The passage for today's sermon came from Numbers 13-14. The pastor used Egypt as a picture of the old life: being slaved to sin. In slavery, we are compelled to do things that we don’t want to. We are under the dominion of sin. In Luke 4:18-19, this is the reason why Jesus came: Break the chain, and set the captives free.
Due to the disobedience of the exodus generation, God pronounced a judgment on them: they would not be allowed to enter into the Promised Land. If they fail to believe the fact that God who brought them out of Egypt could take them to the next level, they forfeit their right to inherit God’s promise and wander in the wilderness for forty years and die there. From Exodus to the Promised Land, those who were succumbed to the Age of Disbelief would waste their life (and die) in disbelief.
In Christendom, there are many professed Christians with no strong commitment. In Christendom, people go to the church on Sunday. It’s our national ritual. But the hearts of these churchgoers are empty and filled with worldly desires. They are neither in Egypt nor in the Promised Land. They are in between: wandering on and off with empty hearts and frustrated souls.
What caught my attention was at the end when the pastor said, “You will never know what God can do with/for you unless you get where He wants you to be.” He then mentioned that there would be no fall of the wall of Jericho in Joshua. The exodus generation would never experience that miraculous experience, for they never entered into the Promised Land. They experienced the Exodus event. They could have experienced much more from God if they just obeyed.
In my faith journey, what will God do with/for me down the road? There might be miraculous events like crossing the Jordan River, the fall of the wall of Jericho, etc… But I have to walk towards it with faith and obedience.
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