- Leaving the Familiar -

 

- Leaving the Familiar - 

Hebrews 11:8 By faith, Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he was about to receive as an inheritance.  And he went out, not knowing where he was going. 

Gen 12:1  And יהוה said to Aḇram, “Go yourself out of your land, from your relatives and from your father’s house, to a land which I show you. 

Gen 12:4  So Aḇram left, as יהוה had commanded him, and Lot went with him. And Aḇram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Ḥaran. 

Gen 12:5  And Aḇram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the beings whom they had acquired in Ḥaran, and they set out for the land of Kenaʽan. And they came to the land of Kenaʽan. 

We too, by faith, must obey the call upon our lives to leave what is familiar to us within spiritual Egypt/Mystery Babylon, in order to receive the inheritance of The Kingdom within The New Jerusalem. 

Heb 11:9 By faith, he sojourned in the land of promise as a stranger, dwelling in tents (sukkah) with Issac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise.

Luk 9:57  And it came to be, as they journeyed on the way, that someone said to Him, “Master, I shall follow You wherever You go.” 

Luk 9:58  And יהושע said to him, “The foxes have holes and the birds of the heaven nests, but the Son of Aḏam has nowhere to lay His head.”

If we truly want to follow our Messiah, then we too must be willing to leave if/when He says to go. 

We should not feel so "at home" where we currently are lest we forget that we too are aliens/strangers in a strange land (Mystery Babylon).

We very well might have to lose everything in order to truly gain everything. 

Heb 11:10  for he was looking for the city having foundations, whose builder and maker is Elohim. 

What city are we looking for? That which was built by mere human hands or that Great City whose builder and maker is Elohim Himself? 

Mat 16:24  Then יהושע said to His taught ones, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his stake, and follow Me. 

Mat 16:25  “For whoever wishes to save his life shall lose it, and whoever loses his life for My sake shall find it. 

Mat 16:26  “For what is a man profited if he gains all the world, and loses his own life? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his life?