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all right well this is session four of the law is good if one uses it lawfully um I hope given what I've said you'll uh bear
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with me a bit um based on some of the questions I got last week I felt like just spending five minutes on a brief recap of where I was
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going with the chronology of Deuteronomy 1 and how it relates to Exodus through numbers so if you're if you're unclear
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Exodus through numbers gives us the the sort of almost day-by-day chronology with the the legislation of Israel the the commands that God gave them related
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to the various stages of their history put in amongst the history but it's very day by day but we have another witness in Deuteronomy which is Moses looking
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back sometimes 40 years in the past to and giving the bird's eye view and and even the the witness of his experience
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in time to help us understand what has happened and to help the people of Israel as always his his main audience those in the wilderness who experienced
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God's works and experience the judgments to help them understand as they enter the land the reason this is important at a practical level for us is really two
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things and I'm speaking specifically of the chronology that I discussed last week one is that Deuteronomy 1 is not nearly the hardest example of
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difficulties in in reconciling what exact what exactly is Moses talking about related to Exodus through numbers which event is he talking about when he
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speaks of it it's not the hardest example I would say Deuteronomy 10 for by way of looking ahead is it's much harder but in taking an easier example
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and going ahead and pulling it apart a bit I think we'll serve ourselves when we come to a more difficult example like that in Deuteronomy 10 um so that we have some tools for coming at the text
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the second practical reason I mentioned last week is that the helps that we have the scholarly helps um I think actually tend to muddy the waters for us with regard to Chron olog and it's because I
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think they are saturated with the mindset of the documentary hypothesis which is in short that we do not expect that um Deuteronomy was necessarily the
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words of Moses it could have been put together later as the Moses tradition written down at a later time and that whoever wrote down the Moses tradition had in front of him multiple sources
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that may narrate two different ways and he would make decisions of some kind as to well this event and this event are actually the same and perhaps exercise a
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literary license to run those events together that's kind of the mindset of the documentary
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hypothesis in having that mindset the example I gave from not a particularly liberal commentator was that they wanted to say that on the on
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the timeline of of Israel's history up until now beginning with the Exodus okay and and and terminating eventually with their entry into the
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land but this is this is your um Deuteronomy 1 okay that that Moses is
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blending two events and I'm going to put the mountain here as kind of the he went up on the mountain okay um that Moses is blending two events one that happened in
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Exodus 18 where his father-in-law came and and saw him judging the people and gave him the advice you can't do this all yourself you need to delegate this to capable men
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and and bring only the hard they should bring only the hard disputes to you and you can bring those to God okay so Victor Hamilton says he's blending
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this event with an event that happened after they left the mountain which is in numbers 11 where Moses complains
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Moses complains of being unable to rule the people as to their spirit so in Exodus 18 to give you kind of a nemonic his father-in-law says
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you you can't judge the people alone' and in numbers 11 Moses complains to God I cannot Shepherd this people alone as to their Spirits I'm taking that to be
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the meaning okay so Victor Hamilton says he's blending these two events and and I don't think that a word like blending given the scholarly
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background of the helps we have is anything but just a loaded term that's full of all kinds of trouble for us I don't think it's an appropriate way of speaking I think it is a way that's
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appropriate to its scholarly cultural environment but I don't really think that it helps us all that much what I said last week was if by blending we
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mean that these are the bookends of a whole years worth of development of Israel's government that Moses is looking back on
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and summarizing okay so far I'm okay with that the only issue with that that as identifying exactly where he's talking about is that this event happens before
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they reach the mountain and this event happens after they leave but Moses narrative begins with and if you want to look in Deuteronomy 1 um the the verses
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I'd be looking at here is um verse six Yahweh Our God said to us in Horeb you have stayed long enough at this mountain okay in other
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words this is a paraphrase leave the Mountain okay that's the first stage in his narrative okay second he says at
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that time this is verse 9 through 18 at that time I said to you I am not able to Bear You by myself and then he concludes by saying and I Comm he he appoints
