The 25-Hour Answer that Moses Experienced (Exodus 3:6-12) 3/19/2023
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The 25-Hour Answer that Moses Experienced (Exodus 3:6-12) 3/19/2023
Moses was Israel’s greatest leader, prophet, and missionary who represents the period of the Old Testament (Acts 3:22). However, young Moses made a mistake out of misplaced vigor, became a murderer, and spent forty miserable years. Yet, Moses saved the Israel nation and experienced the 25-hour answer to where he saved the posterity and future. Therefore, if a person of God holds onto the covenant and starts anew, regardless of whatever failures and crises come, even that failure can become a turning point to receive lifelong answers.
- Why do many saved people of God experience failure this way?
If possible, may you experience as few failures as possible, and if there are failures and pain, may you discover important answers. All records of failures in the Bible are important answers and a mirror for us who live in this age (1 Corinthians 10:11).
1) People of God experience failure when they lose hold of their God-given self-identity.
Israel was intended to enjoy God’s blessings and be used to fulfill God’s will.
① Moses was a descendant of the Levites, the spiritual leaders of God’s people at that age. This is the blessing of a remnant,
Even Moses had lost hold of the five identities of a remnant. Although his parents and people were enslaved, Moses himself might have spent his life merely enjoying the privileges of an Egyptian prince.
② The fact that he was abandoned in a river and raised as a prince of a palace that was oppressing his people could have been scarring.
Rage rooted in that very scar could have been what came out when he saw the Egyptian soldiers abusing his people. That led him to be a murderer. Satan provokes our hidden scars and leads us to fail when we lose hold of the spiritual identity that God gives us.
2) We can also experience fatal failure when we lose hold of God’s plan for us.
① It said that it came to Moses’s heart to visit his people when he was forty years old (Acts 7:23). When people of God receive grace and answers, a rightful heart to care for and devote themselves to God’s people forms.
② The problem was that Moses’s standard was different. Moses only considered devoting himself as a prince who looked after his people. God had different plans. He planned to take the Israelites out of a 400-hundred-year fate-like curse. Many people in the world have fallen into fate the same way. People suffer and do not know the reason or answer.
③ Christ came to solve this spiritual curse. It is only we who can relay this answer to the world. If we lose hold of this God’s plan, it goes beyond us wandering, but we become the Devil’s greatest joy. Moses lost hold of God’s plan for his life and the age he lived in.
3) Since he lost hold of his identity and God’s plan, he rightfully also lost hold of God’s power. He was sufficient with the identity and power that he earned in the world as an Egyptian prince and intended to do something with that.
① That Moses couldn’t save a single person. Instead, he became a murderer. Various identities and power are important in the world. God used all the skills and leadership Moses learned in Egypt. However, that is not the power to save the people unwittingly bound by fate, curses, and spiritual problems for four hundred years.
② The power of the gospel can only do it. It is the same for the work to save this powerful nation, America, and all the multi-ethnic nations. God changes someone’s entire life when we accurately experience and relay Christ. This is the power of the gospel. In today’s passage, God came to Moses, who was in the wilderness herding sheep, and had him realize and experience this (25-hour answer).
- What was it that Moses experienced? Three things we must hold onto and experience before missions and evangelism.
1) Embrace God’s mourning heart for me and the world before going into missions and evangelism. How can this be done?
① Meditate on why the Son of God, Christ, came to this world, took upon all shame, and died (Experience of Mt. Calvary). It is because all lives, including ours, belong to unsolvable curses if He did not come, suffer, and die for us (curse of original sin, Satan’s curse, eternal curse). All of life’s problems come from this. No human born as Adam’s offspring can solve this. Therefore, He who is sinless came and died on the cross. He fulfilled the forgiveness of sins through the power of His blood (Hebrews 9:12), gave us new life through His resurrection, and crushed the Devil’s head.
② We can realize and embrace God’s heart through our pain and suffering (Experience of Mt. of Olives).
The failed disciples were called to the Mount of Olives, where they experienced the mission of God’s kingdom of going out to the world with God’s heart. God had Moses see the four-hundred-year pain of the Israelites through Moses’s forty-year pain. Verses 7-8 say, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people” and “I have come down to deliver them” (God’s heart and method).
③ This is also why Jesus lowered Himself and endured all those sufferings (Hebrews 4:15 “God who sympathizes”). If we stay beside someone suffering and sincerely relate (empathize) to their feelings and pain, they will open their hearts (Romans 12:15-16).
2) Before going into missions and evangelism, experience the power of the Holy Spirit that can save the world through even someone like me (Experience of Mark’s Upper Room).
① God desires for me to save me first. However, how can we save ourselves? Some people believe that. They say to hold onto the self-belief of “I can do it” and tells you to practice autosuggestion with that (self-affirmation). This is not 100% wrong. The issue is that there needs to be a basis. The basis for that is the power of the Holy Spirit in Christ.
② God will make us “witnesses to the ends of the earth” when we are in the power of the Holy Spirit (Acts 1:8). Deny yourself every moment and look onto Christ. The filling of the Holy Spirit is not anything else. The experience of Galatians 2:20 is the filling of the Holy Spirit. We experience this when we worship, pray alone, and meditate on the Word. The experience of this power whenever we do trivial or important things or when problems and crises come needs to become our nature. Our everything becomes a masterpiece that saves the world, changes the world, and saves the 237 nations.
3) Experience the blessing of the throne through 24 hours before missions and evangelism.
① Who is on the throne? The Triune God. What can the Triune God do? The power that transcends time and space, unprecedented works, and the power of light that destroys all forces of darkness. That is when the work to save the three ages arises (3,9,3 prayer). Hold onto this blessing 24 hours by practicing the two lifelines, 24-hour prayer and 24-hour breathing (everything connects to the throne).
② You will enjoy the blessing of saving one’s crumbling health, finances, and field. Even if you are sick and weak like Paul, you can transcend that (2 Corinthians 12:9). God even granted health and finances that saved an age to an eighty-year-old man.
③ At this time, even our minor devotions connect to the throne (Matthew 25:14). It becomes an eternal blessing.
Conclusion – We held onto where the true evangelism, missions, and devotion God desires come from. May God’s heart be placed at the core of your heart and the power of the Holy Spirit placed in your soul, and may you experience the 25-hour answer in which the blessing of the throne takes place upon your life.