Illumination: Guided by God

Jan 19

David Stockton
Series: 2020 Fasting Season

Good morning. Big time playoff game today. That’s why you came to early service. No, just kidding.

I feel like the Lord’s definitely wanting to give us what we need for the journey. I don’t know what 2020 holds, but I think there will be some battling going on. I think there will be some challenges. But I think there is going to be a lot of ground that the Lord is going to ask us to take for him in 2020. It’s really important that we get filled with what he wants to fill us, because you’re going to battle either way, right? So you might as well have what the Lord wants you to go into battle with.—otherwise, you’ve got to battle without it. He’ll be with you.

We’re trying to get filled up. The Spirit is important. This morning we’re going to continue to talk about our spiritual formation: forming habits that form us. We’re going to be talking about illumination and what that ultimately means. How we can be guided by God. It’s such a radical, strange thing.

But first, we have big news for you. It was about four years ago we made a transition and as we assessed what Living Streams was and where it was at, we had a good church family. Never, never not had a good church family. I’ve been here for almost twenty years now. See all that gray coming in? Watch out!

It’s been almost twenty years and this is a good church family. We also had a good staff and we had a good house, this house that we’re in right now. And yet, we had about 570 adults coming on a Sunday morning. And we just felt like there was more room for others. We felt like as we looked at the house, it’s like we’ve got two bedrooms full and there are four bedrooms sitting there empty.

So we really prayed. We said, “Lord, we know that there are a lot of people out there who don’t know you and who don’t have a good church family.” And we really want to see this thing grow, this thing be maximized and used in that way. So we set a kind of vision statement for ourselves. We wanted to go from about 570 adults to 1,000 on a Sunday morning by 2020. And back then, we were like, “That sounds crazy. That’s almost doubling.” Last week we had over 1,000 adults on a Sunday morning.

It was awesome. I didn’t even care if we got to 1,000. I just thought it was a good goal to shoot for. But that was really neat. Just so you know, I’ve said it a million times before. That number really isn’t important. It’s just a means to an end. The end is that the people who are joining us would actually knit their lives together with us. We know Sunday morning is good, but there’s so much more that can take place. There’s so much deeper, richer fellowship that can take place in groups where you can be known and you can know people.

I’m just asking. Obviously there are more of you coming than there used to be. And those of you who are newer to the church and are not plugged in in some other way, even if it’s at another church, I don’t care. Get into smaller communities because it’s so good. But we have some great opportunities here. We have Life Groups. We’re about to launch some new ones. We have mission trips that are coming up. We have an internship coming up. Next Sunday, for all the newer people who want to figure out what Living Streams is all about, we have a Starting Point Lunch after third service, which will then let you know about Explore Group—which is a nine-week track we want people to go through as they’re trying to get plugged into the church. All kinds of opportunities coming up. So please, if you enjoy what the Lord’s doing here enough to come on Sunday mornings, I would encourage you to take that next step and really get to know people in a deeper way.

And we have Wednesday night prayer night coming up. The next two Wednesdays we have Wednesday night fasting and prayer night. You can see information in the bulletin about that. Last Wednesday was awesome. The Lord always shows up. He spoke to me about a lot of things. Some of it’s even going to come out today.

All right. Christian Spiritual Formation. Let’s go through our slides to review, in case there are new people. also, it’s good for us to remember. Christian Spiritual Formation is defined simply as the process of moving from less Christi-like to more Christ-like. That is the goal of Christianity. God loves you the way you are. He died for you the way you were. He comes and wants to fill you with the Spirit the way you are, so that you will not stay the way you are. He wants to grow you, mature you, and make you more into the image of Christ. That’s the Spiritual Formation of which we are all a part.

Less Christ-like we described as the broken heart—the fallen, deceitful, restless, unwanted longing heart that needs to be refined. It needs to be healed and all of that. We talked about that a few weeks ago in a sermon. You can check that out.

The beautiful heart. We did a whole sermon series on it last November. Talking about the heart of Christ, the beautiful heart and what it looks like. You can check that out later.

