WEBVTT 00:00:19.679 --> 00:00:23.679 Going back and listening to these offline has been awesome. 00:00:23.679 --> 00:00:29.039 For example, so let's let's do a quick recap on what we call here so far. 00:00:29.039 --> 00:00:36.799 So Jehovah Jira, award our provider, Abigail, a great lesson on that, Jehovah Rafa. 00:00:36.799 --> 00:00:39.520 We got De Heels by Adam. 00:00:39.520 --> 00:00:46.000 Jehovah Nisi, award our banner, and a silver Jehovah Rohi. 00:00:46.000 --> 00:00:52.479 I love the banner's off the winners. 00:00:52.479 --> 00:00:53.439 That's for camp. 00:00:53.439 --> 00:00:54.960 I love that. 00:00:54.960 --> 00:01:04.159 That was Jehovah Rohie, God our shepherd, right here, and Jehovah Shalom, God our peace, Kai Ra. 00:01:04.159 --> 00:01:08.560 Jehovah Meccadishim, Lord our sanctifier. 00:01:08.560 --> 00:01:12.640 And tonight, brings us to Jeremiah 23. 00:01:12.640 --> 00:01:16.319 If you want to return there, I can be reading through the ESD. 00:01:16.319 --> 00:01:20.560 Jeremiah 23, verses 1 through 6. 00:01:20.560 --> 00:01:30.239 And we will learn another name, another revealed name the Lord gives us Jehovah Satan, the Lord our righteousness. 00:01:30.239 --> 00:01:31.840 All right. 00:01:31.840 --> 00:01:37.599 Starting first one, chapter 23. 00:01:37.599 --> 00:01:44.319 Woe to the shepherds to destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture, declares the Lord. 00:01:44.319 --> 00:01:55.040 Therefore, thus says the Lord, God of Israel, concerning the shepherds who care for my people, you have scattered my clock and have driven them away. 00:01:55.040 --> 00:01:57.519 You have not attended to them. 00:01:57.519 --> 00:02:02.799 Behold, I will attend to you for all your evil deeds, declares the Lord. 00:02:02.799 --> 00:02:13.520 Then I will gather the remnant of my flock of all the countries where I have driven them, and I will bring them back to the fold, they shall be fruitful and multiply. 00:02:13.520 --> 00:02:23.599 I will set shepherds over them, who will care for them, and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall any be missing, declares the Lord. 00:02:23.599 --> 00:02:38.319 Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will raise up for dead a righteous branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. 00:02:38.319 --> 00:02:43.919 In his days, Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. 00:02:43.919 --> 00:02:47.280 And this is the name while she will be called. 00:02:47.280 --> 00:02:52.879 Jehovah Sitkenu. 00:02:52.879 --> 00:02:56.240 Let's just pray real quick. 00:02:56.240 --> 00:02:58.560 Heavenly Father, we thank you for your word. 00:02:58.560 --> 00:03:02.879 We thank you for revealing yourself through history. 00:03:02.879 --> 00:03:10.960 Or help uh just open our hearts tonight, work, help our minds to more clearly, draw our attention to you. 00:03:10.960 --> 00:03:12.159 May you be glorified. 00:03:12.159 --> 00:03:13.520 Jesus' name, amen. 00:03:13.520 --> 00:03:18.560 Jehovah Sid Kenu, the word our righteousness. 00:03:18.560 --> 00:03:22.800 Um, verse 6 there, where it says, the Lord. 00:03:22.800 --> 00:03:26.080 Uh the Lord is our righteousness. 00:03:26.080 --> 00:03:32.400 That can be translated Yahweh Sedek, which that gives us Jehovah Sidkinu. 00:03:32.400 --> 00:03:41.280 Ryan Durfee actually gave a little exclamation Jehovah versus Yahweh, how we can understand that in scripture. 00:03:41.280 --> 00:03:47.599 And for there, you'll see a little QR code on your study page at the very bottom. 00:03:47.599 --> 00:03:49.439 That's just also for reference. 00:03:49.439 --> 00:03:50.400 You can look at later. 00:03:50.400 --> 00:04:00.479 Uh, it's a little video by Wesley Huff, uh, a Canadian apologist that does really good uh quick little snippets of great information. 00:04:00.479 --> 00:04:05.439 So that's just something to keep in mind as we're reading through these Hebrew translations. 00:04:05.439 --> 00:04:15.360 But um, getting back to the Jehovah Sidkenu, derived means to be stiff, to be straight, a straight pathway, or righteous in Hebrew. 