Exodus 17:8–16
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We live in an effeminate age, an age that has tried to domesticate the Lion of Judah and turn Him into a housecat. We have been told that the Christian life is primarily about being nice, inoffensive, and accommodating. But the moment Israel is delivered from bondage in Egypt and has drunk from the miraculous rock in the wilderness, which rock was Christ, what happens next? Salvation is not an evacuation from conflict; it is enlistment into one. God delivers you from slavery to Pharaoh so that you might become a soldier for King Jesus. The world, the flesh, and the devil do not lay down their arms simply because you have been baptized. Amalek does not attack Israel while they are still making bricks for Pharaoh. This is because the conflict is not fundamentally about territory or resources; it is a holy war, a spiritual war.