Numbers chapter 14, Numbers chapter 14, and for those of us who love to study the

Bible, today we'll park at Numbers chapter 14, but I'll make reference to

Numbers chapter 20, I'll make reference to Numbers chapter 11, I'll also make

reference to Deuteronomy chapter 23, and Nehemiah chapter 13 verses 1, 2, and 3.

But we park at Numbers chapter 14 because it houses the message that God has for

us on today for our exit strategies series. Oh, we gon' hit y'all from every

angle. There you'll find words similar to these. Then the whole community, not

part, not some, not a few, but the entire community, the Bible says, began

weeping aloud, and they cried all night long. Their voices rose in a great

chorus of protest. Against Moses and Aaron, if only we had died in Egypt, or even

here in the wilderness, they complained. Why has the Lord taken us to this

country only to have us die in battle? Our wives and our little ones will be

carried off as plunder. I need y'all to pay attention. Wouldn't it be better for

us to return to bondage? Then they plotted among themselves, let us choose a

new leader who will lead us back into bondage. He reading verse 26, it says,

then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, this gets good. How long must I put up

with this wicked community and its complaints about me? Yes, I have heard, I'm

gonna say that one more time. Yes, I have heard. This is God talking to Moses and

Aaron. Yes, I have heard the complaints that Israel

lights are making against me. Now tell them this. I don't want y'all to miss this.

Tell them this. As surely as I live declares the Lord, I will do to you the very

things I heard you say. You all will drop dead in the wilderness because you

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