
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Look at verse sixteen. I believe everybody see that.

705
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Now, the Covenant did not guarantee an uninterrupted rule by

706
00:41:07.559 --> 00:41:09.800
David's family, though it did promise that the right to

707
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rule would always remain with David's dynasty. The Babylonian captivity did,

708
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of course, interrupt the Davidic rule. All right, then we

709
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have promises related to Solomon. All right, Look at verse thirteen.

710
00:41:22.639 --> 00:41:25.559
I think the beginning of verse thirteen. Does it say

711
00:41:25.599 --> 00:41:29.920
Solomon or the Sun would build the temple? Yeah, buildings

712
00:41:29.960 --> 00:41:32.800
that he would build the temple. Now, and just always

713
00:41:32.800 --> 00:41:36.159
remember this, It just drives I get so irritated by this.

714
00:41:36.320 --> 00:41:38.360
All right, pastors do this all the time.

715
00:41:38.760 --> 00:41:40.880
Well, see, when you commit certain sin.

716
00:41:41.239 --> 00:41:44.840
See God does something certain things because David couldn't build

717
00:41:44.840 --> 00:41:49.159
the temple because David was ungodly. That's the most ridiculous

718
00:41:49.199 --> 00:41:55.760
thing I've ever heard. Who built the temple? The serial

719
00:41:55.760 --> 00:41:58.840
adultera of polygamist and idolatry. I mean, come on, people

720
00:41:59.239 --> 00:42:02.880
like oh, whenever I see that all the time, we'll

721
00:42:02.920 --> 00:42:06.880
see God he holds people accountable and there's consequences to

722
00:42:06.960 --> 00:42:07.679
your actions.

723
00:42:07.800 --> 00:42:09.639
And that's why David couldn't build the temple.

724
00:42:09.719 --> 00:42:12.320
Yeah, he can only write by he can only write scripture,

725
00:42:12.480 --> 00:42:13.880
but he couldn't build the temple.

726
00:42:14.719 --> 00:42:17.159
Well, I'm sorry, who could build the temple?

727
00:42:17.880 --> 00:42:21.280
Someone who took David's Now what's the And let's make

728
00:42:21.320 --> 00:42:25.079
it very clear. David has someone killed and Solomon has

729
00:42:25.119 --> 00:42:28.559
people killed. Then Solomon becomes David's hit man at the

730
00:42:28.599 --> 00:42:31.519
beginning of his reign, and we looked at it. In fact,

731
00:42:32.119 --> 00:42:37.599
Solomon killed whom was a half brother, killed his own

732
00:42:38.000 --> 00:42:41.840
brother half brother. Right, So I mean, come on, don't

733
00:42:41.840 --> 00:42:43.719
even get me started on all of this. That's just

734
00:42:43.840 --> 00:42:49.280
so we our ability to judge things sometimes as Christians

735
00:42:49.559 --> 00:42:52.760
drives me to the point of insanity. Okay, So we

736
00:42:52.800 --> 00:42:55.880
have the temple, what happens on the second part of

737
00:42:55.960 --> 00:42:56.960
verse thirteen.

738
00:42:58.239 --> 00:43:01.960
Talks about the throne. It's gonna be established for what forever?

739
00:43:02.280 --> 00:43:02.719
All right?

740
00:43:03.440 --> 00:43:08.280
What's about verse fourteen and fifteen? What happened in verse

741
00:43:08.280 --> 00:43:24.719
fourteen fifteen? He's going to be chasing for his sins, right,

742
00:43:26.159 --> 00:43:30.119
but his mercy won't depart, which always shows what God's

743
00:43:30.119 --> 00:43:32.840
faithfulness in light of our unfaithfulness.

744
00:43:32.840 --> 00:43:33.199
All right.

745
00:43:34.599 --> 00:43:37.599
God did not promise specifically that the posterity of David

746
00:43:37.639 --> 00:43:40.800
would be through the line of Solomon. Jack Andiah or Kanaiah,

747
00:43:40.880 --> 00:43:44.920
one of Solomon's descendants, was decreed by God to be childless. Actually,

748
00:43:44.960 --> 00:43:49.119
Kanaiah had seven sons, perhaps adopted first Chronicles three, though

749
00:43:49.159 --> 00:43:51.559
none occupied the throne. And so we can get a

750
00:43:51.639 --> 00:43:53.159
we can get into a whole discussion there.

