Amen, so we'll be coming back to jeremiah chapter 30 at the end of the sermon, but if you want to go back to second samuel
Go back to second second samuel. We're going to go back to chapter seven
Chapter seven second there was something, uh, you know this last thursday, of course, we were in second samuel
And I didn't have uh time to really get into it
Uh, but I wanted to you know, I don't want to go over this chapter and not tuck
Speak about the subject. It was just it's kind of a bigger subject
But uh, you know there was other things to preach on thursday night
but if you're there in second samuel chapter, uh,
Verse eight it says they're now therefore south they'll say to my servant. David
Thus saith the lord of hosts. I took thee from the sheep coat from following the sheep to be ruler of my people israel
And I was with thee with so ever without witness and have cut off all thine enemies out of thy sight
Have made thee a great name like unto the great, uh,
of the great men of the earth
and uh, well, just just jump down here for the sake of time down to uh,
verse 12 he says and when
And when thy days be fulfilled thou shalt sleep with thy fathers and I will set up thy seed after thee
Which shall proceed out of thy bowels and I will establish his kingdom
He shall be a building house for my name and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever
I will be his father and he shall be my son if he commit iniquity
I will chasten him with the rod of men and with the uh, the stripes of the children of men
But my mercy shall not depart from him as I took it from saul
Whom I put away before thee and thine house and thy kingdom shall be established forever before thee thy throne shall be established forever
And what I want, uh to preach about this morning is the topic of the davitic covenant the davitic covenant. This is a real
uh, you know
a major portion of scripture, uh, you know a lot of people
Uh look at this and say this is a major, you know turning point in scripture or at least it's a it's a it's a milestone
okay, this is a
Huge very important passage because you have uh, you know
The lord is making covenant here with david regarding his throne and a lot of doctrine is built off of this
And there's some really great truths that we can learn from this
Uh, you know regarding the lord and and things like that
But the davitic covenant here is basically what is a is a promise, you know and and stay with me this morning
I know this is going to be a little bit maybe a little bit drier for some folks
This isn't going to be your normal, you know, motivational face-ripping sermon
But it's gonna be more of a doctrinal one
But you know stay with me because there is a great truth that we can learn from this. All right
that uh
You know that the christ is the fulfillment of all covenants and you know, that is a great testimony to the word of god
That uh, you know, he was setting up all of these
Covenants throughout the years all to be fulfilled in the christ in christ, you know thousands of years later
But basically we're talking about the davitic covenant this morning. What is the davitic covenant?
What is that what does that mean? Well covenant is just basically promise, you know
I'm not going to take the time to explain all that but if you you know
You could just look that up in a dictionary you can just compare scripture with scripture
You can see that when god is making a promise to people he is making a covenant with them
Okay, you know and people make a big deal out of covenants. Sometimes people go too far with this
uh, you know, they they want to just really
Make a big deal by the fact that he made a covenant with adam. He made a covenant with noah
He made a covenant with abraham. He made a covenant, you know
With moses and the children of israel. He made a covenant regarding the land of palestine
He made a covenant with david he made they want to go on and on about all these covenants and you know
They're there. It's a biblical concept that god made specific promises to specific people throughout time
But to what end to the end that we would understand that christ is the fulfillment of all of those covenants that christ would be glorified
And you know and the people go off into strange, you know doctrines they get in
Dispensationalism
And they want to start talking about how god dealt with man in different ways, you know, and they use some of these covenants as
Their proof text but you know, I I don't really buy into that, you know
I do but you can't but you can't sit here and say well god never made a covenant
There is no such thing
As the davidic covenant. No, there is the davidic covenant because he did make a covenant with david, you know
We just read that there in second samuel chapter seven
But you know with all covenants, you know, there there's this idea that some things are you know
Some things are unconditional and then some things are conditional
Sometimes god makes these promises and sometimes there's strings attached to these promises these covenants that he makes with throughout the bible
Okay
So basically the way one way you could break this down is to look at every covenant as either a grant
Or a treaty as a grant or a treaty now
We probably understand what a grant is, right?
If someone were to grant you something it means that it's basically a gift like they just give you something
With no strings attached right that would be if I were to grant you money
You know for hey, I need a grant, you know, you might even heard of you know
People getting a grant from the government grant from you know, some institution that's money that's given to them
That's not expected to be paid back, right? It's not a loan. That's a difference. There's no strings attached
It's something that's just given to them. Okay, and when we get into these covenants
What we see often is that god gives them in the form of a grant
He just says hey i'm making this promise to you no strings attached. This is the way it's going to be
Regardless of you know your behavior the the recipient of that covenant
That grant that promise is is uh, you know is not obligated, right?
It's actually the the giver that's obligated. He's made the promise
And he's going to come through right because he's he's the one that's put himself out there
He's not there's no strings attached and then you have you know, what's considered a treaty
You know if we were to look at a covenant we could look at it more of a treaty
you know where we
Where both parties have something to give right if we were to sit down and write up like a contract, you know
Hey, i'm going to do x y and z but you have to make sure that you do x y and z
And if either party, you know
Fails to meet those obligations that treaty is broken. Okay
Now we can look at several passages kind of get the meaning of this get the the idea of this, you know in acts 11
You know remember when uh, peter was coming back and giving the report to the church of jerusalem of what happened
Uh, you know with cornelius and the gentiles how this holy spirit came upon them
And he's recounting that whole story and it says in verse 18 and when they heard these things the apostles
They held their police their peace and glorified by god saying then also hath got also to the gentiles
Granted repentance unto life right now it's talking about salvation, right?
