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THE ABRAHAMIC COVENANT: THERE IS NO PLACE FOR GUILT OR ANXIETY ABOUT THE PAST.

The Abrahamic Covenant: There is no place for guilt or anxiety about the past

March 7, 2008 • Pastor Robert R. McLaughlin

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The Abrahamic Covenant: There is no place for guilt or anxiety about the past.

Friday, March 7, 2008

The ceremony recorded in Genesis 15 indicates the unconditional nature of the covenant.

Emphasizing or recognizing only one side of a promise or covenant.

Reward - “sakar” = “your benefit or your reward”

In verses 5-7, we see these three pictures, all of which serve to illustrate the point that the One who made the covenant or the promises has the ability to keep them.

The promises do not depend upon who or what we are but on who and what God is.

(1) The stars.
The first object lesson is in verse 5, and illustrates the fact that God has the ability to solve Abraham’s problems.

God has established a traffic pattern in the universe, and He has the power to keep all of these great stars of space in their orbit; consequently, while moving at great speed, millions and billions of stars follow a perfect pattern.

This requires knowledge and God has omniscience.
It also requires power and God has the omnipotence to accomplish it.
Immutability is required; God cannot change.

COL 1:16-17 For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities - all things have been created by Him and for Him.

COL 1:17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.

HEB 1:3....He upholds all things by the word of His power.

No matter how you look at it, if God has the power to hold the universe together, God has the power to handle any problem you ever had......or ever will have.

God holds the universe together, COL 1:17, and if He has the power to handle the problem of traffic in the universe, don’t you think He also has the power to handle your problems?

The fulfillment of God’s promise depends entirely on trusting God and His way, and then simply embracing Him and what He does.

He is not our racial father--that’s reading the story backwards. He is our faith father.

GAL 3:6-7 Even so Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness. Therefore, be sure that it is those who are of faith who are sons of Abraham.

We call Abraham “father” not because he got God’s attention by living like a saint, but because God made something out of Abraham when he was a nobody.

Abraham was first named “father” and then became a father because he dared to trust God to do what only God could do: raise the dead to life, with a word make something out of nothing.

When everything was hopeless, Abraham believed anyway, deciding to live not on the basis of what he saw he couldn’t do but on what God said he would do.

(2) The promise of salvation, GEN 15:6.
‘Aman - points back to a decision Abraham had already made; he believed in the Lord.
The perfect tense of ‘aman = past completed action, an action completed many, many years ago.

(3) Faithfulness, GEN 15:7.
“Have I been faithful to you in the past Abram?”

That is why prior to the different stages of spiritual growth, we must all pass through different forms of suffering for blessing that the Lord brings in our life.

As a part of God’s faithfulness, He always provides the doctrine or the opportunity to get the doctrine necessary to pass each test before it comes.

HEB 10:23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful;

This results in the things around you which were formerly distracting to your spiritual growth becoming less and less important.

All of these illustrations point to one Person, and that Person is not only God, but also God the Son. Understanding these illustrations and hearing the promises and the unconditional or unilateral covenants, there is no excuse for Abram, or any other believer, to worry about anything.

The second cure for Abram’s doubts and fears is the doctrine of the word of God, suggested in verses 8-11.

Abram saw the land occupied by the Amorites, as well as many giants.
Not only that, Chedorlaomer and his forces had been moving back and forth throughout the land, threatening to envelop it.

MAT 17:20 “If you have faith as a mustard seed, you shall say to this mountain [a reference to any huge obstacle in your life], ‘Move from here to there,’ and it shall move; and nothing shall be impossible to you.”

