David: The Promise of Everlasting Kingdom

Scripture Texts: II Samuel 7:8-16

We have been looking at the covenants in the OT.  One way of thinking about them is they are God’s job description.  They tell us who He is, what He is like, what He is doing, and why He is doing it.  They tell us what His priorities are and what He is taking responsibility for.  They tell us why He gets up in the morning, except of course that He has been up all night doing His job, the very thing He said He would do.

They can be summed up in the simplest words, “I will be your God, and you will be my people, and I will do good for all who love me and call on me and wait for me.  I will cause all things to work for your good, your blessing, your benefit.”

Around 4000 years before Christ, in the garden of Eden God made a covenant with Adam, God promised to redeem His broken, fallen, sinful people, saying the seed of the woman would crush the head of the serpent.

2000 years later God made a covenant with Abraham, God promised to give him a great name, give him a place and make him a blessing to all the families of the earth, making all who believe children of Abraham.

500 years later God made a covenant with Moses, God promised to make His people a kingdom of priests, a holy nation with their own place.  He gave them the sacrifices to make them righteous, and He gave them the Law to show how a righteous and holy people should live in grateful response to God.

This morning we come to the final OT covenant, God’s covenant with David, 500 years later.