The Lord will bring you out so He can bring you in
Your Passover. That is my message for today.
Joshua 6:2 “And the Lord said to Joshua, see, I have given Jericho into your hand, its king, and the mighty men of valor.”
Some 40 years earlier, the Lord had brought the Israelites out of Egypt. One of their last evenings there was the Passover event. God passed through all of Egypt and destroyed the first born of all living things. However, He passed over the people of Israel. God chose to spare His people.
Now, they were ready to go occupy the land God had promised them. The first order of business was to destroy the city of Jericho. It stood directly in the path God had chosen to lead the people into the land He promised. Joshua sent two spies into the land to learn what they could learn. They went to Jericho and by chance they stayed at the house of a lady called Rahab.
When Rahab learned the king of Jericho was looking for the spies, she hid them. She told them everything they needed to know about the people and the land. The people were afraid of the Israelites. They knew God had chosen them as His people. They knew what God had done to the Egyptians and to the kings in the desert. And they knew what He would do to them.
In return for helping the spies, Rahab asked them to spare her and her family when the Israelites attacked Jericho. The spies agreed and told Rahab to hang a scarlet rope in the window of her house. This rope would be the indication to the Israelites to pass over her house and allow everyone there to live.
God’s Passover in Egypt was to save His people from the destruction that was coming to people who had their own gods; He would bring them out. God’s Passover of Rahab in Jericho was to save a family of believers from among a nation of nonbelievers; He would bring her in. God chose to spare His people; Rahab chose to leave her people and to be in the family of God.
In a way, one Passover was to bring you out before destruction came. And the other Passover was to take you in before destruction came. Today, you and I get to enjoy the symbol of both Passovers. We should all want to be of the family of God. And we should all have a bit of Rahab’s Passover saving faith in us.
We should ask ourselves daily, do we live in a way that God will bring us out of the bondage and the destruction that comes to those who deny Him? Most of us would find it easy to believe we do this. But being out is not enough. We must ask ourselves do we love the Lord enough to give up the things we get by living among those who do not live for Him?
If we are brought out, we need to be brought in. Rahab showed us the type of faith that will cause us to leave a life that is selfish and self-centered for one that is selflessly focused on and centered on the Love of God. God is faithful to bring us out of the things that are against Him and so against us. To do that, He will often choose to deal with what is against Him so that we are freed.
Your Passover is to learn to never stay too close to the thing that is against God; He wants to free you from that. God is also faithful to bring us into life with Him when we choose to give up life without Him. We must remember never to stay too close to the things that used to keep us away from Him because of what we get from that. We cannot love Him and love what we get from the world too.
So, ask yourself, am I living in my Passovers? The Lord is always looking to bring His Passover to freedom to those of us who are living for Him and waiting patiently for Him. He is always looking to bring His Passover into life with Him for those of us ready to give up life with everyone and everything else.
Don’t make it hard for Him to find you. Hang the scarlet rope of your submission and your belief and your love for Him around your heart. He lives there. He will find it and He will know you are one of His. This is your Passover to have Him living in your heart so the enemies and the nonbelievers in God would know He is real.
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