Sue J Love
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“When your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What do the testimonies and the statutes and the judgments mean which the Lord our God commanded you?’ then you shall say to your son, ‘We were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt, and the Lord brought us from Egypt with a mighty hand. Moreover, the Lord showed great and distressing signs and wonders before our eyes against Egypt, Pharaoh and all his household; He brought us out from there in order to bring us in, to give us the land which He had sworn to our fathers.’ So the Lord commanded us to observe all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God for our good always and for our survival, as it is today. It will be righteousness for us if we are careful to observe all this commandment before the Lord our God, just as He commanded us.” (Deuteronomy 6:20-25 NASB1995)
Yes, this is Old Testament and Old Covenant teaching, but do you realize that this parallels the message of the gospel of our salvation? The whole scenario of the Israelites as slaves in Egypt symbolizes our slavery to sin in which we are born into this world. And Moses being used of God to rescue God’s people from their slavery to sin is like God using us today to share the true message of salvation from sin with the people of the world so that they, too, will be delivered from their bondage to sin to now serve the Lord with their lives in surrender to his will, and in obedience to his commands.
And Moses giving the people instructions on what to do to keep from being judged by God parallels the message of the gospel, too. For, after Pharaoh was not moved to let the children of Israel be set free from their slavery in Egypt, God said he would send one more plague on Pharaoh and on Egypt, and after that Pharaoh would let the people go. For God was going to put to death all the firstborn in the land of Egypt. So the children of Israel were to take an unblemished lamb, kill it, put its blood on their doorposts, then roast it and eat it, and then God would pass over them, and they would not die.
And in the New Testament, our sacrificial and pure Lamb of God is Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God who is God, the second person of our triune God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. He gave his life up for us and he shed his blood for us on that cross to put our sins to death with him so that, by faith in him, we will now die with him to sin and walk in obedience to his commands, in his power. And to eat of him is to partake of him in his death and resurrection and in his suffering in dying to sin so we can now serve him with our lives. And when we do that, we are saved from God’s judgment.
And we are given the same instructions as they were given. In order for us to be able to enter into our “Promised Land” (eternity with God) we must also obey our Lord’s commands (New Covenant), in practice. And their time in the wilderness represents our time on this earth while we await our Lord’s return. But the majority of them craved evil and sinned against God and thus were killed in the wilderness due to their unbelief (disobedience). And we are told that those things happened to them as examples for us so that we would not crave evil and thus die in our sins as their majority did.
For Jesus Christ taught that to come to him we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity. But if we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and we walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in his power, then we have eternal life with God. For not everyone who calls him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23). So, we need to take this to heart to obey our Lord, to have eternal life with God.
[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]
As the Deer
By Martin J. Nystrom
Based off Psalm 42:1
As the deer panteth for the water
So my soul longeth after You
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship You
You alone are my strength, my shield
To You alone may my spirit yield
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship You
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Freedom From Enslavement to Sin
An Original Work / February 1, 2026
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
Yes, this is Old Testament and Old Covenant teaching, but do you realize that this parallels the message of the gospel of our salvation? The whole scenario of the Israelites as slaves in Egypt symbolizes our slavery to sin in which we are born into this world. And Moses being used of God to rescue God’s people from their slavery to sin is like God using us today to share the true message of salvation from sin with the people of the world so that they, too, will be delivered from their bondage to sin to now serve the Lord with their lives in surrender to his will, and in obedience to his commands.
And Moses giving the people instructions on what to do to keep from being judged by God parallels the message of the gospel, too. For, after Pharaoh was not moved to let the children of Israel be set free from their slavery in Egypt, God said he would send one more plague on Pharaoh and on Egypt, and after that Pharaoh would let the people go. For God was going to put to death all the firstborn in the land of Egypt. So the children of Israel were to take an unblemished lamb, kill it, put its blood on their doorposts, then roast it and eat it, and then God would pass over them, and they would not die.
And in the New Testament, our sacrificial and pure Lamb of God is Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God who is God, the second person of our triune God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. He gave his life up for us and he shed his blood for us on that cross to put our sins to death with him so that, by faith in him, we will now die with him to sin and walk in obedience to his commands, in his power. And to eat of him is to partake of him in his death and resurrection and in his suffering in dying to sin so we can now serve him with our lives. And when we do that, we are saved from God’s judgment.
And we are given the same instructions as they were given. In order for us to be able to enter into our “Promised Land” (eternity with God) we must also obey our Lord’s commands (New Covenant), in practice. And their time in the wilderness represents our time on this earth while we await our Lord’s return. But the majority of them craved evil and sinned against God and thus were killed in the wilderness due to their unbelief (disobedience). And we are told that those things happened to them as examples for us so that we would not crave evil and thus die in our sins as their majority did.
For Jesus Christ taught that to come to him we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity. But if we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and we walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in his power, then we have eternal life with God. For not everyone who calls him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23). So, we need to take this to heart to obey our Lord, to have eternal life with God.
[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]
As the Deer
By Martin J. Nystrom
Based off Psalm 42:1
As the deer panteth for the water
So my soul longeth after You
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship You
You alone are my strength, my shield
To You alone may my spirit yield
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship You
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Freedom From Enslavement to Sin
An Original Work / February 1, 2026
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
