Join me in the book of numbers,
but stop by the book of Luke chapter 24 first. It's been over
30 years ago that I brought a lesson from the book of Luke chapter
24 and I mentioned after reading this passage of scripture, this
verse of scripture, I wish we had that message. Luke chapter 24 and verse 27. These words of the Lord Jesus
are recorded for us after his resurrection and he intentionally
went to visit some folks on the road to Emmaus. I once heard
a message, the Lord's post-resurrection agenda. And I wondered what that
was going to be about, but that preacher went through the visits
that the Lord made with his disciples and other people after his resurrection. And one of those was this passage
of scripture, those two on the road to Emmaus. And here in Luke
chapter 24 and verse 27, the Lord uses this passage. He speaks this, he says, and
beginning at Moses and all the prophets, He expounded unto them
in all the scriptures the things concerning himself. I mentioned after reading that
in that lesson, I wish we had that message. And that night
I was laying in bed and I woke up and I said, we do. It's the Old Testament. And that
was a revelation to me. And most of you know that most
of my preaching has been from the Old Testament. Our eyes are
getting to see what the disciples got to see in the Old Testament.
Remember, that's all they ever got to use was the Old Testament. It was a complete canon at that
time. For 400 years from the finish
of Malachi until the coming of the Lord, Those books had been
assembled together and it even been translated from the Hebrew
into Greek and we still have a copy of that called the Septuagint.
They went through and translated into the common language of the
Greeks and that was used by the disciples to preach everything
they ever preached and that was the message of Christ in the
Old Testament. Well, having said that, let us
go over to the book of John chapter 6 on our way to the book of Numbers. John chapter 6 and verse 16. Would you read that with me as
we think about an introduction to our study of the book of Numbers
today. John chapter 6, we have these
words. That sixth chapter of John is
just such a wonderful book. It is so wonderful, it's just
like chapter 5 and chapter 7. Now, chapter six of the book
of John, verse 16, let's read this verse first. Chapter six and verse 16, it
says... Well, we're not going there. Let's go to verse 42. Verse 42, and they said, is not
this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know?
How is it that then he saith, I came down from heaven? And
Jesus therefore answered them and said, murmur not among yourselves. No man can come to me except
the father which hath sent me draw him, and I will raise him
up at the last day. as it is written in the prophets,
and they shall be all taught of God. Every man, therefore,
that hath heard and hath learned of the Father cometh unto me.
Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God,
he hath seen the Father. Verily, verily, I say unto you,
he that believeth on me hath everlasting life. I am the bread
of life. Your fathers did eat man in the
wilderness and are dead. This is the bread that came down
from heaven, that a man may eat thereof and not die. And then
he drops down here into verse 62. Would you turn there? What, and if ye shall see the
Son of man ascend up where he is before? It is the spirit that
quickeneth, the flesh profiteth nothing. The words that I speak
unto you are spirit, and they are life. But they are some of
you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning
who were that believe not, and who should betray him. Therefore
said I unto you, that no man come come unto me, except it
were given of him of the Father. From that time, many of his disciples
went back and walked no more with him. And then said Jesus
unto the twelve, will you also go away? Now when the Lord began
to preach about himself and preach that he is the only way of salvation,
many of those that were nominal followers of him walked with
him no more. If you had believed Moses, you
would have believed me. That's what he said about these
five books of the Old Testament. If you'd have believed Genesis
and Exodus and Leviticus and Numbers and Deuteronomy, if you
would have believed Moses, you would believe me, but you believe
not on me because you are not of my sheep. Well, those are
very serious things that the Lord brings up about the seriousness
of unbelief. As we heard read there in the
book of Corinthians, 1 Corinthians this morning, we're going to
see that the things in Numbers are made immortal by their being
divinely resolved into types for our learning. Now the brother
read this morning, Brother Craig read this morning there in the
book of 1 Corinthians chapter 10 and there in verse 11 it uses
the word in samples. That word is translated to us
from a word that means types. So as we go through the book
of Numbers, we're going to reflect on many types. And those types
are shadows and pictures of the Lord Jesus. Now they're not the
real. The real is Christ. We never
want to trust the shadows. We never want to trust the types.
