Moses when he came off the mountaintop to the
valley, he forgot these are people. There you have it Moses, the people
sin, plain and simple don’t they? It’s our choice and at other times
what comes natural to us. Maybe it seems that some people are selfish
or seem to sin more than others.
So God warned him, “the people have sinned.” (Exodus 32:30-31; Then the Lord said to Moses, "Go down, because your people, whom you brought up out of Egypt, have become corrupt. Exodus 32:7)
I think its funny that God said "your people" to Moses as if God does not want to claim ownership of them anymore. Reminds me of if our children or grandchildren act up in public or school who wants to take ownership of them when they have been bad and disappointed us?
God dealt with the sin problem through Jesus Christ. They had to look at the serpent on the pole to be healed. As we look at Jesus who became sin for us on the cross.
So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, they lived. Number 21:9
Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, John 3:14
There is the difference between a believer and an unbeliever in struggling against sin and evil, as far as we have the grace and ability of the Holy Spirit in our lives, but we are still people.
In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. Hebrews 12:4
What I have found that at times when I am at my weakest moments that I've seen the power of God in my life, because like Paul, it's not Mary's ability to do the right thing, but I'm counting on the ability of Christ inside of me. "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me."
This week I was going through some depression, but I got to encourage a woman who lost her husband and also pray for someone who had surgery on her foot. It has nothing to do us, but it's God strength and ability that works through us. Same with Samson, in himself he had no supernatural strength.
Jesus did not forget we are people since he was a person too unlike God who is a spirit. He asked his disciples to pray and stay awake in the garden he said, “The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak." Matthew 26:41
God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. 2 Cor. 5:21
Our recreated spirit is perfect by our union with Christ, and we will be transformed from this body of sin and weakness ---and receive a heavenly body. We will put off corruption and receive immortality.
For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: "Death has been swallowed up in victory." 1 Cor. 15:53-54
But whoever is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit. 1 Cor. 6:17
In whom also you are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: Col. 2:11
So God warned him, “the people have sinned.” (Exodus 32:30-31; Then the Lord said to Moses, "Go down, because your people, whom you brought up out of Egypt, have become corrupt. Exodus 32:7)
I think its funny that God said "your people" to Moses as if God does not want to claim ownership of them anymore. Reminds me of if our children or grandchildren act up in public or school who wants to take ownership of them when they have been bad and disappointed us?
God dealt with the sin problem through Jesus Christ. They had to look at the serpent on the pole to be healed. As we look at Jesus who became sin for us on the cross.
So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, they lived. Number 21:9
Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, John 3:14
There is the difference between a believer and an unbeliever in struggling against sin and evil, as far as we have the grace and ability of the Holy Spirit in our lives, but we are still people.
In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. Hebrews 12:4
What I have found that at times when I am at my weakest moments that I've seen the power of God in my life, because like Paul, it's not Mary's ability to do the right thing, but I'm counting on the ability of Christ inside of me. "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me."
This week I was going through some depression, but I got to encourage a woman who lost her husband and also pray for someone who had surgery on her foot. It has nothing to do us, but it's God strength and ability that works through us. Same with Samson, in himself he had no supernatural strength.
Jesus did not forget we are people since he was a person too unlike God who is a spirit. He asked his disciples to pray and stay awake in the garden he said, “The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak." Matthew 26:41
God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. 2 Cor. 5:21
Our recreated spirit is perfect by our union with Christ, and we will be transformed from this body of sin and weakness ---and receive a heavenly body. We will put off corruption and receive immortality.
For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: "Death has been swallowed up in victory." 1 Cor. 15:53-54
But whoever is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit. 1 Cor. 6:17
In whom also you are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: Col. 2:11
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