Moses

turn your Bibles to Hebrews chap 11 Hebrews chapter 11 we're going to continue our series titled broken from Hebrews chapter 11 God's Hall of Fame all the great men and women of Faith but every one of them was broken in some way and that tells us first of all that God heals broken people and secondly that God uses broken people as well and so I think there's many lessons that we can learn from their lives so we're going to look today at Moses in Hebrews chapter 11 and beginning with verse number 23 it says by faith Moses when he was born was hid three months of his parents because they saw that he was a proper child and they were not afraid of the king's commandment by faith Moses when he

was come to years refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter choosing rather to suffer Affliction with the people of God than tojoy the pleasures of sin for a season esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Europe for respect on the recompense of the reward by faith he forsook Egypt not fearing the Wrath of the the king for he endured as seeing him who is invisible through faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood lest he he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them by faith they passed through the Red Sea as by land which the Egyptians assayed to do that were drowned by faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they were compassed

about seven days we want to look at the life of Moses and learn what we can from his faith and from his mistakes as well and as we look at the life of Moses one of the things that I I'm thankful for as a pastor is our Sunday School classes for our children it it's great to know that our kids are in class every Sunday morning and they're being taught the word of God the stories in the Bible but one of the problems is many of us grew up in Sunday school and you learned all the Bible stories but you learn them from what I call the coloring book perspective you know you get this coloring sheet for Jacob's Cod of Many Colors or Joseph's code many colors you get this coloring sheet with the fire

on there and everything and and and that's the way that we think of these stories and so when we grow up we we read the story of Moses and we think well I know that story and uh but what we know is the coloring book version of that story and so I want to look at it a little bit different today as we can and so go back to Exodus chapter 3 put a marker in Hebrews 11 we'll come back there but Exodus chapter 3 and we're not going to look at everything in his life story but we're going to start with Exodus CH 3 and veres 1-6 this is says now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father-in-law the priest of Midian and he led the flock to the backside of the desert and came to the Mountain of God even

to Horeb now remember now he's FL fled from Egypt he's been in the wilderness there as a Shepherd for about 40 years now and then it says in verse number two and the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of the Bush and he looked and behold the bush burned with fire and the Bush was not consumed so there was a a bush now a fire in the desert and that a area is not uncomon it's kind of like California uh there's very dry area and a lot of fires going on but the fact that there was a fire and the Bush was not consumed and so we're going to go ahead and use this as an illustration here if we can and go ahead and get that going there so give me just a moment the

Lord can do this a little faster than I can but you see there we got a fire going there and Moses saw this and he said hey that's unusual that's a little different uh burning like that and and so he stopped and he turned turned aside the Bible says in verse number three and Moses said I will now turn aside and see this great sight why the bush is not burnt by the way I do have a fire extinguished up here and I have somebody designated to use it if they need to but I think we'll be all right but the point is this is uh the fire made you look you know once I you know you don't see pastors very often starting a fire in church do you and so all of you maybe you weren't quite paying attention you

said what what's he doing over there and the fire made you look and a lot of times that's what we need is we need something that's going to make us look hold your place in Exodus and go back to the Book of James chapter 1 James chapter 1 and verses 22-2 James chapter 1: 22-2 so often we come to church we hear a message and we go home and we really don't stop and listen and one of the things that I try to do as a pastor I try to use illustrations or object lessons like this to get you to to stop and and and take a look to stop and listen in James chapter 1 verse number 22 the Bible says but be you doers the word and not hears only deceiving your own s for If any man be a hearer of the word

and not a doer he's like unto a man behold his natural face in the glass for he behold himself and goeth his way and straightway forgiveth what manner of man he was for when uh for who so lookth in the perfect law of Liberty and continue therein he being not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work this man shall be blessed in his deed see two to often we come to church we hear the message and we walk out the door and we never even really stop to take a look we never really took a moment to listen and and to look and see what God was trying to tell us and and and an illustration is a good thing to use and I like using object lessons I like using illustrations but often God is trying to get

our attention a and sometimes in church in a message the pastor will say or do something will make you wait oh whoa I I didn't know that or make you look up and say wow that's a different way of looking at that and you take a closer look at it but you need to do more than just to take a look the Bible says that not only did Moses look but it says that he turned aside he turned aside and see that's where a lot of us fail we come to church we hear the message and we look and say wow that's interesting or that's challenging or that's that's where me right there but then we get up and we walk out we never do anything with it see Moses not only saw the burning bush he not only say hey there's a