We also have been talking in this series, the stages of the journey. We’re not the first ones to follow Christ. Did you know that? This is not the first generation. We’re not the only church that loves Jesus. It’s not an. American thing. (gasp) What? Yeah! This has been going on a long time. As we’ve gleaned from church fathers, church mothers that have come before us, obviously we have the scriptures. But people have been trying to apply the scriptures in all different aspects of culture, of society, for a lot of years. They’ve come up with some things that are helpful for us.

They say there are about five stages of the journey. These are our words. They’re stolen words, but we’ve put them together this way. So you’ll find different versions of this. But basically, all people at first are walking in darkness. They don’t have the light of Christ and they are walking in darkness. John 1 talks about that. At some point, God interrupts the darkness with light. That’s a moment of awakening.

We go through seasons of darkness before we know Christ, but even after we walk with Christ we still kind of go through seasons where we feel like we’re in the dark again. Then a new form, a new aspect of the light of Christ begins to move on us. But it happens for those who are new to Christ, the first time around, Then what also happens is we keep going around in this formation cycle.

Darkness, awakening, and that moves us into seasons of purgation. Purgation is a horrible, fun word. Basically it’s just horrible and not fun at all when you’re living through it. It’s that process where God is now trying to refine your heart, refine your soul—to burn out the love of the world, to burn out the fleshly desires so that he can establish a heart for the things that are beautiful, the things that are right, the things that are good.

And we go through these seasons that are hard. But it’s all God trying to form us into his image.

Then, after that, there are seasons in our walk with the Lord that are illumination. That’s what we’re going to talk about today. You can pop up the illumination slide.

Here’s a scripture. We did a scripture with each one of these stages. This is the one we’re going to be talking about today.

Illumination - Jesus was teaching his disciples. This was right before he went to the cross in John 16:13

But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.

Jesus was teaching his disciples. The disciples were people that walked in darkness. They fished in darkness. They tax-collected in darkness. They did all those type of things. Then, at one point, Jesus, the light of the world, literally the exact replication of God Himself in flesh, walked up to their table or their boat and said, “Hey, come follow me.” He interrupted their darkness. And they, for whatever reason, were compelled to follow him.

As they followed him, they walked with him for three years, they had the actual light of God there, next to them. And then, Jesus was always saying certain things about how he was going to have to leave. That he was going to die and he was going to go away, and where he was going they could not come. And they kind of never really understood it.

But this is where he’s unpacking all of this. He said, “Don’t worry. When I go there is One that will come.” And he calls him the Spirit of Truth. “And he will guide you into all the truth. And he won’t speak on his own. He will speak what he hears the Father telling him. And he will tell you about things that have not yet come. Or things that are coming to pass.”

And Jesus began to introduce, and you can read about it in John 14, 15, 16, a little bit in 17, Jesus was kind of teaching about this new relationship with God that his followers were going to have. It wasn’t a flesh to flesh relationship like they had with Jesus. But it was going to become a spirit to spirit relationship. That they who were flesh for sure also had a spirit. And that spirit inside of them was longing and restless until it could connect with God,who is spirit. And Jesus was actually saying that this Holy Spirit would come.

Then, sure enough, Jesus ascended into heaven. And the disciples were all sitting, not just the eleven, but also the community of people that had followed Jesus—his mother, the other Mary, and all of a sudden, as they’re waiting on God, it said that the room began to shake. There was a sound of rushing wind and in came—it’s got to be one of the strangest things of all time. Gonna watch the DVD in heaven, or YouTube it. But it says there were things like cloven tongues of fire that came and rested on their heads. Illumination.

They began to speak in tongues that they didn’t understand. But they were tongues that other people could understand—other languages. As there was this moment of confusion, excitement, whatever it was, some people started asking questions about it. And yet, the disciples who had not experienced this prior, but had the instructions of Christ and the scriptures, enough to say, “I think this is what was talked bout in the Old Testament in the book of Joel, where God is pouring out his Spirit upon us.”

So there it was! This new relationship. This new phase of Christianity. This new covenant promise, where the Spirit now came and illuminated things and then began to guide the disciples. They were actually living in very precarious times. One false move and they could be killed. And yet, the Spirit was guiding them and began to guide them in the way that they would walk and the way that they would lead the Church.

