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Listen Carefully

- Num. 20:1-13

Ex. 17:1-7 Num. 20:1-13No water for the people to drink (17:1)

Ex. 17:1-7 Num. 20:1-13No water for the people to drink (17:1) The water for the people to drink (20:2)

Ex. 17:1-7 Num. 20:1-13No water for the people to drink (17:1) The water for the people to drink (20:2)The people complained against Moses

(17:2)


(17:2)The people complained against Aaron and

Moses (20:2)



Moses (20:2)People complain that it would have been

better to remain in Egypt than to be brought out into the wilderness to die

(17:3)





(17:3)

People complain that it would have been better to remain in Egypt than to be

brought out into the wilderness to die (20:4-5)





(17:3)



Moses calls upon the Lord (17:4)





(17:3)



Moses calls upon the Lord (17:4) Moses and Aaron call on the Lord (20:6)





(17:3)



Moses calls upon the Lord (17:4) Moses and Aaron call on the Lord (20:6)Commanded to gather the Elders and

people together (17:5)





(17:3)




people together (17:5)Commanded together the people

together (20:8)





(17:3)





together (20:8)Moses was told to bring his rod (17:5)





(17:3)





together (20:8)Moses was told to bring his rod (17:5) Moses was told to bring his rod (20:8)





(17:3)






Told to STRIKE the rock (17:6)





(17:3)






Told to STRIKE the rock (17:6) Told to SPEAK to the rock (20:8)





(17:3)






Told to STRIKE the rock (17:6) Told to SPEAK to the rock (20:8)The rock would yield water for drinking

(17:6)





(17:3)







(17:6)The rock would yield water for drinking

(17:6)





(17:3)








(17:6)

Result: ObediencePeople receive water (17:6)





(17:3)








(17:6)

Result: Obedience Result: DisobediencePeople receive water (17:6) People receive water; Moses and Aaron

are forbidden from leading the people into the Promised Land

(20:12)

Listen Carefully!• A. Saul did not listen carefully!

(1 Samuel 15:1-3) Samuel also said to Saul, "The LORD sent me to anoint

you king over His people, over Israel. Now therefore, heed the voice of the words of the LORD. "Thus says the LORD of hosts: 'I will punish Amalek for what he

did to Israel, how he ambushed him on the way when he came up from Egypt. 'Now go and attack Amalek,

and utterly destroy all that they have, and do not spare them. But kill both man and woman, infant and

nursing child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.'"


(1 Samuel 15:8-9) He also took Agag king of the Amalekites alive,

and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword. But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep, the

oxen, the fatlings, the lambs, and all that was good, and were unwilling to utterly destroy

them. But everything despised and worthless, that they utterly destroyed.


(1 Samuel 15:10-11) Now the word of the LORD came to Samuel,

saying, "I greatly regret that I have set up Saul as king, for he has turned back from following Me, and has not performed My

commandments." And it grieved Samuel, and he cried out to the LORD all night.


(1 Samuel 15:13) Then Samuel went to Saul, and Saul said to

him, "Blessed are you of the LORD! I have performed the commandment of the LORD."

(NKJV)


(1 Samuel 15:15) And Saul said, "They have brought them from

the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and the oxen, to sacrifice to

the LORD your God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed." (NKJV)


(1 Samuel 15:22) Then Samuel said: "Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, As in

obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, And to heed

than the fat of rams. (NKJV)


(1 Samuel 15:23) For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, And

stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, He also has rejected you from being

king." (NKJV)

Listen Carefully!• B. The Israelites did not listen carefully!

(Exodus 25:13-14) "And you shall make poles of acacia wood, and

overlay them with gold. "You shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark,

that the ark may be carried by them.”


(2 Samuel 6:3-7) So they set the ark of God on a new cart, and brought it out of the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill; and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drove the new cart. And they brought

it out of the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill, accompanying the ark of God; and Ahio went

before the ark. Then David and all the house of Israel played music before the LORD on all kinds

of instruments of fir wood, on harps, on…


…stringed instruments, on tambourines, on sistrums, and on cymbals. And when they

came to Nachon's threshing floor, Uzzah put out his hand to the ark of God and took hold of it, for the oxen stumbled. Then the anger of the LORD was aroused against Uzzah, and

God struck him there for his error; and he died there by the ark of God.


(1 Chronicles 15:13) "For because you did not do it the first time,

the LORD our God broke out against us, because we did not consult Him about the

proper order."

Listen Carefully!• C. Nadab & Abihu didn’t listen carefully!

(Leviticus 10:1-3) Then Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took

his censer and put fire in it, put incense on it, and offered profane fire before the LORD, which He had

not commanded them. So fire went out from the LORD and devoured them, and they died before the LORD. And Moses said to Aaron, "This is what the

LORD spoke, saying: 'By those who come near Me I must be regarded as holy; And before all the people I must be glorified.'" So Aaron held his peace. (NKJV)

Listen Carefully!• God demands strict obedience.

(Deuteronomy 4:2) "You shall not add to the word which I

command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your

God which I command you. (NKJV)


(Deuteronomy 5:32) "Therefore you shall be careful to do as the

LORD your God has commanded you; you shall not turn aside to the right hand or to

the left. (NKJV)


God commanded Moses to build the tabernacle and all that was in it…

“…according to the pattern which was shown you on the mountain.” (Ac. 25:40)


(Exodus 40:16) Thus Moses did; according to all that the LORD

had commanded him, so he did. (NKJV)


(2 Timothy 4:3-4) For the time will come when they will not

endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. (NKJV)


(Matthew 7:21-23) "Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. "Many will say to Me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in

Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?' "And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart

from Me, you who practice lawlessness!' (NKJV)

Hear The Word of God (Mat. 7:24-27)

Believe in Jesus (Mark 16:15-16)

Confess With Your Mouth - (James 5:16)

Repent of Your Sins (Luke 13:5)

Be Baptized (1 Peter 3:21)

Live Faithfully ‘Till DeathColossians 1:22-23

Revelation 2:10

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