BIBLE DOCTRINE WITH PASTOR ROBERT R. MCLAUGHLIN

Amazing grace, How sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me.
I once was lost, but now I am found,
Was blind, but now I see.

'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,
And grace my fears relieved.
How precious did that grace appear
The hour I first believed.

Through many dangers, toils and snares
I have already come,
'Tis grace has brought me safe thus far
And grace will lead me home.

The Lord has promised good to me
His word my hope secures;
He will my shield and portion be,
As long as life endures.

Yea, when this flesh and heart shall fail,
And mortal life shall cease
I shall possess within the veil,
A life of joy and peace.

When we've been there ten thousand years
Bright shining as the sun,
We've no less days to sing God's praise
Than when we've first begun.

The Davidic Covenant.

Sunday, March 16, 2008

The Abrahamic covenant emphasizes the race for client nation Israel, and the Palestinian covenant emphasizes and reiterates the land for client nation Israel.

The third covenant, the next of Israel’s great unconditional or unilateral covenants is known as the Davidic covenant, which emphasizes the seed for client nation Israel.

a) The Jewish race - Abrahamic covenant
b) The land for Israel - Palestinian covenant
c) The promise seed - or client nation Israel

The Davidic Covenant refers to God’s promises to David through Nathan the prophet, 2Sa 7;
1CH 17:11-14; 2CH 6:16.

This is an unconditional covenant made between God and David through which God promises David and Israel that the Messiah (Jesus Christ) would come from the lineage of David and the tribe of Judah and would establish a kingdom that would endure forever.

JOH 14:27 “My Peace I give unto you; It’s a peace that the world cannot give.”

JOH 14:2 In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

In the Al Maidah (The Table) - Believers (Muslims), take neither Jews nor Christians to be your friends: they are friends with one another. Whoever of you seeks their friendship Shall become one of their number, and God does not guide (those Jewish and Christian called “wrong-doers”) 5:51-5:74.

In spite of the fact that they teach that the Jews are evil-doers in the Al Maidah 5:57, God promises that He will build them a house or a dwelling place.

In spite of the fact that the Koran, Surah 2:140, says that Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and the Tribes of Israel were not Jews or believers.

ACT 13:22 - “I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after My heart, who will do ALL My will.”

The Davidic Covenant is unconditional because God does not place any conditions of obedience upon its fulfillment.

The surety of the promises made rests solely on God’s faithfulness and does not depend at all on David or Israel’s obedience.

1. God reaffirms the promise of the land that He made in the first two covenants with Israel (The Abrahamic and Mosaic Covenants), 2SA 7:10.

COL 1:13 He delivered you us from the kingdom of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son,

ISA 29:24 They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.

One way or the other He will accomplish His will to become conformed to the image of His Son, ROM 8:29.

EXO 14:13 Moses said to the people, “Do not fear! Stand by and see the deliverance of the Lord which He will ACCOMPLISH for you today;”

PSA 57:2 I will call to God Most High, To God who accomplishes all things for me.
PSA 138:8 David said, “The Lord will accomplish what concerns me;”
JOH 17:4 “I glorified Thee on the earth, having accomplished the work which Thou hast given Me to do.”

The Palestinian Covenant: The mystery and true message behind the Palestinian Covenant; Part 2.

Friday, March 14, 2008

The Abrahamic covenant emphasizes the race for client nation Israel; the Palestinian covenant emphasizes and reiterates the land for client nation Israel.

God revealed His power in the midst of all the cosmic odds against us.

God endeavored and accomplished to go and take for Himself a nation of people (the Jews, or Israel) from the midst of another nation (Egypt), by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors.

It was in a desert utterly unfriendly to human life that they would also be sustained for forty years.

1. Trials - macot = to try or prove.
2. DEU 4:34 “by signs”
- ‘otot = to come near; such signs as God gave them of His continual presence and providence, particularly the pillar of cloud and pillar of fire, keeping near to them night and day, and always directing their journeys, showing them when and where to pitch their tents.

3. DEU 4:34 “and wonders” - mowpªtiym = to persuade; persuasive facts and events.
Whether strictly miraculous, and exceeding the powers of nature, or not.