You know salvation is a covenant that we have that's given to us in the form of a grant
That's not something that you know, we have to work to get right. It's not of works
Let's any man suppose it's the gift of god, right? It's a gift. It's a grant
You know what? It's also a covenant, you know
God has made a covenant with us that if we will believe on the lord jesus christ, we shall have everlasting life
We'll have eternal life. We'll never lose it so on and so forth. So that's a good illustration of the difference between
You know a grant and a treaty
Which is what you find within a covenant, you know, every one of these covenants you look at
Are are and here's the thing people want to say well, you know, he made a covenant here with no strings attached
well and
People paint with a broad brush when you when we're going to look at this passage here
You could see a mixture of both. There's some things that are just given unconditionally
And but there is an aspect of you know, some some expectations there's you know, it's both a grant in some forms
But then in other ways it's also a treaty. Does that make sense?
There's some things that he is is expecting, right?
But there's also some things that are just a given when it comes to the davidic covenant and that's the one thing the covenant
I want to focus in on here this morning
So again, what is the difference between a grant and a treaty one's unconditional one is unconditional
If you want to go over to uh, go over to first kings go to first kings chapter two
Keep something in second samuel chapter seven second samuel seven
So for example, you know
This unconditional promise this grant is given to david here in second samuel
And what is that grant is that his seed would proceed after him, right?
Now was that what saul got because he brings up saul in this passage
Saul did not get that his seed was cut off, right?
He was his seed did not inherit the throne the throne was taken from him and given to david
And now david when he gets it he is given this promise it says there
In verse 12 and when thy days shall be fulfilled, you know when you die
And thou shalt sleep with thy fathers. I will set up thy seed
After thee which shall so proceed out of thy bowels and I will establish his kingdom
So david is given this promise this covenant that his seed is going to reign upon the throne even after he dies. Okay?
Okay
So that was the unconditional promise to david that his scene is going to proceed after him that if anyone's going to sit upon
The throne of israel it's going to be from his lineage. It's not going to be he's not going to bring in
Like he did with saul he's not going to you know, take out take out, you know
The house of benjamin and bring in the house of judah. It's always going to be the davidic line that sits upon that throne
That's the unconditional portion of this covenant. Okay that part of it is not, you know, that's not there's nothing no strings attached
Okay now but there are strings attached to whether or not his seed gets to sit upon that throne
This the throne is there for him to sit upon right if anyone's going to fill that throne
It's going to be the seed of david
But whether or not they get to take advantage of that
As you know, if i'm if i'm an heir
Of david if I am one who is eligible to sit on the throne, then I have to meet certain criteria
Right because we've seen where god, you know takes takes the throne from them or puts them out of the throne rather and they're you
Know, they have no king right when they go into captivity
So the unconditional promise to david is that his seed would proceed after him that there would be the seed of david sitting upon that
throne
And that his house or his kingdom would be established forever
He said in verse 16 and thine house and thy kingdom shall be established forever before the m and second samuel eight
Now the treaty part
You know is the part that is conditional and this favors the giver, you know
Both both parties usually benefit obviously, but this is kind of a you know
Assurity for the giver of the grant kind of like when we sign a lease, right?
If I sign a lease i'm signing like a treaty i'm signing an agreement i'm making a promise
With you know
The one who is leasing to me that i'm going to pay x amount of rent on time for x amount of x amount of time
And if I break that covenant if I break that lease, you know, I have to pay that money whether I occupy the building or not
Right, so you can see how that kind of benefits the giver not just the recipient
And god, you know, he wants to make sure that if he's going to set up somebody on his throne and he made these conditions
You know, we could talk about the other
Uh, you know covenants that he made with israel. Hey, you'll be my people if you walk in my ways and keep my commandments, right?
Why so that you would be a light unto the gentiles, right?
God has these stipulations because if you're going to sit and represent me you're going to live right you're going to do things, right? Okay
So that's kind of the conditional aspect of this this favors the lord a little bit because he's going to be represented
Correctly because if the if the king, you know, david's line right sets on that throne and starts to do things
Amidst starts to do wickedness, you know, that's going to look bad on the nation. It's going to look bad upon god
Remember when david committed the sin with bashiba?
What was what was the he got rebuked and said you've given great occasion for the enemies of the lord to blaspheme right?
That was a reproach against god even you know, he was sitting on that throne
That throne was promised to him in his scene
But you know what because of what he did there was a punishment involved because he brought reproach upon the name of christ
Did I have you go to you went to first kings, right?
You know the the king the throne was there for the seed of david. They are going to get to sit upon that throne
Whoever it is, that's gonna you know, someone's gonna fill that throne of david or that throne that god sets up
It's going to be the seat of david. It's not just going to be anybody else
But that that's the unconditional aspect. The conditional aspect is if you're going to sit on that throne as the seat of david
There's certain criteria that you have to meet and you know, we we could read about that in deuteronomy 17
Where god told said that the king would not multiply to himself
Horses and he would not return to egypt and one thing that he was told not to do was not to multiply wives to himself
Now did solomon do that?
