Called Out and Be Separated: The Church in the Wilderness / Kingdom School - Lesson 3

welcome here to lesson three in the Kingdom school I am so excited to be with you today and we have a very special lesson today this teaching is going to impact you a lot if if if you really understand it and receive it and uh I'm going to share more about that in very short time first uh since last time I have been there in Panama I was in Panama with some of the students from our ltin school school and uh and we went there and it was beautiful and I want to encourage all of you out there go on Mission go out do do Mission even before I I start to travel the way I did U Back in Denmark me and my family we put the kids in the car and then we went to another country and and just starting to preach Jesus start to make disciples starting to come out and and and it it just do something it's really special because how often do the days not just go like one week there two weeks there one months two months one year two years five years 10 years and it's just a routine it's just the same day same life day after day week after week months after months like you had to break out of that Circle you had to break out and and experience things and we were there just I think five days or six days and those five six days so many things happened all of us we we got experience we we saw many life changed and and this is what we can do this is what you can do one of our friends who was with us there did a trailer it's just a few minutes trailer with a beautiful song The Revival anant we love this song and just want to to play this this trailer to you and and and listen to the word here in the beginning just it's I think it's two and a half minutes listen to it and and then feel that call and like yes we need to go we need to preach the gospel we need to die and be forgotten because he deserve all the glory and then look at how much happened here just in a few days see this [Music] here forgot as long as you get the glory and I will preach the gospel die and be forgotten as long as you get the glory and I will PR the goel die and be forgotten as long as you get the glory and I will preach the gospel I'll die and be forgotten as long as you get the glory and I will preach the gopel I'll die and be forgotten as long as oh Jesus and I will preach the gospel I'm D be forgotten as long as you get the glory and Jesus you're worthy oh every Tri It's All For Your Glory till Every Soul War the Harvest is ready we have to go we won't stop the [Music] [Applause] [Music] power and the Harvest is ready we have go [Music] [Music] so this is beautiful this is powerful and and I want to challenge all of you out there since last time we spent a week there six days there what what what happened in your life since last time I I just want to challenge you come on guys we need to grow we need to make a different maybe it's not going to Panama but we are called to live this life we are called to not only preach about the kingdom of God we are called to live it and here you can see one of those who got set free look at the eyes there and and and I want to encourage you to live this life take this teaching about the Kingdom and then let it transform your life let it transform the way you are prioritized and let it run the race do that you run a race with with endurance with power and and really become a good and faithful servant there there to see a lot of things happen some response to God whoa this teaching have opened my eyes and helped me in so many ways I had so many questions to the things you explained and now I understand it Hallelujah and I believe as we move on we are building building building it become more and more and more and more clear now I understand it I thank God for this teaching and I know it will help so many people out there and open their eyes and change their way of thinking thank you for that I love that response and uh so we are going to continue today and we are going to build on what we have talked about already first lesson it was from beginning to the new beginning and that was like a timeline that's very important where you see the greater picture the last lesson was the Covenant of Abraham and I'll just show here what we spoke about last time God gave a promise to Abraham and his seed abra's children Isaac and Jacob circumcision as a son done by human hands circumcision was cutting off the forkin that is the uncleanness there were now God's chosen people Israel Exiles and forers on Earth HS to the promise looking for the promised L and as we look at is a shadow and picture and all point to Christ the New Covenant the promise was to Abraham and his seed Christ we are now a children to faith in Christ baptized into Christ that is our circumcision assign done by Christ or the circumcision done by Christ in the heart baptism is put it off the whole flesh that was ruled by sin and death the uncleanness so we don't need to walk as slave to sin anymore we can walk in Romans 6 freedom from sin again I have a whole chapter listen about about that no longer Jews and Gentiles but a new creation and now God's chosen people or we are God's chosen people together with Israel and they still a Remnant and I I spoke about that we are now Exile and foreigners as we are in this world but not part of this world we are hirs to the promise looking for a Heavenly country and a New Jerusalem that was what I spoke about last time today the lesson today lesson three is called called out I will be their God and they will be my people called out in the beginning of this lesson I'm we are going to do a little different we are going to read a lot of lot of Bible verses we're going to read whole chapters and nor we don't do that in the Liston read so much as we do and in the beginning it can see a little slow because there's a lot of information there's a lot of Bible verses but this become very very powerful when you see it and and if you can get this teaching if you can understand that the church is those who are called out if you can understand this mess it and what it is I'm trying to share it will change you if we do that you stop compare yourself with your neighbors and look at them and how they're living and and stop trying to make your church look like the world and try to please the world why because you are not of this world you are called out that is what the church should be and I feel that when I Was preparing this and going through this teaching here the last weeks it just that that phrase have just been in my mind I'm called out we are called out how do we make discip how do you make churches we make it as a please God because we belong to him he called us out as his holy people his Nation so there's so many things we we will cover here and it go a