751
00:43:53.159 --> 00:43:56.079
We went through. We discussed a lot of that. Thus,

752
00:43:56.079 --> 00:43:59.280
as far as continuing dynasty was concerned, Kanaiah was childless.

753
00:43:59.360 --> 00:44:02.159
His line did attained legal throne rights, which were claimed

754
00:44:02.159 --> 00:44:05.119
for Jesus through the lee his legal father Joseph and Matthew.

755
00:44:05.159 --> 00:44:07.199
Chapter one. We're not going to get all back through

756
00:44:07.199 --> 00:44:07.960
the Jackaniah.

757
00:44:09.079 --> 00:44:13.440
That whole situation, it gets confusing, it gets crazy. Just

758
00:44:13.519 --> 00:44:17.039
make sure we realize God made a promise to David

759
00:44:17.639 --> 00:44:21.360
that his descendants would ultimately do what one of his

760
00:44:21.400 --> 00:44:24.000
descendants would build the temple, and then a throne would

761
00:44:24.000 --> 00:44:25.320
be ultimately established.

762
00:44:26.119 --> 00:44:28.840
And there's a forever part to it. How that works?

763
00:44:29.440 --> 00:44:33.679
And look, I'm the first to acknowledge it's confusing at times. Right, Hey,

764
00:44:33.719 --> 00:44:36.880
I'm going to establish the throne forever, but yet it's interrupted.

765
00:44:37.159 --> 00:44:39.639
How can have something forever be interrupted? Well?

766
00:44:39.880 --> 00:44:43.760
Okay, well, how do we understand that there's lots of

767
00:44:43.800 --> 00:44:47.159
discussions about all of that. I'm not gonna I got

768
00:44:47.159 --> 00:44:48.519
to kind of figure out what we're going to cover

769
00:44:48.559 --> 00:44:49.199
and what we're not here.

770
00:44:49.239 --> 00:44:49.559
Okay.

771
00:44:51.000 --> 00:44:54.519
Basically, it says that it's important to remember that these

772
00:44:54.559 --> 00:45:00.320
promises were made unconditionally. This is an unconditional promise. Hey,

773
00:45:00.400 --> 00:45:03.280
I'm gonna do this irregardless of what happens.

774
00:45:06.400 --> 00:45:07.360
All right now.

775
00:45:07.480 --> 00:45:11.440
Some argue that it was not an unconditional, claiming that

776
00:45:11.480 --> 00:45:14.760
the covenant could be broken, and they cite Second Samuel

777
00:45:15.039 --> 00:45:16.280
seven fourteen.

778
00:45:20.679 --> 00:45:22.440
Look at Second Samuel seven fourteen.

779
00:45:22.480 --> 00:45:33.519
Tell me what you find. Okay, that doesn't make it conditional.

780
00:45:33.599 --> 00:45:35.480
It just makes that if he sends, there's gonna be

781
00:45:35.519 --> 00:45:38.039
chastening but it doesn't. In fact, does it not promise

782
00:45:38.079 --> 00:45:39.159
that he's still not gonna.

783
00:45:38.920 --> 00:45:43.159
Depart for him or something along the Yeah.

784
00:45:43.199 --> 00:45:48.480
So that, yeah, that doesn't make it.

785
00:45:47.159 --> 00:45:50.800
Doesn't make it conditional, really right? Agreed?

786
00:45:51.480 --> 00:45:54.800
Okay, they also look at First Kings two four. Tell

787
00:45:54.840 --> 00:45:57.639
me what you find in First Kings two four. I

788
00:45:57.679 --> 00:45:59.639
don't know if any of these arguments are any good,

789
00:45:59.679 --> 00:46:08.000
but we'll look at some of the arguments. What happens

790
00:46:08.000 --> 00:46:09.119
in First Kings two fourth?

791
00:46:09.119 --> 00:46:20.519
There's children, all right?

