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Christ the True and Better - Hebrews 3:16-19 - The True and Better Prophet pt.3 · Mount Eaton Church

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  I'll read the question you will read the answer.
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  Pretty simple today.
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  Let's straight to the point.
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  What is God?
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  Amen.
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  It's fitting that this is a question for today.
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  Because when we read Hebrews 3, 16 through 19, we really come to some very important
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  things that we need to address when we're looking at the issue of unbelief.
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  So these are really important doctrines that we go through each week.
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  And have you ever thought about the question not who is God, but what is God?
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  And question number four in the Westminster Confession, the short catechism is straight
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  to the point.
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  It's really couldn't be said any better.
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  And I'm thankful for that document kind of helps us keep grounded and talk about and
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  deal with issues about God concerning God and the ways of God.
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  Because as you know, as a church, our main purpose in life, our highest calling in life
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  is to glorify God and enjoy him forever.
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  And that's question number one.
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  And to love God, love his word, love his ways and love his thanks.
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  So as we're going to be going through Hebrews 3, and we'll be finishing up today, we probably
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  won't we're not going to go into Hebrews 4, which is just a continuation.
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  But I want to go through some Old Testament and some New Testament with this.
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  It's a very straightforward message.
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  So let's pray.
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  Father, I want to come before you.
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  We ask that you would guide your people in your truth that you would teach us your word,
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  Lord that you are honored and glorified.
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  Lord, we know that you speak and you speak through your word.
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  So Lord, we eagerly await to hear from you as you guide us through your amazing, infallible,
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  inerrant word.
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  Lord, we praise you and thank you for your faithfulness and goodness and that you have
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  given us life and life abundantly in Christ and that it's clearly your character, who
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  you are, your purpose, your plan is all revealed and completely explained in your word and
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  we honor you.
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  We thank you for this amazing story of redemption and this wonderful narrative.
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  To you be honor and glory forever in Jesus name.
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  Amen.
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  So let's go to chapter three, verse 12 and we're going to read and keep reading all the
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  way through 19.
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  Chapter three, verse 12, take care, brothers, lest there be any of you an evil, unbelieving
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  heart leading you to fall away from the living God, but exhort one another every day as long
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  as it is called today that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin for
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  we have come to share in Christ if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the
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  end.
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  As it is said today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.
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  For who were those who heard and yet rebelled?
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  Was it not all those who left Egypt led by Moses and with whom was he provoked for 40
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  years?
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  Was it not those who sinned whose bodies fell in the wilderness and to whom did he swear
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  that they would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient?
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  So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.
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  Principle, you guys ready, a rebellious heart is an unbelieving heart and a believing heart
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  is an obedient heart.
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  A rebellious heart is an unbelieving heart and a believing heart is an obedient heart.
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  Psalm 37, three through five says this, trust in the Lord and do good, dwell in the land
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  and befriend faithfulness, delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires
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  of your heart.
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  Commit your way to the Lord, trust in him and he will act.
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  Many times we read this and we think if we just do good, and that's not the point of
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  Psalm 37, the point of Psalm 37 is trusting in the Lord means to be obedient.
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  Trust in the Lord and live it out, do good.
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  Dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness.
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  Delight yourself in the Lord, delight yourself in his ways and his word and he will give
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  you the desires of your heart because your heart's desires will be his desires.
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  It's not that God desires anything, it's not in need of anything, but that he loves
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  his ways.
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  He loves his word.
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  Commit your way to the Lord, trust in him and he will act.
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  Now, how does that fit Hebrews three?
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  What you'll see is in the people of Israel, the total opposite of this.
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  And we're going to go to the Old Testament and then we're going to go to the New Testament
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  and then we're going to look at Israel today and we're going to have to really deal with
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  some really clear issues here.
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  So let's go.
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  After who were those who heard and yet rebelled?
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  Who were the rebellious ones?
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  Was it not all those who left Egypt led by Moses?
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  Interesting that this is the way the writer clarifies this.
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  We know that Jesus is the better prophet because when he leads a people, he leads them to the
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  promised land.
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  Moses couldn't lead them into the wilderness because he wasn't allowed into the promised
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  land.
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  Even Moses disobeyed.
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  And this is the prophet that the Jews hang their hat on.
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  This is the prophet that the Jews say that this is the one.
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  We need another Moses.
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  Moses, a good man, conformed by God to do purpose for God, but he is not Jesus.
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  Verse 17, with whom was he provoked for 40 years?
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  Was it not those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
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  In other words, they, the people of Israel provoked God for 40 years.
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  And what was their end result?
