"Now you shall see...." (Exodus 6:1b)
I preached yesterday from the text, Exodus 5:22-6:9. I summed it up by saying that God was basically telling Moses to tell the people, "This is where we have been--This is where we are--This is where we are going." He is the God of the Before, the Now, and the After. In other words, He has us covered. He reminded the people of His faithfulness in the past to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to His covenant, which he said He, "ratified," i.e., made it "officially valid." He spoke to their present circumstances, in bondage. But then we begins to speak to Moses of the future as though it were already here----------- because it was/is and ever shall be. He is "The Eternal One." We who limit ourselves to this time/space dimension, thinking, and enslavement too often cannot see Eternity. Yet if we just realize than in Jesus Christ we are in Him who knows, "the end from the beginning," we would not be as the Hebrews who, "did not heed Moses, because of anguish ('despondency') of spirit and cruel bondage." It can also be translated, "anguish and bondage of spirit." Moses and Aaron and the people would not look beyond their circumstances. On the contrary, their gaze was on their circumstances, not on the Word of God, or as the exhortation would later be, "Looking unto Jesus."
My friend, today you and I can break out of such limited thinking, believing, acting. God spoke to Moses of the future as though it were already accomplished and here, and if we are in Jesus Christ and He in us, we can live and speak the same way. When even Moses was in doubt as to the outcome of the situation, God declared our text, "Now you shall see." I once heard an old Pentecostal preacher say, "When you read God's, 'shall,' you can be sure He shall." If you find yourself in, "anguish of spirit and cruel bondage--- bondage of spirit," today, take particular note of His "shalls." They/He shall bring you out.
Father, in Jesus' Name, thank You for all Your, "Now you shall see." Amen.
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I preached yesterday from the text, Exodus 5:22-6:9. I summed it up by saying that God was basically telling Moses to tell the people, "This is where we have been--This is where we are--This is where we are going." He is the God of the Before, the Now, and the After. In other words, He has us covered. He reminded the people of His faithfulness in the past to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to His covenant, which he said He, "ratified," i.e., made it "officially valid." He spoke to their present circumstances, in bondage. But then we begins to speak to Moses of the future as though it were already here----------- because it was/is and ever shall be. He is "The Eternal One." We who limit ourselves to this time/space dimension, thinking, and enslavement too often cannot see Eternity. Yet if we just realize than in Jesus Christ we are in Him who knows, "the end from the beginning," we would not be as the Hebrews who, "did not heed Moses, because of anguish ('despondency') of spirit and cruel bondage." It can also be translated, "anguish and bondage of spirit." Moses and Aaron and the people would not look beyond their circumstances. On the contrary, their gaze was on their circumstances, not on the Word of God, or as the exhortation would later be, "Looking unto Jesus."
My friend, today you and I can break out of such limited thinking, believing, acting. God spoke to Moses of the future as though it were already accomplished and here, and if we are in Jesus Christ and He in us, we can live and speak the same way. When even Moses was in doubt as to the outcome of the situation, God declared our text, "Now you shall see." I once heard an old Pentecostal preacher say, "When you read God's, 'shall,' you can be sure He shall." If you find yourself in, "anguish of spirit and cruel bondage--- bondage of spirit," today, take particular note of His "shalls." They/He shall bring you out.
Father, in Jesus' Name, thank You for all Your, "Now you shall see." Amen.
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When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"
"Looking unto Jesus"
Hebrews 12:2
"Looking unto Jesus"
Hebrews 12:2
