"NO COMPROMISE, DEVIL"
MF Blume
February 14, 1999 pm
Exod 5:1-3 And afterward Moses and Aaron
went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Let my people
go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness. And Pharaoh said,
Who [is] the LORD, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know
not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go. And they said, The God of the
Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey
into the desert, and sacrifice unto the LORD our God; lest he fall upon
us with pestilence, or with the sword.
Pharaoh tried to compromise that three day journey.
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Remember what the three day's journey is.
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Three days from Jesus' death to His resurrection.
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When we experience death with Him, burial with Him and resurrection with
Him, then we have taken the three day's journey.
The Holy Ghost was said to speak about an area of truth to the Church,
for a good reason.
John 16:13-15 Howbeit when he,
the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he
shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, [that] shall
he speak: and he will shew you things to come. He shall glorify me: for
he shall receive of mine, and shall shew [it] unto you. All things that
the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine,
and shall shew [it] unto you.
The Holy Ghost will show us what is of Jesus Christ as Son of God, because
the Son died, was buried and resurrected AS US.
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The Holy Ghost will teach us about the death, burial and resurrection.
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Jesus went to the cross for me and for my sin to such an extent that God
identified Him as being me.
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And then God changed me because of what happened to Him.
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This is the union we experienced with Jesus Christ.
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Jesus actually became who I was and when He died, I died.
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He actually bore my nature on the cross.
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And the wonderful thing is that now I can bear His nature!!!!
Now, the devil does not want that to happen to people.
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He knows that if the people bear God's nature, then he is totally finished.
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He hates this kind of preaching that clarifies and clarifies and clarifies
what it is to be IN CHRIST.
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I am feeding you the truth that you are so united to Christ when you obey
Acts 2:38 that you are even described as being seated where Jesus Christ
is seated in heavenly places far above all powers and enemies. Eph. 1:20-2:6.
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Believe and believe until you see exactly who God says you are.
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Israel had to eat the Lamb and eat it until it was consumed totally.
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We need to eat this truth until we are absolutely filled with it!
Pharaoh did not want Israel to take that three day journey properly.
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You might not think the issue is all that serious, but Satan does!
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He'll do anything, any compromise, to stop you from experiencing it.
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We are going to analyze his compromises to them and show you that this
is exactly what the devil is trying to do to people today who hear the
Acts 2:38 message that repentance is dying with Christ, baptism is burial
with Christ and Holy Ghost baptism is resurrection with Christ.
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If you want to know what to do to be saved properly, listen closely, because
there are many compromises the devil would offer you.
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But you came to the right place, since we're going to tell it all to you!
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Not just PART.
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FULL SALVATION!
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The Holy Ghost will speak to the church of Jesus Christ.
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It will glorify Jesus Christ.
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That means it will speak so much and anoint preachers so much to speak
about Him, that we hear and hear and hear it that we are so united with
Christ in the death burial and resurrection, that we truly see ourselves
where God sees us... far above all powers and enemies.
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No wonder the Holy Ghost would speak and anoint so much about this issue.
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It is the truth that defeats anything that could discourage a person.
RESPONSE NUMBER ONE
Pharoah represents the devil who has a grip on mankind, since the time
Adam sinned and threw the whole human race into bondage.
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The way out is three day's journey
Exod 5:4-9 And the king of Egypt said unto
them, Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, let the people from their works?
get you unto your burdens. And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the
land now [are] many, and ye make them rest from their burdens. And Pharaoh
commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their officers,
saying, Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore:
let them go and gather straw for themselves. And the tale of the bricks,
which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish
[ought] thereof: for they [be] idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us
go [and] sacrifice to our God. Let there more work be laid upon the men,
that they may labour therein; and let them not regard vain words.
Work harder.
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Israel was going to enter a rest, and the devil immediately makes
them think they have to work harder.
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He sees people hear about coming to Jesus and being free from sin, and
then he makes them think they have to work more than ever since that message
came.
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All the great truth says that we will be one with Christ and walk with
Him, and fill ourselves with nothing but Him.
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The three day's journey is the work of God on the cross to totally free
me from ever an enemy again.
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The devil certainly does not want you to know that and experience that.
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Its your only ticket to glory.
RESPONSE NUMBER TWO
Four plagues occurred in Egypt and at the fourth one, God separated
Israel from Egypt.
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Actually both Israel and the Egyptians experienced the first three.
