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Kadesh Barnea

The Results of Unbelief Among the Children of God

Remember Kadesh Barnea!

• The story of what happened at Kadesh Barnea is one of the saddest events we read about in the scriptures.

• Before we get into the details of that story, I want to bring out a couple of principles that are taught in the New Testament.

• The claim is often made against members of the Church of Christ that we don’t believe the Old Testament.

• Nothing could be further from the truth!

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• As Christians we must believe the entire Bible

• But we must also rightly divide it!

• None of the Laws given in the Law of Moses apply to us today, including the Ten Commandments.• Ro 10:4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to

everyone who believes.

• We are accountable to the Law of Christ today• Ga 6:2 Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of

Christ.


• Just because we do not believe we are accountable to those Old Testament Laws does not mean we cannot learn from their examples.• Ro 15:4 For whatever things were written before were

written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.

• There are many valuable lessons to be learned from the Old Testament!

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• Many of the things in the Old Testament were symbolic of things that would take place in the New Testament.

• For Example: the sacrifices under the Law of Moses were a shadow of or symbolic of the sacrifice of Christ.• Heb 10:1 ¶ For the law, having a shadow of the good things

to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with these same sacrifices, which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach perfect.


• Noah and his family being saved by water was a symbolic of the Christian being saved by baptism.• 1Pe 3:20 who formerly were disobedient, when once the

Divine longsuffering waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.

• 21 ¶ There is also an antitype which now saves us--baptism (not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God), through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

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• There is another of these symbols, shadows or like images we want to discuss today.

• The Children of Israel wandering in the Wilderness is symbolic of the Church today.• 1Co 10:1 ¶ Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye

should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

• 2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;


• 1Co 10:3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat;

• 4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.

• 5 But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

• What these Israelites did is strikingly similar to what we do in order to become a Christian today.

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Children of Israel

IN BONDAGETo the Egyptians

FREEFrom the Egyptians

Man

IN BONDAGETo Sin

FREEFrom Sin

Church of Christ

Church in Wilderness


• Steven refers to the Israelites while the were wandering in the wilderness for 40 years as the Church in the wilderness• Ac 7:38 This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness

with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:

• They looked for their “Promised Land” which was the land of Canaan.

• We look for our “Promised Land” which is Heaven

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• Now I want to take a look at what happened to many of those members of the “Church in the Wilderness” because of their unbelief.

• First lets get a little background on the situation the Children of Israel were in.

• After the death of Joseph the Egyptians put them in bondage.

• God decided to send Moses back into Egypt to bring His people out.


• Because of Pharaoh’s refusal to let the people of Israel go, God sent the 10 plagues on Egypt

• These plagues culminated with the death of all the first born in Egypt

• After this Pharoah let them go. But he soon changed his mind and sent his army after the Israelites.

• It was at this time that God parted the Red Sea in order to deliver the Israelites from the Egyptians.

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• After crossing the Red Sea the Israelites went to Mt Sinai. Where they witnessed the thundering, lightning and smoke on the mountain.

• God gave them water to drink from a rock

• He fed them with manna

• These Israelites had witnessed many powerful miracles performed by the hand of God!


• After they left Mt Sinai, they came to a place called Kadesh Barnea.

• It was on the border of the southern end of the “Land of Promise”.

• They arrived here approximately 2 years after leaving Egypt.

• It was from here that Moses sent the 12 spies into the land.

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• Nu 13:17 Then Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, "Go up this way into the South, and go up to the mountains,

• 18 "and see what the land is like: whether the people who dwell in it are strong or weak, few or many;

• 19 "whether the land they dwell in is good or bad; whether the cities they inhabit are like camps or strongholds;

• 20 "whether the land is rich or poor; and whether there are forests there or not. Be of good courage. And bring some of the fruit of the land." Now the time was the season of the first ripe grapes.


• Nu 13:21 ¶ So they went up and spied out the land from the Wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, near the entrance of Hamath.

• 22 And they went up through the South and came to Hebron; Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

• 23 Then they came to the Valley of Eshcol, and there cut down a branch with one cluster of grapes; they carried it between two of them on a pole. They also brought some of the pomegranates and figs.

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• Nu 13:24 The place was called the Valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the men of Israel cut down there.