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judges uh that the people want and it concludes and I commanded you at that time there an at that time and an at that time I commanded you at that time
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all the things you should do so second stage is at that time and then if you look at verse 19 he says then we set out from HB through
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that great and terrifying Wilderness in other words we left this mountain sorry for the
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scroll okay so to me I want to read the text as naturally as possible which means that the I can I can definitely go away saying Hey look it's
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bookended it's a whole development and I will be just fine but what interested me was that none of the helps I read actually identified where I think sort of the centroid of this at that time is
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and that's numbers one where the princes of the tribes are actually named okay where it is said that they
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organized the people into their thousands and hundreds and 50s and tens which is an important phrase that Moses use uses here in in his in his
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discourse and then they assist Moses in doing what is the seminal work in the organization of the people and their ability to judge them in thousands and
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hundreds and 50s and tens which is number them tribe by tribe sorry I put numbers 11 that was not right numbers one I'm not saying that at that time
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must be specifically that but I'm saying this is the most natural narration from Exodus through numbers that we have to correlate with what Moses is saying at
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that time at that time is mostly at the mountain yes well it seems to confirm your view of those two passages stands that it's in numbers 11 that God gives
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his Spirit to the elders not in not in Exodus 18 Exodus 18 jeer says if God so commands and you do this it will go better with you but it's almost the the
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appearance that they they tried to tough it out until Moses finally realized as you were saying I cannot shepher these people as to their Spirits I cannot past
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this flock gave Spirit to the 72 ERS yes there that's significant difference between the two passages yes yes and
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it's so what you're saying is it's almost as if the judicial system had been set up but the spiritual leadership he he was still in a way solely burdened by that
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at at the time that they left he was still the sole mediator between the people and God yes was the Prime mediator right right he was still the so mediator and it also you know shows that
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not by might not by power but by my spirit says the Lord right that was a lesson then took them a year there to learn they never really right mes but
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and also that that I I think I mentioned to somebody afterwards that you know he his rationale for um being the sole
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judge of the people to his father-in-law if you read Exodus 18 he says the people come to me to inquire of their God to hear the things that God has to say so his rationale is
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it's not a practical problem primarily I'm I'm here to tell them what God says as the sole mediator and it's only after they move on and get to the mountain
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because here they're at a place called reedem and then they they get to the mountain and he actually goes up and hears from God all the words of this law
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and then is able to deliver them to the people now there's intervening events I'm sort of I'm skipping the golden calf and things like that um but in any case the delivery of what God actually has to
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say takes time at the mountain and I don't think you can think that the summary you get in Exodus 18 that he did eventually do the structure that his
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father-in-law had in mind happened just right then and there immed mediately that's that's a development that would have to happen later primarily because the people had not heard the law yet
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yes curious part here God tells it to get the 70 people he said I will take some of you the spirit on you and give to them don't you think that's a curious
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oh yes take some of the spirit that's on you and give them yeah the question is it's is it is it really a curiosity in the text that
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or how how can we know what it means that he's going to take the some of the spirit off of Moses and put it on the people I I can't say that I have looked at exactly what that means not it not
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being the scope of a study in Deuteronomy um I'll only point out that there's some of that same idea um with Elijah and Elisha you know Elisha asks for a double portion of the spirit that
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is on Elijah and Elijah tells him if you see me taken then you'll know that God has given you that spirit that you asked for um it is mysterious and and I I
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think this is off the cuff but I think when we're in the penit we are waiting on the final explanation of the Holy Spirit dwelling
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with his people and that that ultimately is not going to come until God gives his Spirit at Pentecost um that the answer to how does that work is not going to come but do you have a insight there
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another comparison that is that he gave Jesus the spirit without measure ah thank you yes you know there there is this phenomenon that the amount and also with
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faith you know Faith itself is given in measure not saving Faith but there's the gift of faith according to the measure of your faith in Romans 12 we think of
