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Take two.
Yeah.
This is the second time we're recording this episode and the next episode because technical
difficulties.
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We do have it set up in a room at our church and so like it's always possible somebody
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barely check our emails apparently.
So I got to tell you a funny story before we get into the Davidic covenant, which is
what we're talking about today.
I'm watching football, right?
And so there is Matthew Stafford is a quarterback for the Los Angeles Rams and he made this
like escape like someone was going to tackle him and he escaped and they go, they go, oh
my goodness, look at that maneuverability for the old man.
And I'm like, Matthew Stafford, can you believe he's doing that at 36 years old?
And I was like, you shut your mouth commentator.
But to be fair, the hit that he escaped also did look terrible.
So I totally get not wanting to hit like that even in your thirties.
When I watch football players that are in their thirties playing, I am like, okay, I
roll out of bed the wrong way and I'm done for the day.
Like I'm stiff, I'm hurting.
And these guys are out there taking hits like that.
I'm like more power to you.
Yeah.
We had that conversation one time where we were critiquing some game player at a game
and then we're like, how long would we last?
Not long.
And I was like half a play, half a play.
I think the first person would hit me and I'm done.
Yeah.
I get shoved to the ground and be like, ow, my back.
Are you sure we're wearing pads because this hurts?
Yeah.
So they would be like, so, you know, they, I don't know if you know, they have like this
guardian cap now it's meant to help reduce like concussions.
So I would be like, can I get two of them?
Like on both of them on my head, because does that work?
Cause you have a helmet.
Yeah.
It'd be one of those absurd, like just massive helmets, like you see in like, so, so we are
in week five of the covenant series.
So we've talked about the Adamic and the, um, the Noahic, the Abrahamic and the mosaic
covenant.
And so now, uh, like, I don't know if you'd notice like with the covenants, it kind of
goes back and forth between like massive amounts of people.
And then it kind of like narrows in like, cause like Abraham is like a group of people.
Mosaic is like for a group of people, but like Adamic and Noahic, they're for everybody.
Yes.
Right.
And, uh, spoiler alert messianic covenant is going to be for everybody too.
Yep.
Um, but the, uh, the Davidic covenant is really specifically talking to the line of David.
Yes.
Right.
And it's a covenant that pops up and it comes from, uh, first Samuel.
But before we get to that, and I actually go into the covenant, I want to talk about
David.
So how does David end up even end up on the scene?
So there's, uh, at coming out of the book of judges, uh, Israel, there's a recurring
theme there where they says Israel once again did evil in the sight of the Lord.
Um, they could, you know, like, it kind of reminds me when I read that I'm like, once
again, James tried to grab a popsicle out of the freezer, right?
It just happens every five to 10 minutes.
Um, it's something that's going to happen.
It's not evil by the way, him grabbing popsicles in light.
And this isn't just like, oh, they, as you said, once again, they did evil in the side
of the Lord.
It's not like a one time occurrence, right?
Right.
It's well, we'll use the story from this morning that I just told you where we were running
late getting my daughter to school and she's in the back with a, uh, it's a plastic bowl.
Um, and she's eating her breakfast out of it and she gets done eating her breakfast.
She starts taking a spoon and rubbing the inside of the plastic bowl.
So it's like a type sound and, uh, and we're like, and we're like, Hey, you gotta stop
that.
That's no, like this, that sounds just not happening in the car.
So she starts doing it softer.
We're like, no, we said stop.
So then she hands us a spoon.
She's like, well, I can't do it if I don't have the spoon.
They started doing it with her finger now.
And I was like, that's it.
Give me the bowl.
And then she takes the bowl and she dumps what's left in the bowl on my hand while I'm
reaching it, while I'm reaching in the back seat for the bowl.
And, uh, and it was one of those things where it's like, Nope, I told you what to do.
Uh, Nope, try again, try again, try again.
So like we have those moments with the Lord, right?
Where like, where he's like, no, this is what I expect of you.
And this is what goes on in the mosaic covenant in particular, where he's like, Hey, here's
your side of the deal.
And Israel keeps falling short.
Well, and if you remember in the mosaic covenant, cause we talked about it last week or technically
two weeks ago at this point, um, in the mosaic covenant, uh, God wants to make a covenant
with his people and he wants to interact with them.
And then they go, whoo, scary voice.
