1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:15,760 I'll read the question you will read the answer. 2 00:00:15,760 --> 00:00:17,880 Pretty simple today. 3 00:00:17,880 --> 00:00:22,520 Let's straight to the point. 4 00:00:22,520 --> 00:00:27,520 What is God? 5 00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:40,720 Amen. 6 00:00:40,720 --> 00:00:45,160 It's fitting that this is a question for today. 7 00:00:45,160 --> 00:00:52,520 Because when we read Hebrews 3, 16 through 19, we really come to some very important 8 00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:57,200 things that we need to address when we're looking at the issue of unbelief. 9 00:00:57,200 --> 00:01:04,000 So these are really important doctrines that we go through each week. 10 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:09,400 And have you ever thought about the question not who is God, but what is God? 11 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:14,800 And question number four in the Westminster Confession, the short catechism is straight 12 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:15,800 to the point. 13 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:20,040 It's really couldn't be said any better. 14 00:01:20,040 --> 00:01:25,160 And I'm thankful for that document kind of helps us keep grounded and talk about and 15 00:01:25,160 --> 00:01:28,360 deal with issues about God concerning God and the ways of God. 16 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:36,000 Because as you know, as a church, our main purpose in life, our highest calling in life 17 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:40,400 is to glorify God and enjoy him forever. 18 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:43,560 And that's question number one. 19 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:50,440 And to love God, love his word, love his ways and love his thanks. 20 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:56,920 So as we're going to be going through Hebrews 3, and we'll be finishing up today, we probably 21 00:01:56,920 --> 00:02:02,000 won't we're not going to go into Hebrews 4, which is just a continuation. 22 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:06,520 But I want to go through some Old Testament and some New Testament with this. 23 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:10,640 It's a very straightforward message. 24 00:02:10,640 --> 00:02:11,640 So let's pray. 25 00:02:11,640 --> 00:02:14,080 Father, I want to come before you. 26 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:21,400 We ask that you would guide your people in your truth that you would teach us your word, 27 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:23,880 Lord that you are honored and glorified. 28 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:29,720 Lord, we know that you speak and you speak through your word. 29 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:38,760 So Lord, we eagerly await to hear from you as you guide us through your amazing, infallible, 30 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:39,760 inerrant word. 31 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:44,040 Lord, we praise you and thank you for your faithfulness and goodness and that you have 32 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:51,800 given us life and life abundantly in Christ and that it's clearly your character, who 33 00:02:51,800 --> 00:02:57,920 you are, your purpose, your plan is all revealed and completely explained in your word and 34 00:02:57,920 --> 00:02:59,320 we honor you. 35 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:03,600 We thank you for this amazing story of redemption and this wonderful narrative. 36 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:06,520 To you be honor and glory forever in Jesus name. 37 00:03:06,520 --> 00:03:07,520 Amen. 38 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:13,080 So let's go to chapter three, verse 12 and we're going to read and keep reading all the 39 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:15,520 way through 19. 40 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:23,160 Chapter three, verse 12, take care, brothers, lest there be any of you an evil, unbelieving 41 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:30,480 heart leading you to fall away from the living God, but exhort one another every day as long 42 00:03:30,480 --> 00:03:37,280 as it is called today that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin for 43 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:43,800 we have come to share in Christ if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the 44 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:45,040 end. 45 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:51,000 As it is said today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion. 46 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:55,580 For who were those who heard and yet rebelled? 47 00:03:55,580 --> 00:04:03,320 Was it not all those who left Egypt led by Moses and with whom was he provoked for 40 48 00:04:03,320 --> 00:04:04,320 years? 49 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:11,680 Was it not those who sinned whose bodies fell in the wilderness and to whom did he swear 50 00:04:11,680 --> 00:04:18,480 that they would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient? 51 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:25,800 So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief. 52 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:35,120 Principle, you guys ready, a rebellious heart is an unbelieving heart and a believing heart 53 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:38,640 is an obedient heart. 54 00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:45,800 A rebellious heart is an unbelieving heart and a believing heart is an obedient heart. 55 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:51,280 Psalm 37, three through five says this, trust in the Lord and do good, dwell in the land 56 00:04:51,280 --> 00:04:56,040 and befriend faithfulness, delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires 57 00:04:56,040 --> 00:04:57,040 of your heart. 