little slower in the beginning but uh but then suddenly it speeds up and and you will see it and I'm excited for this and he will bless you a lot and uh and I want you to see we of course have a break and and I want to welcome you to this teaching we start in Acts 7 and uh we read a lot of verses here but let's start here and I'll try to go through very fast here brothers and fathers listen to me the god of Glory appeared to Our Father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia before he lived in Haron leave your country and your people God said and go to the land I will show you so he starts there with Abraham so Abraham left the land and settle in Haron after the death of his father God sent him to this land where you now are and are living He gave him no inheritance here not even enough ground to sit his feet on so Abraham did not inherit but it it was first laid out with his seed when his offspring who will inherit the land but God promised him that he and his descendants after him would possess the land even though at the time Abram have no children and we move on God spoke to him in this way for 400 years your descendant will be Stranger in a country that is not their own and they will be enslaved and mistreated but I will punish the nation that serve a slave God said and after word they will come out of the country and worship me in this place so so this is what we looked at last time also and this is quoting back there for Genesis 15 and then he he continues just going through the story to give us understanding of what happened those 400 years uh later also when they were slaves and so on but let's read on then he gave Abraham the Covenant of circumcision as we looked at and abrah became father to Isaac and circumcised him the eighth day after his birth later is said become the father of Jacob and Jacob become the father of the 12 Patriarchs so here we have the story of Israel Abraham Isaac Jacob and the 12ri tribes of Israel because of the patriarch was J jealous of Joseph they sold him as a slave to Egypt but God was with him and rescued him from all his troubles I like that TR try to be Joseph being thrown into the pit being falsely accused be thrown into jail troubles troubles troubles but then we read here that God res resued him from all his troubles um my life have been Liv my country persecuted thrown into jail and I can also say God rescue me for all my troubles to be rescue for all your troubles don't mean that you not go through the troubles but it mean that you will overcome the troubles you will find Victory on the other side because God are with you and I I I love this verse here he then gave Joseph wisdom and able him to gain the Good Will of pharaoh the king of Egypt so Pharaoh make him ruler over Egypt and all his Palace then the famine struck all Egypt and Cana bringing great suffering and our ancestors could not find food when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt he sent our forefathers on their first visit on their second visit Joseph told his brothers who he was and Pharaoh learned about Joseph family and again wh wh why why do why do Stephen start with this just talk about Jesus no he need to start with this why because it's all connected and and we often don't talk like that today but that was what they was preaching of course they was speaking to the Jews at that time but you also see later when they talk to Gentiles they also spoke about the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob they they went back in history let's move on after this Joseph sent for his father Jacob and his whole family 75 in all then Jacob came down to Egypt where he and our ancestors died their bodies was brought back to sh and place in the Tomb that Abraham had bought from the sons of Hammon at sham for a certain sum of money as the time drawn near for God to fulfill his promise to Abraham the number of our people in Egypt have greatly increased so so we see here at the time drawn near for God to fulfill his promise to Abraham God had a plan from beginning God still have a plan today there was things that needed to happen that Israel should become a nation Abraham started with a man who became a family who became a nation and it all happened there in Egypt they came in as a family and they left as a nation and it needed to heaven but when the time draw near for God to fulfill that promise what promise was that that he will set them free from slavery he will call them out of Egypt to go out to worship God and there's a message here and we're going to look at this message today we continues then a new king to whom Joseph meant nothing came to power in Egypt he was very evil and dishonest with our people he beat them down and forced them to throw out their first newborn babies to die at that time Moses and we see again a picture with Christ and Moses how we have Herod who wanted to kill all the firstborn so Joseph took Moses and fled and Jesus and fled to Egypt for a time and then came back to Jerusalem and and here it was Moses who they tried to kill so come back to many many things later at that time Moses was born and he was not our orinary child for three months he was taken care of for his family when he was placed outside Pharaoh's daughter took him and brought him up as her own son Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egypts and was powerful in speech and action a few more slides here I know there's a lot of story but it is important when Moses was 40 years old he decided to visit his own people the Israelite he saw one of them being mistreated by Egyptian and he went to defend and Advance him by killing the Egyptian Moses thought that his own people were recognized that God have used him to rescue them but they did not it didn't go to way Moses expected and it often works like that also with you and me the next day Moses Came Upon two Israelite who was fighting and he tried to reconcile them by saying man you are brothers why do you want to hurt each other but the man who was mistreated the other pushed Moses aside and said who make you ruler and judge over us I like that part are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday when mosa heard this he fled to medium where he settled as a f or have two sons after 40 years have passed a angel appeared for Moses in the Flaming flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Si when he saw this he was amazed of the side side and he went over to get a closer look and then he heard the lord said I am the god of your fathers the god of Abraham Isaac and Jacob Moses trembled with fear and did not dare to look then the Lord said to him take off your sandal for the place you standing Are Holy Ground I have indeed SE the oppression of my PE people in Egypt I have heard their groaning and