Right.
And so they asked Moses to be like the intermediary for them, which is a problem.
And it continues to be a problem with them throughout history because they're not talking
to God.
Right.
Yeah.
And, uh, which is actually going to be a theme later in the divided covenant, which in life
of King David, but, uh, so we get into the time of judges and, uh, Israel will do something
that they're not supposed to do, but God's redemptive love always comes through and he
redeems them back to himself.
He establishes the covenant, uh, with them and they, they start to live in the, sometimes
it's 40 years, sometimes it's 20 years.
Uh, but there's a cycle of judges that have to arise because every generation you hit
the next generation and they're like, whoop, we didn't learn from our past, which by the
way, yeah, teach your kids, right?
Don't let them repeat the same mistakes.
Let them make their own mistakes, but not the same mistakes.
Um, at the end of the book of judges and coming into the book of Samuel, the people come to
God and they say, Hey, um, we want a King just like everyone else.
Problematic because God's actually given them the mosaic law to look different than everybody
else.
You're supposed to look different.
If you put the Torah on display, then the entire world is going to know the name Yahweh
and they're going to be drawn to him.
Right?
Like the goal is to bless all nations because of you, right?
Through you, right?
Not because of you, but through you, um, for you to be the, the, the story that is being
put on display.
And so there's a guy that is anointed and God says, he says, well, I'll give you a King,
but you know, you're probably not going to like it.
Yeah.
And so, uh, he, he had select Saul and the thing about Saul is Saul physically looks
like you expect a King to look, but he's got issues internally.
Yeah.
He's a really tall, handsome warrior, uh, you know, strong guy, exactly what you're
thinking of.
If you want a King who goes off into battle, Saul is your man.
Uh, but the issue that Paul Saul keeps running, Paul, sorry, Paul, this issue that Saul keeps
running into is that every there's points in his, uh, in his life as he's going through,
he doesn't trust God to be God and he doesn't trust the role for other people to step into
the role.
He's really insecure.
Yeah.
Um, probably the best example of this is when he's told to, he's told to put an entire city
to the sword and he spares the things and he says, Oh, well God, I left those for you.
Well, if you really listened to me, you wouldn't have stuck your hand in the bowl.
Yeah.
Just going back to your story.
Yeah.
Uh, and he's like, and, and, uh, he's supposed to wait for Samuel to come and offer the sacrifice
to God, but he gets impatient.
He offers a sacrifice himself and, uh, and it's because of these things, because Saul
doesn't trust God, doesn't understand the intent of what God is doing, that he ultimately
says you're actually not going to stay King.
Yep.
And, uh, and then he goes and, uh, Samuel is led to go and find a guy by the name of
David.
Now you want to tell them a little bit about David's family.
Yeah.
So David is from Bethlehem.
Um, if you have read the gospels, you might recognize that town name.
House of bread.
Yep.
House of bread.
Yes.
Uh, so David's from there.
And so, uh, Samuel, uh, he goes to the house of Jesse and says, Hey, one of your sons is
going to be King.
And Jesse just has a ton of kids.
Jesse, uh, he's got five boys and probably some more kids too, but what we know is five
boys.
And, uh, so he brings the four oldest out, lines them up and Samuel, this is a Spencer
abbreviated version, goes down the line.
He's like, Nope, Nope, Nope, Nope.
And he's like, you got one more?
He's like, Oh yeah.
He's like, that's just my youngest.
He's out in the field watching the sheep, watching the sheep.
Like, like, um, David was, uh, in many ways the opposite of Saul.
Like he wasn't physically, he didn't have this prowess to him.
Like he was, he was kind of overlooked in many ways.
And so Samuel meets David and says, yes, this in anoints him to be a future King.
Yeah.
Now, uh, that doesn't happen right away.
Nope.
Does not happen right away.
There's a, there's a big, there's this big long journey that happens where you have the
story of David and Goliath.
Yeah.
Uh, you have, you have Saul being like, David, I love you.
Then David, I'm going to kill you.
And then David, I love you.
And then David, I'm going to kill you.
David, I love you.
David, play your heart for me.
Please.
David, I'm going to check a spirit.
Yeah.
Right.
Uh, so you have all these things and then David, uh, throughout all his, uh, time where
he's wandering, not King yet actually has a couple opportunities to kill Saul.
