The three components of God’s people being delivered from slavery are these: Pharaoh, Egypt, and God’s people. (Numbers Chapters 13-14)

 

Today those three components are Satan, the world—its system, and the Church.

 

Like Egypt the world is full of hardships and many taskmasters such as sickness and disease, lack, torment, doubt, unbelief, fear, addiction and poverty. These are all part of the curse of the law from which we have been redeemed.

 

Our Promised Land is all of the promises of God. When we enter into God‘s rest, we have reached our Promised Land and will then experience every promise—all that is in His rest.

 

Hebrews 4:10-11

    10 For he (man) that is entered into his (God’s) rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his. 

    11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.

 

His rest is our Promised Land and in that are the promises. His rest is eternal life. Paul told Timothy to fight the good fight of faith and to lay hold of eternal life. (II Timothy 6:12) To lay hold of all that belongs to him. When we become born again, we have entered the Rest of God but it’s up to us to experience all that it holds.

 

II Corinthians 5:17

     Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

 

Our Egypt is the old things of sickness, disease, poverty, grief, sorrow, the dominion of sin, and the power of darkness. The curse of the law is our Egypt. 

 

Just as the Egyptians tried to follow God’s people into the Promised Land, so does sickness, disease, poverty, grief, sorrow, the dominion of sin, and the power of darkness try to follow us into the translated land—the land where we were translated into. (Colossians 1:13)

 

God’s people stood before the Red Sea defenseless against the Egyptian army behind them. This is still our enemy’s mode of operation today. When we became born again we were delivered from the bondage of Egypt—satan’s world. We didn’t have to pack up and move to the Promise Land. We didn’t have to wander through a wilderness for 40 years to reach our freedom; we were translated in a moment’s time.  (Colossians 1:13)

 

Today the Egyptian taskmasters of sickness, disease, pain and symptoms etc. . . want to follow us, making us think we are still their slaves. Like the Israelites, in our own strength we are just as defenseless and helpless as they were that day. BUT GOD is still just as strong, mighty and victorious today for us as He was for them. Our job is to stay in the translated land on this side of the Jordan River, otherwise we will wander back in the desert helpless and hopeless. 

 

Have a great week everyone and remember that Jesus is coming soon!!!