58 00:04:57,040 --> 00:05:01,440 Commit your way to the Lord, trust in him and he will act. 59 00:05:01,440 --> 00:05:07,080 Many times we read this and we think if we just do good, and that's not the point of 60 00:05:07,080 --> 00:05:15,960 Psalm 37, the point of Psalm 37 is trusting in the Lord means to be obedient. 61 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:19,680 Trust in the Lord and live it out, do good. 62 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:22,720 Dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness. 63 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:29,680 Delight yourself in the Lord, delight yourself in his ways and his word and he will give 64 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:35,120 you the desires of your heart because your heart's desires will be his desires. 65 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:43,600 It's not that God desires anything, it's not in need of anything, but that he loves 66 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:46,000 his ways. 67 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:49,200 He loves his word. 68 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:52,480 Commit your way to the Lord, trust in him and he will act. 69 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:55,320 Now, how does that fit Hebrews three? 70 00:05:55,320 --> 00:06:01,520 What you'll see is in the people of Israel, the total opposite of this. 71 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:06,280 And we're going to go to the Old Testament and then we're going to go to the New Testament 72 00:06:06,280 --> 00:06:10,920 and then we're going to look at Israel today and we're going to have to really deal with 73 00:06:10,920 --> 00:06:16,040 some really clear issues here. 74 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:18,080 So let's go. 75 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:24,000 After who were those who heard and yet rebelled? 76 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:27,400 Who were the rebellious ones? 77 00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:34,000 Was it not all those who left Egypt led by Moses? 78 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:38,580 Interesting that this is the way the writer clarifies this. 79 00:06:38,580 --> 00:06:47,800 We know that Jesus is the better prophet because when he leads a people, he leads them to the 80 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:48,800 promised land. 81 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:53,600 Moses couldn't lead them into the wilderness because he wasn't allowed into the promised 82 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:54,600 land. 83 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:58,280 Even Moses disobeyed. 84 00:06:58,280 --> 00:07:01,800 And this is the prophet that the Jews hang their hat on. 85 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:07,440 This is the prophet that the Jews say that this is the one. 86 00:07:07,440 --> 00:07:12,240 We need another Moses. 87 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:24,080 Moses, a good man, conformed by God to do purpose for God, but he is not Jesus. 88 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:30,800 Verse 17, with whom was he provoked for 40 years? 89 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:34,880 Was it not those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? 90 00:07:34,880 --> 00:07:42,760 In other words, they, the people of Israel provoked God for 40 years. 91 00:07:42,760 --> 00:07:46,880 And what was their end result? 92 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:49,240 They died in the wilderness. 93 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:54,840 They did not enter his rest, his promised land. 94 00:07:54,840 --> 00:07:57,600 We're going to define that in a minute. 95 00:07:57,600 --> 00:08:02,940 And to whom did he swear they will not enter his rest? 96 00:08:02,940 --> 00:08:07,600 But to those who were disobedient, what do you notice the three words here? 97 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:14,120 There's three very clear words that are being presented here. 98 00:08:14,120 --> 00:08:16,120 First word is rebellion. 99 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:18,440 What's four words? 100 00:08:18,440 --> 00:08:19,620 Rebellion they rebelled. 101 00:08:19,620 --> 00:08:21,800 Second word is they provoked. 102 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:23,920 They brought God to anger. 103 00:08:23,920 --> 00:08:26,400 The third, they sinned. 104 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:30,320 And the fourth, they were disobedient. 105 00:08:30,320 --> 00:08:37,080 And look what God says concerning rebelled, provoked, sinned, and disobedient. 106 00:08:37,080 --> 00:08:43,120 So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief. 107 00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:44,520 Now I want you to get this. 108 00:08:44,520 --> 00:08:45,520 This is important. 109 00:08:45,520 --> 00:08:50,680 If you want to know who a believer is and who's not a believer, and you want to get 110 00:08:50,680 --> 00:08:58,720 outside of this nonsense that people go, well, you can't judge, is there's a clear distinction 111 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:04,920 between the saved and the lost, not the church and the unchurched. 112 00:09:04,920 --> 00:09:08,280 Because there's a bunch of church people that are lost. 113 00:09:08,280 --> 00:09:10,100 The church doesn't save anybody. 114 00:09:10,100 --> 00:09:16,080 We're talking about converted believers versus unconverted lost people. 115 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:17,760 Okay? 116 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:19,480 It is unbelief. 117 00:09:19,480 --> 00:09:29,040 And unbelief is produced, or the result of unbelief is rebellion, provocation, sin, and 118 00:09:29,040 --> 00:09:30,040 disobedience. 119 00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:35,760 All four of these come from a heart of unbelief. 120 00:09:35,760 --> 00:09:38,960 So people can say a prayer all day long. 121 00:09:38,960 --> 00:09:43,060 They live a life of disobedience. 122 00:09:43,060 --> 00:09:44,400 They are rebellious. 123 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:45,880 They are provoking God. 124 00:09:45,880 --> 00:09:49,880 They sin in their disobedient period. 