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A Closer Walk

Attitude of the Righteous

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Our ministry is to reach out to the world with the Good News of Jesus Christ and to help believers be equipped with a solid knowledge of the Word of God, the Bible, and be encouraged to apply it in every aspect of their daily lives. There are simple truths for these complex times to help people live in a way that brings real spiritual victory to them and more importantly, through the Lord Jesus Christ, glory to God our Father.

Joshua 5:15
The captain of the Lord’s host said to Joshua, 'Remove your sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy.' And Joshua did so.
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Jesus IS the captain of the Father's host, and so it was proper for Joshua to bow down, to worship, and to obey just as in the day when Moses encountered Him in a burning bush. It was true in both of those cases that the very presence of God was what made the ground holy!

The Lord God now dwells in, (drum roll please} in us, the redeemed of the Lord, the children of God! Wherever we are the ground has been made holy by His presence. You and I bring the knowledge of Christ, His presence, into every place; “that is, the mystery which has been hidden from the past ages and generations, but has now been manifested to His saints, to whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.” {Col.1:26-27}

What we now need to both believe and to live, is the fact that we are always on holy ground! And yes, that means at work, at a grocery store, on a sofa in front of your TV—or even on a pew in a church building—And as Jesus said, ‘behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.’ {Matt.28:20} And just as Moses and Joshua did so long ago, we need to hear the will and the instruction of the Lord. Remember Joshua's response when he encountered the Captain of the Hosts; he fell on his face to the earth, and bowed down, and said to him, "What has my Lord to say to his servant?" {Jos.5:14}

Perhaps we should say like the prophet Samuel did as a young boy, “Speak Lord, for your servant is listening.” {1Sam.3:10} And it would do us well to know and remember that the Hebrew word shâma’ means to ‘hear’ and to ‘obey’ (Brown-Driver-Briggs' Hebrew Definitions). So stand in the presence of God on that holy ground, and listen and do it.

We, all true believers, saints of God, are indeed ambassadors for Christ and we have been entrusted with the word of, the ministry of, reconciliation. {2Cor.5:19-20} As this present world becomes darker by the day we need all the more to remember that Jesus Himself said in the Sermon on the Mount that we are the salt of the earth and the light of the world {Mat.5:13-14} indeed the hope of glory.

“Now it shall be, if you diligently obey the Lord your God, being careful to do all His commandments which I command you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations (people) of the earth. All these blessings will come upon you and overtake you if you obey the Lord your God:” (Deuteronomy 28:1-2)

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