00:04:15.360 --> 00:04:20.720 So when the two words are combined, we we understand them to be Jehovah Sid Kane. 00:04:20.720 --> 00:04:25.199 It's translated as the Lord, our righteousness. 00:04:25.199 --> 00:04:41.600 So I want to start through this text, and I want to thank tonight big picture, context of the people that Jeremiah is speaking to, where they've been through the generations, what is God calling the people to through Jeremiah? 00:04:41.600 --> 00:04:45.839 So that's kind of the approach we're gonna take with this big picture over many years. 00:04:45.839 --> 00:04:53.279 And too, we'll read several verses tonight, and I feel like that's okay because this is small, unique. 00:04:53.279 --> 00:04:59.920 Um, probably more Bible verses than I would have in a sermon or some kind of preaching, right? 00:04:59.920 --> 00:05:04.800 Normally, so uh we brought our brains and our Bibles, so that's how you can do it. 00:05:04.800 --> 00:05:06.160 But this will be good. 00:05:06.160 --> 00:05:07.839 We'll kind of be going through a lot of scriptures. 00:05:07.839 --> 00:05:09.759 You don't have to turn through all of them. 00:05:09.759 --> 00:05:14.480 Um so let's start with the background, the context of Jeremiah. 00:05:14.480 --> 00:05:17.600 Let's think of his role and what he did. 00:05:17.600 --> 00:05:27.120 The book of Jeremiah, major prophet, and it details the warnings and the messages from God delivered by Jeremiah to the people of Judah. 00:05:27.120 --> 00:05:34.480 At this time, there was a northern and a southern uh kingdom, if you will, Israel and Judah. 00:05:34.480 --> 00:05:38.800 So Jeremiah emphasizes the coming judgment due to idolatry. 00:05:38.800 --> 00:05:45.199 He calls the people to repentance and foretells actually the Babylonian exile. 00:05:45.199 --> 00:05:49.839 Yet he also offers hope for restoration. 00:05:49.839 --> 00:05:54.160 His message truly was a hopeful message, even though he's calling people to repent. 00:05:54.160 --> 00:06:02.720 He calls he he gives the promise, um, God gives him words to speak to the promise of the new covenant, Jesus. 00:06:02.720 --> 00:06:17.439 So Jeremiah was called by God at an early age, very young man, and he's often described as a leaking prophet, just really show his heart for the people of um of Judah and where he's called to speak to. 00:06:17.439 --> 00:06:25.199 And one more phase a Jeremiah prophesizer in the period standing in the reigns of the last five kings in Judah. 00:06:25.199 --> 00:06:31.120 So he's being Josiah, Jehoias, Jehoiakim, the boy again, Zedekiah. 00:06:31.120 --> 00:06:33.759 So his ministry, we didn't understand this. 00:06:33.759 --> 00:06:40.399 Think of it as about 627 BC until the fall of Jerusalem in 586. 00:06:40.399 --> 00:06:43.360 So a lot of instability going on. 00:06:43.360 --> 00:06:43.600 Right. 00:06:43.600 --> 00:06:47.600 Um, a declining kingdom, if you will, if you think of that way. 00:06:47.600 --> 00:06:52.720 And truly a pending judgment coming from Babylon. 00:06:52.720 --> 00:07:01.360 So this um the first verse I want to kind of read, setting up Jeremiah, is talking specifically about his call. 00:07:01.360 --> 00:07:08.639 So right in the beginning of the book, first chapter one through five, it says, Before I formed you in the womb I knew you. 00:07:08.639 --> 00:07:10.319 This is God's arching to Jeremiah. 00:07:10.319 --> 00:07:15.839 Before you were born, I consecrated you, and I appointed you a prophet to the nations. 00:07:15.839 --> 00:07:22.959 Then I said, Ah, Lord God, behold, I do not know how to speak, for I am only a youth. 00:07:22.959 --> 00:07:31.199 The Lord said to me, Do not say I am only a youth, for to you, for to all to whom I send you, you shall vote. 00:07:31.199 --> 00:07:34.160 And whatever I command you, you shall speak. 00:07:34.160 --> 00:07:39.680 Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to live, declares the Lord. 00:07:39.680 --> 00:07:44.160 Somewhat unpopular message the Jemra had to share with our evil. 00:07:44.160 --> 00:07:44.959 Okay. 00:07:44.959 --> 00:07:53.839 And their nation as it was not could say that it was not direct, and they had a lot of enemies besides them. 00:07:53.839 --> 00:07:56.879 So he's selling the do not be afraid. 