Exod 8:21-23 Else, if thou wilt not let
my people go, behold, I will send swarms [of flies] upon thee, and upon
thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thy houses: and the houses
of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms [of flies], and also the ground
whereon they [are]. And I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in
which my people dwell, that no swarms [of flies] shall be there; to the
end thou mayest know that I [am] the LORD in the midst of the earth. And
I will put a division between my people and thy people: to morrow
shall this sign be. {a division: Heb. a redemption}
The word division means "redemption" in Hebrew.
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What separated the Israelites from the Egyptians?
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All their good works?
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No, redemption by God.
Exod 8:25 And Pharaoh called for Moses and
for Aaron, and said, Go ye, sacrifice to
your God in the land.
Notice this compromise:
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Sacrifice IN THE LAND.
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Stay in Egypt and do your sacrifice.
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Keep on doing the things we do and go to the places we go and live worldly
and we will let you sacrifice.
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But the Bible said, "Come out from among them and be ye separate sayeth
the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing and I will accept you."
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Look what Moses said:
Exod 8:26-27 And Moses said, It is not meet
so to do; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the
LORD our God: lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before
their eyes, and will they not stone us? We will go three days' journey
into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD our God, as he shall command
us.
The sacrifice was an abomination to the Egyptians.
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How could they stay and do it there?
Gene 43:32 ...the Egyptians might not eat
bread with the Hebrews; for that [is] an abomination unto the Egyptians.
Gene 46:34 ...every shepherd [is] an abomination
unto the Egyptians.
They were going to sacrifice a lamb, and watching them kill a lamb was
abomination to Egypt.
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"Those filthy shepherds!"
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Jesus is the lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
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The cross message preaches about sin and how the soul that sins will die,
so they need to repent and die with Christ.
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The world hates that.
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Moses said, No, we will leave and go the three day's journey.
The three day's journey was a leaving of the world!
Gala 1:4 Who gave himself for our
sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according
to the will of God and our Father:
We cannot mix the world with Christianity
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The world does not want the message of the cross.
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The world persecuted the church in Jerusalem for preaching Christ.
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They took the Lord's name out of the memorial service and would not let
the Christians read from the New Testament for the flight 111 tragedy while
the Moslems and Jews could read from their holy books.
RESPONSE NUMBER THREE
Exod 8:28 And Pharaoh said, I will
let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness;
only ye shall not go very far away: intreat for me.
"Okay, go but do not go very far."
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"Do not go the whole three days."
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"Stay close to Egypt."
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You will not go very far away from the world if you do not go the full
three days.
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What is the three day's journey?
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Death, burial and resurrection with Jesus.
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That occurs with us as we repent, are baptized in Jesus' name and are Holy
Ghost filled.
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"Just repent. No baptism in Jesus' name or Spirit filling."
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Or, "Just repent and get baptized, or repent and get Spirit filled."
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"Do not go the whole three days."
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Do not experience all the gospel.
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And churches everywhere today, hardly ever teach people that salvation
is through Acts 2:38.
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They will only tell people PART of that message.
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Peter saw the gentiles get the Holy Ghost in Acts 10 after they repented,
and did he stop there?
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No.
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He then commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord (Acts 10:48).
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For some reason Satan does not want you to get baptized in Jesus name!
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All the more reason to do it!
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Why do churches fall short here?
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Pharaoh succeeded in getting a compromise over to them.
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Satan knows that if we go the three day's journey of death, and burial
and resurrection, then he will be defeated as much as Pharaoh's chariots
and horsemen and soldiers were defeated and destroyed as far as those people
Israel were concerned.
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"You are forgiven, stay there, forget about Holy Ghost and speaking in
tongues."
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Folks, if you did not go three day's journey from Egypt you did not leave
Egypt.
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And you would not get to the promised land.
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It took three days to leave, cross Red Sea and cut off Pharaoh's armies
in the water.
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You have to go through the watery grave of baptism with Christ.
Preachers everywhere need to stand up and respond as Moses did:
Exod 8:29 And Moses said, Behold,
I go out from thee, and I will intreat the LORD that the swarms [of flies]
may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, to morrow:
but let not Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people
go to sacrifice to the LORD.
RESPONSE NUMBER FOUR
Exod 10:8-11 And Moses and Aaron
were brought again unto Pharaoh: and he said unto them, Go, serve the LORD
your God: [but] who [are] they that shall go? And Moses said, We will go
with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters,
with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we [must hold] a feast
unto the LORD. And he said unto them, Let the LORD be so with you, as I
will let you go, and your little ones: look [to it]; for evil [is] before
you. Not so: go now ye [that are] men, and serve the LORD; for that ye
did desire. And they were driven out from Pharaoh's presence.
"Go, but do not take your children with you."
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"You that are men, go alone."
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"Adults only."
