Aug. 16, 2024

Davidic Covenant Pt 3

Davidic Covenant Pt 3

We continue our study of eschatology

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We continue our study of eschatology

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All right, we have been looking at the subject of

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eschatology now for a while. We took a little break,

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we came back to it. We are currently working on

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God's Covenant with David, but we're going to add a

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little more practical concept to this first and then we'll

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try to finish up the Covenant with David. We just

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have a lot of scriptures to look at and we'll

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see if we can how we can accomplish that. Well,

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let's do this. When we think of the subject of eschatology, right,

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what is that simple definition of eschatology study of the

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end times? But what we're studying is we're studying scriptures

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that we believe are inspired by God, which gives us

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the outline of future events. Correct? And do we believe

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that outline of future events is correct? Yeah? Okay, yeah,

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we believe what God tells us about the future events.

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We believe that's correct. Yes. Now, we may not agree

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on it. I mean, we know there's no agreement, but

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I'm saying, when we open our Bible, and if we

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believe this is what's God's saying about the future, we

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believe that's correct. Yes? And why do we believe that

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it is correct? Okay, Well, because we believe God knows

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all things, yes, all right, and if God says something

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is going to happen, we believe it's going to happen.

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Not only because we believe God knows it. But there's

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another reason, there's another reason we can be sure that

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if God says this is going to happen, it's going

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to happen. There we go, God doesn't change. And what

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is that called immutability? The immutability of God. Eschatology absolutely

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hinges on that concept, right, because if we believe God

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could just change his mind randomly, then he could say, Oh,

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I'm gonna do this and then three months later decide

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he's not. So we have to without immutability, we really

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there's no point in studying eschatology correct. Without immutability, What then,

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how good that would the covenants be? They'd be useless? Correct?

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All right, So let's just take a few minutes to

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really consider the immutability of God, because I think when

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we consider it, it has everything to do with eschatology,

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has everything to do with the covenants. But there's much

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more a practical reason why the immutability of God may

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be of something of great a source of comfort. Because

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what is the one thing we know about life? Everything

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is in a constant date of change, right, Everything changes? Right,

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Things outside of us change, right, the world changes, weather changes, Okay,

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everything outside of us to other people change right, every

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I mean, everything is in a constant flux of change.

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And then when we come to ourselves, we constantly are

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changing internally, right, likes, desires, whatever the way we think,

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it's always changing, moods. Everything is constantly changing, our bodies change.

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Everything is in a constant flux of change. Because everything,

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I mean, that's the only that's the only certainty on

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life is that everything changes, right, And because everything is

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constantly changing, that can lead to what from from from

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a personal perspective, all of this change can lead to

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what inside of us Fear, anxiety, discouragement, depression, confusion, frustration,

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I mean, people can Usually as people get older, they

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constantly talk about the good old days, right, well back

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in my day, this, back in my day, then back

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in my day. And typically the way they remember those

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days are not is not very accurate. But even if

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it was accurate, that indicates that they are troubled by changes, changes, changes, changes.

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So since and so what we have a tendency to

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do is we try to grab on to what we

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can control, almost as a psychological response to all the

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things that are changing, which is outside of our control. Right,

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it's a psychological thing. Right, You'll say, well, I can't,

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I can't hold onto this, I can't do this, but

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I can. And so we'll grab on to something and

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try to control it because it gives us some and

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some stability. Well, for a Christian, we shouldn't be looking

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to what we can grab onto and control. What we

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should be doing is to find something that is immovable,

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immutable that we can cling to because it does not change,

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and that would be God. Right. So let's remind ourselves

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a little bit here about the immutability of God, all

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right now, when we come to the doctrine of God's immutability,

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we need to write some of this down. It refers

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to the belief the doctrine of immutability refers to the

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belief that God is unchanging and his nature. But he

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got that one. He's unchanging in his nature. Number two character,

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number three purposes and number four promises. God is unchanging

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number one in his nature, number two character, number three

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purposes and number four promises right, God is unchanging in

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his character. His nature is character, purposes, and promises. Now,

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what's significant about his nature is the God that was,

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is the God that is and is the God that

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will be. All right, right, we can go to Liturgy

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of the Hours for that. Okay, we won't get into

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all of the historical significance of that, Okay, But the

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God that was is the God that is and will be,

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the God that will be. Because his nature does not change,

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his character does not change, His purposes do not change.

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But obviously, when it comes to eschatology and covenants, away

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was the last one. His promises does not change, which

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is of great significance. Now here's some key scriptures. Everyone

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go to Malachi chapter three. Malachi chapter three. Whether it

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was a Bible institute, a Bible college, or a seminary,

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anytime you would take a course on theology and deal

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with the attributes of God, you would deal with the

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immutability of God, and this verse would always be brought up. Right,

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you probably know which verse I'm going to go to,

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but I think there's a part to it that I

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always overlooked. Let's see if you see it. It's Malachi

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chapter three, verse six, and how does it read? Okay,

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now everyone focuses on that first part, right, depending on

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your translation. For I the Lord do not change. So

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there's the emphatic declaration God does not change. All right?

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Everybody got that. So we typically run to that and say,

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there's the proof text for God's immutability. That is accurate. Yes,

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that is a proof text. What is the second part

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of that that I always overlooked, but I think I'm

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gonna consider it in greater detail today, which is what

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children of Jacob are not consumed? Who are the children

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of Jacob? Children of Jacobs whom Israel? Right? Okay? So

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why are they not going to be consumed? Because God

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does not change? Right? Does the nation of Israel and

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a constant say of change? Yes? Right? What were they

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constantly doing disobeying changing, saying we're going to be faithful?

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Then they would be unfaithful, We're going to be godly?