Oh, yeah big time I mean he had more than david that's probably where he learned it, you know
There's another sermon right there, but he multiplied to himself a lot of wives. I mean 700 wives and concubines
So that's you know, that's one thing that he did that was explicitly
Told not to do in the scripture, okay
And we understand that there was consequences for that right his heart was turned and and eventually god even even david himself
You know taking bathsheba to wife and the whole sin there that ended up there was consequences for that the kingdom was taken
Was divided right if we remember the story
So david's heirs they have the covenant they have the promise that the throne is theirs
That's unconditional but it's conditional in that it's theirs as long as they behave if they misbehave
They lose it if you look at first kings chapter two verse one
It says there now second kings two verse one now
The days of david drew nigh that he should die and he charged solomon his son saying I go the way of all the earth
Be thou strong and show thyself a man
And keep the charge of the lord thy god to walk in his ways to keep his statutes and his commandments
He'd say look we got the promise of god the throne is ours do whatever you want
It's carte blanche son, you know, we can just do whatever we want
We've got this unconditional promise that our seed is going to sit upon this throne forever
No, that is the unconditional portion of this covenant
Yes, it's going to be the seed of david that sits upon that throne
But the seed of david must behave themselves. They must walk uprightly if they want to take advantage of that covenant
He said keep charge of the lord
Like and keep the charge of lord thy god verse three to walk in his ways to keep his statutes and his commandments and his
Judgments and his testimonies as it is written in the law of moses that thou mayest prosper and all that that thou doest
So he wasn't just going to automatically prosper just because
You know, he was david's son, you know and every king that came after him in the davidic line could just say well, you know
David's my great granddaddy. Therefore i'm going to prosper. No, you have the opportunities sitting on the throne
But if you want to prosper
If you want to in all that thou doest
You have to do what you have to keep all these commandments these testimonies these statutes so on and so forth
He says there in verse four that the lord may continue his word which he spake concerning me saying if thy children take
Key to their way to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul
There shall not fail thee said he a man of the on the throne of israel. So did you catch that there?
There's there there's that clause within this covenant
He's saying look your seed is going to continue that the throne is going to be and is going to be occupied by your seed
From now on
But if they're going to do that
If thy children take heed to thy way and walk in truth with all the heart and with all their soul there shall not fail
Thee so there's an if attached to it
Not meaning that well if they fail to do it
I'm going to find somebody else just meaning that there's going to be there's just no one's going to sin in it or
If they fail to do the right thing, you know, they're not going to prosper
They're going to be chastened right and that's exactly what you see happen, you know after solomon
You know you the the it gets the the
The kingdom gets split rea bolem his son sits upon the throne
Jeroboam takes over the the northern tribes and then from there on out
It's just chastening chastening chastening chastening a king comes along in the davidic line starts to do right god blesses
The next one comes along does wickedness and god curses right but it's always the seed of david that's sitting upon that throne
That's the unconditional aspect
But
You always but there's also the conditional aspect the treaty portion of that covenant
Where if god is going to bless him sitting upon that throne he has to walk after the lord and live for the lord
So the davidic covenant you could see how and this is a good
You know, this is a good thing to keep in mind if you consider any of the other covenants that god made
Because people want to just paint with this broad brush and say well, it's unconditional no matter what
Well, no, there are other conditions not now not always but you know, it's usually a mix of the two
You have some things that are unconditional and some things that are conditional
So the davidic covenant god, you know, he he he makes this covenant with david saying
Hey your seed is going to sit upon this throne and that throne is then what an eternal throne, okay?
And and this is where we kind of get into a little bit of the the prophecy side of this
Okay
This this covenant because remember all these covenants that we see in scripture all point to the lord
Jesus christ and the davidic covenant, you know is no exception if anything the davidic covenant is probably the most obvious one
That it's the seed of david that is going to inhabit an eternal throne
Look if god is saying your throne is going to be established forever
You know that that that's an eternal throne that has been promised, okay?
That is the davidic covenant that that is an eternal throne
Are you still in second samuel if you go back to seven chapter seven?
Verse 15 but my mercy shall not depart away from him as I took it from saul whom I put away before thee
And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established forever before thee and thy throne shall be established forever
So god is saying look thy throne is going to be established forever
Now, but we just read all his conditions, right if he wants that throne to be blessed
He's got to behave there's got to be you know, he's got to walk after his statutes
However, that throne is a promise to david eternally forever, okay?
So and even in this verse you see it here he says look thine house, you know
This is that that conditional part right thine house and thy kingdom shall be established forever
You know the individuals that his house those that came after him they could you know invalidate
their promise
through sin, okay, they could they they could
They'd still have the throne but they won't have the blessing that's the conditional part
And we we know we saw that with david and solomon but notice there. He says thy throne
This is an a grant. This is unconditional thy throne shall be established forever
He said thine house and thy kingdom shall be established forever thy throne shall be established forever
Now
We're going to get into your how christ fulfills the davidic covenant. Okay, how christ fulfills the davidic covenant
So what we need to understand first of all is that
You know david the davidic covenant that it was it was unconditional or excuse me. It was conditional in the immediate sense
that if
If you know one of his heirs failed to keep the statutes and the commandments and the judgments there was going to be a punishment
It wasn't just you know, this free-for-all this pass to just do whatever they wanted as king. Okay, it was conditional
It was conditional in that sense. However, it was unconditional
in the far-reaching sense
And that his seed would rule after him, right? That was the promise
Look, I don't know how it's going to go for your seed, but they're the ones that are going to go ahead and habit
the your throne
And that seed we understand ultimately is christ, you know, he is that seed that's going to sit upon that eternal throne
Jesus christ is the fulfillment of the davidic covenant. Okay
So the promise to david was that his seed not himself would reign upon his throne and it's important to understand that because
When we get back into jeremiah
In fact, if you want to go over to uh, jeremiah 33 jeremiah 33 just a few chapters over where we read this morning
Uh, you you'll start to see where people say
Well, this means that david is going to be re-established in the throne during you know
During the millennium that he's going to come in and he's going to rule and reign
Upon his literally reign upon the same throne now
This is just my opinion. I don't believe that, you know, and has anyone ever heard that has everyone heard, you know, people say hey
David's going to be re-established in the throne. It's it's definitely out there. You heard it. Okay, I got a hand over there
I see that hand god bless you
But that's what some you know, and i've i've always scratched my head when i've heard that said how where does where does that come?
