Exodus 4:24 And it came to pass by the way in the inn,that the Lord met him, and sought to kill him.
Moses is called to deliver Israel out of the hand of Pharaoh. He spent 40 years in Arabia in the wilderness herding sheep, God preparing him for this very thing.
God's people are about to be set free. But Moses still isn't quite ready. He is being disobedient to the Abrahamic covenant.
He hadn't circumcised his son. Probably because he listened to his wife Zipporah. She seemed to have an adversion toward it accusing Moses of being a bloody husband. She took a sharp stone and cut the flesh away and threw it at his feet.
In the spiritual sense today, there seems to be an adversion toward following Gods instructions for body life and fellowship.
Most, if not all, 'church' gatherings operate by the flesh for the flesh. There is little to no Spirit in the meetings at all anymore.
There was a time that God would visit our religious services occasionally and bless the folks in spite of the mechanics of the assembly being a thousand light years away from the NT paradigm.
If the saints would be honest and look at 1Cor.12 and 14 and Romans12 and Ephesians 4, for starters, they would be forced to scratch their heads in bewilderment over the oddity, the freak of what we label 'church' today.
Instead of threatening the ekklesia with physical death like what was apparent in the Moses account, God has withdrawn His life giving Spirit from our gatherings. He'll not be content with the arm of flesh in control with pre-packaged dry religious services manipulated by the hand of man any longer.
We cannot expect to deliver anyone let alone the whole body of Christ while flesh is still the agent and tool being used.
Moses was about to try to do the work of God, while openly disobeying God on the matter of circumcision.
The new covenant speaks of the circumcision of the heart being necessary at the re-birth. Why is it that we know this truth yet desire to continue now to do all things religious by the corrupt flesh? A mystery indeed.
Paul said we begin in the Spirit then wind up walking and doing by the flesh!
We'll deliver no one while we are not delivered ourselves.
Again the problem was so severe and debilitating in the Moses story that God was willing to kill Moses first before He would allow him to plow forward in his ministry while 'the cutting away of the flesh' had been ignored!
Thank God He is so longsuffering with us. However, I have seen men brought low and even visited by death who refused to let go of the exalted position of control, over folks. I've written about it on this site. See: which pastor.
Even King David, a man after God's own heart, met with disaster by halling the ark the wrong way, clearly disobeying Gods guidelines.
Many are sick and frail and poor because the 'church' is not discerning the 'body of Christ'. Flesh and mental ascent, and not knowing the 'still small voice' and His leading, and gifts and functions not allowed to manifest and operate within the gathering is doing untold damage to the believers.
Deliverance is taught ad nauseum yet deliverance is rarely attained. Flesh is the culprit that hinders, the malaise that binds, the mechanism of liturgy that stays the hand of God and keeps the folks in perpetual childhood. I'm not even talking about people hooked on porn, I talking about pulpits hooked on power. Jesus hated the deeds of the Nicolaitans. That's what this is.
It must be cut away. It must be circumcised or you can forget about deliverance or any hope of recovering the dynamic of the first century ekklesia who 'turned the world upside down', and that without buildings, sound systems, clerics, Grecian pulpits, or bibles! Go figure!
Moses is called to deliver Israel out of the hand of Pharaoh. He spent 40 years in Arabia in the wilderness herding sheep, God preparing him for this very thing.
God's people are about to be set free. But Moses still isn't quite ready. He is being disobedient to the Abrahamic covenant.
He hadn't circumcised his son. Probably because he listened to his wife Zipporah. She seemed to have an adversion toward it accusing Moses of being a bloody husband. She took a sharp stone and cut the flesh away and threw it at his feet.
In the spiritual sense today, there seems to be an adversion toward following Gods instructions for body life and fellowship.
Most, if not all, 'church' gatherings operate by the flesh for the flesh. There is little to no Spirit in the meetings at all anymore.
There was a time that God would visit our religious services occasionally and bless the folks in spite of the mechanics of the assembly being a thousand light years away from the NT paradigm.
If the saints would be honest and look at 1Cor.12 and 14 and Romans12 and Ephesians 4, for starters, they would be forced to scratch their heads in bewilderment over the oddity, the freak of what we label 'church' today.
Instead of threatening the ekklesia with physical death like what was apparent in the Moses account, God has withdrawn His life giving Spirit from our gatherings. He'll not be content with the arm of flesh in control with pre-packaged dry religious services manipulated by the hand of man any longer.
We cannot expect to deliver anyone let alone the whole body of Christ while flesh is still the agent and tool being used.
Moses was about to try to do the work of God, while openly disobeying God on the matter of circumcision.
The new covenant speaks of the circumcision of the heart being necessary at the re-birth. Why is it that we know this truth yet desire to continue now to do all things religious by the corrupt flesh? A mystery indeed.
Paul said we begin in the Spirit then wind up walking and doing by the flesh!
We'll deliver no one while we are not delivered ourselves.
Again the problem was so severe and debilitating in the Moses story that God was willing to kill Moses first before He would allow him to plow forward in his ministry while 'the cutting away of the flesh' had been ignored!
Thank God He is so longsuffering with us. However, I have seen men brought low and even visited by death who refused to let go of the exalted position of control, over folks. I've written about it on this site. See: which pastor.
Even King David, a man after God's own heart, met with disaster by halling the ark the wrong way, clearly disobeying Gods guidelines.
Many are sick and frail and poor because the 'church' is not discerning the 'body of Christ'. Flesh and mental ascent, and not knowing the 'still small voice' and His leading, and gifts and functions not allowed to manifest and operate within the gathering is doing untold damage to the believers.
Deliverance is taught ad nauseum yet deliverance is rarely attained. Flesh is the culprit that hinders, the malaise that binds, the mechanism of liturgy that stays the hand of God and keeps the folks in perpetual childhood. I'm not even talking about people hooked on porn, I talking about pulpits hooked on power. Jesus hated the deeds of the Nicolaitans. That's what this is.
It must be cut away. It must be circumcised or you can forget about deliverance or any hope of recovering the dynamic of the first century ekklesia who 'turned the world upside down', and that without buildings, sound systems, clerics, Grecian pulpits, or bibles! Go figure!
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