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*BBC JUNE 3, 2007 PRAYER SERIES: THE PRIVILEGE OF PRAYER DEUT 3:23-27*
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23 “AT THAT TIME I PLEADED WITH THE LORD AND SAID, 24 ‘O SOVEREIGN LORD, YOU HAVE ONLY BEGUN TO SHOW YOUR GREATNESS AND THE STRENGTH OF YOUR HAND TO ME, YOUR SERVANT.
IS THERE ANY GOD IN HEAVEN OR ON EARTH WHO CAN PERFORM SUCH GREAT AND MIGHTY DEEDS AS YOU DO?
25 PLEASE LET ME CROSS THE JORDAN TO SEE THE WONDERFUL LAND ON THE OTHER SIDE, THE BEAUTIFUL HILL COUNTRY AND THE LEBANON MOUNTAINS.’
26 “BUT THE LORD WAS ANGRY WITH ME BECAUSE OF YOU, AND HE WOULD NOT LISTEN TO ME. ‘THAT’S ENOUGH!’ HE DECLARED.
‘SPEAK OF IT NO MORE.
27 BUT GO UP TO PISGAH PEAK, AND LOOK OVER THE LAND IN EVERY DIRECTION.
TAKE A GOOD LOOK, BUT YOU MAY NOT CROSS THE JORDAN RIVER.
*INTRO: PRAYER IS TALKING TO GOD*; AND WHEN HE ANSWERS WITH A YES..WE REJOICE; WE SAY WHEN THE PRAYERS GO UP THE BLESSINGS COME DOWN.
BUT THERE ARE TIMES HE ANSWERS WITH IRONY…MUCH THAT PERPLEXES US IN OUR CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE IS BUT THE “ANSWER” TO OUR PRAYERS.
WE PRAY FOR PATIENCE AND GOD SENDS TRIBULATION, FOR TRIBULATION PRODUCES PATIENCE (ROM.
5:3).
WE PRAY FOR SUBMISSION, AND GOD SENDS SUFFERING, FOR WE LEARN OBEDIENCE BY SUFFERING (HEB.
5:8).
WE PRAY FOR UNSELFISHNESS, AND GOD GIVES US OPPORTUNITIES TO SACRIFICE OURSELVES BY THINKING ON THE THINGS OF OTHERS (PHIL.
2:4).
WE PRAY FOR VICTORY, AND THE THINGS OF THE WORLD SWEEP DOWN UPON US IN A STORM OF TEMPTATION, FOR “THIS IS THE VICTORY THAT OVERCOMETH THE WORLD, EVEN OUR FAITH” (1 JOHN 5:4).
WE PRAY FOR STRENGTH AND HUMILITY, AND SOME MESSENGER OF SATAN TORMENTS US TILL WE LIE IN THE DUST, CRYING TO GOD FOR ITS REMOVAL (2 COR.
12:7–11).
WE PRAY FOR UNION WITH CHRIST, AND GOD SEVERS NATURAL TIES, AND LETS OUR BEST FRIENDS MISUNDERSTAND US AND SEEM INDIFFERENT TO US (MATT.
10:34–39; JOHN 15:18–20).
WE PRAY FOR LOVE, AND GOD SENDS PECULIAR SUFFERING, AND PUTS US WITH APPARENTLY UNLOVELY PEOPLE.
HE LETS THEM SAY THINGS WHICH RASP THE NERVES AND LACERATE THE HEART, FOR “LOVE SUFFERETH LONG, AND IS KIND” (1 COR.
13).
WHEN GOD ANSWERS US WITH A “NO”, IT WOULD BE A BIT EASIER TO TAKE IF JESUS HAD NOT TOLD US THAT WITH THE FAITH THE SIZE OF A MUSTARD SEED…WE COULD MOVE MOUNTAINS.
EXPL: IN THE TEXT WE FIND OURSELVES ON THE MOUNTAIN WITH MOSES AND GOD.