From how do I thought david what you know was just a picture of christ, right?
That that it's ultimately christ that's going to go ahead and fulfill that throne
Well, they get that from passages like we read this morning jeremiah 30. We're going to look at him
but we have to understand that
The part of this davidic covenant is that his his seed is going to reign upon the throne, right?
And there in verse 33 chapter 33 verse 19 jeremiah 33 19
And the word of the lord came unto jeremiah saying thus saith the lord if you can break my covenant of the day
And my covenant of the night
And that there should be not day or and night in their season
Then may also my covenant be broken with david my servant. So this is a pretty strong promise
Saying look if you can if you can make it so there's less than 24 hours day and night or you can
If you can change the seasons if you can change night and day, then you could break my promise
That's you know, that's how serious god is about it
Then all then may also my covenant be broken with dave my servant that he should not what?
That he should not reign upon the throne. Is that what it says?
No, it says that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne
Saying look there shall be his seed his son his uh, you know
Those that come after him are going to reign upon that throne. That's the promise not that david. He himself would reign upon it
If you go over to uh, go over to
Uh, just go over to isaiah chapter 9. You know what go to luke one go to luke one keep something jeremiah go to luke one
And god makes this promise over and over but it's important that we understand that this promise is to his seed and not to david himself
That's what he read in second samuel. He said hey your you know, there's going your throne is going to be established forever
You know your seed is going to inhabit that throne forever. Okay
The bible says in psalm 132 the lord hath sworn in truth unto david
He will not turn from it of the fruit of thy body. I will set upon will I set upon the throne?
If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall that I shall teach them their children shall also sit upon
Thy throne forevermore
So the promise is is that the fruit?
Of his body is going to sit on the throne not that david himself is going to sit upon the throne. Okay?
We all know isaiah 9 6 right at least around christmas we do right
It says for unto a child unto us a child is born unto us a son is given
And the government shall be upon his shoulder so who's who's the government's uh shoulder who's uh, whose shoulders is the government gonna set upon?
It's going to sit upon the child that is born the son that is given
It's going to be called it's going to be on the one who is named the wonderful counselor the mighty god the everlasting father
the prince of peace
and the increase of his government and his peace there shall be no and
Upon the throne of david and upon his kingdom to order it and to establish it with just judgment and justice
This is talking about jesus christ, okay
But notice that government when it rests upon his shoulders
When he sits as the prince of peace when his government is increased and there is that and the peace thereof knows no end
He's going to do that what upon the throne of david?
Okay, he's going to be the one that's sitting upon the throne of david not david, okay
You read it again there in luke chapter one for where I had you turn verse 30
Luke 1 30 and the angel said under here fear not mary for thou hast found favor with god and behold thou shall conceive in thy
womb
And bring forth the son and shall call his name. Jesus. He shall be great and shall be called the son of the highest
And the lord shall give unto him the throne of his father david
So again, it's that throne is promised to david seed that seed is christ
He's the one that's going to sit upon that throne and rule and reign
Not not david himself, okay. Well, we'll get to what's going to happen to david, right?
Well, where's david going to be? Well, let's let's not worry about that yet. We'll see
It says in verse 33 and he shall reign over the house of jacob forever and of his kingdom there shall be
No end and we understand that jesus christ is of david's lineage. Okay, he comes from david's line
That's why he is an heir to that throne. He has right to that throne to claim that throne
And we could turn to all those places go to romans chapter one, that's what they called him remember blind bardameus
When he cried after david or it cried after jesus
He said jesus thou son of david and he called him that twice
Right that people knew that's who christ was. That's who the messiah was going to be the seed of david, right?
Because they have that they understood that this covenant this promise that was made with david
You know
Meant that his seed was going to be the one that sits on the throne, right and that the messiah was going to rule and reign
roman, romans chapter one verse one paul a servant of jesus christ called him to be an apostle separated under the gospel of god
Which he had promised before by his prophets in the holy scriptures concerning his son. Jesus christ our lord
Which was made of the scene of david according to the flesh
Okay, probably everybody in here gets that we probably all understand that okay, if you want to study the genealogies and matthew and luke
And and just study the scriptures, you know, you and like romans one you see that jesus christ is the seed of david
That's why he's the one that's going to rule and reign upon that throne
So in my opinion, you know, david is not going to be reinstated at the millennium
You know a lot of people teach this i've heard i've heard this from multiple places multiple sources and look this isn't this is a obviously
You know, this is a this is minutia in scripture, you know, this is finer details
In in concerning prophecy and things like that
This isn't this isn't some people divide over at least I don't think so. I've never seen that happen
I don't know. Maybe i'll get called out, you know, maybe they'll be the maybe i'll be branded a heretic from here on out but
You know my why i'm just being honest with the scriptures i'm just reading it and just saying look it sounds to me like
Jesus is the one that's going to sit upon the throne of david not david
The promise to david was hey anyone that sits on that throne is going to be of your line your seed
But it's not going to be you
right
So that's just my opinion, you know people can disagree you can disagree with me here and still come to church here, you know
And uh, we can still be friends, right?
