I love that hymn. I want to sing
it with them. I will arise and go to Jesus. 2 Samuel chapter 7. 2 Samuel chapter
7. This chapter is a pivotal, important point in the life of David. The
life of David is a type of Christ. The life of David is a As an
example, an illustration of a believer, a sinner saved by grace. In this
chapter we have what is commonly called the Royal Covenant, the
Divine Royal Covenant. And so I've entitled tonight's
message and the next one following it, the same thing, part one,
part two, Christ Our Covenant King. Christ Our Covenant King. Now the terms and the Issues
and the truth of this covenant are expressed in verses 12 through
17. But what I want to do tonight,
by way of introduction, is show you the things that lead up to
God revealing and making this covenant with David and his house
in the first 10 or 11 verses of this chapter. But underline
this whole covenant experience. is the eternal covenant of redemption. And it's a marvelous thing. Now,
the Bible, when you read the scriptures from Genesis to Revelation,
you will not see the exact words or phrase, the eternal covenant
of redemption. But it's there. The truth is
there. It's like the truth of the Trinity, the blessed Trinity. You won't see the word Trinity
there. But the truth of the Trinity God the Father, God the Son,
and God the Holy Spirit is certainly throughout the scripture, both
Old Testament and New. You won't find the exact word
sovereignty in the Bible, but you can't read the Bible and
not come out at least agreeing that the Bible teaches that God
is absolutely sovereign in all things. He's in control. And that's the same thing with
this everlasting covenant of redemption, that covenant that
in our terms and as we, in our finite minds, limited understandings
can express it, we express it this way. And I know there's
some theologically technical people who may not agree with
everything the way I say it. You know, it doesn't really bother
me that much. I might say it a different way, but I hope I'm
expressing the same truth. But it's simply this, that the
Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit covenanted together for
the redemption of the people of God, His elect, the people
whom God chose and gave to Christ. Put all the responsibility of
our eternal salvation upon Him before the foundation of the
world. The Bible describes it in 2 Timothy 1 as a salvation
which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began.
And that's so mind-boggling, but it's glorious, isn't it?
It's something we can take so much comfort in. And the culmination
of that covenant is expressed right here in this covenant that
the Lord revealed and made with David. Christ, our covenant King. We speak of the Lordship of Christ,
and what an awesome subject that is. Now, Christ in his deity,
as the second person of the Trinity, always has been and always will
be Lord. He never gave up his Lordship.
But there is a sense in which he has an earned Lordship. The Apostle Peter expressed that
in his great sermon in Acts chapter 2 on Pentecost when he said how
God hath made Jesus both Lord and King, Lord and Christ. And what he's talking about is
the fulfillment of all the work of redemption that Christ accomplished
in his obedience unto death Whereupon, as the Bible puts it in Philippians
chapter 2, he was given a name which is above every name, that
at his name every knee should bow and every tongue should confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord. And that's what theologians sometimes
refer to as his mediatorial lordship. The Bible says there's one God
and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.
Well, he's not only Lord, in his nature of deity, which as
I said, always has been, always will be, but he now reigns as
Lord in his mediatorial office, as God-man. I think many of you
might remember years and years ago, there was a preacher that
came to the 13th Street Conference in June, and he preached a message
called, There's a Man in Glory. I don't remember who it was,
but I remember the message, and it was an awesome message, wasn't
it? And that's what he was talking about. How in the world could
there be a man in glory? Now, here's the way it is, though. There's a man in glory who is
glorified as King, Christ as God-man. Now, that's what this
covenant expresses. But let's see what leads up to
it. Here, David, as you know, finally
he had inquired of the Lord. on how to bring the Ark of the
Covenant back to Israel. He wanted to bring it to Jerusalem.
And he had constructed a temporary tent to house the Ark. You remember,
when he first went to get it, he didn't inquire of the Lord.