They were shocked because, all of a sudden, they would go to a different place where they weren’t people who knew Jesus. But then they would pray for them and the Spirit would come upon them. And then, what was crazy was they even went to people who weren’t Jews and the Spirit came upon them. They were like, “What is going on around here?”

From then on, people who were following Christ were trying to figure out what it means to receive the Spirit of God, to be baptized or filled with the Spirit of God and to be guided by the Spirit of God. Illumination.

Because I love stories so much, I want to go back to the life of Moses as we begin to unpack this. We’ve talked about how Moses is a good example of these stages. Moses was in darkness, for sure. He didn’t even know who he was or where he came from. He was raised in Egypt, but he was a Hebrew. Then an awakening began in him. The way it was expressed was he killed an Egyptian who was beating a Hebrew, when he began to realize who he was. He was going through an awakening. But that awakening wasn’t that one moment. It was lots of moments that ultimately led to a burning bush.

This burning bush moment wasn’t the first time he had this uncertainty, or this tremor going on inside. But this is the first time he actually encountered the presence of God. God was speaking to him about what was already inside of him, and connecting the dots and making it make sense that God had put all of that in there, to lead him to this moment.

Then, the very first thing God does now that Moses is saying, “Okay. I believe you are God. What do you want me to do?”

God says, “I want you to go back to Egypt where it’s going to be hard for you.”

He leads him right back into the most difficult, challenging thing possible. Purgation. You guys tracking with me? That’s what we talked about last week. Now we’re going to talk about this stage of illumination. I want you to pick up in Exodus 4:18-3. This is right after the burning bush:

18 Then Moses went back to Jethro his father-in-law and said to him, “Let me return to my own people in Egypt to see if any of them are still alive.”
Jethro said, “Go, and I wish you well.”
19 Now the Lord had said to Moses in Midian, “Go back to Egypt, for all those who wanted to kill you are dead.” 20 So Moses took his wife and sons, put them on a donkey and started back to Egypt. And he took the staff of God in his hand.
21 The Lord said to Moses, “When you return to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders I have given you the power to do. But I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go. 22 Then say to Pharaoh, ‘This is what the Lord says: Israel is my firstborn son, 23 and I told you, “Let my son go, so he may worship me.” But you refused to let him go; so I will kill your firstborn son.’”

So Moses is getting all these instructions. We who know the story know the way it all plays out. But this what the Lord is telling Moses, and it’s all vague for Moses at this point. But there’s a connection between the firstborn son.

24 At a lodging place on the way, the Lord met Moses and was about to kill him.

What?

25 But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son’s foreskin and touched Moses’ feet with it. “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,” she said. 26 So the Lord let him alone. (At that time she said “bridegroom of blood,” referring to circumcision.)
27 The Lord said to Aaron, “Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.” So he met Moses at the mountain of God and kissed him. 28 Then Moses told Aaron everything the Lord had sent him to say, and also about all the signs he had commanded him to perform.
29 Moses and Aaron brought together all the elders of the Israelites, 30 and Aaron told them everything the Lord had said to Moses. He also performed the signs before the people, 31 and they believed. And when they heard that the Lord was concerned about them and had seen their misery, they bowed down and worshiped.

The Lord is speaking to Moses. So he’s left the burning bush. Now, somehow the Lord is continuing to speak to Moses with the burning bush. I want you to catch the significance of that. As Moses is moving into this new mobile relationship with this burning bush God. In the process of doing that, God is telling Moses a little bit more detail. He’s talking about how he’s going to go and he’s supposed to say these things to Pharaoh. But Pharaoh is going to refuse to let the people go. But then God is basically going to convince Pharaoh. And Moses is supposed to say, “And if you don’t, God is going to kill your firstborn son.”

The very next thing that happens, Moses gathers up his family. He’s got his son Gershom, we talked about that last Sunday. He’s got his firstborn son and they are getting ready to go to Egypt. Then out of nowhere it says that the Lord was standing and was going to kill Moses. But Zipporah—not Moses—somehow figured out, “The Lord is going to kill Moses if I don’t circumcise our son.”

