God’s Covenant with David: Christ as the Seed of David Carries out God’s Economy

Our wonderful, infinitely wise, loving, gracious, and merciful God is a covenanting God, and it is our privilege to take a look at some of the major covenants God made with man.

God came in after Adam and Eve fell not to blame them or condemn them but to preach the gospel to them and promise them a seed – the seed of the woman who will crush the head of the serpent. God made a covenant with Noah after the earth was destroyed by water, promising He will never again do that; He is faithful in His promises. Then, God made a covenant with Abraham, promising him a seed in which all the nations will be blessed and also to give him the good land of Canaan.

All these covenants God made with individual people but they have a spiritual significance and application in our Christian life:

• the seed of the woman is Christ as the overcoming One, the One who destroyed the devil through His death on the cross, and who is now being reproduced in us as the man-child;
• the rainbow stands in the heaven and God’s promises are in His word, and we can stand on His promises and enjoy Him in His faithfulness; and
• Christ as the life-giving Spirit is the unique blessing for all the nations, He Himself becoming our good land to all-inclusively supply us and meet all our needs as we live a life for God’s purpose.

Today we want to see the covenant God made with David and how this covenant applies to us. God promised David a seed which will be called the Son of God, and this seed will build up God’s house, the temple (2 Sam. 7:12-14).

Christ is the seed of David: He as the Lord of David in His divinity became a man to be the seed of David in His humanity and was later transfigured to become the life-giving Spirit to be dispensed into us all to make us sons of God and the co-kings with Christ.

How wonderful it is that our covenanting God keeps promising to work Himself into us to make us God’s sons and even the same as He is in life and nature! We can stand on His promises, enjoy the benefits of His covenant, and be made the same as Christ to match Him in every possible way!

God’s Covenant with David: Christ as the Seed of David Carries out God’s Economy

David was a man after God’s heart, fought God’s battles, yearned to know God and experience Him, and he desired to build God a house, but God made a covenant with him telling him that God will build him (David) a house, and David’s seed which comes out of his loins will be called the Son of God and will build the house of God (2 Sam. 7:12-14).

This promise was fulfilled initially in Solomon, David’s son, who built the temple as God’s house; but the real fulfillment of God’s covenant with David was in the Lord Jesus. The Lord Jesus Christ came as the seed of David to die and be resurrected and carry out God’s New Testament economy for the dispensing of the processed Triune God into the members of the Body of Christ.

Christ came as God becoming man, and He puzzled the Jews in His time; He asked them, Who do people say that Messiah is? Is He the Son of David? Then why does David calls Him, Lord? (see Matt. 22:41-46)

The Lord of David – Christ in His divinity, the root of David – was incarnated to become the son of David – Christ in His humanity, the Offspring of David – to be the last Adam; as the last Adam, Christ was resurrected to become the Firstborn Son of God and the life-giving Spirit, a transfigured descendant of David, to be dispensed into us to make us the sons of God and co-kings with Christ (see Rev. 22:16; John 1:14; 1 Cor. 15:45; John 12:24; Rom. 8:28-29; Acts 13:33; Rom. 5:17).

The resurrected Christ is God’s sure mercies, of which Christ is the center and reality, shown to David through his descendant Mary, the mother of Christ (Matt. 1:16), for the dispensing of God Himself into all the believers of Christ in His resurrection (Acts 13:32-35; Isa. 55:3-4)….In Christ as the sure mercies, God reaches us in His grace to be our enjoyment. Because our situation was miserable and could not match God’s grace, Christ not only took the step of incarnation to bring God as grace to us, but He also took the further step of death and resurrection in order to become the sure mercies to us in resurrection. Through His death and resurrection, Christ, the embodiment of God’s grace, became the sure mercies, and through these mercies we are now in the proper position to match God and to receive Him as grace. (The Central Line of the Divine Revelation, pp. 89-90, by Witness Lee)

Christ as the Lord of David became the Son of David to accomplish God’s judicial redemption through His death on the cross; Christ as the son of David (the seed of David) became the firstborn Son of God as the life-giving Spirit to carry out God’s organic salvation.

The fulfillment of the promised seed of David is Christ Himself; Christ is the seed of David, working Himself in the lineage of David to be a Man who accomplished God’s judicial redemption and was resurrected to be the life-giving Spirit to carry out His organic salvation by saving the believers in God’s life until they reign in life.

Today the resurrected Christ as the life-giving Spirit is the transfigured descendant of David, the seed of David, who is constantly being dispensed into us as God’s sure mercies, His eternal covenant, for our day-by-day enjoyment and supply (see Isa. 55:1-3, 6-11; Acts 13:33-35).

As Christ as the life-giving Spirit is being dispensed into us daily, we are saved in God’s life and we’re brought to a position where we can share His kingship in His resurrection in the eternal kingdom of God (2 Tim. 2:12; Rev. 20:4, 6).