IN THE BOOK….DEUTERONOMY IS THE SECOND TELLING OF THE LAW.
IT IS A HISTORY LESSON RETOLD BY MOSES.
YOU REMEMBER MOSES, DRAWN OUT OF THE NILE IN THE BULRUSHES AND DESTINED TO BE THE PRINCE OF EGYPT.
MOSES WHO REFUSED TO BE CALLED A SON OF PHARAOH WHILE ISRAEL WAS BURDENED UNDER A YOKE OF BONDAGE.
MOSES WHO KILLED A MAN AND BECAME FUGITIVE.
MOSES WHO WAS CALLED AT THE BURNING BUSH; MOSES WHO INSTIGATED THE THREE SETS OF THREE PLAGUES AND THEN INSTITUTED THE PASSOVER.
MOSES VICTOR AT THE RED SEA BUT REPUDIATED AS THE COMPANY REBELLED AGAINST HIM AND GOD.
MOSES RECALLS ISRAEL REJECTION AND THE 40 YEARS OF WANDERING IN THE WILDERNESS.
DEUT RECALLS THE VICTORIES WON WITH CHRIST; THE CONQUEST OF HESBON AND BASHAN; THE VICTORY OVER OG THE LAST OF THE GIANTS….
*POWER OF SOVEREIGN GOD:* THUS MOSES REMINDS US THAT GOD IS STILL ALL POWERFUL AND HE FIGHTS WITH US AND MOVES US TO VICTORY.
*PARTICIPATION IN THE SERVICE OF GOD*; MOSES REMINDS US THAT WE ALL MUST SERVE; AS HE RECOUNTS THE SITUATION WITH REUBEN, GAD AND THE HALF TRIBE OF MANASSEH.
THEY COULD LIVE ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE JORDAN BUT FIGHT WITH ISRAEL ON THE WEST.
WE ALL HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO SERVE; WE ALL HAVE TO PULL OUR FAIR SHARE.
MOSES REMINDS US OF THE NEED TO ENCOURAGE OUR LEADERS.
HE EXHORTS JOSHUA AS HE WILL TAKE ISRAEL INTO THE PROMISED LAND, THE LAND FLOWING WITH MILK AND HONEY.
*PRAYER OF SUPPLICATION TO GOD: *THEN MOSES REMINDS US HE PRAYED; HE ASKED GOD TO LET HIM HAVE MERCY AND CROSS OVER INTO THE PROMISED LAND…AND GOD SAID, “NO.”
INTER: HOW DO WE RESPOND WHEN GOD SAYS, NO TO OUR REQUEST.
WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM THIS PASSAGE.
TS: AS WE RECOLLECT THIS STORY WE WILL LEARN ANOTHER ASPECT OF THE IMPORTANCE OF PRAYER SO THAT WE CAN HAVE A POWERFUL PRAYER LIFE.
*PROP: WE MUST PRAY BECAUSE…GOD DOES NOT WINK AT OUR SIN…GOD TAKES SIN VERY, VERY SERIOUSLY.
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*PROP: THE POWERFUL PRAYER LIFE HELPS KEEP US FROM FALLING TO THE POWER OF SIN.
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/SIN INVOKES THE WRATH OF GOD …“BUT THE LORD WAS ANGRY /
/SIN AFFECTS THE PEOPLE OF GOD..….
WITH ME ON YOUR ACCOUNT”/
/SIN CLOSES THE EARS OF GOD….
… ENOUGH OF THAT! SPEAK NO MORE TO ME OF THIS MATTER.
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/SIN LEADS TO THE DEATH OF THE MAN (SON) OF GOD/
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*MP I. SIN INVOKES THE WRATH OF GOD /…“BUT THE LORD WAS ANGRY V. /26.*
*CONTROLLING POWER IN OUR LIVES - *DOCTRINE OF SIN; IT MUST BE UNDERSTOOD IN ORDER TO IMPACT OUR PRAYER LIFE.