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  They died in the wilderness.
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  They did not enter his rest, his promised land.
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  We're going to define that in a minute.
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  And to whom did he swear they will not enter his rest?
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  But to those who were disobedient, what do you notice the three words here?
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  There's three very clear words that are being presented here.
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  First word is rebellion.
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  What's four words?
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  Rebellion they rebelled.
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  Second word is they provoked.
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  They brought God to anger.
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  The third, they sinned.
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  And the fourth, they were disobedient.
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  And look what God says concerning rebelled, provoked, sinned, and disobedient.
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  So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.
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  Now I want you to get this.
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  This is important.
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  If you want to know who a believer is and who's not a believer, and you want to get
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  outside of this nonsense that people go, well, you can't judge, is there's a clear distinction
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  between the saved and the lost, not the church and the unchurched.
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  Because there's a bunch of church people that are lost.
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  The church doesn't save anybody.
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  We're talking about converted believers versus unconverted lost people.
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  Okay?
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  It is unbelief.
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  And unbelief is produced, or the result of unbelief is rebellion, provocation, sin, and
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  disobedience.
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  All four of these come from a heart of unbelief.
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  So people can say a prayer all day long.
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  They live a life of disobedience.
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  They are rebellious.
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  They are provoking God.
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  They sin in their disobedient period.
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  Those are unbelievers.
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  That is the standard.
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  This is not an issue of judge, lest you be judged.
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  Okay?
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  It's very important that we understand that.
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  We don't need to judge those in the world.
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  They're already judged.
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  They're happy in their disobedience.
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  Look at the world around you.
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  These are people that fill the pews that come to church who claim they're believers, but
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  they live disobedient, broken lives.
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  They deny the power that has been given to them.
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  And so we're going to see this in Deuteronomy chapter one.
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  So if you would turn there, Deuteronomy chapter one.
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  Now I want you to understand something.
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  What is the distinction of quote unquote God's people?
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  How can we know who are God's people and who are not?
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  God's people are an obedient people.
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  God's people obey him.
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  Jesus says if you love me, you will obey me.
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  We're going to see that in John five and then John 14.
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  Okay?
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  But I want you to notice something that God clarifies in Hebrews three, specifically verses
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  16 through 19, so that you can see it historically.
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  This is what God said happened, because it did.
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  Verse 19, Deuteronomy chapter one, verse 19 says this.
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  Then we set out from Harab and went through all that great and terrifying wilderness that
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  you saw, and on the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as the Lord our God commanded
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  us, and we came to Kadesh Ben-Era, and I said to you, you have come to the hill country
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  of the Amorites, which the Lord our God is giving us.
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  I want you to see that.
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  God has given them the land.
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  Now I want you to notice how they respond to God.
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  See?
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  The Lord our God has set the land before you, go up, take possession as the Lord, the God
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  of our fathers has told you, do not fear or be dismayed.
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  Look what it says in verse 22, then all of you came near me and said, let us send men
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  before us that they may explore the land for us and bring us a word again of the way by
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  which we must go up and the cities into which we shall come.
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  The thing seemed good to me, and I took 12 men from you, one from each tribe.
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  So God says take possession, and they're like, you know what, let's send 12 spies.
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  Let's kind of not sure.
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  So Moses is like, okay, no problem, we can do that.
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  No big deal.
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  Verse 24, and they turned and went into the hill country and came to the valley of Esko
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  and spied it out, and they took in their hands some of the fruit of the land and brought
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  it down to us and brought us word again and said, it is a good land that the Lord our
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  God is giving us, yet, yet you would not go up.
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  What?
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  But you rebelled against the command of the Lord your God, and you murmured in your tents
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  and said, because the Lord hated us, he has brought us out of the land of Egypt to give
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  us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us.
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  Really?
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  I wonder what's changed.
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  God told them, I'm giving you the land.
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  He promised them the land.
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  It's now gone through Abraham, Isaac, Jacob.
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  It's been brought to Moses now.
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  400 years they were slaves in Egypt.
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  You brought us out to the Amorites so they can kill us.
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  Really?
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  He took you out of the strongest nation and empire of the world called Egypt, kills the
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  entire army by drowning them, causes them to not only send you out of Egypt, but to
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  send you out with all of their gold, silver, and everything else.
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  They were handing it to you while you were walking through the city.
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  Get out.
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  God did all this and you're saying the Amorites are going to kill you.
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  What would cause them to think this way?
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  They love their idols.
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  That's what caused them to think this way.
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  How do we know that?
