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Please turn your Bibles, please, to second Samuel chapter #7
Second Samuel chapter #7 You know, I have to smile when there
are people that say in their ignorance, and I think there's
no other way that I can say other than that.
And not trying to be unkind, but when people say in their
ignorance that the Bible is not relevant for today, you know,
that this, it's an old book. It really doesn't have much to
do with what's going on with life today.
And I will tell you, there is no more relevant book that you
could possibly find than the word of God that's sitting in
your lap right now. You know, I think of the New
York best time, New York Teller best signed.
You know, I think of books that people like to buy.
You know, they're on the New York Times best seller list.
That's the one I was looking for.
Anthony, what's going on? All right, but hot books.
And then you find them in the bargain bin a year or two later,
you know, books that are really hot, books that are really
popular, but they just kind of fade away over time.
And there are classics, of course, there are classics that
have endured the test of time, but yet none of them endure like
the Word of God. The Word of God is relevant
today for your life, and it is relevant today for your life as
it was 2000 years ago. The Word of God today is
relevant for church life, as relevant as it was when Jesus
establish the church. The Word of God is relevant.
Listen to current events, and it's just as relevant to current
events as it has ever been. And so tonight I want us to look
at this issue of the Davidic Covenant.
Now listen, the term Davidic covenant, it sounds very
imposing, doesn't it Sounds like something that we may not be
able to understand or might have some difficulty to understand.
But it's really very simple because the Davidic covenant is
a covenant that was made with David that God heard David's
heart desire to be able to do something wonderful to him.
And God said in turn, no, I don't want you to do that for
me, but I want to do something for you.
And this agreement that took place over 3000 years ago is as
relevant as the nightly news that will be on here in just
about an hour or so later tonight.
And I want us to look at, in light of world events, why the
Davidic covenant is so important.
You know, and maybe you've asked these kinds of questions before
yourself and world events, and particularly what's happening in
the Middle East. Maybe you've asked yourself
these questions. Why is supporting Israel so
important? Why is it so important that we
support Israel? How does the Bible play into
what we see happening in the Middle East right now or or
maybe even ask your question ask the question has God forsaken
Israel when you see all the difficulty that they've gone
through through time well, believe it or not, the answers
to those very. Real questions that are taking
place in 2025 are found in the text that we have right in front
of us right now. And So what we're going to do
tonight is we're going to get a little bit of exercise in our
Bibles, all right? A lot of.
Times I will give you relevant texts and just we'll quote them,
but this evening I'm going to have us go from cover to cover
in our Bibles, literally from Genesis to.
Revelation, look up several key passages that will hopefully
explain why it's so important that we support the people of
Israel and why the Bible speaks of these things, even though
3000 years ago are so vitally relevant to where we are today.
I'm going to ask you to rain seeded this evening where I read
a little bit of a larger portion of Scripture, but second Samuel
chapter #7 and we're going to get in verse #1 and it says
this. And it came to pass, when the
king sat in his house, and the Lord had given him rest
roundabout from all his enemies, that the king said unto Nathan,
the prophet, See now I dwell in the House of cedar, but the ark
of God dwelleth in curtains. And Nathan said to the king, Go,
do all that is in thine heart, for the Lord is with thee.
And it came to pass that night that the word of the Lord came
under Nathan, saying, Go and tell my servant David, Thus
saith the Lord, Shalt thou build me in house for me to dwell in,
whereas I have not dwelt in any house since the time that I
brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt.
Even this day would have walked in a tent and in a Tabernacle,
and all the places where and I have walked with all the
children of Israel. Spake IA word with any of the
tribes of Israel whom I commanded to feed my people
Israel saying, Why build ye not me and House of cedar?
Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David.
Thus sayeth the Lord of hosts, I took thee from the sheep coat,
from following the. Sheep to be.
Ruler over my people, over Israel, and I was with thee
whithersoever thou wentest, and have cut off all thine enemies
out of thy sight, and it made thee a great name, like under
the name of the great men that are in the earth.
Moreover, I will appoint a place for My people Israel, and we'll
plant them that they will dwell in a place of their own and move
no more, neither shall the children of wickedness afflict
them anymore. As before time and since the
time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel, and it
caused thee to rest from all thine enemies also the Lord
telleth thee that He will make thee in house, and when thy days
be fulfilled and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will
set up thy seed after thee, which also, or which rather
shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish His
Kingdom. He shall build a house for My
name, and I will establish His throne of His Kingdom forever.
I will be his father. And he shall be my son, if he
can have minute iniquity. I will chasten him with the rod
of men, and with the stripes of the children of men.
But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from
Saul. And I put away before thee, and
thine house, and thy Kingdom shall be established forever
before thee. Thy throne shall be established
forever, according to all these words and according to all this
vision. So did Nathan speak to David.
Well, David had the desire to build the Lord a house, but God
had something greater in mind. And that Davidic covenant, that
promise that was made to David, although was made many, many
years ago, is something that is very, very real to world events
today. And I want us to take a look at
that here in a few short moments.
