Failure to Launch
Robert Dawson
Numbers 13
I spent a fortune on a trampoline
A stationary bike and a rowing machine
Complete with gadgets to read my pulse
And gadgets to prove my progress and results
And others to show the miles I have charted
But they left out the gadget to get me started.
Sometimes we have good plans, good intentions and proper goals and we never reach them because we fail to launch. All the work, all the preparations and all the expectation and nothing - something goes wrong/malfunctions and everything goes for naught.
Today I want us to look at a group of people who 'failed to launch' and paid a high price because of it.
As we come to this text we need to remember the children of Israel had been delivered from over 400 years of bondage/slavery in Egypt a little over 2 years before and the time had come for them to enter into the Promised Land.
For the last 2 years God had been preparing the Israelites for their future. Over the last 2 years He gave them everything they would need to survive and thrive in the Promised Land and fulfill His purposes for them as a nation.
When they came out of Egypt they did not have their own identity. When they came out of Egypt they did not know who they were - in their eyes they were nobody - they did not have a distinct identity. Their identity was more Egyptian than Israelite. They had picked up on and adopted some of their customs and religious practices and thoughts.
God takes this time to teach them who they are:
1. Chosen people
2. Tells them how they should relate to Him and approach Him in worship. As God He has that right.
3. How they are to eat and care for themselves.
4. How they should govern
5. How they should relate to other nations
All of that was designed to establish themselves as God's people - distinct - separate - and holy- and God had a special purpose for them.
By this point God had provided them with a legal code, ethical code, a government and ...
Robert Dawson
Numbers 13
I spent a fortune on a trampoline
A stationary bike and a rowing machine
Complete with gadgets to read my pulse
And gadgets to prove my progress and results
And others to show the miles I have charted
But they left out the gadget to get me started.
Sometimes we have good plans, good intentions and proper goals and we never reach them because we fail to launch. All the work, all the preparations and all the expectation and nothing - something goes wrong/malfunctions and everything goes for naught.
Today I want us to look at a group of people who 'failed to launch' and paid a high price because of it.
As we come to this text we need to remember the children of Israel had been delivered from over 400 years of bondage/slavery in Egypt a little over 2 years before and the time had come for them to enter into the Promised Land.
For the last 2 years God had been preparing the Israelites for their future. Over the last 2 years He gave them everything they would need to survive and thrive in the Promised Land and fulfill His purposes for them as a nation.
When they came out of Egypt they did not have their own identity. When they came out of Egypt they did not know who they were - in their eyes they were nobody - they did not have a distinct identity. Their identity was more Egyptian than Israelite. They had picked up on and adopted some of their customs and religious practices and thoughts.
God takes this time to teach them who they are:
1. Chosen people
2. Tells them how they should relate to Him and approach Him in worship. As God He has that right.
3. How they are to eat and care for themselves.
4. How they should govern
5. How they should relate to other nations
All of that was designed to establish themselves as God's people - distinct - separate - and holy- and God had a special purpose for them.
By this point God had provided them with a legal code, ethical code, a government and ...
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