The NXR Podcast - August 22, 2023


DAILY TRUTH - The Danger Of Rashly Making An Oath

Topics
covenant breach consequences
Hosted by
Joel Webbon Harrison Smith Antonio Griffith Dale Partridge Wewsley Todd Calvin Robinson
Mentioned
King Saul David Jonathan Joshua Mephibosheth Doug Wilson Joseph Boot Brian Sauve Eric Kahn Gibeon
DAILY TRUTH - The Type Of Swearing That Scripture Condemns DAILY TRUTH - Christ’s Full Defense

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Length

5 minutes

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Word count

776

Sentence count

42

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Toxicity

2

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Summary

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In this episode, Pastor Ken teaches about the power of a covenant and how it can be used to accomplish great things in the life of God's people. God's word is binding, and breaking it would be a greater sin than breaking it.

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00:00:25 Joshua and Israel entered into a covenant with Gibeon and when they realized the Bible says
00:00:35 three days later that the Gibeonites were actually their next door neighbors and that they had lied
00:00:42 and had not actually come from a far off distant land but were inhabitants of the land of Canaan
00:00:48 the very land that God had promised to give Israel as an inheritance the very land that God commanded
00:00:54 Israel to drive out all these pagan Canaanite tribes. When Israel realized that, uh-oh, we've 0.98
00:01:00 just made a peace treaty with a particular tribe of people that God has told us to drive out, 0.96
00:01:08 they couldn't go back on their word. Joshua and Israel and the leaders there realized that even 0.97
00:01:14 though they were supposed to initially, in obedience, full obedience to God's commandments,
00:01:19 to drive the Gibeonites along with all these other tribes out of Canaan. They had given their word, 0.96
00:01:25 they had made a treaty, a covenant, and to break their word would actually be a greater sin. And
00:01:32 then hundreds of years later, we see the power of a covenant. We see how binding our word actually
00:01:38 is, how serious an endeavor it is to make a vow before the Lord. We see hundreds of years later,
00:01:46 generations past, King Saul, the first king in Israel, King Saul in his zeal for the house of
00:01:54 the Lord and for the people of Israel, his zeal overstepping his bounds of wisdom and maturity, 0.94
00:02:01 he starts to put to death the Gibeonites. And what happens as way of consequence is that there 0.99
00:02:08 three years of severe famine and drought in the land of Israel. And now David comes into the
00:02:16 kingship, the throne, succeeding Saul. And David goes before the Lord because Israel is suffering
00:02:23 in this intense famine and drought. And he goes to the Lord and says, God, what's going on?
00:02:30 Surely we must be in sin. This is not just natural. We recognize that there is a supernatural
00:02:38 cause behind this famine. And ultimately, you're sovereign over all things. This wouldn't be
00:02:44 happening if you didn't allow it. Is Israel in sin? Have we breached a covenant with you? And 0.99
00:02:52 the Lord answers David and says, yeah, Saul did this. When he was king, as a representative head
00:02:59 of Israel, with his authority, he breached the covenant that was made generations earlier through 0.91
00:03:06 Joshua, he breached the covenant, he broke his word, he broke Israel's vow with the Gibeonites, 0.91
00:03:14 and in his zeal, he began to put them to death. And David says, well, how do we make it right? 0.79
00:03:21 And God sends David to the Gibeonites to say, go to them. You need to make it right and seek 0.89
00:03:27 reconciliation and restoration with the Gibeonites, the ones who Israel has offended. And the Gibeonites 0.99
00:03:34 say that in order to make it right, blood for blood, tooth for tooth, eye for eye, life for 0.97
00:03:40 life, that the sons of the lineage of Saul must be put to death. Now, David spares Mephibosheth, 0.99
00:03:49 who is a son, grandson of King Saul, but a son actually of Jonathan because of a covenant that
00:03:56 David made with Jonathan. So he can't make this other covenant that Saul broke with the Gibeonites
00:04:01 right by breaking another covenant that David made with Jonathan. So he spares Mephibosheth, 0.96
00:04:07 and the Lord allows for this, but he puts other sons of King Saul and grandsons in his lineage, 0.99
00:04:15 hands them over to the Gibeonites, and they put them to death. And all of a sudden, the famine 0.74
00:04:21 ceases, and God causes it to rain on Israel again. There's food in Israel. Things are made right. But
00:04:26 the point is to say that is just one example in biblical terms of the power of our word,
00:04:33 the power of a covenant. And I don't mean the power of our word in a prosperity gospel heretical
00:04:40 sense. I'm not talking about the power of positivity or manifesting or just, you know,
00:04:45 wishing something into existence, faith in your faith, name it and claim it. It's none of that.
00:04:50 But what I am saying is that when we make a vow before the Lord, he will hold us accountable.
00:04:58 And that's why Jesus even says, let your yes be yes and your no be no.