We never want to trust the pictures. We need to trust Christ. We need Him as our Savior. We
do not trust bread and wine. We do not trust waters of baptism. We do not trust church membership. We do not trust all of the things
that the religious world says we must do. But we are called
on by the Holy Spirit of God to trust Christ and Him alone. That's what the Book of Numbers
is going to share with us in all those types, shadows, and
pictures. In the Book of Numbers, we deal
with two different generations of people. We heard read this
morning about all of those who came out of Egypt. What a miracle
took place! What a miracle of grace that
God performed in Egypt. And what a miracle it was that
he declared the necessity of blood-bought people by the Passover. They had the blood applied. And when the scriptures tell
us, when I see the blood, I will pass over you, that was a type. The reality is when God sees
the blood of his son, I will pass over you. You will not suffer
the judgment and wrath of God because I've already poured it
out on a substitute, my son and your Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Well, in that day, 400 years after God had said to Abraham
they're going to be in prison, they left. They came out into
the wilderness and we find them in the book of Exodus and here
in the book of Numbers, they are gathered around a mountain
called Mount Sinai. They spend over a year at that
point, and they build a tabernacle, and they build all of the fineries
that's going to go in that tabernacle, and I am convinced by what people
record in the book of Numbers, I am convinced that there were
a whole lot of people that believed because God had provided them
with this tabernacle, this is my hope, because I'm a Jew. Now we find the reality of it,
there is no salvation in that tabernacle. There is salvation
in the true tabernacle, the Lord Jesus Christ. There is no salvation
in that mercy seat, there's only salvation in the true mercy seat.
There's no salvation in that light, there's only salvation
in the true light. There's no salvation in those
coverings, there's only salvation in the covering that Christ gives
us, and that is his shed blood on our behalf. And so we find
these things are brought out to the book of Numbers. Turn
with me in the book of Hebrews chapter 3 if you would for just
a moment. Hebrews chapter 3 and verse 17. Hebrews chapter 3 and
verse 17. We have these words recorded.
Now much of what was read in the book of first Corinthians
is just a detail of what's going to go happening there in the
book of Numbers. We had read in the Bible class
this morning details of in the Psalms about what's going to
happen in the book of Numbers. Those things were written after
they happened in the book of Numbers. Psalms is writing a
reflection, a commentary on what happened in the book of Numbers.
Exodus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. Here in the book of Hebrews chapter
3 and verse 17, the scripture says that, but whom was he grieved
40 years? We're going to find out from
the beginning of Numbers to the end of Numbers is going to be
38 years. Why in the world would they spend
38 years in a distance that could be traveled in about three months?
Because God told him to go in and spy out the land? Ten of
those spies, unregenerate men who believed not a word of God
came back and gave an evil report. They are the preachers of their
day coming back and say, we can't do this. God is not powerful
enough. And two of them came back. Joshua
and Caleb came back with a good report. Why? Because the spirit
of God indwelt them. Because they had been regenerated
by the grace of God. And they came back and said,
we can because God said we can. Well, God said, OK, you folks,
you're going to spend 38 years wandering in the wilderness until
this first generation that came out of Egypt dies. Let's go on
here. He was grieved 40 years was not
I with them that had sinned whose carcasses fell in the wilderness
and to whom swear he that they should not enter into his rest
but to them that believe not. So we see that they could not
enter because of unbelief. Numbers summed up in two verses
of scripture. They could not enter. Well, after
they got the word that they were not going in, they said, well,
we're just going to go in anyway. Well, that fell apart real quickly.
God's not going to have salvation in any other but his son, Jesus
Christ. Genesis tells us Christ is our
creator. Exodus, Christ our Passover.
