Struck (Numbers 20:1-13)

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Good morning, church. Thank you, Kyle, as he said, my name is Shane, and it’s my honor to open the Word of God with you this morning. Yes, if you’ve been here before, you know, there are often props and different things that come with it when I stand here, so yes, you did see something, we’ll get to it in a minute. Open your Bibles with me if you would, please to Numbers, chapter 20. Numbers chapter 20. If you’re using a Pew Bible in front of you, that would be on page 123. Again, also, if you’re using that pew Bible in front of you, please feel free if you don’t have a Bible of your own to make it your own, and take it with you after the service. Now, while you guys are getting find in numbers, just don’t mind me, I’m gonna take a couple of moments to make sure my swing is still locked in weather might not look good and promising for golf today. But I have a round coming up that I want to make sure that I’m ready for. So I gotta remember, when I golf, don’t stand too close. Don’t stand too far, that I keep my head down. That’s the big, big thing. So beautiful, right down the middle. If only you could see what I’m seeing right down the middle, next to the next to the pin. We’ll be knocking that in for birdie. But in all seriousness, I have this golf club with me and one of the hobbies that I’ve gained interest in over the last few years is golfing. Now you would think because I’ve gained interest in it means that I’m good. I have people in the audience this morning who can attest, I am not a great golfer. I even have someone in the audience who has been my free Swing Coach who can really attest, I am not a great golfer. And why am I not a great golfer because I don’t consistently do what I’m supposed to do. As I was saying I’m lining up by making sure I don’t want to be too close to the ball too far for the ball and make sure everything’s working the way that should be want to go up nice and come through. And when I do that, beautiful things happen. The ball goes where I want it to. And the end result is that I’m happy with my round of golf instead of upset. But, and as Lee can attest what happens more times than not when I get behind the golf ball the swing, it’s not the perfect swing. Instead, what happens is some sort of version of as I swing my head, goes every which way and I miss or even sometimes worse, my head goes every which way and I hit the top of the ball, and it goes into the grass and not very far. I am not a great golfer and I’m not a great golfer because I often find myself doing things that I shouldn’t be when I have a golf club in my hand. But I’m willing to bet that I’m not the only one in the room who has situations like this in his life. Maybe it’s not golf, maybe it’s not a sport. But maybe as we look at our own lives, we can diagnose and say, hey, you know, there are areas of my life where I just keep making the same mistake over and over and over again, it might be being paralyzed by over thinking it might be being hesitant to take a step out in faith, it might be just as simple as not willing to be obedient. And so maybe you’re like me with the golf game more mistakes than not or maybe you know people in your life, whether it’s your children or relationships that you have friends that you have that you see that so often they just find themselves in positions where they’re making a mistake over and over and over again. Well, we’re not alone. At least I know that I’m not alone in my golf mistake. I’m not alone in the mistakes that I make in my life because the passage we’re going to be looking at this morning, from the book of Numbers chronicles a mistake in the life and history of the nation of Israel. Do you know anything about the Bible? You know, the Old Testament does a great job of making sure that we see and have on full display the mistakes that the nation made throughout its life and existence. And what’s happening here this morning is no different. See, because the nation finds itself in this vicious cycle that they just can’t seem to break. What happens they find themselves in an impossible situation. God comes in and miraculously creates a way for them to be free, released or provided for but then some time goes by and they forget what happened. And rather than be thankful they begin to complain again. It’s kind of like as the great theologian and 11 time world series champion Yankee catcher Yogi Berra once said, deja vu all over again. And so this morning, what we’re going to do He was going to take a look at one of these deja vu all over again moments to see in the nation of Israel. What can we learn what results from this moment and it’s my hope that as we look at the nation, we can look at ourselves and see the same hope that exists in our passage exists for us today. So that’s why we’ll be looking at numbers 20, verses one through 13. Now, at the onset, if you’re someone who likes to take notes, jot this down with me, our big idea that we’re going to be focusing on this morning is the truth and reality that God always provides. Again, God always provides, and on the surface that may be difficult for some of us to hear this morning and agree with Sure, there are some of us who are in the room who will agree that, yes, God will provide because of course he will. He is God, and he always provides but this morning, if we’re honest, that might not be everyone. Maybe you’re here this morning, and you’re having a hard time seeing, or exactly remembering how God has shown this truth to be real in your life. Maybe you’ve made your way into church this morning, or you’re listening online, and it’s really difficult to see the provision of the Lord. You might be experiencing a transition at a job or relationship that you’d