Big Thought: Our is in the lineage and house of Jesus, telling us who Jesus is and who we are.
1. A covenant of .
What is a covenant? A formal, solemn, binding usually involving God.
Psalm 89:3-4 (ESV) – You have said, “I have made a covenant with my chosen one; I have sworn to David my servant: ‘I will establish your offspring forever, and build your throne for all generations.’” Selah
2. The King’s : Hope in who the King is.
Jeremiah 33:17 (ESV) – “For thus says the Lord: David shall never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel,
Jeremiah 22:28-30 (ESV) – Is this man Coniah a despised, broken pot, a vessel no one cares for? Why are he and his children hurled and cast into a land that they do not know? O land, land, land, hear the word of the Lord! Thus says the Lord: “Write this man down as childless, a man who shall not succeed in his days, for none of his offspring shall succeed in sitting on the throne of David and ruling again in Judah.”
Luke 1:32-33 (ESV) – “He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to Him the throne of His father David, and He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of His kingdom there will be no end.”
a. Because we have hope in who the King is, we can that God’s Word is true.
Proverbs 30:5 (ESV) – Every word of God proves true; He is a shield to those who take refuge in Him.
b. Because we have hope in who the King is, we can that God will make a .
c. Because we have hope in who the King is, we can the King Himself.
3. The King’s : Hope in who we are.
John 2:19 (ESV) – Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” The Jews then said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?” But He was speaking about the temple of His body.
1 Peter 2:5 (ESV) – You yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 6:15, 19-20 (ESV) – Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ?… Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
“God would build His own house, and He would become the house He promised to build. In Jesus, God would be the fulfillment of His own promise.” – J.D. Greear
a. We find our in Jesus’ identity.
John 1:12 (ESV) – But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,
b. We are of God’s Family
Ephesians 2:19-22 (ESV) – So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.
4. The King’s : The reason for our hope.
a. The King became our .
2 Corinthians 5:21 (ESV) – For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
b. The King was for our transgressions.
Isaiah 53:4-5a (ESV) – Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities.
c. By His wounds we are healed.
Isaiah 53:5-6 (ESV) – But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
d. Because He is loved, we are loved.
John 17:26 (ESV) – I made known to them Your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which You have loved Me may be in them, and I in them.”