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these things as just things yeah monolithic Point monolithic points and but they're not the measure of remain on Moses than on the elders yes Elisha
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received double the portion and did double the Miracles and Jesus had the spirit without spirit without measure yeah so again I think maybe that
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does go back to the the the full the fullness of explanation was waiting for the man whom God appointed who would have the spirit without measure um and by the way just so you know I'm somewhat
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repeating what you say for the sake of the recording so if it seems weird for me to repeat back to you what you said that's what I'm doing um okay so um other questions about this this really
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isn't the scope of today but just want to make sure that it's it was cleared up a little bit okay let's look at um uh let's see we're going to keep going with uh Moses discourse uh
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beginning beginning in verse 20 and we'll finish out what's chapter one in your translations your translations U and I said to you you have come to the Hill Country of the amorites which
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Yahweh our God is giving us see Yahweh your God has set the land before you go up take possession as Yahweh the god of
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your fathers has told you do not fear or be dismayed then all of you came near me and said let us send men before us that they may explore the land for us and
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bring us word again by the way by which we must go up and the cities into which we shall come the the thing seemed good to me and I took 12 men from you one from each tribe I pause to say that's a
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Judicial role of some kind a representative role okay and they turned and went up into the Hill Country and came to the valley of Esh and spot it out and they took in their hands some of
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the fruit of the land and brought it down to us and brought us word again and said it is a good land that Yahweh our God is giving us yet you would not go up
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but rebelled against the command of Yahweh your God and you murmured in your tents and said because Yahweh hated us he has brought us out of the land of Egypt to give us into the hand of the
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amorites to destroy us where are we going up our brothers have made our hearts melt saying the people are greater and taller than we the cities
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are great and fortified up to heaven and besides we have seen the sons of the anakim there anakim there then I said to youo not be in dread or
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afraid of them Yahweh your God who goes before you will himself fight for you just as he did for you in Egypt before your eyes and in the wilderness where
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you have seen how Yahweh your God carried you as a man carries his son all the way that you went until you came to this place yet in spite of this word you
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did not believe Yahweh your God who went before you in the way to seek you out a place to pit your tents in fire by night and in Cloud by day to show you by what
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way you should go and Yahweh heard your words and was angered and he swore not one of the men of this of this evil generation shall see the good land that
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I swore to give to your fathers except calb the son of yean he shall see it and to him and to his children I will give the land on which he has trotten because
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he has hold F followed Yahweh even with me Yahweh was angry on your account and said you also shall not go in there Joshua the son of noon who
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stands before you he shall enter it encourage him for he shall cause Israel to inherit it and as for your little ones who you said would become prey and
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your children who today have no knowledge of good or evil they shall go in there and to them I will give it and they shall possess it but as for you turn and Journey Into the Wilderness in
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the direction of yamu then you answered me we have sinned against Yahweh we ourselves will go up and fight just as Yahweh Our God commanded us and every one of you
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fastened on his weapons of war and thought it easy to go up into the Hill Country and Yahweh said to me say to them do not go up or fight for I am not in your midst lest you be defeated
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before your enemies so I spoke to you and you would not listen but you rebelled against the command of Yahweh and presumptuously went up into the Hill Country then the amorites who lived in
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that Hill Country came out against you and chased you as bees do and beat you down in seir as far as horah and you returned and wept before Yahweh but
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Yahweh did not listen to your voice or give ear to you so you remained at Kadesh many days the days which you
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remained so I'd like to in your outline if you're following me I have a little heading called the flow of the text and I want to I want to take a look at a few of the markers which I've brought out with the voice I hope sufficiently but I
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want to actually look at them a little bit because they are they are the way that we connect the message of what Moses is getting at and also just marks of great Beauty in his discourse it's
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it's so elegant um the way that he uh strings together these phrases and and understands the import of those events and what they mean for the people of God
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who are now standing before him the ones that will go into the land um so if you look at it's really a lot of this is in verse uh verse 21 um see Yahweh your God
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has set the land before you so you have see Yahweh your Yahweh your God Etc okay
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and then you have this back and forth in verses 28-31 the people are saying we can't go