Leviticus, Christ our high priest. Numbers, Christ our sin bearer,
look and live. As the serpent was raised up
in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up. Deuteronomy,
Christ our liberator. Six times in the book of Deuteronomy,
it's brought out that, remember, you were bondmen in Egypt, but
you've been set free. Well, the English name for the
book in the Septuagint means numbers. We're gonna have two
censuses taken in the book of Numbers. First census with those
folks that came out of Egypt. The second census of those folks
without those folks that came out of Egypt, yes. So we're gonna
have that. But the Hebrew name for this
is, means in the desert. The whole desert. book of Numbers
is contained in the wilderness wanderings. 38 years. They spent about two
years at Mount Sinai. 38 more years, they're going
to be 40 years out there in the wilderness. Numbers presents an account of
the 38 years and the numbering of those folks in Numbers chapter
1. Let's go back and read a verse
in Numbers. Numbers chapter 1. Numbers chapter 1 and verse 1,
then God spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai in the
tabernacle of the congregation on the first day of the second
month of the second year after they were come out of the land
of Egypt saying, and we'll come back to that in a moment, but
turn to the end of the book of Numbers in the first verse or
third verse of the first chapter of Deuteronomy. Deuteronomy,
the next book in the line, verse 3, and it came to pass in the
40th year In the 11th month, on the first day of the month,
that Moses spake unto the children of Israel according to all that
the Lord had given him in commandment unto them. We have them coming
out of Egypt, parking at Sinai, building the tabernacle, receiving
the law, and then the order is to move on. And then 38 years
later, we have them in Deuteronomy. Many types of Christ are found
in the book of Numbers. We're looking for our Savior
as we travel through this glorious book that was given to Moses
by inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Holy men of God spake as they
were moved by the Spirit of God. God gave Moses the words to write
down and we have the record of that. These types, and there
are three that are particularly stand out. They are the smitten
rock, which speaks of our Lord and Savior being smitten. He's
the smitten rock, the brazen serpent that was raised up in
the wilderness. Many people died as a result
of being bitten by those serpents. And Moses was commanded by the
Lord to raise up a brazen serpent in the wilderness. And those
who looked lived. I had a discussion with a young
man this last week and he says, what prevented them from looking
up? The same thing that prevented that woman who was all bent over
by nature from looking up. She couldn't look up until the
Lord came along and straightened her and then she could look and
live. All our salvation is founded
in one person, Christ Jesus, and everything that is required
by God in order for us to meet him is fulfilled by this one
person, Christ Jesus the Lord. Nothing is left to chance. Nothing
is left to our choice. Nothing is left to haphazardness. But everything is completely,
totally, and in its final form filled by the Lord Jesus Christ.
He said, I am all and in all. I have it all. And all we do
is trust Him with it all. My first glance has fell on many
wonderful passages going through this book. One of the most interesting
things to do is go to your computer, bring up some Bible program,
and look over on the right-hand side and it says, here is a speaker. Click on it and you can listen
to the entire book. The Bible was intended to be
read out loud. It's such a blessing to read
it as someone else is reading it to you. That's why we spend
time reading the word out loud. Our ears hear it, our eyes see
it, two senses have a hold of it, but it is only the Spirit
of God that reveals it. Flesh and blood hath not revealed
this unto you, but my Father which is in heaven. I'd like
to take a few moments to just go through several of these vastly
important passages of scripture that we're going to find in the
book of Numbers. They speak so highly of God. They speak so highly of our Savior.
They speak so highly of the gospel. They speak so highly of sin and
the absolute need of a Savior in Christ Jesus. We find here
in Numbers chapter 1, The entirety of it is a census taken. We'll
look at this in just a moment, but there is such repetition
in this verse of scripture that sometimes when we read it, we
get tired of the repetition. Sometimes numbers is like Leviticus. It's a flyover book. There's
verses of scripture in my reading I never paid any attention to
going through so quickly in my reading. But Lord give me the
grace to stop and gaze upon these verses of scripture and glory
in my savior as I do. This first chapter is the census
and it mentions 12 times almost identical words about different
tribes of Israel. We'll look at that in time. We
have in chapter 2 camping and the orderliness of camping. The
children of Israel are given specific spots around the tabernacle
when they come to a stop and camp. You were in your place. Every tribe had a place and they
camped there and it was orderly. God is the God of order. He is
not the God of confusion. It was orderly. Nobody had to
make up their mind, well, I think I'll go visit camp over by those
folks. No, God, the Holy Spirit, and
through Moses said, this tribal camp here, this tribal camp here,
this tribal camp here, and they did it around the tabernacle,
and the priests were even given places to camp. This was going
to be highly important. We have 600,000 men that can go to war. And as
we heard this morning, those 5,000 that were fed, there was
women and children. So we can just guesstimate that
there were 15,000 people there getting bread and fish that day.
