1 00:00:04,640 --> 00:00:10,160 Hallelujah, Amen. I have felt the glory of the 2 00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:13,880 Lord, a man rise among us in this place this morning. 3 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:17,000 And if you're feeling something else, it's probably the humidity 4 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:19,240 in the room. All right. 5 00:00:19,240 --> 00:00:23,280 And so please bear with us. We do have a baptism today. 6 00:00:23,680 --> 00:00:27,400 Anytime we make the baptismal hot, it makes us all hot. 7 00:00:27,960 --> 00:00:30,800 But I would live with it like this if that meant someone was 8 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:36,440 baptizing each Sunday, then to be quote UN quote comfortable. 9 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:39,240 All right, Amen. So we're happy about that. 10 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:41,520 Ray Mcveigh's going to be baptized later today. 11 00:00:42,040 --> 00:00:47,240 And so there's a lot of it's like that's happening and then 12 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:51,960 we're going to be dedicating a little Cade Amen this morning as 13 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:54,800 well. So we almost have, I mean, we 14 00:00:55,560 --> 00:00:57,120 need to have a wedding and something else. 15 00:00:57,120 --> 00:01:00,080 We just almost have an all the pastoral rows like within a day. 16 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:04,040 But my wife raised asked her to baptize. 17 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:06,720 So I think my wife and my daughter's going to be aiding 18 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:08,440 Ray and being baptized this morning. 19 00:01:08,960 --> 00:01:10,680 Amen. And so that's going to be great. 20 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:12,880 Hallelujah. Good to see all your smiling 21 00:01:12,880 --> 00:01:14,800 faces today. Amen. 22 00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:17,520 If you can stand for me, we'll turn to the book of numbers. 23 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:21,520 And so there's I know there's a lot going on. 24 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:24,040 So it's probably going to be a little bit more of an extended 25 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:27,080 service and I'm trying to be mindful of that on my end. 26 00:01:27,080 --> 00:01:29,400 And the operative keyword there is trying. 27 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:31,720 I'm trying to be mindful of that on my end. 28 00:01:32,440 --> 00:01:35,600 Sometimes I'm successful and sometimes I fail miserably. 29 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:39,360 And so please offer me grace and forgiveness if that happens to 30 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:42,000 be the case today. But we'll try to do that. 31 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:44,040 Sister Cox is going to keep track of me. 32 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:46,920 She walked in with a couple of mints and she said, you're not 33 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:49,200 going to take my mints. And I said, well, is that how 34 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:50,880 you keep track of how long I preach? 35 00:01:51,160 --> 00:01:53,680 Like, you put a mint in and you just let it dissolve and you're 36 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:57,840 like, oh, he's on mint #2 now. And so I don't, I don't know. 37 00:01:58,280 --> 00:02:00,000 I'm really trying to figure out the dynamic. 38 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:03,000 Brown says he just raises his arm and taps his watch or his 39 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:05,840 belly. But I'm, you know, sometimes I 40 00:02:05,840 --> 00:02:09,759 just don't look at them. Numbers chapter #12 Numbers 41 00:02:09,759 --> 00:02:13,800 chapter #12 Glad to have each one that's with us, some that 42 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:16,920 are visiting and such. And we're appreciate we got both 43 00:02:16,920 --> 00:02:19,200 sides of the Zach and Malin family here today. 44 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:23,000 And I know that they're probably just overjoyed with having their 45 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:26,840 family with him this morning. Numbers chapter 12, verse #10 46 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:30,080 I'm going to begin reading and then I'll, I'll skip down just 47 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:32,080 just once, but you can follow my lead here. 48 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:35,680 Today the Bible says, And the cloud departed off the 49 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:39,000 Tabernacle. And behold, Miriam became 50 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:43,840 leprous, white as snow. And Aaron looked upon Miriam, 51 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:49,320 and behold, she was leprous. And Aaron said unto Moses, Alas, 52 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:56,280 my Lord, I beseech thee, lay not the sin upon us, wherein we have 53 00:02:56,280 --> 00:02:59,280 done foolishly, and wherein we have sinned. 54 00:02:59,960 --> 00:03:04,840 Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed, 55 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:07,960 when he cometh out of his mother's womb. 56 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:11,240 Skipping down to verse #15 if we can. 57 00:03:11,640 --> 00:03:15,680 And Miriam was shut out from the camp seven days. 58 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:20,440 And the people journey not to Miriam was brought in again, 59 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:22,640 Amen. With the help of the Holy Ghost, 60 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:24,360 Amen. I want to minister something 61 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:28,280 that kind of fell in my spirit back in February but came back 62 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:30,000 to my mind's remembrance this week. 63 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:34,720 I want to minister this. Leave no one behind. 64 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:39,600 Leave no one behind, Amen. Can we talk? 65 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:42,000 To the Lord right now. Father, I need you today. 66 00:03:42,760 --> 00:03:44,200 God, we're grateful. For the people that have 67 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:47,040 gathered here this morning, we pray, oh Lord, with their own 68 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:49,880 individual needs and concerns. We pray God that you're able to 69 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:53,000 meet them, Lord, before they leave this place, or at least 70 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:55,760 comfort them. I pray, Lord, let your word, 71 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:59,200 Jesus be a comfort. Let your word, Lord Jesus, be an 72 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:01,520 upholder. Lord of spirits today, God, give 73 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:05,000 us direction and guidance and Lord, edification, God, 74 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:08,480 encouragement by the word today. Let it go forth and do that 75 00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:10,840 which it was sent to accomplish in our lives. 76 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:14,160 God and will not fail to thank you and praise you Lord, for 77 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:17,360 what you accomplish here today. Say this morning in the name of 78 00:04:17,399 --> 00:04:23,240 Jesus Christ that I pray a man of the church say man Amen. 79 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:25,840 You may be seated this morning in Jesus name. 80 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:28,840 Leave no one. Look at your neighbor and say 81 00:04:28,840 --> 00:04:33,480 leave no one behind. Leave no one behind. 