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seen the sons of the anakim okay that's what we've seen okay and Moses
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have seen how Yahweh your God carried you you have seen okay so then we move on to verse
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35 and the people refuse okay they they do not take his line of argument in spite of this word you would not go up okay and Yahweh and Yahweh responds not one
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will see the good land okay and now we have a new term introduced so this comes down here and the football is picked up by a
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discussion of the former generation versus the new generation okay so the former generation oh excuse me
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it okay he's the only one okay and in verse 39 as for
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your little ones so I'm relating those two okay they
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shall possess it okay and this is the third term which then that will pick up and become the possession is going to become an operative word in much of the remainder
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of the context so the that we connect see okay except him he shall see it not one of this evil generation but
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your little ones they shall possess it okay in other words the former generation saw God's works okay but they did not believe and
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they fell in the wilderness the new generation is raised up in the wilderness and will see the works of God only that they
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believe okay their theirs is a certain reality okay they shall possess it just like calb shall see it okay but
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not you you will not the former generation is going to fall um but the new generation will go in and then um finally uh to to bring
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the to bring the new generation out of the picture entirely as for you then this is speaking of them as for
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you journey in the direction of yam turn leave um so I marked here sort of the
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the best guess route okay from Sinai to cadesh this 11 days journey and they are told go back this is yamu okay they're told go
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told go back okay um I put yamu here cu the that's that's the what's at the root of your translations you'll often see Red Sea fine it's just that that term actually means sea of reads so don't
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want to get anybody confused by seeing that if you do go to helps sometimes you see a big deal made out of these things but anyways so the the old generation then passes completely out of the
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narrative um this is not their story it's the story of the new the new generation the the children their little ones who will inherit yes okay um but we still have um
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a few things to learn from the from the new gener excuse me from the former Generation Um and we see how uh what unbelief does to us U if you compare uh
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verse 27 with verse 31 unbelief engendered Yahweh hated us about Yahweh who carried you as a man
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carries his carries his son okay then moving on to verse 28 they they continue as unbelief throws them into confusion where are we going up
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okay even though Moses says Yahweh goes before you before you in the way to seek out a place to pitch your tents to show you by what way you should
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go okay they know but they're their brothers the judges that have been set over them have led them astray our brothers have made our hearts melt okay
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and that's what they say again in verse 28 unbelief paralyzes them in fear of cities Great and fortified and anakim great and Tall see a relationship
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between the men that they see and their cities okay great and Tall great and fortified as if Yahweh would not as Moses points out in verse 30 fight for
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you it's your God who's going to go fight these these giant men okay I don't think they stand a chance against him okay but then uh in verse 37 I want to
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point out a phrase that has uh really confused uh a lot of people and has been something that I've scratched my head over for many years um even with me Yahweh was angry on your account
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um the event that he is referring to um is in numbers 20 and where it's expressly said that
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Moses will not enter the land if you know anything about the the story of Moses Ministry he he is not going to enter the land um in numbers 20 this is
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apparently in the 40th year um or close so this is much much later he's talking about events that happened in the second year when the old gener a was
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still alive in the wilderness and rebelled and he's saying as a parenthesis making a a comment on these events that happened
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you know back herish he's herish he's saying even with me Yahweh was angry on your account to a people that saw the event in numbers 20
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happen so let me read that the people of Israel the whole congregation came into the Wilderness of seene in the first month and the people stayed at cadesh and Miriam died there and was buried
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there now there was no water for the congregation and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron this is largely the new generation and the people quarrel with
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Moses and said would that we had perished when our brothers perished before Yahweh why have you brought the Assembly of Yahweh into this Wilderness that we should die here both we and our
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c and why have you made us come up out of Egypt to bring us into this evil place it is no place for grain or figs or vines or pomegranates and there's no water to drink then Moses and Aaron went