come to rely upon and find identity and has been uprooted. Or honestly you just find yourself in a place where all you can see is need. So it’s my sincere hope. It’s my earnest prayer. And it has been as I’ve been preparing for this that this morning, the Lord would use this portion of Scripture and the nation of Israel to help cement this reality in our lives today. God always provides. Now we’re going to see this truth unfold across three short scenes in our text this morning, you should be open to numbers 20. Now I finally found myself there as well. We’re going to look here at the first section and seen that we’re calling the community grumbles numbers 20 verses one through five Read with me if you would. In the first month, the whole Israelite community arrived at the desert of Zen. And they stayed at kiddish. There Miriam died and was buried. Now there was no water for the community. And the people gathered in opposition to Moses and Aaron. They quarrel with Moses and said, If only we had died when our brothers fell dead before the Lord, why did you bring the Lord’s community into this wilderness that we and our livestock should die here? Why did you bring us up out of Egypt to this terrible place, for it has no grain or figs, grape vines or pomegranates and there is no water to drink. We look at our opening scene, we see that the community grumbles. Now, our text opens up with the people of God, and they found themselves in the community of Kadesh. And I think it’s important for us to remind ourselves that we’re jumping into the midst of a story here, not finding ourselves at the beginning. This isn’t a fairy tale moment where it’s once upon a time the nation of Israel happened to find themselves in the nation of Kadesh. No, instead, this is we’ve jumped in, in the midst of a really, really long time of wandering, and wandering. It hasn’t been just a few moments. In fact, instead, it’s actually been a few years and more than that, it’s actually almost been 40 years, this group has been traveling for a super long period of time. And it doesn’t take long for them to realize what isn’t around them. For as the text even said to us, they arrive and they say there was no water for the community. And so I know when it comes to looking at the nation of Israel, it’s easy for us to kind of jump and attack like, how could they forget? How could they do this? How could they say this? I think here at the onset, it’s fair for us to say this is a valid complaint. They’ve been walking for a really long time. They’ve set up camp, and they’ve come to realize that there isn’t water to drink. Now I don’t know about you, but I mean, I find myself when I walk to the end of the block in need of a drink of water, let alone walking for days or months or years. So Israelites I understand. I’d be thirsty to the people are asking, Hey, Moses, where’s the water at man?
We need it. This might be valid. But as we read in the remainder of their complaint, we see that this is probably about more than just water. Water is the tipping point we would say, Have you ever been in one of those situations where one thing happens, and it’s just like the last straw tipping point, then all of a sudden, it’s this is an issue. And this is an issue and this is an issue, this is an issue. Water was the straw that broke the camel’s back. And so, if we look back at verses three through five, it says that they quarrel with Moses and said, If only we had died when our brothers fell dead before the Lord, why did you bring the Lord’s community into this wilderness? That we and our livestock should die here? Why did you bring us up out of Egypt to this terrible place, for it has no green or figs, grape vines or pomegranates, and there’s no water to drink. The nation’s ticked and the nation’s ticked about more than just water. But what’s important to know in what they’ve said is that the nation is just kind of complaining. The nation is rumbling the community’s upset and it’s worth looking closer at their complaint. Sure, there’s no water to drink. Admittedly, there’s no food to eat. But the response of the people is to say, in the midst of no water, and in the midst of no food, hey, we’d rather be back in Egypt, because it truly wasn’t that bad, compared to where we find ourselves now. Now, it’s at this moment that if you followed along in the nation of Israel’s history, your antenna should be up. And your antenna should be up in this moment, because what the nation is saying is utter rubbish. Truly, nothing could be further from the truth. See, because they’re complaining and desiring to go back to Egypt, which is something that is insane to consider, let alone even say out loud, it’s safe to say here in this moment that the nation of Israel has lost its mind. Life may not be super easy now, but there’s no comparison between what they’re experiencing and being enslaved. In Egypt, there’s no comparison to being able to walk free and being forced into hard labor. There’s no comparison. And in fact, we see that there’s evidence here that even helps us that should have helped the people as well. Our Verses began by stating that they arrived at the desert of Zen and Marian died and was buried. And it’s important here, we don’t get a lot of context and marry him. In this moment. We know Miriam to be the sister of Moses. And what happened here at the end of her life actually points back to something that happened before. And so this isn’t the first time the nations found themselves in a position where they need water. In fact, they found themselves there in just the last book in Exodus, we see in Exodus 17, it says that the whole Israelite community set out for the desert of sin, traveling from place to place, as the Lord had commanded. They camped at Ramadan, but there was no water