Correct.
And doesn't do it.
And his men are almost frustrated that he doesn't do it.
Yes.
Yeah.
But he's, he makes a statement.
He says, who am I to harm the Lord's anointed?
Yep.
And his statement being is that if God is going to cause Saul's downfall, God can take
care of it.
Yeah.
My job is to, uh, I'm going to use a Hebrew word.
It's called Keduse Hashem.
It means to hollow the name of God.
Yeah.
Like wherever David is going, he's trying to make God's name great.
Yeah.
I think my favorite one of David's where he didn't kill Saul is Saul's pooping in a cave
and David's like, I'm going to come kind of part of your robe off.
Yeah.
Like this is how close we are and you're going to know it.
Yeah.
Type thing.
So David then becomes king and when he becomes king, he doesn't do things perfectly.
Correct.
Right.
Uh, he, he, uh, sees a beautiful woman has an affair.
Yep.
Uh, has her husband killed?
Has her husband killed?
Uh, he was not a particularly good father.
Yeah.
Um, his kids hated him.
His kids actually tried to off him a few times.
Yeah.
Um, and so there's some really interesting stories about him and Absalom.
Yep.
Uh, yeah, and, and not only, not only that it's, um, it wasn't just, just the thing with
Bathsheba.
One of the things that we see when we read Chronicles, when we look backwards at David's
life, we see that David was also taken to senses of his might rather than trusting in
God.
And it seems to be a pivotal point is when he stops trusting God, he starts, stops talking
to God, by the way, he starts having his priest talk to God or offer up, you know, a word,
you know, to hear from God.
He stops talking to him and his, his, um, his, his life starts to go down really quickly.
Yeah.
Uh, it's almost like there's a key in there.
Yeah.
I think I trust the listeners can figure out what that key is.
Yeah.
Uh, and so the thing though, that makes David a man after God's own heart, right?
He doesn't live life perfectly perfectly.
He falls short.
All this stuff is the fact that when he did, does fall short and he's called out on it,
he repents.
Right.
And so he had this humility about him where he said, okay, maybe I shouldn't have had
that affair and had her husband killed.
Right.
Maybe.
Okay.
Sorry.
I shouldn't laugh at that, but just maybe, just maybe.
Yeah.
I mean, I said it a little tongue in cheek.
So, but, uh, and then he repented, right?
When the prophets, uh, confronted him, he, he repented.
So that is the thing about David that is that we really need to take note of one and it
should be noted that throughout Israel history after David, they always look at David's reign
as like this golden time, like it was the golden era.
Right.
And so all Kings in the future are going to be compared to the, to David.
Um, now that starts to show up as this, this Davidic covenant, this, this coming Messiah
is going to be from the line of David, hence the Davidic covenant.
Um, and it shows up, uh, where God actually makes the covenant.
It shows up in second Samuel seven 12, where he says this, um, when your days are over
and you rest with your ancestors, I will raise up your offering to succeed you your own flesh
and blood.
I know I have trouble reading.
I will establish, uh, and I will establish his kingdom.
He is the one who will build a house for my name and I will establish the throne of his
kingdom forever.
I will be his father and he will be my son.
When he does wrong, I will punish him with a rod wielded by men with floggings afflicted
by human hands, but my love will never be taken away from him.
As I took it away from Saul, whom I removed from before you, your house and your kingdom
will endure forever before me.
Your throne will be established forever.
Now the Jewish belief of course is that Solomon right away became like this King that he was
talking about because Solomon then went and built the temple.
Yeah.
Except then the temple is destroyed.
So they're like, well, maybe that's not who God's talking about.
Yeah.
And, uh, now of course we get the benefit of living thousands of years in the future
that we can actually read this, but, um, they, these are start to be like, um, attributes
that they start to put on to, um, this Davidic messianic figure.
Um, by the way, a Bible project has a great thing where they go through and they track,
like talk about Messiah.
Other passages that mentioned this particular, um, covenant is there's going to be some in
second Chronicles, but also in Psalm 89, right?
Um, so what's the significance of this, of this covenant?
It's an eternal kingdom, right?
So there is, there is a King coming in the line of David who is going to establish a
kingdom that never ends, right?
That goes from this, that point and moves forward and it's never going to go away.
Right.