125 00:09:49,880 --> 00:09:52,200 Those are unbelievers. 126 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:53,200 That is the standard. 127 00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:58,600 This is not an issue of judge, lest you be judged. 128 00:09:58,600 --> 00:09:59,600 Okay? 129 00:09:59,600 --> 00:10:02,660 It's very important that we understand that. 130 00:10:02,660 --> 00:10:05,000 We don't need to judge those in the world. 131 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:08,960 They're already judged. 132 00:10:08,960 --> 00:10:11,520 They're happy in their disobedience. 133 00:10:11,520 --> 00:10:13,340 Look at the world around you. 134 00:10:13,340 --> 00:10:18,120 These are people that fill the pews that come to church who claim they're believers, but 135 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:22,160 they live disobedient, broken lives. 136 00:10:22,160 --> 00:10:27,800 They deny the power that has been given to them. 137 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:32,680 And so we're going to see this in Deuteronomy chapter one. 138 00:10:32,680 --> 00:10:38,120 So if you would turn there, Deuteronomy chapter one. 139 00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:40,720 Now I want you to understand something. 140 00:10:40,720 --> 00:10:45,160 What is the distinction of quote unquote God's people? 141 00:10:45,160 --> 00:10:52,320 How can we know who are God's people and who are not? 142 00:10:52,320 --> 00:10:56,040 God's people are an obedient people. 143 00:10:56,040 --> 00:10:57,560 God's people obey him. 144 00:10:57,560 --> 00:11:00,800 Jesus says if you love me, you will obey me. 145 00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:05,600 We're going to see that in John five and then John 14. 146 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:07,720 Okay? 147 00:11:07,720 --> 00:11:13,920 But I want you to notice something that God clarifies in Hebrews three, specifically verses 148 00:11:13,920 --> 00:11:19,960 16 through 19, so that you can see it historically. 149 00:11:19,960 --> 00:11:24,560 This is what God said happened, because it did. 150 00:11:24,560 --> 00:11:29,600 Verse 19, Deuteronomy chapter one, verse 19 says this. 151 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:35,960 Then we set out from Harab and went through all that great and terrifying wilderness that 152 00:11:35,960 --> 00:11:44,480 you saw, and on the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as the Lord our God commanded 153 00:11:44,480 --> 00:11:51,880 us, and we came to Kadesh Ben-Era, and I said to you, you have come to the hill country 154 00:11:51,880 --> 00:11:56,360 of the Amorites, which the Lord our God is giving us. 155 00:11:56,360 --> 00:12:00,600 I want you to see that. 156 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:03,200 God has given them the land. 157 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:08,920 Now I want you to notice how they respond to God. 158 00:12:08,920 --> 00:12:11,600 See? 159 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:19,800 The Lord our God has set the land before you, go up, take possession as the Lord, the God 160 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:26,080 of our fathers has told you, do not fear or be dismayed. 161 00:12:26,080 --> 00:12:33,680 Look what it says in verse 22, then all of you came near me and said, let us send men 162 00:12:33,680 --> 00:12:41,320 before us that they may explore the land for us and bring us a word again of the way by 163 00:12:41,320 --> 00:12:47,160 which we must go up and the cities into which we shall come. 164 00:12:47,160 --> 00:12:55,440 The thing seemed good to me, and I took 12 men from you, one from each tribe. 165 00:12:55,440 --> 00:13:01,960 So God says take possession, and they're like, you know what, let's send 12 spies. 166 00:13:01,960 --> 00:13:06,160 Let's kind of not sure. 167 00:13:06,160 --> 00:13:10,880 So Moses is like, okay, no problem, we can do that. 168 00:13:10,880 --> 00:13:12,600 No big deal. 169 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:19,400 Verse 24, and they turned and went into the hill country and came to the valley of Esko 170 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:24,640 and spied it out, and they took in their hands some of the fruit of the land and brought 171 00:13:24,640 --> 00:13:30,680 it down to us and brought us word again and said, it is a good land that the Lord our 172 00:13:30,680 --> 00:13:43,760 God is giving us, yet, yet you would not go up. 173 00:13:43,760 --> 00:13:48,120 What? 174 00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:54,320 But you rebelled against the command of the Lord your God, and you murmured in your tents 175 00:13:54,320 --> 00:14:01,360 and said, because the Lord hated us, he has brought us out of the land of Egypt to give 176 00:14:01,360 --> 00:14:05,360 us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us. 177 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:07,960 Really? 178 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:10,480 I wonder what's changed. 179 00:14:10,480 --> 00:14:13,400 God told them, I'm giving you the land. 180 00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:15,400 He promised them the land. 181 00:14:15,400 --> 00:14:18,200 It's now gone through Abraham, Isaac, Jacob. 182 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:20,560 It's been brought to Moses now. 183 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:24,720 400 years they were slaves in Egypt. 184 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:27,600 You brought us out to the Amorites so they can kill us. 185 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:28,600 Really? 186 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:33,760 He took you out of the strongest nation and empire of the world called Egypt, kills the 187 00:14:33,760 --> 00:14:40,760 entire army by drowning them, causes them to not only send you out of Egypt, but to 188 00:14:40,760 --> 00:14:44,640 send you out with all of their gold, silver, and everything else. 189 00:14:44,640 --> 00:14:48,920 They were handing it to you while you were walking through the city. 190 00:14:48,920 --> 00:14:51,360 Get out. 191 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:55,520 God did all this and you're saying the Amorites are going to kill you. 192 00:14:55,520 --> 00:14:59,320 What would cause them to think this way? 193 00:14:59,320 --> 00:15:00,320 They love their idols. 