There's 600,000 people out here in the desert, just the soldiers
between 20 and 40 that can go to war. So we have all the older
people, all the younger people, the wives, the grandparents,
we have all those folks. So God is a God of orderliness,
and we're going to find that from creation to our very life. He is a God of orderliness. We think sometimes that things
are not going right, but according to God, they're exactly in the
order he has intended for them to take place at that moment
in our life, and sometimes it chafes us, but we must trust
him in it. We find that in chapter four
there is the duties of the priests. And we have some that were given
the job of taking down the tabernacle and carrying it. Some were given
the responsibility of taking care of all the furniture that
was in the tabernacle. And some had the responsibility
of taking those boards down and carrying those boards and putting
them in places. And when it came time to set up the tabernacle,
when the cloud or the fire stopped and God said, here's our camping
place, they went and reversed it all. But there was specific
duties for everyone. You know, it brings us to the
passage of scripture in the book of the Corinthians that God has
given everyone in the church gifts according to his grace. And not one of those gifts ever
makes anybody jealous of other people's gifts. They are so severally or sovereignly
given. If we're jealous of someone else's
gifts, Lord, help us. Because God's people all have
their special gift. Someone else said, what is it?
This is whatever God's doing with you. Hospitality, graciousness,
service, whatever it is, all right? Now, there's a passage
of scripture that I have always flown over and never paid any
attention. I would like you to stop in chapter five for just
a moment as we do a quick review before we come through it verse
by verse. Chapter five, verses one through
four. I never noticed this. God has a purpose in it. You
know, in the bulletin, there's a passage, there's a comment
made about Joshua. The requirements he was to go
through imposed upon him when they overthrew cities. And a
lot of people find fault with what Joshua did. What they're
doing is finding fault with what God said. Now, I don't understand
all of this, but I'm thankful that my Savior was taken to the
cross without the camp. That's what it says. All right,
notice here, chapter five, verse one through four, it says, and
the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Underline that this is not Moses. This is the Lord speaking unto
Moses Command the children of Israel that they put out of the
camp Every leper and everyone that hath an issue and whosoever
is defiled by the dead Both male and female shall be put out without
the camp shall ye put them that they defile not their camps in
the midst thereof I dwell. And the children of Israel did
so and put them without the camp as the Lord spake unto Moses,
so did the children of Israel. Hallelujah for following that
word. I don't understand it except I know that I was without the
camp, but my Savior was taken without the camp. He is a Savior
of sinners, Savior of lepers, Savior of halt, maimed, broken. He's the Savior of those folks.
Well, we get into chapter 6, we have a Nazarite vow that is
going to be used several times in the Old Testament. We have
in chapter 7, would you notice with me chapter 7 and verse 89.
What a wonderful verse of scripture we're going to have to dwell
on here in chapter 7 and verse 89. And when Moses was gone into
the tabernacle, chapter seven, verse 89, when Moses was gone
into the tabernacle of the congregation to speak with him, then he heard
the voice of one speaking unto him from off the mercy seat that
was upon the ark of the testimony from between the two cherubims,
and he spake unto him. There's gonna be a field day
there. God speaking to man off the mercy
seat. That's the only way he'll ever
do it. Showing mercy to us in our Savior, Christ Jesus. And
chapter 8, verses 1 through 4, notice there, we have the lamps
lighted in the tabernacle. And the Lord spake unto Moses,
saying, speak unto Aaron, and say unto him, when thou lightest
the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light over against the candlestick. And Aaron did so, and he lighted
the lamps thereof over against the candlestick, as the Lord
commanded Moses. And this work of the candlestick
was beaten gold, unto the shaft thereof, unto the flowers thereof,
was beaten work, according to the pattern which the Lord had
shown Moses. So he made the candlestick. We spent a little time just recently
on this candlestick, but it reflects to us that there is no light
for the world unless it is a beaten work. Jesus Christ gives us hope
in his salvation on the cross. The cloud of the tabernacle in
Chapter 9, and then in Chapter 10, just stop there for a moment.
In Chapter 10, we have some trumpets going to be made. They're made
out of silver, silver trumpets that are made. in chapter 10
verse 1 and the Lord spake unto Moses saying make thee two trumpets
of silver a Whole piece shalt thou make them they're going
to be one piece trumpets No Connections no additions nothing two pieces
whole piece shalt thou make them that thou mayest use them for
the calling of the assembly and for the journeyings of the camps
and thou shalt blow them with them all the assembly shall assemble
themselves to thee at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation
And if thou blow but with one trumpet, then the princes, which
are the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather unto
themselves. Notice here how these two trumpets
are going to be used for signals and how the gospel is used as
our come to Christ signal. Pleasant sound of the gospel,
a sweet sound, a glorious sound, the sound of God Almighty calling
his people out of darkness to his marvelous light. We're going
to also notice in this book that there are several rebellions.