have come down to sit them free now come I will send you back to Egypt and then we read this is the same Moses they had rejected with the words who make you ruler and judge he was sent to be the ruler and delivered by God himself to the angel who appeared to him in the bush I like that it's it's not about being seen by people and called by people it's by being called by God so they rejected Moses but God called him they said who have made you the ruler and jge over us and the answer is godhe and God did it but let's read on and just one more here and then we I want to share something he let them out of Egypt and perform wonders and signs in Egypt and the Red Sea and for 40 years in the wilderness this is the Moses who told the Israelite God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your own people this is one of the key verses we are going to come back to again and again and again he tell a story here to share that as they had Moses we now have Jesus Jesus is the one Moses spoke about Jesus is the one that go back to creation that go back to Noah go back to Abraham Isaac jaob Jacob to go back to our for fathers and then he talk about Moses in the story and he actually talk about Moses and he talk about the Tabernacle he talk about josa he talk about David he talk about Salomon he talk about how Salomon make a drilling place from God but we know that God don't drill in houses built by human hands and therefore we have Christ and and so we read a a one story a long story he continues as I said talk about Joshua and he bring David in there and and then he said that that God wanted to make make a dwelling place with the people and then how Salon build a house for God and then he end up here however the most high does not live in houses made by human hands as a prophet said Heaven is my throne and the Earth is my foot stool what kind of house would you build for me as the Lord said so here there's one long story and we know that Christ came and he rose again and he is now the one building the house for God by Living Stones you and me you and me are the Temple of the Holy Spirit but say a lot of things to bring out of this text but one of the key verses is that God will raise up a prophet like me from your own people and who is that Prophet that Prophet is Christ and like we read here like Stephen go through the whole history when he was preaching the gospel we see Peter did the same a few chapters before somehow he the way he preached here he said here now fellow Israelite I know that you acted in ignorance as your leaders and he talk about Christ and Christ being crucified but this is how God fulfilled what had been for told through all the prophet saying that his Messiah would suffer so he's he's saying that Christ crucified need to heaven because it was foretold through the prophet it was it was what God Said and then he continue repent then and turn to God so that your sins may be wiped out and time of refreshing may come from the Lord and that he God may send the Messiah who have been appointed for you even Jesus I want to notice something here he said repent so your sins can be wiped out and the time of refresh will come that God may send the Messiah when did he said that when when did he say that before the cross that hey repent because God want to send the Messiah he said it after the cross after the cross he say repent why because time of refreshing may come from the Lord and God may send the Messiah but have God not already sent him yes he was already sent and he have died on the cross but he rose up again and he will be sent a second time and we don't think like that we don't think hey God we send the Messiah yeah but yeah again we are waiting for God to send the Messiah let's read on here Heaven Must receive him Heaven Must receive him that was after Jesus rose again until the time come from God to restore Everything Jesus came first time he did not restore everything back first time he came he came to pay the price all authority is be given to him he's in heaven now until the time come where God will restore everything is all in God's timing and planning like it was with Abraham and what God spoke to him and with Moses so he's now in Heaven until the time come as he promised long time ago through his holy prophets for Moses said and he said the same God the Lord God will raise up from you a prophet for like me from your own people you must listen to him listen to everything he tells you and everyone who did not listen to him will be completely cut off from their people this is the same language we saw in the last letter with the Covenant to Abraham everyone is not being circumcised will be cut off the people they will not inherit now God have raised up a prophet like Moses and that is Jesus Christ and now we must listen to him and everyone who do not listen to him will be cut off they will not inherit and he's now in heaven and we are now waiting the Messiah to come down from heaven to restore everything as he said and this is the words here Heaven Must receive him until the time for God to restore everything as he promised long time ago it's all according to God's plan and God's timeline I want to add second Peter here second Peter 3:9 is saying this the Lord is not show slow in keeping his promise as some understand slowness instead he's patient with you not wanting everyone anyone to perish but everyone to come to repentance God is not slow in keeping his promise it's all according to God's timeline but God is patience with you with me he don't want anyone to Parish but that we all come to repentance and this is the message we need to preach it's according to God's timeline and what we are going to see now we're going to bring one thing up in in what Stephen said and I want to focus on this Stephen said this before this is the Moses who told Israel God will raise up a prophet like me from his own people but notice here this was him who was in the church in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to Moses on Mount Si notice the word here this was him who was in the church in the wilderness was there a church in the Wilderness at the time of Moses yes there was we read that here the church in the wilderness but they there was thousand of years before Christ there was no cross there was no church building there was no Sunday meeting the way we have it today and a few songs and worship and so on but when Stephen talked about the people in the Old Testament he used the word the church the Israelites what were they they were the church in the wilderness like we are the church today how shall we understand this how can they be the church at that time the the problem with us when we read a word like this there were the churs in the wilderness is that when we hear the word churs right