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Shawn Brummund: Hello and
welcome to another edition
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of the Sabbath
School Study Hour.
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We are just so grateful
that you have decided to come
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and join us here, as we come
together in our local church,
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which is the Granite Bay Hilltop
Seventh Day Adventist Church
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here in the
greater Sacramento area
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of Southern California, USA.
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For those of you who
are joining us locally,
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it's nice to be
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as you're plugging in
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across different
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For those of you who are
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here over the next
hour, as we worship,
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as we study, and as we grow
in the faith and the knowledge
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of Jesus Christ,
looking at His Word.
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Today is a bit of a milestone
Sabbath in the fact that it is
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our last study, our last weekly
study on this particular topic
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and quarterly which we've been
looking at for three months now,
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which is that of
the book of Deuteronomy.
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And so, one of
the most powerful,
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fundamental books that we
could find in all of Scripture,
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and we are looking
at lesson number 13.
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And so, please, if you
have a quarterly lesson,
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go ahead and grab that.
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Of course, most
importantly grab your Bible.
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The Bible is our main
textbook for today's study,
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and we're looking at
the resurrection of Moses.
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What are the
implications of that?
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What does the Scripture say
both in Deuteronomy and outside?
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And so, we look forward to
you to study with us here today.
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I want to invite you to
join me, as we ask the Lord
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to be with us in prayer.
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Father in heaven, we
thank you for the opportunity
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to be able to be
here this morning.
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For those of us who are in
the church and for those of us
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who are watching
online or on television,
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we want to pray, God, that you
will bless each and every one
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of us as we open your Bible.
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We claim that promise,
that your Holy Spirit will come
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upon us and lead us and
guide us into all truth,
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to give us
spiritual discernment.
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And we pray again, Lord, that
you will fulfill your promise
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and send that to us even now.
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Please be with our
teacher, Pastor Doug,
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as he brings the Word to us;
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and, of course, be
with his heart, his mind,
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his lips as he brings to life
and explains the Word of God
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for us again today.
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In Jesus's name, we
pray these things, God, amen.
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Doug Batchelor: Good morning.
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Good to see each of you here,
and I want to welcome again
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those who are watching.
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We know that there's
always a lot of people
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from a kaleidoscope of different
countries around the world that
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are studying with us for
our Sabbath School Study Hour.
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And I'm almost going to have
to learn how to do this again.
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It's been so long
since I've taught the lesson,
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because we just came off
doing this evangelistic program,
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and there was a lot
of other things going on.
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And I'm kind of sad because
Deuteronomy is my favorite book
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in the Bible, and I've only been
able to teach about three or
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four of these lessons; but
I'm glad that I get to come here
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for the finale and
study this with you.
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Moses is probably one of
the most central characters
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of the Bible.
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Of course, not only
did he write six books--
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now you're thinking six--
you've got, you know, Genesis,
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Exodus, Leviticus,
Numbers, Deuteronomy.
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Job would be number six.
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But he really is the
great lawgiver in the Bible
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that God spoke to.
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He's the one who was the doctor
that took care of the birth
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of a nation.
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He was there when
Israel was brought out.
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He's a great savior.
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And Moses is such a
unique character because,
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of course, he's born as
a slave, but he's adopted,
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through miraculous means, raised
up in the palace of the most
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sophisticated country
in the world at that time.
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So, he received the best
education available in his day,
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and then he goes
from the palaces;
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and, you know, he
kills that Egyptian,
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has to run out
into the wilderness.
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And he ends up spending 40 years
following around those sheep
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and goats in a desert.
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And he probably figured that's
how he would end his days.
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But at 80, God
calls him again and says,
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"I've got
another big job for you."
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Just an incredible
life that Moses lived.
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Now, Moses's life is
divided in an interesting way,
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three generations.
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You have the 40 years of Moses's
life where he is in Egypt.
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Then you have the 40 years
where he is in the wilderness.
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And then you have the 40
years where he is leading people
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from Egypt to the
borders of the Promised Land.
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So, this is at the
birth of the nation.
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When Israel was finally
settled in the Promised Land,
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they have three 40s.
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You've got the 40 years
of King Saul, the first king.
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He starts to deliver
them from the Philistines.
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Then you've got 40
years of David's reign.
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And then you have 40
years of Solomon's reign.
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And then the kingdom is divided.
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So, you've got 40 is sort of
like a generation in the Bible.
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And that's why I think it's
interesting that Jesus said in
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about 30 AD, speaking of
the destruction of the temple,
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He said, "There will not be
left here one stone upon another
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that will not be thrown away.
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This generation
will not pass away--"
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Jesus makes that
prediction in 30 AD;
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and 70 AD, 40 years
later, the temple is destroyed.
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So, even the numbers connected
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with the life of
Moses are amazing.
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Well, we're coming to
the end of Moses's life,
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but it actually is kind
of ending on a happy note.
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The title of the lesson is,
"The Resurrection of Moses."
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And we have a memory verse.
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The memory verse is
from the book of Jude,
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and this is verse 9,
because there's only one
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chapter in the book of Jude.
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If you have your
quarterly with you,
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you can find this in your Bible.
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I'd encourage you, just
say it out loud with me.
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This is Jude verse 9.
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Here in your lesson, it's
from the New King James Version.
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You ready?
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"Yet Michael the archangel,
in contending with the devil,
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when he disputed
about the body of Moses,
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dared not bring against
him a reviling accusation,
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but he said, 'The
Lord rebuke you.'"
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It's talking about some contest
between Michael the archangel,
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and the devil,
and the body of Moses.
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And so this comes up a
little later in the lesson,
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so we'll take a
closer look at that.
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But if you go to section one,
it talks about the sin of Moses.
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Now, Moses, while he was a man,
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in many ways it
was a type of Christ.
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He was a human. How
many humans have sinned?
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All.
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Just the right
side of the auditorium?
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Just the left?
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Some of you
50/50 down the middle?
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It's everybody.
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You can even look at the person
on the left and the right and
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say, "You know,
you're a sinner,"
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and you'd be telling the truth.
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Don't do it, but you could.
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So, we're all
sinners except one person.
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Who is it that
lived a life without sin?
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Jesus.
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So, even though
Moses was a great man--
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and do you know
there's some Bible characters,
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you don't really find a record
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of the sin of
Daniel in the Bible.
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But you know,
Daniel in chapter 9,
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he says, "While I
was confessing my sin
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and the sin of my people--"
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He saw he was a sinner.
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Joseph, I mean
Joseph, he was so obedient,
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but you don't really find a
record of any sin in Joseph's
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life, but even
these godly people--
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Elijah, we read
that he was a man subject
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to like passions as we are.
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He struggled.
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He got discouraged
and afraid he might die.
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So, they were human.
So, don't get discouraged.
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But Christ was sinless.
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Even Moses, he made
some mistakes along the way.
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And if you look in your lesson,
the first section here talking
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about the sin of
Moses-- before I get to that,
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we're not going to get to
the big sin that kept him out
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of the Promised Land.
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First you read in
Exodus 2, verse 11,
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"It came to pass in those
days, when Moses was grown,
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and he went to his brethren,
and he looked at their burdens.
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And he saw an
Egyptian beating a Hebrew,
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one of his brethren.
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He looked this way and that--"
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He knew he was going to do
something to that taskmaster.
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So, he looked around to see
if there were any witnesses.
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"And when he saw no one, he
killed the Egyptian and hid him
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in the sand."
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Maybe he thought this was
going to be the first step in
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launching a revolution to help
all the slaves rise up and help
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him overwhelm the Egyptians.
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He had a sense that God wanted
to use him somehow to deliver
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his people from the Egyptians,
but that wasn't God's plan.
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He kind of acted on his own,
committed murder in the process.
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You go to Exodus 4.
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And when God calls him--
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this is after the 40
years in the wilderness-
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God calls Moses and says,
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"I want to use you,"
and he starts to equivocate
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and make all these excuses.
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And this is Exodus 4:13.
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"He said, 'O my Lord, please
send by the hand of whomever
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You will send.
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So the anger of the LORD
was kindled against Moses."
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Now, would God get angry
with Moses unless Moses had done
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something wrong?
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Does that make
sense? So, Moses sinned.
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He had said, "No, I
don't want to do it,
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and you get someone else.
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And look online,
you'll find somebody.
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I haven't spoken
Egyptian in years."
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And God said, "Who
made man's tongue?"
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And then you
read in Exodus 4:24,
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"And it came to pass on
the way, at the encampment,
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that the LORD met him
and sought to kill him."
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Now, this is--we
always get questions
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about this
interesting little episode.
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You just, you read the word,
"The LORD sought to kill him,"
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and it's almost like
God swung, and He missed.
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If God wants to kill
you, can He kill you?
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No, it means that He
was-- He had judgment.
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He had, like, the sword
of Damocles hanging over him,
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kind of like Balaam,
an angel with a sword.
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And he said, "If it
wasn't for the donkey,
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I would've slain you."
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And so, you know, sometimes
God shows you're on the verge
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of disaster, because Moses
was disobeying when it came
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to the covenant of circumcision.