We're shocked when Miriam and Aaron rebel against Moses and
Miriam is given leprosy. that quick and forced to live
without the camp. We will notice that. Then we
have in Chapter 13, the mission of the spies. We look at this and say, what
a tragedy and it was. What tragedy unbelief is, but
that's a natural consequence of the fall. Unbelief is a natural
consequence of the fall and people who say that Jesus Christ died
on the cross for all sin of all people except for the son of
a sin of unbelief is contradictory. The sin of unbelief is part of
our, we don't have it separated out here somewhere that we can
manipulate our will outside of our being. Our will is part of
our being and our being fell an atom and every part of it
fell an atom. So we can will, we have a free
will within the confines of our nature. In our bulletin this
morning, there's an article written by an old preacher that said,
You know, people who believe in the free will, they can't
even heal a headache. They cannot heal their own toothache. They cannot heal a pain in their
fingers by themselves. Why in the world, if we have
this free will that we can access God, cannot we take care of some
physical problems that we have? Well, we're shown by grace that
those problems that we have physically must be taken care of by someone
who knows how to take care of them. When I get a toothache,
where must I go if I'm going to deal with it rightly? I must
go to a dentist. If I have an internal problem,
where must I go? So many people have not taken
care of themselves properly and they get to the doctor and they
find out it's too late. It's over. We go to the doctor. And where must we go with our
sin issue? To Jesus Christ alone. And he is the one that quickens
us to recognize that very fact. So this mission of the spies,
we say, how terrible, how terrible was that? They're just natural
men doing what comes naturally, not believing God. Left to ourself,
we do exactly the same thing. We reported poorly on God. That
message that brother Bill brought the other night, it just struck
me. how poorly I represented God in religion. I lied about
an almighty being in religion. But thanks be unto God, he put
that on Christ. In chapter 14, we have the rebellion
and the rejection of the people, and that is the generation that's
going to die in the wilderness in unbelief. Those who are related to Abraham,
those who could trace their line back to Abraham, Noah, and Adam
died in unbelief. The gospel was preached unto
them just like it's preached unto us, but it had no effect
because of unbelief. Who is the one that gives us
the ability to believe God? God. He did not give them a heart
to believe, it's what we'll read in the book of Deuteronomy. There
is a four verse passage in chapter 15 about a man who went out and
gathered sticks on the Sabbath day. They arrested him, tried
him, and executed him. What is that telling us? No one
will please God by going through any other rest than the rest,
the Lord Jesus Christ. He is our rest. Our works will
accomplish nothing. He is our rest. We have the rebellion of Korah.
Great event took place. The earth opened up and swallowed
them and they went down into the pit. What did they do? You
do too much, Moses. You do too much, Aaron. And we
want to share in that. We have the selection of 12.
Rods, walking sticks, dead walking sticks, dead, no life in them,
set aside in the tabernacle. And the next day, Aaron's rod
not only budded, but had fruit on it and leaves on it. They
could have picked almonds off of it. And that rod was put in
the mercy seat. You know the three things that
were put in the mercy seat? All were at a time of rebellion.
The manna. brought us out here to starve
to death. God gave him manna. The tables of stone. God went
up, sent Moses up on the mount to receive those stones with
the Ten Commandments. And Moses on the way down saw
what was going on and threw them down and broke them. He had to
go back up. Those were put under the mercy seat. The Aaron's rod
that budded. time of rebellion, put in there,
but you know what? Under that mercy seat is all
of God's children's rebellion, covered by the blood. Left to
ourselves would be just like those folks. In Christ, we are
accepted in the beloved. The law of the red heifer, we're
gonna spend some time on that, that's in chapter 19. We have
some strife over water. The children of Israel, There
are at least seven different times in the Book of Numbers
that they murmured against God. They murmured concerning the
way, they murmured concerning the food, they murmured concerning
giants in the land, they murmured concerning their leaders, they
murmured concerning divine judgments, concerning the desert, and the
second time they murmured concerning the manna. God is a gracious
God. In this book, we find a man by the name
of Balaam. Three chapters are dedicated
to this guy. Did you know that Balaam is mentioned
three times in the New Testament? He's mentioned in the book of
2 Peter, Jude, and Revelation. In 2 Peter, it's called the way
of Balaam. In the book of Jude, it's the
error of Balaam. And in the book of Revelation,
it's the doctrine of Balaam. All great errors. We'll spend
some time on that. We have the second census, and
then we're introduced to the next leader that's going to take
the children of Israel into the land, and that is Joshua. You
know, as a type, as a picture, as a shadow, The church is thankful
that Moses was not given that job. Why? Because he represented
the law and nobody is going to enter into glory by the law.