for the people to drink. So they quarrel with Moses and said, Give us water to drink. Moses replied, Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you put the Lord to the test? But the people were thirsty for the water there and they grumbled against Moses. They said, Why did you bring us up out of Egypt to make us and our children and our livestock die? of thirst? Did you catch that? There it was, again? Why did you bring us out of Egypt? When situations get difficult in the life of the nation of Israel, they respond with Egypt. This is too difficult. I wish we were back in Egypt. We don’t have what we want or what we need. We wish we could go back to Egypt because they provided for us everything we could have ever wanted. This is what we thought it would be. I’m sure Egypt would have been better. Time and time and time again. The nation of Egypt the nation of Israel uses Egypt as their calling card for when the nation grumbles. Egypt is what they desire to go back to. Now, again, before we pile on to the nation of Israel with their desire to return to Egypt, it’s worth stopping and asking ourselves here. What’s our Egypt? What’s my Egypt? What is it that when I find a situation that’s too difficult, I wish I could go back to life’s too hard. I wish I could go back to when I was in college. This is asking too much of me. I wish I was still in that relationship. We’re working this job or in that living situation, what do we focus on in our grumbling, like the nation of Israel creating for ourselves an alternate reality in which we think somewhere we’ve been before gave us everything we needed, and everything we wanted. Because in case you were wondering, the nation of Egypt was not the land that was flowing with milk and honey, that the grumbles of the nation of Israel would have us believe. In fact, it’s the opposite because Exodus chapter one tells us that the king of Egypt when the nation was there, saw that the nation was a great threat. So they put slave masters over them to oppress them with forced labor. And worked them ruthlessly. They made their lives bitter with harsh labor and brick and mortar with all kinds of work in the fields and in their harsh labor. The Egyptians worked them ruthlessly. This is the Egypt that the nation is crying out to go back to send us back here. This is the nation that the Israelites are hoping that they would be sent back to you because surely life was better than it’s my hope that that’s a word for someone in here this morning that as absurd as the nation sounds in this moment for asking and demanding to go back to Egypt is as absurd as we sound, we find ourselves yearning to go back to the Egypt’s in our own lives. The community grumbles. And if we’re not careful, we can join them in that grumble. But let’s keep going in our store, we have more ground to cover. So after the community has shared this grumble before Moses, he stands with a decision to make. What’s he going to do? What’s he going to do in response to what he has heard, it would seem at the onset that he has two options. His first option could be to grumble with them. If you can’t beat them, join them. Or he could lash out against the people because of their grumbling and seek to do to them what they’ve done to him and putting them on blast. And admittedly, it looks like those are the only two realities. But our text offers us instead of third perspective. Let’s look back at the text starting in verse six, where instead it states that Moses and Aaron went from the assembly to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and fell facedown. And the glory of the Lord appeared to them. The Lord said to Moses, take the staff and you and your brother gather the assembly together, speak to that rock before their eyes, and it will pour out its water, you will bring water out of the rock for the community so that they and their livestock can drink. At after the community grumbles the leader humbles you see this isn’t Moses, his first time interacting with the cries of the nation of Israel. He’s been with them through numerous complaints, seasons of disobedience and regularly forgetting what the Lord has done for them. But rather than join in the chorus of crying out for Egypt, Moses cries out for help instead. So let’s contrast these actions of the crowd and the actions of Moses. When faced with difficulty and opposition, the crowd made it their focus, to grumble towards the one they thought responsible for bringing them here, Moses, how could you bring us here to die? When faced with opposition, when faced with difficulty, rather than doing that Moses is seeking wasn’t towards the people, but instead was up looking to God to understand and ask for help to make sense of what was going on. See, because Moses understood that this situation required a solution that was bigger than himself. And he couldn’t find it anywhere else, but in God. So he has previous experience in Exodus 17, which we already referenced, had prepared him for this moment. Because the first time the nation came and said, We have no water to drink, Moses went to the Lord and stated, What am I to do with these people? They’re almost ready to stone me. And I think that in this moment, we see that despite opposition, Moses continues to seek the advice of the Lord. But I think it’s also fair to say because maybe you’re here this morning and saying,