792
00:46:20.800 --> 00:46:24.039
That is spoken kind of a conditional language. Does everyone

793
00:46:24.119 --> 00:46:24.639
kind of see that?

794
00:46:25.360 --> 00:46:25.639
Alright?

795
00:46:25.679 --> 00:46:28.800
So you can see why some may may use that

796
00:46:28.840 --> 00:46:33.320
to make it conditional. Alright, alright, look at First Kings

797
00:46:33.320 --> 00:46:42.800
eight twenty five, eight twenty five?

798
00:46:43.360 --> 00:46:52.079
What do you see there?

799
00:46:55.000 --> 00:47:00.960
My children.

800
00:46:59.840 --> 00:47:01.960
Are? I don't see anything there that would be conditional?

801
00:47:02.079 --> 00:47:09.440
Do you what do you think? Do you see conditional language?

802
00:47:11.440 --> 00:47:11.760
All right?

803
00:47:11.800 --> 00:47:14.119
So out of the out of the verses, provided that

804
00:47:14.239 --> 00:47:17.960
some say prove that it's conditional, the only one we've

805
00:47:17.960 --> 00:47:18.880
come close to is.

806
00:47:18.800 --> 00:47:21.000
First Kings two four. Agreed? All right?

807
00:47:21.039 --> 00:47:24.559
How about chapter nine of First Kings, verses four through five,

808
00:47:24.960 --> 00:47:31.559
do you see any conditional language?

809
00:47:32.400 --> 00:47:33.199
Okay? If what?

810
00:47:46.960 --> 00:47:50.679
Okay, that's a definite, conditional if you do this. But

811
00:47:50.800 --> 00:47:55.800
what's the requirement he's got to do what? He's got

812
00:47:55.880 --> 00:47:56.840
to obey everything?

813
00:47:57.039 --> 00:48:06.880
Right? Who's who's who's that about? Who is this about? No?

814
00:48:07.039 --> 00:48:09.360
Who's the person that has to do this in order

815
00:48:09.360 --> 00:48:10.480
to be established.

816
00:48:10.079 --> 00:48:15.760
The throne in the lord of this is Solomon?

817
00:48:15.880 --> 00:48:19.199
Right? Okay, Wait, I got some There seems to be

818
00:48:19.239 --> 00:48:25.239
some disagreement. Is it Solomon or no? Okay Solomon? Okay, alright,

819
00:48:25.519 --> 00:48:27.719
I give you, Okay, alright, they see that. Alright, now

820
00:48:27.719 --> 00:48:28.119
it's okay.

821
00:48:28.400 --> 00:48:31.079
I wanna make sure run the same page now immediately,

822
00:48:31.159 --> 00:48:32.079
though you should stop.

823
00:48:32.119 --> 00:48:32.719
Wait a minute.

824
00:48:32.920 --> 00:48:36.400
If this is conditional and the requirement is for Solomon

825
00:48:36.440 --> 00:48:46.199
to obey everything, then what would be the end result, okay,

826
00:48:46.239 --> 00:48:47.079
which would be.

827
00:48:49.480 --> 00:48:50.239
Your children will.

828
00:48:51.360 --> 00:48:58.000
Statutes said before you?

829
00:48:59.719 --> 00:49:01.480
Which I guess.

830
00:49:06.159 --> 00:49:10.400
Okay, Now the condition here if you don't obey there

831
00:49:10.639 --> 00:49:14.199
Israel's going to be put away? Now does that negate

832
00:49:14.760 --> 00:49:22.679
the promise? The dividic covenant promises. Look look at exactly

833
00:49:22.719 --> 00:49:25.280
what happens there, What happens if they if if they

834
00:49:25.360 --> 00:49:29.800
if he doesn't obey, what exactly happens.

835
00:49:30.679 --> 00:49:32.960
They're cut off or moved from the land. Right, isn't it?

836
00:49:33.000 --> 00:49:37.559
What the focus is? Okay, does that negate the promises

837
00:49:37.599 --> 00:49:48.559
and the dividic Covenant? Still it doesn't. It doesn't.

838
00:49:48.719 --> 00:49:51.719
Remember, the argument is that these verses make the dividic

839
00:49:51.800 --> 00:49:52.840
Covenant conditional.

