A Sword in the Camp
Exodus
32:26-27
Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the LORD's side? Let him come unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him. 27And he said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor. In the last month the Lord has been visiting me in the night seasons and speaking to me His Word. Scripture after scripture; night after night the Word of God has been revealed to me. Though painful at times I’ve embraced the truth and gird it around my waist. It’s with this truth that I can now wield the sword of God and go through the camp of God to slay the enemies of God. The enemies of God are sin, rebellion, deception and hardness of heart. In the above scripture the people of God had gotten impatient about waiting on God and decided to party while Moses was receiving the commandments from God. When Moses saw them in their idolatry, debauchery, and nakedness; he commanded that the sword would go throughout the camp. They had used the blessings of God and the gold they had gotten from Egypt to party. Once again the people of God are using the blessing of God to party and live in the world. Many sit in the pew week after week while secretly living a double life. Matthew 7:21-23 21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22 Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’ This words “I never knew you” depicts the Old Testament word for knowing someone intimately like a man knowing his wife. It’s like waking up one day to discover that your spouse has been having multiple affairs and had somehow managed to live a double life. In your shock and disbelief; you would say to yourself, “I didn’t really know you.” In the day that we stand before God; He will not care about how charismatic you were, how many people you healed, how many received prophetic words and how many devils you had authority over. He will look at us to see if we were faithful in our relationship with Him or if we were like an unfaithful spouse living a double life. In that day all our pleading and begging for mercy will not help us for the doors of heaven will be shut to us as we sit in outer darkness. Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel , saith the LORD. Jeremiah 3:20
The point of
taking a sword to God’s camp is for one reason only: That we would once again
fear God and bring forth fruits of repentance. If you are living a double life
please repent and confess your sins to someone you can become accountable to.
In this season of acceleration the things we will reap will cause much damage
in your lives and hurt others around us. It’s not enough to feel bad or
remorseful. We must tear down the altars that have been erected in our hearts
to other things. No longer hide your sin. Numbers 32:23 But if ye will not do
so, behold, ye have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you
out. If you have been captive for a long time you will need deliverance.
Go to God and to someone who has overcome the area you need deliverance in.
Don’t delay for we don’t want to be pleading Lord, Lord, and hear the words "I
never knew you."
1Kings 8:46-50 “When they sin against You (for there is no one who does
not sin), and You become angry with them and deliver them to the enemy, and
they take them captive to the land of the enemy, far or near; 47 yet
when they come to themselves in the land where they were carried captive, and
repent, and make supplication to You in the land of those who took them
captive, saying, ‘We have sinned and done wrong, we have committed wickedness’;
48 and when they return to You with all their heart and with all their
soul in the land of their enemies who led them away captive, and pray to You
toward their land which You gave to their fathers, the city which You have
chosen and the temple which I have built for Your name: 49 then hear in heaven
Your dwelling place their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their
cause, 50 and forgive Your people who have sinned against You, and all their
transgressions which they have transgressed against You; and grant them compassion
before those who took them captive, that they may have compassion on them. 3.29.11
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