Sermon Notes

The Ultimate Service

Then Moses summoned Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel, "Be strong and courageous, for you shall go with this people into the land that the LORD has sworn to their fathers to give them, and you shall put them in possession of it.” Deuteronomy 31:7 ESV

Moses’ work as God’s servant is over. The ultimate servant for the Ultimate God, for the Ultimate purpose.

27 "How long will these sinful people speak against Me? I have heard the people of Israel complaining against Me.33 Your children will be shepherds in the desert for forty years. They will suffer because you were not faithful, until your dead bodies lie in the desert. 34 You spied out the land for forty days. For each day you will carry your guilt a year, forty years. And you will know that I am against you. 35 I the Lord have spoken. For sure I will do this to all these sinful people who are gathered together against Me. They will be destroyed in this desert. And there they will die.' " Numbers 14:27,33-35 NLV

Read: Deuteronomy 32:48-52; 34:1-12

Serve The Lord and Give Your Best

* there are so many discouragement's in the desert we sometimes

turn our focus from God to the surroundings as Israel did

* failure to live in God’s way results in delay or/ total loss of His blessing

* Moses is described as being a friend of God- he spoke face to

face with God! No man has done that since

* However, God disciplined His friend Moses severely- Why?

Numbers 20:7-12 lack of faith and disobedience

John 15:14-16 we are counted as friends of Jesus Christ

* living close to God, we can sense His presence carrying us through

* Moses was in God’s presence when he was up on the Mountain

* the problems for Moses came when he was on the desert floor

v5. after his death, Moses was given the title “The Servant of The Lord”

Joshua 1:1,13; 2 Kings 18:12 (17 times in all)

* Moses was the Founder, Historian, and Lawgiver of Israel-

* he appointed Judges,- and served God through the trivial and

slavery in Egypt and in the exodus of the children of Israel

* when he knew his death was imminent, he asked God to appoint

someone who would take his place and lead the children over

v.9 because Moses laid his hands upon Joshua and prayed, God

filled Joshua with the spirit of wisdom

* Moses’ life and work did not end with his death; Joshua picked

up where Moses left off and finished what God had intended