I Have Come Down to Bring Them Up

 Exodus 3:7-8 - And the LORD said: “I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey...”

There are many people in the Bible who are types of Christ. Moses was one of them. Egypt is considered a type of the world. Israel was held captive in Egypt.  If you recall Moses led the people of Israel out of Egyptian captivity. God wanted them in a land He would provide for them, a better place. 

Their captivity at that time was as slaves. But did you know that we are slaves also in our world? God desires for us to be out of this world and secure in a better place He has for us. And this is why He sent Jesus! He came down from heaven. He will deliver us up to heaven one day.

He came down to deliver US out of the snares of this world and bring us into a special place He has for us. What snares? All the things that keep us from looking to Him, things that DISTRACT. Anything that is put in the forefront of our lives that take God out of our lives is a snare. What most consumes us? Some things we are meant to be busy doing but others are not. We’re all guilty. When I was working I was a workaholic. Some people, if they have the means, travel frequently. Others shop! For some it’s their children or hobbies or activities, for some it’s self! There are so many things that consume our time. 

For a true believer in Jesus Christ, the Bible tells us in various ways that this earth is not our home, but that heaven is (Philippians 3:20). We are strangers here on earth (1Chronicles 29:15). We are to have a loose grip on the things of this world (Matthew 6:19-20). Don’t let those things consume. But...we are to focus on sharing the truth of Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, the one who gives us eternal life...no one else can do that. We are told that even our idle words (which are many) will be judged. 

When we die our body is gone, but our spirit lives on. And that spirit has one of two permanent resting places...heaven or hell. And they are real. It’s why He came....that we may have eternal life in Him, in heaven...that resting place that God has chosen for us. Why would Jesus come to save us if we all were going to go to heaven?

Jesus came and died that we could have that more abundant life. We are told to think on the things above not the things here on earth. We are told to store up riches in heaven that will not be consumed as opposed to things of earth which will spoil, rust, wither away.

I heard a talk recently and this was a very good statement: to realize that self-preservation of my own life will cost me in being fearful, in being in compliance with what they (government) want me to do; but if I’m willing to lose my life, I can stand in the face of this no matter what they say. This is what the truth of the Bible tells us and this is why we need to understand.

Moses! He led Israel out of captivity. Jesus! He does too. The Word of God is so FULL of examples like this. I hope to share more. 

John‬ ‭10:10‬ ‭- The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.