away we think of something completely else many think of a church building the church I go to the church you cannot go to the church you cannot go to a church building or I'm sitting in the church right now and we look at building it's just a building that that is not the choice what is it with the word church the word church here is Ecclesia Ecclesia and we read here what it means it come from the word are calling out or called out the churs are the people that is called out if you belong to the church if you are the church let's say like this you should be called out called out from where from Egypt the israelit was called out from Egypt or like Noah we saw last time they were called out from this evil perverse generation first Peter is saying this you are chosen people our royal priesthood our holy nation God's special possessions and he said that to the Jews and it's still for the Jews today also but he now he's actually addressing us Gentiles because we we are taking part of this so he's saying that to us that you may declare the praise of him who called you out of Darkness into his wonderful light we are called out we should be called out we should not live in darkness anymore we should live in light that there should be a big difference between those who are the church God's people and those who are not second Corinthians Paul said this here what argument is there between the temple of God and Idols for we are the Temple of the Living God and God has said I will be with them and walk amongst them and I will be their God and they will be my people therefore come come out from them and be separate said the Lord touch no unclean thing and I will receive you this is the message to the church today we there is a promise here and what is that the promise that go through the whole Bible is I will walk with them I will be their God and they will be my people that is the promise I will walk talk with them they will be my God and I will be their people therefore come out come out from them come out of Egypt come away from this Wick perverse generation as we looked at last time come out of e Egypt and be separate touchs no unclean things and I will receive you that is the promise we need to come out why because God is Holy and he cannot have with sin and this is the message and and and Peter he continues a little where Paul Liv Paul said this Peter he said this here therefore with Minds that are alert and fully sobered set your hope to the grace that have been brought to you when Jesus Christ is Reve is revealed as his coming so we should be alert sober minded and we should set the hope to the grace that is been brought to us when Jesus Christ is revealed and he's coming as obedient CH children do not conform to the evil desires you had when you live in ignorance but just as him who called you is Holy be holy in all you do all you do as it is written be holy because I am Holy since you call on a father who judge each person work live out your time as forer here in Revel fear be holy as I am Holy that is the message come out of her touch no unclean thing and I will be with you that is the church but if I look at the church today if we think of the church today do we see this do we see that that the church is separated from the world world or do we see the church is part of the world do we not dress up like the world do we not listen to the music like the world do we not talk as the world do we in the church not see as much divorce and remarriage as we see in the world and the truth is the church have not come out of Egypt yet yet not the way we are supposed to and we're going to look at this we are the temp of the the Living God God he will live with us and walk among us he will be our God and we will be his people but for him to do that we need to what come out from them and be separate touch no unclean thing and then I will receive you there was the promise God gave to the Israelites and that is the promise gave to us but read here they the Israelite they had that promise from God but first they need to come out from those they were enslaved by in order to enter into the promise they were enslaved in Egypt and then Moses came and called them out in the same way we are enslaved by our own Egypt we are enslaved by Babylon and we now need to come out and be separated in order to receive what God has promised and Al as we're going to see later in in this chapter is that there will be a a judgment coming and Babylon will fall and if we are not coming out of Babylon if we are not coming out of Egypt if we are not coming out of Sodom and gorra if we are not being saved by from this wicked generation we will be judg together with this wicked evil generation and what is the church the church is those people who have come out the church is those people who have been separated from this world the church is those people who are in the world but we are not part of the world the church is not those people who dress up every Sunday and go to church for a few hours and sing some songs and then go home and then the rest of the week see the same movies listen to the same musics talk the same talk and live like the neighbors if we live like this world we will be judged with this world and we need to understand this that that we are being justified but then we need to be Sanctified otherwise we will not be glorified that day when he returns and and that is the message that is the gospel we see with the Israelites when we then look at us today you and me we have received the grace of God but what is the grace of God the grace of God is not just a cover up of sin the grace of God is actually here to help us to set us free from sin to teach us to transform us listen to what Titus is saying here for the grace of God have appeared to offer salvation to all people it teaches us to say no to ungodliness and worldly passs and live self-control upright and godly lives in this present age so in this present age we have received the Holy Spirit who help us to live holy or we have received the grace of God to help us to live holy while we wait for the blessing hope the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ who gave himself for us to redeem us from what from all wickedness and to purify for himself our people that are his own people eager to do what is good so Christ gave himself for us to redeem us from sin and to purify for himself a people that are his own Christ died to save us from our sins but much more more than that he died to purify for himself his own people a people that is called out of this world a people who are separated a people who TS no unclean things so God can come and receive us so he can can be our God and we can be his people the church and this is some of the things we are looking at here and it's going