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And so, we see that, you
know, in the life of Moses,
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that he was a
person, he loved the Lord,
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he wanted to serve the
Lord, but he made mistakes.
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But then finally, unfortunately,
near the end of his life,
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he's just about brought
the people to the borders
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of the Promised Land.
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Moses became exasperated.
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And you feel for
him, because you think,
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after all he's been through, to
kind of lose it on the borders
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of the Promised Land
like that, how tragic.
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Now, you read about this in
Numbers chapter 20, verse 7.
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"Then the LORD
spoke to Moses, saying,
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'Take the rod; you
and your brother Aaron
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gather the congregation--'"
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Now, this is happening because
they're out of water again.
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"'Gather the congregation
and speak to the rock
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before their eyes.'"
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What were they to do? To speak.
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And they were not to shout, and
they were not to beat the rock,
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they were to "'Speak to
the rock before their eyes,
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and it will yield its water.'"
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Now, this evidently had
happened several times because,
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you know, when they
first came out of Egypt,
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they drank water at
the springs of Marah,
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and then they went
further in the desert,
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and they had no water,
and they cried unto Moses,
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and Moses, he
struck the rock one time.
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Water came out of the rock,
and that was a type of Christ.
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That was only
supposed to happen one time.
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Jesus was only
smitten once for you,
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meaning, you know, there
was only one judgment of Christ.
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And but as they
went from place to place,
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it seems like this
miracle was repeated,
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because Paul says, "The rock
that followed them was Christ."
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And it talks about this rock
that living water came out of.
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And so, this had to
happen more than one time.
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"'Speak to the rock,
and it will yield its water;
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and you'll give the congregation
to drink and their animals.'"
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So, it must've been
quite a bit of water.
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"So Moses took the
rod from before the LORD
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as the LORD commanded him.
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And Moses and Aaron
gathered the assembly together
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before the rock;
and he said to them,
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'Hear now, ye rebels!
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Must we bring
water out of this rock?'
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Then Moses lifted up his hand,
and he struck the rock twice
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with his rod; and
water came out abundantly,
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and the congregation
and their animals drank.
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Then the LORD
spoke to Moses and Aaron,
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saying, 'Because
you did not believe Me,
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to hallow or to honor Me in the
eyes of the children of Israel,
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therefore you shall not bring
this assembly into the land that
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I have given them.'"
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Ooh, that's a
pretty heavy judgment.
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I mean, your whole life mission
has been to be used of God,
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to bring the people
into the Promised Land,
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and you're not far from the
borders of the Promised Land.
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You lose your
temper, and you sin.
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And now what was the
sin of Moses in this event?
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Some people think the Lord
is being pretty harsh on Moses.
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I mean, if you
had to lead this--
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the Bible says they were
stubborn and stiffnecked people.
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Several times, Moses said,
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"Lord, why do you
have me responsible
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for all these people?"
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He said, "Did I
bring them forth?
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I'm not their father.
Why have I got this burden?"
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And 40 years of
judging the people.
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Now, the Bible tells us
that Moses sat as a judge.
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First, he was
judging every little case,
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and then he got
some elders to help him,
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but he still was sitting
as sort of the supreme court,
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all their disputes.
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You know what a judge has to do?
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He's got to listen to
problems all day long,
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and he's got to find solutions.
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Can you see where
Moses would get tired?
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And how many times
did they lose faith?
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God, you know,
saves them from Egypt,
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through all the plagues.
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Then they lose faith there
at the borders of the Red Sea.
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And then God
parts the sea for them,
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which would, you know,
probably stick in my mind.
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Then they run out
of bread, and they say,
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"The Lord doesn't love us.
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He brought us out
here," to kill them.
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God gives them bread.
Then they run out of water.
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God gives them water.
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Then they're
attacked by their enemies.
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God delivers them
from their enemies.
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You think, time after time--
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they said, "Oh,
we need some meat."
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God sends them quail.
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Time after time,
when a miracle arose,
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and God answered their prayer,
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you think they'd
finally start behaving.
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But this goes right up to the
borders of the Promised Land.
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And can you understand maybe why
Moses would become exasperated?
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Now, are we a lot better
than the children of Israel?
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How many of you have
had God perform miracles
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of provision for
you in your life?
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Have you sometimes
forgotten His provision?
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When something goes wrong--
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you know, five minutes
of listening to the devil,
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you can forget all of
God's miracles and blessings
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in your life.
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It's just
amazing how that works.
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And Moses, I don't
know what happened.
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He was tired.
He was exasperated.
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And he and Aaron, they got
so angry, they struck the rock.
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They sort of berated the people.
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"You rebels."
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He struck it twice.
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God didn't tell
them to strike it at all.
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And evidently, he
had just lost his temper.
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Probably Moses had lost
his temper with some righteous
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indignation when he killed the
Egyptian earlier in his life.
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And yet, the Bible says he was
the meekest man that ever lived.
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So, what was the sin of Moses?
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I've got four things here that
I identify in this experience.
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One, God had commanded him
to take the rod in his hand,
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and to speak to the rock.
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Moses disobeyed,
and he smote the rock.
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Secondly, he
struck the rock twice,
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which indicated an anger of
spirit and a want of attention
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to the presence of God.
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He forgot that he
was a messenger for God,
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and God was there.
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Three, he permitted his spirit
to be overwhelmed by his sense
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of the people's
hardness of heart;
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and thus, being provoked,
was led to speak unadvisedly
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with his lips.
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"Hear now, ye rebels."
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That's not what
God told him to say.
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And four, he
did not glorify God,
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but he took the
glory and the honor
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for this miracle on himself.
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He said, "Must we bring
you water out of the rock?"
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Moses was not a magician.
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Now, the interesting thing about
this is even though Moses did
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all of those things
wrong, did God still bring water
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out of the rock?
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I wonder how many times
God has answered our prayers,
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even though we pray wrong.
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And sometimes God has blessed,
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even though the
messenger is flawed.
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I remind myself
of that frequently,
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that the Word of
God has inherent power.
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And even though I
could be a flawed vehicle,
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God can still
perform a miracle for you.
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I remember meeting a man
that said he came to the Lord at
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listening to an evangelistic
program by an evangelist
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that was later arrested
for living a double life.
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But while the
evangelist was up preaching,
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he was saying
things that were true.
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This man gave
his heart to Jesus.
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Even though the evangelist, at
the very time he was preaching,
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was misbehaving badly with
finances and with girlfriends,
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and that struck me.
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This was years ago, when I
was pastoring in New Mexico.
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This guy, he
just said, "You know,
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his sermon
brought me to the Lord."
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I thought, the Lord used him.
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And then I
remember God can speak
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through a donkey, right?
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So, God performed the
miracle because He's God,
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even though Moses did not
go about it the right way.
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So, Moses sinned, and
there are severe consequences
00:19:36.81\00:19:40.04
for that sin.
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What did God say?
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"You will not bring the
congregation into the land."
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There probably couldn't
have been any keener punishment.
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He was looking forward
to making the final delivery
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of the package, if
you know what I mean.
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So, this was a
great disappointment.
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In Deuteronomy 1, verse
36, Moses now is rehearsing
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the experience of
the children of Israel,
00:20:03.50\00:20:07.44
and he said that no one's
going to enter the Promised Land
00:20:07.47\00:20:10.04
from that original group
that are over 20 years of age,
00:20:10.07\00:20:13.21
"'except Caleb
the son of Jephunneh;
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he shall see it, to him and all
his children I'm giving the land
00:20:16.04\00:20:19.05
on which he walked, because
he wholly followed the LORD.'
00:20:19.08\00:20:22.25
The LORD was also
angry with me for your sakes,
00:20:22.28\00:20:26.09
saying, 'Even you
shall not enter in here.
00:20:26.12\00:20:29.89
Joshua the son of
Nun, who stands before you,
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he will go in there.
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Encourage him, for he
will cause the children
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of Israel to inherit it.'"
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There's several things
I want yo to notice here.
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First of all, it might have been
a little bit hard when you know
00:20:38.77\00:20:43.04
somebody is replacing you
because you've performed poorly.
00:20:43.07\00:20:46.61
And then the boss says, "I want
you to train them and tell them
00:20:46.64\00:20:51.21
everything you know 'cause
they're gonna take your place
00:20:51.25\00:20:53.31
when you're fired."
00:20:53.35\00:20:55.62
How do you like that assignment?
00:20:55.65\00:20:58.22
"We've hired your replacement.
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Encourage them.
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Teach them, train them
'cause you're not going
00:21:01.96\00:21:03.96
into the Promised Land.
00:21:03.99\00:21:05.29
You don't get your retirement."
00:21:05.33\00:21:08.60
But he took that well.
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The other thing is
don't miss the Word.
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Do you have your Bibles open?
00:21:13.67\00:21:16.20
I want you to
highlight a verse, if you do.
00:21:16.24\00:21:18.47
If you look here,
I read through it,
00:21:18.51\00:21:19.81
but I don't know
if you caught it.
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Deuteronomy 3, verse 26.
