The Church Series - Part Seven - A Message For The Church
Writer Author Sylvia Huffnagle
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Deut: 32:1-4: Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. 2: My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass: 3: Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God. 4: He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
(We start with what God had Moses proclaim: that God is the church’s Rock. The church, in order to become the church, was supposed to repent of her ways and turn to God’s ways, because His ways are perfect. All of God’s ways are true judgment. In other words, He and He alone, knows how to deal with people and situations in order to bring out righteous judgments--righteous results. The doctrines in the Bible that some make light of, work as rain and dew, causing the tender plants to grow--causing the Word planted in a Christian heart to grow and causing the Christian to grow more like Jesus. For some, these days, it may be news, but the Christian’s goal is to grow to be like Jesus.)
5-8: They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation. 6: Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee? 7: Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee. 8: When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
(This admonishment is to be applied to the church because she fits the description of waywardness that Moses ascribes to Jacob. The church doesn’t look like His children anymore. Is not God the one who begat you, both physically and spiritually? Remember the days of old. For the church this means, remember the New Testament teachings. It is Jesus who separates the sons of Adam from the sons of God--when you choose to follow Jesus, you give up following Adam. God set boundaries, they are established in the Holy Bible.)
9-14: For the LORD's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. 10: He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. 11: As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: 12: So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him. 13: He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock; 14: Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.
(The church needs to apply this spiritually. The church is the Lord’s portion. We are not our own, we’ve been bought with a price. God is the one who brought us out of our spiritual desert. He is the one who carried us upon His wings while He was teaching us how to fly. He made the church ride on the high places and fed them with the finest of wheat, etc. Ps 81 The high places are describes in the book of Acts. It’s a church endued with power from on high.)
15-18: But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. 16: They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger. 17: They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not. 18: Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.
(The church waxed fat and got lazy and distracted. She began to go after other gods such as, money, things, and pleasure. Unintentionally, she forsook God’s ways and has lightly esteemed her Rock. God is provoked to jealousy. Now with God that is not a weakness. It means that He is grieved because He knows we will get hurt and we will hurt others when we stray from Him--He is the rock.)
19-21: And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters. 20: And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith. 21: They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
(God says when His people come into such a condition, He cannot correct them--they are too far gone. They are involved in their own interpretation of Christianity--they are cut off from His help. They become prey to the enemy. In this case, the world’s system.)
Deut 32: 22-26: For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains. 23: I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them. 24: They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust. 25: The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs. 26: I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:
(The passage above describes the inevitable result of straying too far from God. In the case of today’s church, it is the Babylonians who will destroy a wayward Christian’s life. The world is into Babylonian thinking and that is what she is spewing out. All who do not love the Truth will fall prey to her beguiling ways. 2Thess: 3-17 Those who listen to the whore will go through some of the above catastrophes--mostly, they should be applied spiritually. The beasts devour. The fire is false theology. The enemy’s sword inflicts and severs, etc.)
27-31: Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this. 28: For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them. 29: O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end! 30: How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up? 31: For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.
(God says that He is going to show His hand lest the enemy convince the world that he is more powerful than God. For the sake of the ignorant, God will manifest His glory. The early church was empowered so that one could chase a thousand, but today because of a void of proper counsel and a lack of understanding, most of the time she is the one running and hiding. Consider the latter end--if God is your Rock and you are not safely cleaving to it, you will be swept downstream in the mighty torrent.
The next set of instructions will be for those who take this message seriously and want to get back to God and move on with God--into the Promise Land. That will be the land where God’s promises are greatly manifested and the church will be glorious--she will have the answers for those who come to her.)
Deut: 31: 6-9: Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. 7: And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou must go with this people unto the land which the LORD hath sworn unto their fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit it. 8: And the LORD, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.
9-13: And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it unto the priests the sons of Levi, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and unto all the elders of Israel. 10: And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles, 11: When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing. 12: Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law: 13: And that their children, which have not known any thing, may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
(The church must get back to basics. She must apply all of God’s teaching. She must live by every Word of God. So the way to be in a safe place and the way to be part of God’s glorious church is to assemble together, repent of your idolatries, feed on the Word, and cry out in earnest for God’s visitation.)
14-16: And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thy days approach that thou must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tabernacle of the congregation, that I may give him a charge. And Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the tabernacle of the congregation. 15: And the LORD appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud: and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle. 16: And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.
(Jesus ascended into heaven and He gave:)
Eph: 4:11-24: He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; 12: For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: 13: Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: 14: That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; 15: But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: 16: From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love. 17: This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, 18: Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: 19: Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. 20: But ye have not so learned Christ; 21: If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: 22: That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; 23: And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; 24: And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
© Sylvia Huffnagle
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