My Covenant I will not break

Good evening and welcome. Thank you so much for joining for coffee and devotions as we start our week by ending the Sabbath with Psalm 89. I'm not sure about you, I can't drink coffee this late at night, so I'm gonna have a little bit of water and we'll pray and we'll get into God's Word. Let's pray.
Father, we thank you so much for this day. We thank you for your word. We thank you for what a rich blessing it is to get to come to your word. We pray now that as we're about to go to sleep, Father, that you would work these truths into our hearts, that you would care for us and bless us. Father, please let your word be our light and our guide. In Jesus's name, amen. All right, here we go, Psalm 89.
I will sing of the mercies of the Lord forever. With my mouth will I make known your faithfulness to all generations. For I have said, mercy shall be built up forever. Your faithfulness you shall establish in the very heavens. I have made a covenant with my chosen. I have sworn to my servant David, your seed Well, I will establish forever and build up your throne to all generations.
This is talking about Jesus. This is talking about Jesus. This is what God is saying. Did you hear it? I will make, I have made a covenant with my chosen. I have sworn to my servant, David, your seed, I will establish forever and build up your throne to all generations. This is what God has promised to David in second Samuel chapter seven. And here God is saying it in Psalm 89. God has promised a seed who would sit upon the throne forever, and his name is Jesus Christ.
And the heavens will praise your wonders, O Lord, your faithfulness also in the assembly of the saints. For who in the heavens can be compared to the Lord? Who among the sons of the mighty can be likened to the Lord? God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be held in reverence by all those around him. O Lord God of hosts, who is mighty like you, O Lord?
Your faithfulness also surrounds you. You rule the raging of the seas. When its waves rise, you still them. You have broken Rahab in pieces as one who is slain. You have scattered your enemies with your mighty arm. Brothers and sisters, our hearts should think of God in this exalted way. who is mighty like you, O Lord. It is the Lord of Hosts Almighty who reigns and tells the waves to stop.
The heavens are yours. The earth is yours also. The world in all its fullness, you have founded them. The north and the south, you have created them. Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name. You have a mighty arm. Strong is your hand, and high is your right hand. Righteousness and justice are the foundations of your throne. Mercy and truth go before your face. Blessed are the people who know the joyful sound. They walk, O Lord, in the light of your countenance. In your name they rejoice all day long. In your righteousness they are exalted. For you are the glory of their strength.
And in your favor our horn is exalted, for our shield belongs to the Lord and our King, to the Holy One of Israel. Did you hear it? Is this your heart? Do you see God this high? Do you exalt God like this? Have you made God a puny God? Or do you think of God as a Lord of hosts? As the one who rules? Then you spoke in a vision to your holy one and said, I have given help to the one who is mighty.
I have exalted one chosen from the people. I have found my servant David with my holy hill, or sorry, with my holy oil. I have anointed him with whom my hand shall be established. Also, my arm shall strengthen him. The enemy shall not outwit him, nor the sun of wickedness afflict him. I will beat down his foes before his face and plague those who hate him. But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him. and in my name his horn shall be exalted. Also, I will set his hand over the sea and his right hand over the rivers.
He shall cry to me, you are my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation. Also, I will make him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth. My mercy I will keep for him forever. and my covenant shall stand firm with him. His seed also I will make to endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven."
Brothers and sisters, this is talking about Jesus. This is a messianic psalm that the nations are going to be given to Jesus. Indeed, that is Jesus' title in the book of Revelation. Written upon his thigh is the name, Lord of Lord and King of Kings. This is speaking of our King Jesus Christ.
If his sons forsake my law and do not walk in my judgments, if they break my statutes and do not keep my commandments, then I will punish their transgressions with the rod and their iniquity with stripes. Nevertheless, my loving kindness I will not utterly take from him, nor allow my faithfulness to fail. My covenant I will not break, nor alter the word. that has gone out from my lips. Once I have sworn by my holiness, I will not lie to David. His seed shall endure forever and his throne as a sun before me. It shall be established forever like the moon, even like the faithful witness in the sky."
Every single morning when you wake up, every single time that you see a sunrise or a sunset, that's a sign to us. that God has not forgotten his covenant mercy, his covenant he made with David, that one of David's descendants would sit upon his throne forever.
He's done it in Jesus, right? Because we know that after Jesus raised from the dead, he ascended up into heaven and he sat down at the right hand of God the Father, and there he rules the nations. It is Jesus Christ now who fulfills these words. Isn't it interesting that he says, my covenant I will not break, nor alter the words that has gone out of my lips. I was reminded as I was reading this of what Jesus says in the Lord's Supper. When he takes that cup and he shows it to his disciples, and what does he say? This is the cup of the new covenant in my blood. Jesus has a new covenant that lasts forever.
But you have cast off and abhorred. You have been furious with your anointed. You have renounced the covenant of your servant. You have profaned his crown by casting it to the ground. You have broken down all his hedges. You have brought his strongholds to ruin. All who pass by the way plunder him. He has a reproach to his neighbors. You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries. You have made all his enemies rejoice. You have also turned back the edges of his sword and have not sustained him in the battle. You have made his glory cease and cast his throne down to the ground. The days of his youth have shortened. You have covered him with shame." Could you imagine? Could you imagine two different scenarios here? These truths are true.
And yet as they were there and they saw David's throne diminish as the Assyrian army took and wiped out the nation in the north, and then as the Babylonian army came and they laid waste to Jerusalem, God, have you forgotten your covenant? How would they have felt? Did God really remember his words? How must have they have felt? when Jesus, that son of David, came and he was being executed. When they cry out, the days of his youth have shortened. You have covered him with shame. These honest questions, these honest questions that they would have about the Messiah.
How long, Lord, will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire? Remember how short my time is. For what futility have you created all the children of men? What man can live and not see death? Can he deliver his life from the power of the grave? Lord, where are your former lovingkindnesses which you swore to David in truth?
Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants. How I bear in my bosom the reproach of all my peoples. with which your enemies have approached, O Lord, with which they have approached the footsteps of your anointed. Blessed be the Lord forevermore. Amen and amen. When we're sitting here and life is hard and we question, Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses? Pray God's promises. Remind your heart of who the King of Kings is. Remind your soul. Remind your emotions that our King reigns. That he hasn't forgotten his covenant with David, but he's fulfilled it.
And that great day of consummation is going to come when our King will return and make all things right again. Let's pray. Father, we thank you so much for our king who bore our shame. Lord, we thank you for giving us a true son of David who was cut short in the prime of his life for our sins. Lord, we look forward to the great day when he'll return. Please give us confidence and hope. Let us bless your name forever. Jesus's name. Amen. Well may God bless you today. May he give you a great night's sleep and I'll see you tomorrow. Bye.