20/11/2017
WITHIN & WITHOUT
Today I was exercised in my thoughts to the significance and the importance of this phrase WITHIN and WITHOUT as recorded in Genesis 6.14
NOAH'S ARK was pitched WITHIN & WITHOUT
Gen 6:14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. KJV
Gen 6:14 So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. NIV
WITHIN & WITHOUT refers to COMPLETENESS/ THOROUGHNESS / FULLNESS/ WHOLENESS.
THOROUGHNESS
- It is obvious how important it would need to be for the ark to be THOROUGHLY SEALED (water proofed) β within & without - because it was the instrument / vehicle for salvation and deliverance from the coming judgment.
WITHIN & WITHOUT:
Completeness/ thoroughness / fullness/ wholeness β in respect to:
OUR SALVATION β completeness, thoroughly through and through and whole and needing nothing more. Totally perfect.
OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD - perfectly justified and thoroughly and completely brought into right standing with God. Not more sentence of guilty.
OUR INTIMATE FELLOWSHIP, COMMUNIION WITH GOD β perfect and complete access to the father to commune with him and he with us; all through the blood of Christ. Nothing between, nothing to separate us from his presence.
A salvation so thoroughly βproofedβ like the liner and outer seal of the Ark so that it preserved Godβs children from Judgement
What a wonderful wonderful Salvation that we have.