It also refers to typical men, raised up by God as types of Christ, and proofs that God would bring His servant The BRANCH.
4. DEU 4:34 “and by war” -
milchaamaah = hostile engagements; such as those with the Amalekites, the Amorites, and the Bashanites, in which the hand of God was seen rather than the hand of man.

5. DEU 4:34 “and by a mighty hand” - yaad = one that is strong to deal its blows, irresistible in its operations, and grasps its enemies hard so that they cannot escape, and protects its friends so powerfully that they cannot be injured.
DEU 4:34 “and by an outstretched arm” -
uwbizrowa` = a series of almighty operations, following each other in quick astonishing succession.

a. The finger of God denotes any manifestation of the divine power, where effects are produced beyond the power of art or nature.
b. The hand of God signifies the same power, but put forth in a more signal manner.
c. The arm of God = the divine omnipotence manifested in the most stupendous miracles.
d. The arm of God stretched out = this same omnipotence exerted in a continuation of stupendous miracles, both in the way of judgment and mercy.

7. DEU 4:34 “and by great terrors” - mowraa’iym = such terror, dismay, as were produced by the ten plagues.

These were all reminders of the Abrahamic Covenant, and therefore the Palestinian covenant is the reassurance that the Jews would possess the real estate that God promised Abraham.

He is speaking of the fact that He knew they were going to rebel; however, He made a provision for that as well.

PSA 78:40 How often they rebelled against Him in the wilderness, And grieved Him in the desert!

The rejection of Israel and the desolation of the promised inheritance were not to be the end of God’s dealings with them.

The chastisements of God would lead the nation to repent, and thereupon God would again bless them.

The “turning again of the captivity” will be when Israel is converted to Him in whom the Law was fulfilled, and who died “not for that nation only,” but also that He might “gather together in one all those who were scattered abroad.”

The blessing in this connection can be explained on the ground that Moses was surveying the future generally, in which not only a curse but a blessing also would come upon the nation, according to its attitude towards the Lord as a whole and in its pivot of mature believers.

ROM 11:4 But what is the divine response to him? “I have kept for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”

Even in times of great apostasy, there would always be a pivot which could not die out.

Covenant theology agrees with Islam which is Anti-Jewish.

For in the Al Maidah (The Table): “Believers (Muslims), take neither Jews nor Christians to be your friends: they are friends with one another. Whoever of you seeks their friendship Shall become one of their number, and God does not guide (those Jewish and Christian, called “wrong-doers”) 5:51-5:74.

According to the Bible Israel is not to be cast off, JER 31:36-37.

JER 31:35 Thus says the Lord, Who gives the sun for light by day, And the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night, Who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar; The Lord of hosts is His name:

JER 31:36 “If this fixed order departs From before Me,” declares the Lord, “Then the offspring of Israel also shall cease From being a nation before Me forever.”

JER 31:37 Thus says the Lord, “If the heavens above can be measured, And the foundations of the earth searched out below, Then I will also cast off all the offspring of Israel For all that they have done,” declares the Lord.

ACT 1:6 And so when they had come together, they were asking Him, saying, “Lord, is it at this time You are restoring the kingdom to Israel?”

ACT 1:7 He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or epochs which the Father has fixed by His own authority;”

JER 32:38-39 And they shall be My people, and I will be their God; and I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me always, for their own good, and for {the good of} their children after them.

EZE 11:19 And I shall give them one heart, and shall put a new spirit within them. And I shall take the heart of stone out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh,

The Palestinian covenant reaffirms to Israel their title deed to the land of promise.

In spite of their unfaithfulness and unbelief, the Palestinian covenant confirms their promised land.

1. The nation will be plucked off the land for its unfaithfulness, DEU 28:63-68; DEU 30:1-3.

2. There will be a future repentance of Israel,
DEU 28:63-68; 30:1-3.

3. Their Messiah will return, DEU 30:3-6.

4. Israel will be restored to the land, DEU 30:5.

5. Israel will be converted as a nation, DEU 30:4-8;
ROM 11:26-27.

6. Israel’s enemies will be judged, DEU 30:7.

7. The nation will then receive her full blessing, DEU 30:9.

EZE 16:1-7 - God affirms His love for Israel in her infant stage.