00:07:56.879 --> 00:08:00.079 I'm gonna be with you, I've appointed you as a prophet. 00:08:00.079 --> 00:08:05.279 So Jeremiah repeatedly calls Israel to repentance back to God. 00:08:05.279 --> 00:08:12.720 It was a call to righteousness and justice, and a reminder of the covenant God had made with the people. 00:08:12.720 --> 00:08:19.680 We could kind of understand this as three things that made up this professor uh prophetic message. 00:08:19.680 --> 00:08:34.000 Commands, which something like forsake evil and follow God in righteousness, the warnings or a reminder of coming judgments, and promises of hope. 00:08:34.000 --> 00:08:38.320 An example of the commands that he gave to the people. 00:08:38.320 --> 00:08:41.840 Jeremiah to you don't have to go there, but you can if you want. 00:08:41.840 --> 00:08:43.440 It's Jeremiah 22. 00:08:43.440 --> 00:08:52.639 Hear the word of the Lord, O King of Judah, who sits on the throne of David, you and your servants, and your people who carry these gates. 00:08:52.639 --> 00:09:07.840 Thus says the Lord, do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed, and do no wrong or violence to the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow, and all shed innocent blood in this place. 00:09:07.840 --> 00:09:10.240 He's calling people to justice. 00:09:10.240 --> 00:09:14.399 He's calling people to your righteous life, to walk before her. 00:09:14.399 --> 00:09:22.240 Number two, the warnings or reminders of the covenant in Jeremiah 11. 00:09:22.240 --> 00:09:24.240 This is an example. 00:09:24.240 --> 00:09:41.200 Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, curse be the man who does not hear the words of this covenant that I commanded your fathers, where I brought them out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Listen to my voice and do all that I command you. 00:09:41.200 --> 00:09:50.720 And then this phrase you see over and over and over again in Old Testament scripture, so shall you be my people, and I will be your God. 00:09:50.720 --> 00:09:58.559 He's calling them to the covenant, something that he established between two parties, God and Israel. 00:09:58.559 --> 00:10:03.039 And the promise we read it, verse 6, Jeremiah 23, 6. 00:10:03.039 --> 00:10:04.159 We've read the promise. 00:10:04.159 --> 00:10:13.679 I will raise up for David a righteous branch, and he shall reign as Cain and do wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. 00:10:13.679 --> 00:10:18.240 In his days, Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. 00:10:18.240 --> 00:10:22.320 And this is in the name by what you will be called, the Lord of righteousness. 00:10:22.320 --> 00:10:23.840 Jehovah said King. 00:10:23.840 --> 00:10:26.559 That sounds really good. 00:10:26.559 --> 00:10:30.399 That is a promise that they can hold on to, that we can hold on to. 00:10:30.399 --> 00:10:39.440 How is this promise hope that this rule in Judah, as well as our current internal hope today? 00:10:39.440 --> 00:10:42.399 This was 600 BC. 00:10:42.399 --> 00:10:49.360 400 years and or 400 years ago in righteousness to Israel who are already God's covenant people. 00:10:49.360 --> 00:10:56.240 So Israel was already was already called I doubt for a specific person or purpose and walked before him languistly. 00:10:56.240 --> 00:10:59.120 So Jeremiah's call is to something greater. 00:10:59.120 --> 00:11:06.879 Not just coexisting as a moral or kind of conservative who respected his peers and community. 00:11:06.879 --> 00:11:12.480 It was to remind Jia of the living God and the covenant he made with him. 00:11:12.480 --> 00:11:17.039 So let's talk quickly about the covenant. 00:11:17.039 --> 00:11:18.159 What was it? 00:11:18.159 --> 00:11:24.399 Um, I think it would be good to remind ourselves of the specific language God calls the nation to. 00:11:24.399 --> 00:11:36.159 Um the covenant in general could be thought of as a few things: a great nation that included land promises, that there would be a blessed nation or a blessed people. 00:11:36.159 --> 00:11:43.679 That they would be multiplied, that uh to be fruitful and multiply, there'd be many a number. 