Heavenly Father, you just pray to be with us tonight.
And as we consider this word that we have before us, Lord,
may I explain it in a way that is comprehensible, Lord, in a
way that those who are listening would understand and be able to
apply to what they see in the world today.
Lord, it's my desire to be able to show that what happens in the
world is deeply rooted in what we find in the Word of God.
So, Lord, help us to see the relevance in your Word.
Lord, help us to see the timelessness in your Word.
And I pray that we would make sure that even as we look at
issues and politics and World News, Lord, that we look at them
through the light of the Bible in the lens of the Bible.
For this is what we must do as believers.
And we ask it in Jesus name, Amen.
Well, David is now firmly planted as the king of Israel.
The ark of the covenant has successfully made its way into
Jerusalem. And we find in a summarizing
verse and verse number one that David had rest over his enemies.
Now we're going to see that there's going to be some
conflict still to come. But we often find when it comes
to Jewish history that it's not always in chronological order,
but always a similarly, sometimes it's simply an order
of importance. We find that in the Psalms.
The Psalms are not in chronological order.
We find that with the major and minor prophets, they are not in
chronological order. And sometimes as we look at the
history of Israel that it's not necessarily an order, but maybe
we could put it this way in order of importance.
And so we see that now is David's Kingdom is firmly
planted. It says that David has a time of
rest, that David has a time of peace.
And he thinks to himself, says, you know what?
I have this House of cedar. Now a House of cedar suggests to
us that it's a house that's quite luxurious.
Hasn't David come a long way from where he was from the the
sheepfold when he was watching the sheep for his father?
But now he's in the city of Jerusalem and he has this
beautiful House of cedar, this beautiful palace.
But he says, you know, I have this House of cedar.
It's not really fair that God dwells in a tent.
Now, just to be clear what that means that God is not confined
by any space, is he? God is greater than every space
because, well, he created every space.
But God promised to Tabernacle, that means to dwell with the
people of Israel in what was basically a tent.
The Tabernacle, the direction for building it were given in
the book of Exodus while they were walking around waiting to
go to the promised land and a journey that ended up taking 40
years. But this Tabernacle which had
all types of different furniture inside.
But most importantly, the Ark of the Covenant.
Of course there's that connection.
To the previous chapter with the Ark of the covenant.
So you can see why these accounts are coming together.
And and so this Tabernacle, this tent basically is where the
Lord's presence would dwell amongst the people of Israel.
And so David says to himself, you know, it makes a lot of
sense for me to make a beautiful place for God's Tabernacle to
be, for God's temple to be because if I have a nice place,
shouldn't God have a nicer place?
Now, did David have a good heart in this?
Absolutely. Can you ever do wrong in the
sense of having a heart and a desire to give more to the Lord?
I don't think you can be wrong in that in and of itself.
Yet sometimes God says there's something different in the works
that he wants to bring to the forefront, and that's the case
here as he continues. And Nathan the prophet, we're
going to see a lot more of Nathan the prophet to come.
And so David says, hey, Nathan, don't you think God ought to
have a better house than just that Tabernacle, those tents?
Don't you think with the resources I have that we ought
to build him a temple? And basically Nathan says, hey,
whatever's on your heart, you go ahead and do that.
There was only one problem. Nathan was one who always spoke
the word of the Lord, but in this case, he got a little bit
ahead of himself because God never said that that was
something that Dave was to do. In fact, God's desire was that
David would not do that. We find in the companion
Passions First Chronicles chapter #22 verses 8 through 10,
we find that because David was a bloody man, because Dave was a
man of war, God did not want him building the the temple.
And so he wanted the Son of David to be the one to build the
temple. And so there's this vision that
takes place. Nathan receives a vision.
It's from the. Lord and Nathan is told by the
Lord, Hey, you go back and talk to David and you tell David
this, David, I appreciate what you're doing and I'm summarizing
here, but he says, I appreciate what you're doing.
I appreciate the thoughtfulness of what you've done.
He says, but you know, I haven't really needed a temple up to
this point. And he says, and by the way,
I've never really asked anyone to build me a temple.
It's not something that I've even requested the people of
Israel to do. I requested that they build the
Tabernacle. They did that.
And they've used this now for almost 400 years.
But no, no, I've never actually asked anyone to build me a
temple. But God is honoring his desire.
God is honoring his heart. And it wasn't that it was a
wrong motive. It was just the wrong time.
It wasn't, it was a wrong motive, but it, he was the wrong
man to be able to do this. And so it in essence, God tells
Nathan, will you tell David, it's request denied that I don't
want you to build this. But then there's that word in
verse #10 that we have circled there, or I have circled, I
haven't circled it in your Bible, but I circled it in mine.
It's that word, moreover, meaning this, that, that, that.
There's another thought that's here.
And from verse 10 and on in our reading is where we find the
Davidic covenant. It's, it's, it's as if God is
saying this, Hey, I know you wanted me to build you a house,
but moreover, I'm going to build you a house.