194 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:02,560 That's what caused them to think this way. 195 00:15:02,560 --> 00:15:03,800 How do we know that? 196 00:15:03,800 --> 00:15:08,960 Because right after they were brought out and they're standing at the bottom of Mount 197 00:15:08,960 --> 00:15:17,680 Sinai and God speaks to them and gives them the commandments by word, as in thunder, God 198 00:15:17,680 --> 00:15:24,000 then hand writes the commandments on two tablets, hands it to Moses, and Moses brings them down 199 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:27,080 and when he comes down, what does he see? 200 00:15:27,080 --> 00:15:31,040 They built an idol because that's what Israel does. 201 00:15:31,040 --> 00:15:33,960 They're always going to have idols. 202 00:15:33,960 --> 00:15:37,280 As a matter of fact, that's what it says. 203 00:15:37,280 --> 00:15:40,520 Why can't anybody just look at the reality of what's happening here? 204 00:15:40,520 --> 00:15:43,960 Let's define what God's people are. 205 00:15:43,960 --> 00:15:49,480 God knew that they were going to do this when he brought them out of Egypt and he brought 206 00:15:49,480 --> 00:15:50,480 them out anyway. 207 00:15:50,480 --> 00:15:51,920 That's called mercy. 208 00:15:51,920 --> 00:15:57,560 God knew that they would complain and murmur, but he fed them anyway. 209 00:15:57,560 --> 00:16:00,600 That's called grace. 210 00:16:00,600 --> 00:16:02,720 What more does God have to do? 211 00:16:02,720 --> 00:16:09,520 Then look what it says in verse 28, Deuteronomy 1 28. 212 00:16:09,520 --> 00:16:11,840 Where are we going up? 213 00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:17,880 Our brothers have made our hearts melt saying, the people are greater and taller than we 214 00:16:17,880 --> 00:16:22,080 and the cities are great and fortified up to heaven. 215 00:16:22,080 --> 00:16:26,760 And besides, we have seen the sons of Anakim there. 216 00:16:26,760 --> 00:16:31,520 Then I said to you, do not be in dread or afraid of them. 217 00:16:31,520 --> 00:16:38,920 The Lord your God who goes before you will himself fight for you just as he did for you 218 00:16:38,920 --> 00:16:46,400 in Egypt before your eyes in the wilderness where you have seen how the Lord your God 219 00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:55,640 carried you as a man carries his son all the way that you went until you came to this place. 220 00:16:55,640 --> 00:17:01,800 Yet in spite of this word, you did not believe me. 221 00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:04,120 It doesn't matter what God did. 222 00:17:04,120 --> 00:17:09,440 It didn't matter if he performed all kinds of beautiful miracles to deliver his people. 223 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:12,720 He gave him his word and they still didn't believe it. 224 00:17:12,720 --> 00:17:18,760 You do not believe the Lord your God who went before you in the way to seek you out a place 225 00:17:18,760 --> 00:17:29,400 to pitch your tents in fire by night and in the cloud by day to show you by what way you 226 00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:32,480 should go. 227 00:17:32,480 --> 00:17:40,720 So not only did they hate their God, they thought he was so small that he couldn't even 228 00:17:40,720 --> 00:17:42,720 defeat the Anakim. 229 00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:46,800 That's how big their God is. 230 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:52,920 And they lay against the wailing wall today beating their chest and they continue to deny 231 00:17:52,920 --> 00:17:59,600 the God who saved them, who came, put on flesh, died on the cross, was buried and crucified, 232 00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:03,600 was crucified dead and buried and rose again on the third day, whom they crucified, the 233 00:18:03,600 --> 00:18:10,560 scripture says, which we proved during resurrection weekend, each and every one of us participated. 234 00:18:10,560 --> 00:18:13,840 We're all guilty. 235 00:18:13,840 --> 00:18:15,080 That's just Deuteronomy 1. 236 00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:20,960 So when we read in Hebrews, for who were those who heard and yet rebelled? 237 00:18:20,960 --> 00:18:28,160 Was it not those who left Egypt led by Moses? 238 00:18:28,160 --> 00:18:31,920 And with whom was he provoked for 40 years? 239 00:18:31,920 --> 00:18:35,200 Turn to Numbers 32 verse 6. 240 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:40,800 But Moses said to the people of Gad, now I want you to get this, this is Gad, the son 241 00:18:40,800 --> 00:18:47,360 of Leah and Reuben, the son of Isilpah. 242 00:18:47,360 --> 00:18:52,240 Moses said to the people of Gad and to the people of Reuben, these are two tribes of 243 00:18:52,240 --> 00:18:53,240 the people of Israel. 244 00:18:53,240 --> 00:18:57,560 Shall your brothers go to war while you sit here? 245 00:18:57,560 --> 00:18:59,040 So this is what happens. 246 00:18:59,040 --> 00:19:03,520 They're about, they're told they need to go into the land to take the land. 247 00:19:03,520 --> 00:19:09,120 And Gad and Reuben were like, no, I kind of like it here. 248 00:19:09,120 --> 00:19:11,200 I like it like right here. 249 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:12,680 We want, we want this land. 250 00:19:12,680 --> 00:19:16,440 Now we just, we just want, we want to build here. 251 00:19:16,440 --> 00:19:19,240 We want to shepherd here. 252 00:19:19,240 --> 00:19:24,680 We want to stay here. 253 00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:25,880 That's how they're feeling right now. 254 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:28,040 They're like, we're done, I'm done. 255 00:19:28,040 --> 00:19:29,800 We've been traveling for 40 years in the world. 256 00:19:29,800 --> 00:19:31,600 I'm like, I'm parking it. 257 00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:32,600 I'm tired. 258 00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:35,360 Verse 7. 