00:11:43.679 --> 00:11:47.440 Or to be righteous, a holy nation set apart. 00:11:47.440 --> 00:11:53.200 Um, an outward sign of this that God commanded them was circumcision. 00:11:53.200 --> 00:11:57.679 Then we see this phrase again: I will be their God, and they will be my people. 00:11:57.679 --> 00:11:59.039 No other gods. 00:11:59.039 --> 00:12:02.240 There's one God, Yahweh, the existing one. 00:12:02.240 --> 00:12:15.039 We see this with Abram in Genesis 12, where God says, I will make you a great nation, I will bless you, and to your offspring I will give this land, the land of Canaan. 00:12:15.039 --> 00:12:22.320 Genesis 15, he continues this down it to get uh it says to get an heir, his offspring will be great in number. 00:12:22.320 --> 00:12:29.759 And it says that Abram believed, he had faith in the Lord, and this was counted to him as his righteousness. 00:12:29.759 --> 00:12:38.399 Genesis 17, his Abram's name is changed Abraham, he father of a multitude, or our chief of multitude. 00:12:38.399 --> 00:12:44.480 And it says, he instructs Abram, I am God Almighty, walk before me and be blameless. 00:12:44.480 --> 00:12:50.080 This is the same message for all these generations that we hear in Jeremiah, reminding the people. 00:12:50.080 --> 00:13:08.000 God continues, I will make your descendants like the stars in the sky, a father of a multitude of nations, make in the nations, kings will come from you, and I will be their God, and they will be my people, a holy people set apart for God. 00:13:08.000 --> 00:13:19.679 It says in the next chapter that the Lord shows Abraham and says that his household Africa keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice. 00:13:19.679 --> 00:13:28.399 So there that aligns with the heart of God, calling people to walk equal and blameless, to be a people of executing justice and a righteous people. 00:13:28.399 --> 00:13:40.639 And this truly was an example for all future leaders, kings, and shepherds, hops, people, of all the people Israel to lead them into right relationship with God. 00:13:40.639 --> 00:13:56.720 We see that the Lord commanded that they walk with him as he, the only God, the one true God, and to walk before him in righteousness, the people anyways. 00:13:56.720 --> 00:14:05.519 So a holy God requires a holy nation under himself, a righteous people for God alone. 00:14:05.519 --> 00:14:18.720 So these texts also point to something else: that it's not only the covenant for Abraham, but rather the everlasting covenant for Abraham's descendants or his offspring. 00:14:18.720 --> 00:14:26.879 Okay, that set the example, the foundation of this covenant, and it continues with Isaac. 00:14:26.879 --> 00:14:28.799 We see that in Genesis 26. 00:14:28.799 --> 00:14:37.759 Jacob, who's renamed Israel, which means God prevails, from which the 12 tribes uses similar language. 00:14:37.759 --> 00:14:49.600 Um he says, I am God Almighty, be fruitful and multiply a nation and company of nations shall come from you, and king shall come from your own body, solidifying the covenant that he's made with people. 00:14:49.600 --> 00:14:55.360 God does not forget, and he calls us active, a righteous covenant that he makes with us. 00:14:55.360 --> 00:15:00.879 This continues with Moses from the tribe of Levi in Exodus 19. 00:15:00.879 --> 00:15:14.799 The Lord instructs Moses to tell the people of Israel, thus you should say to the house of Jacob, and tell the people of Israel, You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on the eagle's wings and brohe and myself. 00:15:14.799 --> 00:15:22.080 Now, therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession. 00:15:22.080 --> 00:15:26.559 A kingdom of priests and a holy nation. 00:15:26.559 --> 00:15:34.559 Holy mean set apart for God Allah, that your heart is free from defilement and idolatry. 00:15:34.559 --> 00:15:48.879 This was in part done through the law of Moses, revealing men their shortcomings, how to obey God and what Moses' charge was telling the people to keep this covenant and the law. 00:15:48.879 --> 00:15:54.399 And that's the promise you will be a treasured people before God, a righteous people. 