FIRST WE MUST AGREE THAT SIN IS NOT A VERY POPULAR TOPIC BECAUSE WE DON’T LIKE TO THINK OF OURSELVES AS BAD OR EVIL PERSONS.
THE TALK OF SIN DEPRESSES US. WE DON’T’ LIKE TO LOOK IN THE MIRROR AND ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WE ARE ALL “NAUGHTY BY NATURE”…WE ARE BORN IN SIN AND SHAPED IN INIQUITY.
SIN IS AN INNER FORCE OF THE HEART; A CONTROLLING POWER…THAT IS DEEPER THAT JUST A FEW BAD ACTS OR BAD WORDS.
SIN HAS TO DO WITH OUR IGNORNACE, OUR ERRORS RE: THE MORAL CODE AND MISTAKES DUE TO THE FACT THAT WE ARE HUMAN.
THEN WE TURN A DEAF EAR AND LIVE AN DISOBEDIENT LIFE.
*CROSSING THE LINE - *DETERMINED TO TAKE IT TO THE LIMIT: GOD WAS “HABAR”… USED OVER 600 X ...HE WAS NOT JUST ANGRY, BUT VERY ANGRY, INFURIATED.
IT IS A PLAY ON THE WORD TO PASS OVER, OR CROSS OVER…HE WAS ANGRY BECAUSE MOSES TRANSGRESSED THE BOUNDARIES OF THE COVENANT.
MOSES AND THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL SINNED; THEY WENT BEYOND THE LIMITS OF THE LORD.
DECISIONS FROM BAD TO WORSE: IMP: WHEN WE BREACH THE BOUNDARIES AND GO BEYOND THE LORD’S LIMITS THERE ARE CONSEQUENCES.
WE FIND OURSELVES LIKE ISRAEL, TOSSING AND TURNING, MUMBLING AND GRUMBLING; RESTLESS AND AGITATED; WHICH THEN IN TURN MOVES US TO MAKE BAD DECISIONS WHICH LEAD TO ADVERSITY AND GUILT.
WE FIND OURSELVES IN TROUBLE.
AND THE TROUBLE IS SEASONED WITH SENSUALITY AND SELFISHNESS..ALL ROOTED IN PRIDE.
ADAM AND EVE - THE FAILURE IN EDEN INVOKED GOD’S ANGER – THEY HAD TO LEAVE AS GOD PUT EMNITY BETWEEN YOU AND THE WOMA, AND BETWEEN YOUR SEED AND HER SEED; GEN 3:15
THE FLOOD INVOKED GOD’S ANGER GENESIS 7:22 ALL IN WHOSE NOSTRILS /WAS /THE BREATH OF LIFE, OF ALL THAT /WAS /IN THE DRY /LAND/, DIED.
ROM 5:14 - NKJ ROMANS 5:14 NEVERTHELESS DEATH REIGNED FROM ADAM TO MOSES, EVEN OVER THOSE WHO HAD NOT SINNED ACCORDING TO THE LIKENESS OF THE TRANSGRESSION OF ADAM, WHO IS A TYPE OF HIM WHO WAS TO COME.
*APP: CONNECTIVITY TO THE LORD - *PRAYER MOVES US INTO A LIFE OF CONNECTION AND CONFORMITY; IT MOVES ME TO ALLOW GOD BE GOD.
PRAYER ALLOW US TO GIVE GOD HIS PROPER PLACE IN OUR LIVES.
WE PRACTICE…HAVING NO OTHER GODS (LITTLE G) BEFORE GOD..(BIG G). AND WE PRACTICE LOVING THE LORD OUR GOD WITH ALL OUR HEARTS, MINDS AND SOULS.
THUS WE ARE IN AN ENVIROMENT...PRAYER…WHERE WE CAN LOVE, GOD, WORSHIP GOD, OBEY GOD ..AND TRUST GOD.
