Sunday, October 23, 2022

God's Certain Unbreakable Covenant

Jeremiah 33:19-26 

19 And the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying, 20 "Thus says the LORD: 'If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that there will not be day and night in their season, 21 then My covenant may also be broken with David My servant, so that he shall not have a son to reign on his throne, and with the Levites, the priests, My ministers. 22 As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the sea measured, so will I multiply the descendants of David My servant and the Levites who minister to Me.'"

23 Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying, 24 "Have you not considered what these people have spoken, saying, 'The two families which the LORD has chosen, He has also cast them off'? Thus they have despised My people, as if they should no more be a nation before them.

25 "Thus says the LORD: 'If My covenant is not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth, 26 then I will cast away the descendants of Jacob and David My servant, so that I will not take any of his descendants to be rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will cause their captives to return, and will have mercy on them.'"


God made a certain covenant with His people as a picture of the New Covenant to come through the Branch of David’s physical lineage and God’s own spiritual lineage according to His word by His Messiah and enabled by His Spirit who hovered over the creation in the beginning and does so now over His new creation (Genesis 1:1-2, Galatians 2:20, John 3:3, 2 Corinthians 5:17).  He made this ironclad agreement with Himself as He did when making us in His image (Genesis 1:26), here giving the sworn affidavit of His word concerning the permanence of creation itself as proof.  He states clearly that His people cannot break what covenant agreement He has made.  If we can stop the earth from turning to end the days and nights and all other celestial bodies from their courses, only then could the covenant which the LORD makes be broken, for He has made a covenant with His creation to continue as it is set in place no matter what we attempt to do to stop it.  This is Gods analogy of how we are unable to nullify His covenant of grace for our eternal salvation.  He will not take it away once given and we are utterly powerless to do so either.  Our standing in the New Covenant in the Branch of God’s righteousness in Christ is safe and secure from all alarms of worry or sin which we ever conjure up to the contrary.  He works, and who can reverse it (Isaiah 43:13)?  Nobody can snatch us from His hand, and He has promised not to let us go.  That is what God’s word tells us is so.  In His great mercy He delivers from the bondage of captivity to sin we are born in as He did with Israel even when despised by others, and then seals us as His (Ephesians 1:13-14) and keeps us in Christ’s righteousness (Romans 5:17, 21, 8:10).  He world despises and mocks us when we fail amen fall into sin, but we are still secure in Him according to His word (Hebrews 8:25, 28, 10:35, 39, 11:1, 2 Corinthians 5:7, 10) of this absolutely certain and unbreakable covenant!  This is God's Certain Unbreakable Covenant in the Branch of David who is Christ our righteousness.  


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