Spurgeon interprets David’s final testimony as a pattern for believers who recognize that their lives and families are not fully ordered before God, yet can rest in God’s covenant. The covenant is presented as divine in origin, everlasting, perfectly ordered, and sufficient for conversion, justification, sanctification, and perseverance. Salvation is therefore certain because it is preserved by God and secured in Christ, not maintained by human ability. Hearers are urged to examine whether salvation is personally theirs and to come to Christ by faith immediately.
Theological center: Salvation rests on God’s sovereign, everlasting covenant of grace, accomplished and secured through Christ, rather than on human merit or strength.
Applications: Continue praying for troubled family members · Come to Christ by faith · Examine personal standing before God · Rest in God’s covenant
Primary texts: 2 Samuel 23:5 · 1 Chronicles 7:20-22 · John 6:37
“Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow.” 2 Samuel 23:5 THESE be the last words of David, so we read at the commencement of the chapter. Many have been the precious sentences which have fallen from his inspired lips. Seraphic has been the music which has dropped from his fingers when they flew along the strings of his harp. But now that sweet voice is to be hushed in death, and now the son of Jesse is to sleep with his fathers. Surely it were well to press around his bed to hear the dying monarch’s last testimony. Yea, we can conceive that angels themselves would for an instant check their rapid flight that they might visit the c…