So that position, you know is not going to be filled by david in my opinion
It's going to be filled by his seed jesus christ
Say well, where do they get this?
You know, where do they where do people get this teaching that david is going to be reinstated upon the throne?
And well jeremiah 30 if you're still there
You might have caught it this morning when the bible was being read
In verse five, you know, this is some of the proof text
I'm going to just start verse five because I like verses five through seven
It says for thus saith the lord we have heard a voice of trembling of fear not of peace
Ask, you know and see whether a man doth travail with child
I can't read this and not just talk about this a little bit. This has nothing to do in the sermon but
It's it's like god saying did you hear something? Is that a woman screaming in pain?
And he's saying well, it sounds like a man
Because he looks around and he says wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins is a woman in travail
And if all faces are turned to paleness, you know
This is how bad things are gotten the men are so scared that they they sound like they're screaming out like women, right?
Look what a woman's in travail with labor
It's expected that she's gonna you know hands upon the knees screaming with pain like that's that's expected but when a man's doing it
That's not a good thing. Right? Anyway, that's I always love that passage
Verse seven alas for the day is that great that day is great so that none is like it
It is even the time of jacob's trouble
But he shall be saved out of it for it shall come to pass in that day
Sayeth the lord of hosts that I will break his yoke from off thy neck and will burst thy bonds
Burst thy bonds and strangers shall now more serve themselves of him
But they shall serve the lord their god and david their king whom I will raise up unto them
So he's saying and this is talking about when they come back out of the babylonian captivity, okay, that's the primary interpretation here
okay, this isn't
I don't want to go off on all that but notice here that he's saying look in verse nine
That when that happens when they are, you know when their bonds are burst when they serve no more strangers
They shall serve the lord their god
And david their king whom I will raise up unto them now. David's already dead at this point in the story
Remember david's already dead, you know, he's already in the sepulcher
They're about to go into the captivity
And he's just saying look you're going to go into captivity, but you're going to come back and david's going to rule over you
Right what he means by that is, you know, he's he's speaking about the fact that david's seed is going to rule over them
Okay
David's seed is going to be the one that rules therefore fear thou not. Oh my servant jacob
Say to say it the lord you say but it says right there and david their king whom I will raise up unto them
It sounds real specific it doesn't say it's a seed it doesn't say it's the fruit of his body
Right, but just stick with me because there's another proof that you know, that is what it's talking about that
This is a typology in scripture
Okay
And you could apply this to when they came out of the captivity and you could also apply this to
The millennial reign, you know that when god's people, you know come through the tribulation
They're going to have david sit upon the throne or jesus christ his seed sit upon the throne. Okay
Okay
Now go to ezekiel chapter 37 ezekiel chapter 37. This is another proof text
That people will turn to and say see david is going to be the one that sits upon the throne during the millennial reign, okay?
Ezekiel chapter 37 look at verse 20
It says there and the sticks and whereon thou rightest shall be in thine hand before their eyes and shall say unto them
Thus saith the lord god behold
I will take the children of israel from among the heathen
Whether they be gone and will gather them on every side and bring them into their own land
And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of israel and one king shall be to them all
And they shall be no more two nations. Neither shall they be divided into kingdoms any more at all
Neither shall they defy themselves any more with their idol
Idols nor with testable things nor with their transgressions
But I will save them out of their dwelling places
Wherein they should have sinned and I will cleanse them so that they shall be my people and I will be their god
Now verse 24 and david my servant shall be king over them
And they all shall have one shepherd
They also shall walk in my judgments and observe my statutes and do them
And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto jacob my servant wherein your fathers have dwelt and they shall dwelt
They're in even they and their children and their children's children forever and my servant david shall be their prince forever
So again, this is another proof text that they turn to and say look david's going to be reinstated
Upon the throne of israel during the millennial reign
Okay
But what we got to understand here is that david in these passages is just a type of christ, okay
It's just a picture. It's just a typology of christ
And that's what david is, you know, no, you know
Anyone who reads and studies or preaches the bible is going to agree that david is a picture of christ in the old testament
And you know, we could see other examples of this. Okay, another great example of
Uh, you know someone being named as a type
To come, you know is is elijah or john the baptist that relationship there, okay
Because people say well it says david it says king david
He's going to be the one that sits upon the throne
But we just read in the beginning of the sermon all those passages where it's your seed shall sit upon the throne
Your seed shall set upon throne, you know when christ comes he's going to sit upon the throne of david
He's going to be the one that inhabits that throne not david himself
Okay, so you have to you have to you know, you have to take these passages in ezekiel and jeremiah
And make them, you know jive with the rest of scripture. You can't just say well it says david therefore
It must be david because that doesn't go with the rest of scripture
In my opinion, it doesn't they doesn't go together. But when you understand that david is a type of christ
Then it makes sense. Well, so why why are we why is he saying that david is going to rule over them?
