Our Bible Study lessons are
following both Moses and the Pentecostal outpouring of the Holy Spirit. I took notes and present a digested message
here.
You will remember that Moses
was rescued as a baby by Pharaoh’s daughter and thus raised in the palace and
given a proper education. Because in anger he
killed a man, he fled to the desert spending many years with nomads living
there.
While tending his flock, he noticed
a burning bush. As he went closer, a
voice spoke telling him to remove his shoes for he was standing on Holy
Ground. It was the God of the Hebrews
telling him to go back to Egypt
and deliver the people. Moses was
frightened, but God said, “Do not be afraid, for I will go with you.”
God sent many plagues against
Egypt ,
but Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, until the Death Angel took the first born of
each Egyptian household.
Now the Children of Israel
were safely across the Red Sea and camped at Mount Sinai ,
where smoke as a furnace poured forth from the mountain. Thunder and lightening and God’s voice
frightened the people. They pled with
Moses to speak to God for them as they were too afraid to hear him for
themselves.
Aren’t you thankful that
today, we can boldly enter the throne room and hold a conversation with our
Holy God? Jesus made that possible.
Moses was on the mountain for
40 days while God gave him the laws and commandments to teach the people how to
live a life pleasing to God. The people
became restless and worried why Moses was gone so long.
Worship was important to the
people, but they wanted a god they could see; and they chose the wrong god. So Aaron built them a golden calf like the
Egyptian’s worshipped.
God was angry and told Moses
to quickly go down from the mountain as the people were rebelling against Him. Moses was also angry and threw down the
commandments breaking them. He then
destroyed the image grinding it up and throwing it into the water forcing the
people drink the water.
God is a jealous god, and he
will not share the worship of other gods. Although Moses was chosen to lead the people,
he was only the helper, for God was in charge.
We have ministers in the
church, but we must understand they are human and subject to failure. It is God’s church and not ours. Let God be God and let us follow Him.
The Holy Spirit comes to
dwell in us filling the void in our lives.
God put the fire of the Holy Spirit in us.
Moses had the words of God in stone for stony
hearts. Holy men of God have
preserved God’s word for us giving us our Bible. Much caution and diligence was put forth to
bring us as near a perfect translation as possible. Different versions help cast light and
explain more fully the scriptures.
When Moses spent time with
God, and returned to the people, his face shone requiring him to wear a
veil. As we spend time praying and
studying our Bible, our face will reflect Jesus when our friends look on us.
Moses was to instruct the
people that as they entered the Promised Land, there would be enemies living
there, that God would destroy.
Often in us there are sins
(enemies) that God is willing to destroy and help us to overcome.
God also told the people not
to worship the gods of the enemies but to serve Him only.
In the upper room, the Holy Spirit fell on
believers and they spoke in other tongues.
Peter preached to the onlookers, telling them to believe on Jesus and they
would also receive this gift. That day 3000
believers were added to the “church.”
Paul said in 1 Corinthians chapters 12, 13, 14 to
desire spiritual gifts - - But the manifestation of the Spirit is
given to each one for the profit of all: for to one is
given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge
through the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to
another gifts of healings by the same Spirit, to another the
working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to
another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of
tongues. But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing
to each one individually as He wills.
Jesus was the first fruit - - as he was the first to receive his resurrected
body. This began a new spiritual history
and we are the harvest from Pentecost of old onto this day. God gave the written Word to the Jews to change the
world; Jesus sent the Holy Spirit at Pentecost to again shift and change the
world. The process of change continues. News of revival is sweeping our nation.
Jesus is Lord of the harvest and the field is white and
ready. God planned all this for our
understanding, so that we would come to Him for Salvation.
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awesome dear
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