Crossing Over The New

A television program preceding the 1988 Winter Olympics featured blind skiers being trained for slalom skiing, impossible as that sounds. Paired with sighted skiers, the blind skiers were taught on the flats how to make right and left turns. When that was mastered, they were taken to the slalom slope, where their sighted partners skied beside them shouting, "Left!" and "Right!" As they obeyed the commands, they were able to negotiate the course and cross the finish line, depending solely on the sighted skiers' word. It was either complete trust or catastrophe.

What a vivid picture of the Christian life! In this world, we are in reality blind about what course to take. We must rely solely on the Word of the only One who is truly sighted--God Himself. His Word gives us the direction we need to finish the course.

This morning beloved I want to preach a sermon I have entitled “Crossing over the new”. Throughout life beloved it is a reality that there will be different levels of growth in our Christian walk, many that will not be understandable, some that will be evident, some that will not be accepted and others that will give us revelation. As we begin to walk with God we will find that God Himself is worthy of all praise and glory that He in His Majesty will do as He wills as it fits our lives and not how we expect for things to be. Beloved this morning if we do not allow God to steer our walk and guide our lives through this world of chaos we lack trust in our Savior, and this beloved can always be seen in a man or a women that wants things done their way or no way. Challenge today cannot be given to people that have not understood the true meaning of the gospel in its entirety which entails an area which many fail to cleave in and that beloved is discipleship. As I preach this morning I pray that you catch what God has given me to bring to His church and see that trusting in God has everything to do with how you trust the man God has placed before you to help you through what has been missing and that is through truth and a compassionate heart that will give you want you need and not what you want this morning.

Crossing in to the new has everything to do with leaving behind the old and grabbing on to the new with boldness and trust in Jesus Christ. This trust of course must be built in time with God bringing you through some trials and allowing you to gain some guidance through your Pastor with prayer and the word of God to see Him who is Jesus move on the behalf of His people. Building trust takes total reliance in Christ who will not only show Himself to you throughout your walk but also through your headship in Jesus. This morning I want to engage in the life and time of Israel as Moses has by God’s hand lead His people out of Egypt into the wilderness to inherit the promise. Many of us are looking forward to a promise as we have been lead out of the bondage of sin but maybe in your wilderness. If you’re not saved this morning I pray this will help you make a decision to serve Jesus and race for the promise as well.

Exodus 14:1-4

1 Now the LORD spoke to Moses, saying: 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, that they turn and camp before Pi Hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, opposite Baal Zemphon; you shall camp before it by the sea. 3 For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, ‘They are bewildered by the land; the wilderness has closed them in.’ 4 Then I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, so that he will pursue them; and I will gain honor over Pharaoh and over all his army, that the Egyptians may know that I am the LORD.” And they did so.

“God’s Leader”

As we have read our scripture Moses is given instructions by God concerning Israel’s motions and encampments. This has been done that there would be no scruple amongst God’s people. God spoke to His chosen man to guide Israel toward the Red Sea for the purpose of which only Moses and God knew. This beloved was to glorify God. Beloved Pharaoh had a design to destroy God’s people but God had a design to destroy Pharaoh and He ordered Moses to direct the children of Israel the way of the Red Sea for this purpose.

As this has been in motion I am pretty sure that the people of Israel are probably wondering why they were going in the opposite direction of sure promise. Why is this man taking us further into the wilderness and toward a dead end? What most people do not understanding is that God has plans that are beyond our understanding that would glorify Him and Him alone.