00:21:21.18\00:21:24.55
"But the LORD was angry
with me on your account,
00:21:24.58\00:21:30.32
and would not listen to me."
00:21:30.35\00:21:33.66
Who does that remind you of?
00:21:33.69\00:21:37.49
Who took the anger of
the Lord on our account?
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Jesus.
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Moses is the great mediator.
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He is one of the most powerful
types of Christ in the Bible.
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Did the devil try to
kill Jesus as a baby?
00:21:47.84\00:21:51.34
Did the devil try to
kill Moses as a baby?
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He did.
00:21:54.38\00:21:55.71
Did--was Moses
born among slaves,
00:21:55.74\00:21:59.58
but he was never a slave?
00:21:59.61\00:22:01.12
Jesus was born among sinners,
but He was never a sinner.
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Was Moses the great mediator
that went between God and man?
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A mediator, of course,
is, you know, a go-between.
00:22:08.42\00:22:10.83
Moses said, "I'll
speak to the Lord,
00:22:10.86\00:22:12.16
and then I'll come
and I'll speak to you,
00:22:12.19\00:22:13.50
and then I'll go back
and speak to the Lord."
00:22:13.53\00:22:15.70
Went up the mountain. And
Christ is our intercessor.
00:22:15.73\00:22:19.67
You see a picture of Joshua
leading the children of Israel
00:22:19.70\00:22:22.24
into battle with the Amalekites,
and Moses was standing
00:22:22.27\00:22:24.71
on the mountain with
his arms outstretched.
00:22:24.74\00:22:26.94
And as long as the people see
him with his arms stretched out,
00:22:26.98\00:22:29.74
interceding for
them, they're victorious.
00:22:29.78\00:22:32.01
When his arms get tired,
and they go down, they lose.
00:22:32.05\00:22:34.62
So, Aaron and Hur lift
his arms back up, they win.
00:22:34.65\00:22:38.12
There's lose, win;
lose, lose, lose, lose; win.
00:22:38.15\00:22:42.22
But they noticed
there was a connection.
00:22:42.26\00:22:44.09
What does that say to us?
00:22:44.13\00:22:45.93
When we see Jesus on
that hill, on the cross,
00:22:45.96\00:22:48.26
with His arms stretched out, and
we know that He's interceding
00:22:48.30\00:22:52.43
now with His hands
stretched out before the Father,
00:22:52.47\00:22:55.27
that it is encouraging us in the
battle against the enemy, amen?
00:22:55.30\00:23:01.88
So, he says, "The LORD was
angry with me on your account."
00:23:01.91\00:23:05.75
You know, even though there's
great people in the Bible,
00:23:05.78\00:23:08.35
sometimes they don't always get
everything they may have wanted.
00:23:08.38\00:23:13.89
What was the big
desire of David's heart?
00:23:13.92\00:23:18.73
He wanted to build
a temple for the Lord.
00:23:18.76\00:23:22.26
And he had been a
shepherd living in tents,
00:23:22.30\00:23:24.67
and he saw the tabernacle
of the Lord was in a tent.
00:23:24.70\00:23:28.24
But finally, David became king,
and he had a beautiful house,
00:23:28.27\00:23:30.41
but the tabernacle
was still in the tent--
00:23:30.44\00:23:32.24
or the ark was still in a
tent, and he wanted to build it.
00:23:32.27\00:23:36.31
And first Nathan
said, "Go for it.
00:23:36.34\00:23:37.65
The Lord is with you, David."
00:23:37.68\00:23:39.11
Then God spoke to
Nathan the prophet and said,
00:23:39.15\00:23:40.45
"Go back, tell David,
'No, you're a bloody man.
00:23:40.48\00:23:43.89
You cannot build it
for me, but your son--
00:23:43.92\00:23:45.75
his name is Solomon, or peace--
he will build me a house.
00:23:45.79\00:23:50.79
Your son will build me a
house that will last forever.'"
00:23:50.83\00:23:53.36
Jesus is the Son of David who
built the house for the Lord.
00:23:53.40\00:23:57.37
David didn't get to fulfill
his promise of doing it himself.
00:23:57.40\00:24:00.94
So, he made every
provision for his son.
00:24:00.97\00:24:03.74
Moses did not get to bring the
people into the Promised Land,
00:24:03.77\00:24:06.27
so he made every
provision for Joshua.
00:24:06.31\00:24:09.08
And the book of Deuteronomy
was sort of the final message
00:24:09.11\00:24:12.88
of encouragement,
rehearsing the history.
00:24:12.91\00:24:16.08
I think I told you it's one
of the most important books,
00:24:16.12\00:24:18.89
because it's the book Jesus
quotes from three times when
00:24:18.92\00:24:22.56
He's tempted by the devil.
00:24:22.59\00:24:24.23
All three times, He
quotes from Deuteronomy.
00:24:24.26\00:24:27.60
When the nation of
Israel had lost the Word of God,
00:24:27.60\00:24:31.80
and Hilkiah the priest
was cleaning out the temple,
00:24:31.83\00:24:33.64
he says, "We've
found the book of the law."
00:24:33.67\00:24:36.14
They had found the
book of Deuteronomy,
00:24:36.17\00:24:39.01
and that
brought about a revival.
00:24:39.04\00:24:40.88
So, the message
here is very powerful.
00:24:40.91\00:24:43.18
Moses writes that book after he
knows he's not going to make it
00:24:43.21\00:24:48.18
into the
Promised Land physically.
00:24:48.22\00:24:51.65
So, then we've
got the next section,
00:24:51.69\00:24:53.29
the sin of Moses, part two.
00:24:53.32\00:24:55.79
Deuteronomy 31, verse 1 and 2,
00:24:55.82\00:24:58.69
"Then Moses went and spoke
these words to all of Israel.
00:24:58.73\00:25:02.03
He said to them: 'I am
one hundred and twenty years
00:25:02.06\00:25:04.63
old today.
00:25:04.67\00:25:05.97
I can no longer
go out and come in.
00:25:06.00\00:25:08.77
Also the LORD has said to me,
00:25:08.80\00:25:10.64
'You shall not
cross over this Jordan.'"
00:25:10.67\00:25:13.64
Moses was
realizing his limitations.
00:25:13.68\00:25:16.54
And he said--now, when
it says he's 120 years old,
00:25:16.58\00:25:19.61
and he said, "I
can't go out and come in,"
00:25:19.65\00:25:22.45
I don't think it
means that Moses was feeble.
00:25:22.48\00:25:25.29
Because you read
later, before he died,
00:25:25.32\00:25:27.39
he climbs a mountain, and the
Bible says his natural force was
00:25:27.42\00:25:31.26
not abated, and his
eyes had not dimmed.
00:25:31.29\00:25:34.73
I think he's
telling them, you know,
00:25:34.76\00:25:36.43
"I can't go into
the Promised Land.
00:25:36.46\00:25:38.63
I can't continue to go out and
come in and lead you anymore,"
00:25:38.67\00:25:41.84
as he had done.
00:25:41.87\00:25:43.17
He had been going in and
coming out to the tabernacle
00:25:43.20\00:25:44.97
as their representative,
and the time was going to end.
00:25:45.01\00:25:49.01
Deuteronomy 34, verse 1, "Then
Moses went up from the plains
00:25:49.04\00:25:53.58
of Moab to Mount
Nebo, to the top of Pisgah,
00:25:53.62\00:25:57.22
which is across from Jericho.
00:25:57.25\00:25:59.62
And the Lord showed him all the
land of Gilead as far as Dan,
00:25:59.65\00:26:03.19
and all Naphtali."
00:26:03.22\00:26:04.53
Now, why does God show him this?
00:26:04.56\00:26:07.76
You know, God said, "Look,
I know how much you wanted
00:26:07.83\00:26:10.23
to lead them into the land, but
I'm going to give you a vision
00:26:10.27\00:26:13.00
of the land."
00:26:13.03\00:26:14.34
Now, we've been in
that country before.
00:26:14.37\00:26:17.54
And from the
top of Mount Pisgah,
00:26:17.57\00:26:19.57
or Nebo--and when
you sing in your hymnal,
00:26:19.61\00:26:23.51
you'll be surprised there are
several songs that talk about
00:26:23.55\00:26:25.88
from Pisgah's lofty
heights, or something like that.
00:26:25.91\00:26:28.38
It's referring to the mountain
where Moses saw the Promised
00:26:28.42\00:26:31.19
Land from this mountain.
00:26:31.22\00:26:33.36
But you can't see all the places
00:26:33.39\00:26:36.73
that are mentioned
here with natural eyes.
00:26:36.76\00:26:39.69
If you've got eagle vision,
you can't see all these places,
00:26:39.73\00:26:42.96
because they were
hidden by other mountains.
00:26:43.00\00:26:45.40
So, when it says
God showed him this,
00:26:45.43\00:26:47.00
he saw it in a
supernatural vision here.
00:26:47.04\00:26:50.74
He says--let me go back
here to Deuteronomy chapter 4,
00:26:50.77\00:26:54.74
and you can read here, and
it says it showed him the land
00:26:54.78\00:26:57.85
across the land of
Gilead as far as Dan.