And they built that brand new cart, and they tried to bring
it back, and the Lord struck Uzzah dead when he touched the
Ark, trying to stabilize it. That was the wrong way. That
was not God's way, as he instructs his people in the Bible, well,
David finally got it right. He went and inquired of the Lord,
and they brought the ark back. The Levites were the ones who
carried the ark with the staves, all of that representing some
aspect of Christ's person, Christ's offices as prophet, priest, and
king, mediator, surety, advocate And Christ finished work on the
cross. All of it was a picture, a type, a prophecy, a foreshadowing
of his great works. So David has finally brought
the ark back to Jerusalem, and it's placed in that temporary
tent. So now David has a desire. He has a dream, as somebody said,
David's dream. It's expressed here in the first
few verses of 2 Samuel 7. Let's look at it. It says in
verse 1, it came to pass when the king sat in his house. And
the Lord had given him rest round about from all his enemies. And
notice this is a given rest, not an earned rest. That's so
indicative of our salvation, isn't it? We rest in the Lord
Jesus Christ. And it's a given rest. You see,
it's all by the power of God, all by the wisdom of God, all
by the grace of God. David fought hard. He sought
the hand of the Lord. He sought to inquire of the Lord.
You remember, twice before he went up against the Philistines,
he inquired of the Lord, as he should have. But never make any
mistake about this, and this is something that underlines
this whole book, is that God is the one who is the victor. God is the one who has the power. All power. Now, we read that
in 1 Chronicles 29, and we'll go back there in just a minute.
But David recognized that. When David killed Goliath, who
did he say did the work? Who did he give the glory? He
gave it to God. You see, he recognized that Goliath
and the Philistines were defying the armies of the living God.
They weren't just defying King Saul and this Israelite army. They were defying God, Jehovah
God. And that's the way it is, you
see. So God's going to have the victory here. All who come up
against him shall be ashamed, shall be clothed with shame,
as that psalm that Joe read said. They'll be clothed with shame.
And so this is a rest that God had given him. And anytime I
think about that, and this is so important here, I think about
our Sabbath. Christ is our Sabbath. That's
what Sabbath means, a rest. A day is not our Sabbath. Christ
is our Sabbath. We rest in His finished work. as our whole salvation. And that's
our hope. So God had given him rest round
from all of his enemies. And it says in verse 2, that
the king said unto Nathan the prophet, see now I dwell in a
house of cedar. Now he's speaking of his own
palace. Remember how Hiram the king sent materials to help David
build his own house where David would live, the king's house.
And he said, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God
dwelleth within curtains, temporary tent. And David recognized that's
not right. For me to dwell in a palace,
to dwell in a house of cedar, and for the ark of God, which
is the emblem of the presence of God. You remember we read
that in Exodus 25, when the ark was being made, how God said,
there will I commune with you above the mercy seat. That mercy
seat representing Christ, God's presence, God's favor, God's
blessing through the blood of the Lamb, and in the mediatorial
work of the high priest. And so David said, well, it's
just not right. So he says in verse 3, he said,
and Nathan said to the king, go, do all that is in thine heart,
for the Lord is with thee. And what he's talking about here,
David wanted to build A permanent tabernacle. The temple. David
wanted to build the temple. A permanent place. Not like the
old tabernacle that you could pick it up and move it. It was
mobile. But one that was permanent. That's
what Nathan, the prophet, is saying. Well, you go do what's
in your heart. For the Lord is with you. Now,
Nathan here is speaking out of turn. He's not speaking as God's
prophet. Issuing forth the word of God.
He's telling David, well, that sounds like a good thing. You're
the king. Certainly, that would be honorable
to build a temple, to house the Ark of the Covenant. You're reestablishing
the worship of God in Israel the right way, not the wrong
way, and that's certainly honorable. But here's what happens. That's
David's dream. He wanted to build the temple.
But look at God's answer. Look at God's revision of this.
Now that's what this rest of this part of the chapter is about
from verses 4 to 11. Listen to what God tells Nathan. And he says in verse 4, And it
came to pass that night that the word of the Lord came unto
Nathan. Now he didn't have the word of the Lord before when
he told David to go do what's in your heart. That was just
him expressing his own opinion. But now the word of the Lord,
now God speaks. God speaks, and see, this is
the end of it all. This is the final word when God
speaks, and he says in verse 5, Go and tell my servant David,
Thus saith the Lord. And he says, Shalt thou build
me a house for me to dwell in? The connotation here is this,
God is telling Nathan, you tell David, did I command you to go
build me a house? Did you have that word for me?