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Then there would be ungodly. I mean, it wasn't it

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was constant, right? I Mean when we read the Book

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of Judges, we always talk about that cycle, right, that

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never ending cycle, and that cycle is true and all

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of us. So why are they not going to be consumed?

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Had nothing to do with whom them, but with the

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unchanging nature of God. Right, and God made what kind

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of promises to Israel eternal? We can say immutable promises.

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Why do we know the promises are immutable? Because God

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is immutable? Right? So that's that's a major part. Look,

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I cannot stress how significant that is because so much

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of the discussion and debate over eschatology. What does it

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come down to? Over and do all the debates about

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eschatology come down to? What? What were the nature of

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God's promises? Who were those promises too? And did they change?

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And there's there's the debate. Right, many believe, well, God

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made a covenant with Israel, and then the argument is

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Israel broke said covenant, and then so therefore God did

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what give the covenant to someone else? Right? But then

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that would have God doing what changing? Now, now, those

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who believe God decided to give the promises Sir Israel

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to the Church, they will argue God did not change, right,

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They will argue that the nature the covenant was conditional. Right,

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So then we get into these never ending issues. But

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we have to just begin and focus on the fact

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that God does not change. And we have to begin

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from that very important standpoint. So there's Malachi three six.

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I just want you to really emphasize that last part. Oh,

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children of Jacob are not consumed. It is because God

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doesn't change. That's the key part there, right. Go to

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James chapter one, verse seventeen. James chapter one, verse seventeen,

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James Chapter one, verse seventeen. All right, it talks about

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every good gift and every perfect gift is from above,

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coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there

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is no variation or shadow. Do to change depending on

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your translation. Everybody see that. So the gifts come from God,

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and this God from whom the gifts come, what do

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we learn about him? There's no variation or change. There's

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no variation or change, once again emphasizing the immutability of God.

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Go to Psalm one O two, Psalm one O two,

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Psalm one O two. Look at verse twenty five through

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twenty seven. Say a man when you're there Psalm one

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O two, twenty five through twenty seven. Depending on your translation,

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or read something like this, of old you laid the

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foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work

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of your hands. They will perish next phrase, but you

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will remain, or thou shall endure next they all they

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with will all wear out like a garment. You will

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change them like a robe. They will pass away. But

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you are the same, and your years have no end.

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It is a contrast between God's creation and himself, the unchangeable.

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God creates a created, has created a creation that is

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now subject to constant change and wearing out and getting old.

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And that's the constant change. All right, everybody see that.

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That's a very important verse. All right? Look at numbers

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twenty three, numbers twenty three, Look at verse nineteen. What

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do we see here in numbers twenty three nineteen? God

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is not a man that he should lie or a

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son of man that he should change his mind? Has

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he said it and will he not do it? Or

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has he spoken and will he not fulfill it? Look

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at the context of numbers twenty three nineteen and identify

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who God is speaking to here, and if there's a

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purpose in what he is saying, what is he attempting

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to do in this verse? What's good? Right? Tell me?

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Speaking of truth? I can't yeah, I can't do anything

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because God does not look God's going to do what

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he said? Right? And what God had said that he

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was going to do certain things for Israel. We have

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to look any student of the Bible, this is the

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constant issue. God made promises to Israel that are not

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made to anyone else. And we can't steal those promises

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from them because we're trying to take that which the

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unchangeable God has not changed. All right, Does that make sense?

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All right? Look at Isaiah forty six. I'm skipping a

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lot of these Isaiah forty six. Isaiah forty six. Look

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at verses nine through ten. Tell me what we find here?

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Remember what the former things of old? For I am God.

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There is none no other. I am God. There is

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none like me. And what is this? What is the

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one God, the true God, the only God? Does? What

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does he do? He declares the end, from the beginning

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and from ancient times things not yet done. And that

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last sentence, My counsel shall stand, and I will do

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all my pleasure. His counsel will stand his purpose, his

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pleasure will be accomplished. Because God is immutable, the unchangeability

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of God. I cannot stress the importance of this doctrine

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when dealing with eschatology or with dealing with God's covenants.

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This is absolutely critical now for us. So there's two us.

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This I want you to grab onto. I want you

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to grab onto the personal aspect. Right, Hey, look, everything

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around you is in flux, it's changing. Grab on to God.

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Don't try to just take control over one thing and

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say this is not Sometimes we don't even know what

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we're doing, but we like to grab onto something so

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that we feel like we have control even when we don't.

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You'll see this in sometimes children who are in the

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midst of a divorce. Right they're being tossed to and fro.

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They can't change everything. Everything's constantly changing for them, so

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they'll start There'll be some behavior the child is doing,

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and sometimes the counselor will say that child is trying

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to establish some sense of control because everything around them

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is out of control. Children do it and adults do it.

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But we may not perceive what we're doing. We may

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try to control a person, we may try to control

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a situation because we want control. What we have to

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do is stop worrying about us controlling anything and surrender

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and grab onto the one who controls everyone and most

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importantly does not change, does not change. So that's the

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personal aspect the doctrine or a philological aspect of God's

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immutability is how it pertains to the covenants made with

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Israel and how it pertains to the subject of eschatology. Right,

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because when it comes to these covenants, if we understand

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God made the Covenant it's immutable, it will stand. Then

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that greatly impacts how we interpret a lot of things. Okay,

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Now with that said, now let's go back to the Covenant.

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I got a lot more on im mutability. We could

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spend a month on it, but you've got the basic idea.

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Now let's go back. Remember we're using Rory's Basic Theology,

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chapter eighty two, God's Covenant with David. Which covenant have

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we looked at before? What was the covenant we looked

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at before the Abrahamic I remember we looked at the

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Covenant with Abraham. Now we're looking at the Dividic Covenant.

