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The Conquest of the Land God Required Obedience to Bring Them Into the Land Lesson #3 First Baptist Church 262-334-9211 Sunday July 19, 2020 2300 South Main St. West Bend, WI Walking in the Footsteps of the Bible The Conquest of the Land God required obedience to bring them into the land 2 I remember concerning you the devotion of your youth, the love of your bridal days, Your following after Me in the wilderness, through a land not sown. 3 Israel was holy to the LORD, The first of His harvest; All who ate of it became guilty; Evil came upon them," Jeremiah 2:2-3 God’s Faithfulness to His Beloved Here are some specific ways God demonstrated His faithful love (“hesed”) to Israel: 1. God had grown His special people of Jacob into a nation in Egypt. 2. He effectively prompted their release (by causing them to pray and by His raising up Moses), protecting their first born from death. (Ex 1-12) 3. He personally guided them with His presence in the pillar of cloud/fire. (Ex 13) 4. He effectively protected Israel from Pharaoh and his army, executing them in the very same waters of Israel’s salvation. (Ex 13-14) 5. He provided water. (Ex 15/17) 6. He provided manna. (Ex 16) 7. He provided quail. (Ex 16) 8. He protected them from the Amalekites on the way to the Promised Land. (Ex 17) 9. He prompted Jethro to give Moses wise advice about leading effectively (Ex 18) 10. He displayed His terrifying power in thunder, lightning, trumpet sounding, smoking and quaking mountain. (19/) 11. He revealed His glory to a few specific people (Ex 24/33) 12. He provided His good Law and covenant, creating societal order, explaining what behavior pleased/angered Him, and provided clear instructions for reconciliation and worship as well as instituted memory-inducing festivals. (Ex. 20-40, Levit., Num.) 13. He forgave their wicked idolatrous behavior at Sinai. (Ex 32) 14. He relented from destroying Israel because of their murmurings (Num 11-12) 15. He delivered them safely to Kadesh Barnea where the spies surveyed the land. (Num 13) 16. He pardoned their sin of unfaithfulness & mutiny against Him at Kadesh. (Num 14) 17. Instead of wiping them out and starting over he sentenced the whole rebelling generation to wander in the wilderness, promising to bring those under 20 years into the land. (Num 14) 18. God relented from destroying all Israel during the rebellion of Korah. (Num 16) 19. God confirmed Aaron’s leadership, graciously to silence the rebels and avert His wrath. (N 17) 20. God graciously provided healing (a bronze serpent) from His wrath (fiery serpents). (Num 21) 21. God gave them victory over the Amorites, Bashan, Moab, Midian, etc. (Num 21-24) 22. God relented from destroying Israel because of their going after Baal at Peor (Num 25) 23. God explicitly recommunicated the Law and Mosaic Covenant (The Book of Deut.) It is amazing grace that He didn’t wipe them out completely. He regularly went above and beyond keeping His promises to Israel. Israel certainly didn’t keep their promise to obey God (Ex. 24:3). Taught by Pastor David Hinz * 262-224-2114* [email protected] God Tells the Story of Israel’s Repeated Treachery & His Grace "On the day when I chose Israel and swore to the descendants of the house of Jacob and made Myself known to them in the land of Egypt, when I swore to them, saying, I am the LORD your God, 6 on that day I swore to them, to bring them out from the land of Egypt into a land that I had selected for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands. 7 "And I said to them, 'Cast away, each of you, the detestable things of his eyes, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am the LORD your God.' 8 But they rebelled against Me and were not willing to listen to Me; they did not cast away the detestable things of their eyes, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I resolved to pour out My wrath on them, to accomplish My anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt. 9 But I acted for the sake of My name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the na- tions among whom they lived, in whose sight I made Myself known to them by bringing them out of the land of Egypt. 10 So I took them out of the land of Egypt and brought them into the wilderness. 11 And I gave them My statutes and informed them of My ordinances, by which, if a man observes them, he will live. 12 And also I gave them My sabbaths to be a sign between Me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them. 13 But the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not walk in My statutes, and they rejected My ordinances, by which, if a man observes them, he will live; and My sabbaths they greatly profaned. Then I resolved to pour out My wrath on them in the wilderness, to annihilate them. 14 But I acted for the sake of My name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the na- tions, before whose sight I had brought them out. 15 And also I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands, 16 because they rejected My ordinances, and as for My statutes, they did not walk in them; they even profaned My sabbaths, for their heart continually went after their idols. 17 Yet My eye spared them rather than destroying them, and I did not cause their annihilation in the wilderness. 18 And I said to their children in the wilderness, 'Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, or keep their ordinances, or defile yourselves with their idols. 19 'I am the LORD your God; walk in My statutes, and keep My ordinances, and observe them. 20 'And sanctify My sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between Me and you, that you may know that I am the LORD your God.' 21 But the children rebelled against Me; they did not walk in My statutes, nor were they careful to observe My ordinances, by which, if a man observes them, he will live; they profaned My sab- baths. So I resolved to pour out My wrath on them, to accomplish My anger against them in the wilder- ness. 22 But I withdrew My hand and acted for the sake of My name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out. 23 Also I swore to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them among the lands, 24 because they had not observed My ordinances, but had rejected My statutes, and had profaned My sabbaths, and their eyes were on the idols of their fathers. 25 And I also gave them statutes that were not good and ordinances by which they could not live; 26 and I pronounced them unclean because of their gifts, in that they caused all their first-born to pass through the fire so that I might make them desolate, in order that they might know that I am the LORD."' Ezekiel 20:5-25 Round One: The Journey of the 12 Spies Pg. 3 (Consider the fact that Abraham, Isaac and Jacob had lived in the land of Canaan over 400 years earli- er, constructing altars throughout the land. Imagine Americans coming back to North America after 400 years of being out of the land, after other peoples had settled there and grown in popul.) Arriving at Kadesh Barnea in the Wilderness of Paran (south of the Negev), Moses sent out 12 spies; one representative leader from each tribe to see what the land was like which God was giving them. Caleb and Joshua brought back a good report of the land but, be- cause the other 10 spies brought back a bad report, the Israelites did not want to enter the Promised Land. As a result, God’s judgment against their distrust in Him was that the Israelites were to stay 40 years in the desert before entering the Promised Land - until every person over 20 died in the desert (aside from Caleb & Joshua) and the second generation who learned to trust God would enter (Numbers 13-14). The 40 years of wandering took place in 1446-1406 BC. Who Are All of the “ites?” ISRAELites - 12 tribes descendants of Israel/Jacob ISHMAELites - Abraham’s son (through Hagar) Ishmael’s descendants MIDIANites - Abraham’s son (through Keturah) Midian’s descendants MOABites - Abraham’s nephew Lot’s incest. son, Moab’s descendants AMMONites - Abraham’s nephew Lot’s incest. son, Ben-Ammi’s descend. EDOMites - Jacob’s twin brother, Esau’s descendants AMALEKites - Jacob’s twin brother, Esau’s son, Eliphaz’s son Amalek’s descendants CANAANites - Noah - Ham’s son, Canaan’s descendants AMORites - Noah - Ham - Canaan’s son, Amor’s descendants Philisitines - “Sea Peoples” who migrated from Crete/Aegean Sea Sin, Judgment & the Antidote—Faith! Throughout the wilderness wanderings of the Israel- ites, God was constantly teaching them things about Himself and about their own sinfulness.
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