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from the presence of the assembly to the entrance of the tent of meeting and fell on their faces and the glory of Yahweh appeared to them and Yahweh spoke to Moses saying take the staff and assemble
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the congregation you and your brother and tell the rock before their eyes to yield its water so you shall bring water out of the rock for them and give drink to the congregation and their cattle and
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Moses took the staff before Yahweh from before Yahweh excuse me as he commanded him then Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the Rock and he
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said to them he now you rebels shall we bring forth water for you out of this rock and Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock with his
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staff twice staff twice and the water came out abundantly and the congregation drank and their livestock and Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron because you did not believe in me
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to uphold me is Holy in the eyes of the people of Israel therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them these are the Waters of Mirah where the people of Israel
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quarreled with Yahweh and through them he showed himself holy
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so this is Moses comment and I'm I'm indebted to um Alfred edersheim who when I first picked him up uh in his Old Testament history it just it completely changed my view on
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how you read both Old and New Testament just such wonderful insights that he has and and the depth of thinking he points out that it's though it's often said
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that Moses sin was specifically like striking the rock instead of speaking to it then when the Psalms later res later cover this they talk about how he
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babbled I think is the translation he gives but that it was in his words ironically he didn't speak to the Rock but it was in his words that he sinned and did not uphold Yahweh as holy um I
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thought about that for a while and I determined that and I'm going to read to you what I have written here because it's it's kind of a dense explanation and you may have to go back and have a
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listen again but I think verse 37 is a parenthesis Moses making a comment on the certainty of God's promise to bring in the new generation and I'm making a
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big deal out of God saying you did not uphold me that that he displayed his Holiness through them that is the people that Moses called you
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rebels prior to the Rebellion at cadesh Bara in year two God's promises were to be understood generally as applying to the sons of Jacob so if you refer to numbers 14 Moses refuses to be raised up
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as a nation unto himself as a response to the rebellion of the people um whereas that would fulfill excuse me because whereas Moses being raised up as
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a nation unto himself would fulfill the promise to Abraham and Isaac it would fail the promise to Jacob who blessed all 12 of his sons in the name name of
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Yahweh and told them of what was to come when they were placed in the land so if you look at Genesis 50 at some point verse 24 Joseph said to his brothers I am about to die but God will visit you
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and bring you up out of this land to the land that he swore to Abraham to Isaac and to Jacob but God's promise to the new generation once the old generation rebelled was far more specific they
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would enter within the lifetime of Joshua and Joshua and CB and Allah numbers 14:31 but your little ones who you said
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would become prey I will bring in and they shall and they shall know the land that you have rejected a promise Moses quotes directly in the reading that we
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read in verse 39 specifically which brings the promise of God to Abraham to Isaac and to Jacob forward in its essence it makes the
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promise to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob now the promises to Abraham to Isaac to Jacob and your little ones the promise is is now made to the
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little ones for Moses to disbelieve which by calling them Rebels and speaking as he did for Moses to disbelieve that Yahweh would ever bring
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those same little ones into the land was a failure to believe the promises to Abraham a sin he had not yet perpetrated in all his ministry and the same sin
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their parents had committed in their pronouncement that their little ones would become a prey but because of it he could not continue in office but must suffer the
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same death as their parents to die without entering the land so in other words Moses brings his own unbelief and God's anger with him into
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the narrative because this is the new generation's story and it was concerning the new generation of whom Yahweh said they would inherit that Moses wavered in
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belief so Moses will bring that bring up that Yahweh was angry with me three times and what I believe he's doing is commenting on the certainty of God's
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promises to that new generation when we read something like the mar we we tend to that was the one thing Moses did that got God angry with
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him and that tends to reflect negatively on God but the The Narrative of the spies is is also a place where we read Moses
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saying and and it seemed good to me okay God never instructed them to send spies he instructed them to go and take the land so another example would be judas's