EZE 16:8-14 - God reminds Israel that she was chosen and related to Jehovah by marriage, but in EZE 16:15:34 she played the harlot.

The punishment of dispersion was dealt to Israel, EZE 16:35-52.

This is not the final setting of Israel since there will be restoration, EZE 16:53-63.

The restoration is based on the promise,
EZE 16:60-62.

The church is not Israel, Israel is Israel and therefore God’s promises to Israel will be fulfilled, ROM 11:26-27;HOS 2:14-23; DEU 30:6; EZE 11:16-21.

1. Israel must be converted as a nation.

2. Israel must be regathered from her world-wide dispersion and installed in her land.

3. She must witness the judgment of her enemies.

4. She must receive the material blessings graciously promised to her.

The conclusion: Don’t mess around with Israel! - GEN 12:3 And I will bless those who bless you, And the one who curses you I will curse.

The Palestinian Covenant: The mystery and true message behind the Palestinian Covenant.

Thursday, March 13, 2008

ROM 9:4b they are Israelites, to whom is the adoption as sons and the glory [the Shekinah glory], and the unconditional covenants,

That leads us to the second unconditional and unfulfilled covenant = The Palestinian Covenant.

The Abrahamic covenant defines the race for client nation Israel when Abraham became a Jew at age 99; circumcision being was the sign, GEN 12:1-3; 13:15-16; 15:18; 22:15-18; 26:3-4; EXO 6:2-8.

The Palestinian covenant defines the land for client nation Israel, GEN 15:18; NUM 34:1-12; DEU 30:1-9; JOS 1:3-4.
PSA 68:20 He that is our God is the God of deliverance; and unto GOD the Lord belong the issues from death.

PSA 116:15 Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones.

ISA 57:1 The righteous man perishes, and no man takes it to heart; And devout men are taken away, while no one understands. For the righteous man is taken away from evil,

The place that God called them to live in was Canaan, the promise land; for you, the Church-age believer, the place that God has called you to live in is the PPOG (which is far greater than Canaan).

1CO 16:13 Be on the alert, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.
EPH 6:10 Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might.
2TI 2:1 You therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

They are about to pass from the proven leadership of Moses into the unproven leadership of Joshua. They are standing at the entrance to the land that was promised to them by God in GEN 12:7; 13:15; 17:7-8.

At the time, this land was possessed by Israel’s enemies who have shown they will resist any attempt by Israel to enter in the land.
We all have to learn to face the giants that are trying to stop us from going into the promise land, Canaan or the PPOG.

1TI 6:10 For you see the love of money keeps on being a root of all sorts of evil through which [love for money] certain ones by intensively desiring it [money] have gone astray from the doctrine and pierced themselves with many types of pain.

For the love of money Achan brought defeat on Israel’s army and death to himself and to his family.
For the love of money Balaam sinned against doctrine and tried to curse the living God.
For the love of money Delilah betrayed Samson and ultimately slaughtered thousands.

For the love of money Ananias and Sapphira became the first hypocrites in the church, and God executed them as a testimony against their misuse of money and deceit.
For the love of money - Judas betrayed and sold out Jesus.

2TI 2:4 No soldier in active service entangles himself in the affairs of everyday life, so that he may please the one who enlisted him as a soldier.

LUK 8:14 “And the {seed} which fell among the thorns, these are the ones who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with worries and riches and pleasures of {this} life, and bring no fruit to maturity.”

1CO 7:23 You were bought with a price; do not become slaves of men.
2TI 4:10 for Demas, having loved this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica; Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.
2PE 2:22 It has happened to them according to the true proverb, “A dog returns to its own vomit,” and, “A sow, after washing, returns to wallowing in the mire.”

Is the land of Palestine still their possession? (Faith says yes; sight says no).

Did the Mosaic covenant which was a conditional covenant set aside the unconditional Abrahamic covenant?
The Mosaic covenant is a conditional covenant based upon the Jews fulfilling certain laws and receiving the consequences of their positive or negative decisions.

GAL 6:7 Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap.
HEB 8:12 “For I will be merciful to their iniquities, And I will remember their sins no more.”

Could Israel hope to enter into permanent possession of their land in the face of such opposition?

