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 Welcome to the Lansdale Life Church Podcast. If you're seeking a closer relationship with

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 Jesus Christ, this podcast is for you. Thank you for joining us today.

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 So like I said, there's three sections here. Well, four really, and I'm going to read the

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 first one, and we're not going to spend a lot of time in it, but I'll just read the first

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 verse here. It says, and the people of Israel, the whole congregation, came into the wilderness

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 of Zinn in the first month, and the people stayed in Kadesh, and Miriam died there, and was buried

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 there. So we're not going to spend a lot of time on it, but I did want to just very briefly mention

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 a few things because of what's going on with Miriam. So Miriam being the sister of Aaron

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 and Moses, if you didn't know, I would encourage you if you have a commentary, or if you know,

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 blueletterbible.com, if you go on there and check out David Guzic commentary. He covers the history

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 of who Miriam is in a lot of detail, because she had a huge role in the people of Israel, and we

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 don't have a lot of time to go into it. But there is significance into why she's being

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 mentioned. And the first significance, I believe, is because of the role that she played, but the

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 second significance is because we just saw about five chapters ago where they stood before the

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 Promised Land, and were fearful and refused to go in because of the Giants, and God said, then

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 none of you are going to get to go, and only the next generation will enter in. And so this is the

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 first person that we're seeing in the older generation that has been taken, the Promised Land

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 has been taken away from them as their punishment. This is the first person we see die. And so the

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 biggest significance is that God's word is being fulfilled right here. So we're going to move on

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 though. Past that, I really would encourage you though. David Guzic, Bible commentary, he dives

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 into who Miriam is, and it gives a lot of history and just important details on who she is. I would

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 encourage you to check that out. But we'll continue in the next section in verse two. Now, there was

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 no water for the congregation, and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron,

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 and that people quarreled with Moses and said, with that we had perished when our brothers

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 perished before the Lord. Why have you brought the assembly of the Lord into the wilderness,

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 that we should die here, both we and our cattle? And why have you made us come up out of Egypt to

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 bring us to this evil place? It is no place for grain or figs or vines or pomegranates,

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 and there is no water to drink. Then Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly

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 to the entrance of the tent of meeting and fell on their faces, and the glory of the Lord appeared

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 to them. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, take the staff and assemble the congregation,

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 you and Aaron, your brother, and tell the rock before their eyes to yield its water. So you should

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 bring water out of the rock for them and give drink to the congregation and their cattle. And Moses

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 took the staff from before the Lord as he commanded him. Then Moses and Aaron gathered the

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 assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, here now you rebels, shall we bring water

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 for you out of this rock? And Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock with his staff twice,

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 and water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank and their lives stuck. And the Lord said to

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 Moses and Aaron, because you did not believe in me, to uphold me as holy in the eyes of the people

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 of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them.

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 These are the waters of Maraba, where the people of Israel quarreled with the Lord,

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 and through them he showed himself holy. We're going to stop there and just look at the first

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 lesson, in a sense, lesson of the rock. What can we glean from this? So at first glance,

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 this is the second time that the Lord has produced water out of a rock. I don't know a lot about rocks,

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 and you may know more than me about rocks, or maybe none of us know a whole lot about rocks,

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 but I do know that it's really hard to get water to come out of a rock. If you put a shirt outside

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 in the rain and you pick that shirt up afterwards and you bring it, you'll produce a lot of water,

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 but as some of you may know, I don't know if you've ever tried this, but if you go pick up a rock

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 that's outside that's been sitting in the rain and try and ring it out, it doesn't really produce

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 much water. So this is clearly a miracle of the Lord that is happening right here,

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 and it's the second time that it's happening, and at first I was thinking, okay, why are they

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 being punished for striking the rock, and the Lord produces the water out of the rock, and he did it

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 in the same fashion back in Exodus, God told him, strike this rock and water will come out of it.

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 So here he's striking the rock and water's coming out. So what is going on though? Why are they being

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 rebuked by the Lord? And that is where the first spiritual lesson comes from in the rock

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 is that they did not obey in the method that God asked. Method matters to God.

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 In verse 8 it said, take the staff, assemble the people, tell the rock before their eyes to yield

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 its water. So you shall bring water out of the rock. The Lord told him to speak to the rock,

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 and that would produce the water, but Moses went before the people and chose to take this as a moment

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 to be angry at them, and rebuke them, and in fact grumble against a grumbling people.

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 Here now you rebels. Shall we bring water for you? He had a heart posture that was not aligned

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 with the will of the Lord, and he used a method that was not what the Lord asked him to do.