And you can completely see how with that thought, they immediately started applying it to messianic
figures who are going to take them out of captivity.
Yeah.
Right.
Uh, when you start dealing with being a Syrian Babylonian, uh, Persian, and ultimately Roman
control, they're going to be looking for this messianic figure who's going to rise up and
just like completely bring them out of, um, their position and establish this eternal
kingdom.
Right.
Yes.
Um, now in, um, in, in Jewish perspective, they were definitely looking for a King that
was going to come and overthrow a regime.
Right.
Um, I have a little note here that I want to share cause I think this is really, um,
really helpful for understanding.
So in the time of Jesus and really the 300 years between the old Testament and the new
Testament, there were, uh, a few major, uh, sects of Judaism that really showed up and,
uh, and, um, it came to here.
That's the page I'm looking for and really, really showed up and started to, um, diverge
in their thoughts.
Not that we would ever know about that in Christianity with the nominations, right?
No.
So there was the Pharisees, the Sadducees, the Essians and the zealots, and they all
had different thoughts about who this Messiah was going to be.
So like the Pharisees, they, they were focused on strict adherence to the law.
So they anticipated a Messiah, anticipated a Messiah who would bring about spiritual
renewal and uphold religious traditions.
And they were right about some of that.
A lot of it though, Jesus comes in as like, not quite right.
Uh, the Sadducees more politically aligned, they were less focused on Messianic hopes.
They were emphasized, they were focusing on, uh, temple worship and stability.
Now once again, Jesus establishes a temple, which is what they're expecting.
It's just not a temple that they're expecting.
Yeah.
The temple is much different than they anticipated because rather than being brick and mortar,
it's made of hearts and souls.
Right?
Uh, the Essians were this group that went off into the middle of the desert to try to preserve
the true way of the text.
Right?
And they, uh, they waited a priestly and a kingly Messiah, right?
Using the imminent return of, uh, and divine interventions to establish a righteous community,
which Jesus absolutely does.
Right?
Stepping into this Davidic Messiah world, but not quite.
Yeah.
Right.
And then there were the zealots who thought, Hey, this is going to be a military Messiah.
He's going to lead a revolt against Roman occupation and restore Jewish independence.
Yeah.
Kind of.
Right.
And, and we're going to talk about a lot more about that next week, but, uh, you hear how,
if you know the life of David, you start to hear like in all of these sects of Judaism,
their idea of Messiah is going to carry one of these characteristics of David.
One of the things we find through Jewish history in like the Dead Sea Scrolls and the writing
in the Talmud and the Mishnah and commentary from sages throughout the years is this idea
of this Davidic role, right?
This Davidic covenant that is going to usher in the kingdom to come.
Right?
Yeah.
And so the, the covenant of David can really be seen as a covenant of hope expectation.
Yeah.
Right.
That, uh, you're in the middle of the garbage now, but there is coming a day when we're
going to go back to the way that things are supposed to be.
Yeah.
Which sounds a lot like the Adamic idea too, right?
We want to go back to the way things are supposed to be.
And uh, and so the message of the Davidic covenant and we learned from the life of David
is, is like that there is God is bringing hope back to his people.
He is, he does have a plan.
It's not just chaos.
We're actually going somewhere specifically.
Yeah.
Right.
And it's really important that the person who would actually fulfill the Davidic covenant
would be a person of hope.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
So the Davidic covenant closely mirrors messianic covenant.
Right.
And we're going to talk about that next week, but you need to understand that the Davidic
covenant is really the prelude.
Yeah.
It's really God saying hope is coming.
Hope is on the way.
Yeah.
In the, in the book of Matthew, uh, he's going to be doing the genealogy of Jesus and some
people, some scholars, um, who don't understand Jewish writing have looked at the, the genealogy
and Matthew and Luke and been like, Oh, they're different.
So clearly that's not what the problem is.
Like they wrote them that way on purpose because they're actually making a point.
Yeah.
And that's not uncommon in Jewish literature.
It's not how we would do it as Westerners, but it doesn't mean that it's wrong.
Right.
Um, but one of the things that he focuses on and when he talks about and, and the genealogy
of Jesus is he says he's a son of, uh, he's a son of Adam.
He's a son of Abraham.
He's a son of David.
Right.
And, uh, Matthew writing to a Jewish audience, they know exactly what he's saying.
Yeah.
