Our Let! Text: Numbers 32

for he wrote of Me. 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 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 ensample s: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.”

REALITIES The REALITIES they face ON their pursuit

John 10:10 – “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy:John 10:10 – “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.”

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.”

when the LORD shall bring thee into the land give theeExodus 13:5 – “And it shall be when the LORD 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 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.”

And He brought us out from thence, that he might bring us inDeuteronomy 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 from thence, that he might bring 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

integrity Proverbs 11:3 – “The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.” Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity Proverbs 19:1 – “Better is the poor that 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.”

seek those things which are above Colossians 3:1-2 - “If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.”

Do all things without murmurings and disputings Philippians 2:14-15 – “ Do all things without murmurings and disputings : 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”

Pride goeth before destructionProverbs 16:18 – “Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.” the pride of life1 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 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 course I 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

COMFORT

MATERIALISM COMFORT COMPROMISE

MATERIALISM COMFORT COMPROMISE DISOBEDIENCE

MATERIALISM COMFORT COMPROMISE DISOBEDIENCE INFLUENCE

The REVEALING they show AT their pursuit

that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God Ephesians 3:19 – “And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.”

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 pursue from here?