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All right. Now we talked about the provisions of the Covenant.

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All right. Remember Second Samuel seven twelve through sixteen. If

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you want to look there, Second Samuel seven twelve through sixteen,

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all right, and Second Samuel seven twelve through sixteen. I'm

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going to summarize it you can look at it. David

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desired to build a temple for the Lord to replace

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the temporary tent like tabernacle. Since David himself led House

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of Cedar, it seemed only fitting that there should be

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a more permanent building for the worship of God. But

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God revealed to Nathan the prophet that he had a

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something far greater in mind for David, and that revelation

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is the Dvidict Covenant. Now I find that interesting the

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way ryary Di describes it, because you know how that's

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typically described. Damon wanted to build the temple, but Damon

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was not allowed to build the temple because of all

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his sin, and so this is one of the negative

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consequences for it. All right, Now, there may if there

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is any negative consequence upon David for doing that. Number One,

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you can't just take that and then said, well, how

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I can determine the consequences for this situation. It's a

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completely specific situation, is it not. And let's remember a

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couple of things. Even if David didn't get to build

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the temple, Let's remind ourselves of a couple of things.

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Number One, who was still used by God to write

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a lot of scripture, so oh wait, he can. He

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can write inspired scripture, but he can't build the temple.

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And then we're gonna extrapolate from that now some consequence

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that we can throw on other people. That's you see,

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that's we play fast and with scripture, do we not?

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And I can't. I can't stand that, all right? And second,

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it seems that even David sin did not stop God

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from establishing what with David a dividic covenant, and as

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Riri put it, was far more significant then the temple.

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Why was the covenant more significant than the temple? Well,

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the covenant is everlasting, and who built that temple? First

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of all, Solomon builds the temple, who was far worse

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than David, So that that already destroys anyone's argument about consequences. Second,

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Solomon's temple was destroyed, okay, So that means what David

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gets is far greater than what Solomon got to build.

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All right, So I again, I just weep everyone just like, well,

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you know, you know David. So here's the consequence. Well

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you can't just oh that's so weird the way we

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handle scripture. Okay. But so now in this covenant, there

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were promises related to David, and those promises related to Solomon.

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All right, the promises related to David. I think we

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looked at this. Look at does everyone remember that the

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first promise made to David. We covered it last week,

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verse twelve descendants, David would have a son who would

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succeed him and establish his kingdom. Right, Okay, everybody see

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that in verse twelve. Okay, good, a kingdom, David's house,

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throne and kingdom would be established forever. I sat verse sixteen.

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All right, Now, remember, though this is important, the Covenant

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did not guarantee uninterrupt an uninterrupted rule by David's family,

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though it did promise that the right to rule would

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always remain with David's dynasty. The Babylonian captivity did, of course,

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interrupt Davidic rule. All right, So there was an interruption,

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but it did not take away the promise of the kingdom. Right, Okay.

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I know that that's complicated, and I know skeptics and

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atheists could definitely make some hard arguments for us on

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that point. But we can at least we have to

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at least acknowledge it was interrupted. Can we at least

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acknowledge that? Okay? Right, So those were the promises related

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to David? What were the promises related to Solomon? Look

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at verse thirteen, Second Samuel seven. I think it's the

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very first part of verse thirteen. What does it say

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in that Second Samuel seven where we've been twelve through sixteen?

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Verse thirteen? What is verse thirteen? Okay? Who should build

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the house? All right? Solomon? Does that not say? Is

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it not Solomon? Are we all? Are? We are? Okay?

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Who built the house? Okay? So who's that promise too?

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All right? So remember with the first in the Dividic Covenant,

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make sure we're on the same page. We have the

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provisions of the covenant. The first provisions relate to David.

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Those were descendants in a kingdom. Everybody got that. Then

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we have promises related to Solomon. Okay, verse thirteen. I

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want to make sure we are all in agreement. Does

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verse thirteen? Would that not be a promise to Solomon

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that the temple he would build a temple? Okay? We

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got yeses okay, right right. There seem to be some

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confusion there, all right, okay, okay, all right, So make

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sure we're in good shape. Okay, all right, Second, look

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at the second part of thirteen. The second part of

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verse thirteen. All right, the throne of Solomon's kingdom would

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be established forever. Everybody see that. So the provisions related

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to Solomon as a temple and a throne. All right,

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What happens in verse fourteen through fifteen. We talked about

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this all last week. This is all review. Does it

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seem to indicate that he's going to be chastened for

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his sins? All right? Yes, however, he would not be deposed,

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all right, We got that, all right, So there would

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be punishment, but there would not be a white He

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would not be deposed. In other words, what even though

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he sinned, what would remain in effect the covenant? Right?

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And why would the covenant remain in effect even if

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Solomon sinned? Because God does not change. He's immutable. Now

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this is very critical, right, because so much of the

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argument is God made a promise with Israel and they sin,

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and so then it gets taken to the that's ridiculous

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because God's covenant is based on whose faithfulness his Unless

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the covenant is clearly conditional, which we've already looked at

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in this entire series. We even looked at this when

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we went through Schofield's Bible. This is all just where

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all we're doing is reviewing. We looked at this over

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and over and over. Every attempt to make the covenants

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conditional almost inevitably fall apart, as we have seen over

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and over and over again. Everybody remember all of that.

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I'm just going to assume you do. Okay, all right.