00:26:57.88\00:27:00.35
That's way up in the north.
00:27:00.38\00:27:01.85
All of Naphtali and the
land of Ephraim and Manasseh,
00:27:01.88\00:27:05.15
and all the land of Judah
as far as the Western Sea.
00:27:05.19\00:27:07.96
Now, for one thing, had the
children of Israel had their
00:27:07.99\00:27:10.76
land divided to them yet?
00:27:10.79\00:27:13.80
No, the land had
not even been divided.
00:27:13.83\00:27:15.83
So, how is it God's
showing him the land of Judah,
00:27:15.86\00:27:18.83
and He's showing him
the land of Manasseh.
00:27:18.87\00:27:20.60
They hadn't even cast
lots to figure out whose land
00:27:20.64\00:27:22.14
was whose land.
00:27:22.17\00:27:23.71
God is showing Moses
in a vision the land.
00:27:23.74\00:27:28.18
You know, it's kind of fun.
00:27:28.21\00:27:31.05
How many of you have a drone?
00:27:31.08\00:27:34.58
One, two,
three, four, five, six.
00:27:34.62\00:27:40.72
I don't have a drone.
Amazing Facts has a drone.
00:27:40.76\00:27:42.86
They're really neat because you
can get an aerial perspective.
00:27:42.89\00:27:47.83
And they're using
drones for all kinds of things.
00:27:47.86\00:27:50.37
And you know, people
get lost in the woods,
00:27:50.40\00:27:52.63
they're sending up a
drone to go find them now.
00:27:52.67\00:27:54.87
And if folks are
hiking down a trail,
00:27:54.90\00:27:56.20
and they don't
know which way to turn,
00:27:56.24\00:27:57.54
they send the drone up,
and they go look around.
00:27:57.57\00:27:58.97
And movies are almost
exclusively using drones,
00:27:59.01\00:28:01.94
where they used
to use helicopters
00:28:01.98\00:28:03.28
to get these great shots.
00:28:03.31\00:28:04.61
It's really great
00:28:04.65\00:28:05.95
'cause it gives you an
interesting perspective.
00:28:05.98\00:28:07.92
On the website of our church,
you'll see the opening shot
00:28:07.95\00:28:12.29
is a video.
00:28:12.32\00:28:13.62
It's a flyover of
the church with a drone.
00:28:13.66\00:28:15.62
Well, God actually gave him
sort of, like, a drone shot of
00:28:15.66\00:28:18.93
the Promised Land, but He didn't
show it to them the way it was.
00:28:18.96\00:28:22.63
I think He showed them the
Promised Land at its zenith
00:28:22.66\00:28:25.27
of glory, the land
flowing with milk and honey.
00:28:25.30\00:28:29.40
Now, whenever you say that--
00:28:29.44\00:28:30.74
if you've ever been
to Israel, and you know--
00:28:30.77\00:28:33.68
I remember reading
in the Bible about this
00:28:33.71\00:28:35.41
land flowing
with milk and honey.
00:28:35.44\00:28:37.35
And then you read
the stories in the Bible.
00:28:37.38\00:28:38.75
You know, Absalom's
riding through the woods,
00:28:38.78\00:28:40.65
and he gets his
head caught in a tree.
00:28:40.68\00:28:42.35
And Jonathan's
going through the woods,
00:28:42.38\00:28:44.15
and honey is
dripping from the trees.
00:28:44.19\00:28:46.02
And you hear about the woods.
00:28:46.05\00:28:48.52
And then you go to Israel,
and it's a lot of desert,
00:28:48.56\00:28:54.73
and you don't
see a lot of honey,
00:28:54.76\00:28:56.06
and you don't see a lot of milk,
00:28:56.10\00:28:57.40
and you don't
see a lot of woods.
00:28:57.43\00:28:58.73
And you're going, what happened?
00:28:58.77\00:29:00.90
Well, this has been one of the
most conquered lands in history.
00:29:00.94\00:29:05.27
I'll tell you a little secret
that one of our tour guides
00:29:05.31\00:29:07.34
told us is there was one ruler.
00:29:07.38\00:29:09.84
I don't know if it was
Suleman the Magnificent,
00:29:09.88\00:29:11.88
but one of the Muslim rulers
that he decided to tax people
00:29:11.91\00:29:15.88
based on how many
trees they had on their land.
00:29:15.92\00:29:19.09
Well, what would you do if
you're being taxed on the number
00:29:19.12\00:29:21.72
of trees you have on your land?
00:29:21.76\00:29:24.29
They cut them down.
00:29:24.33\00:29:25.83
Do you know why the
homes are so narrow in Holland?
00:29:25.86\00:29:30.20
Because they
taxed people based on
00:29:30.23\00:29:32.23
how much street
frontage they had.
00:29:32.27\00:29:35.27
So, you know
what the people did?
00:29:35.30\00:29:36.71
They built their houses
where they were 8 feet wide and
00:29:36.74\00:29:39.14
7 stories tall.
00:29:39.17\00:29:42.31
It's interesting what
people do to avoid taxes.
00:29:42.34\00:29:45.21
So, they cut down all the
trees in the Promised Land,
00:29:45.25\00:29:47.22
and then they were conquered
by a couple of nations who came
00:29:47.25\00:29:49.02
through, and they
sowed salt in the land,
00:29:49.05\00:29:53.56
and it destroyed
the farming ability.
00:29:53.59\00:29:55.49
And so, the land you see now
00:29:55.52\00:29:57.79
is not like the
land there was then.
00:29:57.83\00:29:59.86
Indeed, you read about Job.
00:29:59.89\00:30:02.90
Job talks about his
flocks, and his herds,
00:30:02.93\00:30:04.53
and his camels, and
his sheep, and his donkeys,
00:30:04.57\00:30:06.27
and all the livestock he had.
00:30:06.30\00:30:08.27
Job lived in an
area that is desert now.
00:30:08.30\00:30:11.24
So, the climate has changed
in the last 2000, 3000 years,
00:30:11.27\00:30:16.98
from the time of
Moses 3500 years ago.
00:30:17.01\00:30:21.32
Things were different back then.
00:30:21.35\00:30:23.69
And God showed him this
land that was beautiful,
00:30:23.72\00:30:30.06
farming land, springs of
water, lots of vegetation,
00:30:30.09\00:30:34.46
forests, a beautiful land.
00:30:34.46\00:30:37.17
There was fruit.
00:30:37.20\00:30:38.50
They had grapes
that were so big,
00:30:38.53\00:30:39.83
it took two men to carry
one cluster of grapes back then.
00:30:39.87\00:30:43.07
That's before the Jews
even started farming it.
00:30:43.10\00:30:46.04
So, it must have
been a beautiful land.
00:30:46.07\00:30:48.31
So, God shows him
this because He loves him.
00:30:48.34\00:30:52.61
And it says, "I cause
you to see it with your eyes,
00:30:52.65\00:30:55.25
but you will not
cross over there."
00:30:55.28\00:30:58.05
So, God gives him this
beautiful vision of the land,
00:30:58.09\00:31:02.89
but God tells him then
he's got to climb the mountain.
00:31:02.92\00:31:07.03
And you can read here in
Numbers chapter 21, verse--
00:31:07.10\00:31:13.70
Numbers 20, verse 1.
00:31:13.74\00:31:15.57
"The children of
Israel, the whole congregation,
00:31:15.60\00:31:17.57
came into the Wilderness
of Zin in the first month,
00:31:17.61\00:31:21.18
and the people stayed in Kadesh;
00:31:21.21\00:31:22.64
and Miriam died there
and was buried there."
00:31:22.68\00:31:26.92
Who's Miriam?
00:31:26.95\00:31:28.65
Moses's older
sister who had saved him.
00:31:28.68\00:31:31.49
Numbers 20, verse 23,
"And the LORD spoke to Aaron,
00:31:31.52\00:31:35.29
Moses and Aaron in Mount Hor by
the borders of the land of Edom,
00:31:35.32\00:31:38.33
saying: 'Aaron shall
be gathered to his people,
00:31:38.36\00:31:41.10
he shall not enter the land that
I've given to the children of
00:31:41.13\00:31:43.23
Israel, because you
rebelled against My word
00:31:43.26\00:31:45.80
at the waters of Meribah.'"
00:31:45.83\00:31:47.67
So, not only Moses, but
Aaron was there with him,
00:31:47.70\00:31:49.77
he could not enter.
00:31:49.80\00:31:51.61
And then with everyone watching,
Aaron now takes off his regal
00:31:51.64\00:31:54.98
robes, and he
gives them to his son.
00:31:55.01\00:31:57.71
Aaron is basically stripped, and
he has to now pass the baton on
00:31:57.75\00:32:04.42
to his son, just as
Moses later does with Joshua.
00:32:04.45\00:32:08.56
And it says, "Now Aaron died,
and the house of Israel mourned
00:32:08.59\00:32:12.69
for him for thirty days."
00:32:12.73\00:32:14.46
Now you go to
the death of Moses.
00:32:14.50\00:32:16.30
We can't have the
resurrection of Moses
00:32:16.33\00:32:17.67
until we have
the death of Moses.