I know you want to do something wonderful for me, but I want to
do something even more magnificent with you and God in
this Davidic covenant. Don't get worried about that
word covenant. Don't get worried that it sounds
like it's too complicated. It's basically just a promise.
It's a promise between God and man.
And we call it the Davidic covenant because there was a
promise between God to David. And so in this Davidic covenant,
there are two things that God promises.
And the first is this, He promises a place for Israel.
He promises a place for Israel. And I encourage you if you write
these down tonight, they'd be helpful to you again,
particularly with what we see going on in the world today.
God promises a place for Israel. Look again at verse #10 It says,
moreover, I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and we'll
plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own and move
no more. Neither shall the children of
wickedness afflict them anymore as before time.
So God makes very clear today what He says.
The people that you lead my people, by the way, they weren't
Davidde people. They were God's people.
And he says the people that you lead, my people, I want you to
know there's going to be a place for them.
They are going to be planted and they will be safe there forever.
That's the first promise that there is going to be a place for
Israel. Now, this is not the first time
this promise has been made, is actually being given today with
more clarity and more specificity than it's ever been
given before. But this is a promise that goes
all the way back to the Abrahamic covenant, meaning this
a promise that was made to Abraham.
And so this is where we're going to start going through our
Bibles a little bit. So go ahead and stretch those
fingers a little bit, all right? Get them ready.
If you're getting on your iPad, just get, you know, get ready to
type or something. Get your thumbs ready.
All right, But let's go ahead. First to Genesis chapter #15 So
we'll go back to Abraham's time. Genesis chapter #15 Sometimes
there's no substitute for just get in your Bible and finding
where some of these things are for yourself.
Genesis chapter #15 God is talking to Abraham.
His covenant was already given, but it's being reconfirmed, if
you will, in Genesis chapter #15 And I will tell you the verses
that I show you tonight, probably 7 or 8 different
passages depending on our time, are not exhaustive on the
subject. I'm not giving you all the
verses that deal with this subject of the Davidic covenant
and why it is relevant for today, but I do think there's
some key passages I want to show you.
Genesis chapter 15. Look at verse #7.
It says, And he said unto him, meaning God said unto Abram, I
am the Lord that brought thee up out of ur of the Chaldees to
give thee this land to inherit. What is that land that he says
he was going to give? It's what we would call the
promised land, the land of Israel.
Now drop down to verse #18. It says this In the same day the
Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I
given this land from the river of Egypt under the great river,
the river Euphrates, the Kenites and the Kezonites and the
Cadmonites and the Hittites and the Parasites and the Refiums,
and the Amorites, and the Canaanites and the Girgashites
and the Jebusites. So what do we see all the way
back in Genesis chapter #15 that God talks to Abram.
Of course we know him as Abraham.
His name will be changed soon by God.
But God talks to Abram and he says this the land that you now
are laying on or the land that you are now living on, that land
is going to belong to you and your family.
Because a promise has already been made that even though his
wife is barren, that they are going to be a great nation and
that great nation is going to inhabit this land.
And God even just give some of the very basics of the the land
in its dimensions. He says it's going to go all the
way to the sea and it's going to be bound by the Jordan and it's
going to be bound by Egypt. And it's a great deal of land,
by the way. It's a much larger piece of land
than what you see Israel possess on the map today.
But God promised it. Could we put it?
This way God gave them the deed to that land, and God gave them
what I would call to you. And we will see in just a moment
an irrevocable deed to this land that that land belong to the
people of Israel all the way back here in.
Genesis chapter #15 Now jump to Genesis 17.
All right, just a few pages away.
Genesis 17 and we'll look at verse one.
Hopefully your fingers won't get cramps tonight.
All right, we'll do our best verse one.
And when Abram was 90 years old. And 9 the Lord appeared to Abram
and said unto him, I am the Almighty God, walk before me,
and be thou perfect, and I'll make my covenant between me and
thee, and we'll multiply thee exceedingly.
And Abram fell on his face, and God talked with him, saying, As
for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, there's that word
covenant. As thou shalt be the father of
many nations, neither shall thy name anymore be called Abram,
but thy name shall be Abraham. For a father of many nations
have I made thee, and I will make thee exceeding fruitful,
and I will make nations of thee, and king shall come out of thee,
and I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and thy
seed after thee in their generations.
For. And what's that next word?
Everlasting covenant. So there's a promise that's been
made to Abraham and is being confirmed here again.
That is an everlasting government covenant.
Now let me ask you, when it comes to everlasting life, how
long is everlasting life For? Forever.
So if we have an everlasting covenant, how long does that
last? Forever.
Listen, if you think everlasting covenant only lasts for a
certain period of time, then everlasting life's not going to
be nearly as long as you think. But everlasting life lasts for
forever, and everlasting covenant lasts also forever.
