Sermons - 2008 Week 17 - Apr Wk 4
The Power of a Surrendered Life Part 1
Life in Egypt, The Passover and The Red Sea are used to illustrate the Victorious life that we have in Christ.
A life of “unrest” dishonours God. He wants us to have this victorious life but we will not have it unless we live a surrendered life. We have not claimed the promises of God if we do not first surrender ourselves. The Head received in trust for the Body. I may claim all that the Head received, Christ being the Head.
A life without power is contrary to His plans for us. Ph 4:13, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”
I. Life in Egypt
Egypt epitomizes the perfect type of the world of sin in which God found us. Ephesians 2:12, “that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.” Egypt was a place of bondage to the Israelites. When Israel dwelt in Egypt, they were unable to worship God. There is no deliverance from the sin if we remain in Egypt.
Romans 6:12-14,” Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.”
II. The Passover
Exodus 12:21-22,”Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Pick out and take lambs for yourselves according to your families, and kill the Passover lamb. And you shall take a bunch of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin. And none of you shall go out of the door of his house until morning.”
It is not enough that the Passover lamb had been slained. We must apply the His blood on the lintel, that is, to our own souls. The Passover lamb is Christ, and the act of applying the blood to the lintel with the hyssop is “faith”. It is not the appreciation of the blood of Christ that saves us but our faith. Many stop at believing, many remain in Egypt. But in these situations there is no power in our lives.
III. The Red Sea
The Red Sea experience is equal to the death of Christ, atonement ad redemption delivers us from the control or dominion of sin. Many people stop here and have no peace in their lives.
The death of Christ delivers us from the control or dominion of sin. In Galatians 2:20, “I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.” While Christ may have delivered us from the control or dominion of sin we must have Christ live in us as stated in Galatians 2:20. Otherwise we will be as if we were remaining in “Egypt”, living in sin. We must get out of Egypt. If we remain, we will have no power in our lives. We remain in bondage
At the Red Sea, the Egyptian pursuers were slained. Yet Egypt as a nation still remains. The world of sin remains tempting us. Although we are tempted we may yet not sin. Put Christ and His death between us and sin and we will gain victory.
In summary, the three events, Life in Egypt, the Passover and the Red Sea symbolizes our life in Christ. Our life of sin is “Life in Egypt”. Our faith in Christ and salvation is “The Passover” and finally our separation from sin is “The Red Sea” event.
1Corinthians 10:11,” Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.”
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