Preaching: Sunday April 15, 2007. Pastor David Munoz
God is a God of purpose. He did not create us because he had nothing else to do in heaven. We do not set up to entertain us.
Then there are people who look like they were playing live or living in circles without purpose or direction?
The output from the bondage of Egypt was traumatic for the people of Israel: The Israelites did not believe they could live out of Egypt, and awaited the advance of the army and feared for their lives. Just came to react after they spent Red Sea:
1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying:
2 Speak unto the children of Israel that they turn and encamp before Pihahiroth between Migdol and sea to Baal zephon before him encamp by the sea.
3 For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut.
4 And I will harden Pharaoh's heart that he shall follow, and I will be honored upon Pharaoh and his army, the Egyptians will know that I am Jehovah. And they did so.
5 and was told the king of Egypt that the people had fled, and heart Pharaoh and his servants was turned against the people, saying: Why have we done this, had left to go to Israel, for serving us? (...)
17 And behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall follow them and I honor upon Pharaoh and his army, his chariots and his horsemen;
18 the Egyptians will know I am the LORD, when I honor upon Pharaoh, his chariots and his horsemen.
19 And the angel of God who went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them and the pillar of cloud went before them and stood behind her,
20 And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel, and was a cloud and darkness to them, and gave light to Israel at night, all night and never came near to each other.
21 Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the LORD caused the sea back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
22 the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea on dry ground, the waters were a wall to his right and left.
23 And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them until the middle of the sea, all Pharaoh's horses, chariots and horsemen.
24 pass to waking in the morning, the Lord looked at the camp of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and cloud, and upset the camp of the Egyptians,
25 and removed the wheels of their cars, and severely disrupted . So the Egyptians said, Let us flee before Israel, for Jehovah is fighting for them against the Egyptians.
26 And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out your hand over the sea, the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen.
27 Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and when morning, the sea returned in full force, and the Egyptians fled against it with the sea, and the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.
28 And the waters returned and covered the chariots and horsemen, and all the army of Pharaoh that had followed them into the sea was not as one of them.
29 And the children of Israel walked through the sea on dry ground, the waters were a wall to his right and left.
30 So the LORD saved Israel that day from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the seashore.
31 And Israel saw that great work which the LORD did upon the Egyptians, the people feared the LORD, and believed the Lord and His servant Moses. Exodus
14: 1-5, 17-31.
God punishes the people of Israel because there was still seeing the mighty hand out of slavery in Egypt and after seeing his glory ... they murmured against the servants of God, yearn to return to Egypt to remain slaves to the promised land ... have come about in forty days, but the people of Israel did not understand God's purposes.
2 And all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness
3 and told them the children of Israel: If only we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, when we ate bread to the full as we have brought to this desert to starve this whole.
4 And the LORD said to Moses: Behold I will rain bread from heaven, and people go out and gather a certain quota every day, that I may prove whether they will walk in my law or not. Exodus 16:2-4
34 And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying
35 No man can see any of these, of this evil, the good land which I sware to give unto your fathers, 36 except Caleb
Jephunneh son, he will, and he would give the land to walk on, and their children for he has faithfully followed the Lord. (...)
40 But you, turn you and go to the desert, Red Sea road.
Deuteronomy 1: 34-36, 40
We also give around in the desert because even seeing the manifestations of God in our lives the undervalue. After hard times comes the reward!
we expect to give glory to God for what we have and are. Perhaps if we look around we find people who are going through difficult circumstances than ours?
WHY A WAY OF 40 DAYS BECOMES A WAY IN 40 YEARS?
Because it was so easy to disappear the slave mentality. God wanted to castrate
mentality that had acquired more than 450 years.
So, allow God to renew you or God will raise up a generation open mind will possess the land of blessing.
Because their attitudes reflected a slave heart:
- Complaint.
- Jealousy.
- Fear.
- Murmuring.
- Stubbornness. "Obstinate."
This is summarized in: "What is your thought in his heart, so is he."
The people of Israel was tired of relying on God!
Many Christians are tired of relying on God, when God wants us to enjoy that stage.
why God tests the people of Israel taking away elements as basic as water and food?
Because He wanted to show that he is their food and water:
Jesus said "I am the bread of life ...."
"I am the water of life ...."
What kind of mentality should be those who want to enter a new dimension?.
People who have minds of children, not slaves, not of bastards.
31 And in the desert has seen the Lord your God brought you, as a man doth his son, all the way that ye went, until you reach this place.
Deuteronomy 1:31.
Men and women with minds untouched, having a spirit learner:
39 And your children, of whom you said would serve as prey, and your children today who do not know what good or evil, they come there, and they will give, and they inherit.
40 But you, turn you and go to the desert, Red Sea road. Deuteronomy 1:39-40
A proverb says: "When the student is ready the teacher appears."
One of the most common expressions in people's wisdom: "I do not know."
Some people never want to admit they do not know and invent, and thus disturb the minds of others.
knowledge tends to make us clever and experience tends to make us alive. Rely solely on the wisdom of God.
"40 days or 40 years? ... Who does? ...
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