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Go Forward
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Go Forward
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Summary: Notice the last 2 words of verse 15, when Moses went to the Lord and asked Him what He wanted him to tell the people, the Lord said, tell them GO FORWARD.
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TITLE: GO FORWARD
Notice the last 2 words of verse 15, when Moses went to the Lord and asked Him what He wanted him to tell the people, the Lord said, tell them GO FORWARD.
I wonder if I were to ask you what was the will of God for your church or for you as individuals, what would you say?
I mean, what would you say is Gods will for this church, and what is Gods will for you as an individual?
There are probably as many answers to this as there are people here today.
Such answers as: Winning souls, drawing closer to the Lord, giving more or greater service to the Lord and the church, being a better spouse or parent, being a better Sunday school teacher or preacher and so forth.
But probably the words of verse 15 are the heartbeat of what God would be telling us today GO FORWARD!
The word forward carries the idea of advancement and progress.
In the original it means to pull up, especially the tent pegs and start on a journey.
You have been camped here long enough its time to pull up the tent pegs and go forward; its time to move on.
This is what God wants all of our churches to be doing as well as us as individuals.
The problem is many or our churches and many of us as individuals are stationary.
Stationary means, we are not moving or not capable of being moved.
We are fixed.
God does not want us to be stationary.
He wants us to be making progress forward.
He doesn’t want us to be stubborn and fixed; He wants us to advance and progress.
Gods message to the church today is don’t want you to be stationary; I don’t want you to be a fixed object want you to GO FORWARD!
Some of you have been camped out in the place of hurt feelings for to long and it’s time to pull up stakes & GO FORWARD!
Some of you have been camped out in the place of anger for to long and it is time for you to pull up stakes and GO FORWARD!
Some of you have been camped out in the place of depression for to long and it is time for you to pull up stakes & GO FORWARD!
Some of you have been camped out in the place of bitterness for to long and it is time for you to pull up stakes and GO FORWARD!
Some of you have been camped out in the place of laziness or in the city of don’t care long enough and it is time to pull up the stakes and GO FORWARD!
Some of you have been camped out in the place of easiness or comfort for to long and it’s time to pull up stakes and GO FORWARD!
Some of you have been camped out in the place of satisfaction and it is time to pull up the stakes and GO FORWARD!
God is ready to take you on a journey.
He is ready to take you out of that place of depression into a place of joy and happiness.
He is ready to take you out of that place of laziness or don’t care and take you to a place of service and power.
He is ready to take you out of that place of easiness and comfort and stretch you and take you places you haven’t been with Him before.
God is ready to take you out of that place of satisfaction and fill you with hunger and thirst for Him like you have never had and lead you into a greater dimension of His glory than ever before.
You can’t stay in those places camped out if you want to experience the glory and power of God in your life and in the life of this church.
If you stay in those places long enough the enemy will destroy you.
Setting of the text: The children of Israel have just been delivered from the strong, oppressive hand of Pharaoh.
God with a mighty deliverance has brought them out of Egypt the land of slavery and oppression.
They had started their journey with high hopes and expectations toward the land of promise.
But they have marched only a few days and suddenly they seem to be stopped in their journey.
The Bible records they have encamped by the sea.
Before them is the great Red Sea, on either side of them is a mountain and behind them are Pharaoh and his army closing in fast.
On the surface it seems they are hopelessly trapped.
For all practical purposes there was no way out.
But in the midst of chaos and confusion the people come to Moses and begin to cry out to him, and as they cry to him Moses goes to God and he says God, what do you want me to do?
They are getting ready to stone me, what in the world do you want me to do?
God tells Moses, there’s not but one thing to do get up and GO FORWARD!
I didn’t bring you out to take you back; I didn’t bring you out to leave you now.
I didn’t bring you out to camp here, this is not the land I promised you there is so much more.
There is nothing to go back to all that is left is to GO FORWARD!
The Lord would tell us today, there is nothing to go back to.
If you go back you will be destroyed or have to return to slavery.
And if you don’t pull up stakes now you will probably be destroyed.
The best thing for you to do is GO FORWARD!
To the church the Lord would say, the fields are white unto harvest and what I want you to do is to rise up and go on to do the things I have called you to do & the things I have asked you to do.
Forget the past, forget Egypt, forget the pain and agony of the past, bury it and GO FORWARD!
To individuals the Lord would say what you need to do is to get up, stop sleeping and being lazy!
Stop wallowing in your pity; stop wallowing in your agony and pain of the past and GO FORWARD!
Stop wallowing in your bitterness and anger and GO FORWARD!
Stop enjoying where you are and GO FORWARD!
Before the church can go forward you as an individual must go forward because it is individuals that make up the church.
Have you ever heard people sit around and complain because the church is dry and cold and needs a revival but they never seem to be concerned to let revival start with them?
What you and I need to realize is, we as individuals are what make up the church and for the church to have revival and go forward you and I must have revival and go forward.
The church can’t do anything until you or I do we are the church.
We are in a new millennium.
The way things are going it can’t be long before the Lord will come back.
Now is not the time to get lazy, now is not the time to be satisfied with where we are, now is not the time to put our stakes deeper, now is the time to rise up and GO FORWARD!
We are to be constantly moving forward until Jesus comes.
I mean, what in the world are you going to go back for.
There is nothing in the world worth going back for.
Why would you want to go to the left or the right, there is nothing there either.
And why would you want to stay where you are and be destroyed.
There is nothing left to do but GO FORWARD!
Many had rather stay where they are and camp out and enjoy the view.
We like it where we are.
We have become satisfied and comfortable where we are.
We like being depressed; we like being angry; we like not being active in the church; we like this place of bitterness, etc.
But God is calling us out of our comfort zones and calling us out of these places where we have camped out and wants us to GO FORWARD!
He doesn’t want us to be destroyed.
You may be asking, but preacher, why do we need to go forward?
Why is going forward so important?
Lets look at several reasons why it is important, why it is vital for us to go forward:
First, when you fail to go forward, the first thing you are going to do is, you are going to stop walking by faith and start living in fear.
The minute you stop going forward or making progress in your spiritual walk, the next thing you know is, you will find yourself no longer walking in faith but living in fear.
Instead of putting your trust in God and His word you will begin to believe more the lies of the devil.
The devil will put the fear of sickness, death, bankruptcy, failure and other things into your life, when Gods word says you can have victory over all of these things.
Look at verse 10 thats exactly what happens to the children of Israel.
When they came out of Egypt that day and were going forward to the Promised Land, there wasn’t a speck of fear in their heart.
They marched out of there singing the songs of Zion.
I believe the tambourines were playing and the people were dancing and rejoicing in the Lord.
They were on their way out of bondage to Canaan land they were going forward.
As long as they were moving in that direction, forward, they were full of faith and everything was all right.
But the minute they stopped going forward faith was replaced with fear.
Now, instead of an army full of faith singing the victory songs of Zion and marching toward Canaan they are like a bunch of scattered sheep crying and wailing in the wilderness and they are filled with fear.
If you are here today and you are filled with fear, it is a good sign that you have stopped in your spiritual journey in your spiritual progress.
Somewhere along the way you have camped by the sea and faith is being replaced with fear.
Unless you pull up those stakes and get on the move again you are in serious trouble.
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