He Brought Us Out – To Bring Us In

Deuteronomy 5-6; Psalms 43; Mark 14

“’In the future, when your son asks you, ‘What is the meaning of the stipulations, decrees and laws the Lord our God has commanded you?’ tell him: ‘We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.’…he brought us out from there to bring us in and give us the land he promised on oath to our ancestors. The Lord commanded us to obey all these decrees and to fear the Lord our God, so that we might always prosper and be kept alive, as is the case today.’”

Deuteronomy 6:20, 21, 23, 24

The law God gave to Moses and his people represented his standard of righteousness. The law influenced a culture of worship, confession, and holiness. God brought his people out of Egypt as slaves and remade them into a people who looked more like his kingdom values. However, this law was powerless to transform human hearts, and only exposed man’s desperate need for grace, atonement, and the empowering presence of the Lord within his people. With the coming of Christ, we are invited out of the sin-bondage of Egypt, into the culture of the kingdom of heaven. Christ’s Sermon on the Mount is the new law in his covenant and is evidence of the Spirit’s power at work within us. God still brings us out to bring us in.

Have we fully entered the culture of heaven now?

“Lord Jesus, thank you for giving me a better way to live in the power of your Spirit through the gospel.”