Ron
There's something happening today; and we've heard it forever - but it's actually happening; is Egypt, Babylon, however you want to say this is being rolled off of us,this Passover, it's being rolled off of us. And we're going to find such a freedom in our spirits - not just in our spirits - in our way of thinking, the way we live our life, the way we relate to people, it's a depth of revelation of who you are, And who he is, in you.
Roger
When they came out of Egypt, they came out from under task masters. And I think more than we realize and have realized, subconsciously or otherwise, that is the way we have related to the Lord still, as a taskmaster, that's where your condemnation comes from, that's where our guilt comes from. But it's indicative of the entire realm opening up before us in God that we have not walked this way before. Abraham was called the friend of God. Think about that one. He was the friend of God. He was not His taskmaster. And I think that God is freeing us from that task master concept of like you said, of having to do something, be something, produce something, and just have a communion with the Lord. He is releasing us from this taskmaster spirit. And I think it's, it's been there more than we realize. We've been sincere in our hearts, in our walks with God. But there is that thing, and it's almost like it's a spirit, because it's not from God, how we've related to Him. And I think the Lord wants to be our friend. Jesus told those disciples, I don't talk to you as, as slaves, because a slave doesn't knows what his master's doing. He says, But I have called you friends. And I think He's bringing us into a deeper revelation of Himself as our friend, that we don't have to do all this stuff. We just have to be there. And He's in us. I think we're learning how to really abide in God. Because I think that's the hardest thing the Adamic religious nature can deal with, is learning to abide without the old things coming up of condemnation, of guilt, these things that aren't even rational, but those feelings are there. And God is releasing us from that. Even in this Passover, where we move into that friendship realm. Yes, He is the Lord. But He's our friend. He's just ready to walk with us and we walk with Him.
Mike
I'm sensing in a real way here, this thing of, we're getting a taste of this thing of rest. There's no more the struggling and striving and doing and whatever. It's a relaxing and a resting in His presence, we're created to be as worshipers. And I think of David. He had the privilege of being in the presence of the Lord on that tent in mount Zion for 40 years. To be under the presence of the Lord near the wings of the cherubim where that thing was the Ark of the Covenant. And the people had the freedom to come in and experience that as well. There was no limitations, no classes that had to be served first or , you're the eldest. You get to go before anybody else or you're this or you're that everybody came in, wanted to be in the presence of the Lord. And if that's our drive, that's that's what the Lord wants is He wants us to be in His presence. And everything else happens because of that.
Dale
What are you today? Are you broken and contrite before the Lord? Is your heart open to receive Him In a way you never have been before? Are you willing to open up and be made a new and created from above into a new creature? What a deliverance at Passover! What did the Israelite's - they were delivered from 430 years of slaves, they didn't know anything any different.
Ron
I think a lot of this deliverance we're going to be experiencing is we're going to realize how much bondage we've been in, and didn't know it. You know, we thought we were free. And I think it's an ongoing thing. But I think there's a lot of bondage's and restraints and all this stuff. Whether, however you want to say whether somebody put it on us, or we just put it on ourselves, is this going to be peeling off, in this Passover,
Dale
You hit the most important key. If you withdraw back or draw back from the deliverance of Passover, you'll never know what was there for you. Because the deliverance. It's about delivering you into what God has for you next.
Mike
It's like that first generation that came out of Egypt - they got out of Egypt, but they couldn't get the conditions of Egypt out of them. And that's what prevented them from going into the promised land. So God had to let them die off and raise up a whole new generation that was free from all of that 400 years of being slaves, and all the conditioning's that went with it. This Passover, we're all going to be positioning ourselves in faith and resting - and let's see what He does. And then when He does it, then we get excited and we can worship Him and we can praise Him. We can thank him. We can enter into this same with a whole heart for the next step which is Pentecost. And then really get ready for the big step, come Tabernacles
Dale
Every step is important. Every step because we're now walking out the word that's for us for this day.
