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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