bush over there's burning it's not consumed but he turned aside to go and take a closer look and what I want to challenge you is with when you come the church and when you open your Bible and your devotions when you take a look at what the Bible says pay attention first of all and look and see what it is that God is trying to show you but more than that turn aside turn aside stop and really listen and let God speak to you in 1st Samuel 3 and veres 9-1 11 it says therefore Eli said unto Samuel go lie down and it shall be if you shall call thee that thou shalt say Speak Lord for thy servant hear is so Samuel went and laid down his place and the Lord came and stood and called as at other times

Samuel Samuel then Samuel answered speak for thy servant heareth and the Lord said to Samuel behold I will do a thing in Israel at which both the ears of everyone that heareth it shall tingle you see God had spoken to Samuel before and God uh Samuel heard it he he saw that but he he did not stop and turn aside he did not stop and say okay Lord I'm listening now I'm paying attention now and I want to challenge you when you come to church pay attention when you come to church don't don't make me start fires in order to get you to look you know look at what the word of God says look at what the preacher's saying look at what's being preached and but more than that do something with it turn

aside and let it change your life take it home with you in Acts 17:1 our church theme verse it says that these were more noble than those in thessalonica and that they received the word with all Readiness of mind and search the Scriptures Daily where those things were so you see you need to do more than just look you need you need to turn aside you need to turn aside and say hey I've got to take that with me I've got to listen to that so it will change my life now there's not always going to be burning bush moments sometimes God speaks to us in a very spectacular way like a burning bush but sometimes God speaks to us in a still Small Voice in 2 Kings chapter 19 verses 11 to 12 it says he

said go forth and stand upon the mount before the Lord and behold the Lord passed by and a great and strong wind rent the mountains and break in pieces the Rocks before the Lord but the Lord was not in the wind and after the wind an earthquake but the Lord was not in the earthquake and after the earthquake a fire but the Lord was not in the fire and after the fire a still Small Voice you see there are times that God will speak to you with a burning bush he'll do something that'll just get your attention and say wow look at that and you need to turn aside and say why is God doing this what is God trying to tell me and take that with you but sometimes God will also speak to you in a very still

and small voice it's not the spectacular things that often speak to us but The Quiet Things and that's why we need to listen we need to look and behold and make sure that it changes our life that it turns us aside problem is more often than not what turns us aside is the wrong things the Bible says in Psalms 101: 2 and 3 I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way oh when wil Thou come unto me I will walk within my house with a perfect heart I will set no Wicked thing before mine eyes I hate the work of them that turn aside it shall not cleave to me and so often what happens we come to church we hear the preaching of God's word but by the time we get home all the distractions of the world

have turned us away from what God is trying to say to us we we open our Bibles we read our Bible but by time we close our Bible and we get up to go about the business of our day it's not very long at all before we've forgotten everything that we read that morning because we've turned aside to the distractions of this world and what we need to do is we need to listen when God speaks whether it's in a still Small Voice or whether it's in a burning bush when God speaks we need to stop we need to pay attention we need to look but more than that we need to turn aside and say there's something that God wants me to do right now and we need to turn aside and do that we need a lifechanging encounter

with God back at Exodus chapter 3 look at Verses 4 through6 and when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see God called onto him out of the midst of the Bush and said Moses Moses he said here am I see now he's talking to Moses specifically he's talking to Moses personally he's saying this is for you and verse number five and he saidd draw not nigh hither but put off thy shoes from off thy feet for the place where thou standest is Holy Ground moreover he said he said I am the god of thy father the god of Abraham the god of Isaac and the god of Jacob and Moses his face for he was afraid to look upon God you see we need those times that in church and we need those times in our own personal

devotions where we realize that I am having a personal encounter with God that I am standing before a holy God that God is speaking to me personally and we need to listen to that skip down to verses number 13 and 14 and Moses said unto God behold when I come onto the children of Israel and shall say unto them the god of your fathers has sent me unto you and they shall say to me what is his name what shall I say unto them and God said unto Moses I am that I am and he said thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel I am ha sent me unto you the great Jehovah the I am the self-existing one he had an encounter with God where he got saw God in all his Holiness and God in all his greatness and