00:32:17.70\00:32:19.33
Deuteronomy 34, verse 5, "So
Moses the servant of the LORD
00:32:19.37\00:32:23.61
died there on
top of Mount Nebo."
00:32:23.64\00:32:26.04
Now, that, he
climbs this mountain alone.
00:32:26.07\00:32:29.24
That must've been
a lonely situation.
00:32:29.28\00:32:32.11
You know, in the book,
"Patriarchs and Prophets,"
00:32:32.15\00:32:34.92
page 440, the author
there comments on this.
00:32:34.95\00:32:38.99
"Moses knew that
he was to die alone.
00:32:39.02\00:32:42.22
No earthly friend would be
permitted to minister to him
00:32:42.26\00:32:44.83
in his last hours.
00:32:44.86\00:32:46.46
There was a mystery and
an awfulness about the scene
00:32:46.49\00:32:48.46
before him, from
which his heart shrank.
00:32:48.50\00:32:50.93
The severest trail was
his separation from the people
00:32:50.97\00:32:53.90
of his care and his love, the
people with whom his interests
00:32:53.94\00:32:57.67
and his life had
so long been united.
00:32:57.71\00:32:59.64
But he had learned to trust God.
00:32:59.67\00:33:01.64
And with unquestioning faith, he
committed himself to Him and His
00:33:01.68\00:33:05.45
people to His love and mercy."
00:33:05.48\00:33:10.15
Jesus was separated
from the Father for our sin,
00:33:10.19\00:33:13.59
and Moses was separated
from the people for their sin.
00:33:13.62\00:33:17.86
And he died alone.
00:33:17.89\00:33:19.33
But you know, it's beautiful
when you think about it.
00:33:19.36\00:33:22.06
There's a couple of
services pastors perform,
00:33:22.10\00:33:27.00
and you've got the baptisms, got
marriages, you have funerals.
00:33:27.04\00:33:31.11
Having baptism today.
00:33:31.14\00:33:33.31
Who performed
the first marriage?
00:33:33.34\00:33:39.28
God did for Adam and Eve.
00:33:39.31\00:33:42.05
Says he presented Eve to Adam.
00:33:42.08\00:33:47.12
Who did Moses's funeral?
00:33:47.16\00:33:50.13
It says the Lord buried him.
00:33:50.16\00:33:53.50
Wouldn't that be something,
as the angels look on?
00:33:53.53\00:33:55.26
This faithful
servant, after all those years,
00:33:55.30\00:33:57.93
we read that God is the
one who performed the service.
00:33:57.97\00:34:01.47
It says, "According
to the word of the LORD,
00:34:01.50\00:34:03.74
he died there, and He,"
verse 6 of Deuteronomy 24,
00:34:03.77\00:34:07.44
"He buried him."
00:34:07.48\00:34:09.28
You know, you see a
picture of God taking the earth
00:34:09.31\00:34:11.08
and making Adam.
00:34:11.11\00:34:12.65
Here you've got
God taking the earth
00:34:12.68\00:34:14.85
and covering it over Moses.
00:34:14.88\00:34:17.02
"He buried him in the
valley, in the land of Moab,
00:34:17.05\00:34:19.69
opposite Beth
Peor; but no one knows
00:34:19.72\00:34:22.26
of his grave to this day."
00:34:22.29\00:34:24.63
Why?
00:34:24.66\00:34:26.13
God did not want
them to make it a shrine
00:34:26.16\00:34:28.53
that they would worship at.
00:34:28.56\00:34:30.40
That's the last thing that
Moses would've wanted as well.
00:34:30.43\00:34:32.83
So, He hid it.
00:34:32.87\00:34:34.34
"Moses was one hundred and
twenty years old when he died.
00:34:34.37\00:34:37.54
His eyes were not dim nor
his natural vigor diminished.
00:34:37.57\00:34:42.64
And the children of Israel wept
for Moses in the plains thirty
00:34:42.68\00:34:45.61
days," like they did for Aaron.
00:34:45.65\00:34:47.82
"So the days of weeping
and mourning for Moses ended."
00:34:47.85\00:34:50.15
By the way, do you realize
there's a 100% death rate?
00:34:50.19\00:34:54.16
If Jesus doesn't come,
and you're not translated,
00:34:54.19\00:34:57.06
you'll die.
00:34:57.09\00:34:58.39
But there are good ways to die,
and there are bad ways to die.
00:34:58.43\00:35:02.06
You ought to do everything
you can to die like Moses,
00:35:02.10\00:35:06.20
where you don't die over
the last 20 years of your life
00:35:06.23\00:35:10.01
because of bad living habits.
00:35:10.04\00:35:12.34
You know what I'm saying?
00:35:12.37\00:35:14.08
And you're debilitated,
you're not functioning.
00:35:14.11\00:35:18.15
You want to be able to
be busy 'til the last day.
00:35:18.18\00:35:21.48
In the little church that I used
to pastor up in the hills of
00:35:21.52\00:35:25.65
Covelo, this church was really
founded by a bunch of retired
00:35:25.69\00:35:28.26
people, but they were
all very, very dedicated,
00:35:28.29\00:35:31.39
and they lived a long time.
00:35:31.43\00:35:32.76
We had one member 111.
00:35:32.79\00:35:35.33
And it was interesting that they
kind of like fell over in their
00:35:35.36\00:35:40.67
gardens, 95 years old.
00:35:40.70\00:35:43.47
"Yeah, we found
Monte." "Where was he?"
00:35:43.51\00:35:45.14
"In his garden."
00:35:45.17\00:35:46.47
You know, they
were busy to the end.
00:35:46.51\00:35:48.11
I thought, "That's
how you want to go," amen?
00:35:48.14\00:35:51.05
Take care of yourself.
And then the Lord buried him.
00:35:51.08\00:35:56.05
Now we've got the
resurrection of Moses.
00:35:56.08\00:35:59.02
Jude verse 9, "Yet
Michael the archangel,
00:35:59.05\00:36:02.12
in contending with the
devil, when he disputed about
00:36:02.16\00:36:05.13
the body of Moses, he dared
not bring against him a railing
00:36:05.16\00:36:08.00
or reviling accusation, but he
said, 'The Lord rebuke thee.'"
00:36:08.03\00:36:12.93
Now who else rebuked the
devil when they were tempted?
00:36:12.97\00:36:17.44
Jesus did.
00:36:17.47\00:36:18.97
Michael the archangel.
00:36:19.01\00:36:21.41
Who is Michael the archangel?
00:36:21.44\00:36:23.04
We've got to talk
about that before we talk
00:36:23.08\00:36:24.75
about the resurrection of Moses.
00:36:24.78\00:36:26.98
Now, I always address
this with some trepidation;
00:36:27.02\00:36:29.42
because when you tell people
what the Bible says on this,
00:36:29.45\00:36:31.72
it can kind of shock them.
00:36:31.75\00:36:34.62
And a lot of people, especially
in the Catholic world or the
00:36:34.66\00:36:36.89
orthodox churches, they
talk about these angels,
00:36:36.93\00:36:39.63
and they've got
Michael, and they've got Rafael,
00:36:39.66\00:36:40.96
and there may be some others.
00:36:41.00\00:36:42.30
And they've named these
angels, and they worship them.
00:36:42.33\00:36:43.63
They've got statues of them,
and they think they're angels.
00:36:43.67\00:36:48.47
Well, nowhere in the Bible
is it telling us that there are
00:36:48.50\00:36:51.67
multiple archangels.
00:36:51.71\00:36:53.61
The word archangel means
the highest, or the chief.
00:36:53.64\00:36:57.48
It's like you've got--the
word archangelos in Greek,
00:36:57.51\00:37:01.75
it means the highest.
00:37:01.78\00:37:03.32
An arch, a Roman arch, you've
got the keystone at the top.
00:37:03.35\00:37:07.22
It was the highest.
00:37:07.26\00:37:08.82
And this is a
description of Christ.
00:37:08.86\00:37:11.03
The word angel means messenger.
00:37:11.06\00:37:13.60
Now, alert, now hear this.
00:37:13.63\00:37:16.00
I am not saying
that Jesus is an angel.
00:37:16.03\00:37:18.43
Jesus is not a cherub.
Jesus is not a seraphim.
00:37:18.47\00:37:22.30
The Bible is telling us that
one of the titles for Christ,
00:37:22.34\00:37:25.31
when He would appear in
the Old Testament in the form
00:37:25.34\00:37:29.58
of an angel, Christ,
it's called a Christophany.
00:37:29.61\00:37:32.05
All theologians agree with
that, that when the Lord spoke
00:37:32.08\00:37:35.12
to Abraham--here's one example.
00:37:35.15\00:37:38.15
When Joshua is fighting
against the people of Ai,
00:37:38.19\00:37:43.32
it says he saw this man of war.
00:37:43.36\00:37:48.53
And Joshua said, "Are you
for us or for our enemies?"
00:37:48.56\00:37:51.90
He said, "Neither, but
I've come as the Commander
00:37:51.93\00:37:53.54
of the Lord's host."
