Isaiah 61:8 English Standard Version (ESV) For I the Lord love justice; I hate robbery and wrong;^{[robbing with a burnt offerings]} I will faithfully give them their recompense, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

While much was said yesterday we should not neglect two more issues here, recompense and covenant.

Revelation 22:12 English Standard Version (ESV) “Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense with me, to repay each one for what he has done.”

It is the Lord’s place to bring recompense for deeds done. It is not our place. It is however brotherly love to warn others of the dangers of falling into the category of offender. The secular meaning of recompense is equivalent to pay back. That is linked to offenses against one another. It is easily understood from our human experiences.

In the spiritual sense it is the Lord taking back what is rightfully His. Since in this case, when we are seated naked^{[Job 1:21]} before the judgment seat, the only thing left is our eternal life. He will take those into His bosom who love Him, and cast away those who do not.

The everlasting covenant is different than the Old Testament covenants because it is not dependent upon us to keep. In the OT it was stated “if you will I will.” There was a dependency of obedience to the law to obtain a right standing before God. In the New Testament it is a matter of placing our faith in Christ and allowing He who is faithful to keep covenant.

1 Corinthians 9:4,5,8,9 English Standard Version

⁴ I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus, ⁵ that in every way you were enriched in him in all speech and all knowledge— ⁸ who will sustain you to the end, guiltless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹ God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

Isaiah 61:8 English Standard Version (ESV) For I the Lord love justice; I hate robbery and wrong;^{[robbing with a burnt offerings]} I will faithfully give them their recompense, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

John 2:14-16 English Standard Version

¹⁴ In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there. ¹⁵ And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen. And he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. ¹⁶ And he told those who sold the pigeons, “Take these things away; do not make my Father’s house a house of trade.”

In other translations “house of trade” is said to be a “den of thieves.”

These two verses together show the promise and fulfillment of a prophetic promise in Isaiah 61. Together they identify Jesus Christ as the one who would come to make the everlasting covenant. Father God sent His Son into the world to both speak truth and to reveal Himself to mankind.

John 14:7 English Standard Version (ESV) If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”

Romans 15:18 English Standard Version (ESV) For I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me to bring the Gentiles to obedience—by word and deed,

It is left to us to do both, by word and deed, to preach the gospel to the lost. If our deeds do not match our words, we will be branded hypocrites by those who do not see the Lord in spirit and truth.

Matthew 15:7-8 English Standard Version

⁷ You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said: ⁸ “This people honors me with their lips,    but their heart is far from me;”

Honor God from the heart.