But we are given a new leader, the true leader. We are given
a picture of Christ. We have Joshua. Joshua's name
in Hebrew is the same name we find in Greek as Jesus. Joshua
is a picture of taking the children of Israel across the Jordan River
into the promised land. We have him, by grace, doing
that. The Lord Jesus Christ, by grace,
takes his people in the land. The law never takes anybody into
the holy land. Nobody is brought to Christ by
the law. It's by the foolishness of preaching.
Save them that believe. That's what we have. Joshua, we have the two and a
half tribes that choose to stay on this side of the Jordan River.
We have all of the events in chapters 33, 34, and 35 that
take place just before the crossing of Jordan. Then in chapter 35,
we have some wonderful comments made about Christ our refuge
because there are six cities of refuge identified and why
people go there. I was visiting with a man the
other day and We all have issues and a lot of our issues we're
not going to share with anybody. But we all know why we're in
the refuge, the Lord Jesus Christ. We're sinners. I don't have to
tell you all the sins because we all know why we're in the
refuge. We're all sinners. That's why
people went to the cities of refuge. And that's why we flee
to Christ. We are sinners saved by grace. At the first glance, chapter
one, and my time is about up, but I want to say this. Chapter
one, there is 12 repetitions. And at first glance, we say,
if I read one of them, that should be enough. I'll just read the
names of the tribes in the rest of those verses. Well, you know,
I used to think that way, but I found out that repetition is
often the way the Lord instructs his church. I am so thankful
that over the centuries, from the time of the Garden of Eden
to this very hour, that the gospel has been repeated over and over
and over. That it did not die out in some
place or time. that there's always been a repetition
of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ someplace in this world,
that it did not die out and have to be re-found during what is
commonly called the Reformation. I've had to ask several people
that have brought that point up to me, then who were they
persecuting prior to that? Who were they burning at the
stake? Who were they drowning? If the gospel had died out, there's
always been a representation of grace on this earth in the
preaching of the gospel. And that's not just a gospel,
but the gospel that the Apostle Paul wrote to the Galatians about.
that true gospel, the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. This
gospel, the Reader's Digest edition of the Bible did a great disservice
because it edited out all the repetitions. Now, a lot of people
are really pleased about that. I don't have to read all that
repetition. But you know what? Repetition is good for us. In
fact, we're called on to remember the former things, go over them. That's why we continuously go
over the gospel. God is faithful to bring things
to the attention of the church by repeating himself. Now, one
example I've used many times, but I will use it again right
now. In the book of Revelation, three times there is a name of
God used, and each one of those, each part of that name could
be enough, but God was merciful to us to repeat it and state
it in three different ways in the same sentence, and that is,
Lord God Almighty. Now every one of those words
of God or titles of God or names of God represent an almighty
God, a Lord, a God, an almighty God. But there in those three
verses in the book of Revelation, we find out he just said, Lord,
God, almighty. That's repetition. And the church
says, thank you, Lord, for repeating yourself, because sometimes I
am prone to forget. And the older I get, the more
I forget. So please, repeat yourself. What
repetition one finds throughout the scriptures. Now turn with
me in closing to the book of 2nd Peter. 2nd Peter chapter
1. 2nd Peter chapter 1. The Apostle
Peter was right these same things as we start the book of Numbers
chapter 1 Lord willing next Sunday here in the book of 2nd Peter
chapter 1 as We look at those repetitious verses of scripture
verse after verse after verse with identical words used here
in 2nd Peter chapter 1 and verse 13 it says Yea, I think it meet
I as long as I am in this tabernacle
to stir you up by putting you in remembrance, knowing that
shortly I must put off this tabernacle even as our Lord Jesus Christ
has shown me." The Apostle Peter says, you know, as long as I
get to preach, I'm going to repeat the same story because I think
it is necessary. It's meat to put us in remembrance. So I'm not going to assign anything,
but if you happened to read a couple of chapters of the Book of Numbers
this week, you'll be ready for our next Sunday's lesson. God
bless you, and thank you for your time. Brother Mike, if you'll
come.