MAT 19:26 “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

THE DAVIDIC COVENANT

March 16, 2008 • Pastor Robert R. McLaughlin

The Davidic Covenant. Sunday, March 16, 2008 The Abrahamic covenant emphasizes the race for client nation Israel, and the Palestinian covenant emphasizes and reiterates the land for client nation Israel. The third covenant, the next of Israel’s great unconditional or unilateral covenants is known as the Davidic covenant, which emphasizes the seed for client nation Israel. a) The Jewish race - Abrahamic covenant b) The land for Israel - Palestinian covenant c) The promise seed - or client nation Israel The Davidic Covenant refers to God’s promises to David through Nathan the prophet, 2Sa 7; 1CH 17:11-14; 2CH 6:16. This is an unconditional covenant made between God and David through which God promises David and Israel that the Messiah (Jesus Christ) would come from the lineage of David and the tribe of Judah and would establish a kingdom that would endure forever. JOH 14:27 “My Peace I give unto you; It’s a peace that the world cannot give.” JOH 14:2 In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. In the Al Maidah (The Table) - Believers (Muslims), take neither Jews nor Christians to be your friends: they are friends with one another. Whoever of you seeks their friendship Shall become one of their number, and God does not guide (those Jewish and Christian called “wrong-doers”) 5:51-5:74. In spite of the fact that they teach that the Jews are evil-doers in the Al Maidah 5:57, God promises that He will build them a house or a dwelling place. In spite of the fact that the Koran, Surah 2:140, says that Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and the Tribes of Israel were not Jews or believers. ACT 13:22 - “I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after My heart, who will do ALL My will.” The Davidic Covenant is unconditional because God does not place any conditions of obedience upon its fulfillment. The surety of the promises made rests solely on God’s faithfulness and does not depend at all on David or Israel’s obedience. 1. God reaffirms the promise of the land that He made in the first two covenants with Israel (The Abrahamic and Mosaic Covenants), 2SA 7:10. COL 1:13 He delivered you us from the kingdom of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son, ISA 29:24 They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine. One way or the other He will accomplish His will to become conformed to the image of His Son, ROM 8:29. EXO 14:13 Moses said to the people, “Do not fear! Stand by and see the deliverance of the Lord which He will ACCOMPLISH for you today;” PSA 57:2 I will call to God Most High, To God who accomplishes all things for me. PSA 138:8 David said, “The Lord will accomplish what concerns me;” JOH 17:4 “I glorified Thee on the earth, having accomplished the work which Thou hast given Me to do.”

DAVIDIC COVENANT: THE CONIAH CURSE (2)

March 21, 2008 • Pastor Robert R. McLaughlin

Davidic Covenant: The Coniah curse - part 2. Friday, March 21, 2008 The holocaust that would come to them in BC 586, administered by Nebuchadnezzar. A woman in labor who never delivers the child. The only way the Jew can deliver the child and fulfill the correct side of the double entendre or pun is to personally believe in TLJC as Savior. A double entendre is a figure of speech similar to the pun, in which a spoken phrase can be understood in either of two ways. Jehoiakim, and then his son Coniah, called Jeconiah, called Jehoiachin, and the Lord said Coniah will never have a son that will rule in fulfillment of the Davidic dynasty’s great covenant, the Davidic covenant. Shealtiel would a adopt son called Zerubbabel, HAG 2:3. Zerubbabel would go back, as a great leader, but he would never sit on David’s throne. Shealtiel was the son of Neri and a descendant of Nathan the son of David. Since Zerubbabel’s true line comes down from Nathan, Zerubbabel would have a son who would reign forever, and that son would be the product of the virgin Mary, our Lord Jesus Christ. The line of Coniah, Shealtiel and before him Jehoiakim - they are cut off! They are under the 3-generation curse. Joseph is descended from Coniah, Shealtiel, and so on, but Joseph is not the real father. He is in the legal line only, which started with this curse, and the bloodline switched from Zerubbabel over to Nathan’s side. Mary is the bloodline, and therefore in Luke, because she is the bloodline, the bloodline goes all the way back to Adam. I will pull you off refers to such passages as MAT 1:12, the legal line His real father was Pedaiah (1CH 3:19), his grandfather was Neri, (LUK 3:27). Isaac had a legal line in Esau - they became the Edomites - but the bloodline for Israel was Jacob. Jacob by 4 women had 12 sons, and the bloodline goes through the 12 sons. Esau was the eldest and through primogeniture, (the state of being the first-born), the bloodline should have gone down through Esau but another so-called coincidence, took place. Esau was an immoral or godless person who sold his own birthright for a single meal (HEB 12:16). Jacob, because he accepted Christ as Savior, became the bloodline. The bloodline is transferred to Zerubbabel who is the son of Nathan, and he started out being the legal line because Nathan is never on the throne.