840
00:49:54.880 --> 00:49:56.480
What I'm trying to are, what I'm trying to.

841
00:49:56.480 --> 00:49:59.800
Get you to see, is that those consequences would not

842
00:50:00.079 --> 00:50:01.519
gate the Dividic Covenant, would it.

843
00:50:02.360 --> 00:50:06.039
It would only simply do what bring chastisement in the

844
00:50:06.079 --> 00:50:08.079
midst of the dividic Covenant? Right?

845
00:50:08.360 --> 00:50:10.920
And is that not exactly what happened? I mean, who

846
00:50:11.079 --> 00:50:17.880
is this being spoken to? He violates everything? And then

847
00:50:17.920 --> 00:50:19.719
what happens because of his violation?

848
00:50:19.880 --> 00:50:23.880
Ultimately you end up with a divided kingdom.

849
00:50:24.039 --> 00:50:28.119
And then guess what happens to Judah Babylonian captivity and

850
00:50:28.119 --> 00:50:32.199
what happens to israel Assyrian captivity?

851
00:50:32.320 --> 00:50:35.519
Right? And then there, in a sense they're still facing

852
00:50:35.519 --> 00:50:36.840
the consequences of all of that.

853
00:50:37.000 --> 00:50:43.079
Right, But that does not negate the dividic Covenant, because

854
00:50:43.119 --> 00:50:46.360
will a descendant of David be upon the throne? Yes?

855
00:50:47.679 --> 00:50:50.239
Christ? Okay, all right? Does everybody understand that?

856
00:50:50.440 --> 00:50:53.119
So I'm saying, even if you make this conditional, it's

857
00:50:53.199 --> 00:50:56.880
the condition is there's going to be chastisement as a

858
00:50:56.920 --> 00:50:59.480
result of the But it doesn't negate the covenant.

859
00:50:59.519 --> 00:51:00.920
Does that make? All? Right?

860
00:51:00.920 --> 00:51:02.880
Look at Isaiah twenty four to five. We're gonna run

861
00:51:02.880 --> 00:51:05.800
out of time here, Isaiah twenty four to five. I'm

862
00:51:05.840 --> 00:51:07.519
just going through all these arguments that trying to make

863
00:51:07.559 --> 00:51:10.760
it a conditional win. Isaiah twenty four to five. I

864
00:51:10.760 --> 00:51:12.239
know we could have gotten slower, and I could do

865
00:51:12.280 --> 00:51:13.639
more of the reading, but I'm trying to have you

866
00:51:13.719 --> 00:51:15.360
see it is.

867
00:51:15.000 --> 00:51:16.199
Isaiah twenty four to five.

868
00:51:17.159 --> 00:51:24.199
Do you see conditional language here?

869
00:51:26.320 --> 00:51:26.760
All right?

870
00:51:26.880 --> 00:51:31.360
Well, they have broken every Look, we can we argue

871
00:51:31.480 --> 00:51:34.320
that any covenant that tells Israel to do something, what

872
00:51:34.440 --> 00:51:35.320
do they always do?

873
00:51:39.280 --> 00:51:42.480
Every covenant that tells Israel to do something, they don't

874
00:51:42.519 --> 00:51:44.599
do it? Okay? Can we can? We can we all

875
00:51:44.639 --> 00:51:49.239
agree to that? All right? Why?

876
00:51:49.960 --> 00:51:52.920
Because anytime the Bible tells you to do something that

877
00:51:53.039 --> 00:51:58.239
is classified as what law, no one ever keeps the law.

878
00:51:58.719 --> 00:52:01.559
All right, this is the law all gospel distinction. Okay,

879
00:52:01.920 --> 00:52:03.880
go to Ezekiel sixteen fifty.

880
00:52:03.679 --> 00:52:22.199
Nine, sixteen fifty nine, which as.

881
00:52:25.079 --> 00:52:28.559
All right, he's acknowledging they've broken the covenant. Now, which

882
00:52:28.599 --> 00:52:32.159
covenant they ultimately break any and every covenant, right, I mean,

883
00:52:32.159 --> 00:52:33.280
they ultimately.

