Bible Matters 300 Zion

“Out of Zion’s Hill Salvation comes” – A verse repeated over and over again in the song, “Days of Elijah.”  Regardless as to how hard I try, I can’t clear that beat out of my mind.  God’s word is infinite.  Here I am at 300 New Testament lessons and God is still delivering.  God has so many messages lined up.  With Israel at war, as you read this, God wants you to understand Zion’s Hill.  Let’s review.  Where is Mt. Zion and why is it important.

The name is found in 2 Samuel 5:7, one of the books of the Hebrew Bible dated to before or close to the mid-6th century BC. It originally referred to a specific hill in Jerusalem (Mount Zion), located to the south of Mount Moriah (the Temple Mount). According to the narrative of 2 Samuel 5, Mount Zion held the Jebusite fortress of the same name that was conquered by David and was renamed the City of David.

David conquered the Jebusites on Mt. Zion at the beginning of his reign.  What or who are your Jebusites?  What is stopping you from serving the Lord?  The blind and the lame shall not come in.  When does your reign for Jesus Christ begin. Write down your Jebusites.  Like David, it is time to conquer your enemies.  One thing for sure is that as a child of God, you can’t witness nor preach the truth in the Gospel of Jesus Christ while walking with the devil.

Examples of Jebusites:  

·        Alcohol, drugs and addiction. 

·        Fear of yourself.

·        Fear of being turned down.

·        Fear of not knowing what to say.

These are your enemies.  David took out Goliath with a single stone and Goliath was a bad dude!  As a grown man, David took hold of Mt. Zion.  God put David in a better place.  God will put you into a better place, in your Mt. Zion.  For out of Mt. Zion salvation comes.

2 Samuel 5:4-9 – David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.  In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months: and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years over all Israel and Judah.  And the king and his men went to Jerusalem unto the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land: which spake unto David, saying, Except thou take away the blind and the lame, thou shalt not come in hither: thinking, David cannot come in hither.  Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion: the same is the city of David.  And David said on that day, Whosoever getteth up to the gutter, and smiteth the Jebusites, and the lame and the blind, that are hated of David’s soul, he shall be chief and captain. Wherefore they said, The blind and the lame shall not come into the house.  So David dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of David. And David built round about from Millo and inward.

Zion can be conquered by faith.   Assemble and conquer.   Now use Zion for your fortress of power.  

1 Kings 8:1 – Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David, which is Zion.

You are that remnant. 

2 Kings 19:31 – For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the Lord of hosts shall do this.

With God in your heart, your king, Jesus Christ, will be on your holy hill of Zion.

Psalm 2:6 – Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.

With God in your heart, you don’t treat Jesus as a dead fish.  You sing praises to the Lord and rejoice in thy salvation.

Psalm 9:11,14 – Sing praises to the Lord, which dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people his doings.  That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation.

With God in your heart, out of perfection of beauty God will shine.

Psalm 50:2 – Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.

Rejoice in the Lord and teach transgressors thy ways.  Do good unto Zion.

Psalm 51:12-14,18 – Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.  Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.  Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.  Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.

On your Zion, your fortress, you will be redeemed.  You will learn the ways of Jesus and walk in his ways.

Isaiah 1:27 – Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.

Isaiah 2:3 – And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

God is your salvation.  Cry out and shout.  Sing unto the Lord, for his salvation.

Isaiah 12:1-6 – And in that day thou shalt say, O Lord, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me.  Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.  Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.  And in that day shall ye say, Praise the Lord, call upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted.  Sing unto the Lord ; for he hath done excellent things: this is known in all the earth.  Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.

Serving the Lord on Zion, you will be filled with judgement and righteousness. 

Isaiah 33:5,14,20 – The Lord is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness.  The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?  Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.

With a converted heart, born again as a child of God, the redeemed of the Lord, shall shine.  You are God’s people.  Shout, praise and sing with a voice of melody.  Thou art God’s people.

Isaiah 51:3,11,16 – For the Lord shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord ; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.  Therefore the redeemed of the Lord shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.  And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people.

Behold he comes, start right now by putting your trust in the Lord, for out of Zion’s Hill salvation comes. 

Psalm 125:1 – They that trust in the Lord shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever.

To God be the glory in all you do, Amen.