Saturday, January 27, 2024

Weekly Message: God's restoration to his people Davidic covenant (Jer.33:1- 26) by Rev.Katherine Liu Bruce

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 & 1/27/2024

 

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 inspire 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.


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Brown, Robert, Philip W. Comfort and J.D. Douglas, ed. The New Greek English Interlinear New Testament. Carol Stream: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.1990.

Friberg, Timothy, Barbara Friberg, and Neva F. Miller et al., eds. Analytical Lexicon of the Greek New Testament.1st ed. Victoria BC: Trafford Publishing, 2005.

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[1] Charles C. Ryrie. The Ryrie study Bible (NIV). Chicago, IL: The Moody Bible Institute, 1986. 

 


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