00:15:54.399 --> 00:15:57.039 Let's continue. 00:15:57.039 --> 00:16:03.200 We're almost getting up to, or we're almost at the place where Jeremiah here um takes off. 00:16:03.200 --> 00:16:05.600 Jeremiah called us to what? 00:16:05.600 --> 00:16:06.320 David. 00:16:06.320 --> 00:16:11.279 Why does he remind us from Data, who was also king of Israel? 00:16:11.279 --> 00:16:19.919 What we see in the text of Jeremiah is that through the line of David, this covenant continues, and that it's an everlasting covenant. 00:16:19.919 --> 00:16:21.840 2 Samuel 7 tells us that. 00:16:21.840 --> 00:16:29.759 It says, Your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before me, and your throne shall be established forever. 00:16:29.759 --> 00:16:36.240 God continues his covenant with King David, saying that it will last forever. 00:16:36.240 --> 00:16:44.480 King David reigned from 1010 BC to 970 BC, a long time before Jeremiah. 00:16:44.480 --> 00:16:54.960 And Jeremiah is pointing back hundreds of years, generations ago, that don't forget the promise that's coming. 00:16:54.960 --> 00:17:01.279 Something is coming, an everlasting deterral that is changing everything. 00:17:01.279 --> 00:17:13.839 Probably arguably the most popular and one of the greatest kings of Israel that we understand in the Bible. 00:17:13.839 --> 00:17:21.839 Though sinful, all in the nature, God tells us, scripture tells us, he's a man after Nazareth. 00:17:21.839 --> 00:17:25.440 Well, we know David anoints Solomon. 00:17:25.440 --> 00:17:27.440 David personally does not reign. 00:17:27.440 --> 00:17:30.079 His throne does not last forever. 00:17:30.079 --> 00:17:31.839 David does an off throne. 00:17:31.839 --> 00:17:37.119 He anoints Solomon in 970 BC, king of Israel. 00:17:37.119 --> 00:17:38.559 Then David dies. 00:17:38.559 --> 00:17:42.240 David's personal kingship fails to last forever. 00:17:42.240 --> 00:17:46.640 Solomon, a wise and dead king, had his heart turned. 00:17:46.640 --> 00:17:47.519 Yeah. 00:17:47.519 --> 00:17:49.279 He disobeyed the Lord. 00:17:49.279 --> 00:17:52.400 He gave his heart over to the idols of his foreign lines. 00:17:52.400 --> 00:17:58.319 He did not shepherd in righteousness and could not execute justice. 00:17:58.319 --> 00:18:03.039 Solomon reigns. 00:18:03.039 --> 00:18:05.279 It was after Solomon's reign. 00:18:05.279 --> 00:18:12.160 The Israel splits in two, the northern ten tribes of Israel and the southern Judah, containing two tribes. 00:18:12.160 --> 00:18:17.599 And that brings us to at least a this structure that we understand that Jeremiah is. 00:18:17.599 --> 00:18:21.680 Jeremiah living in Shuddah. 00:18:21.680 --> 00:18:26.799 And that's what that's who the people specifically that he's talking to. 00:18:26.799 --> 00:18:29.359 That's the important of the covenant. 00:18:29.359 --> 00:18:35.839 It is speaking, it is drawing, it is teaching the people to something to while he was sitting before the Lord. 00:18:35.839 --> 00:18:53.359 At least one flaw, at least one phale plot, at least a sinful makesha. 00:18:53.359 --> 00:18:57.440 Unable to walk in the righteousness and justice. 00:18:57.440 --> 00:19:02.960 And oftentimes their hearts being turned by idols, by other things. 00:19:02.960 --> 00:19:11.119 In Jeremiah's day, I I told you that he um that he was a proper during the last five kings of Judah. 00:19:11.119 --> 00:19:22.400 The last five kings were no exception to, let's say, not being able to keep the covenant that the Lord had commanded at all times. 00:19:22.400 --> 00:19:29.200 Josiah, the first king, he was actually a really good king. 00:19:29.200 --> 00:19:32.400 The Lord commends him extremely well. 00:19:32.400 --> 00:19:36.480 But he still suffers from the Baalflah, the sinful nature. 00:19:36.480 --> 00:19:47.279 Jehoaz, the son of Josiah, who ruled for three months and then was deposed by Egyptian Pharaoh and taken to Egypt where he died. 00:19:47.279 --> 00:19:50.480 He actually predicts this in Jeremiah 22. 00:19:50.480 --> 00:20:04.799 It says of him, Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms by injustice, who makes his neighbor serve him for nothing, and does not give him his waities. 