259 00:19:35,360 --> 00:19:42,760 Why will you discourage the heart of the people of Israel from going over into the land that 260 00:19:42,760 --> 00:19:45,080 the Lord has given them? 261 00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:52,560 Your fathers did this when I sent them from Kadesh-Burnia to see the land. 262 00:19:52,560 --> 00:19:53,560 Do you remember that? 263 00:19:53,560 --> 00:19:54,560 We just read that. 264 00:19:54,560 --> 00:20:02,400 These people died and now it's time, Moses is at the end of his life and he's reminding 265 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:06,560 them this is exactly what your fathers did. 266 00:20:06,560 --> 00:20:11,120 Oh, it's like the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. 267 00:20:11,120 --> 00:20:12,120 Okay. 268 00:20:12,120 --> 00:20:13,120 Verse 9. 269 00:20:13,120 --> 00:20:18,880 For when they went up to the valley of Esco and saw the land, they, they discouraged the 270 00:20:18,880 --> 00:20:24,160 heart of the people of Israel from going into the land that the Lord had given them. 271 00:20:24,160 --> 00:20:33,600 And the Lord's anger was kindled on that day and he swore saying, surely none of the men 272 00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:42,200 who came up out of Egypt from 20 years old and up and upward shall see the land that 273 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:49,120 I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob because they have not wholly followed 274 00:20:49,120 --> 00:20:50,120 me. 275 00:20:50,120 --> 00:20:53,120 Did you hear that? 276 00:20:53,120 --> 00:20:56,000 None except two men. 277 00:20:56,000 --> 00:21:01,440 So God brings them and he says to them, we're going in. 278 00:21:01,440 --> 00:21:06,480 No, not doing it. 279 00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:07,880 Okay. 280 00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:13,120 And he says, fine, you're not going into the land with me. 281 00:21:13,120 --> 00:21:15,760 What's he talking about there? 282 00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:20,280 Right here in Hebrews 3 verse 18. 283 00:21:20,280 --> 00:21:28,240 Hebrews 3 verse 18 and to whom TD swear that they would not enter his rest, but to those 284 00:21:28,240 --> 00:21:29,240 who were disobedient. 285 00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:34,120 Well, how can they enter a rest when they're supposed to be entering the land? 286 00:21:34,120 --> 00:21:37,280 That's the point. 287 00:21:37,280 --> 00:21:40,800 Our rest is not in what we have. 288 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:43,600 Our rest is not in our home. 289 00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:49,760 Our rest is in who abides in you and who you abide with. 290 00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:53,000 That's rest. 291 00:21:53,000 --> 00:22:01,080 God is with us, in us and abides with us. 292 00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:02,080 That's rest. 293 00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:04,920 They didn't get it. 294 00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:12,520 The reason why they couldn't enter God's dwelling with him is because they did not believe. 295 00:22:12,520 --> 00:22:23,720 You get the point now, true rest in Christ is true belief and true belief goes and takes 296 00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:28,760 the land because God said, take the land. 297 00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:32,200 It's not, you know, I need to think about that. 298 00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:40,520 I don't know if that's a good idea and you can apply that principle in almost any situation. 299 00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:44,360 You see a hungry person, I wonder if I should feed them. 300 00:22:44,360 --> 00:22:46,640 Let me think about that. 301 00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:48,400 I told you that story. 302 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:50,920 No, you feed them. 303 00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:54,120 There's no question whether you should feed them. 304 00:22:54,120 --> 00:22:55,120 You feed them. 305 00:22:55,120 --> 00:22:57,800 You do it. 306 00:22:57,800 --> 00:22:59,920 That's the point. 307 00:22:59,920 --> 00:23:06,920 Rest is rest is abiding with God and God abiding or in us. 308 00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:09,680 We are with him and he is in us. 309 00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:15,880 If we are, if Christ is in the father and we are in Christ, then we abide with Christ 310 00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:16,880 in the father. 311 00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:19,400 We're going to see that in a minute. 312 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:22,280 Now let's keep reading verse 12. 313 00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:31,200 None except for Caleb, the son of Hathune, the Kenazite and Joshua, the son of Nun, from 314 00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:37,800 for they have wholly followed the Lord and the Lord's anger was kindled against Israel 315 00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:45,720 and he made them wander in the wilderness for 40 years until all that generation that 316 00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:50,080 had done evil in the sight of the Lord was gone. 317 00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:59,200 And behold, you had risen in your father's place, a brood of sinful men, to increase still 318 00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:02,560 more the fierce anger of the Lord against Israel. 319 00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:08,280 In other words, generation after generation after generation. 320 00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:09,280 So this is Moses. 321 00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:16,600 Well, it doesn't change much because the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. 322 00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:20,800 Turn to John chapter five, John chapter five verse 39. 323 00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:25,840 So instead of God taking them into a promised land and God sending prophet after prophet 324 00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:34,280 after prophet to come before God, the Lord God and pray and beg that God would not forget 325 00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:35,280 his people. 