00:37:53.57\00:37:55.04
He said, "Take your
shoes off your feet;
00:37:55.07\00:37:56.71
for where you
stand is holy ground."
00:37:56.74\00:37:58.71
Same thing He said to Moses.
00:37:58.74\00:38:00.94
That was the same
Lord who appeared to Moses
00:38:00.98\00:38:04.05
in the burning bush when he
took his shoes off the feet.
00:38:04.08\00:38:06.25
Joshua falls down to worship
Him and addresses Him as Lord,
00:38:06.28\00:38:10.85
but He appears as the
angel of the Lord's army.
00:38:10.89\00:38:13.72
That's Michael the archangel.
00:38:13.76\00:38:15.49
That's Christ.
00:38:15.52\00:38:18.19
Even Moses said, "The
angel that will lead you
00:38:18.23\00:38:21.50
through the wilderness."
00:38:21.53\00:38:22.83
And he said, "The Lord
will raise up a servant like me.
00:38:22.86\00:38:25.17
Him you will hear."
00:38:25.20\00:38:26.50
That's Christ.
00:38:26.53\00:38:27.84
Now, let's look at some
of the evidence that helps us
00:38:27.87\00:38:29.30
understand this.
00:38:29.34\00:38:30.57
First of all, the Bible tells
it pretty clearly in Hebrews,
00:38:30.61\00:38:34.04
that Jesus is much
higher than the angels.
00:38:34.08\00:38:38.18
Jesus is the eternal Son of God.
00:38:38.21\00:38:41.05
Are you all
listening very carefully?
00:38:41.08\00:38:42.58
And especially
folks who are watching.
00:38:42.62\00:38:44.25
We're not saying
Jesus is an angel.
00:38:44.29\00:38:46.39
We're saying that one
of the titles for Christ
00:38:46.42\00:38:48.39
in the Old Testament
was Michael the archangel.
00:38:48.42\00:38:50.36
The very name Michael
means, "Who is as God."
00:38:50.39\00:38:54.93
The greatest messenger
who is as God, that's Jesus.
00:38:54.93\00:38:59.37
You read in 1
Thessalonians chapter 4,
00:38:59.40\00:39:01.77
"The Lord himself will descend
from heaven with a shout,
00:39:01.80\00:39:04.74
with the voice
of the archangel."
00:39:04.77\00:39:06.44
Who has the
voice of the archangel?
00:39:06.47\00:39:09.08
The Lord himself
shall descend from heaven,
00:39:09.11\00:39:12.15
the voice of the archangel.
00:39:12.18\00:39:15.02
Daniel chapter 12, "At
that time Michael will stand up,
00:39:15.05\00:39:18.52
the great prince that stands
for the children of thy people."
00:39:18.55\00:39:21.19
It means He
stands in our behalf,
00:39:21.22\00:39:22.52
stands as our intercessor.
00:39:22.56\00:39:23.86
Who is the great prince
that stands as our intercessor?
00:39:23.89\00:39:27.60
It's Jesus, right?
00:39:27.60\00:39:29.70
That is, when Christ stands up,
and He ceases His intercession
00:39:29.73\00:39:33.30
as--when a judge stands up, this
great time of trouble begins.
00:39:33.34\00:39:38.21
Then you also read that
it says that Michael comes
00:39:38.24\00:39:41.44
to resurrect the body of Moses.
00:39:41.48\00:39:43.38
Now, there's no record
in the Bible of this event.
00:39:43.41\00:39:47.05
There is a Jewish tradition
that's probably based on truth,
00:39:47.08\00:39:51.09
that three days after Moses
died, the Lord raised him up.
00:39:51.12\00:39:55.72
It's in a book called,
"The Assumption of Moses."
00:39:55.76\00:40:00.43
Sometimes it's called,
"The Testament of Moses."
00:40:00.46\00:40:02.60
This is an extrabiblical book
that's probably written during
00:40:02.63\00:40:05.93
the Babylonian captivity.
00:40:05.97\00:40:07.27
They don't know, but it
was based on some traditions.
00:40:07.30\00:40:10.21
And it says after
three days God raised him.
00:40:10.24\00:40:12.21
That part's probably true.
00:40:12.24\00:40:14.44
And how do we know
that Moses was raised?
00:40:14.48\00:40:19.95
You read about him appearing,
and we'll get to that in a
00:40:19.98\00:40:22.22
moment, in the Mount of
Transfiguration experience
00:40:22.25\00:40:26.29
you find in March chapter 9.
00:40:26.32\00:40:29.12
So, Revelation
chapter 12, verse 7,
00:40:29.16\00:40:34.60
it says, "Michael
fought and his angels,
00:40:34.63\00:40:38.60
and the dragon and
his angels fought."
00:40:38.63\00:40:40.60
Now, who is the dragon?
00:40:40.64\00:40:44.04
Is the devil really a
dragon, or is the word "dragon"
00:40:44.07\00:40:46.84
a symbolic name for the devil?
00:40:46.88\00:40:49.54
Dragon is a symbolic name.
00:40:49.58\00:40:50.88
Then why would we be surprised
00:40:50.91\00:40:52.55
if Michael is a
symbolic name for Christ?
00:40:52.58\00:40:56.72
So, when you're reading
about Michael in the Bible,
00:40:56.75\00:40:59.72
this is usually a
preincarnation title for Jesus,
00:40:59.75\00:41:05.46
the great
messenger to our world.
00:41:05.49\00:41:07.36
Jesus is the Son of
God. Jesus is divine.
00:41:07.40\00:41:10.27
He's eternal. We believe that.
00:41:10.30\00:41:12.10
But in the Old Testament,
he's sometimes referred
00:41:12.13\00:41:14.30
to as Michael.
00:41:14.34\00:41:15.64
And by the way, this is
not theology of our church.
00:41:15.67\00:41:18.67
Charles Spurgeon, Matthew Henry,
many of the great commentators,
00:41:18.71\00:41:21.58
they say the same thing,
00:41:21.61\00:41:23.45
because they have
done the detective work.
00:41:23.48\00:41:24.85
They've put the pieces together.
00:41:24.88\00:41:26.35
So, when Jesus comes for
the body of Moses after three
00:41:26.38\00:41:30.95
days--another way in which
Christ is similar to Moses or
00:41:30.99\00:41:34.86
Moses to Christ, the devil
says, "You can't have him."
00:41:34.89\00:41:38.96
Says, "He sinned." And
Michael doesn't engage him.
00:41:38.99\00:41:43.43
He says, you know,
"He's repented of his sin.
00:41:43.47\00:41:45.97
The Lord rebuke thee."
00:41:46.00\00:41:47.94
And he raises him up.
00:41:47.97\00:41:50.14
You know, the devil is
the accuser of the brethren.
00:41:50.17\00:41:52.11
The devil is the one who stood
there and accused Joshua the
00:41:52.14\00:41:54.51
high priest and said,
"Look at his filthy garments."
00:41:54.54\00:41:57.28
The Lord rebukes him and
gives Joshua clean garments.
00:41:57.31\00:42:02.05
The devil is not
wanting you to go to heaven,
00:42:02.08\00:42:04.89
but the Lord rebukes the devil,
and by God's grace and through
00:42:04.92\00:42:10.49
faith, Moses had
repented of his sin, amen?
00:42:10.53\00:42:13.96
So, the Lord can save him.
00:42:14.00\00:42:16.77
And then Moses is raised up.
00:42:16.80\00:42:18.20
Now, I want to read to
you 1 Corinthians chapter 15.
00:42:18.23\00:42:21.07
And this is under "The
Resurrection of Us All."
00:42:21.10\00:42:23.30
What happened to
Moses is something
00:42:23.34\00:42:24.64
we're all looking forward to.
00:42:24.67\00:42:25.97
Can you say amen?
00:42:26.01\00:42:27.94
1 Corinthians chapter 15.
00:42:27.98\00:42:30.95
Now, Paul had a lot of problems
with the Corinthian church.
00:42:30.98\00:42:33.88
Among them, they had struggled
to believe in the resurrection,
00:42:33.92\00:42:36.95
or they thought it
was already passed,
00:42:36.99\00:42:39.12
or that there
was no resurrection.
00:42:39.15\00:42:41.39
Paul says, "If there's
no resurrection of the dead,
00:42:41.42\00:42:45.19
then Christ is not risen.
00:42:45.23\00:42:46.86
And if Christ is not risen,
then our preaching is empty
00:42:46.90\00:42:49.16
and your faith is also empty."
00:42:49.20\00:42:51.30
Go to verse 20.
00:42:51.33\00:42:52.63
"But now Christ is
risen from the dead,
00:42:52.67\00:42:55.60
and has become the firstfruits
of those who have fallen asleep.
00:42:55.64\00:42:59.07
For since by man came death--"
00:42:59.11\00:43:00.84
Now, why does it say
Christ is the firstfruits,
00:43:00.88\00:43:03.48
if Moses had
already been resurrected?
00:43:03.51\00:43:06.72
Firstfruits does not always
mean the first in sequence.
00:43:06.75\00:43:09.58
Firstfruits also
means in priority.