to be very very interesting as we move on here and and we are going to have a break now and then after a break we are going to look at at at the fall of Babylon and what that mean and and and how how is all one story that God is longing for people of his own but God is Holy and if God would just come down as it was everyone would be killed so therefore he sent his son Jesus to redeem us from our sins but also to purify a people where God he can say this is my people and he wanted that with the Israelite in the desert but they didn't complete the race they didn't do it they kept looking back over the shoulder yes they left Egypt but Egypt never left them and therefore they did not enter into the promised land and this is standing as a warning for you and me today and this is some of the things we're going to look at after the break [Music] so we are going to continue now and the fall of Babylon and that is talking about Revelation 18 and we read here after these things I saw another angel coming down from heaven he have a great Authority and His glory filled the Earth with light with a mighty voice he shouted falling Babylon the Great have falling see had become a place for where demons live she had become the den of every evil spirit she had become the nest of every unclean and hated bird all the nation have drunk the strong wine of a terrible sin the kings of the earth took part of her evil ways the traitors of the world grew Rich from her grave will everyone is many people discussing what is the mystery Babylon today is it this and this and this but I want to come with the message here so there will be a fall of Babylon there will be a fall a judgment coming to this world as we saw with the days of Noah as we saw with with Sodom and gorra and then Peter he's saying this here second Peter 2 later God condemned the cities of s and G and turn them into heaps and Ashes he made them a symol of what will happen to ungodly people and that is the message God had made all of these examples of what will happen today again with ungodly people but God rescu lot out of Sodom man because he was a righteous man who was sick I would say sick in his stomach of the shameful immorality of the wicked people around him yes L was a righteous man who was torment in his soul by the wickedness he saw and heard day after day so you see the Lord knows how to rescue godly people from their trials even while keeping the wicked under punishment until the day of final judgment so here we have lot who was was in Sodom Andorra while he was there his soul was torment because of all the wickedness he saw because of the righteousness he had he was sing his stomach for what he saw happened the truth is I feel that that sickness in my stomach of sin but it's not just sin I see in in the world it's sin I see in the church and that is the thing instead of we coming out of Egypt we have brought Egypt into the church and and and there is a message here for all of us first you need as a born again believer who will live a righteous life you you should be sick in it in your stomach you be should be sick in your stomach over all the evilness you see when you see TV when you hear music but the truth is we have being so used to it we are like we we fill ourselves with a lot of things and we don't we are not torment anymore in our righteous soul with everything that's happening around us why this is how it should be we should feel like this we should feel be like this with everything that's happening but all of this is a messing that is pointing to today Jesus also talked about it when he said here in Luke just as it was in the days of Noah so it will be in the days of the man son of man so as it was with Noah as it was with Sodom lot it would be today people was eating drinking Mary and being given in Mary up to the day Noah enter into to the ark when the flood came and destroyed them all it was the same in the days of Lord people was eating and drinking build buying and selling Planning and Building but the day Lord left Sodom fire and Surfer rain down from heaven and destroyed them all it will be just like this on the day the son of man is raled so this is how it will be each story you see in the Bible we see that people are called out are called to leave leave this wicked World leave Egypt leave Sodom and gorra and now we should leave Babylon we should come out of this system out of this world be not conformed to this world but be renewed in our mind be transformed to be purified as God's people dear friend I urge you AO Jo Exiles and that is what we are we are F joh exiled we need to look at ourself and finders and exiled we are pilgrims we are soul Jers on our journey here we are in the world but we are not part of the world we are live in Egypt we are live in Babylon we we are being purified to be God's holy people so we will not be judged with the rest when fire is coming down from heaven I urge you as for joh exile to ex abstain from sinful desire which weit war against your soul live such good life among the pagans that though they accuse you are doing wrong they will see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visit us live Source alive amongst the pagans a Christian a disciple of Christ is not somebody who who who just live in the world who is where Christ just cover our sin is somebody who is have left a in the world but have somehow left this world we still here but now we are living a life here amongst the pagans those who don't know God we we we live amongst those who don't know God but we don't live like those who who don't know God and and I want to say the other day uh we have some friends where we just heard the other day how how a friend have actually just left his wife and and found a a woman not a woman and and they getting divorced and we saw that we saw it on Facebook and and my wife Lena showed it to me and came and said look here and I was just shocked and like what is happening and me and my wife we have a talk about it and and we we just said that if you try to live like the world you will fall you cannot live you cannot be a Christian and live like everyone else and and we can just see that there's so many people who love Jesus who accept Jesus but they never really been separated with this world they they try to live like the Norms of this world they they they build houses and cars and work and do everything else and are busy like this world and slowly this world is just coming in more and more and more and it's much easier to live as a disciple if you just live radical out there you need to live a life in Revival you need to live out there understand who you are God's chosen people a holy nation we live amongster Pagan but we are not we don't live like the P pagans we are far on exile we abstain from from a