So, right here in the scripture, look at the powerful proof of the eternal security of
the believer right there before your eyes.
It says, his seed also will I make to endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven.
If his children, whose children?
Jesus.
It says, if his children forsake my law and walk not in my judgments, if they break my
statutes and keep not my commandments, I'll just smile and say that's okay.
Is that what it says?
No.
He said, look, if they break my commandments, he says, then will I visit their transgression
with the rod and their iniquity with stripes.
Now, isn't that what the Bible said that the Lord would do if we disobey as Christians?
It said, whom the Lord loveth, he chasteneth and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
This is exactly what this passage is teaching.
Let's keep going.
Nevertheless, verse 33, my loving kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer
my faithfulness to fail.
My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that has gone out of my lips.
Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.
Because seed shall endure forever and is thrown as the sun before me.
So he starts out by saying, look, the seed will endure forever.
His children will endure forever.
And we know that this prophetic of Jesus Christ.
And it says, look, if they break my commandments, if they forsake my law, they go out and live
a life of sin.
He says, I'm going to punish.
I'm going to visit them with the rod and I'm going to chasten them for their transgression.
But I'm not going to take away my loving kindness utterly from them.
I'm not going to alter the thing that's gone out of my lips.
I'm not going to break my covenant with them.
And this is just like when the Bible says, in hope of eternal life, which God that cannot
lie promised before the world began.
He can't break his promise.
He will not break the covenant that he has made, that new covenant in his blood.
He will not break it.
Now does that mean we get away with whatever?
No, because he said I'll visit them with the rod, but I'm not going to take away my
loving kindness.
What does the Bible say in the New Testament?
Who can separate us from the love of Christ?
Nothing can separate us from the love of Christ.
You know, it lists all the things and it says that I am persuaded that neither, you know,
death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creatures
shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus, our Lord.
And so isn't it amazing the consistency between Psalms and the teaching of the New Testament?
Both teaching eternal life through Jesus.
Both teaching that you cannot lose your salvation.