Moses possesses a singular place with God. The facts regarding this man speak very favorably and reveal many good traits.

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Moses - Refused Entrance

• Moses possesses a singular place with God. The
  facts regarding this man speak very favorably and
  reveal many good traits.

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• 10 And there arose not a prophet since in
  Israel like unto Moses, whom the LORD knew face
  to face. (Deut. 34).
• 22 For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A
  prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you
  of your brethren, like unto me him shall ye hear
  in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you.
• 23 And it shall come to pass, that every soul,
  which will not hear that prophet, shall be
  destroyed from among the people (Acts 3).

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• 24 By faith Moses, when he was come to years,
  refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's
  daughter
• 25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the
  people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin
  for a season
• 26 Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater
  riches than the treasures in Egypt for he had
  respect unto the recompence of the reward.
• 27 By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the
  wrath of the king for he endured, as seeing him
  who is invisible.
• 28 Through faith he kept the passover, and the
  sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the
  firstborn should touch them (Heb. 11).

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Moses - Refused Entrance

• Moses is seen as special from the very beginning.

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• 23 By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid
  three months of his parents, because they saw he
  was a proper child and they were not afraid of
  the king's commandment (Heb. 11, cp. Ex. 1).

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Moses - Refused Entrance

• God miraculously expressed his approval of Moses
  and commissioned him to free His people.

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• 4 And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to
  see, God called unto him out of the midst of the
  bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here
  am I.
• 5 And he said, Draw not nigh hither put off thy
  shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon
  thou standest is holy ground.
• 6 Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father,
  the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God
  of Jacob. And Moses hid his face for he was
  afraid to look upon God.
• 7 And the LORD said, I have surely seen the
  affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and
  have heard their cry by reason of their
  taskmasters for I know their sorrows
• 8 And I am come down to deliver them out of the
  hand of the Egyptians.,
• 9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children
  of Israel is come unto me and I have also seen
  the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress
  them.
• 10 Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto
  Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people
  the children of Israel out of Egypt (Ex. 3).

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Moses - Refused Entrance

• Moses climbed to the top of Mount Nebo and stood
  alone upon the height and looked at the land of
  promise. Far in the north, he could see the
  white crown of Mt. Hermon, far below the river
  Jordon was winding it away to the dead sea.
  Across the river, at the foot of the mountains,
  was standing the city of Jericho. Here, on top
  of Mt. Nebo, Moses died.

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• 1 And Moses went up from the plains of Moab
  unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah,
  that is over against Jericho. And the LORD
  shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan,
• 2 And all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and
  Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto the
  utmost sea,
• 3 And the south, and the plain of the valley of
  Jericho, the city of palm trees, unto Zoar.
• 4 And the LORD said unto him, This is the land
  which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto
  Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed I
  have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but
  thou shalt not go over thither.
• 5 So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in
  the land of Moab, according to the word of the
  LORD (Deut. 34).

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Moses - Refused Entrance

• Why was Moses not allowed entrance into the
  promised land? Did he commit wanton murder,
  steal a vast amount, or cursed God? What
  terrible sin could have prevented his entrance?

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• 48 And the LORD spake unto Moses that selfsame
  day, saying
• 49 Get thee up into this mountain Abarim, unto
  mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is
  over against Jericho and behold the land of
  Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel
  for a possession
• 50 And die in the mount whither thou goest up,
  and be gathered unto thy people as Aaron thy
  brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered unto
  his people
• 51 Because ye trespassed against me among the
  children of Israel at the waters of
  Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin because
  ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children
  of Israel.
• 52 Yet thou shalt see the land before thee but
  thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I
  give the children of Israel (Deut. 32).

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• 7 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
• 8 Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly
  together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak
  ye unto the rock before their eyes and it shall
  give forth his water, and thou shalt bring forth
  to them water out of the rock so thou shalt give
  the congregation and their beasts drink.
• 9 And Moses took the rod from before the LORD,
  as he commanded him.
• 10 And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation
  together before the rock, and he said unto them,
  Hear now, ye rebels must we fetch you water out
  of this rock?
• 11 And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his
  rod he smote the rock twice and the water came
  out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and
  their beasts also.
• 12 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron,
  Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the
  eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye
  shall not bring this congregation into the land
  which I have given them (Num. 20).

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Moses - Refused Entrance

• Wherein was Moses sin?

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Moses - Refused Entrance

• Moses lost his temper and in the irritation of
  the moment, spake and acted in such a way and in
  such a spirit as to dishonor his Master and to
  impair the good effect of Divine beneficence. It
  is quite likely that the repeated striking of the
  rock was one sign of the anger to which Moses
  gave waythat he called the people rebels was
  unseemly. Not because it was an uncalled-for
  term of reproach, but because he himself was at
  that very moment a rebel, and disloyal in heart
  to his Master (The Pulpit Commentary).

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Moses - Refused Entrance

• God was explicit and Moses elected to not submit
  to Gods authority. Hence, the lesson is one of
  authority. Also, Moses sin was public and
  demanded serious attention and penalty (cp. Gal.
  2 11-14).

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• 11 If any man speak, let him speak as the
  oracles of God if any man minister, let him do
  it as of the ability which God giveth that God
  in all things may be glorified through Jesus
  Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever
  and ever (I Pet. 4).
• 9 Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in
  the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that
  abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both
  the Father and the Son.
• 10 If there come any unto you, and bring not
  this doctrine, receive him not into your house,
  neither bid him God speed
• 11 For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker
  of his evil deeds (2 John).

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Moses - Refused Entrance

• 1. Acts 15 19, 20.

Express command
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• 19 Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble
  not them, which from among the Gentiles are
  turned to God
• 20 But that we write unto them, that they
  abstain from pollutions of idols, and from
  fornication, and from things strangled, and from
  blood (Acts 15).

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Moses - Refused Entrance

• 1. Acts 15 9, 12.

Approved example
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• 9 And put no difference between us and them,
  purifying their hearts by faith..
• 12 Then all the multitude kept silence, and gave
  audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what
  miracles and wonders God had wrought among the
  Gentiles by them (Acts 15).

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Moses - Refused Entrance

• 1. Acts 15 8.

Necessary inference
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• 8 And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them
  witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he
  did unto us.. (Acts 15).

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Moses - Refused Entrance

• The things written aforetime were written for our
  learning (Rom. 15 4). Let us, therefore, learn
  the lesson of authority and submission to that
  expressed authority.