Why start with Adam and Eve, if you know they are going to screw it up?

Why re-start with Noah, if you know he’s going to screw it up?

Why take the Israelites to The Promised Land, if you know they are going to screw it up?

Does the Lord make mistakes?

Can the Lord change his mind?

Why does the Lord say he’s going to destroy the Israelites, and then change his mind after Moses remonstrates with him?

Preacher: Andrew Forrest

Scripture: Deuteronomy 31

Why start with Adam and Eve, if you know they are going to screw it up?

Why re-start with Noah, if you know he’s going to screw it up?

Why take the Israelites to The Promised Land, if you know they are going to screw it up?

Does the Lord make mistakes?

Can the Lord change his mind?

Why does the Lord say he’s going to destroy the Israelites, and then change his mind after Moses remonstrates with him?

Preacher: Andrew Forrest

Scripture: Deuteronomy 31

You can read the entire book of Deuteronomy and not come across a military strategy for defeating the Canaanites. Why?

Because Moses (rightly) knows that the Children of Israel’s greatest enemy will be … themselves.

We all face external enemies—of course. But our greatest enemies are always within.

Note: we had some problems with our recording equipment today, and so we missed the first few moments of the sermon.

Preacher: Andrew Forrest

Scripture: Deuteronomy 11:8-28

References: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/01/14/martin-luther-king-jr-met-malcolm-x-just-once-the-photo-still-haunts-us-with-what-was-lost/?utm_term=.052fd680481e

You can read the entire book of Deuteronomy and not come across a military strategy for defeating the Canaanites. Why?

Because Moses (rightly) knows that the Children of Israel’s greatest enemy will be … themselves.

We all face external enemies—of course. But our greatest enemies are always within.

Note: we had some problems with our recording equipment today, and so we missed the first few moments of the sermon.

Preacher: Andrew Forrest

Scripture: Deuteronomy 11:8-28

References: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/01/14/martin-luther-king-jr-met-malcolm-x-just-once-the-photo-still-haunts-us-with-what-was-lost/?utm_term=.052fd680481e

Everything worth having comes with a cost. I believe that is incontrovertibly true.

Here’s the question:

Am I willing to pay the price required to enter the Promised Land of what God has for me?

The Israelites weren’t willing.

Are you?

Preacher: Andrew Forrest

Scripture: Numbers 13:1-3, 25-33, 14:1-4, 6-10

References:

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db76.htm

https://psychnews.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.pn.2017.pp9b2

Everything worth having comes with a cost. I believe that is incontrovertibly true.

Here’s the question:

Am I willing to pay the price required to enter the Promised Land of what God has for me?

The Israelites weren’t willing.

Are you?

Preacher: Andrew Forrest

Scripture: Numbers 13:1-3, 25-33, 14:1-4, 6-10

References:

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db76.htm

https://psychnews.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.pn.2017.pp9b2

Leviticus isn’t as useless as you thought. All you need is a little bit of context.

Preacher: Andrew Forrest

Scripture: Leviticus 19:1-19; Exodus 28:1-6

References: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0-pfzKbh2k

Leviticus isn’t as useless as you thought. All you need is a little bit of context.

Preacher: Andrew Forrest

Scripture: Leviticus 19:1-19; Exodus 28:1-6

References: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0-pfzKbh2k

If you are serious about finding your purpose, it might mean you need to take the long route through the wilderness—as the Israelites learned, the shortest way is not always best.

Preacher: Andrew Forrest

Scripture: Exodus 13:17-22

If you are serious about finding your purpose, it might mean you need to take the long route through the wilderness—as the Israelites learned, the shortest way is not always best.

Preacher: Andrew Forrest

Scripture: Exodus 13:17-22