00:20:04.799 --> 00:20:08.160 We see the pattern here. 00:20:08.160 --> 00:20:52.960 And the last king, Zedekiah. 00:20:52.960 --> 00:21:05.599 His reign is often reviewed as a period of missed opportunities and tragic decisions, his failure to keep prophetic glories and his reliance on political alliances other than faithfulness to tell. 00:21:05.599 --> 00:21:11.519 Only they would have had a no king's protest. 00:21:11.519 --> 00:21:35.119 Maybe they needed all these poor shepherds and bad kings to see the true light. 00:21:35.119 --> 00:21:42.559 So Jeremiah, looking at it in a declining kingdom, kings and leaders and people falling away from the Lord. 00:21:42.559 --> 00:21:44.480 He references the shepherds. 00:21:44.480 --> 00:21:46.240 Woe to you. 00:21:46.240 --> 00:21:54.319 The Lord takes this seriously, those who leave after, and leads people into unrighteousness and injustice. 00:21:54.319 --> 00:21:56.640 So what can we learn? 00:21:56.640 --> 00:21:59.599 Jeremiah saw good kings and bad kings. 00:21:59.599 --> 00:22:03.440 Some the Lord commended, and others he detested. 00:22:03.440 --> 00:22:05.920 Yet all sinful and fallen. 00:22:05.920 --> 00:22:15.920 Jeremiah's priority was repentance and calling all to walk in righteousness, calling in who God was, the righteous king. 00:22:15.920 --> 00:22:20.079 So his prophetic ministry called people to sanctification. 00:22:20.079 --> 00:22:22.079 It's truly what it was. 00:22:22.079 --> 00:22:29.920 A quote from John Piper that I like it the study of prophecy does not produce sanctification, it is being studied wrong. 00:22:29.920 --> 00:22:41.599 If gazing into the future hinders our responsiveness to present needs, we may be sure that we are not gazing with the eyes of God. 00:22:41.599 --> 00:23:04.960 Jeremiah pointed to the one final solution and ultimate hope of fallen man, of fallen shepherds, of fallen kings. 00:23:04.960 --> 00:23:08.559 The eternal promise is the Lord of righteousness. 00:23:08.559 --> 00:23:11.119 Jehovah Sidkenu. 00:23:11.119 --> 00:23:15.440 The promises Jesus poured from the light of David. 00:23:15.440 --> 00:23:23.680 Righteousness incarnate to fulfill the law or to fulfill the law, the prophets, and the psalms. 00:23:23.680 --> 00:23:29.279 And isn't it interesting? 00:23:29.279 --> 00:23:39.839 Two verses after Matthew 5.17, the Lord says that unless your righteousness exceeds the scribes and Pharisees, you'll never enter the kingdom of heaven. 00:23:39.839 --> 00:23:52.400 For all time, every man, woman, king, and queen suffer the same problem. 00:23:52.400 --> 00:24:01.680 We in and of ourselves are unrighteousness, our nature opposed to God and his holiness, and history proves it. 00:24:01.680 --> 00:24:07.680 Let's think of this man sinned in the garden by failing to uphold the Lord's commands. 00:24:07.680 --> 00:24:12.240 We could think of this as the first cover, the covenant of works. 00:24:12.240 --> 00:24:16.000 Two parties involved, Adam and Eve and God. 00:24:16.000 --> 00:24:21.680 However, God intervened with a covenant of grace. 00:24:21.680 --> 00:24:24.000 Let's read this from Wayne Brian. 00:24:24.000 --> 00:24:45.119 In systematic theology, comments on the covenant of grace by saying, When man failed to apply to attain the blessing offered in the covenant of works, it was necessary for God to establish another means, one by which man could be saved, an amazing plan of redemption whereby sinful people come into fellowship, right relationship with God. 00:24:45.119 --> 00:24:50.799 The parties of this covenant of grace are God and the people who He will redeem. 00:24:50.799 --> 00:25:03.279 Christ, or the righteous branch of David, fulfills a special role as mediator between God and man in the covenant of works, and thereby reconciles us to God. 00:25:03.279 --> 00:25:05.680 What is the condition? 00:25:05.680 --> 00:25:13.759 Faith in God alone, the same faith God counted to Abraham as his righteousness. 00:25:13.759 --> 00:25:19.039 Paul echoes this in Romans 4, starting at verse 20. 