When david's already dead because david is a picture of christ to come, okay
Okay
You get a great example of this if you want to go over to malachi chapter four
That's the last book in the old testament right before the new testament
Malachi, okay, you get a great, you know, another example of this is where malachi says
Hey, elijah is going to come before the day of the lord before the lord comes, you know
He's going to be one that shows up before the lord shows up
And malachi chapter four look at verse five
It says behold
I will send you elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the lord
And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children and the curse and the heart of the children to their fathers
Lest I come and smite the earth with a curse
And that's where they were confused, right? That's where they were going to john the baptist art thou that prophet
You know art thou the christ art thou that prophet are you he that should come
Right and they were thinking that this isn't this isn't elijah. This is we know who this is. This is john the baptist, right?
Go to matthew chapter 11 matthew chapter 11
But that's what you have in malachi saying elijah's coming it's gonna be elijah that comes right
Well, you know, that's what it said in ezekiel and jeremiah about david, right? So it's david that's coming
People say want to think well that literally means david that he's going to be the one that sits upon the throne
No, it literally means
It doesn't mean literally mean anything
It's it's a picture of christ. That's what it is. Just like elijah is a picture of john the baptist. Okay?
In verse you're going to matthew 11 it said in mark 9 and they asked him saying what say the the scribes that elias must come
Must first come elias is the new testament
Translation of elijah, right?
And he answered and told them elias verily come first
And restoreth all things and how it is written in the son of man that he must suffer many things and be said it not
But I say unto you
This is what jesus is saying. He said that elias is indeed come and they have done unto him whatsoever
They listed as it is written of him saying yeah, elias is going to come first and you know what?
He already has come and they did whatever they wanted to him. He's talking about john the baptist. Okay?
And you say well i'm not sure about that
Okay, matthew 11 makes it real clear matthew 11 verse 11
Verily I say unto you among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than john the baptist
Notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he
And from the days of john the baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffered violence and the violent taken by force
For all the prophets and the law prophesied until john and if you will receive it
This is elias, which was for to come he says look
Although all the prophets and the law prophesied until john and what do they say about john that john is elias?
Which was to come that's what you're saying
That this john is elias
But when you read malachi, he's saying look
This this is uh, you know, it's literally saying elijah
That's why the scribes are scratching their heads saying
Well, we thought elijah is supposed to come
You know, that's why a lot of people today are saying what you know
David's going to be the one that's going to be set up on that throne
No, we need to understand that this is simply a picture. This is a type of christ
Okay
It's not going to be literally be david david you say well what's going to happen to david then what what?
Poor david look david had a shot, okay
David had his moment in the sun. All right, david david david's good. I don't think david's up there
You know arguing with the lord about this, you know that promise technically, you know
He's perfectly happy with what he got. Okay
But david like all saints okay is going to rule and reign with christ
Look, here's the thing about you know, the millennium christ is going to sit upon the throne of david
The government's going to rest upon his shoulders, but david is going to rule and reign just like the rest of us
Did you know that we're also going to rule and reign in the millennial kingdom that that's something that we have
That's a promise that we have as well. Now. We're not all going to sit upon the throne of david, you know
That's christ's spot. He's the one that gets that he's he's the king of king and lord of lords, right?
But we get to the we have the privilege and the opportunity to serve along
Beside him or under him under his authority with his authority
If you would go over to I won't have you go to daniel but go over to revelation chapter 2 revelation chapter 2
Revelation chapter number two the bible says in daniel seven
And the kingdom and dominion and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven
Shall be given to the people of the saints of the most high
Okay
That kingdom under the whole heaven is going to be given to who the saints of the most high now
Who are the saints of the most high?
Look around you're looking at them, right? It's not it's not you know
Some corpse that they have in a catholic church somewhere
This is a saint
Well, he wasn't even saved right? The saints are the people that are saved. We are saints. Okay, that's me and you
And the saints, you know, they are going to have the the the kingdom under the whole heaven is going to be given to them
Right the kingdom of the whole heaven shall be given to the people of the saints of the most high
Whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom and all dominions shall serve and obey him. It's about the millennial reign, okay
But we are going to share in that reign with christ
Luke 19 i'll read to you it says
And he said unto them well thou good servant because thou has been faithful in very little very little
Have thou authority over 10 cities, of course, it's the parable
Of the 10 talents and the 10 servants remember?
And the the good servants that came back and returned their talents and did something with it
He's saying look you've been faithful over very little have authority over 10 cities
Look I don't think that's just you know
It's it's not just a parable. I think we're literally are going to rule and reign over cities now
Not everybody, you know
But those that you know do something with their christian life that serve god here and now that are faithful in what very little
You know the the job that god has given us to do now on this earth of reaching the loss and living for the lord
That's little right like we talked about thursday. It's our reasonable service
To present our bodies living sacrifice. Okay, that was that that was something to talk about thursday
But he's saying look if you do that if you're faithful now in this life to christ
When he comes and sits upon the throne of david and rewards his servants part of that reward is that we rule and reign with him
And there are going to be some people are going to get five cities
Some people are going to get two cities. Some people are going to get 10 cities. Some people are going to get no cities
Somebody he's going to be like you just take the you go mop the floor
Or just stand there, you know, I don't know probably not the mop in heaven, I don't know
but you know
some people are not going to have as much authority as others, okay, and that's
And and that's uh, you know all based upon how we live our lives now, okay
You're in revelation chapter 2 verse 26 it says and he that overcometh
And keep my works unto the end to him. Will I give power over the nations?
