UNDERSTANDING A COVENANT
- A covenant in its most basic form is a promise.
THE DAVIDIC COVENANT: HOPE OF A KING
THE KING’S LINEAGE: HOPE IN WHO THE KING IS
2 Samuel 7:12 (ESV) – When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom.
- What’s the fulfillment of this promise?
- The promise is first fulfilled in Solomon and ultimately in Jesus.
Jeremiah 22:30 (ESV) – 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.”
- How does that give us hope?
- Because we can know who the King is.
- How does that change our lives today?
Proverbs 30:5 (ESV) – Every word of God proves true;
THE KING’S HOUSE: HOPE IN WHO WE ARE
2 Samuel 7:13 (ESV) – He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
- What is the fulfilment of this promise?
- The promise is first fulfilled in Solomon and ultimately in Jesus.
2 Kings 25:9 (ESV) – And he burned the house of the LORD and the king’s house and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down.
John 2:18–22 (ESV) – So the Jews said to him, “What sign do you show us for doing these things?” 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. When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.
John 1:14 (ESV) – And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
- Why does that give us hope?
- Because it tells us who we are, and who we are becoming.
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.
Ephesians 2:19 (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,
- Jesus’ building of us into the house of God tells us who we are.
- That we are simultaneously members of God’s house who are being built into God’s house.
- Justin, that’s confusing, I know. But it’s good theology. Why?
- How does it change our lives today?
- Perspective
- This hope changes our perspective of ourselves and one another.
THE KING’S DISCIPLINE: THE REASON FOR OUR HOPE
2 Samuel 7:14–15 (ESV) – …When he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men, but my steadfast love will not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away from before you.
Isaiah 53:4–6 (ESV) – Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds 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.