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God did not promisedly promise, specifically that the posterity of

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David would be through the line of Solomon Jack Andia

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or Kanaiah, one of Solomon's descendants, was decreed by God

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to be childless. Actually, Kaniah had seven sons, perhaps adopted,

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though none occupied the throne. Thus, as far as continuing

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dynasty was concerned, Kanaiah was childless. His line did retain

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legal throne rights which were claimed for Jesus through his

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legal father Joseph. And we spent an entire series on

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check and Ayah in that entire situation. All right, everybody

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remember all of that. I hope so, okay. It is

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important to remember that these promises were made. Here's the

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key word. These promises were made unconditionally. Some attempt to

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deny that it was an unconditional promise, claiming that the

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Covenant could be broken. And they said, and they cited

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a number of verses. Do I need to go through

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all of those verses again? Because we covered them all

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last week? Right, everybody got them all? Right? Remember, we

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looked at first Kings two four one, Kings eight twenty five.

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nine four through five, Isaiah twenty four to five in

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Ezekiel sixteen fifty nine. And so we could simply say this,

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the breaking or conditionality can only refer to personal and

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individual invalidation of the benefits of the covenant, but it

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can affect the transmission of the promise to the lineal descendants.

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This is why God would staunchly affirm his fidelity and

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perpetuity of the covenant to David in spite of those

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who would appear in his lineage, because there are those

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who appear in the lineage who were not very good.

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Can we agree with that? Yeah, So those individuals may

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have missed out on benefits, but the covenant does what remain.

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Abrahamic Divedic covenant. Why does he not find fault with

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the covenant because he made the Covenant, and it's based

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on him, not on the people who will appear within

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this family line, right, just like it had when he

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made the Abrahamic Covenant. Abraham was where ultimately, remember when

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he confirmed the Covenant, Abraham was asleep. I remember that. Okay,

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So we got all of that, all right. So we

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have those are the provisions of the Covenant, the promises

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to David, the promises to Solomon, all right. Now we

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have the Old Testament confirmation of the Covenant, all right.

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All the Old Testament passages that describe the Messiah as

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king and his coming kingdom confirm the promises of the

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Davidic Covenant. So anytime you find in the Old Testament

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passages that describe the Messiah as king and the coming kingdom,

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they confirm the promises of the Davidic Covenant. All the

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royal psalms, for example, give more information about the Davidic kingdom.

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at them all. Some of them I have no idea

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why they're listed. Some of them I'm completely perplexed and

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confused by. So we're not going to go through them.

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read them and try to figure out why they're there.

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But I'm not going to do that because of time,

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because we've spent a lot of time doing review. All right,

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So what we need to do then is LEAs look

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at one. So go to Psalm eighty nine, Psalm eighty nine,

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because I found this one maybe to be super important

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to the subject. All right, Psalm eighty nine, tell me

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when you're there. Okay, everybody there, all right, Saw eighty nine.

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Let's start in verse one. Now, remember we're looking for

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Old Testament confirmation of the Covenant. Okay, Saw eighty nine.

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Verse one, Well, I'm I'm gonna just start reading through

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the Psalm and not immediately going to the key verses.

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All right, so let's just consider this, everybody ready. Verse one,

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I will sing of the mercies of the Lord forever.

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Uh with my mouth, will I make known your face

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fethfulness to all generations. For I have said, mercy shall

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be built up forever. Your faithfulness you shall establish in

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the very heavens. All right, we can seeing of God's mercy,

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we can make known his faithfulness because God does not change,

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So his mercy does not change, and his faithfulness does

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not change. All right? Everybody got that right? Now? What

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does verse three begin with? I have made a covenant

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with my chosen? All right? So who makes the covenant? God?

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Who did the choosing? God? All right? If he chose

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David to make the covenant with, did he know David's

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all of David's failures? Now here's a good question. All right.

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Now you're writing now this part, I'm going to have

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you figure out. I want you to find we know

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where the dividic covenant is made Second Samuel seven, right, Okay,

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now find out her? Look, does David commit all of

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the big sins that he's known for prior to or after? Okay?

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Oh wow, we probably have, right, But so everyone look

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for the chapter where it occurs where his big sin happens.

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Do what Second Samuel? All right? So God makes a

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covenant with the very man whom he knew would do

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what all the actions in chapter eleven? He passes that

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covenant on to Solomon, whom he knows is going to

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do all those things? Now, what it would be? What

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would be your qual like if let's say you were

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watching or just let's say this could happen. Right, Let's

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say someone could walk up to you and say, hey,

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you're going to give your child. You've chosen this child

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whom you're gonna give this to, or this too, or

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this too or this too. You're that child is going

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to do all of these horrible things, but that child

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is not going to engage in any of those horrible things.

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What would we expect the parent to do? Then, to

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choose that one? God doesn't choose that one does he

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could he have found someone who would not have done

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what David did. Well, now we could make an argument,

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well could he that because whoever he chose was going

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to commit wie. So now this this is always our struggle, right,

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because we classify sins in very different categories, do we not? Right?

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I mean, David numbering the people, eh, whatever, right, David

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killing some people, David lying hey, I'm on a I'm

456
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on a mission from the king. And then as a

457
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result of David's lie, what happened? All the priests are

458
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killed and all the people in the city, even the children.

459
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And you preach that in church and we even saw

460
00:34:07.359 --> 00:34:10.719
it here. Inevitably someone will argue with me that Damon

461
00:34:10.920 --> 00:34:16.519
wasn't actually lying, and you're like, what is happening? Hell

462
00:34:16.840 --> 00:34:20.320
because we will justify and it weird. But when it

463
00:34:20.360 --> 00:34:23.960
comes to David's sexual sin, oh, then that's the end, right,

464
00:34:24.000 --> 00:34:26.360
that's the end. So how do we how do we

465
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so we judge sins? What? In very specific categories do

466
00:34:31.440 --> 00:34:34.320
we not? Some sins don't even bother us. David getting

467
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an entire city killed, nobody in church even cares, whatever,

468
00:34:37.800 --> 00:34:41.599
who cares? Or we argue that David was actually not lying,

469
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which just blows my mind. What do you mean if

470
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not lie? He clearly lied? Right? And why did he lie?

