Grace Fellowship Baptist Church

Passages showing that God always goes before His people. Exodus 13:21, 23:23, 32:34, Deuteronomy 1:30, 9:3, 31:3, 8, and from the New Testament: John 10:2

God did not pass by or skip over the houses with the blood, He actually leaped over the doors of those houses that had blood on them to protect all the first within from the destroyer, so that those who were within those bloodstained houses were protected under the shadow of God's wings.

By faith, Moses, when he had come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season. For he esteemed the reproach of Christ greater riches than the riches of Egypt, for he had respect unto the recompense of the reward. By faith, he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king, for he endured, as seeing Him who is invisible."

In Joseph "mentioning" the departing of the children of Israel from Egypt, it wasn't as if he said, oh let me mention this to you. No, beloved, what he was telling them was, you are not to root down in Egypt, this is not your home. Live here as a departing people. This is how we are to live our Christian lives in this present world, as a people who will be departing from it!

What a lovely picture of God's kindness to us for Jesus' sake!

At the beginning of Mark 13, Jesus' disciples asked Him two questions. In this passage, Jesus answers their questions.

In this passage, Jacob bestows the birthright blessing of his house upon Joseph in his two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh.

In this study of the marks of a true church, we must know that there are no perfect churches on the earth, just as there are no perfect Christians. But that does not mean that we shouldn't strive in every way, with the Holy Scriptures and the Spirit of God to gather as a true church here on the earth. First, a true church is made up of a regenerate membership, meaning it is made of of saved persons or saints. The second mark is, love. (Ref. 1 Corinthians 13:1-7, 13). We should be a loving people and we should show the love of Christ to any who would visit our gathering. The third mark is faithfulness to the gospel of Jesus Christ.

When we read of Isaac's faith, when he was dying, when he blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come, it's initially difficult to see Isaac's faith in how this whole situation unfolded. Because Isaac thought he was blessing Esau, when he was actually conferring the birthright blessing upon Jacob.

After Jesus departed the temple, the apostles spoke of the amazing stones of the temple. They were in awe of the temple and buildings. But Jesus told them, in the days to come, it would be leveled to the ground and destroyed.

Deborah exalts the LORD and His power in the victory of Barack over Sisera. But she also wrote about how this happened in Israel, their sin and idolatry caused all this oppression to come upon them, just like it will do in our lives when we sin.