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Alright, welcome to episode. 10 of the plan.

The plan is our current sermon series.

You were going through this year, that takes us through the entire story of the Bible, from beginning to end focusing on one on the back.

It it's all part of one plot.

So there's the same plot that drives a story from Genesis to Revelation.

And the plot that we've been looking at is this, the Bible is the story of God's plan to establish a place for the people who live out their purpose in his presence.

This is the goal that the Bible is working toward in the very beginning.

God makes the world, he puts people in it.

He gives them the job of ruling over the Earth on his behalf.

And then on the seventh day, he comes in to rest with them, because his goal is to live in relationship with him.

In the earth.

We talked to them about how Humanity messed that Arrangement up.

And so we lost our relationship with God.

And so for four generations, Humanity was separated from God, but then.

Started a new project through Abraham and the project was that he was going to use.

One man and his family and he was going to accomplish the plan for them.

In one specific place of one specific group of people and somehow through that.

He was going to bless the rest of the world.

And so as we're looking at the four parts of the plan, you actually see looking back over the part of the stories, the part of the story we've done so far that God has been methodically putting each of these pieces in place.

So in The Exodus the language that is often used as he bought or Ransom himself a people because he brought them up out of Egypt, with his power, they belong to him.

So he has a people and he brings them to Mount Sinai where God's presence is and he hasn't build a tabernacle and he comes down to live with him in the Tabernacle.

And so he's restored his presents and all through this, he gives them laws.

That Define for them.

Exactly what their purpose is, exactly what it looks like for them to rule, according to his design.

And then so we have people presents and purpose and we blast We got through Leviticus, which covers the things that he tells him, while they're at Mount Sinai, but there's one piece of the plan that still has not been fulfilled for Israel.

And that is the place.

They're still at the foot of Mount Sinai.

They still have not gotten to the place that God promised them.

And so the boar moving into the Book of Numbers.

Probably one of the most underwhelming Lee named books in the Bible is named after the fact that there's a sense of the beginning of sentence at the end, but there's actually a lot of action that story way more than Leviticus.

And in this story, we get the sequence of events that happens as they leave Sinai and journey to the promised land.

So I'm going to read you this passage from numbers 10 and then some for numbers, 13.

It's going to be cover when they leave Sinai.

And then what happens when they get to the edge of the promised land, and through these passages were going to set our coordinates for the story that we're going to be focusing on.

So, as I'm reading these passages, I want you to use your outline to track these four things people.

So, who is the story about place?

Where is their home presents?

How can I meet with God and purpose?

What did God tell them to do? Alright, so here's the reading.

On the 20th day of the second month of the.

Second year, the cloud lifted from above the Tabernacle to Covenant law.

Then the Israelites set out from the desert of Sinai and traveled from place to place.

Till the cloud came to rest in the desert of Perron.

They set out this first time at the Lord's command through Moses.

Few things happen on their journey and then it when they get to their destination, just outside the promised land.

It says the Lord said to Moses, send some men to explore the land of Canaan, which I'm going, which I'm giving to the Israelites from each ancestral tribe.

Send one of its leaders when Moses sent them to explore Kane, and he said, go up through the negative, and on Into the Hill Country, see what the land is like, and whether the people who live there are strong or weak few or many.

All right.

So first coordinate is people who was the story about Should be surprised if in the same answer for a few weeks now, I had to Moses and the Israelites the Israelites are God's people.

Moses is the specially appointed go between the leader of the Israelites.

The person who talks to God and the Israelites, so it's about Moses and the Israelites.

Where's their home?

Their home is the promised land.

They're still not in it.

But now it's just around the corner.

It's just over the hill.

It's just across the border right there.

Like right on the edge looking into the promised land.

So they're really close.

All they have to do is easier said than done is go into the land and Conquer it and they've got the whole plan arranged, right?

How can I meet with God?

They have left Sinai which was the place where God's presence, dwells God lived on Sinai when they got there, but then God moved into the Tabernacle.

And what we saw the beginning of every now and then.

Actually moves.

And they go with him and God, then I said the Tabernacle and God lives in the Tabernacle.

So God has not only moved down from the mountain into the Tabernacle.

But now it has led them away from the mountain and he's still with the Tabernacle.

So now we seen the God will actually leave the mountain and go on the journey with them.

Now what did God tell them to do?

There's two things as passwords.

There's the big picture thing that he told him to do and then as they get close he gives them another specific command.

So the big picture thing that they're supposed to do is follow God's.

The Promised Land by God's presence gets up.

I got the cloud actually moved, they follow the cloud and they took God is commanding them.

When to move when the camp like they're all they have to do is follow God.

And he lead them to the promised to the edge of the promised land and they're right on the edge.

And when once I get to the edge, God gives them a more specific thing to do at this moment in the story, as part of following God, which is send spies into the land.

Send 12 Spies into Canaan and check out the land and then they'll figure it out.

You don't got to tell them what to do from there.

So this is where we're at in the story.

This is what they need to do.

And as we read the rest of the story, we read it with the understanding that this is where they're at.

And these are the instructions have been given remember that one key to understanding what's going on in the Bible story.

Because not everything is spoon-fed to you.

If you have your suppose, you are expected to be keeping track of what God has told him to do and comparing what they do to what God has told them to do.

That's part of learning from the store itself.

Let's look at what the Israelites do with these instructions to despise went up and explore the land from the desert of sin.

As far as Ray.

Hope, torn label, and came to have Bron where a human Cheshire high and call my the descendants of anak lived.

When they reach the valley of escrow.

They will cut off a branch during a single cluster of grapes.

Two of them carried it on a pole between them along with some of the pomegranate in figs.

That place was called The Valley Of Ashes.

All because of the cluster of grapes, the hazard lights cut off their At the end of 40 days, they returned from exploring the land.

All right, so they go in the explore, the land.

They spent 40 days there.

They, they cut off an enormous cluster of grapes.

That is so big, that they have to carry it on a pole.

And that image is actually currently that the image they use for tourism.

And Israel is they the cluster of grapes from this story?