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scar we think his betrayal was when he went to the high priest and accepted the 30 pieces of silver we also know that he he embezzled money from the
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treasury he he spoke blasphemously about the the woman and the jar of n right he was already rebelling MH I think what we see
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at the Waters of marah was a culmination of that level of unbelief within Moses that would prohibit him from being the one who l the land it it
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would certainly make one event God said that's it I'm done no Moses was you know there were other issues with Moses all the way through and and I think you're going to
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going to see in a sense God testing Joshua at the beginning of his ministry in the same way will you do it my way but I think
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it'ses I think it's also important though to go ahead and focus on that event um because the Psalms do saying it went ill with Moses because of them um
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and to investigate what what is meant by that yes you know Moses Moses imperfections would prevent him from entering the land but that particular event is is definitely simal um in in
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his ministry um no it it isn't it isn't God being oh one thing you're done but in other words but but in another sense the man whom God has appointed
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would not fail in any respect at all and so for Moses to fail in in a in any respect it is to say that he is not the one um so even if we only have one event
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where Moses seems to truly fail as to belief in God's promises I think it is enough uh that he is not the man whom God has appointed to bring his people
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into their final inheritance and that that's the picture that Moses Ministry and Joshua's Ministry is is painting for us as a parable uh to what to what we have now inherited as the reality um the
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did you have a question well this probably staying on something you want to get past but is there significance to striking the RO tce um there have been
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lots of commentators that mention that I've stayed away from that on purpose because I'm I'm trying to deal with the way that Moses uses the event and he doesn't actually speak about specifically about marah he simply says
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even with me Yahweh was angry on your account speaking to his audience here and and I want to I want to make sure we at least I give you my best
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understanding of what he means by that that he is commenting not not primarily on yahweh's displeasure with himself but rather on rather on yah's un unimpeachable intention to
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bring them into to the land no matter what that the the new generation moves forward into the land certain in the promise of God even over above their
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works and we're going to see that their Works were several times in in the small amount of time that they were purely the new generation here many of their works
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are as bad or worse than their fathers and yet they they go forth certain that that their their works are not what determines whether they go into the land
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God has promised your little ones will go in the phrase on your account when I read that I often think that they were guilty of something right and it was
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attributed to Moses which is not what you're saying at all it would would that almost be better translated in your defense almost and I don't mean that a translation because I don't I don't know
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the Hebrew but exactly I'm reading that Yahweh was angry with me on your behalf in a right that exactly and it always bothered me Yahweh was angry with me
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because you did something that's how I would read that English phrase I know and that always that's what I mean that when I say it just bothered me for years as to what in the world that see that that goes back
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to what Chuck was saying it's that like that seems off-kilter um how is he supposed to guarantee the faithfulness of the people um but I'm saying then that in in looking into it
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further in preparation for this study it made a lot more more sense in light of being a comment on the Promises of God and their certainty um but go ahead I'm
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thinking perf think that or something the same yes we do things stupidly on a regular
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basis it seems to me is just that I don't know I don't really understand the whole thing here but Moses job was done
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well but he's going to plead with God in the in the second mention of this that he be able to enter the land having seen only the beginnings of his Works May I please let me go in and and Yahweh will
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simply say enough of that enough of that um encourage Joshua that's the picture that we have set up for us um the older generation has one more lesson to teach
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us and I've got it and your outline as presumption being the opposite of Faith okay so look at if you look at verse 41 they say we have sinned okay but this is
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unbelief in that it is a fasile marked by a fasile confession of sin or cheap repentance when Paul tells us in 2 Corinthians 7:10 for Godly grief
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produces a repentance that leads to Salvation without regret whereas worldly grief produces death which theirs certainly did um secondly also in verse 41 they
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say we'll go up as Yahweh Our God commanded us interesting use of words given that Yahweh had said turn in the direction of yam so their unbelief is
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marked by a veneer of concern for God's commands for the word of God uh without any true understanding or intent to do what God has actually