sinful desire we live among them but we do not live like them and the problem with the Israelites in the Old Testament that we are going to look at is that they were truly called by God and they left Egypt physical they left Egypt but Egypt never left them Egypt never left them they keep looking back over the shoulder it was Bigg better that time they keep sinning they did like Lot's wife looked over the shoulder and became a salt a pillow of salt we should not look over the shoulder we should not look back to the old life we we we should move forward we should have our Focus where we are going and the Israelite they have everything we had they were the churs in the wilderness they were the church they had it all but still they did not enter into the promised land and this stand as a strong warning to you and me so this is what Paul said about the church for do not for I do not want you to be ignoring of the facts brothers and sisters that our ancestors were all under the cloud and that they all passed through the Red Sea they were all baptized to Moses like we are baptized into Christ in the cloud and in the sea so spirit and water baptized to Moses they all eat of the same spiritual food that was the Mana coming down from heaven that is our communion today we are eating the Heavenly communion they drink all of the same spiritual drink they keep being full of the spirit like we are commanded to in Ephesians don't get drunk by wine but be full of the spirit they had it all they drink from the spirit a rock that accomplished them and that rock was Christ Christ was with them in the wilderness The Rock was Christ they were the church in the wilderness and and there's a whole story here The Rock was Christ and The Rock David through was Christ who killed the golad and that is the prophet of Daniel of this the giant the Nations that would be destroyed and and that small rock the stone will become a great mountain and I have a lesson about that later when we are looking at at King David and we're looking at the Book of Daniel and Revelation but what we need to understand that the church in the wilderness they had it all nevertheless nevertheless God was not pleased with most of them and their bodies were shattered in the wilderness and he continues now these thing occurs occurred as examples to keep us you and me to keep us from sitting our hearts on evil things as they did so they had it all and us who are the church today we should read the story of the Israelite and how they were the church called out of Egypt but we should see how they went wrong and we should learn from that we should learn from that but I don't feel many have learned from it because there's no different and as St in not enter into the Promised Land There is many many people in the churches today who will not enter into the promised land why they have never been separated from Egypt they maybe left Egypt but Egypt are still in them they still keep looking over their shoulder and and Paul continue with warning to us do not be adulterers as some of them were as is written the people sat down to eat and drink and got up and indulged in Ry we should not commit sexual immorality as some of them did on that day 23,000 of them was killed we should not test Christ as some of them did and they were killed by snakes and he come with that list and do not Grumble I like that that is get with everything else as some of them did and they were killed by the destroying Angel do not Grumble oh it was better of that time oh it's hard it's hard it's hard to be a Christian it's hard to follow Christ it was B at that time back in the world in this I could just live in sin and live in my ignorance and and just like like we should not speak like that yes we are maybe walking in a desert yes we are walking into a Wilderness yes we are exiled here on Earth yes we are thirsty yes we are it's not easy but but we have a goal and that is the promised land we are not looking back to where we came from we are looking forward to what is coming and that is where the strength is when I was in jail I could have grumbled about everything and there was a lot of things that was not good the food was not good they found small maggots or box in the food the food was not cooked there was strik sometimes the whole pot d stride and didn't want to eat food and was complaining and hammered the doors and making a lot of noise and the guards came in and they locked us down and people was complaining complaining complaining but I'm like it don't help me it don't help to complain it helped to have the right attitude and and that was the different the attitude what we focus on and that's why people came into me and said Tom why are you so happy why are you so free you should not be like that you have been treated unfair but you don't complain you don't Grumble no I Rejoice why because my focus is right I'm I'm looking at I know I'm in a journey I know I'm in a race and I don't want to be disqualified in this race I want to be purified and God's God is purifying me to those things I go to so I become more like him I'm I'm called out I'm his church we are the church and then he said these things happen to them as examples and it was written down so this is written down the story of the Israelites save out of Egypt the church in the wilderness was written down as a warning to us to whom the comination of the ages have come so if you think you are standing firm be careful that you don't fall before all of this Paul he said something and and we put a chapter in and often we divide the letters in chapters and that is a mistake because it's all connected a few verses before on to this Paul he said this do you not know and I want to say this to you do you not know do you know do you not know that in a race all are running but only one get the price try to think of the Israelite they were slave in Egypt they were saved out of Egypt but that was not the end of the race to be Sav was not the end of the race to be saved out of Egypt was the beginning of the race how were they saved out of Egypt that is the next lesson we're going to look at how they were saved through the unlim bread that is the repentance to the blood of the land that is the blood to the Red Sea to the pillar of light and the cloud there were that that is our new birth we are seeing here how they were saved out of Egypt we are being saved out of Babylon and how there were pilgrims and and strangers walking through the desert with the Fus the promised land the same way we are now in our race and we are here to finish the race but I've seen many people who like hey I am safe now h Hallelujah and they just stand there and waiting for Christ to come not being purified not understand that there is a raise not understand that we are running to