82 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:39,400 It is the military mantra that embodying the promise that 83 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:44,360 military personnel will do everything possible to recover 84 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:49,240 and care for their fellow soldiers, whether wounded, 85 00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:54,440 captured or killed. It ensures that no one is 86 00:04:54,440 --> 00:05:00,760 abandoned and forgotten, that everyone returns home, whether 87 00:05:00,760 --> 00:05:04,840 they are missing in action, whether they are prisoners of 88 00:05:04,840 --> 00:05:08,360 war. It underscores the importance of 89 00:05:08,360 --> 00:05:09,520 looking. Out. 90 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:14,480 For each other in our Scripture today, Moses, Aaron, and Miriam 91 00:05:14,840 --> 00:05:17,960 are the triad or the. Trifecta of the Nation. 92 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:22,320 Of Israel, they seem to be the the the three that are leading 93 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:25,840 and spearheading this nation through their wilderness 94 00:05:25,840 --> 00:05:28,600 journey. These three are civil siblings 95 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:33,040 from the same parents. Of course, Moses is their 96 00:05:33,040 --> 00:05:34,320 deliverer. He is. 97 00:05:34,320 --> 00:05:38,440 Notably, their lawgiver not too. Much time removed from this 98 00:05:38,440 --> 00:05:42,720 moment in Scripture, he was there at Sinai, and he conveyed 99 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:47,200 to them the law of God. He is known as their Lawgiver. 100 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:51,800 Aaron, on the other hand, is Israel's high priest, a notable 101 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:54,200 position to serve. Him and. 102 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:57,960 Then there is Miriam. Miriam is the eldest of the 103 00:05:58,160 --> 00:06:00,920 she's she's the older sister if you. 104 00:06:00,920 --> 00:06:04,320 Will a man of these. Two other boys and. 105 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:07,640 She is according to scripture. Exodus 15. 106 00:06:07,640 --> 00:06:12,320 She is a prophetess. And she may have very easily 107 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:14,760 with with. Aaron in such a prominent. 108 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:16,520 Row. And Moses in such a. 109 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:21,240 Prominent row She may have taken first rank among the women of 110 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:22,200 Israel. To. 111 00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:27,400 Exemplify a pattern of how to live life and how how to go 112 00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:30,640 forward in their journey. To the promised land. 113 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:36,000 It was Miriam that stood idly by with bated breath. 114 00:06:36,640 --> 00:06:39,960 As she was observing the. Outcome of her baby brother 115 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:44,440 Moses that had been placed in the Nile river in a basket of. 116 00:06:44,440 --> 00:06:48,160 Bulrushes by his mother. Mother. 117 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:52,080 That set him there, hoping that he would be saved, because 118 00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:56,040 Pharaoh, of course, had called for those type of boys to be 119 00:06:56,040 --> 00:06:59,600 thrown into the Nile River without any provision, without 120 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:02,280 any protection. But Moses's mother, seeing that 121 00:07:02,280 --> 00:07:05,000 he was a goodly child, had kept him for three. 122 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:07,480 Months and made this basket that she would settle. 123 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:10,080 Him down in into the Nile River, which. 124 00:07:10,080 --> 00:07:14,040 Had all types of of. Predators like alligators. 125 00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:17,600 And things of that nature. And so it was Miriam, though, 126 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:21,080 that stood a little in the distance after her mom had 127 00:07:21,080 --> 00:07:25,880 placed Moses down in that Nile. It was Miriam that negotiated 128 00:07:25,880 --> 00:07:31,040 with Pharaoh's daughter and began to say, Ma'am, do you need 129 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:35,160 a nurse for this child? It was Miriam that found then 130 00:07:35,160 --> 00:07:40,320 her own mother to be the nurse to her own child Moses, and 131 00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:43,240 negotiated that with Pharaoh's daughter. 132 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:48,040 In a sense, Miriam in this moment helped deliver who would 133 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:50,720 eventually deliver her. It's just a. 134 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:54,440 Bewildering thought to even consider. 135 00:07:54,640 --> 00:07:56,600 Imagine, if you will, the banter. 136 00:07:56,600 --> 00:07:59,480 You know how siblings are. I know how our household is 137 00:07:59,480 --> 00:08:02,040 siblings. Imagine the banter that was 138 00:08:02,040 --> 00:08:06,080 exchanged between the three of them, Moses and Aaron and 139 00:08:06,080 --> 00:08:08,640 Miriam. They most likely at times 140 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:12,560 antagonized Moses for being the. Deliverer, you know, like. 141 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:14,320 Your big stuff. Moses, you know. 142 00:08:14,560 --> 00:08:17,560 You're a big deal. I can hear it among the family. 143 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:20,280 You're you're really big. And I can hear Miriam almost 144 00:08:20,440 --> 00:08:23,200 playfully holding over Moses's head. 145 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:26,720 Don't forget that if it wasn't for me, your mom wouldn't have 146 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:29,400 been your nurse after you was put down in that river. 147 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:32,679 So, you know, Moses, you really kind of owe me one. 148 00:08:34,640 --> 00:08:37,240 You can see a little bit of the family rivalry. 149 00:08:37,240 --> 00:08:39,799 And some of the bantering. That would take place, but it 150 00:08:39,799 --> 00:08:42,360 was Miriam that shortly after they had. 151 00:08:42,360 --> 00:08:46,880 Crossed over the Red Sea. And the bodies of the Egyptians 152 00:08:46,880 --> 00:08:48,520 were? Drifting along the shore. 153 00:08:48,720 --> 00:08:52,360 That Marion came forth. Echoing the song of. 154 00:08:52,360 --> 00:08:56,360 Moses and she begin to. Sing and say, sing ye. 155 00:08:56,400 --> 00:08:58,960 To the Lord, for he have triumphed the. 156 00:08:58,960 --> 00:09:02,960 Gloriously, the horse and his. Rider hath he. 157 00:09:02,960 --> 00:09:04,920 Thrown into the sea. The. 158 00:09:04,920 --> 00:09:07,840 Bible says she came forth. Doing that after they crossed 159 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:11,640 over, the Bible also tells us that in the process of doing 160 00:09:11,640 --> 00:09:15,880 that she grabbed a timbrel and she beat that timbrel and waved 161 00:09:15,880 --> 00:09:21,600 that timbrel and began to dance. In doing so leading the women of 162 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:26,640 the nation all in timbrels and dances before the Lord. 163 00:09:26,880 --> 00:09:31,000 She allowed all these women and was leadership for them as they 164 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:34,440 joined in celebrating the significant victory. 165 00:09:34,760 --> 00:09:40,040 In retrospect, it is the prophet Micah that clearly states God's 166 00:09:40,040 --> 00:09:45,000 opinion of Miriam's integral role played alongside her 167 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:48,240 brothers when Micah prophesied the words of the Lord. 168 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:54,200 In Micah chapter 6 and verse #4 it says God speaking, For I 169 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:59,360 brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out 170 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:01,200 of the. House of Servants. 