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commanded um I refer here to a a passage in 1 Timothy and and I'll I can quantify how this is related if anybody doesn't see it but it
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just struck me this is exactly the kind of veneer of concern for the word of God that Paul is dealing with and instructing Timothy how to deal with those in the fellowship those who have
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this is uh 1 Timothy 6 2-5 those who have believing Masters must not be disrespectful on the ground that they are brothers rather they must serve all the
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better since those who benefit by their good service are believers and beloved teach and urge these things if anyone teaches a different Doctrine and does
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that does not agree with the words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the sound excuse me and the teaching that Accords with godliness he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing he has
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an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels About Words which produce Envy dissension slander evil suspicions and constant friction among people who
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are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth imagining that godliness is a means of means of gain the people thought they could gain
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the land by saying we go as Yahweh Our God commanded us and yet we as children have all experienced and perpetrated I think what the real heart behind what they were doing was it's this kneejerk
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self-serving sudden repentance that all children do okay okay I'm sorry sorry I'll do it to which I respond no this is no longer about cleaning up your room it's
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about cleaning up your attitude and then you will clean your room the desire to obey only when faced with consequences is not spiritual
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obedience it's obedience In the Flesh so thirdly unbelief then is first marked by Cheap repentance second by Cheap use of the word of God and third by Cheap
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obedience and you thought it easy to go up he says again in verse 41 their self- delusion and thoughtlessness was a mark of unbelief
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not Reckless Faith unbelief um I'll have to pick and choose my passages I I picked a few things from
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the words of Our Lord um speaking of the the difficulties inherent in faith um this is from Luke 14 25-35 now the great crowds
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accompanied him and he turned and said to them if anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters yes and even his own life he
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cannot be my disciple whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple for which of you Desiring to build a tower does not first
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sit down and count the cost whether he has enough to complete it otherwise when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish all who see it will begin to mock him saying this man
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began to build and was not able to finish or what king going out to encounter another king in war will not sit down first and deliberate whether he is able with 10,000 to meet him who goes
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out against him with 20,000 and if not while the other is yet a great way off he sends a delegation and asks for terms of Peace so therefore any one of you who
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does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple salt is good but if salt has lost its taste how then shall its saltiness be restored it is of no use
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either for the soil or for the manure pile it is thrown away he who has ears to hear Let Him hear and another passage that we're all very familiar with enter
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by the narrow gate from Matthew 7 enter by the narrow gate for the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destu R and those who enter by it are many the
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gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life and those who find it are few um I said that this time we would do
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a little bit of a blurb on um the the challenge of looking at the will of God uh in in scripture um we're out of time for that so that'll have to wait until next week um but just notice in the
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following verses even verses even this is false faith that they that the old generation is in their last act before us demonstrating um even their
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weeping is not heard uh we who have fled to Jesus for Refuge know from the Psalms that he hears and he
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considers regards our tears and loves us but just so to put in contrast how they weeping was not heard and then this
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ominous statement as the former generation passes out of the narrative completely and you remained in Kadesh many days according to the days which
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remained um so as as Hebrews says let us not be like those who fell in the wilderness who perished because of unbelief um but rather know uh in our Spirits because of
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the witness of the spirit of God that again Denis the writer of Hebrews says in a slightly later place in his sermon uh of you Brothers we are confident of better things things pertaining to
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belief you tell us in your word that we as Paul says we are not unaware of the devil's
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schemes we pray that you would again as Paul said elsewhere make us wise unto salvation through your word help us to with full dependence upon you do what is right uh even though
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it may it may be and often is of difficulty and even of grief to us help us in all things to set aside Christ as Lord and to act in front of the world as
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people whose King is coming and who will indeed as the man whom you have appointed lead us into your good land we ask this in Jesus name amen