Who is he that overcometh but he that believed that jesus is the christ, right? That's who overcomes
That's me and you if you believe you are an overcomer
Or you've overcome the world through your faith in christ
He's saying here he that overcometh and keepeth my works right he that is faithful with little unto the end to him
Will I give power over the nations to him? Will he you know, he's going to rule over certain cities
He's going to rule over certain regions
You know, the the the kingdom is going to be given to the saints of the most high
Right, they're going to rule and reign with him
He said I will give him power over the nations that talking about the about the saved
And he shall rule them with the rod of iron now notice there and the you know at the end of verse 26
That's not a period
Right. It's a colon. He doesn't go it's not it's not the end of a statement. It's not
Oh, he's going to get power over the nations right to the saved and he the lord shall rule the rod of iron
Now the ward is going to rule with the rod of iron, right?
We understand that we could go to psalms too. We'd go to revelation 12 19
Where it says that jesus the lord is is going to rule at the rate of rod of iron
But if we're going to rule with him and under his authority
We also are going to rule with the rod of iron meaning we are going to have the same level of authority
Because we're going to be doing things in his name in his stead
In his will okay
that's why it says
That he will give him power over the nations and he talking about the one who's going to be given power over the nations
the he that has overcome
He shall rule them with the rod of iron. So we're going to rule with the rod of iron, too
Okay
Now, I don't know if that's literally a rod of iron, right?
Speaking figuratively like if you go to psalms, it's talking about the fact that he's going to have you know, uh, he's going to
There's going to be no resisting that power. He's going to dash them as a potter's vessel with the rod of iron
It's gonna be like taking a piece of rebar and and smashing your mother's base
right
If you know what that's like
You're probably a very bad bad boy
Right, but that's that's that's the picture there that there's just no resisting that you know
A clay pot isn't going to stand a chance against a piece of you know, a rod of iron
And we're going to have that same authority and look that's where david is because david's a saint just like me and you
Right now david has the honor and the privilege of the fact that it's his seed that sits upon his throne
Right, but as far as where he is in this whole picture, I believe he's going to be ruling and reigning right alongside us
He's he's going to be a saint just like us
You know the bible says in effigyans that christ hath raised us up together and made us sit in heavenly places in christ
Jesus, you know, he's given us a throne. He's given us authority. He's given us a position in his kingdom go to revelation chapter three
revelation chapter three
Look, this isn't a small subject in the scripture. This is you know us reigning in the millennium. Isn't just something that's
You know alluded to a little bit
Like and people just kind of well, it kind of sounds like that. It's real clear, you know the way I read it
That we are going to rule and reign, you know, you got daniel you got luke you got revelation multiple places in revelation
Bible says in first corinthian six. Do you not know that the saints shall judge the world? He's saying don't you know this?
Haven't you read daniel even here when i've been saying to you that you're going to rule
Uh and judge the world that the saints are going to do that
And if you shall be the world shall be judged by you
Are you not unworthy to judge the smallest manners revelation chapter 3 verse 21 to him that overcometh?
Will I grant to sit with me in my throne?
Even as I also overcame and sat down with my father in his throne, you know
We're going to have that privilege to sit with him in his throne, okay
Go to revelation chapter 20 revelation chapter number 20
You know david's not going to be the only one
That reigns during the millennium. It's not like david gets reinstated in his throne and we're all subject to him
The the way it really is going to work out is that christ is reinstated in david's throne because he is the seed of david
He's going to fulfill this covenant and we're all going to along with david are going to rule underneath him
And with his authority, okay
Revelation chapter 20 verse 4 and I saw thrones and they that sat upon them and judgment was given unto them
And I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of jesus and for the word of god
Which had not worshiped the beast nor his image
Neither received his mark upon their foreheads or in the hands and they lived and what else did they do?
They lived and reigned with christ a thousand years
It wasn't just that they were, you know, resurrected
It wasn't just that they you know, uh went to heaven and they got to live with jesus
Not only did they live with him they also reigned with him why because they were beheaded they were
Uh, you know for the word of god, they did not worship the beast. They were faithful and little right so it doesn't sound like little
You know, but that's just a vapor right being beheaded being beheaded sounds pretty easy to be honest
Right and as long as they're not doing it like the muslims do it as long as it's like the french, you know
We're just humane. Just get me get me at the guillotine
I could think of a lot worse ways to die
right, you know, i'm not going to go into it, but
I mean i'm thinking hey these beheadings are aren't aren't going to be you know, because remember satan
He's going to be cast down like lightning and he knows that he has a short time to accomplish his will
He's trying to make war with heaven, right?
He's not interested in torturing christians. He wants to wipe them out as fast as he can and in some vain attempt to
To beat god or something. So I think it's just going to be hey, let's take as many people to hell with us
Let's get these christians out of here so they quit preaching
That means no slow agonizing death means beheading means quick fast. The point is get them dead, right?
So now, you know, you can kind of see how that's really not that big a deal
That's being that's being faithful and little to have your head cut off, okay
But if you do that, you know what you're going to reign with christ
Right being faithful and little even if it means having to lose your head literally, okay?
How about the fact, you know, the apostles were promised that they will sit upon 12 thrones, you know say no
It's david. He's going to sit and rule and reign, you know
The bible said that jesus told the apostles that you shall sit upon the 12 thrones in the what the regeneration
So he said matthew go to revelation 17
Jesus said on them verily I say unto you that ye which have followed me in the regeneration
When the son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory
Ye also shall sit upon 12 thrones judging the 12 tribes of israel and david. Oh, wait, no
It's gonna be the 12 tribes that judge okay, it's going to be the saints that rule and reign with him
But ultimately it's be christ that sits upon the throne of david fulfilling this covenant that he made all the way back in second saniel
He is the king of king he's the lord of lords. He's the only potent tate look at revelation chapter 17 verse 14
These shall make war with the lamb and the lamb shall overcome them for he is the lord of lords and king of kings
And they that are with him are called chosen
and faithful
So he is the lord of lord. He is the king of kings. He's the one that's going to rule and reign in the
seat of david
Go to hebrews chapter number eight hebrews chapter eight. We're going to close here
You say what's the point of this? You know, what's the point of going over the davidic covenant?
