1488 - "Introduction to the Davidic Covenant" II Samuel 7

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Welcome to On the Way. This is Tony Crisp, and this is Podcast 1488. Today we're in 2 Samuel chapter 7 and 1 Chronicles chapter 17. For those of you who are familiar with the life of David, you know these two chapters deal like no others with what is called the Davidic Covenant. Now I want to remind you of the goodness and the graciousness of God that to Abraham and David, God made unconditional covenants. What is the difference between a conditional covenant like the land covenant, the Mosaic covenant, where God said I will bless you if you live a certain way, if you obey me, if you keep my word, then the covenant is in full standing. But if you disobey, then there's going to be grave consequences, and you will have broken my covenant. And again and again the children of Israel broke the great Mosaic covenant that God laid out at Mount Sinai. But with Abraham, he did not make a covenant with Abraham, and with David, God did not make a covenant with David that was based upon them. It was based upon God Himself. God said, I'm going to do this for you, Abraham. I'm going to do this for you, David, not because of who you are, but because of who I am. It is my character, it is my choice, it is my follow through that will make the difference in whether this covenant really comes to its completeness. And so that's what God did. I also want to remind you that David and Abraham are the two most important people in the entire Tanakh, in the entire law, prophets, and writings. That is what we call the Old Testament. And this is given to us in the clearest form in the first verse of the first book of the New Testament. Matthew's gospel starts with a great connectivity to the Old Testament when he said this is the lineage, this is the genealogy, this is the ancestry of Jesus the Messiah, the Christas. He is the son of David who is the son of Abraham. Now think of all the people that God could have connected David to in the Old Testament. Great heroes of the faith, but none were like Abraham and David, that God said, I'm going to do something so special for you that it is considered everlasting. It is eternal in its value and stance, and I am going to see to it myself. And so this is what makes the Abrahamic covenant, which had to do with Abraham being given land, his lineage, that he was going to be a light to the world, and through him salvation would come, and the story of redemption would take on new meaning. Because God had made a promise to Adam in the book of Genesis, chapter three and verse fifteen, in the proto evangelion, that is the gospel before the gospel. It was the first gospel. It was the first presentation of the gospel, that God would send someone that would take away man's sin. He would defeat the tempter who had defeated mankind, God's greatest creation. And so God fulfilled that through the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and through the tribe of Judah. And Judah was chosen as the kingly tribe. Jacob made prophecy of that in Genesis chapter fifty. And so now David is in the Judaic town of Bethlehem. That was his hometown. He was the son of Jesse. It was at the close of the book of Judges when the Bible says in the last verse of the last chapter that every man did what was right in his own eyes. Why? Because there was no leadership, there was no king, there was no figure that would lead them in the way of God. And so you have brought into existence for all of us to read about in the last few verses of the tiny book of Ruth, you have the introduction of the Judaic line of Obad and Jesse and David. And so in 1 Samuel, you have Samuel anointing a king from the tribe of Benjamin, and Saul didn't work out, and so Samuel was sent to Bethlehem, just north of Hebron, the capital city of the tribe of Judah, and Caleb. You remember the story in the book of Joshua of Caleb and how God was faithful to his promise that he made to Caleb. And so we're now looking at David's life and this Davidic covenant because it is the one I want you to understand that God is still going to fulfill. God said, I'm going to have someone that is going to sit on your throne forever, and we know that that is King Jesus. But I want us to read through 2 Samuel chapter seven. And you just follow along, and I will just do a running commentary as we go through, because this covenant is an amazing thing God made to the shepherd king David. Now it came to pass when the king was dwelling in his house, and the Lord had given him rest from all of his enemies all around, that the king said to Nathan the prophet, Now the king is David here. See now I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells inside a tent, a curtain. Then Nathan said to the king, Go do all that is in your heart, for the Lord is with you. But it happened that night that the word of the Lord came to Nathan, saying, Go and tell my servant David, thus says the Lord, would you build a house for me to dwell in? For I have not dwelled in a house since the time that I brought the children of Israel up from Egypt, even to this day, but have moved about in a tent and in a tabernacle, wherever I have moved about with the children of Israel, have I ever spoken a word to anyone from the tribes of Israel whom I commanded to shepherd my people Israel, saying, Why have you not built me a house of cedar? Now therefore, thus shall you say to my servant David, thus says the Lord of hosts. And this is God's word to David. I took you from the sheepfold, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people