171 00:10:01,520 --> 00:10:08,440 And I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam. 172 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:13,800 That within itself testifies to her role, to her placement, to 173 00:10:13,800 --> 00:10:18,240 her importance, right as alongside Moses and Aaron was 174 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:21,840 the important placement of the prophetess Miriam in her 175 00:10:21,840 --> 00:10:24,120 spiritual ability. Amen. 176 00:10:24,120 --> 00:10:28,840 To inspire and guide others, and expressions of faith and 177 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:32,200 expressions of joy. As a prophetess, no doubt she 178 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:37,720 had to have spiritual inside at times and discernment that went 179 00:10:37,720 --> 00:10:39,720 along with that. And here's a lady. 180 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:44,040 What even in this society that customarily is a patriarchal 181 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:48,720 society, which means it was men driven, here is a female leader 182 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:53,480 among a patriarchal society that is commanding the respect of all 183 00:10:53,480 --> 00:10:56,280 Israel. So Miriam is a notable 184 00:10:56,280 --> 00:11:00,400 individual, notable lady and all. 185 00:11:00,400 --> 00:11:05,600 That thing may seem to be overshadowed by the events of 186 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:10,720 Numbers chapter #12 because the same woman who led others in 187 00:11:10,720 --> 00:11:15,880 celebration over their deliverance now seemingly 188 00:11:15,880 --> 00:11:19,200 enslaves herself by her behavior. 189 00:11:19,760 --> 00:11:24,120 She and Aaron, according to Numbers 12, they come together 190 00:11:24,120 --> 00:11:29,400 and they speak against Moses because he has married an 191 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:34,200 Ethiopian woman. And also they begin to argue 192 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:37,760 among themselves. I know that people say that God 193 00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:40,560 speaks through Moses or by Moses. 194 00:11:40,880 --> 00:11:45,800 Aaron does not God also speak by us and through US. 195 00:11:46,080 --> 00:11:51,120 And so Miriam's behavior here in this chapter would shortly be 196 00:11:51,120 --> 00:11:55,400 manifested by a condition that the Old Testament and both the 197 00:11:55,400 --> 00:11:59,200 New Testament right of the Bible says that her body. 198 00:11:59,360 --> 00:12:01,720 Would be covered with. Leprosy. 199 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:05,840 Leprosy and Scripture from start to finish is a. 200 00:12:05,920 --> 00:12:10,040 Emblem of sin. We understand even this, this 201 00:12:10,040 --> 00:12:14,520 emblem being recognized and understood whenever Aaron cries 202 00:12:14,520 --> 00:12:21,280 out in verse 11 to Moses and says lay not this sin up on us, 203 00:12:21,280 --> 00:12:25,560 particularly he has in mind because of Miriam turning to a 204 00:12:25,560 --> 00:12:27,880 leper in the moment, particularly Moses. 205 00:12:27,880 --> 00:12:31,560 Don't allow this sin to fall upon her. 206 00:12:31,760 --> 00:12:34,520 You must understand the position, listen to me today, 207 00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:41,280 that Aaron is in He is a priest. He is the high priest, and 208 00:12:41,280 --> 00:12:48,560 therefore it is his role and his responsibility to look at Miriam 209 00:12:49,480 --> 00:12:54,640 and confirm that she is indeed a leper. 210 00:12:55,400 --> 00:13:00,160 And based upon what he gathers from looking at her, it is his 211 00:13:00,160 --> 00:13:04,040 responsibility to pronounce her unclean. 212 00:13:05,400 --> 00:13:08,120 Think of it for a moment. This is his sister. 213 00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:10,640 This is someone that has served with him. 214 00:13:11,040 --> 00:13:13,640 They come over the the the the red seat together. 215 00:13:13,640 --> 00:13:17,160 You understand all these shared experiences and now he has this 216 00:13:17,160 --> 00:13:20,800 responsibility to look upon. His own sister and confirm. 217 00:13:21,040 --> 00:13:25,600 There's leprosy, confirm. There's sin, confirm you are 218 00:13:25,600 --> 00:13:28,040 unclean. More than anyone, I want you to 219 00:13:28,040 --> 00:13:31,880 understand today that more than anyone, Aaron understands the 220 00:13:31,880 --> 00:13:36,560 severity of Miriam's situation. More than anyone, he understands 221 00:13:36,560 --> 00:13:39,040 the gravity of what has just happened to her. 222 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:44,200 The Bible even tells us that Aaron sobs in verse #12 he cries 223 00:13:44,280 --> 00:13:49,200 out and he says let her not be as one dead. 224 00:13:49,560 --> 00:13:52,240 He's shaken from his core to circumference. 225 00:13:52,600 --> 00:13:55,760 I can't imagine this happening to Miriam. 226 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:59,880 Don't allow her to be as one dead. 227 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:04,160 Her ordeal will be like a person that's the living dead. 228 00:14:04,400 --> 00:14:07,760 She'll be alive, but she'll be dying every day. 229 00:14:08,120 --> 00:14:11,840 Don't allow her to be like. Don't allow her to have her 230 00:14:11,840 --> 00:14:15,800 flesh appear as though it's already half consumed. 231 00:14:15,800 --> 00:14:19,160 Don't allow her this. I can't believe it. 232 00:14:19,280 --> 00:14:23,520 How in the world this Miriam, my sister, the same woman that was 233 00:14:23,520 --> 00:14:27,640 so sensitive to the Spirit of God, now will physically be 234 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:32,760 desensitized by leprosy and she'll lose her ability to feel. 235 00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:37,600 Don't allow her to be as one, dead. 236 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:44,400 But he knows they know she's a leper. 237 00:14:45,320 --> 00:14:49,680 Nonetheless, and as a leper, she's going to be subjected to 238 00:14:49,680 --> 00:14:55,200 the law of a leper and she's going to have to dwell alone, 239 00:14:56,160 --> 00:15:00,080 much like Uzziah and Second Chronicles that was cut off from 240 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:03,520 the House of the Lord. Miriam is going to be. 241 00:15:03,520 --> 00:15:09,040 Shut outside the camp. Leprosy will do it to you. 242 00:15:10,040 --> 00:15:13,240 Sin will do it to you. He'll separate you. 243 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:18,240 It's separated with Adam and Eve in the garden and it's still, 244 00:15:18,240 --> 00:15:23,440 it'll separate you, it'll isolate you, it'll humiliate 245 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:27,360 you, it'll shame you. He'll he'll cut you off, if you 246 00:15:27,360 --> 00:15:32,120 will, from God's house and from God's people and where you once 247 00:15:32,120 --> 00:15:35,400 sang and where you once danced will become strange to you, 248 00:15:35,400 --> 00:15:38,520 leprosy. He'll do it to you. 249 00:15:39,520 --> 00:15:45,560 But the Bible says in verse 15 and Miriam was shut out from the 250 00:15:45,560 --> 00:15:52,280 camp seven days and the people journey not till Miriam was 251 00:15:52,280 --> 00:15:56,000 brought in again. I meant to you. 252 00:15:57,560 --> 00:15:59,600 I've cut my. Teeth on a Pew and plucked the 253 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:01,160 hardened gum off the bottom of them. 254 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:07,120 I've heard this passage preach. More than once in my lifetime. 255 00:16:08,360 --> 00:16:11,080 And for the most part, whenever I've ever heard this message 256 00:16:11,320 --> 00:16:15,560 from this passage preach. Preachers have underscored how 257 00:16:15,560 --> 00:16:20,480 Miriam's critical spirit. That spirit that she exemplified 258 00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:24,840 to being critical of Moses and critical of his marriage, that 259 00:16:24,840 --> 00:16:29,480 critical spirit stopped a whole nation's progress. 260 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:33,560 So as a result, in my lifetime of growing up, I've always 261 00:16:33,560 --> 00:16:38,920 viewed this as one person sin impacting the whole nation. 