Old Llantrisant Hill
Introduction
- This passage is full of God’s grace
- It is not down how faithful we are – but how faithful God has been
- David is now King
- He asks if there was anyone left of the house of Saul …
- Not to liquidate them – example
- Not to kill the family from whom the crown was taken
- … to whom I can show kindness / mercy / love (v1)
- This word sums up God’s love – a faithful, undeserved, merciful, kind love
- David wishes to show God’s love (for Jonathan’s sake)
- David had made a covenant with Jonathan
- Jonathan was not God’s next choice of king after Saul
- Jonathan understood this
- 1 Sam 18:1-4
- 1 Sam 20:3-4, 8-9, 14-17
- David shows grace to Jonathan’s descendant (Mephibosheth)
- Duration of covenant does not matter – it remains true and binding as the day it was made
- David is showing the grace of God
- God made a covenant with Jesus – to give Him a people/Church
- Jesus kept His people
- Example of King’s walkway with arches
- God’s promises are way stronger
- It is not down to our faith, goodness or worth – it is down to God’s covenant faithfulness
- Covenant provision:
- v5-7 … for Jonathan’s (your father’s) sake
- Not due to himself but the covenant with his father
- This takes away fear
- David will restore the lost lands (v9)
- This brings peace and restoration
- David will have Mephibosheth eat at his table (v10b)
- This brings adoption into the family
- This brings total provision for the rest of his life
- This is a pale reflection of Jesus’ love
- God has promised His Son that He will bless believers
- There is no condemnation for those that love Jesus
- There is forgiveness in Jesus – the price is paid, Hallelujah!
- There is restoration of all that was lost – fellowship with God
- A perfect heaven where God will dwell with us
- A covenant people
- v8 – Mephibosheth sees himself as a dead dog
- Example of the Syrophoeneician woman
- God’s blessings are so gracious and undeserved
- Because of His promise to Jesus before the creation of the world
- Mephibosheth was not liquidated but blessed!
- Jump with joy at God’s covenant with us
- Song from Casting Crown