Is this what I told you to do? Of course, the obvious answer
to that is no. But he does, it's a mild rebuke. Notice he says, go and tell my
servant, to my servant, to David. David there, God's servant. That's what the king was to be.
And you know, the language of this whole passage here shows
the submission and subservience of David to God. Now, David's
the king. He's the sovereign king of Israel.
He sits upon the throne in Jerusalem. And yet, as king, there is one
greater. He's not the supreme sovereign
king of the universe. Go back to 1 Chronicles chapter
29 that we read in the opening. And this is an amazing thing.
This is where David gives thanksgiving to God. And he's leading the
people in worship. And one of the main issues of
worship, true worship, is recognizing that we're nothing and God is
everything. That God is in control. And my
friend, that means of everything, especially my salvation. God
is sovereign, not just in providence, not just in creation. But he's
sovereign in salvation, salvations of the Lord. And this is the
worship that comes from the heart of a redeemed, regenerate sinner
coming to his King, coming to his sovereign God and giving
thanks. And that's where it says in verse
10, Wherefore David blessed the Lord before all the congregation.
And David said, Blessed be thou, Lord God of Israel, our Father
forever and ever. Thine, O Lord, is the greatness,
not David's. He says, Thine, O Lord, is the
power and the glory and the victory and the majesty. Those things
don't belong to David, they belong to God. For all that is in the
heaven and in the earth is Thine, it belongs to God. It doesn't
belong to David. You know, one of the downfalls
of earthly kings is when they rise up in their pride and in
their greed. And they think they're the owner
of the people, the owner of the nation, the owner of all these
things. The Roman emperors, it was common for them to lift themselves
up and call themselves gods. And what a, what a, what stupidity. What pride. Well, David recognizes,
that's not me. You see, that belongs only to
God. He says, all that, all that's in the heavens and the earth,
thine is the kingdom. You see, this is God's kingdom.
That's why the church, what's the church? It's God's kingdom.
It doesn't belong to me. It doesn't belong to you. We're
just citizens in the kingdom that belongs to God. He bought
it lock, stock, and barrel with the price of His shed blood.
He purchased the church with His own blood. Didn't Paul say
that to the Ephesian elders? He purchased it. He bought it.
Bought it lock, stock, and barrel. So David says, Thine is the kingdom,
O Lord, and Thou art exalted as head above all. The purpose
of the King of Israel, David, And the purpose of the kingdom
is to exalt the King, the Lord of Glory. He says, both riches
and honor come of thee. Whatever I have, it's of God.
Whatever I have in salvation, whatever I have in blessings,
it comes of God. I didn't earn it, didn't deserve
it. It's something that God has freely given me in Christ. We
are blessed with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places
in Christ. He says, Thou reignest over all.
Thine hand is the power and might. Thine hand is to make great and
to give strength unto all. Now, therefore, our God, we thank
Thee and praise Thy glorious name. Isn't that something? You
know, you don't see many kings talking like that, many earthly
kings talking like that, do you? That's the way David spoke. So
God says, My servant. That's what a servant does. And
this servanthood here is a bond slave of Christ. A bond slave,
a willing, loving bond slave. One who serves his master, not
because he has to pay a debt. He serves his master because
he loves him and the debt's been paid. That's what a bond slave
is. That's what we are in Christ.
