Breathing Lessons for the Dead

1
Breathing Lessons for the Dead

• Heading for
• the Promised Land

2
The Perfect Religion A Demonstration of Gods
Nature to the World through a Nation

• Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant,
  then out of all nations you will be my treasured
  possession. Although the whole earth is mine,
  you will be for me a kingdom of priests and a
  holy nation. Exodus 195-6

3
The Law and Lawgiver for the Perfect Religion

• If you break one of the covenant commandments you
  are violating the original design specifications
  and you are betraying the relationship with the
  Designer!
• Keep the covenant commandments and you get a
  triple blessing Gods provision, protection and
  presence!

4
First Violation of the Covenant

• Worshipping the Golden Calf.
• "I have seen these people," the Lord said to
  Moses, "and they are a stiff-necked people. Now
  leave me alone so that my anger may burn against
  them and that I may destroy them. Then I will
  make you into a great nation." Exodus 329-10

5
Gods Presence

• If Your Presence does not go with us, do not
  send us up from here. How will anyone know that
  You are pleased with me and with your people
  unless You go with us? What else will
  distinguish me and your people from all the other
  people on the face of the earth? Exodus
  3315-16.

6
First Crack at the Promised Land

• That night all the people of the community
  raised their voices and wept aloud. All the
  Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and
  the whole assembly said, If only we had died in
  Egypt! Or in this desert! Why is the Lord
  bringing us to this land only to let us fall by
  the sword? Our wives and children will be taken
  as plunder. Wouldnt it be better for us to go
  back to Egypt? And they said to each other, We
  should choose a leader and go back to Egypt.
  Numbers 141-4

7
40 Years Wandering in the Wilderness

• I have forgiven them, as you asked.
  Nevertheless, as surely as I live and as surely
  as the glory of the LORD fills the whole earth,
  not one of the men who saw my glory and the
  miraculous signs I performed in Egypt and in the
  desert but who disobeyed me and tested me ten
  times, not one of them will ever see the land I
  promised on oath to their forefathers. In this
  desert your bodies will fall, everyone of you 20
  years old or more. I will bring (your children)
  into enjoy the promised land you have rejected.
  Numbers 1420-35

8
Into the Promised Land

• As I was with Moses, so I will be with you I
  will never leave you nor forsake you. Be strong
  and courageous, because you will lead these
  people to inherit the land I swore to their
  forefathers to give them.
• Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your
  mouth meditate on it day and night so that you
  may be careful to do everything written in it.
  Then you will be prosperous and successful.
  Joshua 15-9