THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 2023
/Thursday, March 23, 2023
Flawed, but Not a Failure
During the years God led His people thorough the wilderness, Moses was the unsurpassed example of hearing God’s voice…listening and obeying the words of God. But even Moses had a moment of failure. At a crucial point in his leadership, Moses did not obey God’s instructions and rebelled against the power of God’s spoken word.
The Hebrews had been to Kadesh Barnea before the account in Numbers 20…forty years earlier.
a. READ: Numbers 13: 1 – 20, 27 – 14: 10; 14: 20 – 23, 28 – 30. What sin did the Hebrews commit the first time they were at Kadesh Barnea?
b. What penalty did God impose?
c. READ: Numbers 20: 12. What sin did Moses and Aaron commit the second time the Hebrews were at Kadesh Barnea?
d. What penalty did God impose?
Even when God’s people sin against Him and he must discipline them, God’s loving, merciful, just, and forgiving character does not change. As you read the following passage, notice how God described and / or responds to the sin of Moses and Aaron:
a. Numbers 20: 12 & 13
b. Numbers 20: 23 – 30
c. Numbers 27: 12 – 13
d. Deuteronomy 32: 48 – 52
READ: Deuteronomy 34: 10 & 11. Although one of Moses last acts was sinful and cost him dearly, what does his epitaph reveal (in what it says and does not say) about God’s forgiveness and desire to use His people to accomplish his purpose and bring about His kingdom?