We're not legal servants forced into slavery by a debt that we
owe. But we're serving Christ. because
he saved us and paid our debt in full by the blood of his cross
and made us servants of the Lord. So look at verse 5 now, 2 Samuel
7. He says, Go and tell my servant
David, thus saith the Lord, shalt thou build me in house for me
to dwell in? Whereas I have not dwelt in any
house since the time that I brought up the children of Israel out
of Egypt, Now, he refers back to the redemption of the nation
out of Egypt, that redemption by power. And you see, that's
where it all started with the nation. Now, as far as the covenant,
it goes back to Abraham, and then it goes even back farther
than that to the everlasting covenant of redemption. It's
all in the process and purpose of God. And he says, even to
this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle, So
that tent and tabernacle refers to the tabernacle of old. Verse
7, he says, In all the places wherein I have walked with all
the children of Israel, spake I a word with any of the tribes
of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying,
Why, Bilgee, not me and house of Cedar? In other words, in
all that time that they worshipped at the tabernacle, in all that
time they were wandering, and then in all that time that they
came into the land of Canaan, did God ever issue forth a command,
now I need a house of cedar? Now, you know and I know that
you can't build a house that contains God. He's not contained
in places, geographically, by borders. But you see, the presence
of the Lord that was indicated by this Ark of the Covenant had
to be housed. He never commanded them to build
him a house of cedar. That was never issued forth by
God. And so, verse 8, he says, Now therefore, so shalt thou
say unto my servant David, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the
invincible God, I took thee from the sheepfolds. Now, God's going
to David personally here. And he's reminding him how he
got to where he was. He says, I'm the one who took
you from the sheepfold. Man didn't choose you. They didn't
hold an election and say, well, David's on the ballot. David
didn't volunteer. They had to go get him. Samuel
had to send for him. You remember that? Jesse presented
all of his sons except his youngest, David. And Samuel says, is this
all of them? Jesse said, no. He said, go get
the other. And so God says, I took you from the sheepfold, from
following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel. I chose you. I put you where
you are. Everything you have is because
of God. Now, David recognized that. And incidentally, the word
ruler here in verse 8 is not normally the word that is used
for a king. It's one that's used for a prince,
the son of the king. And I think about this because
Christ himself is called the Prince of Peace. He's a prince,
and yet he's also a king. He's the King of Kings, the Lord
of Lords. He's the mighty one and only
potentate, all-powerful one, and yet he's a prince. What does
that tell you? Well, it shows you of the offices
of Christ and what he accomplished. As the prince of his father,
as the son of his father, he accomplished redemption for his
people. He fulfilled the duties of his
office. He said, I always do the will
of my father. He showed his submission to the
father in coming to earth, walking this earth in strict obedience
to the law, and going to the cross in an obedient way, obedient
unto death, even the death of the cross, to save us from our
sins. to establish righteousness in
order that God could be just and justify the ungodly. So he
was a prince, and yet as a prince, fulfilling his duties, he was
made king in a mediatorial way. And so David is represented here
not only as a king, typifying Christ as king, but also as a
prince over the people of God. Look at verse 9. He says, And
I was with thee, whithersoever thou winnest, and have cut off
all thine enemies out of thy sight, that is, God did it, as
David said in 1 Chronicles 29, and have made thee a great name."
Well, we know that David had a great name in Israel. We know
that other countries, other nations heard about David's triumphs. Hiram was one of them, the one
who helped him with the building of David's house. But the Bible
told us, we read it a couple of weeks ago, how all nations
surrounding heard about David's prowess. He said, a great name,
a name like unto the name of the great men that are in the
earth. Now, how ultimately, though, you think about David, and I
mentioned this this morning, you know, this under King David,
Israel was probably in his heyday, the greatest time for that nation
in every way under the worship of God. And yet David, David
himself as a person, In many ways, he failed miserably, didn't
he? Because you think about David, and think about the great name
of David. His great name. God said, I made
you a great name. And yet, when you think about
King David, and as I said this morning, if you're honest, what
is the first thing you normally think of when you think about
David? Usually, it's the sin that he
committed with Bathsheba, and the murder of Uriah. That's not
such a great name, is it? But David had a great name. How,
ultimately, did God make David's name great? Well, I want you
to turn in the Scriptures with me. Turn, first of all, to the
book of Luke, chapter 1. Luke, chapter 1. And this is the pronouncement
unto Mary that she would have a child. The angel came to her, in Luke
chapter 1, verse 30. It says here that the angel said
unto Mary, Fear not, Mary, for thou hast found favor with God. And behold, thou shalt conceive
in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name
Jesus, and remember what that name means, that's Jehovah Saved. or Jehovah our Savior. And he
shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest,
and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father
David." Now, that's ultimately how God made a great name for
David. It wasn't David personally. It
wasn't glory to David himself. But it was the glory of David
realized in and through the Lord Jesus Christ, David's greater
son. That's how David had a great
name. And you see, this is the issue of his person. When he
said, what think ye of Christ? Whose son is he? They said, well,
he's the son of David. And then he answered him back.
