FI Y4 WK 15 BO (Go) GOD’S SIGNS

THE THEME OF THIS DEVOTION IS:

GOD WORKS SIGNS AND WONDERS IN ORDER TO MAKE HIMSELF KNOWN AND TO TEACH HUMANITY BY SUPERNATURAL MEANS THAT CANNOT BE MISTAKEN FOR MERELY NATURAL KNOWLEDGE.

VA’YOMER YHVH EL-MOSHE

BO EL-PAROH CI-ANI HICH’BAD’TI ET-LIBO VE’ET-LEYV AVA’DAIV

LE’MA’AN SHITI O’TO’TAI EY’LEH B’KIR’BO

“And the LORD said to Moses,

Go to Pharoah, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants so that I may put these signs of mine in their midst.” (Exodus 10:1)

“If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin. But now, they have no cloak for their sin. He that hates me hates my Father also. If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: buy now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father. But this comes to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, “They hated me without a cause.” (Psalm 35:19) But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he shall testify of me: And you also shall bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning. ” (Our LORD Yeshua, John 15:22-27)

The juxtaposition of these remarkable statements that concern Gods own testimony among humanity by means of supernatural signs, this juxtaposition creates an incisive point of discernment that is inescapable: The natural mind, Gentile or Jewish, does not love nor appreciate the witness of God in the world. As Paul the Apostle said in 1 Corinthians 2:14, “But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.” As long as humans limit God to their own standards of behavior and thought (natural processes according to “natural law” and things derived from rigid intellectualism) they can never discover the deep reality of the transcendent Creator who brought forth the universe and life within it by means of miracles: for the bringing of a natural world into existence from nothing cannot be the product of a natural process that did not even exist when the creation moment was enacted.

This is stunning: even the Jewish Sadducean sect that engineered the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth, the Messiah—that sect which was addicted to governmental power, that was secular in its primary means of attaining power and of maintaining its standing with the Roman hierarchy which gave it power—was guilty of the same blindness as that of Pharoah almost fifteen centuries before! That sect’s members and constituents neither absorbed into their spiritual selves the words of the Messiah nor processed accurately the implications of the unequalled signs which he performed. They intensely rejected the disclosure to them of the Fatherhood of God—the Fatherhood of God in God’s Only-Begotten Son (Genesis 3:15; Isaiah 7:14; Psalm 2:7; Proverbs 30:4; John 3:16) and the Fatherhood of God toward the spiritual and natural descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (God is far more than the King of the Universe; he is the Father of his People—as is made clear in many verses in the Tanakh, for example, Exodus 4:22, “Israel is my son, even my firstborn”).

What an amazing turn of events in history: the one turn leading to the Exodus (because God will not be boxed in to man’s boundaries of permitted Divine behavior) and the other turn leading to the Resurrection (because God will not be constrained by the trickery of his moral creation—the angelic host led by that apostate Lucifer-Satan, the Deceiver in Gan Eden who ensnared The One made in God’s own image and likeness—the trickery that led to Death—separation from God because of Sin).

Ponder this for your own sake. Let the truth of the Signs of God sink deep into your inner man. Open your eyes, and believe on Him whom God has sent to you—Yeshua—Jesus—so that you may receive the Comforter and walk with God in the supernatural realm of the Spirit while the natural world stumbles on in its lack of understanding. (John 13-17; Acts 2 and 17; Romans 7-8)

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