The NXR Podcast - August 22, 2023


DAILY TRUTH - The Danger Of Rashly Making An Oath


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5 minutes

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776

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40

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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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00:00:25.600 Joshua and Israel entered into a covenant with Gibeon and when they realized the Bible says
00:00:35.760 three days later that the Gibeonites were actually their next door neighbors and that they had lied
00:00:42.040 and had not actually come from a far off distant land but were inhabitants of the land of Canaan
00:00:48.240 the very land that God had promised to give Israel as an inheritance the very land that God commanded
00:00:54.020 Israel to drive out all these pagan Canaanite tribes. When Israel realized that, uh-oh, we've 0.98
00:01:00.840 just made a peace treaty with a particular tribe of people that God has told us to drive out, 0.96
00:01:08.160 they couldn't go back on their word. Joshua and Israel and the leaders there realized that even 0.97
00:01:14.560 though they were supposed to initially, in obedience, full obedience to God's commandments,
00:01:19.600 to drive the Gibeonites along with all these other tribes out of Canaan. They had given their word, 0.96
00:01:25.180 they had made a treaty, a covenant, and to break their word would actually be a greater sin. And
00:01:32.000 then hundreds of years later, we see the power of a covenant. We see how binding our word actually
00:01:38.920 is, how serious an endeavor it is to make a vow before the Lord. We see hundreds of years later,
00:01:46.020 generations past, King Saul, the first king in Israel, King Saul in his zeal for the house of
00:01:54.800 the Lord and for the people of Israel, his zeal overstepping his bounds of wisdom and maturity, 0.94
00:02:01.420 he starts to put to death the Gibeonites. And what happens as way of consequence is that there 0.99
00:02:08.560 three years of severe famine and drought in the land of Israel. And now David comes into the
00:02:16.700 kingship, the throne, succeeding Saul. And David goes before the Lord because Israel is suffering
00:02:23.960 in this intense famine and drought. And he goes to the Lord and says, God, what's going on?
00:02:30.800 Surely we must be in sin. This is not just natural. We recognize that there is a supernatural
00:02:38.480 cause behind this famine. And ultimately, you're sovereign over all things. This wouldn't be
00:02:44.520 happening if you didn't allow it. Is Israel in sin? Have we breached a covenant with you? And 0.99
00:02:52.120 the Lord answers David and says, yeah, Saul did this. When he was king, as a representative head
00:02:59.040 of Israel, with his authority, he breached the covenant that was made generations earlier through 0.91
00:03:06.540 Joshua, he breached the covenant, he broke his word, he broke Israel's vow with the Gibeonites, 0.91
00:03:14.000 and in his zeal, he began to put them to death. And David says, well, how do we make it right? 0.79
00:03:21.020 And God sends David to the Gibeonites to say, go to them. You need to make it right and seek 0.89
00:03:27.400 reconciliation and restoration with the Gibeonites, the ones who Israel has offended. And the Gibeonites 0.99
00:03:34.040 say that in order to make it right, blood for blood, tooth for tooth, eye for eye, life for 0.97
00:03:40.580 life, that the sons of the lineage of Saul must be put to death. Now, David spares Mephibosheth, 0.99
00:03:49.160 who is a son, grandson of King Saul, but a son actually of Jonathan because of a covenant that
00:03:56.160 David made with Jonathan. So he can't make this other covenant that Saul broke with the Gibeonites
00:04:01.360 right by breaking another covenant that David made with Jonathan. So he spares Mephibosheth, 0.96
00:04:07.700 and the Lord allows for this, but he puts other sons of King Saul and grandsons in his lineage, 0.99
00:04:15.460 hands them over to the Gibeonites, and they put them to death. And all of a sudden, the famine 0.74
00:04:21.060 ceases, and God causes it to rain on Israel again. There's food in Israel. Things are made right. But
00:04:26.480 the point is to say that is just one example in biblical terms of the power of our word,
00:04:33.620 the power of a covenant. And I don't mean the power of our word in a prosperity gospel heretical
00:04:40.180 sense. I'm not talking about the power of positivity or manifesting or just, you know,
00:04:45.720 wishing something into existence, faith in your faith, name it and claim it. It's none of that.
00:04:50.840 But what I am saying is that when we make a vow before the Lord, he will hold us accountable.
00:04:58.240 And that's why Jesus even says, let your yes be yes and your no be no.