1When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language;
2Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion.
3The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.
4The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.
5What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?
6Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs?
7Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob;
8Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.
Look at that first verse:
1When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language;
In Christ, we are all Israel:
"15For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. 16The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: 17And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together." (Romans 8:15-17)
We have received the blesses Spirit of Adoption, and now we can call God "Daddy", because we have received His Son's standing, that "As He is, so are we in this world!" (1 John 4: 17)
We are now in Israel, and we can read every promise for Israel as a promise for us, too.
"Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ." (Galatians 3: 16)
and then
"And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise." (Galatians 3: 29)
We are in Christ, therefore we can receive every triumph recorded in the Word of God regarding Israel as regarding us, too!
The first word should give automatic comfort of victory. "When" not "if" is the word. When Israel left Egypt, the world, the land of strife and struggle, the land of oppression and depression, the land where the rulers break you, and the rules break you all the more, where nothing makes sense, and where no one is willing to help.
For many, such as myself, the Bible was a closed book, a book which I read for tips on how to live. Now that I have learned that the Bible is not about me, but about Jesus, He who brings us by adoption to become Israel, then the book is no longer closed to me.
Because I am of Israel, not of Egypt, the ways of the world, the life of living by my efforts instead of resting in His grace and truth (John 1: 17) will never make sense to me.
Conversely, a life of grace and peace granted to us as a never-ending gift through Christ Jesus (Romans 5: 17) will be a stumbling-block for the world and for Christians still living under law (1 Corinthians 1: 23)
We have the greater victory, the greater glory in Christ Jesus, and so let us leave Egypt, cease identifying and practicing the ways of the world, the counsel of the ungodly, and the seats of the scornful, and the ways of sinners who do not know or care how good God is!
We are now in Israel, and we can read every promise for Israel as a promise for us, too.
"Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ." (Galatians 3: 16)
and then
"And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise." (Galatians 3: 29)
We are in Christ, therefore we can receive every triumph recorded in the Word of God regarding Israel as regarding us, too!
The first word should give automatic comfort of victory. "When" not "if" is the word. When Israel left Egypt, the world, the land of strife and struggle, the land of oppression and depression, the land where the rulers break you, and the rules break you all the more, where nothing makes sense, and where no one is willing to help.
For many, such as myself, the Bible was a closed book, a book which I read for tips on how to live. Now that I have learned that the Bible is not about me, but about Jesus, He who brings us by adoption to become Israel, then the book is no longer closed to me.
Because I am of Israel, not of Egypt, the ways of the world, the life of living by my efforts instead of resting in His grace and truth (John 1: 17) will never make sense to me.
Conversely, a life of grace and peace granted to us as a never-ending gift through Christ Jesus (Romans 5: 17) will be a stumbling-block for the world and for Christians still living under law (1 Corinthians 1: 23)
We have the greater victory, the greater glory in Christ Jesus, and so let us leave Egypt, cease identifying and practicing the ways of the world, the counsel of the ungodly, and the seats of the scornful, and the ways of sinners who do not know or care how good God is!
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