262 00:16:39,560 --> 00:16:42,320 I've chopped it up to how it just relates to the 263 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:46,600 pervasiveness of sin, how one person sin never effects them 264 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:50,400 along that it's impact is far reaching. 265 00:16:52,680 --> 00:16:57,040 And I'm telling you today, I'm not saying that is the wrong 266 00:16:57,040 --> 00:17:00,840 view, but I don't think that is the only view. 267 00:17:02,480 --> 00:17:07,200 In February, as God had my eyes Passover, this text in the Home 268 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:10,599 and Christian Standard Bible, the translation that I was 269 00:17:10,599 --> 00:17:14,280 reading, there was a phrase there that read like this, very 270 00:17:14,280 --> 00:17:16,440 similar, but sometimes reading something just a little 271 00:17:16,440 --> 00:17:18,280 different catches your attention. 272 00:17:18,480 --> 00:17:24,359 It says the people did not move on until Miriam was brought back 273 00:17:24,359 --> 00:17:27,200 in. It's not that it's not that 274 00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:31,720 Israel couldn't move, it's that Israel didn't move. 275 00:17:32,240 --> 00:17:36,320 I suppose the nation of Israel could have just easily moved on, 276 00:17:36,560 --> 00:17:40,320 pulled up states of their tent and went on just a little 277 00:17:40,320 --> 00:17:42,480 further. But the fact of the matter that 278 00:17:42,480 --> 00:17:46,560 the Scripture conveys us is this they didn't Rather what the 279 00:17:46,560 --> 00:17:51,560 nation did is that they waited until Miriam got back in the 280 00:17:51,560 --> 00:17:55,480 congregation. They waited until Miriam got 281 00:17:55,480 --> 00:17:59,480 back in the camp. Some picture this Amen as a 282 00:17:59,480 --> 00:18:04,440 journey that has been hindered by a pause or a stop, but I'd 283 00:18:04,440 --> 00:18:08,560 rather look at it as a people and a nation that was given some 284 00:18:08,560 --> 00:18:13,520 consideration. Given some consideration Amen to 285 00:18:13,520 --> 00:18:16,840 someone that was presently outside the camp. 286 00:18:17,120 --> 00:18:21,200 I don't know what their mindset is, but I tend to believe that 287 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:24,800 they adopted the mindset. Listen ladies and gentlemen, 288 00:18:25,120 --> 00:18:30,640 listen boys and girls. We are unwilling to leave anyone 289 00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:33,840 behind. She's she's been a leader, she's 290 00:18:33,840 --> 00:18:38,240 been a worshipper, she's been a prophetess, she's been a helper, 291 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:42,320 she's been an encourager. And I know some things went left 292 00:18:42,320 --> 00:18:45,800 and right, but I'm not willing to leave her behind. 293 00:18:45,920 --> 00:18:48,240 So we're going to tread some water right here. 294 00:18:48,440 --> 00:18:50,560 We're going to tread some ground right here. 295 00:18:50,800 --> 00:18:57,440 Hey, what? What are they doing at this 296 00:18:57,480 --> 00:18:58,360 moment in time? Think of it. 297 00:18:58,360 --> 00:19:00,520 For a moment. They are on the journey in the 298 00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:05,440 wilderness, predominantly from Egypt to the promised land, to 299 00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:08,360 the land that God said is yours, to the land God said that there 300 00:19:08,360 --> 00:19:11,240 is a rest that is awaiting you. Amen. 301 00:19:11,240 --> 00:19:12,760 There. You know what they're doing. 302 00:19:12,880 --> 00:19:17,120 They're in their mode of picking up stakes, putting them down, 303 00:19:17,280 --> 00:19:20,680 and with every trip getting a little closer to the land of 304 00:19:20,680 --> 00:19:22,680 promise. You know what they decided from 305 00:19:22,680 --> 00:19:24,760 this moment? We're going to pause here for a 306 00:19:24,760 --> 00:19:27,640 moment. Rather drawing naire to our 307 00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:29,920 intended destiny. We're going to pause here for a 308 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:33,160 moment because there's somebody that's not in the camp. 309 00:19:33,440 --> 00:19:36,960 There's somebody that used to be that's not in the camp. 310 00:19:37,160 --> 00:19:40,160 I wonder if anybody's ever got on your mind or your heart, 311 00:19:40,320 --> 00:19:43,720 Someone that used to be in the camp that isn't in the camp. 312 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:47,920 And you said, Lord, just wait a little longer, please, Jesus. 313 00:19:48,320 --> 00:19:51,440 Why? Because I have a feeling we need 314 00:19:51,440 --> 00:19:56,760 to stay right here until they return, until they come back, 315 00:19:57,040 --> 00:20:02,200 until they show back up. Someone came in. 316 00:20:03,120 --> 00:20:09,080 Yes, Miriam had misspoken. Yes, leprosy clung to her. 317 00:20:09,920 --> 00:20:12,880 But Israel was exercising compassion. 318 00:20:14,120 --> 00:20:16,960 Why? Well, number one, they should, 319 00:20:16,960 --> 00:20:19,640 but secondly. They had seen her. 320 00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:26,040 Operate in a. Leper less state and they 321 00:20:26,040 --> 00:20:30,680 resolved we're not going to go. Ahead without. 322 00:20:31,240 --> 00:20:35,000 Her let. Me ask you a question today, 323 00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:39,120 what would happen if churches refused to continue? 324 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:44,800 And to those set outside the camp were brought back in, can I 325 00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:50,520 ask you where are the errands that are beseeching and 326 00:20:50,520 --> 00:20:54,360 jockeying for a different outcome that can recognize, I 327 00:20:54,360 --> 00:20:56,960 know it was wrong. I know they're a leper. 328 00:20:57,240 --> 00:21:01,640 I know that that's their state. But does it have to be this way? 329 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:06,840 Does does it have, does this have to be the defining moment 330 00:21:07,120 --> 00:21:11,000 of their legacy? Does it Moses? 331 00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:14,040 Does she have to live a stone? She's have to. 332 00:21:14,040 --> 00:21:17,560 Does this have to be the moment? Come here. 333 00:21:17,760 --> 00:21:19,600 Do you understand? Look at your Bibles. 334 00:21:19,920 --> 00:21:24,480 Look, look at verse #13 Aaron cries out to Moses. 335 00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:33,120 Moses was the person wronged. You don't like your marriage. 336 00:21:33,120 --> 00:21:34,720 And God speaks to us just as much as you. 337 00:21:36,120 --> 00:21:39,000 Moses was the person wronged by Miriam. 338 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:44,040 But in in verse 13, what do we see Moses doing? 339 00:21:44,840 --> 00:21:48,160 He's crying out. He's praying and he's saying 340 00:21:48,520 --> 00:22:01,080 heal her now, God, heal her now. God, I beseech, see what's 341 00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:03,800 honey? The one that was even wronged 342 00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:07,240 was lifting his voice and saying, I don't want to see it 343 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:09,680 this way. God, please don't allow it to be 344 00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:13,200 this way. Heal her, change her mind, touch 345 00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:15,760 her heart, do what is ever necessary. 346 00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:18,920 So she's back in the camp. I'm here to tell you today we 347 00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:22,760 need to assume the attitude of an errand and the attitude of a 348 00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:25,120 Moses. I don't care if people's left 349 00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:28,080 and you were offended or got hurt and they're leaving or they 350 00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:31,080 were against you, you need to. I hide the heart of Moses that 351 00:22:31,080 --> 00:22:34,680 says God, I know they're a leper, but heal them. 352 00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:46,040 I know that they're a leper, but hey man. 353 00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:53,880 Someone come soak this water up off the floor when I'm all done 354 00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:59,480 and put me back together. Scholars can't be sure. 355 00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:05,280 No one can for sure whether Miriam was healed in the moment. 