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, “.jpg)
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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