Exodus 4:29-30
Then Moses and Aaron went and assembled all the elders of the sons of Israel; and Aaron spoke all the words which YHWH had spoken to Moses. He then performed the signs in the sight of the people.
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From God to Moses to Aaron and on to the elders of Israel so that they would pass His word to all those Hebrews, and then even further on to us across the miles and the centuries! God’s Word is truth and a light to our path as it says in the Psalms. There is indeed a plan afoot! God had spoken to the prophet Jeremiah saying, 'I know the plans that I have for you, plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope. {Jer.29:11} And our Lord and Savior continues to speak those plans into our lives today!
Jesus Himself stated clearly that the words He speaks to us are spirit and life. {Jn.6:63} So, the Lord spoke to Moses, Moses spoke to Aaron and then Aaron faithfully spoke all of those words to the people! Jeremiah likewise, in spite of all of the tribulations he had to endure, boldly spoke all of the things he had heard from God as did all of those who have gone on before us!
Much later, the apostle Paul was not just given, but entrusted with the gospel, and said he was under compulsion to preach it! He would travel near and far to bring God's word to untold numbers of people, saints and sinners alike! He would make it clear that he was fulfilling that trust going so far as to say, 'Woe is me if I do not preach the gospel {1Cor.9:16} He would also tell Timothy, his son in the faith, that he was then responsible to entrust that word to others! {2Tim.2:2} God's Word and the faith He has given us are supposed to be viral. After all, what do you have that you have not received? {1Cor.4:7}
God's Word is the weapon we have been given {Eph.6:17} to deal with the devil, the adversary who walks about as a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. {1Pt.5:8} He is roaring to try to drown out the sound of God's Word that he so fears! So being the Lord’s disciples (including you and I right where we are) are to be proclaiming the Lord's love, His mercy and His grace and His commandments as His coming draws ever closer. The world, in the hand of the evil one, {1Jn.5:19} will do all it can to silence us, but that old serpent has been defeated as the cross of Jesus proclaimed for all time. That is something that we proclaim each time we share the bread and the wine in His memory!
Every true disciple of the Lord has been called to proclaim the excellencies of Jesus who has called us out of darkness and into His marvelous light as the apostle Peter said. {1Pt.2:9} We do that by loving God and letting our light shine before men in such a way that they may see our good works, and glorify our Father who is in heaven. {Mat.5:16} And, as He said, loving even our enemies!
“Therefore do not fear them, for there is nothing covered that will not be revealed, and hidden that will not be known. What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear whispered in your ear, proclaim upon the housetops. ... Everyone therefore who shall confess Me before men, I will also confess him before My Father who is in heaven.” (Matthew 10:26,27,32)
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