2. My
hesed/agape, loving-kindness, and goodness shall not depart from you (10)
a. Shall
not – Covenant talk – there isn’t anything else that is going to happen here
besides what I have said
3. The
three tools God uses to instruct the New Testament Believer
a. His
Spirit is for our instruction, training (John 14:26)
b. His
word is for our instruction and training (2 Tim 3:16-17, John 15:3)
c. His
called and anointed people were given to the body to instruct and train (Ephesians
4:12-15)
D. 10-Covenant
of Peace This is a covenant that promises you everything
1. 14-You’re
right with me because Jesus is right with me and when you came into covenant
with him through faith you were made right with his righteousness
a. In
right-standing with me you are established
2. 15-The
terror, fear, and the oppression are not coming from him
3. 17-No
weapon-That’s covenant talk brother There’s no hesitation
E. 17-
You get your inheritance because you were born into the right family
III. Through hesed/loving-kindness/tender-mercy I will not
be moved (Psalm 21:7)
A. The
Most High (Elyon) – Name of God that focuses on supremacy and power – It is a
name that says there is no existing thing or god that is higher than the Most
High – It is a name that is untouchable in quality, and incomprehensible in
dominion and might
1. Through
the hesed/agape, loving-kindness, and tender-mercies or El Elyon, the Most High
God, who has incomprehensible dominion and might towards me I will not be moved
2. Moved
(mot) – fall, be shaken, toppled, stagger
B. 8-The
psalmist calls them your enemies
1. Whoever
comes against me is God’s enemy
C. 9-12-The
back side of hesed/agape, loving-kindness, goodness, tender-mercies has some
serious teeth
D. Psalm
63:3 – Your hesed/agape is better than life
IV. Receiving Hesed (Dueteronomy 7)
A. 8-God
is a covenant keeping God
B. 9-The
Lord who you’re in covenant with is God
1. He
is God – Elohim – describes God’s greatness and glory; it displays God’s power,
total power and might
a. The
almighty God, creator of Heaven and Earth who is faithful and keeps His
covenant is showing hesed/agape, loving-kindness, goodness, tender-mercies to
those that keep the covenant
C. 12-You
have to exercise your covenant by standing on it and doing it
1. It
didn’t say that God’s covenant hesed might show up if you do what he said to do
– It said, “It shall, it will come to pass”
2. There’s
no other outcome in “It will”. This isn’t leaving any room for anything else to
happen, but what it says is going to happen. This is covenant talk, this is
guaranteed, fully persuaded, beyond a doubt that if I do this, then this will
happen
D. 12-15-Hesed
in motion
1. If
you want to see hesed in motion then keep the terms of the covenant by doing
what I tell you to do
2. “IF
YE” – that didn’t say “IF GOD”, that said “IF YOU”
a. Who’s
determining whether or not the hesed covenant shows up?Not God…We are
3. If
you hearken – If you hear my words and do them
a. You
have to do what the word of the covenant says if you want to see the
hesed/agape, loving-kindness, goodness and tender mercy of the covenant show up
in your life
4. How
much hesed you’re experiencing in your life right now is based on how
diligently you’re exercising in your covenant?
a. In
every situation the question is, “What did God tell me to do?”Then the answer is do it
5. There’s
no other thing that can come to pass if I do what he told me to do
a. Hesed
is looking for a people that will hold onto his word and hear it and do it and
refuse to do anything else but what he said.Hesed is just waiting on you to grab hold of that word and refuse to do
or say or think or compromise on one inch of it so that it can come to pass in
the area of your life that you need
E. 15-19-Hesed/agape,
loving-kindness, tender-mercy, goodness is a parental type of love that has
teeth if you mess with its children
F. Psalm
32:10 – Faith is the bridge that
hesed crosses to come into and overflow your life
a. When
you refuse to doubt and waver and compromise the flood gates of hesed will open
up and flood your life totally overwhelming you from every angle
i. Hesed/agape,
loving-kindness, goodness, tender-mercies will go before you, stand behind you,
rest above you and settle under you, it will be to your right and left
G. Psalm
147:11 God gets pleasure when He sees His children standing on the covenant
trusting in his hesed/agape, loving-kindness, tender-mercy
V. When Hesed, Remember, and I’ll never leave you nor
forsake you burns down in your guts until you begin to smell the covenant
blood, you don’t have to make faith happen when you know about the covenant of
blood
A. Psalm
26:1-3
1. 3-I
am ever conscious of your marvelous hesed/agape, loving-kindness,
tender-mercies, goodness
B. Psalm
27 – This attitude came because he kept God’s covenant hesed before his eyes
1. 1,3,5
6 – There’s a full persuasion, no hesitation, convinced beyond doubt, faith in
what he says in these verses
a. This
only comes from understanding hesed/agape, covenant, love and being conscious
of it at all times
