Moses didn’t want to do it. He bargained with God to find another solution so he wouldn’t have to be the one to step up against Pharaoh. But God’s people were in captivity and He required a leap of faith from Moses to lead them out. And Moses stepped up to the plate and out of his comfort zone.
Today we stand in captivity just like the Israelites did against Pharaoh. Except this time the enemy isn’t simply one man but a series of ideologies that converge on the same goal…to eliminate Christianity. The past 60 plus years have put our country under wave after wave of diseased thinking, our morality washed away by a flood of progressivism that is determined to separate us from our God and His truth. So many of our churches have become toothless, content to dish out biblical talking points without the might of the Spirit. Jesus called the church of his day a bunch of white-washed tombs filled with dead mens bones and vile corruption. Today there doesn’t seem to be much difference.
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Religious shackles may be padded and comfortable, but they are chains nonetheless. We are all captive to leaders that are doing everything in their power to erode our sense of right and wrong and make us comfortable with depravity in the name of “progress“, and captive to a church body that has withdrawn from a position of strength to a position of weakness, content to retreat into a Christian bubble and sing songs while everything burns. Unfortunately there is very little time to break those chains. Gone is the hour for sermons that roll off of the tongue like appointments from a day-planner. Gone is the hour for a church with no room for the Holy Spirit but more than enough time to take offerings. Gone is the hour for legalistic churches that hold their people captive with rules and expectations that abuse and dishearten. And gone is the hour for churches that are cut off from the reality of the real darkness that is coming.
We are facing a Moses moment that requires a leap of faith and a step outside of our comfort zones. For many, it means a hard look inward at their own faith. God is getting ready to lead His people out again, but this time Jesus is the one leading the way. The question is, are you captive to a church that is dulling your senses and making you comfortable inside of the Christian bubble?
