Now, the question is where are we in our spiritual walk this morning? Are you living in this power of Christ’s salvation? Or is your life heading in the wrong direction? God’s Word is a historical atlas that charts the lives of saints and sinners. In the Bible we see right and wrong decisions and the good and bad consequences. We see all of this in an inspired record, unedited by human pride and undistorted by human error. The Apostle Paul once summed up the whole record of God’s dealings with Israel in this way in 1 Corinthians 10:6, 11 “Now these things occurred as examples to keep us from setting our hearts on evil things as they did. These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come.”
Now, think with me just about Israel as a nation. God summarizes all His dealings with Israel by four specific geographic locations that were not only places that Israel lived, but also in God’s Word represent their spiritual condition. What do I mean? Well 1st let me share the four places that will make it clearer. When you think of God’s people you will always find them in one of these places: living in the land of Egypt, living in the Wilderness of wandering, living in the Promised land of Canaan, or living in the land of captivity called Babylon.
The four geographic locations seen in the history of Israel illustrate four spiritual experiences.
1. EGYPT was the place of death and bondage from which Israel was delivered at the 1st Passover. This reminds us of Christ’s death and resurrection, which delivers the believing sinner from bondage and judgment. = Unsaved and before salvation
2. THE WILDERNESS experience of Israel was the 40 painful years in the barren wastelands of Sinai, of cravings for their old life, complaining about their new life, and multiplied chastisements from God at every hand. This depicts believers who live in unbelief and disobedience and don’t enter into the rest and riches of their inheritance in Christ, either because they don’t know it’s there or they know and refuse to enter. They are delivered from Egypt, but Egypt is still in their hearts; and like the Jews, they have a desire to go back to the old life. Instead of marching through life as conquerors, they meander through life as wanderers and never enjoy the fullness of what God has planned for them. = Immature Christian lives
From TAB-27c – Where Are You on God’s Spiritual Map (010715AM) – https://youtu.be/qPznXjBOmho
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