326 00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:43,640 Do you remember that little prayer and that Daniel had spoken, Daniel nine? 327 00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:48,680 Well, that prophecy is being fulfilled. 328 00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:58,120 As Daniel had said, chapter five, verse 39, look at the heart of the people. 329 00:24:58,120 --> 00:25:07,520 Jesus is amazing because the very, very God little G that the people of Israel followed 330 00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:09,400 is Moses. 331 00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:11,800 And that was just one of their gods. 332 00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:13,920 Their God was their law. 333 00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:15,760 They didn't want the God of the law. 334 00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:19,600 They wanted the law to be their God. 335 00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:21,800 That's what they did. 336 00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:26,040 And then they ended up changing the written long and making the verbal Torah and get me 337 00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:28,840 started on that whole situation. 338 00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:38,200 Verse 39 says this says you search the scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal 339 00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:39,200 life. 340 00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:42,320 And it is they that bear witness about me. 341 00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:46,880 Yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life. 342 00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:50,240 Isn't that the same thing they did? 343 00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:55,160 You refuse to go into the land and dwell with me there because I'm not big enough, strong 344 00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:56,640 enough to take care of you. 345 00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:58,680 I know I'm speaking for God. 346 00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:00,840 That's not what I'm not trying to do that. 347 00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:05,200 But that's kind of what they're implying. 348 00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:14,840 Verse 41 I do not receive glory from people, but I know that you do not have the love of 349 00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:16,000 God within you. 350 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:21,980 I have come in my father's name and you do not receive me. 351 00:26:21,980 --> 00:26:28,440 If anyone comes to comes in his own name, you will receive him. 352 00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:29,960 Moses came in his own name. 353 00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:33,440 You received Moses. 354 00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:39,840 How come I the lawgiver come in the father's name and you reject me? 355 00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:41,880 That's what he's saying here. 356 00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:49,240 Verse 44 how can you believe when you receive glory from one another and you do not seek 357 00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:54,560 the glory that comes from the only God because they hate him. 358 00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:56,560 They are a rebellious. 359 00:26:56,560 --> 00:26:57,560 They pray. 360 00:26:57,560 --> 00:26:59,600 They bring about provocation. 361 00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:01,560 They say they're disobedient. 362 00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:05,560 They do not believe and this is exactly what Jesus is saying. 363 00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:13,360 Not only basically if we were to summarize the context here, I came to you, was with 364 00:27:13,360 --> 00:27:19,480 you for 40 years in the wilderness, led you by fire and cloud and you still rejected me 365 00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:20,480 then. 366 00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:22,960 I come to you in flesh and you still reject me. 367 00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:23,960 Why? 368 00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:24,960 Because I'm not Moses. 369 00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:28,360 Watch what he says. 370 00:27:28,360 --> 00:27:31,000 Watch what he says here. 371 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:35,920 Do you not think that I will accuse you to the father? 372 00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:38,320 There is one who accuses you. 373 00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:43,680 Moses on whom you have set your hope. 374 00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:49,280 For if you believed Moses, you would believe me for he wrote of me. 375 00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:55,880 But if you do not believe in his writings, how will you believe in my words? 376 00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:56,880 Ouch. 377 00:27:56,880 --> 00:28:02,720 In other words, 400 years in Egypt, I deliver you out of Egypt. 378 00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:07,720 I come, I put on flesh, I'm the Messiah, I'm the promised one, I'm the one who was born 379 00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:08,720 in Bethlehem. 380 00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:09,720 You remember that guy? 381 00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:10,720 That's me. 382 00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:14,920 And I turn around and I give you the words of life and you reject me here too. 383 00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:17,020 Why? 384 00:28:17,020 --> 00:28:19,560 Because they hate him. 385 00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:21,720 Let's just be honest. 