Devotion 608

“With My Mouth Will I Make Known Your Faithfulness To All Generations”

Reference: Psalms Chapter 89

Jesus Christ made known the faithfulness of God by His birth, life, and death.

Psalm 40:7-10 “Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, [8] I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart. [9] I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest. [10] I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.”

Jesus Christ preached the faithfulness of God, and did not refrain His lips.

The Psalmist declares the Mercies and Faithfulness of God.

Let’s read:

Psalm 89:1-4 “I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations. [2] For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens. [3] I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant, [4] Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah.”

The Covenant began with Abraham and His seed. David was a seed of Abraham. The  Covenant was revealed about twenty-eight generations later in Christ the ultimate Seed of Abraham.

Matthew 1:17 “So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations.”

After Adam broke the Covenant with God in the Garden of Eden, God has one Covenant with man. That Covenant is the New Covenant in Christ.

We continue our reading:

Psalm 89:5-28 “And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O LORD: thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints. [6] For who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD? [7] God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him. [8] O LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee? [9] Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them. [10] Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm. [11] The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them. [12] The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name. [13] Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand. [14] Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face. [15] Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance. [16] In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted. [17] For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy favour our horn shall be exalted. [18] For the LORD is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is our king. [19] Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people. [20] I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him: [21] With whom my hand shall be established: mine arm also shall strengthen him. [22] The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him. [23] And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him. [24] But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted. [25] I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers. [26] He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation. [27] Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth. [28] My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.”

The Covenant stood with Abraham.
The Covenant stood with David.
The Covenant stands with the Believer.

For the Covenant is in blood; the Blood of Jesus Christ.

We continue our reading:

Psalm 89:29 “His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.”

Jesus Christ is the forever Seed of Abraham. The forever Seed of David. The forever Seed of God.

In Christ, the Believer is the forever seed of God. The Seed (Life) of God has come to dwell in the Believer.

We continue our reading:

Psalm 89:30-32 “If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments; [31] If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments; [32] Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.”

He spares not His rod of chastisement against sin (unbelief). Unbelief is always the sin.

The sinner or transgressor sins because they believe not.
The unbeliever sins because they believe not.

We continue our reading:

Psalm 89:33-34 “Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail. [34] My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.”

It’s a perpetual Covenant. It only requires that we believe in it by dying, burying, and resurrecting with Him. It’s a Covenant of death and resurrection.

The shadow was displayed in Abraham.

Genesis 15:12,17-18 “And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him. [17] And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces. [18] In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:”

The substance was displayed in the death and resurrection of Christ.

We conclude our reading:

Psalm 89:35-52 “Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David. [36] His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me. [37] It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah. [38] But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed. [39] Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground. [40] Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin. [41] All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbours. [42] Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries; thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice. [43] Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not made him to stand in the battle. [44] Thou hast made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground. [45] The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with shame. Selah. [46] How long, LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire? [47] Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain? [48] What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah. [49] Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, which thou swarest unto David in thy truth? [50] Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people; [51] Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O LORD; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed. [52] Blessed be the LORD for evermore. Amen, and Amen.”

Israel turned their back to the Abrahamic and Davidic covenant through unbelief.

Exodus 23:20-22 “Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. [21] Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him. [22] But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.”

Jesus Christ is the Angel of the Covenant. He was the Angel of the Covenant then, and the Angel of the New Covenant today.

The warning is the same.
The blessing is the same.
The repercussion is the same.

One Covenant. One Angel of the Covenant.

Let the Word of God establish you into this Covenant. BELIEVE and confess Christ the Word as we’ve revealed Him from the First Adam. The Covenant is sealed in blood, in Christ!


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