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It’s Time To Go Forward

Exo 14:15 And the LORD said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward:

Israel Had Spent The Last Twenty-Five Chapters In Egypt

• There Was No Future For Them There!
• They had lived in bondage long enough.
• It was time to go forward.

Going Forward Is A God Thing!

• It was for Israel.
• It is for you!

Israel Had Lived With A Slave Mentality For About 400 Years.

• They had forgotten what liberty was like.

For Them It Was Hard:

• To go forward.
• To believe God.
• To trust God.
• To follow a cloud floating across the sky.

• To believe God would set them free.
• To believe God would bless them.
• To leave the only security they knew.
• To leave the leeks and onions.

Don’t Crave The Things That Hold You Back!

Many Israelites May Have Wanted The Promises Of God,

• But they still died in the wilderness.

• They had Fears.
• They had Excuses.
• They had Unbelief.
• They were Unwilling to go forward.

At AI – Israel Was Stopped Dead In Her Tracks

• Sin was in the camp.
• After they got the problem out of the way
• They went forward.
• If sin has stopped you, get it out of the way.

God Wants To Take This Church Forward

• Like He did for Israel, He wants to give you a harvest you never had to plant.
• Wells you never had to dig.
• Houses you never had to build.
• But you can’t have them, if you just sit and don’t go forward.
• It’s time to go forward.

Some Folks Today Are Going Backwards Instead Of Forward!

• They are letting down on standards and doctrine.
• Compromising with the world.
• Justifying Hollywood.
• Mocking Holiness.
• Dress like the world.
• Doing what the world does.
• They have become again what the world is.
• It’s time to go forward.

What’s Sad Is They Think They Are Making Progress.

But They Are Like A:

• A dog going back to its vomit.
• A pig going back to its wallow.

Every Day Life Can Nearly Shut You Down.

• Circumstances can bring you to a halt.
• Events can bring you to your knees.
• Things steal your joy.
• Don’t let it.
• It’s time to go forward.

People And Things Can Hurt You.

• Divorce.
• An unfaithful spouse .
• Loss of a job.
• Cancer.
• Addictions.
• Personal failures.
• Offenses.
• Unforgiveness.
• Your Past.

Some React To Their Negative Situations By

• Withdrawing.
• Resigning their job at church.
• Sitting back.
• Coasting.
• Quit worshipping.
• Become unfaithful to church.
• It’s time to go forward.

It’s Time To Get Past Your:

• Failures.
• Hurts.
• Pride.
• Complacency.

Don’t Let You Friends Hold You Back.

• Don’t let your fear.
• Don’t let your shame.
• Don’t let your unbelief.
• Don’t let your family.
• Don’t let your flesh.
• Don’t let your job.
• Don’t let your excuses.
• Don’t let your weariness.
• Don’t let anything in this world.
• It’s time to go forward.

With Hell Rejoicing All Around Us In 2015…

• With compromising on all sides.
• With Holiness dying out in some churches.
• With signs of the end-times all around us.
• With Bible prophesy being fulfilled daily.
• With friends falling away.
• With hell reaching for our children.
• With the future uncertain.
• It’s time to go forward.

Make This Year The Best Ever!

• Make this a year of revival.
• Make this a year of consecration.
• Make this a year of Holy Ghost renewal.
• It’s time to go forward.

God Had To Prompt Israel To Go Forward A Second Time

Deut 1:6 The LORD our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount:

God Had To Prompt Israel To Go Forward A Third Time

Deut 2:1 Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea, as the LORD spake unto me: and we compassed mount Seir many days.

Deut 2:2 And the LORD spake unto me, saying,

Deut 2:3 Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward.

They Had Gone In Circles For Forty Years.

• Life had become routine and monotonous.
• Though moving they were getting nowhere.
• No progress in forty years.

No True Progress Was Being Made.

• Does this describe your spiritual state?
• They were circling the mountain by their own choice.

40 Years Earlier God Had Said: “Ye Have Dwelt In This Mount Long Enough.”

• The journey from Horeb to the Promised land is only 11 days.

It’s Time To Break Free From:

• Cycles,
• Bad Habits
• Patterns in our lives that have been unproductive and unhealthy.
• You’ve been circling this mountain long enough.
• It’s time to go forward.

Why Do We Camp In One Place Until God Forces Us To Move?

Lot Did– God Even Sent Two Angels To Get Him To Move

• God brought special deliverance.
• Lot’s wife looked back.
• Lot begged to stop when God asked him to go forward,
• That’s when he really messed up.

It’s Time To Go Forward

• Rich Young Ruler – Money held him back.
• Agrippa –Questions held him back.
• Felix – Timing held him back.
• Demas – The love of the world held him back.

What’s Holding You Back?

Simon Peter

Luke 5:5 And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net

When The Lord Speaks, Respond!

Num. 10:5 When ye blow an alarm, then the camps that lie on the east parts shall go forward.

Num. 10:6 When ye blow an alarm the second time, then the camps that lie on the south side shall take their journey: they shall blow an alarm for their journeys.

I Believe The Spirit Has Sounded An Alarm!