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 How often do we do this, where the Lord is calling us to do something, but we are not walking in the

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 spirit of the Lord, and we do it in flesh, and God still works. Right here God still did what he

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 said he was going to do. He is faithful when we are faithless, and that is what he wanted to be seen.

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 He wanted Moses to go before the people and say, look, you are not a holy people. You're not acting

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 in accordance with the will of God. You are being grumbling and you're complaining and you're being

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 unfaithful, but God's going to be holy and faithful even still, and he's going to give us water in a

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 place where there's no water. And if he had done that, maybe we would have seen a different outcome.

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 But we do this so often is that we don't use the method that God is asking us to do.

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 So what is that method that God asks us to do? What is the spiritual application for us?

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 In the story of this rock, it is to walk in the Holy Spirit, to not listen to the flesh,

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 not walk in the flesh, but walk in the spirit. There's a slide that you can put up just in that next one

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 of what does it look like then to walk in the spirit. And I'm not going to read all of these,

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 but you can check them out on your own as well. But to walk in the spirit means that we are setting

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 our mind on spiritual things. We're letting the spirit lead our decisions. It means to stay

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 filled and under his influence, to respond quickly to his conviction and to bear fruit that looks

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 like Jesus. If you want to just turn to Galatians 5 really quick.

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 Galatians gives us a beautiful picture of what we are seeing in the story and numbers.

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 See if I can find it here. I remember in hermeneutics class the teacher always said,

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 put a bookmark where you want your references. That would have been a good idea.

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 All right, here we go. So in verse 5 starting in verse 16, this is what it says.

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 But I say, walk by the spirit and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the desires

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 of the flesh are against the spirit and the desires of the spirit are against the flesh.

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 For these are opposed to each other to keep you from doing the things you want to do.

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 But if you are led by the spirit you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are evident.

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 Sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of

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 anger, rivalries, dissension, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these.

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 Moses was walking in the flesh. It says it right there in verse 20 that the fruit of the flesh

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 is fits of anger. To walk in the flesh is to have fits of anger. And Moses here striking the rock

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 and rebuking them out of his flesh is in a fit of anger, not in grace and love to say,

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 look, the Lord is going to be holy and gracious even though you are unfaithful.

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 And then continuing, I warn you as I warned you before that those who do such things will not

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 inherit the kingdom of God. If you walk in the flesh and not in the spirit you will not inherit

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 the kingdom of God. If we just pick this verse up and place it right here that is what we are seeing.

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 Moses walked in flesh and God says you will not walk in the promised land because of this.

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 And then let's just finish up that. I shouldn't have turned back. I just want to finish reading

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 back Galatians. In 22 it says, but the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness,

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 goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control against such things there is no law. And those who

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 spirit let us also keep in step with the spirit. So spiritual lesson from story one, the rock.

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 Walk not in the flesh but in the spirit. The Lord honors us when we walk in the spirit,

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 he works in us when he walks in the spirit. And in his great grace he will work even when we don't.

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 But there is always a consequence. There is always

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 a missing out on blessing from the Lord when we choose to walk in the flesh and not in the spirit.

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 So verse 14, Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom. Thus says our brother Israel,

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 you know all the hardship that we have met, how our fathers went down to Egypt and we lived in

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 Egypt a long time. In the Egyptians dealt harshly with us and our fathers and when we

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 tried to the Lord he heard our voice and sent an angel and brought us to out of Egypt.

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 And here we are in Kadesh, a city on the edge of your territory. Please let us pass through your land.

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 We will not pass through field or vineyard or drink water from a well. We will go along the king's

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 highway. We will not turn aside to the right or to the left. Until we have passed through

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 your territory. But Edom said to him, you shall not pass through lest I come out with the sword

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 against you. And the people of Israel said to him, we will go up by the highway. And if we drink

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 of your water, I and my livestock, then I will pay for it. Let me only pass through on foot nothing

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 more. But he said, you shall not pass through. And Edom came out against them with a large army

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 and with a strong force, thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his territory.

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 So Israel turned away from him. I think in this there are, there's a literal lesson that's being

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 learned in the Israelites. And then again, there's a spiritual lesson for us to take away.

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 The literal, if you don't walk in integrity in life and if you don't pursue to rebuild relationships,

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 then even your family will turn you away. This is the hardship that they're having to go through.

