206. God will perform His Word
2 Kings 6:12, 13 Concerning this house which thou art in building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments to walk in them then will I perform my word with thee, which I spake unto David thy father.
The same conditional promise is given by he Lord to Solomon when he is about to finish building the Temple: If you keep my statutes, judgments and commandments, then God will keep His promise to you. This same condition and promise runs through all the Scriptures and outlines the history of the people of God on earth. Keep my commandments and you will be blessed; disobey and curses will come. God will establish His word with Solomon, the same word He had spoken to David. The promise is that a son of David will reign over the kingdom forever.
This promise could not come true on earth in the visible world because the condition was never met. Neither Solomon, nor any king, nor the people ever walked in all God’s ways or kept all the commandments. As a matter of fact, no one ever did, and no one ever could; so what was the point of even making such a promise? It could never be kept. The point is this: one person, the Son of David, the Messiah, kept the commandments for us and God’s word was performed just as He promised.
However, the performing of the word was not physical or earthly, but it was kept spiritually and in the heavenly realm. Jesus is the eternal king of God’s eternal kingdom, for He Himself performed the word. He is the fulfillment of the promise. The miracle of the Virgin Birth of the God-man is the only way the condition could ever be met and the promise fulfilled. And it was so: see the New Testament. Our sin and guilt and deserved death were placed upon Jesus, and dying, He earned the favor of God for us. And now the Lord must keep His promise. He did, and He will. Because of Christ, “all the promises of God find their Yes in Him.” And we say “Amen!” By faith we enter the forever kingdom and trust in the forever king.