Exodus- "The Way Out"

How many of you understand that these 66 volumes in this book, the Bible, make up One complete message from God? Can you believe that? When you get the message and you understand what God is doing, this book comes alive to you and everywhere you open it you find that it says the very same thing. It is not just by chance that the things that we find in the Garden in Genesis are also found at the end in the Book of Revelation.

You go to the garden and you can find a river flowing through that spiritual place. Go to the end of the book and you find a river flowing through that spiritual place. There is a tree of life in the beginning and there is a tree of life at the end.

There are precious stones at the beginning and there precious stones at the end. God is in the midst of the garden and He is in the midst of the city of God at the end.

Why is that so? It is because it is one single message of how the first was taken through the fall of man, and of how through the last Adam that which was first is restored.

Those are pictures of spiritual places. The garden of Eden never went anywhere. It is still exactly where it was before Adam fell, for it is a spiritual place. It's a spiritual dwelling or dimension into which God is returning people. Can you see that yet?

The Bible is simply one entire message and it's impossible to know what God means unless you know what God says. You can't know what this book means unless you know what it says. Most of us are scripturally ignorant. We must understand the Bible, and we must know what it says. We have to know what God is saying in every book of the Bible.

We are currently looking at the book of Exodus and the word "exodus" means "to depart, to leave or to exit." The New Testament church is called the "ecclessia," which means the "called out ones". You don't just get called out just once. You constantly are called out, for it's a continual calling until we come to the final destination.

Deuteronomy 6:23 said, "He called us out".

Do you know that you are "called out ones"? We have been called out of the world. And when we're called out of the world, we are then called out of the religious systems of the world into the purity of that righteous woman who is called the church. So we can relate to the book of Exodus when we look at it in that light.

We must understand that we are not looking at a history lesson, but we are looking at an example as we go through this book to find principles that pertain to us.

We find ourselves as a holy nation. How many of you know that 1 Peter 2:9 says that we are a holy nation? Could it be that in the end of this age, that we are finding a people becoming a Holy nation, just as what was taking place from Genesis to Exodus? Did you know that the land of God is filled with the children of God, just as it reads concerning the Jews in Exodus chapter 1.

But God is not satisfied with His people being lorded over by the god of this world and his system, and being dictated by the systems of this world. The answer to this situation is for God to raise up a deliverer.

Here's the second principle we saw in our last study. We are the picture of a holy people who are in the midst of Egypt, the world. And we find this decree going forth from the king demanind that there be no more sons born. In other words, kill all the male babies.

The principle is that we are to give birth to the manchild now that we have filled the land. We must give birth to the indwelling Son. Jesus is within us and needs to walk again in our land. Do you understand that?

The objective of Christianity is not just to talk about Him, but to demonstrate Him. Here is a principle that will bear repeating. Look at the 4th chapter and verse 22 "Then you shall say to Pharaoh, 'Thus says the Lord: Israel is My son, My firstborn."

This nation was a corporate, many-membered, son. And He said, "I want you to let my son go.

In the New Testament period of today, God is desrious of giving birth to the Christ-life that is within us. The objective of Christianity is to go in the Canaan land. "I brought you out that I might bring you in."

What is the believer's Canaan? It's not heaven as it has been traditionally taught. It is a Man. It is Jesus Christ. Jesus is our Promised Land.

Acts 13 says that all of the promises made unto the fathers, were fulfilled in Christ when God raised Him from the dead. That's our Promised Land. The fullness our Christ is our Promised Land!

That's our possession, that's our inheritance. And that's where He is taking us, we are growing up. How many of you know that the church's objective is to grow up? This earth is going to have Jesus to be the head and the Bride, the Church, to be the body of Christ.

We're growing up into Him. This scene that we have in Genesis 3 is being duplicated. But the end of the sixth day finds a sleeping Adam, out of whom comes a perfect Bride. Could it be that is just a picture of what God is going to do today? Peter said that a day with the Lord is as a one thousand years, and one thousand years is as a day. Could it be that at the end of six thousand years, the sleeping last Adam bring forth a perfected bride? I believe that is the pattern.

We're being brought to Him to be a helpmeet to Him. Adam said, "She is bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh." That is what Jesus says of the church: We are bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh.

God wants us to grow up into that mature Bride and bring forth much fruit.

In Genesis, when it says that God made a woman, that word "made" literally means "built". He built a woman. And Jesus said, in response to the knowledge that Peter had of Him being the Son of God, "Upon this rock, (revelation knowledge), I will build my church."

The same thing is happening today. God is building a woman, the church, for the Son. He is doing it with revelation knowledge.