he fell down and he worshiped God he understood I'm standing on Holy Ground and folks when you have the opportunity to hear from God you're on Holy Ground you came here this morning not just to come to church not just to get together with other people not just to fulfill a purpose that you're supposed to do but you came here because this is Holy Ground and you came here to listen to God speak to you personally and God wants you to listen he wants you to pay attention and he wants you to turn turn aside and change your attitude and your direction of your life the other thing about Moses when he had this encounter with God look at Exodus chapter 4 even though he saw God in all his Holiness his

greatness he argued with God and God called him to go back to his people in verse number one of chapter 4 it says and Moses answered said but behold they will not believe me now hearken unto my voice for they will say the the Lord hath not appeared unto to thee and the Lord said him what is that in thine hand he said a rod and he said cast It On The Ground he cast it on the ground it became a serpent and Moses fled from before it so Moses arguing with God and God said what's that in your hand he said well what's in my hand is a is a rod you know you ever heard the the statement carry a big stick well that's what Shepherds would do uh Shepherds had two different tools of the trade if you can

put that picture up on the screen here you'll see that the one we're really familiar with is the one on the right which is the STA with the hook on it where they could reach down and hook the Sheep pull it back away from danger or whatever need to be done and the other one was the rod which was more like a club that they could fight off the animals with and and use it to protect themselves and sometimes these would both be combined into one but often they would they would carry both of them and so Moses had his rod and God said he said what's in your hand he said I have a rod and and he said cast it down and U so he cast it down and when he cast it down it turned turned into a snake and so

he had a snake here that it turned into now I have a snake here that does not have a head I'm going to explain this to you this is because I have a wife that is scared to death of snakes and I have a grandson I think they collaborated together to get rid of the head of the snake and so it's it's long gone I don't know where or went uh but anyways uh that turned into a snake now listen folks there are times where God wants you to give him everything you see that Rod was the tools of his trade that's like asking a mechanic give me your tools and that's like asking a professor give me all your books that's like asking a computer expert give me your computer he wanted Moses what Moses had in his

hand he wanted something important to Moses Luke chap 14 and: 33 the Bible says so likewise whosoever be of you that forsaketh not all that he have he cannot be my disciple you see folks God doesn't always ask us to give up just the bad things in our life we need to give up the bad things but sometimes he asks us to give up friends sometimes he asks us to give up Sports sometimes he asks us to give up a hobby or a job sometimes there's things that he asks us to cast down and give up that are not bad things there was nothing wrong with the rod it was a tool of the trade it was important to the shepherd they couldn't really do their job without it but God said cast it down give it to me now

why did God turn the rod into into a snake I I think there's probably a couple reasons one is I think God has a sense of humor I I think God would just have a little bit of fun with Moses and he figure well if I'm going to do this I'm going to scare him half to death and so here's the snake and uh you know folks we're often scared of what God wants to do in our lives you know the reason a lot of us aren't willing to give God our lives as a Living Sacrifice because we're scared of what God's going to do with it we're scared of what God's going to ask us to do and and and so here's a snake and and a snake also is a symbol of Satan in Revelation 12:9 it says the Great Dragon was cast out that

old serpent called the devil and Satan which deceiveth the whole world he was cast out of the earth and his angels were cast out with him uh Satan is a the snake is a picture of Satan a symbol of Satan and we need to remember that it's Satan that wants to keep us from serving God and sometimes we just got to say no to Satan to say yes to God and uh and sometimes what we've got to do is we got to be willing to overcome our fears in Exodus chter 4 verse number four it says the Lord said unto Moses put forth thine hand to take it by the tail and he put forth his hand and caught it and it becometh a rod in his hand you know that's not exactly what I want to do with a snake you ever had encounter

with snake have you ever ever had a personal encounter with a snake uh I did down in Florida I was helping a guy rebuilt a shrimp boat and uh it had double holes in the inside Hall was rotted so we were pulling off the boards on the inside Hall and hle and I pulled off one of the boards when I pulled the board off a water moccasin came out right at me uh I had the board in my hand and I smashed it down the water mck's head and killed it but I tell you what that was not uh that scared me half to death that was a very fearful thing to to have to deal with that and so afterwards now the the the head was smashed but I thought well you know this is they have a beautiful skin I thought it'd be

