This is Part 15, the final post in our Session 1 series of “The Assassins Among Us.” We’ve walked through all 13 Elements of Preparation. Now it’s time to move forward.
CONCLUSION: THE BATTLE BEGINS
We’ve covered thirteen elements of preparation from Numbers 1-10. Before Israel could move toward the Promised Land, God required:
- An Honest Survey Based on God’s Word
- The Arrangement of the Camp – Everything Faces God
- The Duties of the People – Know Your Role
- Separation of the Unclean
- Confession and Restitution – Making Things Right
- The Testing of Commitment
- The Consecration of Commitment – The Nazirite Vow
- The Blessing – Carrying God’s Name
- The Offerings of Consecration
- The Lighting of the Lamp – Maintaining the Light
- The Cleansing of the Priests
- The Passover – Never Forget the Blood
- HIS Presence – The Goal of Everything
These weren’t suggestions. They were essential foundations for anyone who wanted to survive the battles ahead.
FINAL APPLICATION: ALL 13 ELEMENTS
Before we move to Session 2, ask yourself honestly:
- HONEST ACCOUNTING: Are you allowing the Holy Spirit to conduct an honest survey of your life according to God’s Word? Or are you resisting His conviction, quieting His voice, ignoring His teaching?
- THE ARRANGEMENT: Is Jesus Christ—through the Holy Spirit—truly at the center of your personal tabernacle? What does your actual life arrangement reveal? Your schedule, your priorities, your decisions—what do they orbit around?
- THE DUTIES: Do you know your role in the body of Jesus Christ? Are you fulfilling it with sober judgment? Are you operating in coordination with the one Spirit who animates all the members?
- SEPARATION: What unclean things are you harboring? What sins are you minimizing? What compromises are you tolerating? What darkness is diminishing the light of truth in your life?
- CONFESSION & RESTITUTION: When the Holy Spirit convicts, do you confess? When confession reveals harm done to others, do you make restitution? Are you acknowledging and assenting to the purifying work of the Holy Spirit?
- TESTING: Do you have the different spirit—the Holy Spirit—actively working in your life? Are you a living sacrifice that stays on the altar, or do you keep climbing off when it gets uncomfortable?
- CONSECRATION: What would complete consecration to Jesus Christ look like in your life? What foreign gods are you harboring that compete with God for your devotion? What would need to change tomorrow if you truly consecrated yourself?
- THE BLESSING: Do you understand the weight of carrying the name of Jesus Christ? Are you living in a way that honors or dishonors that name? Is the Holy Spirit—the Spirit of Christ—actively at work in you?
- THE OFFERINGS: Are you contributing to unity or division in the body of Christ? Are your offerings given in humility and unity, or with pride, comparison, and competition?
- THE LAMP: Are you tending your spiritual light daily, or letting it dim through neglect? Is there unconfessed sin dimming the light you carry? Are you neglecting the Word that fuels your lamp?
- THE CLEANSING: Are you submitting to the Holy Spirit’s cleansing work, or trying to cleanse yourself through performance? Are you allowing the Word to expose what needs to be cleansed?
- THE PASSOVER: Have you forgotten the blood? Have you drifted into thinking your religious performance matters more than it does? When the enemy accuses you, do you defend yourself—or point to the blood?
- HIS PRESENCE: Is God’s presence your highest priority—or is it success, strategy, or religious activity? When He says wait, do you wait? When He says move, do you obey immediately?
THE KEY TRUTH
“Your salvation requires nothing from you. Your sanctification does.”
Let that sink in.
Salvation is freely given by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. It’s finished. You cannot add to it. You cannot earn it. It’s a gift.
Sanctification is the lifelong process of becoming who you already are in Jesus Christ. It requires your active participation through the Holy Spirit’s supernatural power working in you. You must lay aside the weight and sin. You must put on the armor of light. You must position yourself around His presence.
THE BOTTOM LINE
There are battles coming. Real spiritual warfare. Compromised Christianity will not survive it. Surface religion will collapse. Only authentic faith in Jesus Christ—lived out by the power of the Holy Spirit—will endure.
The question is: Are you positioned for the battle ahead?
God demanded an honest accounting of Israel before they could move forward. He demands the same of us today.
Stop faking it till you make it. Stop pretending everything is fine when it’s not. Stop offering unauthorized fire and expecting God’s blessing.
Submit to the Holy Spirit’s work in you: Let Him conduct the honest inventory. Position Jesus Christ at the center where the Holy Spirit can lead you. Put the unclean out of the camp of your heart. Make restitution where needed. Consecrate yourself wholly to the One who has given you His Spirit.
Then—and only then—His presence will manifest to lead you through the battles ahead.
THE HOLY SPIRIT’S WORK
The thirteen elements aren’t a checklist you complete in your own strength. They’re a preparation process the Holy Spirit accomplishes in you as you submit to His conviction, His leading, His cleansing, His empowerment.
Preparing yourself for the battles ahead is impossible in your own strength. But the Holy Spirit can—and will—if you surrender to His work.
Are you ready to submit to His preparation? The battles are coming. His presence is the only way through.
WHAT’S NEXT
Session 1 covered the preparation required before battle. Session 2 will reveal what happens when God’s people start moving—and the assassins that emerge to destroy His fullness among us.
The journey from Egypt to the Promised Land wasn’t just geography. It was spiritual warfare. And the same assassins that attacked Israel are attacking believers today.
Stay tuned for Session 2: “God’s Provision on the Journey.”
We’ll expose the first assassin: Complaining that reveals a heart still in Egypt.
THANK YOU FOR WALKING THROUGH SESSION 1
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