00:25:19.039 --> 00:25:26.079 No unbelief made him waiter concerning the promise of God, the promise that Jeremiah called us to. 00:25:26.079 --> 00:25:34.319 But he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God, fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised. 00:25:34.319 --> 00:25:38.880 This is why his faith was counted to him as righteousness. 00:25:38.880 --> 00:25:45.279 But the words it was counted to him were not written for his sake alone, but for ours also. 00:25:45.279 --> 00:25:57.920 It will be counted to us who believe in him, who raised from the dead Jesus our Lord, who is delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification. 00:25:57.920 --> 00:26:02.640 Justificate justification meaning declare righteous. 00:26:02.640 --> 00:26:05.039 Paul continues in Romans 5. 00:26:05.039 --> 00:26:14.720 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, the righteous branch. 00:26:14.720 --> 00:26:21.200 Through him we have also obtained access by faith into his grace in which we stand and rejoice. 00:26:21.200 --> 00:26:23.119 Hope of glory of God. 00:26:23.119 --> 00:26:30.640 The Lord our righteousness is our justification to a holy God through him. 00:26:30.640 --> 00:26:41.440 We walk blamelessly, like He commands, are the righteousness of Christ as our legal standing before Him. 00:26:42.559 --> 00:26:44.240 In wait your Lord. 00:27:03.119 --> 00:27:08.720 In Romans, in Romans five, we can see what is the doctrine of justification. 00:27:08.720 --> 00:27:11.039 It's Adam's sin imputed to us. 00:27:11.039 --> 00:27:12.000 That's one. 00:27:12.000 --> 00:27:12.960 That's part of it. 00:27:12.960 --> 00:27:26.559 Therefore, just as sin came into the world to one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sin, for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given. 00:27:26.559 --> 00:27:29.839 But sin is not counted where there is no law. 00:27:29.839 --> 00:27:40.480 Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even as those who whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come. 00:27:40.480 --> 00:27:46.160 The second part of this doctrine, our sin imputed to Christ on the cross. 00:27:46.160 --> 00:27:56.720 For our sake he made him to be sin, he knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. 00:27:56.720 --> 00:28:05.599 And number three, Christ's righteousness imputed to us. 00:28:05.599 --> 00:28:09.119 We see this in Romans 5, 17. 00:28:09.119 --> 00:28:24.799 For if, because of one man's trespass, death reign through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through one man, Jesus Christ. 00:28:24.799 --> 00:28:26.720 Thank you, Roar. 00:28:26.720 --> 00:28:31.599 This hundreds of years ago, isn't it amazing? 00:28:31.599 --> 00:28:36.480 Hundreds of years of scripture that we have that point to this. 00:28:36.480 --> 00:28:43.039 That in and of itself is a miracle that this lines of, but this is the truth. 00:28:43.039 --> 00:29:02.960 The righteous life of Christ, his obedience, his life of enduring, penalty, daring, and suffering in our place, and his resurrection from the dead, seated on the throne as king, is our new life and legal standing before God, his righteousness. 00:29:02.960 --> 00:29:12.079 This is the promise, the eternal promise revealed to Jeremiah. 00:29:12.079 --> 00:29:22.720 It's how God chose to reveal Himself at this appointed time in a well of chaos to Judah. 00:29:22.720 --> 00:29:27.519 The circumstances got worse, but the promise remain. 00:29:27.519 --> 00:29:39.359 Yet it doesn't keep him from saying, I will cleanse them from all guilt of their sin against me. 00:29:39.359 --> 00:29:44.160 I will forgive all the guilt of their sin and rebellion against me. 00:29:44.160 --> 00:29:51.920 Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will fulfill the promise I made to the house of Israel. 00:29:51.920 --> 00:29:58.799 And Jerusalem will dwell securely, and this is the name by which it will be called. 00:29:58.799 --> 00:29:59.599 The Lord. 00:29:59.599 --> 00:30:01.839 Is our righteousness. 