neat to take the skin off and and send it to my nephew and and so I I reached down to grab that nake now a snake inside is like a big huge muscle and uh so when I reached down to grab the snake the snake wrapped around my arm now the snake was dead his head was crushed but it was pouncing when I killed it and so it was tensed up like a muscle and as soon as I touched it that that snake wrapped around I'll tell you what I about had a heart attack I I just about died I I took that thing I threw it halfway across the boat you know I thought that I still have nightmares of that snake coming back after me you know later on we threw it in the water and when it hit the water the cold water started

to swim away this crushed head and everything is swimming away I thought I don't want anything to do with snakes go over to Isaiah chapter 55 you know sometimes God ask us to do things that make us afraid and sometimes God even asks us to do things that just don't make sense you know what doesn't doesn't make sense reaching down and picking up a snake by his tail you that to me does not make sense I think if you're going to have to pick up a snake you'd want to pick it up behind the head because the head's the part that bites not on the tail because you got it by the tail the snake canop round snap out at you right that's what I would think in fact I I I thought about little I said well I

want to make sure so I decided I'm going to look up on Google and see how you pick up a snake with your hands do you know how many Google videos there are about how to pick up a snake with your hands there's like a thousand of them why in the world are people making a video about how to pick up a snake with your hands the best thing to do is when you got a snake is to get out of there not picking up with your bare hands but that's what God told Moses to do and sometimes God asks us to do things that we don't want to do and sometimes God asks us to do things that don't make sense in Isaiah CH 55 and veres 8 and9 the Bible says for my thoughts are not your thoughts neither are your ways my

ways sayith the Lord for as the heavens are higher than the earth so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts see folks we need to realize that God's ways are not always our ways and sometimes when God asks you to turn aside and God asks you to do something it it does not make sense God says give that to me and you say Lord Lord this is important to me I don't want to give it up but God says Let It Go give it to me and then it turns into a snake and all of a sudden God saying pick up the snake and and and I don't want to do that Lord I'm afraid of that and God says just trust me you know what the interesting thing is after he gave God the rod God gave it back to

him he got to keep it in psalms 37:4 it says Delight thyself also in the Lord and He Shall give thee desires of thine heart you know it's really neat is the rod became the focus of God's power in his life the thing that he gave to God when God gave it back to him became the focus of God's power the rod was what he used when the plagues came remember he before for Pharaoh he threw the rod down it turned to a snake again he used the rod to call forth the plagues the rod was what he used at the Red Sea to part the Red Sea the Rod's what he used to bring forth water from the from the Rock in fact in Exodus chapter 4 go back over there if you would I want you to see this Exodus chapter 4 and

verse number 17 Exodus 4 and verse number 17 it says and thou shal take this rod in thine hand whether th Thou shalt do signs then skip down to verse number 20 and Moses took his wife and his sons and set them upon an ass and he returned to the land of Egypt and Moses took what's it called there the rod of God in his hand the thing that God said Moses I want you to give it up he gave it back to him and it became the focus of the power of God in his life became the rod of God folks if you don't give it up to the Lord then how can God use it now he doesn't always say pick it up again there are some things that we just need to let go of there are some things that are just not good for us there

are some things that we just need to TOS away and say I don't need this anymore but then there are other times that when we give it to God it becomes the the power of God in our life because we've given it to him now go to Numbers Chapter 20 that Rod did get him in trouble a little bit later on in Numbers Chapter 20 and verse number seven says the Lord spake unto Moses saying take the rod and gather the assembly together thou and Aaron thy brother and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes and shall go forth his water and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock so that thou shalt give the congregation their Beast drink and Moses took the rod from before the Lord as he

commanded him and Moses gathered the congregation together before the Rock and he said un them here now ye Rebels must we fetch the water out of this rock and Moses lifted up his hand hand and with his Rod he smoked the rock twice and the water came out abundantly and the congregation drank and thereby the their Beast also now you remember the story this is the second time that water comes in the Rock the first time God said to strike the Rock and Moses struck the Rock and water came out and then later on they were in a patched area again a parched area and so God says now go speak to the Rock but instead of speaking The Rock Moses is mad the people have been a real they've been complaining

and murmuring they've been a real problem and so he strikes The Rock instead of speaking to it he disobeys God so that Rod that he gave to God it it kind of got in trouble a little bit later on now why is this important because number one The Rock was a type of Christ in 1 Corinthians chapter 10 and verse number four it says and did all drink the same spiritual drink for they drank of that spiritual rock that followed them and that rock was Christ the Rock is a type a picture of Christ and how that he was struck for our sins he was crucified and and and he was buried he rose again and Jesus is the rock of our Salvation 1 Corinthians chapter 3: 11 for other Foundation can no man lay than that

