Marching To Zion Series

Some people think it sounds too old fashioned, or its too personal

yet if we skip over repentance we are not obeying the voice of the Lord

preparation is on Gods part and on our part. He prepared the place for us, and prepared the way, we have to trust and obey pick up the cross and follow him

Phl 2:12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

Take eternity seriously

Gods Protection

God promised the nation of Israel protection from their enemies, in verse 30, “little by little I will drive them out from before you until you have increased and possess the man

Thats the biggest problem we have with Gods plan that it happens in Gods time, the right time. Little by little God gets us to where he wants us to be

but it was for their protection

If he destroyed them all at once the wild beast would have mutlitped and even been more trouble for them.

Now today we are not fighting, as I mentioned this morning, a carnal or physical battle but we are fighting a spiritual battle

and the Lord has promised inch by inch little by little that we will win the war, one battle at at time

The Apostle Paul who was right in the heat of the battle said

Rom 16:20 The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

In the book of Revelation John wrote

Rev 20:10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet [are], and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

The best weapon that Satan has to use against the church is deception, and one day he will be destroyed!! But battle by battle inch by inch people are being set free as the truth of Gods word comes shining through

Its amazing how clever Satan is with his deception

Gods Promise

The promise to the nation of Israel was one of land. He said in verse 31, “I will set your border from the Red Sea of the Philistines and from the wilderness to the Euphrates for I will give the inhabitants of the land into your land and you shall drive them out before you

God promised them a land that was flowing with milk and Honey.

So they were marching to Zion, the promised land

Today Heaven is our Zion, the New Jerusalem that John saw descending from heaven

The city whose builder and maker is God

Hbr 11:8 ¶ By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.

Hbr 11:9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as [in] a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:

Hbr 11:10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker [is] God.

So let us lift our voice in praise as the church sings the old song, were marching to Zion beautiful Beautiful Zion