Well, of course he did. He’s Moses, like he’s a pretty big deal. You know, we’re looking at the history of the Bible, like Moses is one of the guys that were supposed to look at and say like I want to be, Have the faith like him. Well, of course, Moses did what he was supposed to. But when we do that, we lose light of the fact that if there’s anyone in our story who has a reason to grumble, man, is it Moses? Like, no offense to the community, Moses has a list of complaints he could go through. See, because Moses, his life began, being sent down the Nile River after having to escape being killed for being a male child born, while Egypt had enslaved Israel. From their Moses, his life went where he was sent out from Egypt into the wilderness wandering, only to then be sent back and told, Hey, you’re going to go back to Egypt, and you’re going to lead my people out. And it wasn’t like, you know, hey, we’ll see in a few days, it was like, No, it’s gonna take some time. And so Moses goes back into Egypt, and he’s sitting with Pharaoh attempting to ask him that he would let the people go, and Pharaoh just keep saying, no, not doing it. And even after that all happens, and finally Pharaoh says, because the Lord softens his heart, yes, you can go, Moses then leads the people. And as they’re walking out of Egypt, they come up to the sea, that they can’t cross, they have no boats, they have no chance, they have no opportunity. And they look back, and they see that Pharaohs changed his mind and is chasing after them with an army. And then after they miraculously make their way through the water by the hand of God, Moses then stands there. And they have to ask themselves, where are we supposed to go. And so Moses has to lead the people, not knowing where they’re going, not knowing what they’d have for food. So needless to say, Moses has some complaints he could make. He’s got a lot that he could get off his chest. But time and time again, when he’s faced the grumbling and disbelief of the nation of Israel, Moses has sought the guidance of the Lord, time and time again, when he has had no clue what to do, what to say how to lead or where to go next. Moses has looked to the Lord for his answer. Why? Because Moses understood that God always provides, Moses understood and had lived, had the lived experience of God’s provision. And so here, he knows that God is going to provide. See, what’s interesting is that Moses is job here as the leader of the nation of Israel was twofold. He wasn’t just a leader, but he was also the role of a mediator. See, because God had sent Moses back to Egypt, as we said, in order that he could bring my people, the Israelites out of Egypt. And in that moment, when Moses goes back, he becomes the leader of the nation. But from that point forward, he also becomes the mediator between the nation and God. When God had something to say to the people, he said it through Moses, and when the people needed to come before God, they went before him through Moses. And so his role as the mediator put him in many difficult positions, his role as the mediator made his life challenging. But as we’ve seen, at time and time again, he sought the advice and the guidance of the Lord. So I’m sure that as he’s done before, he’ll do again, in this passage, take what the Lord has said, and apply it. Look with me at our passage starting in verse nine. God’s told Moses exactly what he needs to do, and I’m sure Moses will do it here now. So Moses took the staff from the Lord’s presence, just as He commanded him, he and Aaron gathered the assembly together in front of the rock, And Moses said to them, Listen, you rebels, must we bring you water out of this rock? Then Moses raised his arm and struck the rock twice with his staff
Moses didn’t do what he was supposed to do. Maybe maybe got lost in translation, maybe maybe Moses messed up had a quick meal brain fart moment, okay. It was a mistake that was made. But Moses didn’t do what he was supposed to. So then surely if he didn’t obey in the way that he was supposed to. Let’s see what happens next, picking up at the end of verse 11, after Moses had raised the Dharma struck the rock twice with the staff. Water washed out in the community and their livestock drank. So Moses didn’t do what he was supposed to yet water still came out of the rock. Moses disobeyed the Lord yet the end result was that the people still got what they needed and what they were asking for. How does this happen? Maybe Maybe this was Moses is Mulligan, he’d done a really good job, he’d made very few mistakes. This, you know, hey, I get it. Shot a little bit off to the left, can’t find the ball will do it again. I mean, as far as golfers are concerned, Moses is, this is like Tiger back in the day. You know, he’s led the people over the water. He’s led the people through the woods, he spent more than his fair share of time in the sand, but time and time again. He’s found his way to bring the people where they need to go. Surely this is a mulligan from God to Moses. Let’s see what the Lord says. Because our passage isn’t done starting in verse 12. Look with me if you would. But the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, because you did not trust in me enough to honor me as holy in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this community into the land that I give them. The mediator stumbles the mediator stumbles. Why does the mediator stumble? Because the instructions that the Lord gave to Moses were to speak to that rock and water would come out not to strike it? And it’s not one of those situations where God said, Fine, you came close, we’ll still give you the right answer. No, this is not about doing and somehow receiving this is that Moses had done wrong. What were God’s direction, speak? Not strike. But maybe you’re asking yourself the same question. I’m asking myself if Moses messed up? Why did the water still come out of the rock? If Moses was supposed to speak to the rock, and then the water would come out? How does hitting the rock instead lead to water flowing? Well, it’s in this moment that we can look back to our big idea. And what’s our big idea this morning that God always provides? The Rock brought