get a crown that will never perish or Fade Away we are running for the eternal life and he says that run in such a way that you get the price what price the promise the eternal life the inheritant everyone who compete in a game go into St training strict training they do it to get a crown that would not last but we we do what we go into strict training to get a crown that would last forever therefore I do not run like somebody running aimlessly I do not fight like a box of Bea in the air no I strict a blow to my body and make it my slave so it's not following the flesh of your dis body and your desires no you you kill that body and make it obedient become your slave so uh yeah i s a blow to my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others I myself will not be disqualified for the price I am preaching to you right now but I can still be disqualified for the price and then he moved on and talk about the Israelites how they had it all how they have Christ the Rock with them how they left Egypt how they were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea how they ate of the spirit of food the Mana the communion all of it they had it all but still they were all disqualified and they were save out but they did not enter into there somebody say one safe always safe if you just pray this prayer do this you are one safe and nothing can take away from you that is a lie we are not one saved yet because it's only those who are victorious who is inherit all this as we talked about that we will one day if we have washed our garment by the blood of the Lamb if we are clean we will enter into that to the gate and we will take off the tree of life and live forever do you know this do you not know that we in a race do you go into strict training do you strike a blow to your body and make it obey you do you fear to be disqualified this is how it should be so the church what is that that is the people who are called out God's holy nation God gave a promise what is the promise I will walk with you I will be your God and you be my people but for that to happen we need to come out from them and be separated TS no unclean thing and I will be your God we are in the world but we are not part of the world we should come out of Babylon before it fall and judgment God will raise up a prophet like Moses they had Moses the law of Moses we're going to look at that we have Christ the law of Christ more about that later oby him do you not know evildoers will not inherit the kingdom of God again we we are not talking about just a spiritual kingdom here we are talking about a real Kingdom coming down from heaven new heaven new Earth New Jerusalem Heavenly Jerusalem the Garden of Eden evildoers will not inherit the kingdom of God do not be deceived neither sexual immoral or adulter and adulterous nor man who have sex with man or thief or greedy or drunkenness or Slanders or singers will inherit the kingdom of God and that is what some of you were but you were called out you were separated you were wased you were Sanctified you were justified in the name of Lord Jesus Christ by the spirit of God some of you some of you were like that today I want to say something when when you say touch no unclean and be separated I I'm we're going to look much more later on the law of Moses and the law of Christ because we are not under the law Moses so it's not like we should be in a Monas and be monks we we should just be transformed we should be renewed we we should put off the old life and put on the new life listen what Colossians saying since you have been raised to a new life with Christ set your side on the reality of Heaven set your side on this reality on heaven where Christ sits in the place of honor at God's right hand do you do you think of that do you do you like think of Christ sitting at in heaven right now at God's right hand and soon he will come back here when time have come where God will send the Messiah and he will set up the kingdom as promised and we will get a new Heavenly Body and get our reward think about the things of heaven and not things on earth if most Christians think more more Heavenly thing Spirit Earthly thing than Heavenly thing is like heaven is is far away from them they desires like what what do we live for like buying a house buying a car taking education it's all almost like it's all this world and like this world is just disappearing and and we all go to heaven like like already now when we are on this journey Pilgrim aliens strangers walking running the race toward the promised SL with a warning that we should not do like the Israelite while we are here and running we should sit our side on the reality of heaven and not things of this Earth for you died to this life you died to this life and your real life is hidden with Christ in God and when Christ who is your life is revealed the whole to the whole world you will share in his glory we now we were Justified we are now being Sanctified so we one day will share in his glory so we one day will be glorified that is our journey the Israelite was saved out of Egypt and then in the desert they should be transformed and purified so they could enter in to the promised land but they fail that sanctification they keep going back and they stand as a warning to you and me that the church in the wilderness did not make it and the church many places today will also not make it if we don't get this message right so put to death the sinful Earthly things looking within you put today have nothing to do with sexual immorality impurity lost evil desires do not be greedy for the a greedy person is adulterer worshiping the things of this world this is a strong warning to you and me he continues because of these sins the anger of God is coming you used to do these things when your life was still part of this world when you are part of Egypt when you are part of Babylon when you part of this world and the mindset of this world but now you at the church what do that mean you are called out of this world so so we are not part of this world anymore but now as the church it is time to get rid of anger as the church it's time to get rid of Rage Mel Behavior slander time to get rid of slander slander dirty language don't lie to each other for you have stripped off your old sinful nature with all the wicked Deeds put off get rid off and then put on first you get rid of and then you put on the new nature to be renewed as you learn to know your Creator and become like him in this new life it does not matter if you are Jew or Gentile circumcised or uncircumcised barbaric on civilian slave or free Christ is all that matters and he live in all of us we continue here since God chose you or called you out to be his Ecclesia to be his church since God God chose you to be his church