He is speaking of their sin and punishment as being certain; yet, at the same time, shows how they may turn to Him and live, even while He was pouring out His indignation upon them because of their transgressions.

The unconditional covenants mean that the covenant or the promises are provided and are there - however, they are not there in the cosmic system.

a. An enemy of the cross, PHI 3:18.
b. An enemy of God, JAM 4:4.
c. A hater of God, JOH 15:23.

d. Anti-Christ (against Christ), 1JO 2:18,22; 4:3; 2Jo 7.
e. A carnal believer,
ROM 8:7; 1CO 3:3.
f. Double-minded, JAM 4:8.

In spite of the promises of God and the unconditional or unilateral covenants, you still must be in the place where the covenant or the promises reside.

Under the Palestinian covenant all of the middle East and part of Africa and Europe is promised to the Jews, but not all the land in the world.

The rejection of Israel and the desolation of the promised inheritance were not to be the end of God’s dealings with them.

HOS 5:15 I will go away and return to My place Until they acknowledge their guilt and seek My face; In their affliction they will earnestly seek Me, in the latter days, you will return to the Lord your God and listen to His voice.

God loves to reveal and accomplish something more than merely preserving the people from apostasy by the threat of punishment. He desires to secure a more faithful attachment and continued obedience to His doctrines by awakening the conscience of man to His unconditional love.

The mystery and true message behind the Abrahamic Covenant.

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

The other three covenants, the Palestinian, the Davidic, and the New covenant, are all related in some way to the Abrahamic covenant.

He is able to FULFILL and WILL perform any promises He makes including the first one and the most important one He made to mankind in the garden of Eden.

The Abrahamic, Palestine, Davidic, and New covenant.

The first cure for Abraham’s worries = his need to understand the Promisor and the promises. The second cure is the doctrine found in of the word of God, vs 8-11.

Abram saw the land occupied by the Amorites, as well as many giants.
Not only that, Chedorlaomer and his forces had been moving back and forth throughout the land, threatening to envelop or surround it.

MAT 17:20 “If you have faith as a mustard seed, you shall say to this mountain [any huge obstacle in your life], ‘Move from here to there,’ and it shall move; and nothing shall be impossible to you.”
MAT 19:26 “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

ROM 14:23 whatever is not from faith is sin.

This is the first time that the heifer, female goat, ram, the turtledove, and the young pigeon are all mentioned. Before the scriptural record there was the Stellar record, the record or the witness of the stars.

The first thing Abram needed to do was to rebound and confess his fear, vs 1.
He also needed to confess his doubt, vs 2.
Then he needed to deal with his arrogance in blaming God, vs 3.
Then he needed to recognize and confess his lack of faith in God, vs 8.

The she-goat and the ram both spoke of the work of Christ in salvation.
Specifically, the she-goat was the reconciliation offering, while the ram depicted propitiation.

“Peace” and “reconciliation” are synonymous terms,
EPH 2:14,15,17; 4:3; 6:15.

The she-goat spoke of propitiation which is the God-ward side of the work of Christ in salvation. The turtle dove and the young pigeon spoke of the Person of Christ and His heavenly origin, the turtle dove portraying His deity and the pigeon His resurrected humanity.

Neither bird was divided, because deity cannot be divided or killed.
The turtledove spoke of the deity of Christ whereas the young pigeon spoke of the humanity of Christ.

Through the heifer, or “rebound” offering, He was saying, “Abram, you need have no worries with regard to your sins because by confessing them you are forgiven and your sins are blotted out.”

PRO 28:13 He who conceals his transgressions will not prosper, But he who confesses and forsakes them will find compassion. Conceals - kacah = to cover in secrecy, to conceal, to hide.

GEN 3:12 “The Woman you gave me as a companion, she gave me fruit from the tree, and, yes, I ate it.”
GEN 3:13 “The serpent seduced me,” she said, “and I ate.”

There is no place for a guilt complex or for anxiety about past failures.

PSA 51:4 Against Thee, Thee only, I have sinned, And done what is evil in Thy sight,

Be sure you offer the heifer offering (rebound), for it is absolutely necessary to rebound before you can get rid of your fears, worries, doubts, and lack of faith in God. He will keep on worrying, no matter if he has a thousand promises, because he has not used rebound.