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 So just to back up, who is Edom? I think it's back in Genesis 16 when we see Esau,

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 or we see chapter 32, we see his lineage is the Edomites. So Jacob and Esau brothers, Jacob was

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 the conniving brother that was always tricking Esau to the point where he saw his birthright.

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 And now Esau is after him to kill him. And so he flees, it's this whole big dramatic story.

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 they actually meet again. And Esau doesn't come at him to kill him, but comes at him with forgiveness

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 and actually offers for him to come and live on his land with him. And Jacob, doing what Jacob

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 often did said, sure, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll meet you there and live and did not meet with him

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 and went off and ignored him. And then we don't see any reconciliation. In fact, the only other

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 time we see them speaking is at their father's burial in chapter 36 of Genesis.

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 There was no reconciliation. And now over 400 years have passed and we still see that there has been

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 no reconciliation between these two brothers families. I think the spiritual implication for us

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 is simply that when we walk in integrity, the Lord shows us favor. Even the world wants to honor us

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 in Psalm 6, or Proverbs 16, it says that those that walk in righteousness will make peace even

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 with their enemies. So to walk in righteousness, to walk in integrity, to stand upright,

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 will be able to go through the road and be invited to take from the vineyard. But when we don't,

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 we have a story like this where two families are not willing to help each other. And obviously,

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 we see that this is all in the Lord's plan because taking the shortcut would have gotten them to

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 where they wanted to go soon. But it forces them to go a long way around. And in that time,

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 the older generation passes away, fulfilling what God said.

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 There's another slide. You can just pull up that next one, Justin, just more versus for that

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 application of walking in integrity. To walk in integrity means to live honorably before God

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 and people. To let your life be worthy of the gospel. To model good works with sincerity and

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 sound speech. To think and act on what is honorable in every situation. And to keep your conduct

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 excellent so others glorify God. I just experienced this the other night.

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 I was out to dinner with Tara, my wife. Someone got us a gift card to a steakhouse,

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 which is the greatest blessing ever sometimes, you know? I love steak. So does Tara. And

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 I had a friend that encouraged me to do this, where whenever he goes out to eat,

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 and he prays for his meal, it's the waiter or waitress like is the one that brings the food,

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 he says, hey, I'm about to pray for my food. Can I pray for you too? It's just such an easy layup.

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 And I don't know why I haven't been doing it. But he encouraged me to do this. And so we're out

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 to dinner a few days later. And they bring us our food, and we pray for our food. Someone else brought

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 the food. And then our waitress came by and she said, hey, how's everything going? Is the food good?

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 All that stuff. And I said, yes, that's good. We're very satisfied. We just prayed for our food.

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 Can we pray for you? And she shared just something that was going on with her daughter and her and

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 she just it was she was caught off guard. And you could tell she was like, why do you want to pray for

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 me? But she sat there and thought for a minute and had something to pray about. And so I just laid

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 my hand on her shoulder and we prayed for her right then. And the cool thing about it

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 is that after we prayed, she was already doing a good job as a waitress. But after we prayed,

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 she became the greatest waitress ever, bringing us things that we did not pay for. And immediately

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 can I get you any drinks? Can I get you more bread? Can I get you more of that special sauce?

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 And it just goes to show that when you walk in a way that honors the Lord, you walk in the Spirit,

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 even people living in the world want to honor you.

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 If the Israelites were known for honoring the Lord, what would have happened here?

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 across all the land. But as we probably know, good news often travels with bad news.

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 And so the Edomites are sitting here like we want nothing to do with you guys.

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 And to be quite frank, you're not very trustworthy because you said you were going to obey God and

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 you haven't even done that. You're saying right here, and I just want to point out two verses

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 where it says, we'll just stay on the road. We won't turn from the right. We won't turn from the left.

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 And what does the king say? No, you can't come in.

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 And then he backtracks. Okay, okay. It was unrealistic to say that we wouldn't turn from the

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 left or the right and drink your water. We probably will, but we'll pay for it. We'll pay for it, I promise.

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 Everything that they're saying is giving more evidence to the untrustworthiness.

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 And the king of Edom knows this or he just wants nothing to do with his people that just

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 brings destruction everywhere they go. But either way, to walk in integrity brings honor from both God

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 and in many ways and at many times, even from the world. We'll move on to verse 22.

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 And they journeyed from Kadesh and the people of Israel, the whole congregation came to Mount

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 Har. And the Lord said to Moses, and Aaron at Mount Har, on the border of the land of Edom,

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 let Aaron be gathered to his people, for he shall not enter the land that I have given to the people

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 of Israel, because you rebelled against my command at the waters of Marabbah. We just saw that in verse 10.

