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FPC Starkville, Martin Lifer – Wednesday Night Bible Study
September 1, 2021
Review of the Promise, Further Covenants & Specifications/Promises – re Big Picture of OT, Isaiah & NT;
Issues with the Promised Land & the Canaanites
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Acts 26:6-7 “And now I stand here on trial because of my hope in the promise made by God to our fathers, to which our twelve tribes hope to attain, as they earnestly worship night and day. And for this hope I am accused by Jews, O king!” [Apostle Paul to King Agrippa]
Romans 4:13,16-20 For the promise to Abraham or to his offspring [Gk. spermati – lit. “seed”] that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith….
That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his offspring — not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all, as it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations”—in the presence of the God in Whom he believed, Who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist. In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, “So shall your offspring be.” Without becoming weak in faith he contemplated his own body, now as good as dead since he was about a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah’s womb; yet, with respect to the promise of God, he did not waver in unbelief but grew strong in faith, giving glory to God, fully convinced that God was able to do what He had promised.
Hebrews 6:13-18 For when God made a promise to Abraham, since He had no one greater by whom to swear, he swore by Himself, saying, “Surely I will bless you and multiply you.” And thus Abraham, having patiently waited, obtained the promise.
For people swear by something greater than themselves, and in all their disputes an oath is final for confirmation. So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, He guaranteed it with an oath, so that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us.
Abrahamic Covenant Mosaic Covenant Davidic Covenant New Covenant
Curse, Sin, Consequences & Timing re Canaanites/Amorites … and re Promised Land
Genesis 9:18-27 including Ham’s sin -> curses on Ham’s youngest son, Canaan,… & blessing of Seth’s God, YHWH.
Genesis 10 – Table of Nations from Noah (Shem, Ham & Japheth).
Genesis 15:16 “Then in the fourth generation they shall return here, for the iniquity of the Amorite(s) is not yet complete [lit. here].”
Genesis 18-19
Deuteronomy 7:1-4 & 20:10-18
“When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you – the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and mightier than you – and when the LORD your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. You shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them. You shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons, for they would turn away your sons from following me, to serve other gods. Then the anger of the LORD would be kindled against you, and He would destroy you quickly.
20:10-18 10 “When you draw near to a city to fight against it, offer terms of peace to it. 11 And if it responds to you peaceably and it opens to you, then all the people who are found in it shall do forced labor for you and shall serve you. 12 But if it makes no peace with you, but makes war against you, then you shall besiege it. 13 And when the Lord your God gives it into your hand, you shall put all its males to the sword, 14 but the women and the little ones, the livestock, and everything else in the city, all its spoil, you shall take as plunder for yourselves. And you shall enjoy the spoil of your enemies, which the Lord your God has given you. 15 Thus you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not cities of the nations here. 16 But in the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes, 17 but you shall devote them to complete destruction,[a] the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, as the Lord your God has commanded, 18 that they may not teach you to do according to all their abominable practices that they have done for their gods, and so you sin against the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 9:4-6 Do not say in your heart, after the LORD your God has thrust them out before you, ‘It is because of my righteousness that the LORD has brought me in to possess this land,’ whereas it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD is driving them out before you. Not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart are you going in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God is driving them out from before you, and that He may confirm the word that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
“Know, therefore, that the LORD your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a stubborn people.”…
Jeremiah 17:10 “I the LORD search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.”
Romans 2:5-8 But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, Who will render to each one according to his works: to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and indignation.
Jeremiah 18:5-11 5 Then the word of the LORD came to me: 6 “O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter has done? declares the Lord. Behold, like the clay in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel. 7 If at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom, that I will pluck up and break down and destroy it, 8 and if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I intended to do to it. 9 And if at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will build and plant it, 10 and if it does evil in my sight, not listening to my voice, then I will relent of the good that I had intended to do to it. 11 Now, therefore, say to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: ‘Thus says the Lord, Behold, I am shaping disaster against you and devising a plan against you. Return, every one from his evil way, and amend your ways and your deeds.”
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FPC Starkville, Martin Lifer – Wednesday Night Bible Study
August 25, 2021
The 1st Recorded Group-Prayer in the Early Church and 1st Recorded Sermon by Paul
Return Us to Several Key OT Covenant Promises & Prophecies from Our Big-Picture OT Overview
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The 1st Recorded Group-Prayer in the Early Church
Acts 4:24-30
24 And when they heard it, they lifted their voices together to God and said,
“Sovereign Lord
- Who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them,
- 25 Who through the mouth of our father David, your servant, said by the Holy Spirit:
‘Why did the Gentiles rage, and the peoples plot in vain?
26 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers were gathered together,
against the Lord and against his Anointed’ —
27 for truly in this city there were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom You anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, 28 to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place.
29 And now, Lord, look upon their threats and grant to your servants to continue to speak your word with all boldness, 30 while You stretch out your hand to heal, and signs and wonders are performed through the name of your holy servant Jesus.”
