Gods Way is the Best Way

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Gods Way is the Best Way
Numbers 208

• Tim Snyder
• July 8, 2007

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Does this person look familiar?
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Id like to read a little something here..
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Larry - Our Pastor
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When Deputy Carl responded to a callpeople in
three counties pulled over.

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If you MUST speed on the highway, sing these
hymns loudly
at 45 mph.... "God Will Take Care of Me"
at 55 mph.... "Guide me, O Great Jehovah"
at 65 mph.... "Nearer My God to Thee"
at 75 mph.... "Nearer Still Nearer"
at 85 mph.... "This World is Not My Home"
at 95 mph.... "Lord, I'm Coming Home"
at 100 mph.... "Precious Memories
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• May the words of my mouth and the meditation of
  my heart be pleasing in your sight, O LORD, my
  Rock and my Redeemer.
• Psalm 1914

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Scripture Text
God's Way

• "Take the staff, and you and your brother Aaron
  gather the assembly together. Speak to that rock
  before their eyes and it will pour out its water.
  You will bring water out of the rock for the
  community so they and their livestock can drink.
• Num 208 NIV

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Back Drop
God's Way

• Exodus 1524-25 
• 24 So the people grumbled against Moses, saying,
  "What are we to drink?"
• 25 Then Moses cried out to the LORD, and the LORD
  showed him a piece of wood. He threw it into the
  water, and the water became sweet. There the
  LORD made a decree and a law for them, and there
  he tested them.
• Exodus 162 
• 2 In the desert the whole community grumbled
  against Moses and Aaron.
• Exodus 172 
• 2 So they quarreled with Moses and said, "Give us
  water to drink." Moses replied, "Why do you
  quarrel with me? Why do you put the LORD to the
  test?"
• Numbers 1110 
•  10 Moses heard the people of every family
  wailing, each at the entrance to his tent. The
  LORD became exceedingly angry, and Moses was
  troubled.
• Numbers 143 
• 3 Why is the LORD bringing us to this land only
  to let us fall by the sword? Our wives and
  children will be taken as plunder. Wouldn't it be
  better for us to go back to Egypt

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Christ the Rock
God's Way

•  1For I do not want you to be ignorant of the
  fact, brothers, that our forefathers were all
  under the cloud and that they all passed through
  the sea. 2They were all baptized into Moses in
  the cloud and in the sea. 3They all ate the same
  spiritual food 4and drank the same spiritual
  drink for they drank from the spiritual rock
  that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ.
• 1 Cor 101-3 NIV

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Christ the Rock
God's Way

•  I will stand there before you by the rock at
  Horeb. Strike the rock, and water will come out
  of it for the people to drink." So Moses did this
  in the sight of the elders of Israel.
• Exodus 176 NIV

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Three Lessons
God's Way

• God has a plan.

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Three Lessons
God's Way

• God has a plan.
• There are consequences when we disobey God.

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God's Way

• 22 Because of the LORD's great love we are not
  consumed, for his compassions never fail.
•  23 They are new every morning great is your
  faithfulness.
• Lam 322-23

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How We Disobey
God's Way

• 1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your
  unfailing love according to your great
  compassion blot out my transgressions.
•  2 Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from
  my sin.
•  3 For I know my transgressions, and my sin is
  always before me
• Psalm 511-3 NIV

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Justifying
God's Way

• How badly do we want what we desire?
• Can we find a loophole in God's commands?
• Do we know anyone we can use to justify our
  choice?
• What shortcomings can we focus on in order to
  belittle on our critics?
• How can we discredit God's Word so the admonition
  disappears?

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God's Way

• 7Do not be deceived God cannot be mocked. A man
  reaps what he sows. 8The one who sows to please
  his sinful nature, from that nature will reap
  destruction the one who sows to please the
  Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life
  Galatians 67-8 NIV

 18 "Come now, let us reason together," says the
LORD. "Though your sins are like scarlet, they
shall be as white as snow though they are red as
crimson, they shall be like wool. Isaiah
118 NIV
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Three Lessons
God's Way

• God has a plan.
• There are consequences when we disobey God.
• God still provides.

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Another Example
God's Way

• Abraham
• Gods Plan
• The Promise
• The Consequences of Disobedience
• Ishmael
• God Provided
• Isaac

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God Provided Again
God's Way

• Abraham and Isaac
• 13 Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he
  saw a ram caught by its horns. He went over and
  took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt
  offering instead of his son. 14 So Abraham called
  that place The LORD Will Provide. And to this day
  it is said, "On the mountain of the LORD it will
  be provided."
• Gen 2213-14 NIV
• Jehovah Jireh
• The LORD will provide

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• I used to ask God if He would come and help
  me. Then I asked if I could come and help Him.
  Finally I ended by asking God to do His own work
  through me. 
• J. Hudson Taylor

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THANK -YOU