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  Because right after they were brought out and they're standing at the bottom of Mount
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  Sinai and God speaks to them and gives them the commandments by word, as in thunder, God
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  then hand writes the commandments on two tablets, hands it to Moses, and Moses brings them down
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  and when he comes down, what does he see?
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  They built an idol because that's what Israel does.
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  They're always going to have idols.
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  As a matter of fact, that's what it says.
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  Why can't anybody just look at the reality of what's happening here?
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  Let's define what God's people are.
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  God knew that they were going to do this when he brought them out of Egypt and he brought
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  them out anyway.
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  That's called mercy.
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  God knew that they would complain and murmur, but he fed them anyway.
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  That's called grace.
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  What more does God have to do?
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  Then look what it says in verse 28, Deuteronomy 1 28.
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  Where are we going up?
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  Our brothers have made our hearts melt saying, the people are greater and taller than we
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  and the cities are great and fortified up to heaven.
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  And besides, we have seen the sons of Anakim there.
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  Then I said to you, do not be in dread or afraid of them.
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  The Lord your God who goes before you will himself fight for you just as he did for you
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  in Egypt before your eyes in the wilderness where you have seen how the Lord your God
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  carried you as a man carries his son all the way that you went until you came to this place.
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  Yet in spite of this word, you did not believe me.
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  It doesn't matter what God did.
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  It didn't matter if he performed all kinds of beautiful miracles to deliver his people.
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  He gave him his word and they still didn't believe it.
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  You do not believe the Lord your God who went before you in the way to seek you out a place
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  to pitch your tents in fire by night and in the cloud by day to show you by what way you
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  should go.
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  So not only did they hate their God, they thought he was so small that he couldn't even
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  defeat the Anakim.
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  That's how big their God is.
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  And they lay against the wailing wall today beating their chest and they continue to deny
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  the God who saved them, who came, put on flesh, died on the cross, was buried and crucified,
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  was crucified dead and buried and rose again on the third day, whom they crucified, the
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  scripture says, which we proved during resurrection weekend, each and every one of us participated.
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  We're all guilty.
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  That's just Deuteronomy 1.
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  So when we read in Hebrews, for who were those who heard and yet rebelled?
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  Was it not those who left Egypt led by Moses?
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  And with whom was he provoked for 40 years?
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  Turn to Numbers 32 verse 6.
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  But Moses said to the people of Gad, now I want you to get this, this is Gad, the son
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  of Leah and Reuben, the son of Isilpah.
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  Moses said to the people of Gad and to the people of Reuben, these are two tribes of
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  the people of Israel.
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  Shall your brothers go to war while you sit here?
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  So this is what happens.
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  They're about, they're told they need to go into the land to take the land.
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  And Gad and Reuben were like, no, I kind of like it here.
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  I like it like right here.
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  We want, we want this land.
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  Now we just, we just want, we want to build here.
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  We want to shepherd here.
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  We want to stay here.
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  That's how they're feeling right now.
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  They're like, we're done, I'm done.
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  We've been traveling for 40 years in the world.
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  I'm like, I'm parking it.
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  I'm tired.
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  Verse 7.
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  Why will you discourage the heart of the people of Israel from going over into the land that
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  the Lord has given them?
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  Your fathers did this when I sent them from Kadesh-Burnia to see the land.
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  Do you remember that?
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  We just read that.
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  These people died and now it's time, Moses is at the end of his life and he's reminding
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  them this is exactly what your fathers did.
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  Oh, it's like the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
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  Okay.
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  Verse 9.
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  For when they went up to the valley of Esco and saw the land, they, they discouraged the
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  heart of the people of Israel from going into the land that the Lord had given them.
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  And the Lord's anger was kindled on that day and he swore saying, surely none of the men
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  who came up out of Egypt from 20 years old and up and upward shall see the land that
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  I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob because they have not wholly followed
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  me.
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  Did you hear that?
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  None except two men.
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  So God brings them and he says to them, we're going in.
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  No, not doing it.
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  Okay.
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  And he says, fine, you're not going into the land with me.
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  What's he talking about there?
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  Right here in Hebrews 3 verse 18.
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  Hebrews 3 verse 18 and to whom TD swear that they would not enter his rest, but to those
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  who were disobedient.
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  Well, how can they enter a rest when they're supposed to be entering the land?
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  That's the point.
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  Our rest is not in what we have.
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  Our rest is not in our home.
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  Our rest is in who abides in you and who you abide with.
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  That's rest.
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  God is with us, in us and abides with us.
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  That's rest.
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  They didn't get it.
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  The reason why they couldn't enter God's dwelling with him is because they did not believe.