00:43:09.62\00:43:12.92
The Presidents' wife
is called the First Lady.
00:43:12.95\00:43:15.19
It doesn't mean she was
the first lady that made it
00:43:15.22\00:43:16.66
to North America.
00:43:16.69\00:43:18.36
It means that she's
given a position of honor,
00:43:18.39\00:43:20.30
of high esteem.
00:43:20.33\00:43:22.76
So, Christ, the
firstfruits of those who slept.
00:43:22.80\00:43:26.23
"For since by
man, Adam, death came,
00:43:26.27\00:43:29.14
by Man also, Christ, came
the resurrection of the dead.
00:43:29.17\00:43:33.31
For in Adam all die, so in
Christ shall all be made alive.
00:43:33.34\00:43:37.38
But each one in his own order."
00:43:37.41\00:43:38.95
Some people think you
die and go right to heaven.
00:43:38.98\00:43:41.22
Moses had a
special resurrection.
00:43:41.25\00:43:43.62
But how does it
happen for most people?
00:43:43.65\00:43:46.96
Those that are Christ's,
afterward at His coming.
00:43:46.99\00:43:51.33
When are they
raised? Afterwards.
00:43:51.36\00:43:55.76
And where are the
dead now? Sleeping.
00:43:55.80\00:43:58.90
Do they know
they're sleeping? No.
00:43:58.93\00:44:00.57
If they're saved
and they're dead,
00:44:00.60\00:44:02.44
for them the next conscious
thought is the presence
00:44:02.47\00:44:04.27
of the Lord.
00:44:04.31\00:44:05.61
To be absent from the body,
to be present with the Lord,
00:44:05.64\00:44:07.84
but they don't feel that
now because it hasn't happened.
00:44:07.88\00:44:11.35
We live in time.
00:44:11.38\00:44:12.95
And then finally, you've
got it in Mark chapter 9 also.
00:44:12.98\00:44:16.65
I'm going to read to
you from Luke chapter 9.
00:44:16.69\00:44:19.72
"Now it came to pass, about
eight days after these sayings,
00:44:19.75\00:44:23.36
He took Peter,
James, and John and went up
00:44:23.39\00:44:25.29
on the mountain to pray.
00:44:25.33\00:44:27.30
As He prayed, the appearance
of His face was altered.
00:44:27.36\00:44:30.53
His robe became
white and glistening.
00:44:30.57\00:44:33.07
And behold, two
men talked with Him,
00:44:33.10\00:44:35.77
and they were Moses and Elijah."
00:44:35.80\00:44:37.71
Jesus, no doubt,
addressed them by their names.
00:44:37.74\00:44:40.71
"--who appeared in glory
and spoke of his decease,
00:44:40.74\00:44:43.08
which He was
about to accomplish."
00:44:43.11\00:44:44.85
Here now comes
Moses to encourage Jesus,
00:44:44.88\00:44:49.18
who's going to go to the cross.
00:44:49.22\00:44:50.79
Isn't that something?
00:44:50.82\00:44:52.42
And when Moses had to die
and go through his isolation,
00:44:52.45\00:44:56.93
Jesus was there
to encourage him.
00:44:56.96\00:44:59.03
Now Moses is coming to encourage
Jesus in His sacrifice.
00:44:59.06\00:45:02.56
Because what's going to
happen to Moses and Elijah
00:45:02.60\00:45:04.47
in heaven if
Jesus is not sacrificed?
00:45:04.50\00:45:07.37
Do they get to stay?
00:45:07.40\00:45:09.20
You can see why they
would be very motivated
00:45:09.24\00:45:12.01
to encourage Jesus.
00:45:12.04\00:45:14.91
And it says that
00:45:14.94\00:45:16.81
"He was about to accomplish
His sacrifice in Jerusalem.
00:45:16.85\00:45:19.48
But Peter and those who were
with him were heavy with sleep;
00:45:19.51\00:45:21.72
and when they were fully awake,
they saw His glory and the two
00:45:21.75\00:45:23.95
men who stood with Him.
00:45:23.99\00:45:25.82
Then it appeared, as
they were parting from Him,
00:45:25.85\00:45:27.52
that Peter said to Jesus,
00:45:27.56\00:45:28.86
'Master, it is
good for us to be here;
00:45:28.89\00:45:30.96
let us make three tabernacles:
00:45:30.99\00:45:33.16
one for You, and one for
Moses, and one for Elijah,'
00:45:33.19\00:45:36.23
not knowing what he said."
00:45:36.26\00:45:38.57
Moses is in heaven now.
00:45:38.60\00:45:39.97
Matter of fact, he can
be listening to this lesson
00:45:40.00\00:45:43.30
right now.
00:45:43.34\00:45:45.41
Isn't Moses in heaven? Yes.
00:45:45.44\00:45:48.18
He's where you
and I want to be; and,
00:45:48.21\00:45:50.51
of course, Moses is a
symbol for the Word of God,
00:45:50.55\00:45:53.38
the Old Testament.
00:45:53.42\00:45:54.72
Elijah is talking
about He's a great prophet,
00:45:54.75\00:45:57.82
so you get the law and
the prophets in those two who
00:45:57.85\00:46:00.39
appeared to
Jesus to encourage Him.
00:46:00.42\00:46:02.52
We're out of time, but I
hope you learned something.
00:46:02.56\00:46:04.53
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00:48:39.75\00:48:43.55
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00:49:29.56\00:49:33.60
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00:49:41.04\00:49:50.49
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00:50:04.53\00:50:09.80
that there was not going
to be God for me anymore,
00:50:09.84\00:50:13.74
that I was going to completely
take myself away from Him.
00:50:13.78\00:50:18.08
And something
just clicked inside me.
00:50:18.11\00:50:23.39
All my life, I felt
like God wasn't there for me,
00:50:23.42\00:50:28.49
and what I
realized was that He was.
00:50:28.52\00:50:33.63
I'll never forget the time that
I was sitting there in church,
00:50:33.66\00:50:36.60
and there was a silk lithograph
of Jesus Christ up on the altar,
00:50:36.63\00:50:41.67
and I could not even look at it.
00:50:41.70\00:50:45.01
Because in my soul, I knew
that what I was doing was wrong,
00:50:45.04\00:50:51.18
and I couldn't stop.
00:50:51.21\00:50:54.92
Not even talking about what
it was doing to me physically,
00:50:54.95\00:50:58.72
but that brand-new
friend that I had found in God,
00:50:58.75\00:51:04.19
I was pulling
myself away from Him.
00:51:04.23\00:51:07.76
During that time, off
and on, I'd turn on the TV,
00:51:07.76\00:51:11.93
and Pastor Doug would be there.
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And one thing that he
always said that caught my eye
00:51:14.27\00:51:17.37
is he always said,
"Don't take my word for it.
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Go check your Bible.
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Amazing Facts
helped saved my life.
00:51:22.18\00:51:25.95
It took me years,
but I finally found,
00:51:25.98\00:51:29.25
I finally found
God. I finally healed.
00:51:29.28\00:51:32.59
That little girl
that was so shattered,
00:51:32.62\00:51:35.36
that had no self-esteem,
that all her innocence
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had been taken, God gave
back everything and then some.
00:51:39.23\00:51:43.57
And I go through trials.
00:51:43.60\00:51:46.10
I'm a single parent.
00:51:46.13\00:51:47.67
I'm a recovering addict.
00:51:47.70\00:51:51.84
I have MS, and I
have fibromyalgia.
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And I am blessed.
00:51:55.18\00:51:57.81
I am blessed because I
am so mighty with the Lord.
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Everything that was ever
stolen from me, God gave back.
00:52:03.62\00:52:07.72
And on top of that,
He gave me forgiveness,
00:52:07.76\00:52:12.16
and that's what I
want everyone to know.
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He took a broken, broken woman
and turned her into a warrior.
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announcer: Amazing
Facts, Changed Lives.
00:52:39.85\00:52:43.26
Gary: Early 1980s, all the
Baby Boomers were turning 21.
00:52:47.76\00:52:51.23
The nightclub
scenes were exploding,
00:52:51.27\00:52:53.10
and I started an
entertainment lighting company.
00:52:53.13\00:52:55.64
female: I was the President,
and there were six divisions.
00:52:55.67\00:52:58.31
Doing the raves
in the '80s and '90s,
00:52:58.34\00:53:00.64
you know, in some warehouse, we
were setting up lighting and fog
00:53:00.68\00:53:03.68
and, you know, who knows
what's going on in there?
00:53:03.71\00:53:06.08
And nightclub,
nightclub installations.
00:53:06.11\00:53:09.38
I loved it, and
it was who I was.
00:53:09.42\00:53:12.35
Gary: Bought a
new house out of town,
00:53:12.39\00:53:13.69
and we moved about
two or three times,
00:53:13.72\00:53:15.86
but we were always
going to different churches.
00:53:15.89\00:53:18.53
We were in a Lutheran church,
00:53:18.56\00:53:19.86
and then we were
in a Methodist church.
00:53:19.89\00:53:21.26
I think we were in three
different Baptist churches.
