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Preparing to enter the land

Numbers 26-36

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Luk 24:44 Then he said to them, "These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled." (ESV)

1.0 preparing to go into Canaan

a) no-one will miss out (26:1-27:11; 36; John 14)

 

 

"Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. (John 14:1-3 ESV)

b) a new leader to take them in (27:12-23; John 14)

 

 

And you know the way to where I am going." Thomas said to him, "Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?" Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. (John 14:4-6 ESV)

c) everyone to help everyone (32; Heb 3-4)

 

 

Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called "today," that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. ... Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it. (Heb 3:12-13; 4:1 ESV)

2.0 preparing to go into the new creation (2 Peter 3)