356 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:10,160 Nonetheless, the Bible tells us that she was set outside of the 357 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:15,080 camp for seven days. There, Terry, can I say for some 358 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:21,000 it's been seven days, for some it's been months, for some it's 359 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:24,560 been years. But the. 360 00:23:24,560 --> 00:23:28,600 Congregation still cries. Let's wait just a little longer. 361 00:23:30,760 --> 00:23:32,960 Because there's some still some. Miriam's. 362 00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:40,560 There's still some Miriam's. That's out there. 363 00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:43,720 Can I talk? Maybe even this morning he meant 364 00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:47,200 through live stream today, if there are any Merriams out there 365 00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:51,560 under the sound of my voice that may be wringing their hands in 366 00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:56,400 the isolation of their condition of leprosy, and you're walking 367 00:23:56,400 --> 00:23:58,880 back and forth and you're thinking about what you have 368 00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:01,400 done and how you would have done it differently. 369 00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:05,560 Can I tell you that while you are doing that, there ought to 370 00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:10,600 be a congregation treading the waters of time to hold back 371 00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:16,680 eternity until they return? They should be. 372 00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:23,040 And for that matter, Brother Ted, what was what was? 373 00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:25,880 What was Moses's wife's response? 374 00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:32,240 Your thought about that? What was her response? 375 00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:38,960 Was it good enough for her? I hope her fingers and legs. 376 00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:47,240 Fall off. I hope the oozing of of the. 377 00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:51,560 Body of fluids from her body and the pain is excruciating on her. 378 00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:59,560 She's got what's coming to her. What is Moses's wife, responds. 379 00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:03,280 Fact of the matter, in Scripture nothing is recorded. 380 00:25:05,360 --> 00:25:09,440 Nothing is recorded. Did she think she she? 381 00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:11,360 Just rot outside the camp for despising her. 382 00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:14,400 Nothing is recorded. Here's all I do know. 383 00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:19,800 All I know is that the people which must have. 384 00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:29,200 Included moses's wife did not journey and to Miriam was 385 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:38,600 brought. Back in do you even? 386 00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:42,080 Understand this morning that God took leprosy. 387 00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:45,480 What was? Typically a lifelong agonizing 388 00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:48,360 separation. From the camp, from the. 389 00:25:48,360 --> 00:25:49,760 House of God. From God's people. 390 00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:52,800 That was typically a lifelong. Agonizing separation until 391 00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:56,240 death. And by healing or? 392 00:25:56,240 --> 00:25:59,400 Whatever, by miracle reduced. That to a. 393 00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:04,400 Seven day exclusion. Let me tell you what that's. 394 00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:07,800 That. Is that's mercy. 395 00:26:09,120 --> 00:26:12,280 That's Grace. That's long. 396 00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:15,960 Suffering and to emulate. Him that's. 397 00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:19,280 What we've been called to do. The Bible says in second. 398 00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:21,920 Peter 3:00 and 9:00 The Lord is not slack concerning his 399 00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:24,920 promise, particularly the promise of his return, as some 400 00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:29,120 men count slackness, but is long-suffering to. 401 00:26:29,120 --> 00:26:37,480 US word not willing that huh? I know how we are. 402 00:26:39,120 --> 00:26:40,840 Sometimes I know how. I let me speak. 403 00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:44,240 For I know how I am sometimes. Serves. 404 00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:48,480 Them right I'm just being real, huh you. 405 00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:55,160 Know had a headache every. Day, but once they were outside 406 00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:57,160 the camp. Doing pretty good maybe. 407 00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:00,720 I'm too real. Here for a moment. 408 00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:07,560 But to adopt and pattern. At the Lord is he's not willing 409 00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:08,040 to. Any. 410 00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:12,240 It's a big word. 3 letters. But it's a big word. 411 00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:15,800 Any should perish. But that all should come. 412 00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:19,240 To repentance. The scripture doesn't tell us 413 00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:22,160 particularly, but we assumed then that Miriam did indeed 414 00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:27,120 repent. However, that wasn't the focus 415 00:27:27,120 --> 00:27:30,440 for this. The focus is what is highlighted 416 00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:33,560 that. Aaron grieved over her state. 417 00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:39,880 Moses interceded on her behalf, and the people took center stage 418 00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:42,480 by. Keeping the holding pattern of 419 00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:50,320 not going anywhere until she was restored, am I doing? 420 00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:53,880 OK, according to the law. In the book of Leviticus and 421 00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:55,880 folks. If I if I read every scripture I 422 00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:58,760 have tucked in here, it'd be. We. 423 00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:05,320 Would baptize Ray tonight, but according. 424 00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:10,080 To the law Leviticus 14 and 8 which this applied to man or 425 00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:14,800 woman all right concerning the law of leprosy even in leviticus 426 00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:20,800 1329 those who were cleansed of leprosy were required to. 427 00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:22,680 Shave off. All their hair. 428 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:25,040 This. Was part of the ritual. 429 00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:28,400 Are the ritual purification. Process prescribed in the law. 430 00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:31,360 Of Moses, the verse states that after they were declared. 431 00:28:31,360 --> 00:28:33,680 Clean by the priest. The person must. 432 00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:35,240 Wash their clothes. Shave. 