The resurrected Christ as the life-giving Spirit is the transfigured descendant of David, the seed of David, the seed of the kingdom, dispensed into us to make us the sons of the kingdom, reigning in life to live in the reality of the kingdom so that we may be translated by Him and return with Him in the manifestation of the kingdom as the corporate smiting stone to annihilate the kingdoms of this world and become a great mountain, the kingdom of God, that fills the whole earth (Mark 4:26; Matt. 13:18-23, 38; Heb. 11:5-6; Gen. 5:21-24; Dan. 2:34-35). Crystallization-Study of Exodus (2), outline 6

This is so glorious! God didn’t merely promise David that his son will build God a house and that God will establish his throne forever; what God promised David is that He will work Himself into man to save man to the uttermost until man becomes a co-king with Christ to rule and reign with Him for the fulfillment of His purpose, the bringing in of the kingdom of God! Hallelujah!

Thank You Lord for coming as a Man, the seed of David, to be the last Adam in the flesh; thank You for dying and being resurrected to become the firstborn Son of God and the life-giving Spirit, a transfigured descendant of David, to be dispensed into us and make us the many sons of God and co-kings with Christ! Hallelujah, today we are sons of God under the divine dispensing of the transfigured seed of David to be made sons of the kingdom, reigning in life to live in the reality of the kingdom today so that we may be translated by Him and return with Him in the manifestation of the kingdom as the corporate smiting stone to destroy Satan’s kingdom and bring in God’s kingdom on earth! Hallelujah!

Seeing the Divine Economy in God’s Promise of the Seed of the Woman, of Abraham, and of David

If we step back and take a look at God’s promises of the seed of the woman, the seed of Abraham, and the seed of David, we will realize one amazing thing: these promises are for the fulfillment of God’s economy, His dispensing. Christ as the seed of the woman destroys Satan and saves us from sin and death.

Christ as the seed of Abraham causes us to inherit the consummated Triune God as our unique blessing and wonderful inheritance. Christ as the seed of David is constantly working Himself into us to cause us to share in Christ’s kingship.

These three matters cover God’s full salvation in complete way; in His full salvation God delivers us from the hand of Satan and out of sin and death, He brings us into the full inheritance of Himself as our blessing, and He causes us to share the kingship with Christ as His co-kings in the kingdom age.

God’s full salvation is to save us from any negative thing, cause us to enjoy God as our portion, and make us kings with Christ, and the promise of the seed of the woman, the seed of Abraham, and the seed of David accomplish God’s full salvation.

These three seeds refer to one person – Christ, who is the God-man. Christ as God yet man came to be the seed of the woman, the seed of Abraham, and the seed of David; this One is being wrought into us to make us the same as He is in His full salvation so that we may be one with Christ for the fulfillment of God’s purpose, His economy. Hallelujah!

The consummation of God’s purpose and intention is the New Jerusalem, an entity in which God and man are fully mingled and blended together; the New Jerusalem is the totality of God’s dispensing of Himself into humanity.

Today we need to live a daily life under God’s dispensing of Himself in Christ as the Spirit, the reality of the seed of the woman, the seed of Abraham, and the seed of David, so that we may be fully saved from Satan, sin, and death, we may enjoy God as our blessing and inheritance, and we may be qualified to reign with Christ in His kingdom!

Lord Jesus, thank You for coming as the seed of the woman to destroy Satan and save us from sin and death. Thank You for coming as the seed of Abraham to bring us into the full enjoyment of the Triune God as our blessing and inheritance. Thank You for coming as the seed of David to cause us to share in Christ’s kingship. Lord, keep us under Your divine dispensing daily so that we may be saved from sin and death, we may enjoy God as our blessing and inheritance, and we may reign with Christ!

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Inspiration: the Word of God, my Christian experience, brother Ed Marks’ sharing in the message for this week, and The Central Line of the Divine Revelation, pp. 89-90 (by Witness Lee), as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Crystallization-Study of Exodus (2), week 6 / msg 6, The Covenanting God and His Covenants (1) – Major Covenants That God Made with Man.
• All Bible verses are taken from, Holy Bible Recovery Version.
• Hymns on this topic to strengthen this burden:
  # Lord, Thou art the “Seed of David,” / For the kingdom Thou wast raised; / For God’s glory and His building / On the throne Thou hast been placed. / Truly Thou art “David’s offspring,” / Yet “my Lord” he calleth Thee, / For Thou art his “root” and fountain, / ”Lord of all” eternally. (Hymns #191)
  # Eternal covenant He makes / With David’s mercies sure; / The thirsty He does satisfy / With living waters pure. (Song on God’s Covenant with David)
  # God’s children, we’re born to be kings with His Son, / And we need to be trained that we may overcome / And to know how to rule in His kingdom as kings, / That His kingship thru us be expressed o’er all things. (Hymns #947)