It's an everlasting covenant to be a God unto thee, and to thy
seed after thee. And I will give unto thee and
thy seed after thee the land wherein thou art a stranger, all
the land of Canaan for and everlasting possession.
And I will be their God. So God, and even more
specificity here than what he said in chapter #15 He says, I
want you to know that even though you still do not have
that air that you were expecting to have, that I promised you all
that time ago, I'm going to change your name to Abraham to
show you you will be the father of many nations.
But I also want you to know there's an everlasting covenant,
and you're going to have everlasting possession of the
land of which you are in right now.
And we do know that that land was populated by Isaac and the
Jacob, but then God told them to move to Egypt for a time.
And that took a great deal of time until they ended up making
their exodus back to the promised land.
And that's where we get to our next text, which is Deuteronomy
chapter #12 So go a few pages in your Bible to Deuteronomy
chapter #12 I don't know about you, but I find this absolutely
fascinating. There are some that would just
think this is dry and dull and boring.
And I know none of you feel like that tonight.
I am praying that none of you feel like that tonight because
this is exciting stuff that God has given this in His word, not
just to those people, but for us to understand tonight as well.
Deuteronomy 12 Look at verse #10.
And the word of God says this. But when you go over Jordan, and
dwell in the land which the Lord your God giveth you to inherit,
and when He giveth you rest from all your enemies round about, so
that you dwell in safety, then there shall be a place which the
Lord your God shall choose to cause His name to dwell there.
Thither ye shall bring all that I command you, your burnt
offerings, and your sacrifices, your ties, and the heave
offering of your hand, and all your choice vows, which ye vow
unto the Lord. So what is God say here?
He reminds them, you're about to go into this promised land, and
it's a planned place where you will have rest, and it's a place
where you have safety. That is what God desired for
them to have. It's a place where they will
have their offerings, where they will have their sacrifices,
where they will vow their vows unto the Lord.
Now we're going to move on to Deuteronomy chapter #30 and as
you do so, and you turn to Deuteronomy chapter 30, you
might say something like this. Well, Pastor, didn't they stay
in the promised land for a while?
And didn't they get removed from the promised land?
I mean, didn't didn't you say that the Kingdom is eventually
going to break up into two parallel kingdoms, the north and
the South. And the north had no good kings
and the South had good kings and bad kings, and eventually both
the north and the South ended up into captivity.
And the answer is, well, yes, for a time that Israel was taken
away in captivity. But even in that God was not
breaking his covenant. In fact, he was saying this, He
says if you fall away from me for a time, he says I'm going to
have to remove you from that. Land for a short period of time
to get you to become right with me, to be able to put you back
in that land again. And that's exactly what happened
because the people depicted in several different waves as they
were taken, and finally Nebuchadnezzar lays waste to the
land. But then we find during the time
of Ezra and during the time of Nehemiah, there is a revival
that takes place in Jerusalem and in Israel that comes later.
But look at Deuteronomy 30 verse one through 5.
God even talks about this when He says this.
And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon
thee, the blessing and the curse which I've set before thee, and
thou shalt call them to mind after all the nations with the
Lord thy God hath driven thee. So it's saying, I want you to
know this, that there's going to be a time when you're driven
away from this land. There's going to be a time
you're driven away for a short time.
And shout, return unto the Lord. Thy God shall obey his voice
according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy
children, with all thine heart and with all thy soul, that then
the Lord the God will turn thy captivity and have compassion
upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the
nations. Whether the Lord thy God hath
scattered thee, If any of thine be driven out unto the uttermost
parts of heaven, from thence will the Lord thy God gather
thee, and from thence will he fetch thee.
And the Lord thy God will bring thee into the land which thy
Father's possessed, and thou shalt possess it, and he will do
thee good, and multiply thee above thy Father's.
And So what does the Word of God say?
That there's times when the people of Israel disobey, when
they will be dispersed and they will be brought back to the land
again. It was not that it was not their
land, but it was a time that they would be removed by God's
edict, but they would be restored again because God sees
them turn back to Him. We actually see this in history
a couple different times. The first time we see this
around five, 87588 BC when Israel's removed and then again
the restoration under Ezra and Nehemiah.
I would also submit to you, we see this after 70 AD, after
Jesus dies on the cross and about, you know, around 40 years
later, give or take, that Israel or rather Jerusalem and really
all of the land of Israel in that area is trodden under by
Rome and it's desolate for many years until it's restoration in
in 1948 and people are brought back to the land again.
But its ultimate fulfillment is going to be found in the end
times because we've not actually seen the ultimate fulfillment of
this yet. Has the place of Israel been a
place of peace and rest for the children of Israel?
It has not been. And so does that mean that God
hasn't kept his promise? Well, no.
It just means this. We have not seen its ultimate
fulfillment yet. Its ultimate fulfillment will be
brought through during the time of the millennial reign, during
the time after the Tribulation when Jesus Christ rules and
reigns on earth from his throne, when the temple is restored and
that all is right here in the world.
And that we're going to see the literal fulfillment of this in
its entirety take place during that millennial reign.
