Egypt in the Heart
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What are we doing?
Our Mission:
To equip, uplift, and unite believers to become like Christ, be close to Him, and develop a solid foundation in their faith.
11 And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers,
12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ,
13 till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;
14 that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting,
15 but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ—
16 from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.
Who has asked us to do this?
God. This plan is from His Word *only*.
If it were from man, it’d look a lot different.
Who has brought us here?
God. Not us. Not man.
Therefore, whose group is this?
Who will provide for His plan?
Make no mistake, THIS IS A BATTLE!!!
Can God deliver us or not?
Has He led us here to die?
God has SHOWN us the importance of the Word!!!
The enemy is prowling! He has fiery darts! He’s an angel of light! There is cunning craftiness, deceitful plotting, and trickery!!!!
2 as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby,
32 And they gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature.
33 There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.”
Who gave this bad report?
Shammua, Shaphat, Igal, Palti, Gaddiel, Gaddi, Ammiel, Sethur, Nahbi, & Geuel.
1 So all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the people wept that night.
2 And all the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we had died in this wilderness!
3 Why has the Lord brought us to this land to fall by the sword, that our wives and children should become victims? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?”
4 So they said to one another, “Let us select a leader and return to Egypt.”
They had Egypt in their heart!
The very *moment* things got tough, their fallback, the plan they hadn’t let go of, immediately surfaced.
They were serving two masters!
They still loved the world!!!
THEY WERE SLAVES IN EGYPT!
What brought all this fear on? One thing: not trusting God.
6 But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes;
7 and they spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying: “The land we passed through to spy out is an exceedingly good land.
8 If the Lord delights in us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us, ‘a land which flows with milk and honey.’
9 Only do not rebel against the Lord, nor fear the people of the land, for they are our bread; their protection has departed from them, and the Lord is with us. Do not fear them.”
IF THE LORD DELIGHTS IN US!
If your focus is on what God thinks, what does it matter what others think? What does it matter what YOU think?!!!
Our focus is SUPPOSED TO BE on what God thinks of us!
The entire congregation of Israel was judging the future by SIGHT!!!
The future is always, always, always uncertain. It’s never certain. Ever!
There’s only one way to live in peace: trust that the creator is also the sustainer.
The problem of induction: in philosophy, people have PROVEN, there’s no reason to believe the future will be like the past!
17 He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.
3 He is the brightness of His glory, the express image of Himself, and upholds all things by the word of His power. When He had by Himself purged our sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
UNLESS YOU TRUST GOD, YOU WILL LIVE IN CONSTANT TURMOIL!
HE DOESN’T BRING YOU TO WHERE YOU ARE TO KILL YOU!
HE DOESN’T ABANDON HIS CHILDREN!
IN HIM, IN HIM, IN HIM, ALL THINGS ARE HELD TOGETHER!!!