PALESTINIAN COVENANT: THE MYSTERY AND TRUE MESSAGE BEHIND THE PALESTINIAN COVENANT, PART 2

March 14, 2008 • Pastor Robert R. McLaughlin

The Palestinian Covenant: The mystery and true message behind the Palestinian Covenant; Part 2. Friday, March 14, 2008 The Abrahamic covenant emphasizes the race for client nation Israel; the Palestinian covenant emphasizes and reiterates the land for client nation Israel. God revealed His power in the midst of all the cosmic odds against us. God endeavored and accomplished to go and take for Himself a nation of people (the Jews, or Israel) from the midst of another nation (Egypt), by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors. It was in a desert utterly unfriendly to human life that they would also be sustained for forty years. 1. Trials - macot = to try or prove. 2. DEU 4:34 “by signs” - ‘otot = to come near; such signs as God gave them of His continual presence and providence, particularly the pillar of cloud and pillar of fire, keeping near to them night and day, and always directing their journeys, showing them when and where to pitch their tents. 3. DEU 4:34 “and wonders” - mowpªtiym = to persuade; persuasive facts and events. Whether strictly miraculous, and exceeding the powers of nature, or not. It also refers to typical men, raised up by God as types of Christ, and proofs that God would bring His servant The BRANCH. 4. DEU 4:34 “and by war” - milchaamaah = hostile engagements; such as those with the Amalekites, the Amorites, and the Bashanites, in which the hand of God was seen rather than the hand of man. 5. DEU 4:34 “and by a mighty hand” - yaad = one that is strong to deal its blows, irresistible in its operations, and grasps its enemies hard so that they cannot escape, and protects its friends so powerfully that they cannot be injured. DEU 4:34 “and by an outstretched arm” - uwbizrowa` = a series of almighty operations, following each other in quick astonishing succession. a. The finger of God denotes any manifestation of the divine power, where effects are produced beyond the power of art or nature. b. The hand of God signifies the same power, but put forth in a more signal manner. c. The arm of God = the divine omnipotence manifested in the most stupendous miracles. d. The arm of God stretched out = this same omnipotence exerted in a continuation of stupendous miracles, both in the way of judgment and mercy. 7. DEU 4:34 “and by great terrors” - mowraa’iym = such terror, dismay, as were produced by the ten plagues. These were all reminders of the Abrahamic Covenant, and therefore the Palestinian covenant is the reassurance that the Jews would possess the real estate that God promised Abraham. He is speaking of the fact that He knew they were going to rebel; however, He made a provision for that as well. PSA 78:40 How often they rebelled against Him in the wilderness, And grieved Him in the desert! The rejection of Israel and the desolation of the promised inheritance were not to be the end of God’s dealings with them. The chastisements of God would lead the nation to repent, and thereupon God would again bless them. The “turning again of the captivity” will be when Israel is converted to Him in whom the Law was fulfilled, and who died “not for that nation only,” but also that He might “gather together in one all those who were scattered abroad.” The blessing in this connection can be explained on the ground that Moses was surveying the future generally, in which not only a curse but a blessing also would come upon the nation, according to its attitude towards the Lord as a whole and in its pivot of mature believers. ROM 11:4 But what is the divine response to him? “I have kept for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” Even in times of great apostasy, there would always be a pivot which could not die out. Covenant theology agrees with Islam which is Anti-Jewish. For in the Al Maidah (The Table): “Believers (Muslims), take neither Jews nor Christians to be your friends: they are friends with one another. Whoever of you seeks their friendship Shall become one of their number, and God does not guide (those Jewish and Christian, called “wrong-doers”) 5:51-5:74. According to the Bible Israel is not to be cast off, JER 31:36-37. JER 31:35 Thus says the Lord, Who gives the sun for light by day, And the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night, Who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar; The Lord of hosts is His name: JER 31:36 “If this fixed order departs From before Me,” declares the Lord, “Then the offspring of Israel also shall cease From being a nation before Me forever.” JER 31:37 Thus says the Lord, “If the heavens above can be measured, And the foundations of the earth searched out below, Then I will also cast off all the offspring of Israel For all that they have done,” declares the Lord. ACT 1:6 And so when they had come together, they were asking Him, saying, “Lord, is it at this time You are restoring the kingdom to Israel?” ACT 1:7 He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or epochs which the Father has fixed by His own authority;” JER 32:38-39 And they shall be My people, and I will be their God; and I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me always, for their own good, and for {the good of} their children after them. EZE 11:19 And I shall give them one heart, and shall put a new spirit within them. And I shall take the heart of stone out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh, The Palestinian covenant reaffirms to Israel their title deed to the land of promise. In spite of their unfaithfulness and unbelief, the Palestinian covenant confirms their promised land. 1. The nation will be plucked off the land for its unfaithfulness, DEU 28:63-68; DEU 30:1-3. 2. There will be a future repentance of Israel, DEU 28:63-68; 30:1-3. 3. Their Messiah will return, DEU 30:3-6. 4. Israel will be restored to the land, DEU 30:5. 5. Israel will be converted as a nation, DEU 30:4-8; ROM 11:26-27. 6. Israel’s enemies will be judged, DEU 30:7. 7. The nation will then receive her full blessing, DEU 30:9. EZE 16:1-7 - God affirms His love for Israel in her infant stage. EZE 16:8-14 - God reminds Israel that she was chosen and related to Jehovah by marriage, but in EZE 16:15:34 she played the harlot. The punishment of dispersion was dealt to Israel, EZE 16:35-52. This is not the final setting of Israel since there will be restoration, EZE 16:53-63. The restoration is based on the promise, EZE 16:60-62. The church is not Israel, Israel is Israel and therefore God’s promises to Israel will be fulfilled, ROM 11:26-27;HOS 2:14-23; DEU 30:6; EZE 11:16-21. 1. Israel must be converted as a nation. 2. Israel must be regathered from her world-wide dispersion and installed in her land. 3. She must witness the judgment of her enemies. 4. She must receive the material blessings graciously promised to her. The conclusion: Don’t mess around with Israel! - GEN 12:3 And I will bless those who bless you, And the one who curses you I will curse.