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

• 26 ¶ Now they departed and came back to Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the children of Israel in the Wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh; they brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.


• Nu 13:27 Then they told him, and said: "We went to the land where you sent us. It truly flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.

• 28 "Nevertheless the people who dwell in the land are strong; the cities are fortified and very large; moreover we saw the descendants of Anak there.

• 29 "The Amalekites dwell in the land of the South; the Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the mountains; and the Canaanites dwell by the sea and along the banks of the Jordan."

• 30 Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, "Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it."

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• Nu 13:31 But the men who had gone up with him said, "We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we."

• 32 And they gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, "The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature.

• 33 "There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anakcame from the giants); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight."


• The response to this report by the members of this Church in the Wilderness is what is so sad.

• Nu 14:1 ¶ So all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the people wept that night.

• 2 And all the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, "If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we had died in this wilderness!

• 3 "Why has the LORD brought us to this land to fall by the sword, that our wives and children should become victims? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?"

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• They actually accused God of bringing them to this land to be killed.

• After seeing God’s deliverance from Egypt and all the miracles he had performed, how could they think such a thing?

• Nu 14:4 So they said to one another, "Let us select a leader and return to Egypt."

• 5 ¶ Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.


• Nu 14:6 But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes;

• 7 and they spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying: "The land we passed through to spy out is an exceedingly good land.

• 8 "If the LORD delights in us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us, 'a land which flows with milk and honey.'

• 9 "Only do not rebel against the LORD, nor fear the people of the land, for they are our bread; their protection has departed from them, and the LORD is with us. Do not fear them."

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• Even after the pleading of Joshua and Caleb. The people were still determined not to go into the land. Instead they thought it was a good idea to stone Joshua and Caleb.

• Nu 14:10 And all the congregation said to stone them with stones. Now the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of meeting before all the children of Israel.

• 11 ¶ Then the LORD said to Moses: "How long will these people reject Me? And how long will they not believe Me, with all the signs which I have performed among them?


• Moses had to plead with God to keep Him from destroying the Israelites completely.

• God did still bring a severe judgment on them.

• Nu 14:22 "because all these men who have seen My glory and the signs which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have put Me to the test now these ten times, and have not heeded My voice,

• 23 "they certainly shall not see the land of which I swore to their fathers, nor shall any of those who rejected Me see it.

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• Nu 14:29 'The carcasses of you who have complained against Me shall fall in this wilderness, all of you who were numbered, according to your entire number, from twenty years old and above.

• 30 'Except for Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun, you shall by no means enter the land which I swore I would make you dwell in.

• 31 'But your little ones, whom you said would be victims, I will bring in, and they shall know the land which you have despised.

• 32 'But as for you, your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness.


• When the Israelites were numbered after coming out of Egypt there were 603,550 fighting men Twenty years old and above.

• ONLY 2 of them made it into the promised land!

• Of the group of adults that had been baptized unto Moses in the Red Sea and had been a part of the “Church in the Wilderness” only two made it into the promised land.

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• Why? Because they did not believe God!

• What does that tell us today?

• Not everyone who has been baptized and is a “member of the Church” is going to make it into the “Promised Land”.

• Contrary to what many believe, we can loose our souls salvation.

• This is why we are warned time and time again to be faithful til the end in the New Testament.


• This is the reason Paul brought up the wandering in the wilderness we read about in 1 Corinthians 10.

• 1Co 10:6 ¶ Now these things became our examples, to the intent that we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted.

• 7 And do not become idolaters as were some of them. As it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play."

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• 1Co 10:8 Nor let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell;

• 9 nor let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed by serpents;

• 10 nor complain, as some of them also complained, and were destroyed by the destroyer.

• 11 Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.


• What lesson can we learn from their example?

• If we don’t obey we will be destroyed! Spiritually

• 1Pe 4:17 For the time has come for judgment to begin at the house of God; and if it begins with us first, what will be the end of those who do not obey the gospel of God?

• 18 Now "If the righteous one is scarcely saved, Where will the ungodly and the sinner appear?"

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Conclusion

• That should be a thought that strikes fear into our heart

• The righteous will be scarcely saved!

• We need to be doing everything possible to obey God.

• Don’t think anything that God has told us to do is to hard!

• Don’t let anyone convince you that once you become a Christian you have got it made!

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