GOD’S MERCY & RIGHTEOUSNESS IS FOR ALL

Eric Aboadwe
September 25, 2017 ·

GOD’S MERCY & RIGHTEOUSNESS IS FOR ALL

Our Scripture reading is still in Psalm 103 where it says:

“But the MERCY of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his RIGHTEOUSNESS unto children’s children; To such as keep His COVENANT, and to those who remembers His COMMANDMENTS to do them” (Psalm 103:17-18).

We thank God for this new day and for giving us His infinite blessings through His Word. The LORD has taught us a lot from Psalm 103 and He has giving us abundance of SPIRITUAL food. We have learnt so much through this Psalm so that we will know how JESUS “The true God and eternal life” (1 John 5:20) has “BLESSED” our “soul” and for which reason our “soul” also “BLESSED” Him with praise and thanksgiving.

When our Scripture reading says that, “But the MERCY of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him,” it means that because God’s “MERCY is from everlasting to everlasting,” it has delivered us from “everlasting contempt” to “everlasting life” (Daniel 12:2) through our LORD JESUS.

The Psalmist added by saying, “and his RIGHTEOUSNESS unto children’s children.” This means that God’s “RIGHTEOUSNESS” is also from “everlasting to everlasting” and therefore He has made us “RIGHTEOUS” so that SIN has no dominion over us any longer. We must however not forget that this “RIGHTEOUSNESS” was fulfilled for us when JESUS CHRIST was baptized by John the Baptist (Matthew 3:15) before dying on the Cross to pay for our SINS.

The words “unto children’s children” means that “there is no PARTIALITY with God” (Romans 2:11), and so He gives His “RIGHTEOUSNESS” to mankind free of charge “unto children’s children” which refers to generation to generation. In other words, David was saying that God did not exclude anyone from the SALVATION of JESUS CHRIST.

Therefore when you come to the New Testament and you read from the Book of Matthew and it says that, “The book of the genealogy of JESUS CHRIST, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham: Abraham begot Isaac, Isaac begot Jacob, and Jacob begot Judah and his brothers” (Matthew 1:1-2), it is talking about the people of FAITH who believed in God’s RIGHTEOUSNESS from generation to generation. That’s why it is written that Abraham “believed in the LORD, and He accounted it to him for RIGHTEOUSNESS” (Genesis 15:6).

Also getting to the end of Matthew’s narration from generation to generation, he said, “And Jacob begot Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born JESUS who is called CHRIST” (Matthew 1:16). This means that all the men of FAITH kept their FAITH in God’s “RIGHTEOUSNESS” revealed in the sacrificial system of atonement until JESUS was born into this world to fulfill “all RIGHTEOUSNESS” by being baptized by John the Baptist. And it is the same Matthew who recorded this incidence (Matthew 3:13-17).

Therefore when the Holy Scriptures says that, “By FAITH Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtain a witness that he was RIGHTEOUS” (Hebrews 11:4), it is talking about how God’s “MERCY” and “RIGHTEOUSNESS” was passed on from Adam “unto” his children such as Abel, Seth, and to Enosh, Cainan, and down to Enoch who “walked with God” (Genesis 5:22). This is God’s “RIGHTEOUSNESS unto children’s children” which king David was talking about.

Also when the Word of God says that, “By FAITH Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly FEAR, prepared an ARK for the SAVING of his household, by which he condemned the world and became heir of RIGHTEOUSNESS which is according to FAITH” (Hebrews 11:7), it is talking about how God’s “MERCY” was shown upon another generation which is Noah’s time and how God’s “RIGHTEOUSNESS” was given unto Noah and his family who believed.

If it says here that Noah “moved with godly FEAR,” it is the same thing which king David was talking about in our main Scripture reading when he said, “But the MERCY of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that FEAR him.” When God through Noah prepared the ARK of RIGHTEOUSNESS (JESUS CHRIST) for mankind, He was showing His “MERCY” to all those who lived before the “flood.”

But they rejected His Word in “unbelief” by refusing to enter the “ARK.” God wanted all the people who were living on the face of the Earth at that time to become “RIGHTEOUSNESS” inside the “ARK” (JESUS CHRIST), but they did not enter Him. If they have entered the “ARK,” God will see them as “RIGHTEOUS” people.

In the same way, any Christian who refuse to enter JESUS CHRIST by FAITH in the WITNESS of the “Spirit, water and blood” (1 John 5:8) will also be destroyed just like the people in Noah’s time. That’s why the Apostle Paul said that, “For He made Him who knew no SIN to be SIN for us, that we might become the RIGHTEOUSNESS of God in Him” (2 Corinthians 5:21).

It means that nobody can become “RIGHTEOUS” outside JESUS CHRIST whether by obeying the LAW or the 10 Commandments. This is because before the foundation of the world, God planned that He will make us “RIGHTEOUS” in JESUS CHRIST. That’s why the Apostle Paul says that, “Just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be HOLY and without BLAME before Him in love” (Ephesians 1:4).

Therefore when king David said that God’s “MERCY” is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear Him, and His “RIGHTEOUSNESS” unto children’s children (generation to generation), he was speaking based on the historical records in the Holy Scriptures which he studied and in which he discovered that God has done these things for SINFUL mankind.

That’s why David himself believed in these things and he sang, “GOODNESS and MERCY shall follow me all the days of my life” (Psalm 23:6). WHY did he say this? This is because “the MERCY of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his RIGHTEOUSNESS unto children’s children.”

Our study continues................

BLESSED are we for knowing these things.