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Israel is preparing to enter the land God promised them. They’ve been in the wilderness almost 40 years. At this point, they are camped on the eastern side of the Jordan River, just north of the Dead Sea. They cannot see the promised land from where their camping. There is a range of mountains called the Abarim running north south parallel to the Dead Sea and the Jordan River. They are camping just east of this range of mountains. That’s important because of what happens in the verses we are studying today.

The focus of these verses is the relationship between God and Moses. God told Moses to go to the mountains of Abarim where he could see the land God was giving to the sons of Israel. Moses would not be allowed to enter the land of promise because Moses had rebelled against God’s command at Meribah near Kadesh.

Moses misrepresented God to the congregation; he did not treat God as holy before the eyes of the people. Moses was angry and he allowed his anger to have more weight than God’s words to him. He did not treat God as holy.

The sons of Israel were striving with Moses because they had no water. God wanted to demonstrate His provision by having Moses simply speak to the rock to provide water for them.

When they first arrived in the wilderness they complained and cried out for water. God had Moses strike the rock with his staff and it flowed with living water. It was a beautiful picture of Jesus who declared, “I am the living water; let him who thirsts come to Me and drink.”

Jesus became the provision of living water when He died on the cross. The Rock was struck, you could say, and we received life. But having been struck once, He need never be struck again. He died once; for all. Therefore, when they cried out for water again at Meribah, God told Moses to speak to the rock. If you thirst for living water, you simply ask and it will be given.

But Moses was angry, “Listen up, you rebels!” he said, “Shall we bring water for you out of this rock?” Then he struck the rock; twice. He did not do as God instructed; he did not treat God as holy before the sons of Israel.

Moses rebelled against God’s command; he was therefore not allowed to enter the Promised Land. But God was gracious and allowed Moses to see with his own eyes the land of Israel.

There are great lessons in this story. There is spiritual maturity in Moses when he humbly accepts that he will not be allowed to enter the promised land. He doesn’t argue, he accepts with spiritual maturity.

But he also asks the Lord to give the people a shepherd. This is the right heart; what great lessons there are in the story.

I. Maturity in Also Seen What You Don’t do

 The first lesson comes from what Moses did not say. Moses was bitterly disappointed; it was his deep desire to cross over the Jordan…

Deuteronomy 3:23, “I pleaded with the Lord at that time, saying, ‘O Lord God, you have shown your servant your greatness and your strong hand… Let me, I pray, cross over and see the fair land that is beyond the Jordan, that good hill country and Lebanon.’ But the Lord was angry with me on your account and would not listen to me; and the Lord said, ‘Enough, speak no more of this matter.’”

 In spiritual maturity, Moses accepts what God says. He has learned to put weight to His words. That’s a great lesson for everyone; to learn to put weight to the words of God; to treat God as holy.

 God needs to be more revered; more weight needs to be put on His words because the consequences are real.

A. Accept what comes from God’s hand

 Moses could easily have blamed the people for provoking him into an angry response. “You people made me so angry and frustrated and now look what you’ve done!”

Illus – People have more control over their anger than they think. They could be raising their voice, shouting in anger and then the phone rings; and they answer sweet as honey.

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