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In other words, live the life yourself, but do not teach your children
the truth of salvation.
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"Surely you won't teach that message to your children."
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YES WE WILL AND WE ARE!
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Folks, your kids need to hear chats from you parents about the truth of
the Gospel.
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Your children need to be in sunday school and your youth in youth service.
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Some wonder why their youths are living so wickedly and they hardly ever
get their youths to youth service.
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I want to tell the youth and children as well as any of you out there,
you need to be at the altar crying out to God and getting power in the
Holy Ghost and faith in the Word!
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Why am I saying this?
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Because SATAN does not want it, and if he does not want it then he knows
something about preaching to you youth and children scares him!!!!!
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Let's scare the devil.
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Want to scare hell?
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Get this message in you like you parents get it!
Now we know that a little while later when Israel came to enter the land,
the adults doubted.
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And God said they would stay another 40 years in the wilderness until the
doubters died.
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Only two who were older than 20 would make it in.
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Joshua and Caleb.
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So if the children stayed behind, and only the men went, then two men alone
would walk in and who would conquer Canaan?
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Israel would die out!
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We need kids filled with the Holy Ghost so that this thing will go on and
on and on until Jesus comes in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia!!
Acts 2:38-39 Then Peter said unto them,
Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for
the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
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the promise is unto you, and to your children,...
RESPONSE NUMBER FIVE
Exod 10:24 And Pharaoh called unto
Moses, and said, Go ye, serve the LORD; only let your flocks and your herds
be stayed: let your little ones also go with you.
Okay, take your children, but leave your flocks.
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Why were the flocks so threatening to Pharaoh?
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The flocks were going to be the sacrifices that Israel would give to God.
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And every single sacrifice for a sin offering, a burnt offering and as
trespass offering, and atonement sacrifice, tells us something about Jesus
and how AFTER WE ARE SAVED, if we make mistakes or are tripped up somehow,
how we can be put right on track again.
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We still need the Blood for more than initial salvation.
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We need the blood after we are saved, also.
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Many think the blood is only for salvation, and if they fail after that
then they are lost.
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Every sacrifice of blood points to Jesus Christ in some way or another.
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Satan does not want us to see reminders of how the blood of Jesus is still
flowing for your needs, after you are saved.
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He wants you to backslide if you make a mistake and slip up.
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He wants you to think you blew it.
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But the sacrifices after the lamb in Egypt, say that if we mess up and
get lukewarm again, there is still the blood to help for that.
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You see, the devil does not want you to know the blood is for more than
just escaping hell or Egypt.
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But I will tell you that the blood not only saves you from sin at the
start of salvation, but it also is there when you blow it and go offtrack.
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Go to the blood again!
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John told Christians that the blood will cleanse us from all sin if we
as Christians fail and confess our sins (1 John 2:9).
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And we are back on track as clean as first saved!
Another note:
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"Leave your possessions here in Egypt."
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The herds were their possessions.
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If you leave your possessions in the world, then you really did not leave
the world.
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You will return to it one day.
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Folks, burn your bridges behind you.
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Cut off all links to the world.
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Get all the way into the Church.
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We're going out of here!
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People simply go to church and their hearts are in the world still.
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They just go and think about God one day a week, or one hour a week.
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The devil knows they're not going anywhere.
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They do not support the church with their income but do what they want
in the world with it.
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Folks, get behind your church and pastor.
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Take your possessions with you.
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Get serious about God's church.
Moses replied:
Exod 10:25-26 And Moses said, Thou
must give us also sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice
unto the LORD our God.Our cattle also shall go with us; there shall not
an hoof be left behind; for thereof must we take to serve the LORD our
God; and we know not with what we must serve the LORD, until we come thither.
Last was the plague of death.
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Because Pharoah did not let Israel, God's firstborn, alone, God would
slay Egypt's firstborn.
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Work harder.
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Sacrifice here.
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Don't go full three days.
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Don't take your children with you.
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Don't take your herds, your possessions, with you.
What is God trying to show us?
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How to properly obey the Gospel and experience the full three days' journey.
Notice what God told the people about Passover!
Exod 12:8-9 And they shall eat
the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; [and] with
bitter [herbs] they shall eat it. Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all
with water, but roast [with] fire; his head with his legs, and with the
purtenance thereof.
Eat not of it SODDEN.
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In other words, DO NOT WATER THIS THING DOWN!
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Eat all of it.
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The head and the feet and everything in between, the pertinence (inwards).
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Get the MIND (Head) of Christ and WALK (legs) of Christ.
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And what was IN CHRIST... the THE HOLY GHOST.