And after the whole nation had been circumcised, they remained where they were in camp until they were healed. So the place has been called Gilgal to this day. Let's go back to the promise that God gave to Abraham that he would become a mighty nation. It was a promise of a great destiny. You've been serving us now for 259 years, perhaps your God is lost among the stars, maybe He came too close to the sun and was fried.
Slavery is a great reproach upon any people.
It makes no difference if the slavery is an addiction, debt, poverty, or whatever. Anything that keeps us from becoming what God intended, that's a reproach. Circumcision has nothing to do with our acceptance by God but everything to do with our sense of identity and destiny. The purposes of God in Abraham still stand for me today. God still has a dream and a vision of Eugene Harder building a heritage of righteousness.