471
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Because he was protecting himself? Right? I mean, come on, now,

472
00:34:53.679 --> 00:34:56.000
like the whole end, he knew he needed he needed

473
00:34:56.039 --> 00:34:59.320
things right, and those people would not have helped him

474
00:34:59.320 --> 00:35:01.599
if they realized that he was not that he was

475
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being hunted down. So there was a lot about that story.

476
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So my point is is, even if God chose someone else,

477
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what would be true of them? There would still be sinners.

478
00:35:12.599 --> 00:35:15.679
They may not commit those sins. But in some ways

479
00:35:15.880 --> 00:35:17.880
I kind of love the fact that David chose, that

480
00:35:17.920 --> 00:35:29.800
God chose David, because what does that demonstrate that he

481
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makes the covenant with whom? In fact, I said in

482
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First Corinthians, I think it's First Corinthians. See if y'all

483
00:35:35.480 --> 00:35:38.679
can find it, where it says God choose chooses the unwise,

484
00:35:39.400 --> 00:35:42.480
the foolish, the weak. Yeah, see if y'all can find it.

485
00:35:42.519 --> 00:36:06.800
I think it's in First Corinthians who man sord h

486
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See if y'all can find it? Okay, Yeah, that's it's

487
00:36:36.599 --> 00:36:41.800
a contrast of the God's wisdom in the world's wisdom

488
00:36:42.159 --> 00:36:44.199
says something like he does not choose the mighty, he

489
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does not choose the wise. Yeah. Yeah, you can look

490
00:36:58.679 --> 00:37:00.079
it up. I don't care how you find it and

491
00:37:00.199 --> 00:37:07.519
look it up. Call someone, ask Siri, you can utilize

492
00:37:07.559 --> 00:37:14.679
any tool you have available to you. No, it is

493
00:37:14.679 --> 00:37:19.519
where it says God. Well, God chooses the foolish, chooses

494
00:37:19.559 --> 00:37:32.400
the weak, chooses the poor. You're finding lots of verses

495
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that talk about wisdom and wise and foolish. Sarah's using

496
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her phone. Let's see I who finds it first. Does

497
00:37:42.400 --> 00:37:49.079
the old way work or the new way work? See?

498
00:37:54.199 --> 00:37:58.039
God has choosen the foolish things of this world. Why

499
00:37:58.119 --> 00:38:03.000
is he chosen the foolish? The week passage tell us

500
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why He's chosen those things? People online will be screaming

501
00:38:16.119 --> 00:38:32.440
at their phones. Yeah, I bet you did okay, First

502
00:38:32.440 --> 00:38:38.840
Corinthians one. Actually I would have. I probably would have

503
00:38:38.880 --> 00:38:41.960
missed it. I think I would have probably gone to

504
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I don't know which chapter, Probably two or three is

505
00:38:44.960 --> 00:38:47.199
probably where I've gone. But yeah, if you start, and

506
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I believe in verse twenty eighteen, if we go to eighteen,

507
00:38:50.559 --> 00:38:53.079
I think that's where it starts. First Corinthians one, eighteen.

508
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For the message of the cross is foolishness to those

509
00:38:58.960 --> 00:39:01.880
who are perishing, right, because the message of the cross.

510
00:39:01.920 --> 00:39:08.280
Why would the message of the cross be foolishness? What?

511
00:39:08.280 --> 00:39:13.519
What is so foolish about the cross? You got someone

512
00:39:13.559 --> 00:39:19.119
who's h a condemned criminal, who's being crucified between other criminals.

513
00:39:20.239 --> 00:39:23.039
Where where is victory in that? Where is salvation in that?

514
00:39:23.039 --> 00:39:27.119
That looks like total, complete and utter failure in defeat? Right,

515
00:39:27.480 --> 00:39:29.400
But to us who are being saved, it is the

516
00:39:29.400 --> 00:39:32.239
power of God. Well, that is bizarre that we see power.

517
00:39:32.639 --> 00:39:35.760
And you know it's a bizarre thing, right, and like

518
00:39:35.840 --> 00:39:40.039
and people my Christianity for it because it does seem strange. Right,

519
00:39:40.360 --> 00:39:45.039
we have that in our in our buildings, across somewhere

520
00:39:45.039 --> 00:39:48.599
it around your neck. What's a bizarre thing to have? Right?

521
00:39:49.079 --> 00:39:52.880
That would be like wearing a necklace of an electric chair. Right,

522
00:39:53.079 --> 00:39:56.559
we're looking at a thing that was used for capital punishment. Right,

523
00:39:56.920 --> 00:39:59.880
that's twisted, right, and you can see why people mu

524
00:40:00.239 --> 00:40:02.960
us for that. They're like you, people are sick. You

525
00:40:03.039 --> 00:40:09.000
wear and a symbol of execution as some what, Well,

526
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that to us represents what it doesn't represent necessarily execution.

527
00:40:14.440 --> 00:40:18.960
It represents the power of God to save whom sinners

528
00:40:19.559 --> 00:40:26.760
through what appears to be defeat are foolish. Right, everybody

529
00:40:26.760 --> 00:40:29.840
see that? Okay? Next, for it is written, I will

530
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destroy the wisdom of the wise and bring to nothing

531
00:40:32.559 --> 00:40:36.280
the understanding of the prudent. So God, now's that's being

532
00:40:36.360 --> 00:40:39.800
quoted from somewhere. But God, God's purpose. God's plan is

533
00:40:39.840 --> 00:40:51.519
to ultimately do what according to that verse. His purpose

534
00:40:51.599 --> 00:40:55.159
is to destroy, it says right there in verse yeah,

535
00:40:55.199 --> 00:40:57.159
to destroy the wisdom of the wise. It says right

536
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there in verse eighteen or nineteen. Does everybody see it?