00:30:01.839 --> 00:30:08.720 That little excerpt, Jeremiah 33, only too tired in scripture, Jehoola Sid Kane, is use. 00:30:08.720 --> 00:30:16.240 This is how we understand that we're fulfilling the promise, the law. 00:30:16.240 --> 00:30:27.759 It's how we can execute, both be just and merciful, how he can be righteous and loving at the same time towards us. 00:30:27.759 --> 00:30:32.880 Is what he says, he is our God and we, his people. 00:30:32.880 --> 00:30:40.720 This is the good shepherd, the one that attends to us, who is unlike any other shepherd. 00:30:40.720 --> 00:30:47.039 His righteousness. 00:30:47.039 --> 00:30:54.160 It is not comfort, but it's rather his righteousness imputed to us, is our secure dwelling place. 00:30:54.160 --> 00:31:07.119 For Israel, however you want to think of Israel in today's time, pray that they find their secure dwelling place like all other mankind in Christ's righteousness. 00:31:07.119 --> 00:31:21.359 Any story, this is the enduring love of Christ. 00:31:21.359 --> 00:31:27.200 It's what David looked to when he wrote Psalm 23. 00:31:27.200 --> 00:31:32.000 David, being a king, said, The Lord is my shepherd. 00:31:32.000 --> 00:31:33.839 I shall not want. 00:31:33.839 --> 00:32:06.480 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life. 00:32:06.480 --> 00:32:09.759 What else would from a righteous king? 00:32:09.759 --> 00:32:14.400 And all and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever. 00:32:14.400 --> 00:32:20.640 The Lord shepherds his people in righteousness, and he executes justice. 00:32:20.640 --> 00:32:23.519 This is where we dwell secure. 00:32:23.519 --> 00:32:28.480 If you're looking for security, look no further than faith in Jesus. 00:32:28.480 --> 00:32:39.599 And if you're looking for a green pasture, if you're looking for rest or peace, look no further than faith and repentance to the Lord. 00:32:39.599 --> 00:32:44.880 This is the enduring love and how he has shown mercy throughout the ages. 00:32:44.880 --> 00:32:47.839 This is our God. 00:32:47.839 --> 00:33:00.000 I think personally, where this comes to me is that it's easy to get caught up in what's wrong with the world that we live in, thinking about the future. 00:33:00.000 --> 00:33:01.759 What will happen to my kids? 00:33:01.759 --> 00:33:03.839 What kind of world are they going to grow up in? 00:33:03.839 --> 00:33:06.960 There are so many people not having kids. 00:33:06.960 --> 00:33:10.319 They're not interested because they don't like the world they live in. 00:33:10.319 --> 00:33:15.119 A declining kingdom, a people far away from God. 00:33:15.119 --> 00:33:22.240 But do we trust him to execute justice because he's righteous? 00:33:22.240 --> 00:33:23.759 That's that's our hope. 00:33:23.759 --> 00:33:26.160 We have to hope in that, or we have nothing. 00:33:26.160 --> 00:33:27.359 And he's proved it. 00:33:27.359 --> 00:33:31.279 He's proved it with his word and what he's sent Jesus. 00:33:31.440 --> 00:33:31.759 Yeah. 00:33:32.000 --> 00:33:34.000 He's done the work for us. 00:33:34.000 --> 00:33:41.359 I think let me just say this that we don't ever move past. 00:33:41.359 --> 00:33:48.880 And I know we've heard these verses, we've heard these over and over again, but we never move past this. 00:33:48.880 --> 00:33:52.559 This is the highest where Jesus is our righteousness. 00:33:52.559 --> 00:33:58.880 Um, and that Jesus is our hope for all mankind for all time. 00:33:58.880 --> 00:34:05.519 So let's pray, and then we can go through these questions, uh, three questions. 00:34:05.519 --> 00:34:09.599 So Heavenly Father, thank you for tonight. 00:34:09.599 --> 00:34:13.199 Thank you for these awesome people in this awesome church. 00:34:13.199 --> 00:34:14.559 Thank you, Lord. 00:34:14.559 --> 00:34:21.679 Thank you for helping us to remember what you've done through your word. 00:34:21.679 --> 00:34:27.440 God, you were we just saw that you were praised and glorified by this. 00:34:27.440 --> 00:34:30.480 God, draw us, show us where we need to repent. 00:34:30.480 --> 00:34:36.000 Draw us near like you have your people for all time, Lord. 00:34:36.000 --> 00:34:44.320 We thank you for the finished work of Jesus, and that we can hope in you in Christ alone as our righteousness. 00:34:44.320 --> 00:34:46.880 Thank you for changing everything, Lord. 00:34:47.440 --> 00:34:48.079 Amen.