Hey, you know, these covenants that God's made throughout history.
He, he's proclaiming him to be Messiah.
He's complaining, uh, commenting on him being, uh, the second Moses.
Yeah.
Right.
He's talking about him being like, Paul's going to say later, the second Adam.
Yeah.
Right.
Uh, it's not an accident that Matthew's writing it this way.
Um, by the way, there is conversation in scholarly circles about whether or not Matthew was originally
written in Hebrew or not Greek.
Um, there's a, I think it's Eusebius or its origins.
I can't remember which of the people it is, but they write that, uh, there it's an offhanded
comment in their writings where they talked about Matthew writing his, uh, his Testament
to the, to the Hebrew people in their original language.
Yeah.
And so it's kind of like this weird statement.
Now all the manuscripts that we have are all in Greek and they seem to be like as far back
as they can go, but there is a lot going on in the book of Matthew that there's people
who think that it was originally in Hebrew and then translate it into Greek, which would
totally track because Matthew would have originally written it to Hebrews, right?
To Jews, uh, people who understand Hebrew.
But as the message became more about more than just the Jewish people and became about
all the world, it became important to have a language that most people would speak.
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
So this, this, uh, declaration in, in the new Testament where it says, you know, from
the line of David, um, from the, uh, from the line of Abraham, from the Hellenic, you
know, these, these things mean something.
They're not just off-handed statements.
It's not literally listing.
Well it might, it is, yes, literally listening to genealogy, but it's not just listing a
genealogy.
Yeah.
You have Matthew saying like, look at the promises that God made.
Yeah.
Here they are being fulfilled in the man of Jesus.
Well, if you want to talk about like, like David was flawed, look at the genealogy of
genealogy of Matthew.
He points out the flaws in the genealogy.
We talked about that in the, in the, um, women throughout the Bible.
We talked about the stories like Tamar and about the stories of Bathsheba, right?
Yeah.
Actually, Rahab.
Yeah.
All these people who you normally want to bury and like, you know, quietly make go away.
Not that anybody in political circles, whatever, make those things go away.
Like Matthew's like, Hey, you know, those people that are considered to be on the outside,
they're in, they're in, like he's here for them.
Those people who, uh, in fact, like that actually ends up showing up in the, just the, the sermon
on the Mount.
Yeah.
Blessed are the people who you think don't matter because the kingdom is about them.
And you're being invited into this kingdom.
All of you.
Yeah.
So back when, um, before my wife and I were married and, and we were in that dating relationship,
there was, there's a few people in my extended family.
I was like, Oh, it's going to be really fun if she meets them.
Yeah.
Right.
Um, and you do one or two things and like kind of hide it, right.
And be like, okay, all right, let's not meet the crazy uncle right away type thing.
Right.
Or he can be like, this just who we are.
Like, this is just, this is crazy uncle Ivan or whoever.
And uh, and embrace it.
Right.
And that's what Matthew's doing.
He's like, he's like, look, the story's messy.
Here's the players.
Like, yeah, like there's drama that unfolded.
Yeah.
Like Jesus is literally born of a virgin and I bet you, nobody believed it in the day.
Right.
So like his mom's walking around with like shame from the community.
No, I mean like maybe, no, probably not.
Yeah.
Like just be real.
I probably wouldn't believe it.
Um, I, I would at least question it.
I, I'm like, okay, did they get, did they get brainwashed or something?
Did you believe in this?
You know, like I would ask today is like a little more plausible with like artificial
insemination and stuff like that.
But, but still like if someone's like, oh yeah, I'm a virgin and I'm pregnant, I would
be like an angel came and told me that the Holy spirit was going to come on me and I
was going to birth a birth a child and I'll be like, I would be like, I feel like we need
to test this.
Yeah.
And, uh, and so like between, uh, Joseph and Mary, Jesus grew up in a very scandalous, uh,
very, very scandalous, uh, like history.
Yeah.
Now, of course, the vindication of time, right.
But in the moment they're walking through the chaos and yet Jesus is the very definition
of hope coming to these people and coming from the craziest background you can imagine.
Right.
Um, with this covenant though, it's, it's really God saying, Hey, hope is coming.
Yeah.
And this covenant is taking place in a time where things are looking good.
Yeah.
Right.
Israel is in a good spot.
They got a good King.