433 00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:38,720 Off all their hair, bathe in. Water to become ceremonia clean 434 00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:43,720 again, to be introduced into the company of the congregation 435 00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:50,280 again. This is a humiliating act. 436 00:28:52,360 --> 00:29:01,480 To anyone, but particularly. Two women with long hair Miriam 437 00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:03,200 is. Permitted back into the camp. 438 00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:05,760 Just follow me. She's permitted. 439 00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:09,080 Back into the camp. But her? 440 00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:12,120 Bald head. At the initiation. 441 00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:16,520 Of her entrance back into the camp is the end sign of her 442 00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:20,760 disgrace. From what had happened, she is 443 00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:25,960 cling. She is. 444 00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:29,040 Clean. But it's going to take. 445 00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:33,400 Some time to lose? That marks, not just. 446 00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:36,680 Identify identifier of her purification, but it's also 447 00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:43,040 identifier that she had been unclean, so she has a bald head. 448 00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:47,000 She's clean upon entrance, but it's going to take some time to 449 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:51,760 lose the identity of the mark of what she had been. 450 00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:56,800 And I suspect Sister Sheila, that the congregation waited. 451 00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:02,680 For her and if they. Waited for her they they would 452 00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:08,160 also be the same ones. That regardless of the marks, 453 00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:10,680 they would be the. Ones that would welcome her. 454 00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:21,280 If you only want to. Love people. 455 00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:25,280 Whenever they reach. Your Apostolic status? 456 00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:31,600 That's not love you need. Them to walk. 457 00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:35,040 In with their bald head. You need them to. 458 00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:38,040 Walk in with the tattering of where they've been or what 459 00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:40,200 leprosy had served. Up on them and. 460 00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:43,400 Go on and pull that bald head into the embrace of your chest 461 00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:46,600 and say we're glad you're back, we're glad you're home. 462 00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:49,960 We've been waiting on you. We've been anticipating this 463 00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:53,680 moment. I don't want to, you know, wait 464 00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:56,840 past the time that they walk in and are clean and say, no, no, 465 00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:59,280 we're going to wait a little longer before we show you any 466 00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:02,720 attention or any affection. No, no, the moment that they 467 00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:06,320 walk back, they're worthy of your embrace. 468 00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:14,440 That even before they are God's love, no snow bounds. 469 00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:22,040 I got to. I got to hurry. 470 00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:23,520 Don't. Want to become one of those 471 00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:27,400 lying preachers you know? Got to hurry. 2nd Corinthians. 472 00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:29,840 Chapter #2 Go there, if you will. 473 00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:31,680 We'll go there on the screen, but you might want to go there. 474 00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:36,120 Second Corinthians chapter #2. There's some verses of. 475 00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:40,960 Scripture here that that begin around like verse #5 or so that 476 00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:43,280 the apostle. Paul and. 477 00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:50,000 The church at Corinth had dealt with a incestuous man. 478 00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:54,880 We gather this from. Paul's first letter to the to 479 00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:56,400 the book. Or to the church at. 480 00:31:56,400 --> 00:32:01,480 Corinth like in chapter #5 it kind of describes the incestuous 481 00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:04,640 relationship that a man had had among his family. 482 00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:08,280 So they had dealt. With this at Paul's. 483 00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:11,880 Direction this person and it kind of. 484 00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:13,800 Harmonizes a little. Bit with that being said, 485 00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:16,720 outside the camp they were removed. 486 00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:18,520 From. The church, and even by the. 487 00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:21,320 Church of Corinth through the direction. 488 00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:25,440 Of Paul and and the Lord. It was a collective effort, he 489 00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:28,280 said outside of the tent. But it's important. 490 00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:30,400 To know as you read through these passages. 491 00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:33,200 Please listen to me there. I feel the Holy Ghost that as 492 00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:34,520 you read. Through these passages, 493 00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:39,640 something that Paul never does. Paul never mentions the man's 494 00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:45,440 name. He only. 495 00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:49,600 Speaks of this incestuous man in soft terms. 496 00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:55,480 Like such a man. Or such a one because Paul 497 00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:58,000 understands I'm writing a letter. 498 00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:02,360 I'm putting. Pin to parchment and this is 499 00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:08,920 going to become a permanent record 0 God, I'm writing a 500 00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:12,360 letter here and this is going to be a permanent record and. 501 00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:26,760 So I'm going to. Talk, yes, maybe about the 502 00:33:26,760 --> 00:33:32,600 offense, but it's just such a one, such a man of like kind 503 00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:36,600 because future generations, I don't want them to pull up this 504 00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:39,840 permanent record. I don't want them to ever know 505 00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:43,600 the man's name. I only want them to know how 506 00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:48,520 they should respond. Watch it. 507 00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:52,720 For six, he's picking back up on the story of this incestuous 508 00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:55,960 man. He said sufficient to such. 509 00:33:55,960 --> 00:34:00,280 A man is this punishment what he was set outside the camp, so to 510 00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:03,040 speak. Which was inflicted of many why 511 00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:05,600 it was a corporate. It was a corporate. 