But in the meantime, Abraham was given deed that was reiterated
over and over and over again. And this Davidic covenant here,
we find that David has told your people will have a place.
And again, that there's given this specificity, there's given
this exactness to it, that there is going to be this place in the
future. But it's not just that God in
this Davidic covenant gave a promise that there will be a
place for Israel. And the second prong of this
promise, he also said there will be an everlasting house for
David. There's a place for Israel, but
there was also a house for David.
Go back to second Samuel chapter #7 if you will.
And we're going to pick up in verse #11 So we read verse #10
it says there's going to be a place for Israel, but we also
see that there's going to be a house for David.
Look at verse #11 And since the time that I commanded judges to
be over my people Israel, and it caused thee to rest from all
thine enemies, also the Lord telleth thee that he will make
thee in house. You could see it right there in
the text. And when thy days be fulfilled
and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed
after thee, which I'll proceed out of thy bowels, and I will
establish his Kingdom. Now we know that the one that is
to follow him is going to be Solomon.
And so we can see that this is a partial fulfillment of Solomon.
We'll see in just a second. He shall build thee in house for
my name. I will establish my throne of
his Kingdom forever. I will be his father, He will be
my son. If he committed iniquity, I will
chase him with the rod of men and with the stripes of the
children of men. But my mercy shall not depart
away from him, as I took it away from Saul, whom I put away
before thee. So what do we see here?
We see that Solomon is going to be the next to follow and
there's a prophecy that he is going to be the one that is
going to build the Tabernacle rather the temple, the actual
permanent structure that David wanted to build, and that he is
going to have a throne, but that this is not just any kind of
throne. This is an everlasting throne.
Now you understand that this is an incredible promise unlike
anyone has ever received in the history of mankind.
You said. What do you mean, pastor?
Well, every type of Kingdom rises and falls, doesn't it?
Every type of Kingdom has families within that Kingdom
that rise and fall, meaning this, that there's a royal line
in Great Britain right now that is the line of succession.
We saw Queen Elizabeth, who was the queen for about 400 years, I
think somewhere around there. And now we have King Charles,
that he is the king. But it continues through a royal
line. It continues through what was
called the royal family. But throughout history, do those
royal families rule in perpetuity?
No Families rise and fall, don't they?
Even in American politics, we see not exactly the same thing
because we don't have royalty, you know, the whole 1776 thing
and all. You know, we don't have any of
that here. But we do have families that
have exerted leadership in our country over time.
And even those families rise and fall over time, don't they?
But David is receiving a promise unlike.
Anything ever was been given. Before and would never be given
again. It's that you are going to have
an everlasting kingship say, well, how does that work?
I mean, how was that going to be?
Well, the line of David went all the way through until Jerusalem
was removed. But that did not mean that the
royal line was not still understood.
Because by the time we get to the Gospels, what do we find?
We find the. Lineage of who?
Jesus Christ and that there is a recording of the royal lineage
of Jesus Christ. And so the ultimate fulfillment
of this is not just simply Solomon, but the ultimate
fulfillment of this everlasting Kingdom is Jesus Christ.
And so I want us to look at a couple different places.
We're not done yet. Isaiah Chapter 11.
You're doing great. Isaiah Chapter 11.
Verse #1 Isaiah Chapter 11. When you get there in just a
moment, we'll look at verse #1 and I think you're familiar with
this. We typically read this around
Christmas time, but I would say that this is a good 12 month of
the year verse right here. Verse #1 There shall come forth
a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of
his roots, the stem of Jesse, meaning this David was the son
of Jesse. So it's talking about the family
here. And the Spirit of the Lord shall
rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the
spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge, and the
fear of the Lord. And we see that this is Speaking
of none other than Jesus Christ. There's going to be some talk in
this chapter about the millennial reign as well, his
ultimate reign here on earth. So the great fulfillment of this
house for David is Jesus Christ. Now go to Luke chapter #1 Luke
chapter #1 again, looking at what we would call often call a
Christmas time passage. But again, that this is not
something should just be preached in December, that this
is good all months of the year. Luke chapter 1 and beginning in
verse #31 it says, And behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb,
and bring forth the Son, of course, talking to Mary, and
shall call his name Jesus. He shall be great, and he shall
be called the Son of the Highest.
And the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his Father
David. So what is the connection that's
being made here? That Jesus Christ, this one that
is going to be born of a virgin, Jesus Christ, this one that was
born Incarnate here on this earth, that he is going to be
the literal fulfillment of the Davidic covenant that was given
those thousand years ago at that time.
Now continuing on with that, Zechariah Chapter 9.
Now don't worry, we went to Luke first.
So it made it easier to go to Zechariah.
Go back a few pages, go to the very end of your Old Testament
pages still stick together back there.
It's all right. OK, we'll try to unstick them a
little bit. Zechariah chapter #9 Thank you,
Joe. All right, Zechariah Chapter 9,
verse 9. And we could read many passages
in Zechariah that would speak to the fulfillment of the Davidic
covenant. But again, this is not an
exhaustive study, but just rather an overview.
