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LESSON 3 * PART 4 * BOOK 63
THE DAVIDIC COVENANT - PART 2
We’re talking about the covenant that God made between Himself and King David. Contrary to probably most of Christendom who do not accept the fact that Jesus limited His ministry to the Nation of Israel. Well, Samaritan’s were Jews. They weren’t Gentiles. All right, now look what Paul says in Romans 15 verse 8. Romans 15:8a
That all He dealt with was the Nation of Israel. Romans 15:8
"Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision (That is the Nation of Israel.) for the truth of God, (In other words, because of all of God’s promises and all of His Covenants.) to confirm (or fulfill) the promises made unto the fathers." That, in His earthly ministry, He only ministered to the Nation of Israel. He could not minister to Gentiles, because they were not part of these covenant promises, and He was under covenant promise. All right, now if Jesus indeed ministered to Gentiles, and I told somebody this on the phone the other day, then He’s the biggest hypocrite that ever lived. Matthew 10:5
"These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, (Now, from the lips of Jesus of Nazareth.) Romans 15:8
"Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision (Nation of Israel), for the truth of God, (And what was His purpose?) to confirm (fulfill) the promises (all these covenant promises, not made to the Gentile world, but -) made unto the fathers (to Israel.)"
All right, now let’s go back and pick up--I think we can almost spend the rest of the half-hour to finish the covenant made with David – the Davidic Covenant. II Samuel chapter 7 and we left off in verse 16, where God, speaking through the prophet Nathan remember, says to David:
"thy throne shall be established forever." If I understand language, forever doesn’t mean forty years, and that’s all David ruled. That’s all Solomon ruled. All right, now let’s jump up to Psalms 89, and let’s jump in at verse 18. All of these verses, of course, are with respect to God and Israel.
Psalms 89:18a
"For the LORD…" Now remember, I’ve taught in times gone by that the LORD, as it’s capitalized in the Old Testament, is a reference to Jehovah. Psalms 89:18
"For the LORD (God the Son) is our defense; and the Holy One of Israel is our (What?) king." Psalms 89:19-22
(Now, He comes back to King David.) David was a man after God’s own heart. Psalms 89:23-25
25. I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers." Could David do that? Christ! The second David, The Son of David! All right, now this is the beauty of Scripture, see?
Psalms 89:26
Now, do you see why I said it was God the Son? David couldn’t be the object of salvation to anybody. David was human.
Paul wasn’t the first one who divided people, Jesus did! Paul wasn’t the first. Jesus was. When there’s a disagreement on the truth of the Word of God. There’s no dissension. Now, The truth of God, that’s something to argue about. Okay, Psalms 89. So, now we’re speaking, not of David, but we’re speaking of the Son of David, Jesus of Nazareth, God the Son, Jehovah in the Old Testament. All right, verse 27:
Psalms 89:27
Now, if you’re a Bible student, the kings of the earth would also include what two, great, Biblical kings? David and Solomon. But this King is higher than David, and He’s higher than Solomon. God the Son
Psalms 89:28
King David. Because God didn’t make the covenant just with Himself, He made it with David. All right, so he says, "my covenant shall stand fast." Now, verse 29:
Psalms 89:29a
Psalms 89:32
Now, that caused a question at break-time. Enemy forces would come in and would make life miserable for the Children of Israel. All right, verse 32 again:
Now, verse 33:
Psalms 89:33
"Nevertheless (Even though God will chastise Israel.) God will never give up on Israel! Because of the covenant promises again, see? All right, now verse 34:
Psalms 89:34
Israel. All right, now I think we’ve got time enough. God won’t break His covenants. Jeremiah 31:31-32a
with the house of Israel, (the northern kingdom) and with the house of Judah: (The southern kingdom, the two sticks brought together, if you remember, earlier this afternoon. Now goodness, what covenant was that? Law! All right, that’s the covenant He’s referring to. This new covenant will be nothing like that old covenant, now read on:
"…which my covenant they (Israel, not God) brake…." Here we are 3000 years later, and we’re still breaking them every day of the human existence, but so far as Israel was concerned it wasn’t God’s covenant that He broke, Israel broke it, by constantly rebelling. All right, verse 32 reading on:
"….although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:" Did God give up on Israel because they kept breaking the Law?
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