is laid which is Christ Jesus and so that rock was a symbol of how that Jesus one day would be struck with our sins and and would die for our sins and it was a type a picture of Salvation and here's the problem Jesus doesn't need to die a second time he died once for our sins his death will quench our thirst for God in John 7: 37- 38 it says in that last day that great day of the feast Jesus stood and cried saying if any man thirst let him come onto me and drink and he that believeth on me as the scripture has said out of his belly shall flow rivers of Living Water and that water is a symbol how that when we get saved that it's like a spring of water the holy spirit inside of us continuing

to to fill us and to bless us and and and and and The Rock this whole thing was a picture of Salvation how that you need to trust in the death of Christ that he was struck for our sins but he only died once for our sins you see we need to understand Hebrews chapter 9 vers 27 and 28 says it appointed a men once to die but after this the Judgment so Christ was once offered to Bear the sins of many and onto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation you see his one death on the cross is sufficient for our Salvation he doesn't need to do it a second time we don't need to get saved again and again and again we don't need to have our religion or our rituals

or our righteousness added to Salvation it's not by works which we have done it's not by our own righteousness the Bible says go over to Hebrews chapter 6 Hebrews chapter 6 sometimes people will think well I I I lost my salvation I need to get saved saved again you cannot lose your salvation you cannot get saved again in Hebrews chapter 6 and verse one it says therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ let us go on to um let us go on to Perfection not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and the faith toward God skip down if you would to verse number four says for it is impossible for those who were once enlightened and have tasted of the Heavenly gift

and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the world to come if they shall fall away to renew again unto them unto repentance seeing they crucify themselves to Son of God aresh and it put him at the open shame what this passage is saying is basically this if you truly are saved and the way you're saved by trusting the one who died for you Jesus Christ if you're truly saved you cannot lose your salvation because if you could lose your salvation you cannot get saved again because he died once for your sins you cannot crucify the flesh you cannot do it over again so we cannot lose our Salvation because we cannot get saved again it's a

one-time deal and that's why it was so important that that Moses did it right and he did it wrong because he said a wrong picture a wrong type of Christ and I want to encourage you if you're here today and you're not saved you need to have your sins he he died to save you from your sins he was struck for your sins and you need to put your faith and trust in him but if you're a Christian if you've already been saved you can't lose your salvation you cannot get saved again it's a one-time thing and you need to trust Christ now you can't get saved again but when you do sin you need to speak to Christ see Moses was supposed to speak to the Rock not strike it and when you sin as a Christian 1

John 1:9 says if we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness so we need to speak to him say God I'm sorry I sinned with you forgive me but we don't need to get saved again now there's important lessons we can learn from Moses one is Moses kept going back to an old problem and that's his temper Moses had a temper you remember early on he killed an Egyption because he got angry and that problem just continued On and On Again the Bible says in Proverbs chapter 25: 28 he ha he that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city is broken down and Without Walls Ephesians 4:26 be angry and sin not let not the sun go down upon your

wrath James 1:19 wherefore my beloved bre let every man be swift to hear slow to speak slow to wrath so often we struggle with that besetting sin we struggle with that that that thing in our lives that we struggle with our whole LIF long and that was Moses with his temper you know what's ironic the Bible says in numbers 12:3 now the man Moses was very Meek above all men which were upon the the face of the Earth he was Meek the word meek means power under control when he had that temper under control he was good but when he let his emotions took control that's when he got in trouble and sometimes we can think I can handle this see moses' problem here in this in this In this passage we read is

in his pride he said well we have to do this he he thought I can do this without God the Bible tells us in Proverbs chapter 16 vers 18 Pride go Before Destruction hotty spirit before fall what's your besetting sin what's that thing that keeps coming back again and again and again in your life what's that thing you struggle with you're not going to defeat it in your own strength and your own power you need the power of God In this passage Moses said must we bring forth water from the rock what do you mean we you have nothing to do with this this is God God and sometimes we forget it's not us it's God numbers 20: 10 and Moses and the congregation gathered congregation GA and said unto him here