Zechariah Chapter 9 verse 9 says, Rejoice greatly.
O daughter of Zion, shout, O daughter of Jerusalem, behold,
thy king cometh unto thee. He is just and having salvation
lowly and riding upon an ass and upon a colt the foal of an ass.
Now we'll cut off the chariot from Ephraim, the horse from
Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut, and he shall speak
peace under the heathen, and his dominion shall be from sea even
to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth.
Now, can you just imagine for a moment what happened on the day
that we call Palm Sunday? Can you just imagine that the
people of Israel knew everything that I've just talked to you
about over the last few minutes that all of the verses, all of
the promises the people of Israel were intimately
acquainted with. When Jesus is going into
Jerusalem and His triumphal entry and here He is, He is
riding on a donkey and they they understand there's a literal
fulfillment of Zechariah Chapter 9 verse 9.
They understand that he is going to be that he is the son of
David. Remember, sometimes they'll call
Jesus son of David, have mercy on us.
They understood his lineage. They understood the fulfillment.
They understood what was promised to David and they are
literally thinking, this is it. This is the moment that we've
been waiting for in shadows from Abraham, with more clarity in
David's time, and then spoken of by the prophets.
The day has come. That's why they were cutting
down the palm branches and that's why they were shouting
Hosanna, Lord save us now. Hosanna Lord save us now.
Why? Because they thought this is.
The moment and that's why they were disillusioned when it
wasn't just a few days later, because they thought Jesus is
going to come and he will overthrow the yoke of the Roman
government that's upon us. But this is the same Jesus that
said this Render unto Caesar. What is Caesar and render to God
what is God. What was he doing in that
moment? He was more worried about their
hearts. But that doesn't mean that he
wasn't going to set up his Kingdom.
It just was not time yet, and it is not time yet that time will
come. And that comes in what we would
call the Book of Revelation, that look at Revelation chapter
#20 if you will. I told you were going cover to
cover. All right, Revelation chapter
#20 look. At verse #1 And I saw an Angel
come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit,
and the great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon,
that old serpent which is the devil and Satan, and bound him
for 1000 years, and cast him into a bottomless pit, and shut
him up, and set a seal upon him that he should deceive the
nations no more till the 1000 years should be fulfilled.
And after that he must be loosed a little season.
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,
and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image,
neither had received his mark upon their foreheads or in their
hands. And they lived and reigned with
Christ for 1000 years. So what do we see in this
rulership of Jesus, that millennial reign?
The Kingdom is set. The devil has been.
Banished and he is bound and chained in the Lake of Fire for
1000 years, only to be loosed in a little.
Season for the final judgment that is to come.
But yes, what do we see here that it's the literal
fulfillment of all that had taken place.
There is now a place for Israel. There's now a house for David.
Everything has been fulfilled to it's very totality and that.
Reminds us of this, that what has been promised is not
completed yet. What was promised then?
Has not been completely fulfilled yet.
And this is important. Go back to Second Samuel Chapter
7 and I promise we're not bouncing around anymore.
All right, you did good tonight. You held up strong.
I appreciate it. So, I mean, you go home and ice
your hands up when you get home. You got to put an ice block on
it or something like that, but that's all right.
It's good. The doctor asked you how'd you
get carpal tunnel syndrome? You said my pastor made me go
through, go through all these passages at church.
I mean, it's crazy. That's why churches put them on
screens, you know. But isn't it good to be able to
go through your own Bible and make notes and be able to look
at this? It really is the way that we
should go. I just want to point out a few
things to you. How long, how long is this
supposed to last? How long is this supposed to go?
Well, well, we can look at this, that we can go to verse #13 and
I have these circled in my Bible.
He shall build an house for my name, and I will establish the
throne of His Kingdom. What's the next two words?
Forever, verse 16. And thine house And thy Kingdom
shall be established when? Forever.
And thy throne shall be established forever.
And if there's any question, verse #16 settles it, doesn't
it? And thine house and thy Kingdom
shall be established forever before thee, and thy throne
shall be established forever. Look at verse #24.
For thou has confirmed to thyself, thy people Israel, to
be a people unto Thee forever. Verse 25.
And now, O Lord God, the word that thou has spoken concerning
thy servant and concerning his house, establish it forever.
Verse #29 Therefore now let it please thee to bless the house,
thy servant, that it may continue forever, over and over
and over, forever, and ever and ever.
How can we come to any other conclusion than the fact that
God has given the people of Israel the title deed of this
land and that Jesus Christ is the ultimate ruler and reigner
of this world? There can be no other.
And if you have to take one which we do, that Jesus Christ
is the ultimate ruler and reigner, then I would submit to
you we must also take this together, that the land belongs
to Israel and there is no going back.
Why? Because God is the one who
created it. God is the one who gives the.
