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LESSON 3 * PART 4 * BOOK 47
Hebrews 3:1-12 - Part 2
Hebrews 3:12
in departing from the living God."
We’ve lost our faith! Well here is the lesson for us now from Israel’s experience going into the Promised Land.
Now during break time, I just drew a make shift map of Israel and a lot of people think that the Promised Land is just this little neck between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan Valley. Now coming into Exodus chapter 23, and verse 25.
Exodus 23:25-27
"And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee. Now verse 28. God says:
Exodus 23:28a
God said, "I’ll send hornets and just drive them out!" Now let’s read on.
30. By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land." (my what a promise God made. Exodus 23:32
"Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. 33. They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee."
Deuteronomy 1:2
"(There are eleven days’ journey from Horeb (Mount Sinai) by the way of Mount Seir unto Kadesh-barnea." Now verse 3.
Deuteronomy 1:3-5
Deuteronomy 1:6
"The LORD our God spake unto us in Horeb, (at Mount Sinai after they had received their instructions for the tabernacle) saying, ye have dwelt long enough in this mount: 7. Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, (which is up toward Mount Herman on my map) unto the great river, the river Euphrates."
No, this is what God deeded to them here in Genesis 15, and let’s begin with verse 18.
Genesis 15:18
"In the same day (that God came down and fulfilled a title deed with Abraham) the LORD made a covenant with Abram, (Abraham) saying, Unto thy seed (his offspring, his generations down the road) have I given this land, (we’re not talking about something spiritual, bur rather good old physical earth) from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the River Euphrates:"
God has given them everything from the River of Egypt, and I don’t think it’s the Nile. I think there was another river east of the Nile that sort of disappeared over time - but whatever, it was the River of Egypt all along the Mediterranean, up to the River Euphrates, and back to the Red Sea. Deuteronomy 1:8
"Behold, I have set the land before you: (the Promised Land God has prepared through the sweat and tears of the Canaanites) go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them."
As long as they were obedient, God would bless them, and my, it was as promised, the Promised Land, and everything was waiting for them. Now read on in verse 18.
Deuteronomy 1:18
Now verse 19.
Deuteronomy 1:19
Deuteronomy 1:20-21
"And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites, which the LORD our God doth give unto us. 21. Behold, the LORD thy God hath set the land before thee: go up and possess it, as the LORD God of thy father hath said unto thee; fear not, neither be discouraged."
What did neither God or Moses tell the children of Israel? God or Moses hadn’t said a word about sending spies to see if they can do it. You see that’s unbelief, but that exactly what Israel did, and that’s where God’s anger began.
Deuteronomy 1:22
Deuteronomy 1:23-25a
Now, today we’re seeing the land of Israel blossoming like a rose. Deuteronomy 1:25-28a
"And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which the LORD our God doth give us. 26. Notwithstanding ye would not go up, (remember Moses is rehearsing all this) but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God:" They rebelled! So here’s Israel with the truth of God in front of them, but they would rather believe the lie of ten men. Now, let’s just keep going with verse 29.
Deuteronomy 1:29
So Moses is saying, "The same God that brought you out of Egypt by opening the Red Sea - and if He could open the Red Sea, He could certainly drive out Canaanites. Now verse 31.
Deuteronomy 1:31
"And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the LORD thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place." Deuteronomy 1:32
"Yet in this thing ye did not believe the LORD your God,"

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