Exodus: It's more than a departure. It's a deliverance. It's more than a protest against Egypt. It's an answer to prayer. It's more than a social revolution. It's a spiritual revelation of God's love.
What God did for His people, Israel, was very great. There is a striking contrast between their slavery in Egypt and their abundance in the promised land. God had multiplied His blessing upon them, just as Jesus did when He turned water into wine (John 2:1-11). If the blessing is to be maintained and increased, we must honour the Lord. We must cry to Him for blessing: "Hear my prayer, O God, listen to the words of my mouth." We must call upon Him with faith: "Surely God is my help; the Lord is the One who sustains me" (Psalm 54:2,4).
āReconciledā to God through Christ, we have received āthe ministry of reconciliation.ā Saved by Him, we are to āwork with Him.ā We are ānot to accept the grace of God in vainā by living for ourselves. We are to be āambassadors for Christ.ā We must proclaim the urgent message of salvation - ānow is the acceptable time, now is the day of salvation.ā We must call men and women to respond to Godās message of salvation: āBe reconciled to Godā (2 Corinthians 5:18-6:2). If we are to be effective āambassadors for Christā, we must dedicate our lives to Him: āLet us cleanse ourselves⦠and make holiness perfect in the fear of Godā(2 Corinthians 7:1). Without this heartfelt commitment to godly living, we cannot really serve the Lord at all. Our wrong lives will drown out our ārightā words. We need true lives as well as ātrueā words.
Leviticus 19:1-37 Again and again, we read the words, āI am the Lord your Godā, or, more simply, āI am the Lordā (Leviticus 19:3-4,10,12,14,16,18,25,28,30-32,34,36-37). The whole point of this is that our moral practice is grounded in our spiritual worship (Romans 12:1).
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