God the Creator - “Who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them”
Psalm 146:6/ 146:3-9 / Acts 14:15 & 17:24
God the Author of the Scriptures (by His Holy Spirit)
Jesus as Messiah, God’s Son, and Holy Servant
Messianic Prophecy re the nations’ doomed rebellion v. YHWH (in Heaven) & “His Anointed” & “Son” (in Zion)
Psalm 2:1-2 (2:6-9ff. & 2:12)/ Hebrews 1:5
Isaiah – YHWH’s Servant 42:1-4, 49:1-7, 50:4-7 & 52:13-53:12
“Davidic Covenant” – God’s Promises re David’s House & Son
2 Samuel 7:4ff/ Psalm 132:11 -> Isaiah 55:3/ Jer. 33:17ff.
Exodus 6:1-8, 7:3/ Deuteronomy 6:20-22ff. – God’s outstretched hand -> signs & wonders, judgment
Zephaniah 1:4 – God’s hand of judgment on Judah
See Isaiah 53:5 – God’s hand stretched out for healing through the Servant’s atoning suffering
Acts 13:16-41
16 So Paul stood up, and motioning with his hand said:
“Men of Israel and you who fear God, listen. 17 The God of this people Israel chose our fathers and made the people great during their stay in the land of Egypt, and with uplifted arm He led them out of it. 18 And for about forty years He put up with[a] them in the wilderness.19 And after destroying seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land as an inheritance. 20 All this took about 450 years. And after that He gave them judges until Samuel the prophet. 21 Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years. 22 And when He had removed him, He raised up David to be their king, of whom He testified and said, ‘I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’ 23 Of this man's offspring God has brought to Israel a Savior, Jesus, as he promised. 24 Before his coming, John had proclaimed a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.25 And as John was finishing his course, he said, ‘What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. No, but behold, after me one is coming, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.’
26 “Brothers, sons of the family of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, to us has been sent the message of this salvation. 27 For those who live in Jerusalem and their rulers, because they did not recognize him nor understand the utterances of the prophets, which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him. 28 And though they found in him no guilt worthy of death, they asked Pilate to have him executed. 29 And when they had carried out all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree and laid him in a tomb. 30 But God raised him from the dead, 31 and for many days he appeared to those who had come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses to the people. 32 And we bring you the good news that what God promised to the fathers, 33 this He has fulfilled to us their children by raising Jesus, as also it is written in the second Psalm, “‘You are my Son, today I have begotten you.’
34 And as for the fact that He raised him from the dead, no more to return to corruption, He has spoken in this way, “‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David.’
35 Therefore he says also in another psalm, “‘You will not let your Holy One see corruption.’ 36 For David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep and was laid with his fathers and saw corruption,37 but he whom God raised up did not see corruption. 38 Let it be known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you, 39 and by him everyone who believes is freed[b] from everything from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses. 40 Beware, therefore, lest what is said in the Prophets should come about:
41 “‘Look, you scoffers, be astounded and perish;
for I am doing a work in your days, a work that you will not believe, even if one tells it to you.’”
- Acts 13:18 Some manuscripts he carried (compare Deuteronomy 1:31)
- Acts 13:39 Greek justified; twice in this verse
God’s gracious election & deliverance of Israel (and their rebelliousness) – Deuteronomy 4:37-38; Isaiah 1:2ff.
God’s Choosing of & Covenant with David, including the promise of the ultimate Messiah & Son – see Page 1
All above & ALL the promises fulfilled in Jesus
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FPC Starkville, Martin Lifer – Wednesday Night Bible Study
May 26, 2021
Big Picture Overview of OT – Understanding Isaiah in Its OT Context (Part 14)
Previously: “Putting David on the Map” – the Bible Study Portions of Our Previous Sessions in May.
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Tonight, a brief note re
David & Solomon as Prophetic Types:
David
Warrior King, prevailing over seemingly invincible enemies, humiliation, evil & darkness,…
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Poet of Worship & Priest-like King, and Prophet of the Messiah as Lord & Savior.
On David as priest-like king (or king who is priestly), recall the connection of 2 Samuel 6:14 & 1 Chron. 15:27 to 1 Samuel 2:18. [See Exodus 28:6-14.]
1 Sam. 2:18 - Samuel was ministering before the LORD, a boy clothed with a linen ephod.
2 Sam. 6:14 - And David danced before the LORD with all his might. And David was wearing a linen ephod.
1 Chronicles 15:27 - David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, as also were all the Levites who were carrying the ark, and the singers and Chenaniah the leader of the music of the singers. And David wore a linen ephod.
Solomon
Prince of Peace & Supremely Wise Judge drawing People from the End of the Earth; & Builder of the Temple.
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God’s covenant promises to David (and to David’s Seed, Son & House) are central to the NT. For example:
Isaiah 55:1-5
Romans 1:1-4- Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, 2 which He promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, 3 concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh 4 and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord,…
Luke 1:32-33 - “He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.”
Acts 15
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The “Davidic Covenant:”
God Makes Promises to –
“makes a covenant” [per later passages] with –
David, David’s Seed/Son & House
1 Samuel 7/ 1 Chronicles 17
“covenant,” e.g. - 2 Sam. 23:5; 2 Chron. 7:18; Psalm 89:3; Jer. 33:21
Psalm 89
1 Chronicles 22:8-13
1 Chronicles 28:1-10
1 Kings 2:4; 6:11-2; 9:4-9 (re & to Solomon)
2 Samuel 7
7:1-3
7:4-7/ 7:8-16
(7:17)
7:18-29
Promises to Abram/Abraham => Fulfillment in David and/or Promises to David
- “kings” Genesis 17:6,16 => David & Sons
- “great nation” Genesis 12:2 => Israel under David & Solomon e.g., key juncture at 2 Samuel 7:1
- David brings the promised “place” & “rest”
- “great name” Promise to Abram in Genesis 12:2 => Promise to David in 2 Samuel 7:9
- Promises keyed to Abraham’s & then to David’s “seed” (e.g., Genesis 21:12, 2 Samuel 7:12-16)
- Abraham’s seed will possess gates of enemies Genesis 22:17 => (David will defeat enemies) God will give rest from enemies 2 Sam. 7:11
- Special personal relationship with Abraham & his seed e.g., Genesis 17:7-8, and with David & his seed 2 Samuel 7:24
- Conditions re obedience of son/seed Genesis 17:1,18:19 & 2 Samuel 7:14