Redemption to Sanctification

 

Judgment:  Exodus 14:13 & 30; 

Redemption – Galatians 4:3-5; Galatians 3:13; Exodus 12; Exodus 6:6; Exodus 15:13; 

Sanctification (consecrate, or set apart for a purpose, by purification) Spiritual battle requires spiritual preparation. Romans 8; John 17:13-21; Exodus 13

Power: (authority, strength) Mark 3:15; Mark 6:7; Luke 4:32; Luke 5:17; Luke 10:19; Acts 1:8;

 

The Red Sea = judgment; the children of Israel were allowed passage, the Egyptians were destroyed. The angel of God moved from in front of the Israelites to the back of them along with the guiding cloud to put a barrier between them and the Egyptians. The Egyptians could only see darkness, but that same “cloud” provided light for the Israelites while they crossed THROUGH the Red Sea. Brown-Driver-Briggs Lexicon asserts that this angel is a theophanic angel, that is a manifestation of God in the Bible that is tangle to the human senses. God put HIMSELF between the Israelites and the Egyptians. Judgment.

 

The Rod = redemption; Moses held out his rod and his hand over the water and it was parted to make a way out of bondage for the Israelites.

 

Redeem- to redeem by payment of a price to recover from the power of another, to ransom, buy off

 

This is also illustrated in the Passover. The Israelites were slaves that God bought back.

 

Crossing Jordan = sanctification; the Israelites were God’s chosen people, chosen to inhabit His land. They were called by Joshua to purify themselves, turn their minds toward the things ahead, not looking at or thinking about anything except watching the Ark and waiting for God’s instructions. Today we must fix our minds on the Holy Spirit, deliberately set ourselves apart for the purposes God, always listening for the next instructions and not worrying about anything else.

 

Promised Land = power; We reach this level of power by being obedient to the Lord. We can no longer treat the church as a business and a business model to be reproduced. We’ve spent too many years looking for a 5-step program or the right events, the right campaigns trying to replicate what’s going on down the road and not enough time seeking the Lord and what HE wants. God often throws out logic. He wants to do miracles. He wants to do the supernatural. He wants US to work in the supernatural.  Stop working in the natural, start working in the spiritual realm where the REAL battle is. If every victory, every success, every positive outcome can be explained by a good idea, a good business model, the way things have always been done, then God does not get the glory, and GOD WILL RECEIVE HIS GLORY.