You know, what's the point of going over the davidic covenant? Well, what was the point of the davidic covenant?
Is to point us to christ
You know, it's the point it was to point them to the fact that the seed of david
Was going to rule and reign upon that throne that it was going to be his heir, right?
The messiah was going to be of the seed of david that they would be able to you know
Look and say oh this jesus, you know, he is of that lineage right now that didn't happen for them
They rejected that
the jews of that day did
And the jews of today by the way, but
The point is is that like all covenants?
You know christ is the one that fulfills them
That's what that's what I want us to point out that he is
Ultimately the fulfillment of all covenants whether you want to talk about
You know the adamic covenant and that's what i'm saying. Like people really dive into this whole covenant business
And it's true. It's there, you know, you can't deny the fact that god made covenants. He made a covenant with adam, didn't he?
Right, he said, you know, uh, he said to to uh, eve that you know
that that
He shall bruise the serpent's head and he shall bruise thy heel right under the woman. He said thou shalt bruise his head
You know thy seed shall bruise his head and thou shalt bruise his heel that christ here seed was going to come and you know
defeat satan
You know, that was a covenant that was made with adam. That's the adamic covenant, but who fulfilled that christ did
Right, he's the one that is the seed of the woman there's the noahic covenant right that it was going to be noah's
Lineage. Well, david is the son of shem, right?
There's the abrahamic covenant, right? Well, he is the son of abraham
Right, that's abraham's seed, right?
There's the mosaic covenant, you know, but christ is the one that fulfilled the law
There is the palestinian covenant, well, they love this one right about the land over there the dirt
Right, but who is it that's going to rule upon that dirt?
Jesus, he's the one that's going to rule from where from jerusalem, okay?
There's the davidic covenant. We've been talking about all this morning. Well, he is the one that's going to sit upon that throne of david
It's going to be jesus
But you know, these are these are all covenants that are there and christ is the fulfillment of them
But and people want to make a big deal about these different covenants
Right, but when you get into hebrews where we are in chapter eight, it seems to me like
There's really only one covenant that god makes a big deal about I mean brings up, too
You don't see god saying this is my first covenant. This is my second covenant. This is my third covenant
This is my fourth covenant. This is my fifth
God doesn't number the covenants man did that they'll say there are seven covenants that god has made with man throughout the ages
Right and they'll list these covenants. I just read for you. But did god do that?
But did god do that
No, man did that now i'm not denying that there aren't covenants there, but they're all interwoven
They're all interrelated and they all point to christ. Okay, that's the point of it all
And that's why the one covenant that god emphasizes is what the better covenant the new covenant, right?
And when you read hebrews eight, it sounds to me
Like in god's mind, there's really only one there's only two covenants not seven
He said in verse eight
But now he obtained a more excellent ministry be how much also he's the mediator of a better covenant
Which is established upon better promises
Now verse seven for if that what first covenant
He's talking about the mosaic covenant which came, you know came way later
Came after the edemic covenant came after the noahic covenant came after the abrahamic covenant
You know, it came after all those things but god says that first covenant
Because it's really you know, all those covenants in the old testament are really just one covenant when you think about it
They all just kind of all point to christ. That's the point of it all. Okay
Obviously there's you know specifics within each one
But they all point to christ and god just saying look that first covenant had been faultless that mosaic covenant
You know if the law had been perfect
Then there would have been no need for christ to come and die for us
That's why you know people say i'm just going to be a good person. How are you going to go to heaven?
Well by just being a good person. Oh, then you don't need jesus. Why did he come here for?
All right
So if that first covenant had been faultless then should no place have been sought for the second
For finding fault with them he saith behold the days come saith the lord
When I will make a new covenant with the house of israel and with the house of judah
Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers and I took them out of the hand
To lead them out of the land of egypt because they continued not in my covenant and I regard them not saith the lord
So again in my mind, you know when I read it it seems to me like god really only concerns himself with two covenants
The mosaic covenant that first covenant the one that he made with his father is the one that they regarded not
Neither. He did. Did he regard them?
That that first covenant were with he found fault with them
And therefore christ came and fulfilled all these covenants being what the mediator of what a better covenant. It's the better covenant
You know, we want to make a people want to make a big deal about all these other covenants
Like the davidic covenant so on and so forth. God makes a big deal about the covenant in christ's blood the new testament
That's the one we need to make the big deal about because all these other covenants just point to that
Right, but you know, hopefully that cleared up some things maybe about end times prophecy a little bit, you know
I i've always scratched my head when I've heard people say david's gonna sit upon the throne
I've always wondered where where is that coming from?
You know, but now I just find out it's because I don't you know, I don't agree with that, you know
So i'm done, you know, and maybe i'll get straightened out on that. I don't know but to me that seems pretty clear
That it's going to be it's going to be christ that sits upon that throne
Fulfilling that davidic covenant because he is the fulfillment of all covenants. That's why he is the mediator of a better covenant. Let's go and pray