884
00:52:32.800 --> 00:52:42.159
Don't follow anything. Okay, go ahead, nevertheless, established, there you go.

885
00:52:42.880 --> 00:52:44.920
He's going to establish what kind of a covenant and

886
00:52:45.039 --> 00:52:48.760
everlasting covenant? And some people say that everlasting covenant is

887
00:52:48.800 --> 00:52:49.559
the new covenant?

888
00:52:49.679 --> 00:52:51.920
Right? And why does they have to make the new covenant?

889
00:52:55.440 --> 00:52:56.679
They broke all the others?

890
00:52:56.719 --> 00:53:01.000
Okay, all right, So I'm here is how Roda tries

891
00:53:01.039 --> 00:53:04.440
to fix these problems because Ririy's like, Okay, let's say

892
00:53:04.480 --> 00:53:06.079
all of these verses offer.

893
00:53:05.840 --> 00:53:07.320
A conditional element to it.

894
00:53:07.559 --> 00:53:09.880
What is the solution. I don't think you need much

895
00:53:09.880 --> 00:53:11.840
of a solution. I think I've kind of already offered it.

896
00:53:11.880 --> 00:53:16.119
But let me quote Rri specifically, and you tell me

897
00:53:16.199 --> 00:53:17.480
what you think about his solution.

898
00:53:17.599 --> 00:53:18.599
Are you ready?

899
00:53:19.159 --> 00:53:25.079
The breaking or conditionality can only refer to personal and

900
00:53:25.320 --> 00:53:29.760
individual invalidation of the benefits of the covenant, but it

901
00:53:29.800 --> 00:53:34.679
cannot affect the transmission of the promise to the lineal descendants.

902
00:53:36.639 --> 00:53:39.199
Right. Let me here, Let me read that again.

903
00:53:39.599 --> 00:53:45.880
The breaking or conditionality can only refer to personal and

904
00:53:46.159 --> 00:53:52.000
individual invalidation of the benefits of said covenant, but it

905
00:53:52.119 --> 00:53:58.039
cannot affect the transmission of the promise to the lineal descendants,

906
00:53:58.760 --> 00:54:01.000
so the promise of the cove to be passed on

907
00:54:01.320 --> 00:54:05.840
will continue even if someone else invalidates promises or can't

908
00:54:05.880 --> 00:54:10.079
experience some of the promises because of their disobedience.

909
00:54:10.880 --> 00:54:12.760
All right, so you're ready, listen carefully.

910
00:54:13.360 --> 00:54:19.159
This is why God would staunchly affirm his fidelity and

911
00:54:19.280 --> 00:54:26.480
perpetuity of the covenant to David in spite of succeeding rascals.

912
00:54:25.920 --> 00:54:28.440
Who would appear in his lineage.

913
00:54:28.599 --> 00:54:32.239
For in that case, he finds fault with them, but

914
00:54:32.360 --> 00:54:38.880
he does not find fault with his covenants. God maintains

915
00:54:38.920 --> 00:54:39.880
his fidelity to what.

916
00:54:42.760 --> 00:54:47.440
The covenant. The individual may face.

917
00:54:48.760 --> 00:54:56.280
Chastisement consequences, but God will still maintain loyalty to the covenant.

918
00:54:56.679 --> 00:55:01.920
Does Israel violate everything? Do they face severe chastisement? Are

919
00:55:01.960 --> 00:55:05.880
they still facing that chastisement? Does that negate the ultimate

920
00:55:05.920 --> 00:55:09.039
promise of land of someone ruling and reigning.

921
00:55:09.400 --> 00:55:13.920
No, it's some within the reform world.

922
00:55:13.719 --> 00:55:17.480
Who basically says these covenants were conditional. They didn't meet

923
00:55:17.519 --> 00:55:20.440
the covenant, So guess what. God took the covenant from

924
00:55:20.480 --> 00:55:23.639
them and gave it to whom.

925
00:55:22.800 --> 00:55:27.400
Us, right right?