386 00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:27,040 An unbelieving heart is hatred toward God. 387 00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:31,920 You say you obey, but then you disobey the very words and commandments I've given you 388 00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:32,920 to do. 389 00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:37,000 You don't want the one who gives the commandments, you want the commandments. 390 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:44,120 And then you want to be able to manipulate those commandments to get your power and gain. 391 00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:48,280 So that you can gain profit off of my words. 392 00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:51,960 That's basically what he's saying here. 393 00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:54,880 Let's clarify a little bit more and we'll end it with this. 394 00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:58,080 John chapter 14 verse 8. 395 00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:07,640 Now this is him talking to his disciples here, which is shocking because you would figure 396 00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:10,680 that they would give it. 397 00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:17,800 And he's a lot more patient and kind and understanding towards them, but he does hold them accountable 398 00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:22,120 and look what he says here. 399 00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:25,440 So he goes and I'll read verse 7. 400 00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:31,360 If you had known me, you would have known my father also from now on. 401 00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:33,960 You do know him and have seen him. 402 00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:37,240 That's what Jesus says to the disciples. 403 00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:42,560 And Philip said to him, Lord, show us the father and it is enough for us. 404 00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:50,640 Doesn't that sound familiar in the Old Testament? 405 00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:51,640 Give us manna. 406 00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:54,640 Give us some food. 407 00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:55,640 I'll give you manna. 408 00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:57,040 Fine, here's some manna. 409 00:29:57,040 --> 00:29:58,040 Now we want meat. 410 00:29:58,040 --> 00:30:04,800 It's like you're never satisfied. 411 00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:06,240 Show us the father, it's enough for us. 412 00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:12,840 Verse 9, Jesus said to him, have I been with you so long and you still do not know me, 413 00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:13,840 Philip? 414 00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:23,480 What Jesus is saying is I and the father are Yahweh, totally and completely, 100% in all 415 00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:27,200 essence and being. 416 00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:32,340 The God of your fathers is the triune God of Yahweh. 417 00:30:32,340 --> 00:30:37,480 Have I been with you so long that you still don't know me? 418 00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:38,560 How much more? 419 00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:43,040 What more do you want from me, Philip? 420 00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:51,000 I've casted out demons, I've healed sick, I've fed twice, 5,000 people. 421 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:53,440 You still don't know me, Philip? 422 00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:57,680 That's basically what he's saying here. 423 00:30:57,680 --> 00:30:58,680 Look what it says. 424 00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:01,480 Whoever has seen me has seen the father. 425 00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:03,800 How can you say show us the father? 426 00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:07,520 What was Philip's problem? 427 00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:16,440 Do you not believe that I am in the father and the father in me? 428 00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:22,160 The words that I say to you, I do not speak of my own authority, but the father who dwells 429 00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:26,600 in me does his works. 430 00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:32,400 Believe me that I am in the father and the father is in me, or else believe on account 431 00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:34,880 of the works themselves. 432 00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:39,760 You didn't believe the works of your fathers, your forefathers when I brought them out of 433 00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:47,400 Egypt in the pillar of a cloud where I stood, in the pillar of a fire where I stood when 434 00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:52,400 I met with Moses in the burning bush and I stood in the midst of the bush when I brought 435 00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:56,960 plague upon plague upon plague out of Egypt and they brought you, I brought you out of 436 00:31:56,960 --> 00:32:00,680 Egypt underneath slavery. 437 00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:01,680 And what do you do? 438 00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:04,360 You complain that you didn't have any food, so what do I give you? 439 00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:09,240 I give you the greatest food you could ever want and need, manna. 440 00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:10,640 You complain. 441 00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:12,060 I give you quail. 442 00:32:12,060 --> 00:32:13,060 You complain. 443 00:32:13,060 --> 00:32:14,060 You're thirsty. 444 00:32:14,060 --> 00:32:15,060 I give you water. 445 00:32:15,060 --> 00:32:17,320 You complain over and over and over again. 446 00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:19,780 If you don't believe what I'm saying to you, believe the works. 