They're out there, uh, probably the most wealthy they've ever been.
Yeah.
They don't know the chaos that's coming.
Um, but the Lord does.
And so it's kind of the timing of this message.
It kind of seems weird a little bit because the Lord's like, Hey, hope is coming.
And there's going to be people who hear that and they're going to end that day and age
and be like, what are you, what are you talking about?
This is the best we've ever had it.
Right.
But it doesn't matter like how good you think you have it.
There's still hope, right?
We still have the hope of Jesus who is here, who's here now.
But at the time hope is on the way.
Right.
I was thinking about in my life, um, I had a prophetic word for somebody long before
it actually came to fruition.
I gave it to them in a time of like that their life was solid and I felt weird about giving
them the message.
Right.
And so I just shared it.
I said, Hey, you know, I believe that God has laid something on my heart for you.
And I was like, I want you to hear it.
And if it has weight, carry it.
If not, then feel free to set it aside.
Um, it meant nothing to them until their life fell apart.
Yeah.
And then in that moment, God brought this word back.
Yeah.
One of the things that God does in our lives is he often gives our word, the word that
we need to hear before we need to hear it.
And as we allow that to like sit and work in our lives, then as, as the chaos comes
around it, so does this word.
Yeah.
And we're like, Oh, this isn't forever.
Hope is coming.
Hope is God does have a plan.
Yep.
I think the other thing that the Davidic covenant really kind of helps us understand because
the whole thing is about it's King David.
Yeah.
And one of the things we struggle with, I think in American Christianity, I'm specify
American, is understanding that we serve a King.
Yes.
We're not in a, the United States is, is a constitutional Republic.
I get that.
Right.
But we as believers in Christ serve a kingdom.
Yes.
We live in a kingdom.
We serve a King.
Now we live in a constitutional Republic, but we serve a King.
Yep.
So it's way different when the King says to do something, you do it right.
Because you exist in his entire realm.
Yeah.
And I want to think of the Davidic covenant reminds us is that we step in when we say
yes to Jesus and he, and he takes possession of our life and he brings his kingdom into
us, right?
Is that we now are not stepping into a, into a democracy.
We're stepping into a monarchy where we, we serve King Jesus and allow his will, his reign
and his kingdom to be present in our lives and to go everywhere that we go.
Right.
Yep.
And I think that's really hard for, I know that there's a number of people that I know
and at times for myself is really hard to remember that I'm not the boss.
We're so used to putting things to a vote, right?
Like I mean, we got election season coming on where people are going to be out voting.
Even, even in some school settings I've worked at, there's, they put things to vote.
A lot of the churches use voting.
They use voting to like when they're doing something specifically.
And by the way, we're not saying the voting is bad.
No, like actually I would argue the opposite.
I think that the voting and using your, what God has given you, like absolutely use your
voice.
Yeah, it's good.
It actually helps keep power in check.
Correct.
And so it is a really good thing.
But the difference between how we run things in this world and how Christ runs things is
that his power doesn't need to be kept in check.
Correct.
Right.
In fact, the more power that runs rampant, the better for us.
Right.
And then I think that's the piece where we can kind of get hung up a little bit was where
people are like, well, we do it this way to keep power in check.
And I was like, okay, so if you're applying that to your relationship with Jesus, are
you trying to keep his power in check?
Yeah.
And if you're doing that, you actually want the opposite.
You want his power to run rampant in your life.
And I don't think anybody would verbally say that.
Yeah.
But when you actually are honest with yourself and ask, why am I, why am I trying to, you
know, like treat this as, as a democracy between me and God?
Yeah.
Right.
You actually realize that you're trying to check God's power in your life.
Right.
And you're falling prey to the exact same blender that happens in Genesis three, which
is that I think God's holding out on me and I could do better.
And spoiler alert, there's lots of pages of that not working out well.
Yes.
Yeah.
Yes.
I like that you say in his power running rampant through us, right?
If there's one place you want unchecked power, it's Jesus power running through you.
Yes.
Because when that happens, you love people.
Well, miracles abound, kingdom comes and people call in the name of Jesus.
Amen.
And it's awesome.
Amen.
So we're going to pause there and that's going to be the Davidic covenant.
We'll be coming back in like 15 minutes, our time and one week, your time to talk about
the Messianic covenant.
It's going to be great.
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