Our Let!Our Let!

Text: Numbers 32

John 5:45-47 – “Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust. For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he for he wrote of Me.wrote of Me. But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe My words?”

1st Corinthians 10:1 - “Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;..”

1st Corinthians 10:5 – “But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.”

1st Corinthians 10:11 – “Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.”

The REALITIESREALITIES

they face ON their pursuit

• John 10:10John 10:10 – “The thief cometh not, – “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: destroy:

I am come that I am come that they might have they might have lifelife, , and that they and that they might have it more might have it more abundantlyabundantly.”.”

• Exodus 3:8 – “And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.”

• Exodus 3:17 – “And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.”

• Exodus 13:5 – “And it shall be when the when the LORD shall bring thee into the landLORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which He sware unto thy fathers to give theegive thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt keep this service in this month.

• Leviticus 20:24 – “But I have said unto you,

Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and honey: I am the LORD your God, which have separated you from other people.”

• Deuteronomy 6:20-23 – “And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD our God hath commanded you? Then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt; and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand: And the LORD shewed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes: And He brought us out And He brought us out from thence, that he might from thence, that he might bring us inbring us in, to give us the land which he sware unto our fathers.”

The REQUEST

they made IN their pursuit

The REASON

they make FOR their pursuit

Proverbs 11:3 – “The integrityintegrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors

shall destroy them.”Proverbs 19:1 – “Better is the poor Better is the poor

that walketh in his integritythat walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and

is a fool.”

Proverbs 20:7 The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.

•Proverbs 3:9 -“Honour the LORD with thy substance,

and with the firstfruits of all thine increase”

•Malachi 3:8 – “Will a man rob God? Yet ye have

robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed

thee? In tithes and offerings.”

Exodus 20:3 – “Thou shalt

have no other gods before

me.”

Colossians 3:1-2 - “If ye then be risen with Christ,

seek those things seek those things which are abovewhich are above,

where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.”

Philippians 2:14-15 – “Do all Do all things without things without

murmurings and murmurings and disputingsdisputings: That ye may

be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a

crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye

shine as lights in the world”

•Proverbs 16:18 – “Pride goeth Pride goeth before destructionbefore destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.”

•1 John 2:16 – “For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the

eyes, and the pride of lifethe pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the

world.”

2 Timothy 3:1-5 - “This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall

come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters,

proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false

accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such

turn away.”

The REVEALING

they show AT their pursuit

Hebrews 12:1-3 – “Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us,

and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto

Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before

him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of

the throne of God. For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners

against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.”

2 Timothy 4:6-8 – “For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my

departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight,

I have finished my courseI have finished my course,

I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of

righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.”

MATERIALISM

MATERIALISMCOMFORT

MATERIALISMCOMFORT

COMPROMISE

MATERIALISMCOMFORT

COMPROMISEDISOBEDIENCE

MATERIALISMCOMFORT

COMPROMISEDISOBEDIENCE

INFLUENCE

The REVEALING

they show AT their pursuit

Ephesians 3:19 – “And to know the love of

Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye that ye

might be filled with might be filled with all the fulness of all the fulness of

GodGod.”

The RESULTS

they have FROM their pursuit

•Galatians 6:7 - “Be not deceived; God is not

mocked: for whatsoever a man

soweth, that shall he also reap.”

Which way will we Which way will we pursue from here?pursue from here?