Weekly
Message: God's restoration to his people - Davidic covenant (Jer.32:40-33:
1-26)
By
Rev. Katherine Liu Bruce Christian Arts Ministries: Biblical Precepts
& Gospel Music
Date:
12/20/2014/ & 7/19/2017
Introduction
God restored the hope of His people through the
Davidic covenant, which he had established with His people, reaffirmed His
covenant with His people in book of Jeremiah 33:1-26. And the prophetical
message had fulfilled through the Messiah Christ Jesus in New Testament.
The palmist King David’s confidence in the
Lord
My friends, do you lack the faith and hope in the Lord and weary to
do good? For you faced overwhelming consequences, dangers of darkness and
unseen adversaries’ forces. The palmist King David faced dangers, darkness
forces, social prosecution, and unjust accusation of wrongdoing. In his
challenges and frustrations, he worshiped and petitioned without ceasing, he
knew his God is full of merciful and compassionate. And he put his hope in the
Lord alone. His blessed assurance was anchored in the Lord. And his strength
was intensified by worshiped and praised God. His expression in Psalm 27 reflected
great anthem of praise, and put his “confidence in the Lord (vv1-6), prays for
continued victory (vv7-12), and rejoices in his waiting on the Lord (vv.13-14).
The Lord is the “light” dispels the anxieties and dangers of darkness, His
“salvation” guarantees the defeat of all adversaries, and the Lord is
stronghold assures victory against all assaults.”[1]
King David won the victory all the ways
in his life as King, after he repented his adultery sins, God didn’t leave him
nor forsake him. Instead of destroyed of his life, God restored his fortunes
with hope, and abundance peace and prosperity. God delights his people turn
from a sinful way and repent the unfaithful sins.
God’s Davidic
covenant affirmed by the message of Jeremiah
God’s faithfulness and the promise
reaffirmed the Davidic covenant to His people reveal in the Jer.32:40 - 33:1-26.
The Lord is merciful and full of compassionate, after he has brought great
calamity on his people, in his mercy, he restored desolate waste land, and his
people’s fortunes after his people committed great sins. He “made an
everlasting covenant with them, keep doing good to them.” (Jer.32:40).
The Lord’s
promises to restore His people as follows,
1.
I will bring health and healing
to it, I will heal my people and will let them enjoy abundant peace and
security. (Jer.33:6)
2.
I will bring Judah and Israel
back from captivity and will rebuild them as they were before.
(Jer.33:7)
3.
I will cleanse them from all the
sins they have committed against me and will forgive all their sins of rebellion
against me. (Jer.33:8)
4.
I will make an everlasting
covenant with them: I will never stop doing good to them, and I will
inspires them to fear me so that they will never turn away from me.
(Jer.32:40)
5.
I will restore their fortunes.(Jer.32:44)
The hope of His
people from God’s promises
1.
“This city will bring me renown, joy,
praise and honor before all nations
and earth that hear of all the good things I do for it, and they will be in awe
and will tremble at the abundant prosperity and
peace I provide for it.” (Jer.33:9)
2.
The
sounds of joy and gladness, the voice of bride and bridegroom, and the
voices of those who bring thank offerings to the
house of the Lord: saying, give thanks to the Lord
Almighty, for the Lord is good, his love endures forever.(Jer.33:11)
3.
For this is what the Lord says David
will never fail to have a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel, nor
will the priests, who are Levites, ever fail to have
a man to stand before me continually to offer burnt offerings, to burn
grain offerings and to present
sacrifices. (Jer.33:17-18)
Jesus fulfilled
the message of hope- “Davidic covenant”
God’s love to His people is unshakable. “God
so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in
him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God didn’t send his Son into
the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him”
(Jh.3:16-17).The message of hope through Jeremiah had fulfilled by Jesus Christ
messiah, as the light of the world, so that everyone who believes in him should
not remain in the darkness... and He came not to judge the world but to save
the world. (John12:46,48). God delights to call us His sons and daughters. And
commanded, “Put your trust in the light while you have it so that you may
become sons of light.” (John12:36). He didn’t want anyone perish but
repent their sins. Jesus affirmed who He is and said, “I, Jesus have sent
My angel to testify to you these things for the churches. I am the root and
offspring of David, the bright morning star.”(Rev.22:16).
Theological
principle and conditional term- “the repentance of their unfaithfulness sins”
God delights in
His people to love him, to be His Children and call Him father. However, His
people have been unfaithful. Who said, “How
gladly would I treat you like sons and give you a desirable land, the most
beautiful inheritance of any nation. I thought you would call me Father. And
not turn away from following me.” (Jer.3:19). God faced the people of
Israel and Judah have done nothing but evil in His sight from their youth, and
provoked the Lord to anger by burning incense on the roofs to Baal and by
pouring out drink offerings to other gods. (Jer.32:29). They set up their
abominable idols in the house that bears His name and defiled it, they built
high places for Baal in the Valley of Ben Hinnom to sacrifice their sons and
daughters to Molech…they did a detestable thing and so make Judah sin.
(Jer.32:35). The Lord hand the city over to the Babylonians and to
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon who capture it. (Jer.32:28).
God treated
idolatrous is seriously sin, and used metaphor to describe “like a woman
unfaithful to her husband, so you have been unfaithful to me. O house of
Israel.”(Jer.32:20) “Return, faithless people, declares the Lord, ‘for
I am your husband. I will choose you –one from a town and two from a clan
and bring you to Zion. Then I will give you shepherds after my own heart,
who will lead you with knowledge and understanding.”(Jer.3:14). Although
God’s heart was grieving for His people’s stubbornness of evil hearts, yet, God
restored their hope and established an everlasting covenant with them, inspire
them to fear Him so that they will never turn away from the Lord. As the
Lord have brought this entire great calamity on this people, so the Lord will
give them all the prosperity He had promised them. (Jer.32:40-42). God
established Davidic covenant with His people, comforted them, restored
their hope, satisfied them with abundance joy and prosperity. All the promises
and blessing to His people under a conditional term: First, His people must repent
of their sins and unfaithfulness. Second, if His people put their detestable
idols out of God’s sight and no longer go astray.
Conclusion
In the Old
Testament and New Testament unveils a theme “the Davidic covenant” is
everlasting. The Davidic covenant has fulfilled through Jesus, who is the root
and offspring of David, yet, without sin, as light, He came to the world, not
to judge the world but to save the world. (John12:46, 48). He wants everyone not
perish but repent their sins, so they may be saved. He commanded, “Put your
trust in the light while you have it so that you may become sons of light.”
(John12:36).
My friends, all God- fear People, facing
all the consequences, and darkness hours, put your trust in the light, lift
up your holy hands to pray, worship, praise Lord, and petition with
thanksgiving in every circumstances. Put away all the detestable idols, put
your hope in the Lord, fear of the Lord, and wait patiently. For our Lord is faithful,
and full of mercy and compassionate. To those who fear Him and repent the sins,
Jesus is the hope of life, joy and peace. God’s love endures forever; He
had paid the prices through Jesus to redeem us, and longing to have
relationship with us. As Lord said, “I am the Lord the God of all mankind,
is anything too hard for me?” (Jer.32:27). “He who made the earth, the
Lord who formed it and established it, the Lord is his name, call to me
and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.”
(Jer.33:2-3). My friends, call upon the name of Lord, trust in the Lord, and
wait patiently for Him. You will
hear the sounds of joy and gladness, the voice of bride and
bridegroom, and the voices of those who bring thank offerings to the house
of the Lord: saying, give thanks to the Lord Almighty, for the Lord is good,
his love endures forever.
view the message video in website
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