Covenant Kindness | RC Ford | LifePoint Church Stewarts Creek

Main message: God’s kindness is not the shallow cultural “be kind” slogan but a covenantal, generous, undeserved kindness demonstrated in Christ that seeks out the helpless, supplies their needs, and seats them as children of the King—our right response is humble submission and reflecting that kindness to others by sharing the gospel.

Key points:

• Define God’s kindness: a gracious, covenantal disposition that actively seeks our good by grace, generosity, and loving action even though we don’t deserve it.
• Covenant kindness seeks: David looks for anyone left from Saul’s house and intentionally seeks out Mphibicheth—illustrating how God seeks us when we were not seeking him.
• Covenant kindness supplies: David restores Mphibicheth’s inheritance and provides for his needs—likewise God supplies every need of his people in Christ.
• Covenant kindness seats: David seats the crippled Mphibicheth at the king’s table as a son (adoption/identity) even though his physical condition remains—the believer’s position before God is changed even if circumstances aren’t.
• Proper response and outworking: humility and submission to the King, gratitude that leads to showing God’s kindness to others—most of all by proclaiming the gospel; allow God’s sanctifying “chisel” to remove what does not look like Christ.

Scriptures mentioned: 2 Samuel 9, 1 Samuel 20, Luke 19:10, Ezekiel 34:11, Romans 3:11, Philippians 4:19, Luke 22:29-30, John 1:12