
For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations. – Numbers 23:9
Knowing JESUS Daily Devotional | April 21, 2020 – YOU ARE FAVORED TO LIVE ETERNALLY WITH CHRIST | For from the top of the rocks I see him – Numbers 23:9
Beloved, it is a faithful saying worthy of celebration and rejoicing. That believers like you are favoured and are peculiar people.
See this affirmed severally both in the old and new testaments.
Exo 19:5 — Exo 19:6 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine: And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.
1 Peter 2:9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
Titus 2:14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
Knowing JESUS Daily Devotional | April 21, 2020 – YOU ARE FAVORED TO LIVE ETERNALLY WITH CHRIST | For from the top of the rocks I see him – Numbers 23:9
Because of this peculiarity, God called them, especially you to a lifetime of separated lifestyle.
Lev 20:23 — Lev 20:24 And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them. But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and honey: I am the Lord your God, which have separated you from other people.
Leviticus 20:26 And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the Lord am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.
Over and over, the Lord reminded the children of Israel, never ever to be mixed with the heathen, but stand alone as a nation.
Numbers 23:9 For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.
Deuteronomy 33:28 Israel then shall dwell in safety alone: the fountain of Jacob shall be upon a land of corn and wine; also his heavens shall drop down dew.
Knowing JESUS Daily Devotional | April 21, 2020 – YOU ARE FAVORED TO LIVE ETERNALLY WITH CHRIST | For from the top of the rocks I see him – Numbers 23:9
Beloved, like the children of Israel, because you are a favoured believer , all through the pages of the scriptures, He reiterated His passionate call for you to live a separated lifestyle. See some of them.
Deu 18:9 When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.
Isaiah 52:11 Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the Lord.
Jeremiah 10:2 Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
1Co 5:9 — 1Co 5:11 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
2Co 6:14 — 2Co 6:18 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
Eph 5:10 — Eph 5:12 Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.
1 Timothy 6:5 Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.
2Ti 3:1 — 2Ti 3:5 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
Titus 1:16 They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
Knowing JESUS Daily Devotional | April 21, 2020 – YOU ARE FAVORED TO LIVE ETERNALLY WITH CHRIST | For from the top of the rocks I see him – Numbers 23:9
This passionate call from the Lord becomes necessary because you are not of the world, even as He was not of the world.
Jn 17:14 — Jn 17:16 I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Knowing JESUS Daily Devotional | April 21, 2020 – YOU ARE FAVORED TO LIVE ETERNALLY WITH CHRIST | For from the top of the rocks I see him – Numbers 23:9
In addition to this call to separated lifestyle, He admonished you, not to be conformed to the world, also not to love the world and neither have cordial relationship with the worldings.
Rom 12:1 — Rom 12:2 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
James 4:4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
1Jo 2:15 — 1Jo 2:17 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
Knowing JESUS Daily Devotional | April 21, 2020 – YOU ARE FAVORED TO LIVE ETERNALLY WITH CHRIST | For from the top of the rocks I see him – Numbers 23:9
Beloved, this call to separation and admonition not to love the world are not optional but mandatory.
This is because of the consequences of associating with the world.
1. Make you turn from following the Lord and face griveous judgement.
Deu 7:1 — Deu 7:4 When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou; And when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them: Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son. For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the Lord be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.
2. Make you sin against God and be damned. You shall not be damned in Jesus name.
Nehemiah 13:26 Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin.
3. Makes you forsake the Lord and the narrow road and loose eternity with God. This shall not be your portion in Jesus name.
2 Timothy 4:10 For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.
Knowing JESUS Daily Devotional | April 21, 2020 – YOU ARE FAVORED TO LIVE ETERNALLY WITH CHRIST | For from the top of the rocks I see him – Numbers 23:9
So heed His passionate call and be blessed now and at eternity in Jesus name.
Jeremiah 7:23 But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
Rev 2:25 — Rev 2:29 But that which ye have already hold fast till I come. And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father. And I will give him the morning star. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
Knowing JESUS Daily Devotional | April 21, 2020 – YOU ARE FAVORED TO LIVE ETERNALLY WITH CHRIST | For from the top of the rocks I see him – Numbers 23:9
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