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SEPTEMBER 24
SURE MERCIES OF DAVID
“Concerning that He raised
Him up from the dead, no
more to return into
corruption, He said on this
wise, I will give you the
sure mercies of David.
Wherefore He saith also in
another psalm, Thou shalt
not suffer Thine Holy One to
see corruption. For David,
after he had served his own
generation by the will of
God, fell on sleep, and was
laid unto his fathers, and
saw corruption; but He, whom
God raised again, saw no
corruption.” (Acts 13:34-37)
David foresaw the
resurrection, and thus the
age-abiding LIFE of Christ,
and in this promise of the
same, we find it referred to
as “the sure mercies of
David.” This comes from the
Greek “ta hosia,” in other
cases translated as holy, or
Holy One, and here, as a
noun, given as “mercies,”
but literally meaning holy
or just things.
The Holy One would not see
corruption because He was
given THE HOLY THINGS of
David – that His soul would
not be left in hell, nor His
flesh go into decay. Once
the HOLY ONE and the “sure
mercies” were two separate
certainties, but when Jesus
Christ was manifested in the
flesh, and then brought
forth in resurrection, then
the Holy One and the SURE
MERCIES become “one” in a
literal fulfillment of “I AM
THE RESURRECTION.”
Now He is unto us both the
Holy One and the
resurrection, so that “he
that hath the Son hath
life.” (1 John 5:12). He has
become my “sure mercies.”
“And that ye put on the new
man which after God is
created in righteousness and
true holiness.” (Eph. 4:23).
We note the word “holiness”
here is “hosiotes,” the
feminine form of the word
“hosios” which we had for
sure mercies. Truly we would
be clothed upon with the new
man, which is created in
righteousness, and with this
element of the sure mercies
of David, holiness that will
not allow you to see
corruption. “Born of God,
and sinneth not… the wicked
one toucheth him not.” All
of this is found in the sure
mercies of David, and part
of those blessings given to
us in Christ. “I shall be
satisfied, when I awake,
with Thy likeness.” (Ps.
17:15).
Ray Prinzing |