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  You get the point now, true rest in Christ is true belief and true belief goes and takes
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  the land because God said, take the land.
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  It's not, you know, I need to think about that.
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  I don't know if that's a good idea and you can apply that principle in almost any situation.
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  You see a hungry person, I wonder if I should feed them.
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  Let me think about that.
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  I told you that story.
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  No, you feed them.
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  There's no question whether you should feed them.
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  You feed them.
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  You do it.
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  That's the point.
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  Rest is rest is abiding with God and God abiding or in us.
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  We are with him and he is in us.
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  If we are, if Christ is in the father and we are in Christ, then we abide with Christ
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  in the father.
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  We're going to see that in a minute.
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  Now let's keep reading verse 12.
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  None except for Caleb, the son of Hathune, the Kenazite and Joshua, the son of Nun, from
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  for they have wholly followed the Lord and the Lord's anger was kindled against Israel
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  and he made them wander in the wilderness for 40 years until all that generation that
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  had done evil in the sight of the Lord was gone.
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  And behold, you had risen in your father's place, a brood of sinful men, to increase still
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  more the fierce anger of the Lord against Israel.
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  In other words, generation after generation after generation.
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  So this is Moses.
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  Well, it doesn't change much because the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
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  Turn to John chapter five, John chapter five verse 39.
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  So instead of God taking them into a promised land and God sending prophet after prophet
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  after prophet to come before God, the Lord God and pray and beg that God would not forget
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  his people.
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  Do you remember that little prayer and that Daniel had spoken, Daniel nine?
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  Well, that prophecy is being fulfilled.
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  As Daniel had said, chapter five, verse 39, look at the heart of the people.
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  Jesus is amazing because the very, very God little G that the people of Israel followed
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  is Moses.
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  And that was just one of their gods.
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  Their God was their law.
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  They didn't want the God of the law.
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  They wanted the law to be their God.
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  That's what they did.
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  And then they ended up changing the written long and making the verbal Torah and get me
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  started on that whole situation.
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  Verse 39 says this says you search the scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal
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  life.
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  And it is they that bear witness about me.
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  Yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life.
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  Isn't that the same thing they did?
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  You refuse to go into the land and dwell with me there because I'm not big enough, strong
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  enough to take care of you.
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  I know I'm speaking for God.
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  That's not what I'm not trying to do that.
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  But that's kind of what they're implying.
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  Verse 41 I do not receive glory from people, but I know that you do not have the love of
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  God within you.
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  I have come in my father's name and you do not receive me.
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  If anyone comes to comes in his own name, you will receive him.
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  Moses came in his own name.
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  You received Moses.
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  How come I the lawgiver come in the father's name and you reject me?
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  That's what he's saying here.
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  Verse 44 how can you believe when you receive glory from one another and you do not seek
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  the glory that comes from the only God because they hate him.
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  They are a rebellious.
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  They pray.
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  They bring about provocation.
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  They say they're disobedient.
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  They do not believe and this is exactly what Jesus is saying.
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  Not only basically if we were to summarize the context here, I came to you, was with
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  you for 40 years in the wilderness, led you by fire and cloud and you still rejected me
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  then.
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  I come to you in flesh and you still reject me.
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  Why?
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  Because I'm not Moses.
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  Watch what he says.
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  Watch what he says here.
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  Do you not think that I will accuse you to the father?
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  There is one who accuses you.
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  Moses on whom you have set your hope.
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  For if you believed Moses, you would believe me for he wrote of me.
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  But if you do not believe in his writings, how will you believe in my words?
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  Ouch.
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  In other words, 400 years in Egypt, I deliver you out of Egypt.
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  I come, I put on flesh, I'm the Messiah, I'm the promised one, I'm the one who was born
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  in Bethlehem.
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  You remember that guy?
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  That's me.
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  And I turn around and I give you the words of life and you reject me here too.
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  Why?
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  Because they hate him.
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  Let's just be honest.
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  An unbelieving heart is hatred toward God.
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  You say you obey, but then you disobey the very words and commandments I've given you
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  to do.
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  You don't want the one who gives the commandments, you want the commandments.
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  And then you want to be able to manipulate those commandments to get your power and gain.
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  So that you can gain profit off of my words.
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  That's basically what he's saying here.
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  Let's clarify a little bit more and we'll end it with this.
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  John chapter 14 verse 8.
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  Now this is him talking to his disciples here, which is shocking because you would figure
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  that they would give it.
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  And he's a lot more patient and kind and understanding towards them, but he does hold them accountable
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  and look what he says here.
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  So he goes and I'll read verse 7.
