Who You Were to Who You Are
The Old Testament exodus narrative helps us to understand our own past and, more importantly, our purpose as believers today.
Old Testament Type
The Old Testament contains many types of our own reality. Consider these scriptures:
Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine; and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. (Ex 19:5-6).
But the LORD has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be a people of his own inheritance, as you are (having been obedient?) this day (Deut 4:20).
The ‘if’ shows that being God’s people in the Old Testament was conditional.
New Testament Reality
Consider how these New Testament scriptures use the imagery and terms of the Old Testament to help us understand our own reality in Christ:
you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ ( 1 Pet 2:5).
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light (1 Pet 2:9).
Faith in Christ, that produces obedience, is the only condition to being God’s people. Have you come out of spiritual darkness and become one of God’s own? Have you discovered your profound purpose? Do you need a Reorientation Miracle to help you see the light?
Rob Morley
Real Church Life 