to be the holy people he love that is the same we are the holy people God love we are his church that is how it should be you must clothe yourself with tender hardness mer tenderhearted Mercy kindness humility gentleness and patient make allowance for each others fault and forgive anyone who offend you remember the Lord forgave you so you must also forgive other above all clothe yourself with love which binds all of this together in Perfect Harmony what a beautiful beautiful beautiful verses here this is the church this is our call this is our desire there should happen a transformation people should come into our churches and see all of this but I have been in churches where I come in and it's it's almost like a concert it's like the world people speak like the world they dress like the world that talk the the they behave like the world and then we say we are the church let let the warning of the Bible with the israelit stands strong for us so we will not be disqualified in the race and he continues and let the peace that comes from Christ rule in your heart for as members as one body you are called to live in peace and always be thankful let the mess about Christ in all its riches fill your lives teach and consel each other with all the wisdom he gives sing Psalms hymns and spiritual songs to God with thankful hearts that is the message I want to share think of the church as not a building not an organization not of nonprofit not of church denomination not as a meeting activities you go to but as a group of people who are called out call out of this world to be transformed to be holy like God is Holy so we one day can be glorified with him and that is what we're going to look at later as we move on the justification the sanctification the glorification and and next teaching we're going to look at how they were called out and the way the Israelite was called out of Egypt is the same way we are called out of Egypt this world today and it's not just a nice pray this prayer ask this into your heart and congratulation you are called out there's more than this so what have we learned God wants a people that is his that is the whole message of the Bible from the Garden of Eden God wants a people that is his people God long to have a people who will be his where he can be their God Walk with them in the cool of the day as he did with Adam and Eve in the garden of Edom After Fall he found Abraham so after fall and the flood God found Abraham and gave him a pro gave a promise to him and from him came Isaac and Jacob we got Israel as a nation but they were still in Egypt enslaved to this world so he found Moses to call them out from Egypt to worship him in the wilderness then we have the church the church first the church in the wilderness did not understand that they were God's called out people that they were a holy nation or was supposed to be a holy nation they continued in sin and looked back to their old life and in the end they were rejected and did not enter into the promised land serving as a warning for you and me when I say they there was that generation who did not enter in but but we know that um Joshua and Caleb they took the Next Generation in Moses he did not enter in himself he only he saw the promised land he actually entered in later on the Mount of figuration with Christ himself but we're going to come back to that later so he saw it but but not there but it's very interes there's a lot of story here because Moses brought them to the promised land but he could not bring them in he need another person that was Joshua that means Jesus Joshua is the name of Jesus so Moses brought them to the promised land but it was Jesus who brought them into the promised land and the same the law can bring us only so far but it's Christ who bring us the whole way in but there was the church there and the church in the Old Testament stand as a warning for you and me put off and put put on we become God's called out God's Church through repentance baptism water and receive the Holy Spirit but it doesn't stop there now we are to continue to put off the old way of thinking and the old way of living and instead put on the new man being renewed to become like God our Father one day glorified when we are justified in Christ the grace of God the Holy Spirit we looked at is teaching us and transforming us with is also called sanctification if we let him do that and continue in Christ we will one day be glorified as we enter into the promised land and this was what I wanted to share today and I really encourage you follow the whole school as as we take pieces of pieces and pieces like pieces of a big puzzle and you see one piece there you see one piece there you see one piece there you see one piece there and sudden you see the whole picture and everything makes sense in a new way and and the message today you need to understand is that there was a church in the Old Testament and it was called out from Egypt and we are now called out so we will not be judged together with this world and we are now being Sanctified so we one day will be glorified and next lesson I'm going to look at how the church was called out the same way we are today um but let let's before we completely end up here let let me pray for all of you out there God we thank you for your word we thank you for the truth and what we have heard today God help us to not be deceived help us to not be disqualified help us to run the race that's in front of us help us to understand this journey we are on as pilgrims and strangers here on Earth walking through the Wilderness toward the promised land pray for everyone who has seen this that you will speak to them that the true fear of you will come into their hearts that they will understand saying that they cannot be like this world and and live like this world and then inherit what you have for them God but they need to be separated they need to be the called out the Church the true church God come with your Holy Spirit and remind them of things they need to put off in their life and help them to put on this new life God help us God to to learn from this God come with your Holy Spirit open our eyes and help us to continue running the race and serving you and as a disciple preaching the gospel of the kingdom and demonstrating the power thereof God in Healing The Sick and cting out demons God and seeing people being born again God come with your Holy Spirit In The Name of Jesus amen God bless you all out there and again go in and and share this series with other people invite other people to join this is important and and as we move on it become more more strong and clear as more pieces are falling in place and we see more more the greater picture of all of it this life this journey this race we on God bless you bye-bye