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Friday, September 12, 2003 Davidic Covenant #2 (2Sam7:8-17)Firstly, Scofield's comments:This covenant, upon which the glorious kingdom of Christ "of the seed of David according to the flesh" is to be founded, secures: (1) A Davidic "house"; i.e. posterity, family (2) A "throne"; i.e. royal authority (3) A kingdom; i.e. sphere of rule (4) In perpetuity; "for ever" (5) And this fourfold covenant has but one condition: disobedience in the Davidic family is to be visited with chastisement; but not to the abrogation of the covenant. I think we can see all these things in the record of this promise between God and man. The thing that struck me was how directly we can relate it to our own experience. A family, under God's royal authority, and forever. Disobedience generally results in punishment, and we see many bearing awful natural consequences of wrong choices. BUT, God's mercy is never taken from his children (God himself has promised this "If he commit 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, whom I put away before thee"). As children of God, sealed by his Holy Spirit, we are assured of God's eternal grace - we need never doubt our salvation! We don't need to live guilt-ridden, uncertain miserable lives - we muck up, we feel dreadful, we repent and God has promised us his mercy will never depart from us! But the part of this that really spoke to me was the "kingdom" bit - God said (presumably referring to the Lord Jesus) "thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever". The amazing thing (and thanks to David Boan who also emphasised this) is that since the ascension of the resurrected Christ into heaven, there is a man on the throne in heaven (1Tim2:5 "the man Christ Jesus"), whose kingdom is not sometime off in the future, but he is ruling right now from heaven - and his subjects are you and me, and he rules the whole world (everywhere where he has those who recognise his Lordship). We see this in Ps2 "Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed" - they think they're in control, but "He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the LORD shall have them in derision" because "Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion". This happened at the ascension - Christ is ruling his kingdom, which is everywhere on this earth! Impressive to realise who our real ruler is, as we set out each day in whatever land we find ourselves... And this is all described in Ps110 too "The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool" - a king is being addressed, seated at the right hand of the Father. It goes on "rule thou in the midst of thine enemies", etc. A description of Christ and his rule right now. So, our relationship right now with the one we acknowledge as Lord of our lives, is also with the King and ruler of the whole of this current world. Makes our relationship pretty significant, and pretty powerful! And finally at the end of time, Christ will hand his kingdom back to the Father! # posted by geoff @ 3:26 pm 0 comments
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