Saturday, October 10, 2015

We Fear No King's Commandment, Because of the King of Kings

"By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king's commandment." (Hebrews 11: 23)

In the above passage, we learn that the parents of Moses did not fear what the King of Egypt would do to them if they hid their blessed son Moses from certain death.

Why?

The next few passages tell us where their source of strength lay:

"By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible." (Hebrews 11: 27)

We do not fear the wrath of any king on earth, because the King of Kings so loves us, and we know that He is with us, never to leave us or forsake us (Hebrews 13: 5):

"Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 6Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: 7But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:8And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross." (Philippians 2: 5-8)

and also

"[God] wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places21Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: 22And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church" (Ephesians 1: 20-22)

and then:

"But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, 5Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) 6And hath raised usup together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:" (Ephesians 2: 4-6)

We do not have to fear any wrath or commandment, because we have our Daddy God, who has made us kings and priests through His Son (1 Peter 2: 9). He has established us in His righteousness (Isaiah 54:14), and with that promise we receive all protections:

"No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD." (Isaiah 54: 17)

and

"For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

11And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.

12For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more." (Hebrews 8: 10-12)

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