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  If you had known me, you would have known my father also from now on.
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  You do know him and have seen him.
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  That's what Jesus says to the disciples.
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  And Philip said to him, Lord, show us the father and it is enough for us.
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  Doesn't that sound familiar in the Old Testament?
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  Give us manna.
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  Give us some food.
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  I'll give you manna.
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  Fine, here's some manna.
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  Now we want meat.
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  It's like you're never satisfied.
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  Show us the father, it's enough for us.
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  Verse 9, Jesus said to him, have I been with you so long and you still do not know me,
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  Philip?
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  What Jesus is saying is I and the father are Yahweh, totally and completely, 100% in all
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  essence and being.
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  The God of your fathers is the triune God of Yahweh.
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  Have I been with you so long that you still don't know me?
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  How much more?
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  What more do you want from me, Philip?
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  I've casted out demons, I've healed sick, I've fed twice, 5,000 people.
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  You still don't know me, Philip?
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  That's basically what he's saying here.
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  Look what it says.
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  Whoever has seen me has seen the father.
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  How can you say show us the father?
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  What was Philip's problem?
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  Do you not believe that I am in the father and the father in me?
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  The words that I say to you, I do not speak of my own authority, but the father who dwells
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  in me does his works.
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  Believe me that I am in the father and the father is in me, or else believe on account
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  of the works themselves.
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  You didn't believe the works of your fathers, your forefathers when I brought them out of
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  Egypt in the pillar of a cloud where I stood, in the pillar of a fire where I stood when
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  I met with Moses in the burning bush and I stood in the midst of the bush when I brought
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  plague upon plague upon plague out of Egypt and they brought you, I brought you out of
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  Egypt underneath slavery.
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  And what do you do?
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  You complain that you didn't have any food, so what do I give you?
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  I give you the greatest food you could ever want and need, manna.
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  You complain.
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  I give you quail.
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  You complain.
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  You're thirsty.
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  I give you water.
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  You complain over and over and over again.
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  If you don't believe what I'm saying to you, believe the works.
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  They didn't believe the works then.
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  They didn't believe his word then.
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  They're not going to believe his works now and they don't believe his word now.
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  And that has happened over thousands of years and then we turn around and we say to the
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  people called the church, that's the people of God.
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  This is not an issue of anti-Semitism.
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  This is an issue of clearly understanding biblically who are the people of God.
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  Those who love me, who will obey my word.
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  Look what it says, truly I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that
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  I do and greater works than these will he do because I am going to the Father.
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  Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified than the
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  Son and if you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.
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  If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
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  That is the people of God.
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  That is the people of God.
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  The reason why I'm passionate about this is because if we don't really look at the heart
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  of the people of Israel, you will not evangelize them and you will lie to them and tell them
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  something that is not true.
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  They are sinful, rebellious, broken people just like you and I were.
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  And they need a savior and his name is Jesus and over and over and over again, you bring
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  the glory of Jesus Christ and they reject him.
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  That's not my Messiah.
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  Of course, you want an idol, you want another Moses, that's who you want.
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  And you don't want a Moses that's really a Moses, you want a Moses that's in the image
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  of you.
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  So you can manipulate and control him.
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  That is the truth.
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  How I wish all people, especially Israel, the same passion that Paul had for his people,
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  if my people would just see.
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  But Paul came to the conclusion that you read Romans nine.
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  It's okay.
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  In the same way that not all Gentiles will be saved, not all Israel is Israel.
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  The Jews that come to faith in Christ, they are true Israel.
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  To them belong the patriarchs and the scriptures and the Messiah.
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  To them, they are our family.
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  Those are the ones who you should be driving to go find.
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  So I want to end with this one statement.
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  I'll read it again.
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  Rebellion, provocation, sin and disobedience all come from a heart of unbelief.
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  And you cannot be a people of God with a heart of unbelief.
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  Only the people of God have a heart of belief.
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  And if you love me, you will obey me, the scripture says.
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  This is difficult and true.
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  So please pray for our brothers and sisters who are Jews that God would draw his people
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  home in the same way he has drawn his people from a flock that is not of that flock.
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  Father, praise you and thank you.
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  Thank you that your people truly are people who are committed to obey you, to love you,
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  not an issue of law or legalism, but an issue of heart.
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  That if we really love you, we will do what you call us and command us to do.
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  Help us to walk uprightly before you, to trust in the Lord with all our heart and lean not
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  in our own understanding, but in all our ways acknowledge you.
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  And you will direct our paths.
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  Lord, we thank you and praise you.
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  To you be honor and glory in Jesus name.
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  Amen.