Today's spiritual feast is going to include history.
Heb 12:18 For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
Heb 12:19 And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
Heb 12:20 (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
Heb 12:21 And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)
We are being told that we are not in the same circumstances as God's chosen people were in the days following their escape from slavery. Physical slavery, spiritual slavery, both. Today most of us are NOT living as captives of others. We have a freedom that those who are slaves of others do not. Moses by God's hand freed God's people. Here we read that we are not like those slaves. It isn't Moses who has brought us spiritual freedom but our Savior. We are not being called into a situation filled with fear. We are not being called into a situation where we can claim we really don't know the Lord's will, the Lord's way. We know and have known, we come with the history of knowing God's will. With all that history we are not like those slaves newly freed from Egyptian rule, slaves who knew of the faith of their forefathers, slaves who knew there was a prophesized deliverer, but beyond that not incredibly much. These slaves would be delivered and taught. The result of all that teaching produced a people who could know God. However, people are hard hearted, people are in love with their evil, even God's chosen people often choose to worship self over God.
God's plan wasn't for just a lull in evil, but an end to all evil while saving the humanity that He created, the humanity that He intended to exist.
Every step of the way the end game has always been in mind.
We live in a time beyond focusing on the earthly Jerusalem.
Heb 12:22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
Heb 12:23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
We are come to the heavenly Jerusalem.
We are come to mount Sion.
We are come to the city of the living God.
We are come to an innumerable company of angels.
We are come to the general assembly and church of the firstborn.
We are come to God the Judge of all.
We are come to the spirits of just men made perfect.
We are come to JESUS.
We are come to the TRUTH.
We are come to SALVATION ETERNAL.
We have been brought to the WAY, the full WAY.
Imagine it, we are living in a time of knowing God.
We do NOT live in a time of shadows but of revelation.
We are come to the SPIRITUAL truth!
Think about it, we don't have a God who has hidden truth from us, a God who leaves us guessing His will. Our God has made His way plain before us.
We are blessed to know His will, blessed to know His way.
More tomorrow all by HIS WILL, HIS GRACE, HIS LOVE!
Heb 12:18 For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
Heb 12:19 And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
Heb 12:20 (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
Heb 12:21 And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)
We are being told that we are not in the same circumstances as God's chosen people were in the days following their escape from slavery. Physical slavery, spiritual slavery, both. Today most of us are NOT living as captives of others. We have a freedom that those who are slaves of others do not. Moses by God's hand freed God's people. Here we read that we are not like those slaves. It isn't Moses who has brought us spiritual freedom but our Savior. We are not being called into a situation filled with fear. We are not being called into a situation where we can claim we really don't know the Lord's will, the Lord's way. We know and have known, we come with the history of knowing God's will. With all that history we are not like those slaves newly freed from Egyptian rule, slaves who knew of the faith of their forefathers, slaves who knew there was a prophesized deliverer, but beyond that not incredibly much. These slaves would be delivered and taught. The result of all that teaching produced a people who could know God. However, people are hard hearted, people are in love with their evil, even God's chosen people often choose to worship self over God.
God's plan wasn't for just a lull in evil, but an end to all evil while saving the humanity that He created, the humanity that He intended to exist.
Every step of the way the end game has always been in mind.
We live in a time beyond focusing on the earthly Jerusalem.
Heb 12:22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
Heb 12:23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
We are come to the heavenly Jerusalem.
We are come to mount Sion.
We are come to the city of the living God.
We are come to an innumerable company of angels.
We are come to the general assembly and church of the firstborn.
We are come to God the Judge of all.
We are come to the spirits of just men made perfect.
We are come to JESUS.
We are come to the TRUTH.
We are come to SALVATION ETERNAL.
We have been brought to the WAY, the full WAY.
Imagine it, we are living in a time of knowing God.
We do NOT live in a time of shadows but of revelation.
We are come to the SPIRITUAL truth!
Think about it, we don't have a God who has hidden truth from us, a God who leaves us guessing His will. Our God has made His way plain before us.
We are blessed to know His will, blessed to know His way.
More tomorrow all by HIS WILL, HIS GRACE, HIS LOVE!
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