How? I have no idea. But maybe there had been talk. I mean, you can imagine Moses was probably circumcised. And Zipporah knew about it. And there was probably a debate in their household. Moses was probably saying, “You know, I wonder if I should. I don’t know.”

There was a covenant established with Moses’ people. God said, “This is the covenant I’m establishing with you.”

The covenant was established with Moses, but Moses’ son had not entered into that covenant. And yet, God was serious about it. In some way there is a connection to the firstborn son of Pharaoh. It’s almost as if God is saying to Moses, “If we’re going to go do this thing, we’ve got to get your house in order first.”

But the thing that is so amazing to me is that Zipporah figured it out. God helped. Zipporah figure it out. God spoke to Zipporah. How? Again, I don’t know exactly. But it’s an amazing thing. She doesn’t quite understand all of this, but she calls him a blood husband because she doesn’t understand who this God is—why he would require this. Moses might not fully understand all of this stuff. And yet, Moses was saved from God because God communicated to his wife about this thing. So God can speak to us. God can communicate to us.

Let’s continue. They go into this time, and you guys know the story. They go into Egypt. Moses talks to Pharaoh. They go back and forth. Ten plagues. God is showing his power over all of the gods of Egypt. At the end of it, the last plague was death of the firstborn sons of Egypt. Yet all of the Israelites were saved, not only from that, but all of the other plagues, which is fascinating.

Finally, Pharaoh says, “Okay. Fine. Go.” And Moses leads all of the people out triumphantly. They go out there, but all of a sudden Pharaoh’s army is coming after them, because he’s having second thoughts. Red Sea parts. All of that. Red Sea falls on the Egyptians. And basically, the people are delivered forever.

Now they’re in the wilderness and they’re heading this way. God had guided Moses through all of that. Moses didn’t have to go find that same burning bush every time he wanted to hear from God. Somehow God has continued to communicate with Moses on the fly as he’s moving in and out, even in Egypt, now in the wilderness. So Moses is beginning to understand this relationship with God.

In Exodus 33, I want to pick up. This is now when they’re in the wilderness. This is how it describes the relationship between Moses and God.

7 Now Moses used to take a tent and pitch it outside the camp some distance away, calling it the “tent of meeting.”

He doesn’t need a burning bush anymore. He just needs a tent.

Anyone inquiring of the Lord would go to the tent of meeting outside the camp. 8 And whenever Moses went out to the tent, all the people rose and stood at the entrances to their tents, watching Moses until he entered the tent. 9 As Moses went into the tent, the pillar of cloud would come down and stay at the entrance, while the Lord spoke with Moses.

Kind of representing God’s presence. There was a cloud by day and fire by night. It would come and rest on the tent.

10 Whenever the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance to the tent, they all stood and worshiped, each at the entrance to their tent. 11 The Lord would speak to Moses face to face, as one speaks to a friend. Then Moses would return to the camp, but his young aide Joshua son of Nun did not leave the tent.

Here’s this description. Whoever is writing this—it could be Moses, it could be somebody else—they’re describing what it was like when Moses would meet with God.

I want to read a few other descriptions of this same thing. Numbers 12:8 (NASB):

With him I speak mouth to mouth,
Even openly, and not in dark sayings,
And he beholds the form of the Lord.

We’re talking about something very significant. Something very strange, especially in that day and age. The gods of Egypt were not gods that were kind and nice. They were gods who needed to be appeased, otherwise they would bring great judgment. That was basically the religions of all the nations around and tribes around there. It was basically, you did whatever you could to appease the gods so they’d send some rain. And anytime there was no rain, it means the gods were mad at you.

Here’s this new kind of different thing emerging in this part of the world, where God is speaking to this person, Moses, face to face, mouth to mouth. In Psalm 119:104 and 105, there’s another way that David describes this same kind of illumination stage:

I gain understanding from your precepts [words];
therefore I hate every wrong path.
Your word is a lamp for my feet,
a light on my path.

Talking about how God illuminates the directions that he’s supposed to go. Isaiah 30:

20 Although the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, your teachers will be hidden no more; with your own eyes you will see them. 21 Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it.”

