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*Songs of Ascent 14. – The LORD Has ~~ Psalm 132.10-18*
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*Responsive Reading: Revelation 5.1-14*
*Opening Hymn # 40 – “Great Is Thy Faithfulness”*
*Text: Psalm 132.10-18*
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*Introduction: *The Lord Has.
In those three words we have our all.
They are enough for everything in our life physically, emotionally, mentally, inspirationally and spiritually.
If we think of the fullness of these words, do we need anything else, but God.
They encompass everything, every situation, every circumstance.
It is the height of heights to be able to say with full understanding, “the Lord has!”
This is a grand height of this next ascension that we find full of the splendor and regal of the King.
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The Lord Has Sworn in Truth*
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A. The oath of God seals and secures all things.
The key word here is “in Truth.”
It is important to understand that the Psalmist is not saying that God has sworn and not lied.
This is figurative speech which fosters a sense of surety as a parent nurtures a child.
The child after a period of nurturing fully trusts their parent.
This is the idea we understand from the phrase “in truth.”
B.
There is another aspect to consider in this verse.
The Lord has sworn.
Men may say something, promise something or even swear something and by circumstances beyond their control not be able to deliver.
We do not know what tomorrow will bring.
“Let your nays be nays.”
You may have had someone tell you, “Had I known this would happen, I never would have promised you this.”
Things happen that are completely out of our control.
C.
Yet the very thing the psalmist says here is that God is completely in control.
He never changes.
He is always steadfast, immovable and anchored.
When God swears, it is…and it will never be anything else.
For instance, God will never tell you one thing and then later turn around and say something else.
He doesn’t change and nothing can change Him.
Seasons will come and go, events and circumstances will transpire, but they are of no concern to Him, for He is the same yesterday, today and forever.
Here is something personal for your own life.
What God commands you to do does not change because the circumstances change.
Whatever God is doing trust Him in it and move on with God.
But be aware, circumstances will change and the issue will arise to question God. “Has God indeed said?”
Who said that?
What did we just hear last week?
What did God say to Abram? 1.
Get out of you country. 2.
Out from your family and from your father’s house.”
Had God changed His mind in that when a famine came in the land?
Let me ask you this, did God know that there would be a famine?
D.
So this sets the ground work for us.
God has sworn.
He has made an oath.
What is the oath here?
First of all, to whom did He make the oath?
*2 Samuel* *7.8-16 *Now we see that the psalmist reiterates his figurative speech of the surety of the Lord’s oath by saying, “He will not turn from it.”
So you might say that he has gone to great lengths to assure us of the surety of God’s promise.
So, I ask you, did God keep His promise?
Was it as sure as what the Psalmist says?
We have the privilege of history to answer this.
So let’s ask the Jew, “Where is your king?”
No king!
We have a problem don’t we? God said it, made an oath, swore in truth and not only is there not one of David’s sons ruling on the throne in Jerusalem, but there is no king period!
Have we caught God in a lie?
Now I know that it does not matter that our politicians lie, but we are talking about the almighty God.
There is more at stake than morality here, the whole of life and existence fails if God is a liar.
No, God is not like man.
He does not lie.
All things are by His word.
Nothing is done without the word of God and especially in salvation.
E. *Hebrews 7.14-21* The writer has quite the same problem.
Although you know since he raised the question and presents the problem, you know he has the answer in view as well.
All things are by the word of God.
It is not simply a play on words that John introduces his gospel with the words, “In the beginning was the Word.”
This is not simply a play on words.
John purposes to show that Jesus is the word and that in Him and only in Christ are all the promises.
God has not turned from His oath to David.
There sits one on his throne and He is Christ.
F. Now we have another problem.
This oath is conditional.
“If your sons will keep My covenant and My testimony which I shall teach them…” Once again we can go back to our Jewish friends and ask them, “Why didn’t you keep God’s covenant?”
No, the condition of the promise failed miserably.
It failed in Old Covenant Israel, but it was secured in the New Covenant Surety, Jesus Christ.
*He is the Mighty Lion of Judah who has prevailed, the One and only worth to open the seals of God’s decrees.*
The Lord has enthroned Christ and made “the fruit of His body to reign with Him.”
The oath is fulfilled in Christ.
The promise to David is brought to fruition in Jesus.
*II.
For The Lord Has – the Seven I Wills*
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A. *1st – I will dwell here.
(vv.
13-14)* He has chosen Zion as His abode.
Nobody has blackmailed Him into doing this.
This has not been extortion.
He has by His own choice and sovereign election chosen Zion, His Church.
The poor Dispensationalist can have his physical and futuristic Zion and Jerusalem.
I am happy to be in the family of God, the New Jerusalem, the city set upon a hill.
He has chosen her in that He desired her.
Of His delight and for His own pleasure He chose her and she will be known as His dwelling place.
There is a mark upon her.
She is His and He is hers.
“*/He has sealed her, marking her with His Holy Spirit of Promise, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.”/*
Therefore, He will never leave her nor forsake her, for here, He says, */“I will dwell, for I have desired it.”/*
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