512 00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:07,520 Doing of the Church. At Corinth. 513 00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:10,840 Inflicted by many, he was set outside this in other words, 514 00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:14,960 Paul's saying this man's. Punishment of being separated. 515 00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:23,040 Is enough. The separation is enough of a 516 00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:26,600 punishment. He was separated. 517 00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:29,080 From the congregation he was. Separated. 518 00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:32,920 From the corporate body this discipline all took place, but 519 00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:38,639 that was sufficient. Look at verse 7 so that contrary 520 00:34:38,639 --> 00:34:44,040 wise ye speaking to the Church of Corinth ought rather here's 521 00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:45,920 what he's telling. Here's you don't need to know 522 00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:48,080 his name, but this you need to know how to respond. 523 00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:55,000 He. Ought rather to forgive him and 524 00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:58,600 comfort him, lest such a one again. 525 00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:00,120 He could have named the name, but he didn't. 526 00:35:00,720 --> 00:35:04,640 Should be swallowed up with over much sorrow. 527 00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:08,080 You know what Paul's saying. That man has already suffered 528 00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:11,640 enough for his punishment. The day that the. 529 00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:15,760 Deed was done, the suffering ensued, and from that moment 530 00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:18,240 until now of him rejoining the church. 531 00:35:19,240 --> 00:35:21,440 That man. Has already went through enough. 532 00:35:21,720 --> 00:35:24,000 No one has to tell him what he did wrong. 533 00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:26,760 Nobody's got to tell him how awful it was. 534 00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:31,360 He knows he has felt that every day when he's been separated. 535 00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:33,680 No one's got to point that out, he says. 536 00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:37,600 But what we do need to do is when he's brought back among 537 00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:39,960 you, he doesn't need more punishment. 538 00:35:40,080 --> 00:35:41,880 What he he needs his forgiveness. 539 00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:45,880 What he needs is comfort. Don't let his past failures 540 00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:49,360 overtake him. You smother him with love. 541 00:35:49,720 --> 00:35:51,960 You smother him with comfort you. 542 00:35:56,840 --> 00:36:03,560 He says in verse. 8 Wherefore I beseech you, that ye confirm 543 00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:07,480 your love toward. Him. 544 00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:11,560 Somebody here this pastor? Today. 545 00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:14,160 That the church should. Discuss. 546 00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:15,960 Forgiveness more readily than they. 547 00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:22,160 Discuss faults and failures I. Want to say that? 548 00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:24,200 One more time. The church should discuss. 549 00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:26,000 Forgiveness more readily than they. 550 00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:30,960 Discuss faults and failures. What are you saying if? 551 00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:33,200 I'm putting these terms of our text and story. 552 00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:36,720 Today, don't be pointing out Miriam's bald head. 553 00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:42,720 Pull it towards you. Her consequences? 554 00:36:42,720 --> 00:36:46,840 Were sufficient. You waited for her now. 555 00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:52,120 Love her if you can stand for me. 556 00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:53,440 Today I'm hastening too close, man. 557 00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:54,760 I'm just about right on schedule. 558 00:36:55,440 --> 00:37:03,000 Whatever that means this is. Important. 559 00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:07,960 I won't hold you much longer. Youth. 560 00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:09,600 Class you probably. Hear me, you told. 561 00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:11,600 Me to give you a sign. There's your sign. 562 00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:21,000 The last recorded public event of Miriam's. 563 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:26,480 Life aside from her death. Wasn't. 564 00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:31,640 Her sin. Wasn't. 565 00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:38,440 Her being cut off wasn't. Her being ashamed the last 566 00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:40,720 recorded. Public event of Miriam's life 567 00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:42,360 was. Her. 568 00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:50,680 Being. Restored everything that's. 569 00:37:50,680 --> 00:37:54,600 Recorded about her from watching the basket of bull rushes to the 570 00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:57,160 timber on the. Dance over the Jordan to her 571 00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:01,360 failure. The last public. 572 00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:07,240 Event recorded was nothing but about her restoration. 573 00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:11,320 Galatians 6 and. One states these words many are 574 00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:14,280 familiar with. Paul speaking to the church. 575 00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:17,640 Of Galatia, he said, Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a 576 00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:20,000 fault. Ye which are. 577 00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:22,680 Spiritual and let's pause for a moment and define spiritual. 578 00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:26,400 Spiritual is not that you see angels all day and you speak in 579 00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:30,000 tongues 23 hours out 24 of the day being spiritual? 580 00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:31,240 Is this those that are spiritual? 581 00:38:31,240 --> 00:38:33,720 Are those that are filled with His spirit. 582 00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:39,480 What does that mean? That brings the bar really low. 583 00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:42,280 And then, please don't misunderstand me, that brings 584 00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:45,160 the bar. Really low for those that can be 585 00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:52,920 candidates as restorers. If you're filled. 586 00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:55,920 With his spirit. You're a candidate. 587 00:38:56,040 --> 00:38:59,760 To be a restorer to someone else, he said. 588 00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:01,320 Brethren. She said. 589 00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:05,200 If a man is overtaken in a fault, he which are. 590 00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:11,520 Spiritual restore such and. Won in the spirit of meekness. 591 00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:14,080 Now let's. Look at meekness. 592 00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:15,320 You know the Bible talks about Moses. 593 00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:18,800 Being one of the meekest. Men, meekness is not weakness. 