Deed. And God is the one who says how
long that deed lasts for. And God says this, I give it to
Israel that belongs to them, and it belongs to them forever.
Which brings us to the present. Day brings us to where we are
now, and I hope you know me well enough that I am not a political
preacher, that you don't come to Liberty Baptist Church to hear
my riff on the headlines. This is not talk radio.
This is not any type of political website or any type of
political commentary that I give you here at Liberty Baptist
Church. But I will also say this, the
church must be careful that we do not evacuate the space of
talking about foreign events because we are so concerned
about not trying to look political, because there are
just some things that are right and wrong and biblical and
churches need to speak about them.
Not because we're trying to stump for a candidate, not
because we're trying to stump for a political party, but
literally, it's the job of the church to speak truth to what is
going on in world events today. Our views on the news and on
politics must be shaped by our biblical worldview.
There are politicians who are out there, particularly of one
party, who will say something like this.
Why? I'm a Christian, but I really
don't want my Christian beliefs to sway how I vote or my
Christian beliefs to sway how I handle my constituents.
And I will tell you, while that sounds like something that is
just such a enlightened thought, it is the opposite of
enlightenment and it is actually quite wicked because a Christian
is always called to think like a Christian.
A Christian is always called to act like a Christian and we
don't stop thinking like a Christian when we look at world
events. We don't stop thinking like a
Christian when we go to a ballot box.
We don't stop thinking like a Christian when we come in
contact with the laws of the land.
You know, we are a Christian 1st.
And that Christian worldview, that Christian lens, if holy
cow, that Christian lens, if you will, effects everything that we
do. We don't get to say I'm a
Christian here in church, but it really doesn't affect the rest
of my life. I'm a Christian in church, but
it really doesn't affect what I think about the news.
I'm a Christian first, but it really doesn't affect what I
think about politics. No, when you're a Christian,
when you're a new creature, it's not just segmented to 1 area of
your life. It literally deals with every
single area of your life, including world events and
what's going on in the Middle East.
There's a phrase that's being spoken by protesters today.
And it's this from the river to the sea, from the river to the
sea. It's by those who are pro
Palestinian that are trying to say that they want the land of
Israel from the river to the sea.
There's several problems with this phrase.
One, it's a phrase of genocide. There is no way of trying to
sugarcoat it. And it's a phrase saying that
the people of Israel must be removed by force.
From the river to the sea, you say?
Well. Well, I mean, do we ever see
anything like that in history? I mean, why would you say that?
What we've seen it plenty in history and we've seen it as
recently as October 7th. Yes, from the river to the sea.
Is it called a genocide? But what is the greatest affront
of the the phrase the river to the sea is that the river to the
sea is actually a promise given by God to Israel.
Didn't we see that in Genesis chapter #15 that they were going
to have? And we find this other place as
well, that the actual wording is that God is going to give them
the land from the river to the sea?
And just as much as the LGPTQ movement has hijacked God's
rainbow, which is a promise to mankind that the world will not
be flooded again. And that was taken and Co opted
for their own wicked purposes. In the same way there is another
wicked group that is taking a beautiful promise of God from
the river to the sea. And instead of taking it as the
promise of God, they are calling for the execution and genocide
of an entire people group for one reason and one reason only,
because they're of a certain people group.
I can't say anything else but what it is, because this is what
we see in the word of God. There is no Palestinian.
Group, there is no Palestinian nation.
There's no Palestinian history, there's no Palestinian language.
If you look into history, they have no claim on this land, nor
do the Muslim have claims on the Temple Mount that Israelis are
not even able to worship on the Temple Mount as they desire even
though it was Solomon who built the Temple.
It's a mess. And it's even more of a mess if
you don't look at it through a biblical worldview, because you
see what's going on in the news and you start to get concerned
and you start to wonder. And you can be LED astray by a
news media and by bad actors who are trying to get good,
heartfelt people to have their heartstrings pulled on.
But in the meantime, they are leading them directly to error
and away from the truth of the Word of God.
Now, I will say this, Israel's not a perfect nation.
I would dare say there is no perfect nation.
I cannot say that I have agreed with everything that Israel has
ever done. That's not what I'm trying to
say today. Israel in many ways today is
very far from God. They are not a godly Nation
Today. But I will also tell you this,
that the fact that they are not a godly nation does not negate
the promises that were made to them all of that time ago, just
as much as they were not a godly nation at other times.
And God dealt with them and restored them and God dealt with
them and restored them over and over and over again.
There's a line of theology today that says something like this.
Well, the, the, the Jews don't actually exist.
They're imposters, or rather that the Church or the true Jews
today. And there are no real Jews,
friend. There are people who believe
this are at best ignorant. And at worst, they're false
teachers who have very, very dark things within their hearts.
It's not Bible. The Bible is clear.
The Bible is specific. There is no room to wiggle in
and out. I'd literally took you to 8
different passages and you can look at the context of them
above and below. I'd invite you and encourage you
to do so. But I'll tell you this, God has
made very specific promises to Israel, and Israel should be
supported by each and every one of us as believers and by our
nation as well. And I'm thankful to have a
president has decided, with his many faults, has decided we need
to support Israel as a nation. I'm thankful for that because
that's what the Bible tells us to do.
