Our Coming King
December 7th
Lineage of the King
“Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ“
Galatians 3:16
Daily Devotional
December 7th
The line of King Messiah was prophesied and traced through the Pentateuch and the early books of the prophets from Abraham to Isaac, to Jacob, to Judah, to Jesse, and to David the king. This is why the New Testament begins: “The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham” (Matthew 1:1).
Jeffrey D. Johnson wrote:
Jesus Christ is the ultimate fulfillment of the Abrahamic covenant. The Lord Jesus fulfills both the unconditional promise and the conditional requirement. This is why Paul made it clear that when God made the covenant with Abraham, the promise was not referring to offsprings in the plural form, but to an offspring in the singular (Gal. 3:16). When Christ was born, the unconditional promise was fulfilled. When Christ died, the conditional requirement was fulfilled. Therefore, all of the promises reside in Christ alone.
Jeffrey D Johnson, with a foreword by Tom Nettles, The Kingdom of God: A Baptist Expression of Covenant & Biblical Theology (Conway: Free Grace Press, 2016) 47.
Matthew 1:1
King James Version (KJV)
Publisher
Olive Tree Public Domain
About Lakeland FBC
Lakeland First Baptist seeks to glorify God by encouraging all people into a relationship with Jesus Christ, discipling them in spiritual growth, and equipping them to make disciples of the nations.