He is not accomplishing this that He might have a woman or church in His image alone, but to build a church that will be suitable to have the Son reproduced through her. That's the objective.

Adam said, "This is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called women because she was taken out of man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh."

Did you know that Adam's statement must be prophetic? How else did Adam know what a father and mother was? He was actually talking about Jesus. These are prefiguring pictures. He knew that there would be a man who would leave His father and His mother, the Old Testament Church, and cleave unto His bride. And they two would be one. He would come out of that Old Testament time and be in union with the church.

Then he said, "They shall be one flesh!"

That's what God is doing. The church's objective today seems to be just to get everybody blessed, and I'm for that. But what God is wanting is for us to grow up.

Ephesians 5:25 verifies everything that we just said.

25, Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for her. 26 that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word.

27 that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish.

For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.

Do you know the moment when Jesus actually becomes one with you? Someone might say, "It occurs when we get perfect."

Let me tell you, we're one with Him today. There are pictures of this all the way through scripture. Jesus became one with us when He hung on the Cross. He said, "If I be lifted up, I will draw all men unto me."

Into Him! On the Cross of Calvary He came into vital union with us. But you say that at that time we were unlovely. That's the story of the Bible. Did you know that Joseph was the most perfect type of Christ in the Word of God. Joseph married an Egyptian woman. This pictures Jesus marrying the world in order to redeem them.

And out of that union between Joseph and that Egyptian came two children, Manasseh and Ephraim.

"Manasseh" means "forgetting." "Ephraim" means "doubly fruitful." And it pictures what was produced through that union between Jesus and fallen humanity. First, a forgetting of the old man occurs. That's the "Manasseh." And secondly, there is a reproducing of the one new man.

What did God tell Hosea to do? He told him to marry a harlot. "Hosea" means "Saviour." He is a picture of Christ. There was a woman who was defiled and she speaks of God's people with whom He became one. He married her and out of that union was produced a child by the name of Jezreel. Wouldn't it be important to know what the name "Jezreel" means? Jezreel is what would be produced by the union of Christ on the cross with fallen humanity. "Jezreel" means "planted"! It speaks of all of those who are not going to grow by toiling and spinning.

He said, "Consider the lilies, how they grow." How many of you would like to grow up? He said, "Well, if you want to grow up, just draw from that which you are planted in, like the lily."

You can't grow by worrying about it. If you are worrying about how much like Christ you are not, then you won't grow. You can't add one cubit to your stature. Jesus said, "Consider the lilies, how they grow. They neither toil neither do they spin, yet Solomon in all of his glory isn't arrayed like one of them."

What is He saying? You don't grow by toiling and spinning, by working and spinning. So what are we taught in the church- world? Toiling and spinning. That's not the answer. The answer is to dig the roots of your spirit down into the man in whom you are planted. Draw from Christ. You have to go down before you can go up. You've got to plant your roots. It's the opposite of what the world teaches.

The Bible says to give and you shall receive. The world says keep all that you've got.

The way up in the kingdom is down. You dig the roots of your system down into the death of Christ and it produces life upwards. That's the reason the perfect bride came out of a sleeping Christ. "Sleep" in the Bible portrays death in many cases. You're going to get your life is out of His death.

Moses just experienced 40 years on the backside of the desert, coming to an end, or if you will, the death of all that he had become from the training of the world. With everything he had learned, he killed one Egyptian and he ended up in "Horeb," meaning "barrenness." He came to this bush and turned aside to see.

Folks, this picture is important for us. You will never fulfill God's ultimate goal in your life, even though you know what it is, until you come to the end of yourself. It took 40 years to get those principles that he had learned in Egypt out of his mind out of his life. The world needs a burning-bush people people who are so afire with God's Spirit that they will cause people to turn aside to see. That is talking about the Branch man.

How many of you know that there is a lot of people in spiritual barrenness today? The look successful on the outward, but inside they are empty. True fulfillment only comes when you have times of intimacy with Christ. You can quote all the scriptures, you can know all the Bible, but if it doesn't bring you into a relationship of intimacy with Him, you will not be fulfilled.

He wants us to share His life. We must share the King's life. Did you know that Old Testament Kings had three relationships with different women? They all belonged to him. He had virgins, he had concubines, and he had Queens.

Song 6:8 There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number.

Then there are concubines which picture a lot of what we know of as Spirit-filled Christianity. They go from one time to the next of intimacy whether it be prayer time or a great revival or some other great time. Most think that is all there is to Christianity -- going from one place to another, looking for a spiritual high. But that doesn't bring fulfillment, either.

Then the Bible talks about Queens. A Queen is a person who shares the very life and nature of the King, consistently. It's one life in union.