Precious Seed of Promise

Chapter Thirteen
Precious Seed of Promise

Psalms 84: 9. “O God, behold our Shield and look upon the face of Your Anointed”.

As the Psalmists suggest, let's look upon "His Anointed". From the beginning, everything has proceeded according to YAH’s plan. He made covenant with Abraham and passed it to Isaac and Jacob. Then, He made covenant with His people through Moses, and eventually to David. And, it is David that spoke so eloquently of the Seed of these covenants. He said in 110: 2 of the Psalms, “The Lord shall send the Rod of Your Strength out of Tsiyon. Rule in the midst of your enemies!”

Of this Rod of Strength, Micah writes in 5: 4, “And He shall stand and feed His flock in the strength of the Lord, in the majesty of the name of the Lord His God. And they shall abide, for now He shall be great to the ends of the earth”.

David opened the 110th Song with, “The Lord said to my Lord, sit at My right hand, till I make Your enemies Your footstool”. And, He said of this “Rod of Strength” Seed in v. 4, “The Lord has sworn and will not relent, You are a Priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek”.

Paul writes to the Galatians in 3: 26, “For you are all sons of God through faith in Yeshua the Messiah”. Our faith in Him and acceptance of His sacrificial gift of life has made us to become a part of the group called the “sons of God”. It is a faith spoken of by John in 1: 12, “But, as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name”.

Although we were once His enemies, we are now His adopted sons. It is as Jeremiah wrote in Lamentations 3: 22, “Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed, because His compasions fail not.” Even though condemnation was duly ours, we now possess an eternal inheritance from our Father, Yahweh. It is as Paul wrote in 4: 7 to the Galatians, “… you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Yeshua the Messiah”.

There is blessed truth of inheritance for us in the words of Paul to the Ephesians in 2: 12-13. He says, “…at the time you were without Messiah, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. But, now in Yeshua the Messiah you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Messiah.”

The simplicity of Yeshua’s gift of life is spelled out in His words through John in 3: 16. “For Yahweh so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.” So simple, yet so easily stumbled over!

Paul tells the Galatians in 3: 27, “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Yeshua the Messiah”. Individually and collectively we are bonded together in Israel’s Messiah. Then, Paul sums up our inheritance in v. 29. “If you are Messiah's, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.”

Regardless of who we are, regardless of our social status, in Messiah we are partakers of His precious covenant with us through Abraham. Whether we are of the Natural Olive Tree (native born) or the Wild Olive Tree (adopted son), those of us that answer His calling of grace are “grafted into” the “Commonwealth of Israel”.

What a glorious inheritance! The Seed of YAH’s covenant has become our High Priest. Turn from the ways of disobedience. Cleanse your heart and “come before His presence with thanksgiving”. In so doing, He receives from us honor, glory, and dominion—that which is duly His. Thereby, He makes our hearts to be greatly encouraged through the covering shield of His compassionate providence!

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