over Israel. And I have been with you wherever you've gone, and have cut off all your enemies from before you, and have made you a great name, like the name of the great men who are on the earth. Moreover, I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and I will plant them, that they may dwell in the place of their own and move no more, nor shall the sons of wickedness oppress them any more as previously they did. Since the time I commanded the judges to be over my people Israel and have caused you to rest from all your enemies, also the Lord tells you that he will make you a house. When your days are fulfilled and you rest with your fathers, I will set up your seed after you, who will come from your body, in other words, from your lineage, and I will establish his kingdom, and he shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. Now he wasn't just talking about Solomon, no, he goes well beyond Solomon because we know he's talking about one who is greater than David and greater than Solomon. I will be his father and he shall be my son. If he commits iniquity I will chasten him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men. This is what he's talking to David about King Solomon, his son. But look at verse fifteen. This is very important, and we're going to look at several passages in the coming days that relate to the Jewish people, and how that God said, I will punish you for your sins, I will discipline you. I am like a father to you, not a grandfather, I will discipline you, but I will not take my mercy from you. I will not withhold my grace and my compassion, my hesed from you. And so in Second Samuel chapter seven and verse fifteen, here's what God says, but my mercy shall not depart from you, as I took it from Saul whom I removed from before you. And look at this, and your house and your kingdom shall be established forever before you. Your throne shall be established forever, according to all these words and according to all this vision, so Nathan spoke to David. Now this is an amazing statement that God said as he did to Abraham, so he did to the shepherd king. I will do what I will do, and I will do it because of who I am. And David was overwhelmed. Then King David went in and sat before the Lord, and he said, Who am I, O Lord God? And what is my house that you have brought me this far? And yet this was a small thing in your sight, O God, and you have also spoken of your servant's house for a great while to come. Is this the manner of man, O Lord God? Is this the manner of man, O Lord God? Now what more can David say to you? For you, Lord God, know your servant. For your word's sake and according to your own heart you have done all these things, these great things to make your servant know them. Therefore you are great, O Lord God, for there is none like you, nor is there any God beside you, according to all that we have heard with our ears, and who is like your people like Israel? The one nation on earth whom God went to redeem for Himself, as a people to make for Himself a name, and to do yourself great on awesome deeds for your land, before your people whom you redeem for yourself from Egypt and nations and their gods, for you have made your people Israel, your very own people forever. You, Lord, have become their God. Now, O Lord, the word which you have spoken concerning your servant and concerning his house, establish it. This is David's prayer. Establish it forever, and do as you have said. So let your name be magnified forever, saying, The Lord of hosts is the God over Israel, and let the house of your servant David be established before you. For you, O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, have revealed this to your servant, saying, I will build you a house, therefore your servant has found it in his heart to pray this prayer to you. David was overwhelmed by the goodness and the mercy of God, because he realized it was not because of him that God was doing this, and it was not going to be because of his power, his strength, or anything that he could do that was going to fulfill the covenant. It was going to be God Himself. This is the kind of covenant that God makes with you and with me through what is called the new covenant that we're going to look at in the coming days. You see, God is able to keep his part of the covenant. The covenant is if we come to him, he will in no wise cast us out, and his mercy is everlasting. Jesus has paid a debt for us that we did not owe. And when we come to him, his righteousness is put on our account. That's the covenant that God made with us. It is one where he writes his law in our hearts, he writes his word in our minds. Why? Because God Himself comes to live in our hearts. See, that's the great miracle of Pentecost. That God was no longer just be beside us. It would no longer just be Emmanuel, God with us. But God Himself, through the person of the Holy Spirit, Jesus in us, God comes to live in us. Now, lest you think I'm being heretical when I say that the Holy Spirit is Jesus in us, the apostle Paul told the church at Colossae that Christ in you, Messiah in you, Jesus in you is your assurance of glory. Jesus in you, how is Jesus in us? Through the person of the Holy Spirit. God's covenant with David is unconditional, and we will see that God's new covenant with his people, with those who are Jews and Gentiles, is a forever covenant. You see what God has begun in each one of us, he is going to finish until the day that we are with Jesus. May his name be praised. For on the way, this is Tony Crisp.

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