Kadesh Barnea

Numbers 13:1-20

• Twelve Spies sent out at Israel’s request

(Deuteronomy 1:22, 23)• 22 “And every one of you came near to me and

said, ‘Let us send men before us, and let them search out the land for us, and bring back word to us of the way by which we should go up, and of the cities into which we shall come.’

• 23 “The plan pleased me well; so I took twelve of your men, one man from each tribe.

12 Spies

Reuben, Shammua Simeon, Shaphat Judah, Caleb Issachar, Igal Ephraim, HosheaBenjamin, Palti

Zebulun, Gaddiel Manasseh, Gaddi

Dan, Ammiel Asher, Sethur

Naphtali, Nahbi Gad, Geuel

Numbers 13:16

• These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun, Joshua.

Numbers 13:16

• These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun, Joshua.

• Hoshea means “Salvation”

• Joshua means “The LORD is Salvation.”

Mission

• What is the land like?

• What are the people like?

• Is the land fertile?

Numbers 13:25

• And they returned from spying out the land after forty days.

Numbers 13:21-29

• A land of good produce

• Giants

• Cities

Numbers 13:30-33

• Ten Spies NO

Numbers 13:30-33

• Ten Spies NO

• Caleb & Joshua YES

Numbers 14:1-4

• Fear and Disobedience

Hebrews 3:12

Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God;

Numbers 14:5-10

Joshua & Caleb exhort the people to believe God and go and take the land.

Numbers 14:11-19

• Moses mediation… obstinate unbelief

Numbers 14:33

•  And your sons shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years, and bear the brunt of your infidelity, until your carcasses are consumed in the wilderness.

Numbers 14:30-35

Only Joshua & Caleb and those under age 20 to enter the land

Numbers 14:36-38

• Ten spies who doubted God perish in a plague

Numbers 14:39-44

• People go against God’s will.

• Attempt to enter the land

Number 14:45

• Disobedient are defeated.

Kadesh Barnea

Kadesh Barnea

• Place of choice

• Place of turning point

• Place of departure

Our Kadesh

Our Kadesh

• What Way do we choose.

Our Kadesh

• Belief in God or is it unbelief

John 3:16

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

The Lord is My Shepherd

THE LORD'S MY SHEPHERD, I'll not want. He makes me lie in pastures green.He leads me by the still, still waters,His goodness restores my soul.

And I will trust in You alone.And I will trust in You alone,For Your endless mercy follows me,Your goodness will lead me home.