926
00:55:27.480 --> 00:55:31.000
Yeah, Well, then for us then it's it's not a

927
00:55:31.039 --> 00:55:35.079
conditional covenant. Now it's unconditional that but that just destroys

928
00:55:36.400 --> 00:55:39.480
there's so many problems with that. Everything begins to fall apart,

929
00:55:39.760 --> 00:55:42.320
all right, everything begins to fall apart. I always hate

930
00:55:42.360 --> 00:55:44.159
running out of time, but we're gonna run out of time,

931
00:55:44.199 --> 00:55:46.159
all right. Right, let's see if we can get just

932
00:55:46.239 --> 00:55:46.960
a little bit more.

933
00:55:47.079 --> 00:55:47.400
All right.

934
00:55:47.599 --> 00:55:51.000
So all of that was the provision of the covenant,

935
00:55:51.079 --> 00:55:54.559
and the promises related to David, the promises related to Solomon,

936
00:55:54.800 --> 00:55:57.280
and then we looked at the conditionality possibly of it.

937
00:55:57.320 --> 00:56:01.280
All right, now Old Testament confirmation of the covenant. Now

938
00:56:01.320 --> 00:56:07.599
listen carefully to this. All Old Testament passages that describe

939
00:56:07.639 --> 00:56:13.119
the Messiah as king and his coming kingdom confirm the

940
00:56:13.159 --> 00:56:19.599
promises of the Davidic Covenant. So every passage that describes

941
00:56:19.679 --> 00:56:25.119
the Messiah as king confirms the promises.

942
00:56:24.519 --> 00:56:25.880
Of the Davidic Covenant.

943
00:56:27.800 --> 00:56:32.119
All the Royal Psalms, for example, give more information about

944
00:56:32.199 --> 00:56:36.639
the Davidic kingdom, and we could go through all of them.

945
00:56:37.039 --> 00:56:39.519
We don't have time right now. There's a lot.

946
00:56:40.159 --> 00:56:46.880
Okay, these provide strong confirmation of the immutability of the covenant.

947
00:56:47.519 --> 00:56:50.880
It seems almost as if God was anticipating the all

948
00:56:50.960 --> 00:56:55.000
millennial claim that the Kingdom promise should be spiritualized into

949
00:56:55.039 --> 00:56:58.800
the Church when he said that even though chastisement for

950
00:56:59.199 --> 00:57:03.280
sin would come, the Covenant would not be broken or

951
00:57:03.559 --> 00:57:05.639
would not be broken or altered.

952
00:57:09.480 --> 00:57:16.800
All right, everybody got that right. So God acknowledges sin

953
00:57:16.880 --> 00:57:24.400
will come. He also acknowledges chastisement may occur. But what

954
00:57:24.559 --> 00:57:30.599
does he not alter the Covenant? What does he not

955
00:57:31.039 --> 00:57:34.320
change who the Covenant was made with?

956
00:57:35.039 --> 00:57:37.840
He does not change how it will be fulfilled to

957
00:57:38.119 --> 00:57:42.400
them we're grafted in. But those promises to Israel are

958
00:57:42.400 --> 00:57:47.159
promises specifically to Israel. And so ultimately the divided Covenant

959
00:57:47.360 --> 00:57:50.239
promised that David's descendant would sit upon the throne and

960
00:57:50.360 --> 00:57:51.880
rule and reign forever.

961
00:57:52.639 --> 00:57:53.119
Correct.

962
00:57:53.840 --> 00:57:57.320
Has there been a and well, you could argue on

963
00:57:57.320 --> 00:58:00.599
one hand, and in some sense there was a pause,

964
00:58:01.159 --> 00:58:02.880
of which I don't like that, but there was kind

965
00:58:02.880 --> 00:58:05.719
of a pause. But in the other way, there really

966
00:58:05.880 --> 00:58:09.800
wasn't a pause because Christ and well, I.

967
00:58:09.719 --> 00:58:11.800
Guess there was a pause into the coming of the Messiah.

968
00:58:11.960 --> 00:58:14.360
Because once the Messiah comes, what does Jesus start preaching

969
00:58:14.440 --> 00:58:15.199
right from the beginning?

970
00:58:16.960 --> 00:58:18.960
What does even John the Baptist start preaching right at.

