Sermon Note (3rd svc)
- Pastor Prince
Every time we come into His presence we come into inexhaustible supply! Our need cannot be greater than His supply.
Sometimes God allows us to enter into areas of needs. We can see what is in our hearts. During time of testing, what is on our hearts will come out.
Is time of testing that unveils what is in our hearts.
We are not altogether cool or flow with God and we can see what is in His heart for us in time of testing.
Delivered from
Delivered into
God bring us out to bring us into
Out of Egypt into land flow with milk and honey.
The land flows with milk and honey. In the Hebrews, it said flows! The ideas of abundance
The cups flows over!
Milk has the idea of mother. Food that comes from mother. Our mother is not Mount Sinai.
God on Mount Sinai gave the commandments. God has moved mountain. Ours is grace. Our mother is grace.
We can have the same Heavenly Father but different mother. Our mother is grace. Milk must come from mother grace.
Honey is food we cannot have on our own.
Honey is a corporation of the body of Christ.
All come back together to the hive. Work together to put their food in various places.
A land flow with grace. Will have food because we are interdependent
Is no more individual life. Once we are born again, we are no more individual life.
The church is God’s idea, not man’s idea.
We have to be in the church, influence the church.
Stay there to pray. Be a trophy of God’s grace in our church and meeting place.
12 spies via Joshua and Caleb
Joshua and Caleb rose up and said let us go up and possess it. The land is very very good land. Very is repeated twice.
Their eyes were on very very good land.
The christian lives is much better than the life in Egypt that we come out from.
1 Corinthians 10:11
Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.
A type is use to express a name a person.
Adam and Eve is a type of His church
We are near the second coming which is not the rapture. We are near the soon and coming return of the King.
We are towards the end.
God hides the future in the past. That which was is that which will be.
What has been is going to happen again.
1967 During the 6 day war, on the 7th, Jerusalem fell into their hands.
In the beginning of 40th year, this incident happened.
Numbers 20:1-3
Moses’ Error at Kadesh
(Ex. 17:1–7)
Then the children of Israel, the whole congregation, came into the Wilderness of Zin in the first month, and the people stayed in Kadesh; and Miriam died there and was buried there.
Now there was no water for the congregation; so they gathered together against Moses and Aaron. And the people contended with Moses and spoke, saying: “If only we had died when our brethren died before the Lord!
What you say will happen to you.
You said cannot bring them in, it will happen to you.
Without faith, it is impossible to please God.
Parents don’t leave your children in the wilderness.
Something are taught and something are caught.
Is like once you are tasted, that is it!
Children believe their parents more than anybody else.
Train up a child in the way he should go. His spiritual taste.
Miriam died and was buried there.
This is the 40th year. Brand new generation.
God has a word for you and one word from God will change your life forever.
Early this year, Pastor mentioned depression and suicide is common thing this year. We are crying out. Fame and fortune are what people are running for. Yet fame and fortune one have, still took their lives.
Killing yourself is not it. There is an attack of depression. Not just out there but in the church.
Numbers 20:4-6
Why have you brought up the assembly of the Lord into this wilderness, that we and our animals should die here? And why have you made us come up out of Egypt, to bring us to this evil place? It is not a place of grain or figs or vines or pomegranates; nor is there any water to drink.” So Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the tabernacle of meeting, and they fell on their faces. And the glory of the Lord appeared to them.
After they crossed the red sea, they also without water.
Hit the rock and the water came out. This was 40 years earlier.
We are the end time generation of the end time.
Our values. How we see things. How we get the water flowing out for our family and relationship. Our wisdom, water for our health.
Take the rock.
God said speak to the rock, Moses hit the rock twice.
Numbers 20:7-11
Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Take the rod; you and your brother Aaron gather the congregation together. Speak to the rock before their eyes, and it will yield its water; thus you shall bring water for them out of the rock, and give drink to the congregation and their animals.” So Moses took the rod from before the Lord as He commanded him.
And Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock; and he said to them, “Hear now, you rebels! Must we bring water for you out of this rock?” Then Moses lifted his hand and struck the rock twice with his rod; and water came out abundantly, and the congregation and their animals drank.
There are results because God loves the people.
Numbers 20:12-13
Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not believe Me, to hallow Me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.”
This was the water of Meribah, because the children of Israel contended with the Lord, and He was hallowed among them.
We are the rapture generation. All of a sudden everything is so good! Very very good! No more sickness or getting old! No more instagram to worry about. No more depression
Very soon! We are the rapture generation.
Whatever happen to them in the wilderness, we learn.
1 Corinthians 10:4
and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ.
The Rock was Christ!
Take the rod.
God has a specific rod in mind. The rod Moses holding is his hand is not the rod God has in mind.
