What's in your Water?
Exodus 15:23-25 "Now when they came to Marah, they could not drink the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore the name of it was called Marah. And the people complained against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?” So he cried out to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a tree. When he cast it into the waters, the waters were made sweet."
Now, we finally get to the content of the water.
We've been studying the law concerning the ashes of the red heifer and how it pertains to water. But there are two kinds of water.
According to the Word of God, all of the words preached from the pulpit are not necessarily the "waters that PURIFY AND BRING LIFE." Some, unfortunately, bring sickness and death, like the waters of Marah. Marah means "Bitter," in Hebrew.
Just because someone is preaching from the Bible does not mean their words will minister grace to the hearers. Some minister the condemnation of the law.
If you are not hearing that you are beloved of the Father, that even though you fail, you are the righteousness of God in Christ or that God is displeased or somehow angry with you, your pastor is using the waters that bring a curse, not the water that cleanses and purifies. He or she is sprinkling you with the waters of Marah that bring the curse.
(Sweetening the waters of Marah.)
Remember Marah? After they left Egypt, Israel was brought out with signs, wonders and great miracles. They passed through the Red Sea, a most AWESOME display of God's power, and three days they find they have no water. They came to a place called "Marah."
This same Hebrew word for bitter is used in the passage in Numbers 5 concerning the law of jealousy which said if a husband became jealous thinking that his wife had been unfaithful to him, he brought her to the priest. He would write the CURSES OF THE LAW in a book, scrape them into a vessel of water making them "bitter: Marah." The woman had to drink from it and, if she was guilty, her belly would swell, her thigh would rot and she would be a curse among the people. (Sounds like cancer, doesn't it?) But if she was innocent, she would be free of any curse and able to bear children.
What are the BITTER WATERS that bring a curse? THE LAW. How did the water of Marah become sweet? God told them to throw in a tree, a picture of the cross!
GOD'S ANSWER IS ALWAYS THE CROSS!!!
As for the water that cleanses, it goes far beyond merely cleansing of moral and spiritual "dust." Jesus calls us His bride as the verse in Ephesians says. At one time "the bride" was all Jewish. Today it is predominantly non-Jews, (formerly Gentiles). Remember the story of Joseph? He married a Gentile bride during his time of rejection in Egypt.
How are we cleansed and made whole?
**THIS IS SOMETHING THE DEVIL DOES NOT WANT YOU TO KNOW.**
WE ARE MADE WHOLE INSIDE AND OUT BY WATER CONTAINING THE ASHES OF THE RED HEIFER!
The words that we speak to each other or preach to the Church must be words that contain no judgment or condemnation. THEY MUST BE WORDS ABOUT THE FINISHED WORK: The ashes of the red heifer!!!
If you understand this, you understand what Solomon didn't understand. Understand?
The devil hates a Church that regularly washes with the water of the word! He has no answer to them. You see, evil spirits love dry, dusty places, not well-watered ones.
Jesus illustrates the relationship between Himself and His Church by using the relationship between a husband and wife. We are cleansed both inside...no spiritual SPOT...and outside...No physical WRINKLE. Wrinkle is also a sign of old age. In other words, physically and spiritually whole and healthy.
Jesus illustrates the relationship between Himself and His Church by using the relationship between a husband and wife. We are cleansed both inside...no spiritual SPOT...and outside...No physical WRINKLE. Wrinkle is also a sign of old age. In other words, physically and spiritually whole and healthy.
Remember the red heifer had to be clean inside and no yoke outside? That is what the water of the word containing the ashes does for us today. It cleanses our bodies of disease and washes the dust of this life off our feet. We call it "dust" because God said to the serpent that he would crawl on his belly and eat "dust" all his life. The extent to which you have "DUST" clinging to you is the extent to which you are DEVOURABLE.
Sin/sickness both required that the "UNclean" person go through a "cleansing" process. (See my post on the law of leprosy in Leviticus: http://emmausrevelations.blogspot.com/2015/02/see-jesus-love-for-us-in-book-of.html)
Make sure you wash daily with the water of the word containing the ashes of the red heifer.
...and finally, The Cleansing Process.
Numbers 19:18 "A CLEAN PERSON shall take HYSSOP and DIP IT IN THE WATER, SPRINKLE IT on the tent, on all the vessels, on the persons who were there, or on the one who touched a bone, the slain, the dead, or a grave."
The water was applied in the Old Testament sprinkling the unclean person with Hyssop dipped in the water containing the ashes of the red heifer. Hyssop is the smallest vegetation in Israel; the smallest member of our body, according to scripture, is the tongue. See James 3:5
So.....take the hyssop: your tongue, dip it in the water: the words of God containing the ashes of the red heifer--grace-filled words, and sprinkle it liberally over yourself, over your family, over you loved ones and friends.
Do it daily. Do it often. Apply liberally.
This is how believers today apply the law concerning the Ashes of the Red Heifer. We must make sure we are not using the "waters of Marah" containing bitterness and condemnation of the law. It must contain grace-filled words.
If you got through all nine parts, you now know not only something Solomon couldn't figure out but also why he was so baffled.
I hope you now understand, also, why it is of utmost importance that you know beyond a shadow of a doubt, WHAT'S IN YOUR WATER!
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