Davidic covenant
237Peter's Pattern for Preaching - Part 2
11 May 2026
26:26¶ 86
“So God had promised to David that David would have an everlasting kingdom, or more specifically that his son would, that David would be…”
30:53¶ 98
“The covenant with David is not a political covenant. It’s not primarily about politics and land, real estate and all that, it’s primarily the…”
25:49¶ 85
“Therefore being a prophet [David was a prophet, the psalms are prophecy], and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him [a…”
193Cyrus, King of Persia
20 May 2024
22:39¶ 71
“The reason he’s not a prince or king or someone in the kingly line is because back before Jerusalem fell, one of the last…”
23:08¶ 72
“Zerubbabel is in that line, and so will Joseph, Jesus’s adopted father, be. But by God’s own decree that line exists technically after a…”
25:08¶ 75
“More broadly, why speak of this as a renewed covenant? Because so many things change. The easy way to see this is just to…”
189The Covenant of Kingship
15 Apr 2024
10:51¶ 28
“It’s another one of those covenants of promise that in many ways are very open-ended in the sense that God does not say, “I…”
13:27¶ 38
“The ‘forever’ is crucial because you’re talking about a king who lives forever. To borrow a line from somebody someplace, “All men die.” Oh…”
13:50¶ 39
“And even if we could get one guy who lives forever, he kind of needs people to rule over who are not dying, or…”
159The Restoration Era
20 Mar 2023
35:39¶ 127
“And that was that. The Davidic line, as far as anyone could see, ended and the Davidic covenant apparently ended right there.”
35:49¶ 128
“Now, God is incredibly sneaky. The Messiah has to be a true son of David according to the flesh, and yet the kingly line…”
36:21¶ 129
“That happened exactly once, and that’s why the genealogies for Jesus are so terribly important, because they show us how the Davidic covenant can…”
143The Point of No Return
7 Nov 2022
28:59¶ 88
“Well, this is what God had to choose from and this was the best – and yet God continues to use him. He makes…”
31:58¶ 96
“And they reject David’s line. They reject the promise of God to bring the eternal king.”
138Freedom, Miracles, and History
3 Oct 2022
35:05¶ 126
“This is about the Davidic covenant. It’s not because God values Jewish people for being Jewish people. It’s all about Messiah. If they will…”
23:26¶ 78
“As I said, it’s not apparently recorded here, but the story appears both in Kings and Chronicles and in Isaiah, so this is something…”
34:16¶ 123
“This is not because God values the nation-state of Judah for any particular purpose of their own, or value of their own, or anything…”
114Divided Kingdom
18 Apr 2022
31:41¶ 106
“But we also have the promise, and that’s the promise that God is going to keep David’s house forever, ultimately leading to Jesus the…”
31:10¶ 105
“After he just seemed to have said, “You’re unfaithful, and you’ve ruined it all. You’ve ruined everything and brought it down to the ground…”
29:48¶ 94
“Then in the second half it continues talking about the seed of David. It talks about even the punishments. In verse 30 it says…”
110Rulers
21 Mar 2022
28:30¶ 68
“The thing at the end I think we can leave possibly as a question. “Although will he not make it to grow?” and at…”
28:51¶ 69
“Dispensationalism, particularly the old-school [inaudible 28:51] version, tended to turn the covenant with David into a political arrangement whereby Israel would rule the world…”
29:13¶ 70
“It’s everlasting. It’s not just for a millennium or for some limited time here on earth. It is sure and he says it is…”
108The Davidic Covenant
7 Mar 2022
3:03¶ 8
“There’s some heavy typology going on here, so God just goes ahead and lays down his cards and says, “Look, let’s talk typology. Let’s…”
4:50¶ 14
“The things that are key here are, first of all, “your seed from your bowels.” We’ve seen seed before – seed of the woman,…”
6:21¶ 22
“This is where this started. Notice the one word we don’t get here is the word covenant. It doesn’t show up here. It will…”
97Ruth and Boaz
20 Dec 2021
48:03¶ 199
“Meanwhile in this quiet little town that has a checkered past, God does something special. He has an old man marry a young woman.…”
48:29¶ 200
“So is it a Christmas story? It’s pretty close. We’ve got ‘Mary’ coming to Bethlehem. We have a reference to the covenant of David,…”
46:30¶ 193
“It would be an appropriate book for someone like Samuel to write in the days when David was on the run and people might…”