Sovereign Grace Baptist Church

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Of Princeton, New Jersey

 

AuthorClay Curtis
TitleOctober 22
Bible TextJeremiah 33:20-21
Date22-Oct-2014
Series Daily Readings
Article Type Article
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October 22

 

Jeremiah 33: 20: Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season; 21: Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.

 

    There is much promotion of fear in our day in circles of politics and science over climate change, a depletion of water or the pollution of water so that people are afraid that God’s creation will not continue as it has since God created it.  These things may be troubling to the world but there is no need for believers to be troubled.

     We are sure the earth will be held in place by God, as it has been from the beginning, because God used his constant maintenance of day and night to show that God would fulfill his everlasting covenant with David.  God promised David that he would always have a son to reign upon his throne.   That Son of David is the Son of God, the risen Lord and Christ who reigns forever as King of kings and Lord of lords. (Read Acts 2: 29-36) Also, God used the same covenant with day and night to show that God shall fulfill his everlasting covenant to provide priests to minister unto him.  Those priests are each of his elect who are made priests unto God by the blood of Christ.  (Rev 1: 5-6)  Therefore, God shall keep the day and the night in their season until the last of his elect are called to faith in Christ.

    Also, there are other examples in scripture where God uses the continual, consistent working of his creation to show the continual, consistent working of his grace toward his people by Christ our Redeemer.  God promises, “as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.” (Is 61: 11)  Therefore, by God’s power, the earth and the garden shall continue to bring forth her bud because by the same power God shall continue to call his people out of every nation to behold Christ our Righteousness and to praise him.   

   Again, God promises, “as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.” (Is 55: 10-11) By God’s power the rain and snow shall continue to fall and shall not return until God has made them accomplish his purpose in the earth.  God has never made any new water than he created in the beginning.  The same water that drowned every living thing on earth in judgment in Noah’s day is the water that continues to rain upon us today. But it is God, not man, who has kept the rain and the snow accomplishing their purpose. The reason they shall continue to do so is because God used them to exemplify how his word never returns to him void but always accomplishes exactly what pleases God and always prospers “in the thing whereto” God sends it.

    If God let these natural elements cease before Christ our King uses his word to call out the very last child he redeemed then God’s creation would not serve to remind his people of God’s power to lose none but save each one because of the blood and righteousness of Christ his Son.  Therefore, because Christ shall not fail, his creation shall not fail.  Christ made all these things in creation for himself, to set forth his glory in the salvation of his people. Therefore, Christ shall continue “upholding all things by the word of his power.” (Col 1: 16-19; Heb 1: 3)  

    It is not the fear-mongers that men ought to heed but the gospel of Christ.  Today is the day to seek Christ while he may be found. For when Christ has called the last blood-bought child to faith then it is Christ who shall, indeed, cause a great global warming. “But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up….Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.” (2 Pet 3: 10, 13)