Now say this, what do we do with all of this?
Our view on current events are relevant and should be shaped by
the old promises of the Word of God.
Old promises help us understand world events and current events.
So what can I you say, pastor? What can I do with all this?
OK, I get what you're saying, but what does any of this have
to do with me? Well, first of all, each and
every one of us should pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
Psalm chapter 122, verse 6 says Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
They shall prosper that love thee.
That in our regular prayers that we should pray for the peace of
those who live in the Middle East today.
What should we do? We should bless them as a
nation. Genesis 12, verse 3 says and I
will bless them that bless thee and curse them that curseth
thee. And in thee shall all the
families of the earth be blessed.
Friend, that is a promise that is still in force today.
One of the best things that we can do as a nation is bless the
nation of Israel. One of the best things that we
can do personally is bless those who are of the people of Israel.
And I'm thankful that we have a ambassador in Israel today, Mike
Huckabee. In fact, you said this just
recently. I can't be a Christian, not be
completely connected to the Jewish people.
Our entire faith is built on the foundation of Judaism.
God blesses those who bless Jews and curses those who curse Jews.
You say, well, I don't like that because he's a, he's a, he's a
Republican or I don't. I don't like that because I
don't think I like him because he's from that administration.
May I remind you that he's speaking Bible truth?
And that our views on these things, again, are not shaped by
whatever news media source we watch.
By the way, our views on this shouldn't be based on what news
media we we watch. Conservative or liberal?
Yes, I said conservative or liberal, either one.
No, my world view on these things must be first in the word
of God. So when I watch those new media,
news media, I can filter it through the Word of God instead
of taking the word of God and reading it through the filter of
the media. And 3rd, I would encourage you
to do this. Don't separate the Bible from
current events, from politics or the news.
Don't be shamed into staying in your box because of the quote UN
quote separation of church and state.
Well, you can't have your Christian values in view because
there's a separation of church and state.
The people who say and cry out separation of church and state
are some of the most ignorant people that you'll find.
And I say that not to be unkind. I use the word ignorant and it's
very real term ignorance is in not understanding that the term
separation of Church of state is not found in the Declaration of
Independence. It is not found in the
Constitution of the United States.
It's found in a letter to Thomas Jefferson, or rather from Thomas
Jefferson, in a correspondence between Jefferson and Listen to
this Baptists from Connecticut. What were they afraid of?
They were afraid of the propagation of the state church
in the newly formed United States of America.
And they weren't saying, you know what?
Christians shouldn't be involved in the government.
Christians shouldn't have a say in.
World Events Christians should that.
They weren't saying that, they were saying this.
The government ought to keep its hands out of our churches.
No one should be mandated to come to Liberty Baptist Church.
No one should be mandated to be a Christian.
No one's tax dollars should be forced to support Liberty
Baptist Church. But at the same time, the
government ought to keep its hands out of Liberty Baptist
Church. We're glad to provide security
and safety. We're glad to make sure that we
pass inspections for safety and all those types of things.
But the government has no say of what gets taught here.
The government has no say in what we preach.
The government has no say in how we assemble.
And I will tell you the government has tried before and
they could try again in the future.
The separation of church and state has nothing to do with us
talking about world events or not, but has everything to do
with the government not getting involved in the church.
Now, again, to be clear, I'm not a political preacher.
If you've been here for any length of time, I don't talk
politics because I want to talk about the timeless truths of the
Word of God. But there are times when the
timeless truths of the world of Word of God intersect with world
events. And we can't just avoid it just
to say, well, we don't want to talk about these things.
You know, we have to speak them boldly and truthfully that we
should support Israel, that we should support what they've
done, that we should support them as a as a group and
understand that God blesses those who bless Israel and
curses those who curse Israel. We have been, I'll say this and
I'll be done. We have been told over and over
again as believers to stay in our box.
Don't. Don't mention the things that
you believe. If you do, then you're a bigot.
If you do, you're a hater. If you do, you don't care about
people. And I will tell you this.
Speaking the truth in love is the greatest form of caring
about people. Speaking the truth in love is
the greatest form of caring for people.
Listen, I regularly talk to people I disagree with.
I regularly read those who I disagree with.
I regularly interact with those who I disagree with, and I do so
cheerfully and without any problem whatsoever.
But I will say this, we must not remain silent about the Word of
God in world events because we have to let our Christian
worldview affect everything in our life.
Christian. Being a Christian does not just
affect how you live in church. It affects what you watch, what
you do, what you take in, and yes, it even effects what you
see going on in the world today. What do we need to do?
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Bless them, the nation of
Israel, but then also #3 don't let your Christian values be
placed in a box. Live as a believer in every area
of your life, even in the issues of world events.
Thank you for listening to the sermon from the pulpit of
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