971
00:58:18.840 --> 00:58:25.760
The beginning, the Kingdom of God is at hand, all right, Okay, Now,

972
00:58:26.199 --> 00:58:29.320
so in one hand, Jesus is Jesus on the.

973
00:58:29.320 --> 00:58:34.320
Throne right now, yes, on the spiritual kingdom. Right.

974
00:58:34.440 --> 00:58:38.400
Remember, Israel was looking for the physical kingdom. But that

975
00:58:38.440 --> 00:58:41.440
does not negate the physical kingdom coming, because the physical

976
00:58:41.519 --> 00:58:45.320
kingdom has to come because it was that was the promise,

977
00:58:46.239 --> 00:58:49.840
all right, So any failure there does not negate that.

978
00:58:51.159 --> 00:58:53.239
Right. I'll read just this part.

979
00:58:53.519 --> 00:58:56.320
A number of passages in Isaiah predict and describe the

980
00:58:56.440 --> 00:58:59.559
visible earthly kingdom promised.

981
00:58:59.199 --> 00:59:00.000
In the Dividic covening.

982
00:59:00.360 --> 00:59:02.800
Isaiah predicted the reign of Messiah on the throne of

983
00:59:02.880 --> 00:59:06.039
David and over his kingdom and other places. He described

984
00:59:06.039 --> 00:59:09.679
some of the characteristics of that kingdom. Other significant Old

985
00:59:09.679 --> 00:59:13.679
Testament promises concerning the divided kingdom include Now we need

986
00:59:13.679 --> 00:59:16.800
to read all of these, but we will not because

987
00:59:16.840 --> 00:59:19.559
we don't have time right now, all right, So what

988
00:59:19.639 --> 00:59:22.199
can we Here's what I want us to understand. What

989
00:59:22.320 --> 00:59:26.239
is the significance of the covenant. They greatly impact how

990
00:59:26.639 --> 00:59:31.679
people who receive that covenant can pray versus, how those

991
00:59:31.719 --> 00:59:36.519
of us who are not part of those covenants, can pray? Second,

992
00:59:36.719 --> 00:59:40.159
everything about hermeneutics comes into play right here, does it not?

993
00:59:41.400 --> 00:59:41.840
It does.

994
00:59:42.320 --> 00:59:46.800
So we looked at these covenants, especially the land covenant

995
00:59:46.840 --> 00:59:49.280
made with Israel has nothing to do with us, and

996
00:59:49.320 --> 00:59:51.559
we found out that in some cases where the covenant

997
00:59:51.599 --> 00:59:55.239
is workspace, we are only going to demonstrate what that

998
00:59:55.280 --> 00:59:58.800
they will never ever fulfill it on the workspace system.

999
00:59:58.880 --> 00:59:59.960
That's why we need the Gospel.

1000
01:00:00.360 --> 01:00:03.599
When we come to the Dividic Covenant, the Dividic Covenant

1001
01:00:03.719 --> 01:00:08.639
made specific promises to David and to Solomon ultimately that

1002
01:00:08.840 --> 01:00:13.360
a descendant of David or David's descendants would rule for

1003
01:00:13.519 --> 01:00:17.199
ever upon a kingdom that would be established for ever.

1004
01:00:18.000 --> 01:00:23.000
And yes Sin is mentioned, Yes sin occurred. Yes there

1005
01:00:23.079 --> 01:00:26.159
is some interruptions and chastisement to it. But as not

1006
01:00:26.480 --> 01:00:29.679
negate the Dividic Covenant and the Dividic Covenant, for it

1007
01:00:29.719 --> 01:00:32.679
to ultimately be fulfilled would require what at least, this

1008
01:00:32.800 --> 01:00:36.760
is the argument for a descendant of David to sit

1009
01:00:36.880 --> 01:00:46.039
upon the throne literally ruling and reigning from Jerusalem. That

1010
01:00:46.079 --> 01:00:50.079
would argue for a millennial kingdom.

1011
01:00:50.119 --> 01:00:50.480
All right?

