TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2011
WE RECEIVE ALL THE BENEFITS
by David Wilkerson
[May 19, 1931 - April 27, 2011]
God gave His Son, the Son gave His life, and we receive all the benefits!
By mutual consent, the Father and Son made a covenant to keep and preserve the
seed of Christ. It is meant to ensure that we will endure to the end.
“He shall cry to Me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the rock of my
salvation.’ Also I will make him My firstborn, the highest of the kings of
the earth. My mercy I will keep for him forever, and My covenant shall stand
firm with him. His seed also I will make to endure forever, and his throne as
the days of heaven. If his sons forsake My law and do not walk in My judgments,
if they break My statutes and do not keep My commandments, then I will visit
their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. Nevertheless
My lovingkindness I will not utterly take from him, nor allow My faithfulness to
fail. My covenant I will not break, nor alter the word that has gone out of My
lips. Once I have sworn by My holiness; I will not lie to David: His seed shall
endure forever, and his throne as the sun before Me” (Psalm 89:26–36).
The Father made this covenant pledge to His Son: “I, the Lord, have called
You in righteousness, and will hold Your hand; I will keep You and give You as
a covenant to the people, as a light to the Gentiles” (Isaiah 42:6). God was
saying, “My hand will always be holding on to Yours and You will never be
away from my keeping power. I pledge to keep You safe from all the schemes of
the devil.”
This pledge by the Father is made available to us now because the Son’s
sacrifice on the cross has brought us into their covenant agreement. God
pledged to His Son, “If You go, I will keep and preserve every one of Your
seed, just as I have kept and preserved You. I will never remove My
faithfulness from You, nor from Your children.”