You cannot claim the promises of God and appropriate them when you are out of fellowship. You must first confess your sin of fear, worry, doubts, and lack of faith in God.

Abraham offered the heifer, the “rebound” offering, because it was necessary to get back in fellowship before he could even claim the promises of God.

If Jesus Christ provided reconciliation (the heifer or the rebound offering, the removal of the barrier between God and man), can He not meet our problems in time?

Then he divided the ram, the propitiation offering.
If God the Son, hanging on the cross, satisfied God the Father, and all of the Father’s claims against us - if Jesus Christ did it all on the Cross, can He not handle our problems in time?

The turtle dove spoke of the deity of Christ. Jesus Christ is God - deity, ROM 9:4.
He is always faithful (immutable), He always keeps His Word (veracity), He keeps on loving us, and He is eternal in nature.

The young pigeon represented the resurrected humanity of Christ, which is seated at the right hand of the Father making intercession for us.

When he walked between the pieces of the heifer, he was saying in effect, “I have confessed my sins.”
When he killed the other animals, it was analogous to being under the blood of Christ trusting in Him as his Lord and Savior.

Next we have the messengers of the Devil. Whenever the grace of God is portrayed, the kingdom of darkness attacks.

As soon as you stop worrying, as soon as you learn how to claim the promises of God and use doctrine, you are going to have more things about which you could worry.

They are the messengers of Satan or individuals under Satan’s influence.

1PE 5:7-8 casting all your anxiety upon Him, because He cares for you. Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary [diabolis / satana = an attorney, an attorney who slanders], the devil, prowls about like a roaring lion, seeking some believer to devour.

The roaring is something to make us worry, and the devouring is when we start to worry. Paul was not in any lion’s den literally, but he was delivered from worry by what God had provided.

To drive them away means that he had perfect peace; he was no longer worried.

Darkness here speaks of pressure.

God provides pressure, adversity and suffering so that we will learn to claim His promises and use the doctrine of the Word.

1PE 5:10 And after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen and establish you.

“How can I ever get all of this land, northward, southward, eastward and westward, as God promised it to me, after separation from Lot?”

They are supposed to have been men of great stature; their king, Og, is described by Moses as the last “of the remnant of the giants,” DEU 3:11.

In the promise to Abraham, GEN 15:21, the Amorites are specified as one of the nations whose country would be given to his posterity.

At that time three partners or associates of Abraham to this tribe = Mamre, Aner, and Eshcol, GEN 14:13,24.

A third cure for worry is the knowledge of prophecy. Knowledge of the future gives the believer assurance in the present.

God had to postpone His answer to teach Abram, by the offerings and sacrifices, the importance of knowing the doctrines pertaining to Christ and His constant provision for Abraham.

“To know” - once as a participle and then as a finite verb = “Knowing, thou shalt know,” literally. “Know with assurance.”

The first prophecy begins with the Egyptian bondage.

Accurately prophesied, the Jews were in slavery for four hundred years. That is enough to destroy any race, but it did not destroy them - it made them.

1. The promise of a national land, GEN 12:1; 13:14-15; 13:17.
2. The promise of both national and universal redemption, GEN 12:3; 22:18; GAL 3:16.
3. That a great nation should come from him, GEN 12:2.
4. That Abraham’s name shall be great, GEN 12:2.
5. That He should be a blessing so great that in him shall all families of the earth be blessed,
GEN 12:3.

6. To him personally and to his seed (not the church, but the Jews) should be given Palestine forever to inherit,GEN 13:14-17.
7. The multitude of his seed should be as the dust of the earth, GEN 13:16.
8. That whosever blessed him should be blessed and whosever cursed him should be cursed,
GEN 12:3.

9. He should be the father of many nations, GEN 17:4.
10. Kings should proceed from him, GEN 17:6.
11. The covenant shall be perpetual “an everlasting covenant,” GEN 17:7.
12. The land of Canaan shall be “an everlasting possession,” GEN 17:8.

If we had time to analyze these particulars we would see that certain individual promises were given to Abraham.
Certain national promises were given to Israel.
Certain promises were given to nations that Abraham would become associated with. The second unconditional and unfulfilled covenant is The Palestinian Covenant.