The rod of Moses represents the rod of judgement. Judicial rod
Moses took the rod from before the Lord.
The rod that was before the ark.
Rod cut out from its source is a dead stick. But one rod blossomed
It speaks of resurrection life.
Beauty of resurrection!
Aaron’s rod blossomed.
Jesus raised from the dead. He is our High Priest. Only after He died, He is our High Priest.
Priestly grace. The rod of Aaron is the rod of Priestly grace.
Priest is always good news.
Engraved cannot be blotted out.
Beautiful jewels on His chest. The closer you come to God the more beauty can be seen.
Is not who we are in the flesh.
God does not deal with who we are in the flesh. It is according to His priest.
The sacrifice of Christ is once and for all. Cannot be repeated.
Once and for all sacrifice. Once sacrifice for sin forever, He sat down.
He is the High Priest for us.
God wants us to be conscious.
We have a High Priest, not trying to get it.
Full assurance of faith!
As sure as my Jesus is my High Priest, He will watch over us. We will not lack!
We can be depressed for a while but not like the world without hope.
What can be worse that can bypass my High Priest?
His resources are greater than my needs!
Nothing can separate us from the love of God.
First thing in God’s mind is priestly grace.
The rod of priestly grace.
When Jesus was crucified, the elders of Israel were there.
All references to rock in the book of Numbers is high cliff, Sela
Moses hit the rock twice and water came out
Exodus 17:5-6
And the Lord said to Moses, “Go on before the people, and take with you some of the elders of Israel. Also take in your hand your rod with which you struck the river, and go. Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb; and you shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink.”
And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
God wants us to know that rod is a rod of judgement. He turned the river to blood resulting in death.
Jesus turned water to wine resulting in life.
God will stand there on the rock! It is like saying hit Me!
Jesus came to die! That is the only way you and I can find acceptance with God.
God cannot bypass one sin. What God cannot bypass He can forgive. God did it righteously.
All our sins were future before we were born
God is holy but God has to punish
On the cross the curse of the broken law, this will become forevermore the redemption.
Christ did it all! Once Sacrifice for sin forever.
When you are not at peace, everything inside you is not at peace.
Jesus can set you free. He loves you.
Cure for depression, see that Jesus has paid for all the wrongs. Stop punishing yourself. Stop punishing those around you. Stop abusing yourself. Jesus took your punishment.
As sure as the stripe fell on Your back on my behalf, just as so sure i am healed!
We need the preaching of the cross and the resurrected One.
Water come out abundantly! When the people complain, the rod of Aaron, water came out abundantly! God wants to be seen and know the importance of priesthood.
Moses presented that God was angry.
He was out of sync with God’s mind.
God’s mind is towards His people. The glory of the priest before Him.
Numbers 20:11
Then Moses lifted his hand and struck the rock twice with his rod; and water came out abundantly, and the congregation and their animals drank.
Every time you sin, Jesus do not need to die again.
God said speak to the rock. Moses spoke to the people.
The water came out abundantly!
Numbers 20:12
Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not believe Me, to hallow Me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.”
Numbers 20:13
This was the water of Meribah, because the children of Israel contended with the Lord, and He was hallowed among them.
Once the sins are paid for, God’s holiness is on our side.
Jesus Christ is the key.
Once and for all sacrifice of Christ is sufficient
Talk to the Lord before talking to the people.
How is God wanting to be represented as holy today?
Sin has been paid and represented by the priestly grace.
Today to preach grace is the highest holiness there is. Sin shall not have dominion over you when you are under grace.
Every time they see Aaron’s rod is good news.
Put away the rod of Moses and bring in Aaron’s rod.
Deuteronomy 3:25-27
I pray, let me cross over and see the good land beyond the Jordan, those pleasant mountains, and Lebanon.’
“But the Lord was angry with me on your account, and would not listen to me. So the Lord said to me: ‘Enough of that! Speak no more to Me of this matter. Go up to the top of Pisgah, and lift your eyes toward the west, the north, the south, and the east; behold it with your eyes, for you shall not cross over this Jordan.
Mount Lebanon was the place Jesus was transfigured
Because God’s grace towards us, He was angry with Moses.
Psalms 106:33
Because they rebelled against His Spirit,
So that he spoke rashly with his lips.
Speak to the rock!
Matthew 17:1-3
Jesus Transfigured on the Mount
(Mark 9:1–13; Luke 9:27–36; 2 Pet. 1:16–18)
Now after six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother, led them up on a high mountain by themselves; and He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became as white as the light. And behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them, talking with Him.
Moses represent the law, Elijah represents the prophet.
Peter learnt his lesson and did not mention Moses and Elijah
John is the only gospel that did not mention the transfiguration
The bible is not about experience but about truth.
Romans 8:33-34
Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
