Exodus- "The Way Out"

We want to purpose in the church to not be bound with the traditions of men. The way to do that is to flow with the anointing and go the way that the Spirit of God is going.

The only way you will know what the Word of God intends is to receive understanding about it. We may be able to teach Bible lessons on marriage, healing, finances, deliverances, and whatever you would like to be taught on. I think we can come up with a sermon on it. I don't agree that the church hasn't brought us anywhere or done anything. It has brought us to where are. In fact, the Church is the instrument that God has always used in the world.

Here is the point I want to make. You are a people drawn to a place hopefully all of you for a purpose. We are coming to the end of the church age! We are coming to the end. God had an end to the old covenant an end to what we know of as the law. There was a specific time for that to happen. God knew the time that it would happen. He shared the time that it would happen. And all of a sudden, out of a woman came a Son who was proclaiming the end of something and the beginning of something else. His name was Jesus Christ.

However, that was not a secret. People who studied Prophets such as Daniel could have seen that Jesus of Nazareth would have been born then, died then and was the consummation of the law. He was the fulfillment of it. He said, "I don't come to do away with it, I come to fulfill it."

It wasn't a secret. The time was proclaimed for a generation.

In Moses' Tabernacle, the outer court was one thousand five hundred square cubits around the perimeter of that to the next part of Moses' Tabernacle, which was two thousand square cubits, one thousand five hundred square cubits and two thousand square cubits. The picture we see is that there was one thousand five hundred years from Moses to Jesus, and that is exactly the number of cubits for its length.

In the feast of Passover, the lamb was to be examined for four days and then slain. A day is with the Lord is as a one thousand years, and a one thousand years as a day. From Adam's fall to Jesus' breach of that fall, where Jesus became a Passover, was exactly 4,000 years.

What we're saying is that God doesn't do things without a plan. Wake up, church! Realize that this is at the end of the second day, or the two thousandth year since Jesus.

I don't want to preach on that today, but whatever the church was designed or destined to produce will be produced in the next few years. Whatever is God's plan will come forth. God's plan has not been held back because of unforeseen circumstances. He didn't say, "Well, I wasn't counting on that. I didn't know that the preachers would fall like they have." Or He didn't say, "I didn't know the church would be attracted to the dainties of the world."

No. He knew what would happen and it didn't change His plan at all. And at the endtime Church's day, the church is going to blossom into it's fulfillment. It's the end of the time that God new it would take to get the Head of the church and the body of the church to be one together for the Bride of Christ to be brought to the Son. We are headed towards the day when Jesus will be able to say that there is a woman in the earth who is His helpmeet.

Just as Adam said to the women, He will say, "She is bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh." Jesus the head of the church. The last Adam will have a woman in the earth of whom He can say, "She is bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh! She is one with me, the church."

We are growing up into that, and God knew how long it would take for that to happen. He knew that at the end of the sixth day, just as with the first Adam, there would be a last Adam that had a perfected bride.

Perfection is the purpose. We've been brought out of the world to be brought in. What's the purpose of the church age? Ultimately God's purpose is to have the whole world to be born-again, and we should be drawing people into the Kingdom. But why would God draw people into the Kingdom? We find the answer in Acts the 15th chapter. The Apostles knew what the purpose was. They knew why we were there. We have to sing songs about this, and think like this, because we've got to know the purpose of being here.

Many people have gone to church for years because their purpose for being a Christian was for fire insurance. We did not want to burn forever in hell, and that is a good motive. There is a way that I don't have to burn in hell. It's by making Jesus my Lord and going to church and being a good Christian. But as you grow up, you get out of that realm of thinking and you realize that there is more to it than that. Especially at the end of the age will there be a people who hear! And that's what the book of Exodus is about.

We will always be confused when we're hearing people who we believe are true voices in this hour who proclaim these things, if we don't understand God's purpose. What we have been saying is that God is going to save so many people. And that is true, but God is going to do it in a particular manner.

If we shoot for the end-result without His process to get that end-result, we will not be a part of that end-result. Here is the process to get what we believe the church is ultimately to do.

In Acts 15:13 is the big gathering of the heads of the church in Jerusalem. They're talking about some things.

"Man, we have a problem because we discovered that Gentiles, people who are not natural Jews, have begun to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit! They've begun to speak in tongues and it looks like God is no respector of persons!"

So they had a gathering and the wisdom of God came forth from that gathering in verse 13

And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Men and brethren, hearken unto me: 14 Simeon (whose name means "hearer") hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles,...

Now, why did God open up this visitation that they had experienced at Pentecost to the whole world to the Gentile nations? Why? If anybody would have known why, it should have been this early church. If you had been there two thousand years ago you would have surely known the purposes of God. Why did God spread this thing? It was...

...to take out of them a people for his name.

He is still doing that. It did not occur so that there would be 50,000 denominations and 50,000 different schools of thought. His purpose is to "take out of them a people for His name!" He brought the Gentile nations to bring a people out of them a people who would have His nature manifested in their lives. That's the purpose of the church age. Its to bring a people out of that, who would have His nature.

"Name" denotes nature in scripture. We are sitting at the very last days of that purpose. That is the reason that God brought us to this time and why you have been divinely chosen to hear this Word.

I didn't like it at first. When I first heard this teaching of the Cross and what God is doing today, I resisted. But God has drawn me like a magnet. There is a familiar sound to the truth isn't there?

Folks, there is no Jew or Gentile today. Everybody is one in Christ. There is no difference of race. We are all one. We are being brought out a people who at the end of this age will have His Name or nature. That's the purpose of this ministry, this body the temple of God. That's the purpose.

Verse 15 And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written, 16 After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up: 17 That the residue of men might seek after the Lord,

What's God's' purposes for the church age? It's to rebuild David's Tabernacle and David's Tabernacle is a people. It's Mt. Zion. It's a people for His presence, a people in whom He can dwell. And they will bare His name and nature, and be conformed by the dealings of God at the end of the church age to be the consummation of everything that God has been restoring to the church since the very beginning. And it is for everybody who is in the church. But it is not going to be received by everybody.

You ask if God predestined for all people to grow up. I will say it this way. God knows who wants to go on and grow up and who does not. He knows who wants this world system more than Him or who wants Him more than this world system. God know from the outset of the creation of the world who would be part of that body.

And I do know this: We are not here accidentally. I am not standing before you in the office of Pastor/Teacher by accident. This church is not here by accident. It was ordered before the foundation of the world!

God didn't say, "Well, I didn't know what took place to push us to start this church would happen. So I let them start a church."

No. He knew it and it is foreordained of God. If you are part of this church, it is not accident. There are more human reasons for you to not be here. God has drawn you and me, and others who are not yet here, to a place in God. Some of you, hopefully all of you, are drawn here by God.

The purpose is to have a people for His name. What God is doing from now until this earth becomes a dwelling place of the expression of the Body of Christ that is called the Bride, is causing us to grow up. The scripture says "the Bride has made herself ready."

Why people turn it down, I don't know. Why they come to a place and stop, I don't know, but they do. They get to a point and it rocks their traditions and religion, and they stop. But when you come to a place and you know that such a place is ordered of God, you are obligated to walk into that place. Otherwise the leading of God stops. God doesn't tell you what the third step is until you walk out the second step.

I want to find out what I'm hearing today before He tells me about tomorrow. Do you hear that?