now you rebels must we fetch water from this rock it you know what's interesting is he struck the rock which God told him not to do the water still came forth but he lost a lot because of that didn't he because of that God said you can't go into the promised land he paid a price you know God will give you what you want but you pay a price for it often go to Psalms chapter 106 Psalms chapter 106 and look at verse number 15 Psalms 106 and verse number 15 the Bible says in Psalms 106:15 he gave them their request but sent leanness onto their soul you might get what you want but you pay a price for it and Moses did now don't get me wrong the people had a responsibility here they were murmuring

they were complaining in Psalms 106 and veres 32 and 33 it says they angered him also at the Waters of strife so that it went went ill with Moses for their sakes because they Pro provoked his spirit so he spake unadvisedly with his lips I have a pastor friend one of his favorite sayings is the ministry with be great if it weren't for the people you had to work with and sometimes it's really strug it's hard on pastors because you're dealing with people that that don't listen and people that sometimes fight back and even turn against you and it's a struggle it's a challenge and that's what Moses fac and and the people were murmuring they were complaining and nobody was happy and everybody the

Bible says in Hebrews 13:17 obey them that have the rule over you and submit yourselves for they watch for your souls that they may give give account that they may do it with joy and not with grief for that is unprofitable for you that certainly came true in moses' Liv and I want to challenge you for many pastors that's also come true because people fight their Pastor instead of working together with him go back to Hebrews chapter 11 one other lesson I want to learn from Moses as you look at verses 24- 27 it's interesting words that he uses here look what it says it says refused choosing esteeming the reproaches of Christ greater forsook Egypt not fearing endured now folks those words don't

sound like the Moses I read about in Genesis as I said before when you read Hebrews chap 11 it sounds like it's talking about different people than when you go back and read about them in the Bible it's not because the Bible's contradicting himself it's just that God in his grace gives Moses more credit than he really deserves Moses didn't leave Egypt willingly he ran away because he murdered somebody Moses didn't go back and Lead his people out to the promised land willingly he was kind of forced to by God God literally had to give him leprosy in Exodus chapter 4: 6 and 7 he says stick your hand in your shirt and he put his hand in he pulled it out it was leprosy you know leprosy is the

worst thing that could happen to you back in that day that was worse than hearing the words cancer because leprosy meant you had to go outside the city and not never be around your friends and your family anymore and in order to get Moses to obey God had to give him leprosy let me ask you a question by the way what does God have to do to get your attention you're not paying attention to the burning bush you're not listening to the still small voice of God so what is it that God's going to have to do in your life to get your attention Moses didn't go willingly Moses made all kind of excuse I'm not good at talking Lord so God said I'll send Aaron with you do you realize Aaron was one of his

biggest sources of problems he's the one that built the the the idols he's the one that rebelled against Moses and and caused a bunch of the problems that they had why because Moses would not just say Okay Lord Moses by the grace of God is a man of faith that encourages me because he didn't know he do it right but he still did it so why don't we learn from Moses let's do it right Moses got to stand in the very presence of God more than once at the burning bush you're on Holy Ground then he goes up to the Mount and gets the Ten Commandments from God and he goes back back up again after he broke him you know God I broke these he got to stand the very presence of God I want to close by looking

to Hebrews chapter 10 Hebrews chapter 10 and beginning with verse number 19 having therefore Brethren boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus by a New and Living Way which Heath consecrated for us through the veil that is to say is flesh and having a high priest over the house of God let us draw near with a True Heart in full Assurance of Faith having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water let's hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering for he faithful who promis and let us consider one another provoke un love and good works not forsaking the Assembly of ourselves together as a matter of some is but exhorting one

another and so much the more as you see the day approaching listen folks Moses had the privilege of coming into the very presence of God of standing on the Holy Ground in front of the burning bush of of standing there receiving the 10 Commandments from God of being able to be in the presence of God but you and I the Bible says right here in Hebrews chapter 10 we have that chance to come into His presence every week we can come together in Fellowship we can come together in worship and I just don't understand why people don't do that why would they miss that opportunity to worship a holy God and to be in his presence so what can you learn from the life of Moses is God trying to get your

attention right now is God saying hey hey hey look over here look is God trying to get you to turn aside from the path you're on and turn the way he wants you to go are you listening are you just going to be distracted by the things of this world is God asking you to give up something to him so he can give you back so much more what is it that he wants you to give up and let go of what is it that he wants you to give to him what are the excuses you keep making until you get God to the point he says okay let's see how you like this and he has to touch your life in a way way to get your attention because you haven't been listening