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 Take Aaron and Eleazar his son and bring them up to the Mount Har and strip Aaron of his garments

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 and put them on Eleazar his son. And Aaron shall be gathered to his people and shall die there.

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 Moses did as the Lord commanded and they went up Mount Har in the sight of all the congregation.

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 the top of the mountain. Then Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain. And when all the

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 congregations saw that Aaron had perished, all the house of Israel wept for Aaron 30 days.

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 And when he says, you will not enter my land and you will die here.

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 We can see you die pretty quick. Goes up the mountain and did not return.

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 Because of his unrighteous behavior. Because of his not trusting in the Lord.

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 And I just want to point out a verse that I was going to point out earlier and I went right past it.

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 But God said in his rebuke to them, it's because you didn't believe in me.

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 And it's because Aaron did not believe that God would be righteous. That God would be faithful.

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 That God would show his holiness. That now his position of the most holy person in the camp in a

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 sense. The most authoritative person in the camp. The one that goes into the holy of holy places

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 to intercede on behalf of the people is not being given to his son but being taken from him.

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 And given by the Lord to his son. Not given by him. I think the spiritual application for us

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 is perhaps clear. Our job, first I'll just point out that we are, if you've given your life to Jesus,

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 you've been washed by his blood, you are a royal priest in the house of the Lord.

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 We are brothers with Aaron. We are standing and have the opportunity to stand in the holy place.

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 We have actually become the temple of the Lord when you've been washed with the blood of Jesus.

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 When you've confessed with your mouth and believed in your heart.

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 And that's what God is looking for. Believe in me.

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 And therefore, we have a responsibility also to not allow God's calling in our life to be

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 taken from us from a life of disobedience and just pushing off obeying him and walking in the

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 spirit. And he's going to just say, okay, then I'm going to give this to the next generation.

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 But to actually honor the Lord by being the one that's passing on what he's teaching us.

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 And I'm not saying that this means that every person that is walking in a spiritual calling

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 that God has put on their life needs to find a younger person to hand it over to.

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 But what was the great commandment of Jesus? Go therefore and make disciples.

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 So are we making disciples? Are we passing on the robe? Are we going to get to a point in our

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 life where God has to remove it from us? I know that in my life, this is something that I wrestle with

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 often because there are so many Godly men and women in my life all throughout the places that I've

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 lived that aren't passing down the robe. They're walking with the Lord but they're not passing down

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 the robe. And there's so many young people in my generation that are having children and they're

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 walking with the Lord and they're doing their best to read the Word and to walk in the spirit

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 but they're not passing down the robe. They're not passing down the way of the Lord to their

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 children. I know that's not us. That's a different church.

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 But let us pass down the robe. So I would encourage you

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 just sit with that this week. Lord, who is it? Who is it that you want me to pass the robe to?

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 Lord, what is this robe that I'm wearing right now? What is the calling that you've put on my life?

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 What are the lessons that you've taught me? What are the ways in walking in the spirit that you

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 have shown me through your Word and how can I teach the next person? It's fixing our eyes on Jesus

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 and passing what he's teaching us to the next. So just in quick wrap-up, I apologize. 30 minutes

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 there. Time goes really quick, doesn't it? The three applications for us and then we'll break

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 up into groups. From the story of the rock, walk in the spirit. Allow the spirit to take hold of your

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 life and don't continue to be captured by your flesh but allow yourself to be captured by Jesus

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 and desire him more. And the lesson from the road, walk in integrity so that the Lord can bless you.

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 Walk in a manner that people have nothing bad to say against us. I think that's in Ephesians

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 or the verse that says outdo one another in good works and then the final application from Aaron on

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 the mountain. Pass on the robe. Pass on the lessons that the Lord has taught you. Don't be stagnant

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 in your faith but give it on to the next generation. There truly is a turning point happening in this

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 country and in my generation and we're desperate for leaders, we're desperate for mentors that

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 will teach us the word of the Lord, that will teach us how to walk in the spirit of the Lord.

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 So let's pray and then we'll split up. Lord, we just thank you for your word. Thank you Jesus that

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 you are in and through every passage that we read. Or we thank you that you are our high priest.

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 We thank you that you are the rock that was struck but that you poured out your grace.

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 You poured out your word. Thank you Jesus. Lord, I pray that your spirit would just be in us and

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 through us as we gather together and just discuss this passage in Jesus name. Amen.

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 Thanks for joining us at Lansdale Life Church as we praise God and discuss his word.

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