David Teaches - Part Three

With anticipation and ever increasing humility, we are anxious to continue the third demonstrated lesson, as we explore some relevant facts about Hebron.

Many believers hold Hebron very close and dear to their hearts for various reasons, but this one is really special, humbling, sacred, sobering and most sentimental, all at once. I pray that it will bring you, as it has brought me,  great solace, comfort, strength and renewed commitment to our Ever-loving, Ever-caring, Ever-giving and Ever-including Father in heaven. 

Hebron appears before us in a most magnificent, powerful and mighty way. The Bible tells us about Abram and his nephew, at a time in their flourishing lives when they must part company and be separated for the good of all. Abram, in his humble and free heart, tells his nephew to choose whichever portion of land he wanted. Abram is clear in his position, that any part will be okay for him. If you take the left, then I will go to the right; or, if you go to the right, then I will go to the left. Genesis 13: 9b. Abram is free to adopt this attitude for it all belongs to his God and all that God has is good. Lot looks around as far as his eye can see and chooses the well-watered plains of Jericho. This is how it was before the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Abram was left with the land of Canaan. God visited Abram and made a life-covenant with him. God made a covenant with a man, a mere human being, promising that he, Abram, and his descendants, every single one of them, for all time and eternity, will know His forever blessing.

God promised Abram all the land that his eyes could see - north, south, east and west - of the place where he was presently standing. Think of it! It was a place of heart-felt sadness for he was now separated from his own, Lot, who lived and grew up with him. 

God promises Abram that He will give all that land to him and his descendants, forever.  Think of it! God has promised Abram that forever and forever, for all time and eternity, His Word of promise to him will last and stand, not just for Abram, but for all the generations to come.

God promises Abram that his descendants will never cease. In other words, He will bless this man with so many descendants that they would be as the dust of the earth; so that if a man could number the dust of the earth, then your descendants also could be numbered. Genesis 13: 16b. Think of it! God’s blessings will never cease towards descendants of Abram. In other words, long after Abram dies, God’s promise to him will keep on living.

 God promises Abram every bit of the land in length and width. Arise, walk in the land through its length and its width, for I give it to you. Genesis 13: 17. Think of it! All that Abram is seeing and more, are all his, God’s undeniable, unchangeable and unconquerable gift. 

Free, in this life-long promise of God, Abram moves his tent and pitches it by the terebinth trees of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to the LORD. Genesis 13: 18b. Hebron is the place where God promised Abram that he will be the father of many people, and each person will be under the blessing of God’s unbreakable promise to Abram. But note! Hebron is also the place of Abram’s response to God’s forever covenant. In other words, just as every descendant of Abram is covered by God’s infallible, everlasting covenant, so too with Abram’s response. His response covers all his descendants, as the altar of humility, thankfulness, surrender and utter love and awe, given to God, includes all who belong to Abram.  

Hebron is the place of remembering, for we remember that God has included us all, who are Abram’s descendants, into His lifelong covenant.

Hebron is the place of repenting, for when we bow low and humble ourselves before Abram’s altar, faith must arise in returning and remaining.

Hebron is the place of receiving, for it is where we receive refreshing, resuscitating and reorganizing.

We are totally humbled, hushed and quietened, with just this little information, when we hear God’s choice of Hebron, from all the other places in Judah. God is witnessing the deep, unaffected humility of His servant David, who is a son of Abram. We know that he is a son of Abram as it is clearly included in the genealogy of Jesus, which can be read in Matthew 1: 1 – 6a. 

Here is a very well-known picture of a sinner, who reflects the truth of this Promise of God to Abram’s descendants forever. I refer to Zacchaeus. Take full notice of how Jesus welcomes Zacchaeus as not a sinner, but as one of them. Today salvation has come to this house, because this man too, is a son of Abraham. Luke 19: 9b. Since Zacchaeus is a son of Abraham, then he must know the everlasting promises of God and Jesus makes it so in him. 

Indeed, David has been used to teach us wonderful things. Albeit, one of the most wonderful lessons taught is of the freedom we have, as children of the promise, to communicate freely with God on any level.

You are a child of God under the same covenant promise which God swore to His servant Abram. Again, you are reminded and given even more proof that you are of Abraham’s seed. God grant you willingness to accept and gratefully respond.

For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ, have put on Christ.  There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise. Galatians 3: 26 – 29.