Then in the New Testament—2 Corinthians 3:

13 We are not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face to prevent the Israelites from seeing the end of what was passing away. 14 But their minds were made dull, for to this day the same veil remains when the old covenant is read. It has not been removed, because only in Christ is it taken away. 15 Even to this day when Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts. … 18 And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

He’s alluding back to this—Moses had this relationship with God, and yet, there was still something lacking because Moses would have to go and meet in the tent and would have to do these type of things. But he’s saying that, now, in this new covenant, ever since Christ has come, there is no veil between us at all. There is no need for a holy of holies. We are always in the presence of God. We have constant access to the fullness of the Spirit to behold his face, to hear his voice.

For some of you, you’re saying, “Yeah, that’s where I’m at.” Where you actually begin to have confidence that you can hear from the Lord. When you go to pray, you actually are praying and thinking, “I’m going to get something out of this.”

And there’s definitely, even though I’ve walked with the Lord for a long time, and many people have walked with the Lord long enough, you’ll go through times where you don’t feel like the Lord is so accessible, or it’s harder to hear from him. Because you’re going through those other things.

But there are those seasons of our lives where we finally arrive at this place where we really do feel known by God. We can feel like he hears our voice and knows our hearts.

It’s described this way in another place:

Illumination refers to a process of continually and increasingly becoming aware of the presence and care of God.

That’s illumination.

It’s the idea of perfect love casting out fear. Apart from God I’m driven by fear.
As God comes in, I increasingly become driven by love.

Illumination.

When the love quotient in my life becomes greater than the fear quotient, purgation moves to illumination.

When you realize that God loves you so much whether you’re getting it right or wrong that day, and you can come boldly into his throne, instead of being so afraid that he’s going to condemn you or judge you in some way.

When the love quotient increases and is greater than the fear quotient, it’s illumination.
t’s the place where my ego, my choices, my sin and my guilt no longer create distance between me and God.

There’s no distance anymore. And not only can you say that theologically, but you actually experience that, the closeness of God. And it is true that sometimes it comes and goes. But once you’ve been there enough, you realize it’s not because God is actually far. It’s because he’s taking me through another season of refinement. So that ultimately we can be even closer.

I want so badly to talk about union. But that’s next week. It’s going to be so good. I picked Moses, not for these other ones, but union, in Moses’ life—oh, it’s going to be so good. But illumination, that’s what he’s talking about.

As we close, I was trying to think of how the Lord has spoken to me most in my life. Like Zipporah, somehow she knew this strange thing. Moses, it said, “And the Lord said to Moses.” Zipporah—it seemed like every chapter started with, “And the Lord God spoke to Moses,” and there you have a chapter. God’s just constantly talking to Moses. We know he goes to the tent of meeting. We know he talked with the burning bush. We know he stood still and saw the salvation of the Lord. We know he goes up on the mountain to talk to God.

But it’s like God was communicating to Moses and we have the whole Torah, the first five books of the Bible—the Pentateuch. The Bible is story after story of God interrupting into a person’s life, speaking to someone and then them walking in obedience—or not. Right? But how is God speaking to me? That’s a vague thing to say to someone: “God wants to speak to you.”

I wrote these things down. I’m going to focus on one of them:

He guides us with the commandments and scripture.

No doubt about it. If you want to hear from God, read the Bible. For two reasons: one is this really is God’s word spoken to you to guide you. But then, also, the more you get to know this, the easier it is to pick up when the voice of God is speaking to you outside of this. Because you learn about his nature. “Oh, that sounds like something God would say.” “That does not sound like something God would say.” That’s why this book is so important. Not only can it teach you God’s word, but it can make you familiar with God’s voice. So he guides us with his commandments and scripture.

He guides us with the community of saints.

This whole thing that we’re unpacking is not in the scriptures, per se. It’s supported by the scriptures. But it’s language and stuff that’s helping us unpack our walk with God outside of just what the scriptures have. So church history is helpful. But also the community that we have. That’s why you’ve got to get into a small group. We have curriculum. Every one of these messages, we create a little curriculum that goes out to all the Life Group leaders. You go to a Life Group, then you’re going to be able to unpack this stuff a little further and deeper. Because some of this, hopefully, you question. You’ll say, “He didn’t say that quite right.” And you might be right.

