| Consequences Of Sin And Forgiveness: Lesson 18: The Wilderness As Punishment 01/16/2014 by turtle Deuteronomy 9:20-29 KJV (20) And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time. (21) And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount. (22) And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibrothhattaavah, ye provoked the LORD to wrath. (23) Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadeshbarnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice. (24) Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you. (25) Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first; because the LORD had said he would destroy you. (26) I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand. (27) Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin: (28) Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness. (29) Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm. God’s promise came before the law of the promise land. God is not slack concerning His promises. Yet God is not willing to allow His promises to be trampled on. His promise was to nation of Israel of the promise land. Yet the individual disbelief, and idolatry was also dealt with. It interesting how sin is dealt with by God. See Moses broke the stone that the covenant was written by God’s own hand, and also broke the idol and killed those that transgressed. Yet it goes further the punishment. The punishment did not end with Moses seeking justice for God. The wrath of God came with denying the people, that had no respect for him, by not allowing them to enter into the promise land. A land of hope and promises. Yet Moses would be seen in the transfiguration. Is their hope for these people, yes, just that they would not enter into the promise land. See the plague of serpents came and the people submitted to God. What forty years in the desert would do is train a people to rely on the promises of God, to rely on God and to walk in the ways of God. When we receive Christ as Lord in Savior we got to learn to walk in the desert of faith. All of us are not so willing to walk there, yet many of us already are walking there. Each step of faith is a struggle. When one is first learning to walk there is a few tumbles. So it is with the grumbling and complaining of the people, a stumbling, but not one that would cost them their spiritual eternity with God. Yet the cost would be great and a reminder for future generations, who would listen and obey. It so much easier in life to say yes Lord, I will do it. Dear Heavenly Father thank you for lessons in life that the consequences does not effect our eternity with you, but our life in this world of sin. In Jesus precious name, Amen. http://www.turtle30cshell.com _ |
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