537
00:41:01.079 --> 00:41:07.519
Does I am am? I the only translation that says destroy, Yeah, yeah,

538
00:41:07.559 --> 00:41:09.840
I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and bring

539
00:41:09.880 --> 00:41:12.559
to nothing the understanding of the prudent. Then he says,

540
00:41:14.440 --> 00:41:16.519
where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is

541
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the dispute of the age. Has not God made foolish

542
00:41:19.519 --> 00:41:22.320
the wisdom of this world? For since the wisdom of God,

543
00:41:22.519 --> 00:41:27.159
the world through wisdom do not know God? What is

544
00:41:27.159 --> 00:41:30.760
the one thing human wisdom cannot get you to? It

545
00:41:30.840 --> 00:41:34.599
cannot get you to God. Human wisdom cannot get you

546
00:41:34.639 --> 00:41:38.039
to God. It cannot know God. Why? Why is human

547
00:41:38.119 --> 00:41:47.840
wisdom limited to getting us to God? Right? Because our

548
00:41:48.599 --> 00:41:54.280
God's ways are contradictory to our wisdom? Right? Don't I

549
00:41:54.360 --> 00:41:57.480
constantly The one thing I've pointed out in twenty three

550
00:41:57.599 --> 00:42:00.880
years of preaching is my constant struggle with this. How

551
00:42:00.920 --> 00:42:04.599
much things in the Bible make absolutely no sense? Does

552
00:42:04.639 --> 00:42:07.480
it make sense to pray to a God who allowed

553
00:42:07.559 --> 00:42:09.519
or caused them? Very thing we're praying for God to

554
00:42:09.559 --> 00:42:14.679
fix makes no sense? Right? Why am I confessing to

555
00:42:14.800 --> 00:42:18.480
God sin when God knew I was gonna commit that

556
00:42:18.599 --> 00:42:21.639
sin and did nothing to stop said sin? Does that

557
00:42:21.679 --> 00:42:26.360
make any sense? Why should I feel broken and upset

558
00:42:26.360 --> 00:42:29.480
over my sin when He is the one who allows

559
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me to have a nature that leads me to commit

560
00:42:31.760 --> 00:42:38.000
the sin? Right? If you are a parent, you know, hey,

561
00:42:38.880 --> 00:42:41.599
you take a small child, put a small child in

562
00:42:41.679 --> 00:42:44.039
front of this wall and hand them a crayon and

563
00:42:44.159 --> 00:42:46.880
walk away. What is a high probability is going to happen?

564
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And then you go smack them on the bottom, going,

565
00:42:50.360 --> 00:42:53.519
how dare you color? You're the one added on the crayon.

566
00:42:53.880 --> 00:42:56.119
You're the one to put him against the wall. It's

567
00:42:56.159 --> 00:43:02.400
on you. But we're not supposed to blame God. Does

568
00:43:02.440 --> 00:43:05.800
that make any sense? I know you're afraid to say it.

569
00:43:05.880 --> 00:43:10.039
Let me say it. It makes absolutely no sense. So

570
00:43:10.119 --> 00:43:14.679
our wisdom will always lead us where. Oh, come on left,

571
00:43:14.679 --> 00:43:17.840
we can be We can be painfully honest here. If

572
00:43:17.880 --> 00:43:21.880
we are honest with our wisdom and logic and reason,

573
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we would come to one conclusion. There is no God.

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That's what. That's where the verse says, has not got

575
00:43:37.320 --> 00:43:41.159
looked for sense in the wisdom of God. The world,

576
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through wisdom did not know God. So what happened? It

577
00:43:45.880 --> 00:43:48.719
pleads God, through the foolishness of the message, preach to

578
00:43:48.760 --> 00:43:53.760
save those who believe Jews requests a sign. Greek seek

579
00:43:53.800 --> 00:43:57.239
after wisdom. But we preach Christ crucified to Jews a

580
00:43:57.280 --> 00:44:01.360
stumbling block and to the Greek's foolishness. But to those

581
00:44:01.440 --> 00:44:04.639
who are called both Jew and Greek Christ, the power

582
00:44:04.639 --> 00:44:07.280
of God and the wisdom of God, because the foolishness

583
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of God is wiser than man, and the weakness of

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God is stronger than man. God is operating contrary to

585
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what our wisdom, our way of thinking. He's doing things

586
00:44:21.079 --> 00:44:27.599
that appear what to man's wisdom, weak and foolish. But

587
00:44:27.719 --> 00:44:31.480
in what appears to be weak and foolish, he's doing

588
00:44:31.559 --> 00:44:40.199
what Saving sinners from human perspective doesn't make any sense. No.

589
00:44:40.320 --> 00:44:42.519
I know, we sit here as Christians, and this is

590
00:44:42.559 --> 00:44:44.800
what ticks me off about Christians, because we always act

591
00:44:44.840 --> 00:44:48.039
like the people out there are so dumb. They just

592
00:44:48.119 --> 00:44:51.639
don't know. We're the wise ones. Shut up, we're not.

593
00:44:52.519 --> 00:44:56.679
Because from a human perspective, we're the dumb ones. We're

594
00:44:56.719 --> 00:45:02.280
the idiots. Because from human wisdom, nothing about Christianity makes

595
00:45:02.639 --> 00:45:08.199
any sense. But we create these apologetic programs to try

596
00:45:08.199 --> 00:45:10.199
to make it sound like no, no, no, no, We've

597
00:45:10.239 --> 00:45:13.719
got it all figured out. They're just dumb. It's not.