1012
01:00:50.519 --> 01:00:54.960
Does that make sense? And when that happens then Israel

1013
01:00:55.000 --> 01:01:02.679
will be what restored, brought back, regathered, brought back to

1014
01:01:02.760 --> 01:01:07.199
the land, and then all of those promises, all of

1015
01:01:07.239 --> 01:01:10.519
that will be there, right, all of those promises will

1016
01:01:10.559 --> 01:01:14.119
be there, and in what kind of a way, a

1017
01:01:14.159 --> 01:01:19.000
real literal way, because these equals seems to say that

1018
01:01:19.079 --> 01:01:23.159
the new heart will will come. Before they do what

1019
01:01:24.599 --> 01:01:32.039
enter into the land, they will be restored, you know,

1020
01:01:32.519 --> 01:01:35.800
you could say resurrected, you can say regenerated all the work.

1021
01:01:36.039 --> 01:01:38.800
Then they will go into the land, and then Christ

1022
01:01:38.840 --> 01:01:41.199
will rule and reign there.

1023
01:01:42.039 --> 01:01:44.000
Does that make sense? All? Right?

1024
01:01:44.400 --> 01:01:47.639
So that's a lot of concepts all coming together. But

1025
01:01:47.719 --> 01:01:50.119
you see how the Psalm eighty three and this fit

1026
01:01:50.199 --> 01:01:53.199
together in a perfect way. Now, in the next hour

1027
01:01:53.239 --> 01:01:55.239
we'll go back to Psalm eighty three and see if

1028
01:01:55.239 --> 01:01:58.800
we can try to get past some of those we

1029
01:01:58.840 --> 01:02:00.760
can move forward and Ssa Maitie read so that we

1030
01:02:00.760 --> 01:02:02.800
can finally wrap it up, and then what we'll do

1031
01:02:02.920 --> 01:02:06.000
with eschatology after we do the Davidic Covenant, then we're

1032
01:02:06.000 --> 01:02:09.920
gonna look at some other specific areas related to eschatology.

1033
01:02:09.480 --> 01:02:10.960
And we'll look at the Millennial Kingdom.

1034
01:02:11.039 --> 01:02:12.719
But we have a lot of verses right there to

1035
01:02:12.760 --> 01:02:16.800
read about the dividic kingdom and which ultimately will be

1036
01:02:17.000 --> 01:02:20.000
the millennial kingdom. And we'll see how those verses are read,

1037
01:02:20.039 --> 01:02:22.199
and we'll see if we could how we could interpret

1038
01:02:22.280 --> 01:02:25.440
them spiritually, if we could possibly make it work, and well,

1039
01:02:25.519 --> 01:02:27.159
if we can make it work, we'll make it work.

1040
01:02:27.280 --> 01:02:29.519
But I guarantee if you try to start making it spiritual,

1041
01:02:29.519 --> 01:02:31.360
you're gonna end up in problems because you're gonna be

1042
01:02:31.360 --> 01:02:36.800
in what books You're gonna be in Isaiah, Ezekiel, and Jeremiah.

1043
01:02:37.199 --> 01:02:39.880
And if you start making those parts spiritual, then what

1044
01:02:39.880 --> 01:02:42.079
do you do with the rest of the books? Right?

1045
01:02:42.199 --> 01:02:46.039
Are the rest of the book Like when it says

1046
01:02:46.119 --> 01:02:48.400
a virgin's gonna conceive, do we think that's spiritual?

1047
01:02:50.320 --> 01:02:53.400
No, well, then if that's real, then the other things

1048
01:02:53.440 --> 01:02:56.440
have to be you see, like it becomes very subjective

1049
01:02:56.480 --> 01:02:57.079
at that point.

1050
01:02:57.119 --> 01:02:58.000
All right, we'll start right there.

1051
01:02:58.039 --> 01:03:00.679
Look, got we come before you this morning forgive us

1052
01:03:00.719 --> 01:03:02.480
for all of our mishandling of your word.

1053
01:03:03.440 --> 01:03:03.679
Lord.

1054
01:03:03.840 --> 01:03:07.119
We pray that we continue to be dedicated in challenging

1055
01:03:07.159 --> 01:03:10.119
our past understanding so that we can grow in our

1056
01:03:10.159 --> 01:03:11.039
present understanding.

1057
01:03:11.039 --> 01:03:14.360
We asked this in Jesus name, and Gods people said