PRAY KNOWING THAT OUR GOD IS A CONSUMING FIRE….AND THAT IT A FEARFUL THING TO FALL INTO THE HANDS OF AN ANGRY GOD.
AMERICA’S GREATEST THEOLOGIAN IS OFTEN IDENTIFIED AS JONATHAN EDWARDS, A NEW ENGLAND PASTOR OF THE 1700S.
EDWARDS WAS BRILLIANT.
AT AGE SIX HE STUDIED LATIN.
HE ENTERED YALE WHEN NOT QUITE THIRTEEN AND GRADUATED WHEN BARELY FIFTEEN.
HE WAS ORDAINED AT AGE NINETEEN, TAUGHT AT YALE BY TWENTY, AND LATER BECAME PRESIDENT OF PRINCETON.
HARVARD GRANTED HIM BOTH A BACHELOR’S AND A MASTER’S DEGREE ON THE SAME DAY.
BUT HE IS BEST KNOWN FOR /SINNERS IN THE HANDS OF AN ANGRY GOD/—THE MOST FAMOUS SERMON IN AMERICAN HISTORY.
HE PREACHED IT ON SUNDAY, JULY 8, 1741, WHILE MINISTERING IN TINY ENFIELD, CONNECTICUT.
A GROUP OF WOMEN HAD SPENT THE PREVIOUS NIGHT PRAYING FOR REVIVAL.
WHEN EDWARDS ROSE TO SPEAK, HE QUIETLY ANNOUNCED THAT HIS TEXT WAS DEUTERONOMY 32:35, “… THEIR FOOT SHALL SLIDE IN DUE TIME.”
THIS “HELLFIRE AND BRIMSTONE” APPROACH WAS SOMEWHAT A DEPARTURE FOR EDWARDS.
OF HIS ONE THOUSAND WRITTEN SERMONS, LESS THAN A DOZEN ARE OF THIS TYPE.
EDWARDS NEITHER GESTURED NOR RAISED HIS VOICE.
HE SPOKE SOFTLY AND SIMPLY, WARNING THE UNCONVERTED THAT THEY WERE DANGLING OVER HELL LIKE A SPIDER OVER THE FIRE.
/O SINNER!
CONSIDER THE FEARFUL DANGER.
THE UNCONVERTED ARE NOW WALKING OVER THE PIT OF HELL ON A ROTTEN COVERING, AND THERE ARE INNUMERABLE PLACES IN THIS COVERING SO WEAK THAT IT WILL NOT BEAR THEIR WEIGHT, AND THESE PLACES ARE NOT SEEN./
EDWARDS’ VOICE WAS SUDDENLY LOST AMID CRIES AND COMMOTION FROM THE CROWD.
HE PAUSED, APPEALING FOR CALM.
THEN HE CONCLUDED: /LET EVERYONE THAT IS OUT OF CHRIST, NOW AWAKE AND FLY FROM THE WRATH TO COME.
THE WRATH OF ALMIGHTY GOD IS NOW UNDOUBTEDLY HANGING OVER A GREAT PART OF THIS CONGREGATION.
LET EVERY ONE FLY OUT OF SODOM./
STRONG MEN HELD TO PEWS AND POSTS, FEELING THEY WERE SLIDING INTO HELL.
OTHERS SHOOK UNCONTROLLABLY AND ROLLED ON THE FLOOR.
THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT CRIES OF MEN AND WOMEN WERE HEARD THROUGHOUT THE VILLAGE, BEGGING GOD TO SAVE THEM.
FIVE HUNDRED WERE CONVERTED THAT EVENING, SPARKING A REVIVAL THAT SWEPT THOUSANDS INTO THE KINGDOM.
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*MP II.
/SIN AFFECTS THE PEOPLE OF GOD.
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WITH ME ON YOUR ACCOUNT”/*
*MERIBAH’S ROCK - *THE TEXT SAY ANGRY WITH ME ON ACCOUNT OF YOU.
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