But you can start to unpack it in a smaller group of people who also want to know the word of God. And it can flower and get bolder and broader and it can get more precise. So the community of saints is so important how the Lord speaks to us. Other believers have spoken into my life and guided me so much. Sometimes they knew what they were doing. Sometimes they had no idea.

This last one is huge:

He guides us with the convictions of his Spirit.

Conviction is a horrible sounding word. On Wednesday night, Ryan actually talked a little bit about it, how we should be praying for conviction. Because conviction is actually a beautiful thing. It means you have a Father who loves you and doesn’t want you to go off a cliff or end up in a ditch. So he comes with his conviction. But conviction does not feel nice. It feels horrible.

I was thinking back towards the end of 2019, these times when I was at a crossroads and I didn’t know what to do. I was like, “Okay, Lord, I want to do this.” In particular, before I moved down here in 2001. I was in Oregon. I loved Oregon. I really started following the Lord in Oregon. It’s Jesus’ country. They’ve got rivers. They’ve got big fish. Not these little tiny fish. All my friends were there. All my Christian friends, literally, were there.

And yet, Mark Buckley, the founding pastor of Living Streams, he’s kind of been our family pastor forever. He knew that I had done some ministry. He said, “Why don’t you come work with our high schoolers at Living Streams.” And I was like, “Oh, that’s funny.” I didn’t want to do it. And yet, in Oregon, it was like everything was drying up. You know, like the picture of the cloud would every once a while lift up and go and that meant the people were supposed to go. Slowly but surely, it felt like the glory was departing. And yet, I didn’t know that. I just thought, “Oh, I just haven’t got the job I want yet.”

But Mark kept saying, “Why don’t you come down here?” And so he said, “Well, we’ll just fly you out. You could just come check it out.” Which was not a good decision, because I flew in and checked it out. Then I said, “Now I will never go down there!” Literally. That’s what I thought. I thought, “No! No! No!”

But I remember my soul had no peace in Oregon. I was at my mom’s house. There was just no explanation. I couldn’t sleep at night. I started to feel depression start to settle in. No peace. No peace. No peace. I remember waking up one day and I said, “Maybe I should go to Arizona.”

It was so amazing. It was like a flood of joy and peace kind of just hit me all of a sudden. I thought, “No. I still don’t want to do it.” I wrestled with it. I kept fighting it. Sorry. I’m not great at a this. But it was a wrestling match of conviction. It was like God was guiding me. Even though he wasn’t speaking to me, inside I just knew. No peace—stay here. Twinge of peace and excitement there. So, ultimately, I went for it.

I can’t tell you the depth of layers of the goodness of the Lord that’s been revealed to me in this place. And he was the one that guided me. And I have lots of other stories like that.

I hate it when the peace goes away. It’s miserable. But I’m so grateful that the Lord leads us in that way.

Illumination.

Let’s pray:

Jesus, I ask that you would guide us. Lord, we’re so desperate for your guidance. We’ve got politicians that don’t know what’s up or down. We’ve got media shouting and screaming at us what we need, what we don’t need, who’s cool, what’s not. We’ve got our own hearts that are so confusing and restless, and they want this thing today and they don’t tomorrow. They want that thing that’s not good for us. Oh, we’re so lost. But I thank you so much that you know the way.
And, Lord, I do pray that you would convict America. I pray for a great wave of conviction to wash over us—rich, poor, Democrat, Republican, Christian, non-Christian. Just let a great wave of conviction wash over us. Take away all of our peace in all the places that we’re headed in the wrong way. And give us peace in the right direction.
Your word says we should go out with joy and be led with peace. I pray that we would be a people like that. That we would trust you, trust that still, small voice, trust your fatherly guidance.
Right now, Lord, if there are some people in this room who are saying, “Aw, man, why did he have to say that?” Because they know you have been convicting them about a relationship, or a job, or something they are doing in their life, whether it’s sin or not. Lord, I pray that you would give them the courage to trust you. And that, as they step toward where you are leading them, your peace would flood them, and they would sleep so good, and they would have joy fill their hearts.
Thank you, Lord.

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