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After God saved the Israelites from Egypt slavery and brought them into freedom, there was a difference in mentality among the people. This difference made the dessert the end point for most of the Israelites, as for a few (only two actually) it was the starting point of entering a great promise, a new land flowing with milk and honey.
Exodus 3:8 So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
This call of God to enter the promised land is still the same, and as for the Israelites then our mentality will still determent our entering. Every believer will go through a proces of transformation as he alows God to renew his mind. And of course, this picture is flat in the scale of the deep and various processes that a person goes through, but in some degree it shows three big and important places in life.
1. Unbelief.
The place in life where someone does not know Jesus. The cross has no place in life and a person is not a new born. But he will always be engaged in a spiritual war, stand between the pulling of two kingdoms. God will seek for him and try to knock on the door of his heart as often as possible.
2. The Cross.
Someone has excepted Jesus as his Lord and Savior. By believing in his heart and confessing with his mouth a person is saved. Jesus takes a person out of the kingdom of darkness and puts him in to the Kingdom of light.
This is a process of changing from captivity to freedom, just as the Hebrew people did when they left Egypt, crossed the red sea and entered the dessert as a free people. But as I said before, after this step there still is a big diversity in mentality. Because after we have been born again, what will we do? This phrase is so common, but so true: If God does not has a bigger plan with me than being saved, why am I still here? Gods plan was not only to deliver the Israelites, but to bring them into a land flowing with milk and honey after He helped them defied seven nations stronger and mightier than them:
Deuteronomy 7:1 When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you
Although the landscape of ground and the form of the enemies has changed God is still calling His people to take out seven enemies greater and stronger then we are.
So we have to decide what our mission will be about. Will it be about salvation of souls, or will it be about the salvation of nations? About the taking of ‘seven nations’ and walking into the promise land, or walking in ‘the dessert’ a little more? About showcasing Gods greatness in all seven sectors of society instead of singing songs and preaching the gospel. Even though this is a great and good thing, it is this and much more. So another choice has to be made, will the cross be my end point until I see Jesus, or will it be my starting point to accomplish His bigger purpose for me in His plan?
3. Promised land.
God is releasing a new thing on the earth that brings the body of Christ in a time and place of restoring and reshaping it’s vision of mission and purpose. Because of this a third choice is now in place. This one is all about seeing the bigger calling. To disciple nations as we showcase the light of God to the world on all seven sectors of society, establishing His mountain on these mountains. And it says that nations shall flow to the Lord!
Isaiah 2:2 Now it shall come to pass in the latter days
That the mountain of the LORD’s house
Shall be established on the top of the mountains,
And shall be exalted above the hills; And all nations shall flow to it.
There is so much more to say about this, but it comes down to the great challenge of changing the old wineskin for a new one as God is pouring out a new wine. So let’s lay down the old and plug in to this new move. Lets grab it with both hands. Every giant is shaking and trembling as the sons and daughters start to walk in there calling, for they know the God that will lead them into triumph. And as we walk in this new vision for mission, we must always push our faith to see God as big as He is so that we won’t be afraid of the giants possessing the land.
Exodus 3:8 So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
This call of God to enter the promised land is still the same, and as for the Israelites then our mentality will still determent our entering. Every believer will go through a proces of transformation as he alows God to renew his mind. And of course, this picture is flat in the scale of the deep and various processes that a person goes through, but in some degree it shows three big and important places in life.
1. Unbelief.
The place in life where someone does not know Jesus. The cross has no place in life and a person is not a new born. But he will always be engaged in a spiritual war, stand between the pulling of two kingdoms. God will seek for him and try to knock on the door of his heart as often as possible.
2. The Cross.
Someone has excepted Jesus as his Lord and Savior. By believing in his heart and confessing with his mouth a person is saved. Jesus takes a person out of the kingdom of darkness and puts him in to the Kingdom of light.
This is a process of changing from captivity to freedom, just as the Hebrew people did when they left Egypt, crossed the red sea and entered the dessert as a free people. But as I said before, after this step there still is a big diversity in mentality. Because after we have been born again, what will we do? This phrase is so common, but so true: If God does not has a bigger plan with me than being saved, why am I still here? Gods plan was not only to deliver the Israelites, but to bring them into a land flowing with milk and honey after He helped them defied seven nations stronger and mightier than them:
Deuteronomy 7:1 When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you
Although the landscape of ground and the form of the enemies has changed God is still calling His people to take out seven enemies greater and stronger then we are.
So we have to decide what our mission will be about. Will it be about salvation of souls, or will it be about the salvation of nations? About the taking of ‘seven nations’ and walking into the promise land, or walking in ‘the dessert’ a little more? About showcasing Gods greatness in all seven sectors of society instead of singing songs and preaching the gospel. Even though this is a great and good thing, it is this and much more. So another choice has to be made, will the cross be my end point until I see Jesus, or will it be my starting point to accomplish His bigger purpose for me in His plan?
3. Promised land.
God is releasing a new thing on the earth that brings the body of Christ in a time and place of restoring and reshaping it’s vision of mission and purpose. Because of this a third choice is now in place. This one is all about seeing the bigger calling. To disciple nations as we showcase the light of God to the world on all seven sectors of society, establishing His mountain on these mountains. And it says that nations shall flow to the Lord!
Isaiah 2:2 Now it shall come to pass in the latter days
That the mountain of the LORD’s house
Shall be established on the top of the mountains,
And shall be exalted above the hills; And all nations shall flow to it.
There is so much more to say about this, but it comes down to the great challenge of changing the old wineskin for a new one as God is pouring out a new wine. So let’s lay down the old and plug in to this new move. Lets grab it with both hands. Every giant is shaking and trembling as the sons and daughters start to walk in there calling, for they know the God that will lead them into triumph. And as we walk in this new vision for mission, we must always push our faith to see God as big as He is so that we won’t be afraid of the giants possessing the land.
That night all the members of the community raised their voices and wept aloud. 2 All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole assembly said to them, “If only we had died in Egypt! Or in this wilderness! 3 Why is the LORD bringing us to this land only to let us fall by the sword? Our wives and children will be taken as plunder. Wouldn’t it be better for us to go back to Egypt…..
5 Then Moses and Aaron fell facedown in front of the whole Israelite assembly gathered there. 6 Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had explored the land, tore their clothes 7 and said to the entire Israelite assembly, “The land we passed through and explored is exceedingly good. 8 If the LORD is pleased with us, he will lead us into that land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and will give it to us. 9 Only do not rebel against the LORD. And do not be afraid of the people of the land, because we will devour them. Their protection is gone, but the LORD is with us. Do not be afraid of them'.
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