598
00:45:13.880 --> 00:45:17.119
It doesn't work that way, and so we try to

599
00:45:17.280 --> 00:45:21.199
argue with them, to convince them through apologetic arguments, to believe.

600
00:45:21.440 --> 00:45:27.840
But through man's wisdom, what does the verse say, God

601
00:45:27.840 --> 00:45:33.559
better find it? Through man's wisdom? They cannot know God.

602
00:45:33.639 --> 00:45:41.840
Everybody see that verse I'm paraphrasing it. The world by

603
00:45:41.880 --> 00:45:47.840
wisdom not God. You can't argue intellectually someone to God.

604
00:45:48.199 --> 00:45:52.519
I know that destroys every apologetic argument ever made, because

605
00:45:52.559 --> 00:45:57.159
apologetics is that we by by apologetics we can convince someone.

606
00:45:57.760 --> 00:46:02.320
You can't convince someone, because what does a salvation the

607
00:46:02.360 --> 00:46:05.320
result of being convinced or a salvation the result of

608
00:46:05.360 --> 00:46:10.480
being chosen. Now, if you believe in free will, you

609
00:46:10.639 --> 00:46:14.760
believe that you can convince someone. But the problem is

610
00:46:14.800 --> 00:46:24.880
you can't convince someone. Right, Yes, have we not seen

611
00:46:24.960 --> 00:46:27.639
kids raised in a Christian home hearing the Gospel preach

612
00:46:27.719 --> 00:46:34.800
seventy five thousand times? Yet they do not? What believe?

613
00:46:34.960 --> 00:46:46.880
Have they heard every argument imaginable? Yes? Have your arguments worked? No?

614
00:46:47.599 --> 00:46:52.000
You have other kids never even knew anything about God,

615
00:46:52.400 --> 00:46:55.639
didn't have any real understanding, not even raised around it,

616
00:46:55.800 --> 00:46:58.760
and they come to believe. Were did they believe because

617
00:46:58.760 --> 00:47:02.639
they were convinced? No? They didn't even hear arguments, they

618
00:47:02.679 --> 00:47:05.800
heard the message preached it. What what is the difference?

619
00:47:06.679 --> 00:47:13.639
Not wisdom? Sometimes you can have children and the smartest

620
00:47:13.719 --> 00:47:15.880
kids in your family will be the ones who will

621
00:47:15.880 --> 00:47:20.559
rejecte God and it'll be the ones who quote unquote

622
00:47:20.599 --> 00:47:25.159
are less smart to be nice who will believe. And

623
00:47:25.199 --> 00:47:30.800
you're like, well, wait a minute, that because like, because

624
00:47:30.800 --> 00:47:32.920
we tend to think that. And look, there was a

625
00:47:32.960 --> 00:47:35.079
time in my Christian life I would have argued, no,

626
00:47:35.440 --> 00:47:38.920
we can prove we can convince someone, right, even if

627
00:47:38.920 --> 00:47:41.559
I held to our reform view of soteriology, because I

628
00:47:41.679 --> 00:47:45.159
was so into apologetics, thinking oh, this will work, this

629
00:47:45.199 --> 00:47:47.400
will work, this will work, this will work. I listened

630
00:47:47.400 --> 00:47:49.920
to doctor James White hour after hour after hour, debate

631
00:47:49.920 --> 00:47:52.360
after debate after debate, like you can, and then you

632
00:47:52.400 --> 00:47:56.280
come to realize from a thological perspective, my entire approach

633
00:47:56.400 --> 00:48:02.639
was stupid. Because the reality is from man's wisdom. Christian,

634
00:48:03.360 --> 00:48:06.000
let we can see it from man's wisdom. What should

635
00:48:06.039 --> 00:48:09.119
be the end result? What should be the conclusion that

636
00:48:09.199 --> 00:48:14.599
man's wisdom gives everyone there is no God. Now you're

637
00:48:14.599 --> 00:48:18.159
gonna say, no, no, no, no, man's wisdom cannot know God.

638
00:48:18.320 --> 00:48:21.400
Now you could argue man's wisdom should should at least

639
00:48:21.480 --> 00:48:26.320
argue there's a creator. Maybe you could argue that. Okay,

640
00:48:26.400 --> 00:48:28.360
so maybe going so far to say there is no

641
00:48:28.519 --> 00:48:30.840
God is too far. But I'm telling you You're not

642
00:48:30.920 --> 00:48:35.400
gonna know God? All right? Does that make sense? I'm

643
00:48:35.440 --> 00:48:38.320
just saying man's wisdom is gonna call into question everything

644
00:48:38.320 --> 00:48:40.800
we read in our Bible because it makes no sense.

645
00:48:40.840 --> 00:48:43.519
Come on, from human wisdom. You open up the Bible,

646
00:48:43.559 --> 00:48:46.800
what do you have? Within minutes you have a talking snake?

647
00:48:48.159 --> 00:48:53.039
Come on, that seems ridiculous, right, and the whole world

648
00:48:53.519 --> 00:48:57.880
is plummeted into basically the threat of hell because a

649
00:48:57.920 --> 00:49:02.440
woman ate a piece of fruit. Come on, that seems ridiculous.

650
00:49:02.960 --> 00:49:07.239
What all the animals were put on a boat and

651
00:49:07.320 --> 00:49:11.440
God flooded the world only to preserve the very thing

652
00:49:11.639 --> 00:49:14.599
that was going to create the world that he just destroyed.

653
00:49:15.960 --> 00:49:19.159
He literally preserved the very thing that was going to

654
00:49:19.239 --> 00:49:22.360
recreate the world he just destroyed. That seems like the

655
00:49:22.360 --> 00:49:24.960
most ridiculous, dumb story I've ever read in my life.

