“Yet you would not go up, but rebelled against the command of the LORD your God.” Deuteronomy 1:26
Every adult who came out of Egypt in the exodus eventually died in the desert. None of them entered the Promised Land. So, everyone who entered the Promised Land was under 40 years old and had been born in the desert. This was a young nation with no one over age 60 except for Moses, Caleb, and Joshua.
So when Moses says, “The LORD our God said to us in Horeb, ‘You have stayed long enough at this mountain’” (1:6), he is talking about something that happened 40 years ago when most of the people weren’t even born and many of the rest were too young to remember.
Notice what Moses says, “You would not go up, but rebelled against the command of the LORD” (1:26). “You murmured in your tents and said, ‘Because the LORD hated us’” (1:27). “You did not believe the LORD your God” (1:26, 27, 32). Why is Moses saying these things to them?
If you had been in the crowd that day, you might have raised your hand and said, “Excuse me, Moses. Why are you saying this to us? This wasn’t our fault. It was our parents’ fault!”
Is Moses blaming the children for the sins of their parents? No! His message is simple: What was in your parents is also in you. You will face the same temptations and the same struggles they did. What defeated them, you must overcome.
What are some temptations, struggles, and defeats from your family’s past that you must learn from and overcome?
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Watch the powerful story of the thief on the cross today
The thief’s story of salvation is one that begins, literally, on the brink of hell. The pain this man had experienced throughout his life fueled his hate for God, so much so that he detested the man hanging there on the cross beside him. But then, for the first time, he began to fear God.
If you’ve found yourself in a similar place, there is hope. Hope because heaven is real, hope because we have a Savior, and hope because all you have to do is accept Jesus’ invitation.
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