00:53:21.30\00:53:23.90
My wife was raised Catholic.
I was raised Methodist.
00:53:23.93\00:53:26.67
Currently, I've been reading
all the Hal Lindsey books,
00:53:26.70\00:53:29.24
and watching all the
"Left Behind" movies,
00:53:29.27\00:53:31.61
and so I really wanted
to understand what the book
00:53:31.64\00:53:33.34
of Revelation was all about,
00:53:33.38\00:53:34.68
but nothing really
ever made sense to me.
00:53:34.71\00:53:36.85
female: One day, Pastor
Lloyd Logan came knocking,
00:53:36.88\00:53:39.95
and he had that Net 99 flyer.
00:53:39.98\00:53:42.92
Lloyd Logan: We were
preparing for an evangelistic
00:53:42.95\00:53:45.19
series, and different people
were going different directions
00:53:45.22\00:53:49.52
with handbills to
invite people to the meeting.
00:53:49.56\00:53:53.83
female: I saw that
coming at me, you know,
00:53:53.86\00:53:55.46
all the colors, and I thought,
00:53:55.50\00:53:56.80
"Oh, no, this is
some kind of cult thing."
00:53:56.83\00:53:59.10
Lloyd: And she said,
"Thank you very much."
00:53:59.13\00:54:00.57
She said, "I'm not
much interested myself,
00:54:00.60\00:54:03.41
but my husband
likes that kind of thing."
00:54:03.44\00:54:05.34
female: And Lloyd said,
00:54:05.37\00:54:06.68
"Would you give
it to him, please?"
00:54:06.71\00:54:08.68
And I said, "Okay, I will."
00:54:08.71\00:54:11.08
So, I took the pamphlet,
and I put it on the counter.
00:54:11.11\00:54:14.45
Gary came home,
and he walked by it.
00:54:14.48\00:54:16.55
Gary: Ran to the kitchen to
quickly eat and take a shower
00:54:16.58\00:54:19.59
and go back out and work a show.
00:54:19.62\00:54:21.46
female: Two or three
days went by like this,
00:54:21.49\00:54:22.89
and I had moved that
brochure from the counter,
00:54:22.92\00:54:26.59
put it on the dining room table,
put it back on the counter.
00:54:26.63\00:54:30.63
I actually threw
it in the garbage.
00:54:30.67\00:54:32.13
As I threw it in
that garbage can,
00:54:32.17\00:54:34.54
I could hear him
and see his face,
00:54:34.57\00:54:36.47
saying, "Would you
give it to him, please?"
00:54:36.50\00:54:39.27
And I actually
took the garbage out.
00:54:39.31\00:54:41.01
And that night, lying in
bed, I kept seeing his face
00:54:41.04\00:54:43.88
and hearing his voice
and thinking, "Oh, boy,
00:54:43.91\00:54:46.55
I've gotta get that
brochure out of the garbage.
00:54:46.58\00:54:49.98
And I took that, I put it right
underneath the remote control.
00:54:50.02\00:54:54.42
Bright colors, he'll see it.
00:54:54.46\00:54:56.19
Gary: So, finally, sat
down in my living room,
00:54:56.22\00:54:57.66
and I picked up the remote,
00:54:57.69\00:54:58.99
and I saw that angel
holding up that scroll.
00:54:59.03\00:55:01.56
female: "Whoa,
cool! What is this?"
00:55:01.60\00:55:04.10
And I was in the
kitchen cooking, and I thought,
00:55:04.13\00:55:06.07
"Oh, no."
00:55:06.10\00:55:07.94
Gary: And I looked at
it, and I turned it over,
00:55:07.97\00:55:09.60
and then I saw
a little building,
00:55:09.64\00:55:11.51
a little church building,
and it wasn't too far away.
00:55:11.54\00:55:14.08
It was about six houses down,
and it said, "Friday Night."
00:55:14.11\00:55:17.81
female: And I
certainly wasn't going.
00:55:17.85\00:55:19.65
I mean, it wasn't
my intention to go.
00:55:19.68\00:55:21.58
Gary: I didn't have any
shows going on that night,
00:55:21.62\00:55:23.69
and so I thought it
was a one-night deal.
00:55:23.72\00:55:25.85
I went, and I heard
about the Millennium Man.
00:55:25.89\00:55:29.06
I was just blown away.
I didn't want it to end.
00:55:29.09\00:55:31.99
I knew what I was hearing
was all from the Scripture,
00:55:32.03\00:55:34.66
and it wasn't based
off Hollywood movies
00:55:34.73\00:55:36.46
or other books
that were written.
00:55:36.50\00:55:38.17
They said, "Come
again tomorrow night."
00:55:38.20\00:55:39.97
And I thought,
"Wow, great! Two nights."
00:55:40.00\00:55:42.70
So, I tried to
tell my wife about it,
00:55:42.74\00:55:44.21
and she still wasn't interested.
00:55:44.24\00:55:46.14
And then she decided to come.
00:55:46.17\00:55:47.48
female: I started
to hear the truth,
00:55:47.51\00:55:49.08
you know, and I
started to get fed.
00:55:49.11\00:55:51.11
Gary: Every night
after the seminar,
00:55:51.15\00:55:52.88
they would hand us an
Amazing Facts Study Guide.
00:55:52.91\00:55:55.78
I couldn't do those fast enough.
00:55:55.82\00:55:57.32
female: The business kept
us going seven days a week,
00:55:57.35\00:56:00.66
and it was night and day.
00:56:00.69\00:56:01.99
Gary: Crews working
all around the clock.
00:56:02.02\00:56:03.86
And so, when we finally
heard the Sabbath message,
00:56:03.89\00:56:06.86
you know, so far
everything's been true,
00:56:06.90\00:56:08.16
based on the Bible.
00:56:08.20\00:56:09.50
female: Church on
Saturday, no work.
00:56:09.53\00:56:11.87
Anyway, it all clicked.
00:56:11.90\00:56:13.60
Gary: Both our heads
turned at each other.
00:56:13.64\00:56:15.30
Our jaws dropped open.
00:56:15.34\00:56:16.97
female: I said,
"We can't do that."
00:56:17.01\00:56:19.97
Gary: And the first thing
that came out of my mouth was,
00:56:20.01\00:56:21.94
"We have to."
00:56:21.98\00:56:23.28
female: I knew that
it would be a sacrifice,
00:56:23.31\00:56:25.88
and I was in fear about it.
00:56:25.91\00:56:28.45
Gary: We didn't know
how we were going to do it,
00:56:28.48\00:56:30.15
but we talked to
the pastor about it,
00:56:30.19\00:56:33.19
and the pastor said,
"Well, just pray about it,
00:56:33.22\00:56:34.96
and God will open doors.
00:56:34.99\00:56:36.42
female: I didn't want to
give up all the connections
00:56:36.46\00:56:38.43
I'd made, all the
networking, all the money,
00:56:38.46\00:56:41.03
all the investment.
00:56:41.06\00:56:42.56
Gary: We went to the
board and asked them if they
00:56:42.60\00:56:44.17
would consider closing on
Saturday, and they agreed to.
00:56:44.20\00:56:47.84
So, we closed the
storefront on Saturday,
00:56:47.87\00:56:50.11
but we were still
doing productions,
00:56:50.14\00:56:51.81
and that kind of bothered us.
00:56:51.84\00:56:53.14
So, a couple of months later,
God opened the door for my wife.
00:56:53.17\00:56:57.05
She exited the company.
00:56:57.08\00:56:58.45
I prayed about it, and God
opened the door for me, too.
00:56:58.48\00:57:01.02
female: Gary, shortly after,
was offered a job being paid
00:57:01.05\00:57:05.35
more money than he made
as an owner of the company.
00:57:05.39\00:57:08.79
Gary: They said, "I'll
give you a $1000 raise,
00:57:08.82\00:57:11.66
and you will never
work another weekend."
00:57:11.69\00:57:14.40
female: And we were able to
keep the Sabbath and enjoy the
00:57:14.46\00:57:18.23
wonderful blessings that
God had for us on Sabbath Day.
00:57:18.27\00:57:21.84
Gary: My kids
never again had to say,
00:57:21.87\00:57:23.51
"Quit talking about work."
00:57:23.54\00:57:24.97
After the seminar was over,
my wife and I and my children
00:57:25.01\00:57:27.58
were all baptized into the
Seventh Day Adventist Church.
00:57:27.61\00:57:30.58
Even if I gave up everything,
I knew that God would have
00:57:30.61\00:57:33.15
something better.
00:57:33.18\00:57:34.48
female: I have
much more understanding,
00:57:34.52\00:57:37.49
and there's much more depth in
my Christian walk with the Lord.
00:57:37.52\00:57:41.82
Gary: We started an
Amazing Facts Bible School
00:57:41.86\00:57:43.63
at our church.
00:57:43.66\00:57:44.96
It allows anybody to
understand the Scriptures,
00:57:44.99\00:57:47.60
understand the end times.
00:57:47.66\00:57:48.93
Church changed my
life dramatically,
00:57:48.96\00:57:51.13
and I'm very happy and
excited to be a part of it.
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