He said, well, then how could David call him Lord? If he was
David's offspring, if he was David's descendant, how could
David call him God? How could that be? They didn't
know. We know, don't we? By God's revelation, he's both
God and man. He's God in human flesh. And
it's through him that David's name is made great. not through
David or by anything that David did. It's all the work of God.
It's all fulfilled ultimately in the person and work of the
Lord Jesus Christ. So go back to 2 Samuel 7. This
is his great name, like under the name of great men that are
in the earth. And he said in verse 10, he said, Moreover,
I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant
them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move
no more. That is a permanent residence
for the nation. Now that still was just temporary. God intended it that way under
that covenant. He says, but neither shall the
children of wickedness afflict them any more as before time.
Now, what you see here is there's a transition coming. And it's
a transition from the temporal to the eternal. Because you see,
There was a long time that the children of Israel didn't occupy
that land. They did move. And some say,
well, they're coming back. Well, that's okay, but they moved.
And that land's going to be destroyed with this whole earth. Well,
what's he talking about? He's leading up to the permanent
position of glory in Zion, in his people, which will never
be taken away because of Christ. The foundation. The foundation
stone that's laid that is permanent and cannot be moved. And that's
what he's leading up to, and he tells them in verse 11, look
here, and he says, And as since the time that I commanded judges
to be over my people Israel, and have caused thee to rest
from all thine enemies, also the Lord telleth thee that he
will make thee an house. He will make you a house. He's
talking to David. Sometimes that word house refers
to an actual house. It's like your house. You go
home to your houses tonight. But other times it refers to
something else. And that's what it's referring
to here. And you know what that is? It's not just a house. Not just
a building. Not even a temple. But it's referring
to a whole succession of kings that culminate in Christ the
King. It's referring to a dynasty.
Over in England, Talk about Queen Elizabeth, they say she is of
the House of Windsor. That's the dynasty. That's that
line of kings. And that's what God is telling
David here. There's going to be a line of
kings. Kings of Judah that will not
be broken. And he says, I'm going to make
you a house. I'm going to keep it together. Make sure this dynasty
goes all the way through to its full fruition and culmination
and completion in and by the King, the King of Kings. And
in Him, we will find all rest and all peace and all glory. And so what he's actually telling
David here before he issues forth this covenant is, David, you're
not going to build me a house. I'm going to build you one. And
that's a glorious thing. It was a noble thing for David
to want to build the house, build the temple. No doubt about that. Of course, God said you couldn't
do that. David couldn't do that. Now, look with me over in 1 Chronicles
chapter 22. Turn there with me. Somebody
might ask, well, why couldn't David do it? Well, that wasn't
God's purpose. But if you look over in 1 Chronicles,
some of you have read this with me before. But this is David
in his last words to his son Solomon. And look at 1 Chronicles
22, look at verse 6. And this says right out there
in verse 5, the last words, So David prepared abundantly before
his death. In other words, he's preparing
Solomon before he died to understand God's purpose, God's plan, what
God would have Solomon do when he was king. And look at verse
6. It says, Then he called for Solomon his son, and he charged
him, gave him a command to build a house for the Lord God of Israel. This is because David had a command
from God to do this. He is not just doing this on
his own. In verse 7 it says, And David said to Solomon, My
son, ask for me. It was in my mind to build a
house unto the name of the Lord my God. But the word of the Lord
came to me, saying, Thou hast shed blood abundantly. Thou shalt
not build a house unto my name, because thou hast shed much blood
upon the earth in my sight. Now, we've seen that in the life
of David. There were times when God commanded
him to go down and bring vengeance upon enemies, and there were
times David acted upon his own and did things upon his own out
of his own vengeance. There were times he was kept
from that. Do you remember when Abigail kept him from it? There
were other times that God allowed him to go his own way, but anyway,
he was known as a man of war, a man of blood. And this was
revealed to him in another place. And then it says in verse 9,
so David is a man of war. What significance is that? Well
listen, verse 9. Behold a son shall be born to thee. This is
what God told David. He said a son shall be born to
thee who shall be a man of rest. It's a man of peace. a man of
rest. And he said, I will give him
rest from all his enemies round about, for his name shall be
Solomon, which literally means peaceful or peaceable. That's what Solomon means. And
I will give peace and quietness unto Israel in his days. And he will build a house for
my name, and he shall be my son, and I will be his father, and
I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever. And of course, we know that goes
beyond Solomon. You'll see that when we study
the covenant next time in 2 Samuel 7. It doesn't stop at Solomon.