594 00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:23,520 Meekness, in the simplest definition, is this power under 595 00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:25,960 control. You know what that. 596 00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:29,760 Means you could cut their legs out from under them. 597 00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:38,520 You could make light of the bald head of Miriam. 598 00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:42,640 You, you, you'd had the power to do that. 599 00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:45,840 But meekness says. I'm going to refrain from doing 600 00:39:45,840 --> 00:39:50,840 that. Brethren, if any man be. 601 00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:55,480 Overtaken the fault. Ye which are spiritual restore 602 00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:57,280 such a one in a spirit of meekness. 603 00:39:58,240 --> 00:40:00,280 Considering. Thyself. 604 00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:14,580 Lest thou also be tempted, Aaron impart. 605 00:40:14,580 --> 00:40:17,500 Was a part of it, but. It could have just easily. 606 00:40:17,500 --> 00:40:26,850 Been Moses. For every David that. 607 00:40:26,850 --> 00:40:28,170 Falls. There's a Solomon that will 608 00:40:28,170 --> 00:40:34,490 fall. What are you saying? 609 00:40:35,370 --> 00:40:38,880 None of us are exempt, per Southeast. 610 00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:43,280 But what we all? Need to draw. 611 00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:48,360 Comfort from is this is that. If it ever happens. 612 00:40:51,720 --> 00:40:55,000 Will there be? A group of people that says 613 00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:58,840 we're not going anywhere. We're just going to wait. 614 00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:01,720 Right here. Until. 615 00:41:01,720 --> 00:41:04,600 So and so in the Miriam's like so and so. 616 00:41:06,280 --> 00:41:11,360 Our prop back. We didn't close our eyes. 617 00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:17,400 Today admonish us today as a church, as a church family. 618 00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:21,520 Let us this morning. If we can, let's let's commit to 619 00:41:21,520 --> 00:41:25,520 creating a community, a church that mirrors God's mercy, 620 00:41:26,680 --> 00:41:31,200 mirrors his long-suffering. We. 621 00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:35,240 We need to be in a position that we're actively. 622 00:41:35,240 --> 00:41:37,000 Trying to. Restore those who have been. 623 00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:40,040 Overtaken by faults. Do that with a spirit of. 624 00:41:40,040 --> 00:41:42,840 Meekness, the spirit of humility. 625 00:41:44,560 --> 00:41:47,120 We need to be. We need to be guilty as a 626 00:41:47,120 --> 00:41:52,040 congregation, as those that not only waits for the return of the 627 00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:55,440 Merriams among us. But also embraces them 628 00:41:55,440 --> 00:41:59,960 wholeheartedly. Confirming our love, encouraging 629 00:41:59,960 --> 00:42:02,080 them on their journey back to wholeness. 630 00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:05,480 Folks, as a church family, can I challenge us today and these? 631 00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:10,720 Altars are open that as we move forward, let's ensure truly that 632 00:42:10,720 --> 00:42:14,480 we're not. Going to leave anyone behind, 633 00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:18,600 but we're going to hold on to the promise of their redeeming. 634 00:42:18,600 --> 00:42:21,200 Their redemption and their reconciliation. 635 00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:27,400 Because there's a spirit. About us that emulates the 636 00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:31,440 Spirit of our God. That says I don't want to see 637 00:42:31,440 --> 00:42:35,320 Andy perish. I don't want to see. 638 00:42:35,320 --> 00:42:38,760 Any perish this altar. Is open today. 639 00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:42,160 It's open to the camp. It's open to the congregation. 640 00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:45,240 It's open to the Miriam's. It's open to the errands. 641 00:42:45,240 --> 00:42:48,880 It's open to the Moseses, it's open to those that are stricken 642 00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:50,840 with leprosy. It's open with those that have 643 00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:54,080 just been cleansed and they had the marks of that cleansing and 644 00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:57,680 that pass upon this their life. It's all here today. 645 00:42:57,920 --> 00:43:00,400 It's all here today. We're we're not here. 646 00:43:00,520 --> 00:43:02,040 We're not going to mention the name. 647 00:43:02,160 --> 00:43:06,480 We don't want to permanently just document Amen, your offense 648 00:43:06,720 --> 00:43:11,880 with your name and put that in perpetuity, Amen, perpetual Amen 649 00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:14,720 for all generations and those to come know. 650 00:43:14,880 --> 00:43:18,600 We want to stand here, Amen alone inside our Savior and say 651 00:43:18,640 --> 00:43:22,880 that his grace is enough, His mercy is enough, and repentance 652 00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:27,560 is powerful in the life of one that desires to stop being 653 00:43:27,560 --> 00:43:31,000 separated from the camp that still would want to stop being 654 00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:36,120 separated from God's house. No one left behind. 655 00:43:36,720 --> 00:43:40,360 If there could be an errand this morning that would raise their 656 00:43:40,360 --> 00:43:45,720 voice and say, let not this come, don't let them live as a 657 00:43:45,720 --> 00:43:48,720 dead person. If there could be a Moses in the 658 00:43:48,720 --> 00:43:56,720 church house today that could say God heal them now, heal them 659 00:43:56,720 --> 00:44:01,400 now. These altars are open today. 660 00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:04,360 You can pray up here you and pray in your Pew wherever you 661 00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:06,160 had. I pray that you would be mindful 662 00:44:06,360 --> 00:44:09,400 and have a prayerful spirit. I feel the presence of the 663 00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:12,720 Master. I hear the footfall of the 664 00:44:12,720 --> 00:44:13,920 Master. Amen. 665 00:44:13,920 --> 00:44:16,440 Parading up and down these house today. 666 00:44:16,760 --> 00:44:19,760 No one left behind. We're going to wait till they 667 00:44:19,760 --> 00:44:21,440 come back. We're going to. 668 00:44:27,160 --> 00:44:28,640 I stop with this, I will shut up. 669 00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:32,360 You read throughout the old. Testament scripture that 670 00:44:32,360 --> 00:44:36,960 ofttimes in their in their journeys that even the camp only 671 00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:39,280 moved when the cloud or the presence of God moved from the 672 00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:42,120 Tabernacle and went on. If that is the case for the 673 00:44:42,120 --> 00:44:45,880 Mason. Then evidently the. 674 00:44:45,880 --> 00:44:51,240 Cloud didn't move in those seven days, which is doing nothing but 675 00:44:51,240 --> 00:44:56,400 God-given his endorsement to the waiting of the camp for the one 676 00:44:56,400 --> 00:44:59,400 that was outside the camp. And if that's something that 677 00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:02,520 God's Spirit endorses, it's something that I need to 678 00:45:02,560 --> 00:45:04,800 embrace. Hallelujah. 679 00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:08,200 Oh, can we talk to God right now, Brother Mason, you have 680 00:45:08,200 --> 00:45:10,320 something prepared. People are praying. 681 00:45:10,320 --> 00:45:14,040 People are talking to God. Hallelujah, you clean. 682 00:45:14,040 --> 00:45:17,400 Come on home. You may have the end signs Amen, 683 00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:21,320 of what was, but we've been waiting on you, and we're here 684 00:45:21,320 --> 00:45:22,400 to embrace you.