656
00:49:26.159 --> 00:49:34.920
He should have sunk the arc, right, Let a couple

657
00:49:34.960 --> 00:49:39.559
of fish swim around, Let them have the world, because

658
00:49:39.599 --> 00:49:43.639
the people he preserved on the boat carried the very

659
00:49:43.679 --> 00:49:47.000
disease called the sinful nature. And did the world get

660
00:49:47.000 --> 00:49:50.360
better after the flood? No, it went right back to

661
00:49:50.400 --> 00:49:54.280
the way it was, and it only is going to

662
00:49:54.320 --> 00:49:56.639
get worse. All right, but we didn't get to the

663
00:49:56.679 --> 00:49:59.599
part to where we wanted to go. All right, because

664
00:50:00.239 --> 00:50:02.480
look in verse twenty five, because the foolishness of God

665
00:50:02.559 --> 00:50:04.719
is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is

666
00:50:04.719 --> 00:50:07.960
stronger than men. For you see your calling, brethren, than

667
00:50:08.039 --> 00:50:13.639
not many. Why is according to the flesh not many mighty,

668
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not many, noble or cold? But God has chosen the

669
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foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise.

670
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And God has chosen the weak things of the world

671
00:50:24.039 --> 00:50:26.119
to put to shame, the things which are mighty, and

672
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the base things of the world, and the things which

673
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are despised. God has chosen and the things which are

674
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not to bring to nothing the things that are. Why

675
00:50:35.719 --> 00:50:39.760
does he do this verse twenty nine, that no flesh

676
00:50:39.760 --> 00:50:44.559
shall glory in his presence? Now go back to Psalm

677
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eighty nine. Who was God's chosen? In Psalm eighty nine,

678
00:50:48.159 --> 00:50:58.440
verse three, David Right Now, In Second Samuel seven, God

679
00:50:58.519 --> 00:51:05.880
establishes his covenant. Right what happens how many chapters later,

680
00:51:07.760 --> 00:51:13.360
four chapters later, the person God chose is doing what

681
00:51:16.360 --> 00:51:24.880
committing adultery and murder and murder? Yeah, coveting the well, yeah,

682
00:51:24.920 --> 00:51:29.039
you know, even before he committed the adultery exactly, he

683
00:51:29.079 --> 00:51:31.360
gets off the hook for the coveting, right, So, but

684
00:51:31.440 --> 00:51:33.039
I mean, yeah, he I mean even if he would not,

685
00:51:33.320 --> 00:51:36.000
even if he would not have done anything, he would

686
00:51:36.159 --> 00:51:38.360
still have done something. If he looked at her and

687
00:51:38.440 --> 00:51:41.719
lusted and coveted for her. He was already guilty even

688
00:51:41.719 --> 00:51:48.559
before he did anything, which puts everyone where guilty. So

689
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even if God wouldn't have chosen David, he still would

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have been choosing sinners. But the fact that he chose

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David is absolutely inconceivable to our minds, is it not?

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Because how do we think? God only chooses those people

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who are good and who are righteous and they have

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to meet this standard, and we're all everything about Christianity

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is about morality? Is it not? Right? And wrong? But

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God chooses a man who is the epitome of what

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if you mention everything in First Corinthians One? Is he weak?

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He appears to be weak? Based does he appear to

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be base? Yeah? All those things foolish? What do we

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always say David was absolutely foolish and what he did

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do we not? Right? So, but guess what, that's the

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kind of people God chooses and from a human perspective,

703
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we would say, what about God's choices from a human perspective, like,

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this is the dumbest thing I've ever seen in my life. Right,

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if you've ever played sports in a situation where outside

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or maybe a school where it's not an organized sport

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but the kids are just playing, you almost always pick

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team captains and then those team captains do what they pick. Now,

709
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who do you pick? You pick the best kids so

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that you can destroy the other kids, now if you

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really want. And he says, what God does is he

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has he picks the worst of the worst so that

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they get no glory. But God does and that makes

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literally no sense to us. Right, God could every person

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he chooses. He could choose the people who would bring

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him glory and honor and what they do. But the

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glory and the glory and honor is not in what

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we do. The glory and honor is in the God

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who saved those who end up doing things that God

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does not approve of. Now does that excuse the wrong?

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I'll everyone say it. That does not excuse the wrong. Okay,

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no one is making any argument to excuse any behavior,

723
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but it demonstrates that God could choose better. Right, but

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then again, could he choose better? Not really, he could

725
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choose what we perceive to be better, because they wouldn't

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commit that sin or that sin. But every person chosen

727
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commits sin. All right now, oh well, we're out of time.

728
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Just go ahead and read the rest of verse three.

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I've made a covenant with my chosen. I have sworn

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to my some eighty nine. Okay, if you'll close your Bible.

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I have made a covenant with my chosen. I have

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sworn to my servant David. So now we know exactly

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David was the one being spoken of. If there was

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ever any question, it's David. Now this begins to this

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is Old Testament confirmation of the dividic covenant. Even here

736
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in the Psalm, we are getting confirmation that God made

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this covenant with David. And now we didn't get a

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chance to read more about the covenant, but we'll do

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that later. All right, we'll stop there for now, Lord God,

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we come before you this morning. Lord, I hope this

741
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went halfway. Okay, forgive me for where I may have

742
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messed up, But Lord, help us walk away understanding that

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our understanding is always going to lead us to conclusions

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that are contrary to you. If by our wisdom you

745
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make no sense, your ways make no sense, and we

746
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would be led to a path that's contrary to you.

747
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That is a hard concept to grasp, but it's one

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we must embrace because it's what you have told us

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in your word. Forgive us for all the things we

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do in our own wisdom, and help us trust in

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you better. And we asked this in Jesus name it Gods.

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