It goes far further. It goes on to Christ. But you
see, a man of blood, a man of war, couldn't build the house
of God. It took a man of rest, a man
of peace. Now, what's the significance
there? Well, what is Christ? Christ fought a battle. And he
won the battle. He fought the battle on the cross
for his people. He went to war against Satan.
He went to war against sin and against the curse of the law.
He fulfilled it all. He fulfilled all righteousness.
He finished the transgression. It was a fight to the death.
Some might say, well, his death. Well, that's true, but his death
was the victory. It was a death that he accomplished.
He accomplished victory by his death. I told you that one of
the first books that Brother Mahan gave me when I first started
coming to 13th Street was a book called The Death of Death in
the Death of Christ by John Owen. And that's a great, great little
book. The Death of Death in the Death of Christ. And that's what
he did in his death. So he was a man of war for a
time, in the sense that he went to war against sin. But when
he finished his work, what did he do? What does the Bible say
he did? He sat down at the right hand of the Father. He ascended
unto glory. Now he's a man of peace. He's
the Prince of Peace. He brought reconciliation between
God and his people. He established the only righteousness
based upon which God is reconciled to us, and we're reconciled to
God. And when we come to Him by faith,
what does the Bible say that is? That's entering into His
rest. Now somebody says, well, that
means we rest from our labors. Well, we do. We do rest from
our labors. He said, come unto me all you
that labor and are heavy laden, I'll give you rest. We stop trying
to save ourselves by our works And we find peace and comfort
and assurance and rest in the person and work of Christ. But
entering into His rest means this. Hebrews chapter 4 teaches
this. You read it. He rested just like
the Father rested and the Son and the Spirit in the creation.
When He rested on the seventh day, it doesn't mean God got
tired and then had to re-energize or anything like that. That just
simply means that he finished the work that he set out to do
in creation. And then he rested. And what
Christ did when he was obedient unto death and he finished the
work on the cross, and that's what he said, it is finished.
Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone
that believe it. He said it's finished. Then he rested. Now
again, that doesn't mean he got tired. It means that he finished,
he completed the work. And so when we enter into his
rest, we're entering into the glory and the salvation and the
finished work that he accomplished. And he's our Sabbath forever
and ever. Now that's what Solomon represents
as King. That's the finished work. And
the rest upon which the house of God, his nation, his spiritual
nation, his church, his people are built. That's what he meant
when he said, I'm going to build my church upon that rock. And that's something. Well, that's
why David couldn't do it. But in Christ now, one more thing,
and I'll close. I want you to turn to Revelation
21. As we go through this, Christ
our covenant King, and as we study this covenant, and it's
a glorious thing, always remember this when it's talking about the abiding presence of God in
the tabernacle, the Ark of the Covenant, you know what all that
represented. Let us never forget that the
tabernacling presence of God now and forever is the Lord Jesus
Christ Himself. You hear what I'm saying? The
tabernacling of God dwelling with us, you see. That is the
Lord Jesus Christ Himself. Let me quote John 1.14 for you. It says, "...the Word was made
flesh and dwelt among us." Now, you all know what that word dwelt
literally means, don't you? The Word, Christ, the Son of
God, has no beginning, no end. Who is God? Who is with God?
Who is God? He was made flesh, that's His
incarnation, and tabernacled among us. Revelation 21, look
at verse 1. Listen to this. This vision that
Christ gave to John. He said, and I saw a new heaven
and a new earth. For the first heaven and the
first earth were passed away, and there was no more sea. And
I, John, saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down from
God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the
tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them. And they shall be his people,
and God himself shall be with them, and be their God." That
tabernacle of God is a he. That's who that's referring to.
That's Christ. He's the tabernacling presence
of God. Now, with that in mind, We'll
come up to verse 12 there and we'll study that covenant, Christ
our covenant king. This is what God is teaching
his people back then and today and in the future as he reveals
his word unto us. All right. Let's sing a couple
of verses.