447 00:32:19,780 --> 00:32:21,360 They didn't believe the works then. 448 00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:22,640 They didn't believe his word then. 449 00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:28,560 They're not going to believe his works now and they don't believe his word now. 450 00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:32,320 And that has happened over thousands of years and then we turn around and we say to the 451 00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:38,280 people called the church, that's the people of God. 452 00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:40,560 This is not an issue of anti-Semitism. 453 00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:46,360 This is an issue of clearly understanding biblically who are the people of God. 454 00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:49,320 Those who love me, who will obey my word. 455 00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:53,640 Look what it says, truly I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that 456 00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:58,760 I do and greater works than these will he do because I am going to the Father. 457 00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:03,200 Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified than the 458 00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:07,200 Son and if you ask me anything in my name, I will do it. 459 00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:14,640 If you love me, you will keep my commandments. 460 00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:17,840 That is the people of God. 461 00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:22,360 That is the people of God. 462 00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:26,120 The reason why I'm passionate about this is because if we don't really look at the heart 463 00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:33,120 of the people of Israel, you will not evangelize them and you will lie to them and tell them 464 00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:34,720 something that is not true. 465 00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:40,640 They are sinful, rebellious, broken people just like you and I were. 466 00:33:40,640 --> 00:33:45,080 And they need a savior and his name is Jesus and over and over and over again, you bring 467 00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:49,320 the glory of Jesus Christ and they reject him. 468 00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:51,320 That's not my Messiah. 469 00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:57,280 Of course, you want an idol, you want another Moses, that's who you want. 470 00:33:57,280 --> 00:34:03,200 And you don't want a Moses that's really a Moses, you want a Moses that's in the image 471 00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:05,240 of you. 472 00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:11,160 So you can manipulate and control him. 473 00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:18,040 That is the truth. 474 00:34:18,040 --> 00:34:25,760 How I wish all people, especially Israel, the same passion that Paul had for his people, 475 00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:31,840 if my people would just see. 476 00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:38,600 But Paul came to the conclusion that you read Romans nine. 477 00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:40,440 It's okay. 478 00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:45,800 In the same way that not all Gentiles will be saved, not all Israel is Israel. 479 00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:52,720 The Jews that come to faith in Christ, they are true Israel. 480 00:34:52,720 --> 00:35:03,240 To them belong the patriarchs and the scriptures and the Messiah. 481 00:35:03,240 --> 00:35:07,440 To them, they are our family. 482 00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:10,880 Those are the ones who you should be driving to go find. 483 00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:12,640 So I want to end with this one statement. 484 00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:14,640 I'll read it again. 485 00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:20,440 Rebellion, provocation, sin and disobedience all come from a heart of unbelief. 486 00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:26,340 And you cannot be a people of God with a heart of unbelief. 487 00:35:26,340 --> 00:35:31,160 Only the people of God have a heart of belief. 488 00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:37,840 And if you love me, you will obey me, the scripture says. 489 00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:43,520 This is difficult and true. 490 00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:49,200 So please pray for our brothers and sisters who are Jews that God would draw his people 491 00:35:49,200 --> 00:36:00,880 home in the same way he has drawn his people from a flock that is not of that flock. 492 00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:04,480 Father, praise you and thank you. 493 00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:10,320 Thank you that your people truly are people who are committed to obey you, to love you, 494 00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:17,040 not an issue of law or legalism, but an issue of heart. 495 00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:24,600 That if we really love you, we will do what you call us and command us to do. 496 00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:29,760 Help us to walk uprightly before you, to trust in the Lord with all our heart and lean not 497 00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:32,760 in our own understanding, but in all our ways acknowledge you. 498 00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:33,760 And you will direct our paths. 499 00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:34,760 Lord, we thank you and praise you. 500 00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:35,760 To you be honor and glory in Jesus name. 501 00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:59,760 Amen.