This was Pharaoh’s response to the request of Moses to let the children of Israel “go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the Lord our God, as He shall command us.” The “three days” speak of death and resurrection, and God wants those who have been “redeemed ... with the precious blood of Christ” to “reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Satan will say to us regarding our separation that “ye shall not go very far away.” In other words, “Don’t be too spiritual.” But God says, “Go three days’ journey into the wilderness,” remembering that by “the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ ... the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.” “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God.” “Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.”
How close to the world may I walk,
And still bring glory to God?
The world that crucified God’s Son
And hates those who trust God’s Word.
Ex. 8:27; 1 Peter 1:18-19; Rom. 6:11; Gal. 6:14; Rom. 12:1-2; Eph. 5:11.