Today’s Focus:
Covenant Relationships in Death
Scripture: Genesis
49:30-33
Greetings Sons of
God:
As dark as the
title of this message may sound it is still a crucial biblical principal that
we must recognize and understand.
Abraham in coming into Canaan and bought a cave in Hebron in a
particular place called Machpelah. The
word Machpelah means “double-cave”.
Abraham bought this cave so that he can bury his family there. Now we know in our natural society that
families buy plots so that when they die, they are buried together. Well we know that this concept comes from
this very scripture of Abraham desiring to bury his family in this cave of
Machpelah. Now who is buried in this
cave?
Genesis 49:30-33:
In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah which is before Mamre ,in the
land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a
possession of a buryingplace. There they
buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his
wife, and there I buried Leah.
Jacob is speaking
here and of course after this Jacob dies and is buried in the same cave with
his family. Notice that Rachel was not
buried here. She was not buried here
because she was not truly connected to divine destiny. But what is the point in all of this. Yeah, ok, I see that family is buried one
place but what does that have to do with the Body of Christ today?
The dead laid the
path that we are following today. We are
the custodians of the seed passed on from our ancestors. But most of all covenants are established in
death. By Abraham choosing to bury the
family together God was showing an eternal concept that even in death we choose
to be linked to our covenant partners.
This means in as much as we put high value on life, we need to put high
value on life in death. Think about
this, though Abraham is not on this earth physically, yet he still lives with
the Father right now. We are linked to
him (Galatians 3:26-29) because we are heirs of the promise and the seed of
Abraham. So even in death we are still
liked to our covenant partners. Now this
brings us to another point.
You can never
celebrate the future without remembering the past. We should celebrate the lives of those who
have gone on before and who have laid down their lives so that we can
perpetuate the legacy and the Will of the Father in the Earth until the Lord
comes. Think about this! We celebrate David, Joshua, Abraham, Moses
and all these biblical people and their lives because they have laid a path and
given us an example to follow that we may perpetuate the culture of the Father
in bringing the lost sons of promise back into righteous rule. However, this cannot happen until we put the
highest premium on people and relationships.
Peace, Love and
Grace from the Father,
Calvin Calhoun, Jr.