forth water because God made it bring forth water to quench the thirst of his people. In fact, as we look at everything that’s happened in the life of the nation of Israel up to this point, I don’t think it’s been Moses, who’s been the one making the difference here, all along. In fact, I know that it’s been the Lord. See, because after the plagues in Egypt, when Pharaoh allowed the nation to leave, it wasn’t because Moses, was this master negotiator. No. Instead, it was because the Lord had made the Egyptians favorite to be favorably disposed serves the people. And so they left. And once they wandered out of Egypt, it wasn’t Moses, his GPS that brought them where they were supposed to go. But instead, the Bible tells us that by day, the Lord went ahead of them in a pillar of cloud to guide them on their way, and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light, so that they could travel both by day or night. When the people came to the Red Sea, it wasn’t Moses, his hands that opened the water. No, it was God’s hands, instead, that part of the sea so that his people could walk right through it. You see where I’m going here with this time and time? Again, it was not Moses that provides, but no, instead it was God. Why? Because God always provides even in the face of grumbling, even in the aftermath of stumbling, God always provides. And this is great news for you. And for me, because I hate to break it to us. Israel isn’t the only community that’s ever grumbled. And Moses isn’t the only leader who’s ever stumbled. That’s our story to that’s been our experience. We’ve grumbled, we’ve stumbled, and we’ve fallen. And the word that we use for that is sin. We have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God, just as Moses did in this moment, just as the nation has done in this moment. Just as the nation has sinned, so we too, have sinned. And this isn’t a sin like that. Stealing a cookie when you’re hoping no one’s looking. This isn’t a sin like telling that white lie hoping that it will get you out of trouble. No, this is the same sin that the Lord tells Moses he has committed after striking the rock again in verse 12, where he says because you did not trust in me enough to honor me as holy. That’s the sin that we’re talking about. This sin is the idea that we don’t believe God to be all powerful, all knowing are all able but that we believe ourselves to be these things instead. And why is this a problem? Because if we believe ourselves to be God, we are not allowing and believing God to be God. Four, if we put our faith if we put our trust, if we put our hope, in our own abilities, our understanding our words, we can’t possibly do that with God. And so suddenly, we find ourselves in a situation altogether worse than just longing for some water to drink. We find ourselves in a situation where we are in opposition to God. So what’s the solution here? How do we find a way to right the wrong that has occurred? Well, we must look to the mediator. Now, you may be saying to yourself shame. The third point, we literally just laid it on our bulletin, it says that the mediator stumbles, so why on earth would we look towards the mediator? Because the mediator that you and I are looking for in this moment is not Moses, he can’t help us here. In fact, the mediator we’re looking for is no one in the history of the kings are the people who have led the nation of Israel in the Old Testament, no, we are looking for a greater mediator, we are not looking simply for a mediator, we are looking for the mediator, and the mediator that we need is Jesus Christ. See, because Jesus is our mediator, just like Moses was the mediator for the nation of Israel. He went before God for them in the same way that Jesus goes before God for us. But there’s a huge difference between that mediator and this mediator. Moses was insufficient, he could not and prove that he did not have the ability to perfectly follow the words of God. Can the same be said about Jesus? Can the same be said about Jesus? That’s right. The same cannot be said about Jesus. Why? Because in fact, quite the opposite is said about him throughout the entirety of the Bible. Philippians two tells us that Jesus being in the very nature, God did not consider equality with God, something to be used to his own advantage. Rather, he made himself nothing, by taking the very nature of a servant. By being made in human likeness. And being found in the appearance as a man, He humbled himself by becoming obedient to death, even death on a cross. Colossians, as was read for us says that He is the image of the invisible God, He is the firstborn of all creation, For by Him all things were created in heaven, and on earth, visible and invisible, all things were created through Him and for Him, and He is before all things, and in Him, Jesus, all things hold together. John six tells us that he Jesus is the bread of life, whoever comes to him shall not hunger and over believes in him shall never thirst. Moses was the imperfect mediator, who sought assistance to bring forth water from the rock for the people of Israel. But Jesus is the perfect mediator for you. And for me, who says us that He is the rock from which all water will come, and all can drink and never be thirsty? Again. Jesus is the rock from which living water comes from. Sure, in the wilderness, the nation of Israel was thirsty. But as you and I walked through the wilderness of life, we have a deeper thirst, and one that can’t be quenched by water alone. Rather, it must be quenched by something rather someone greater and that someone greater is Jesus. Why? Because Jesus is the rock, and he’s the rock that’s been struck for our sins.
As you and I look to Jesus, the rock that has been struck for our sins, it’s important for us to note in this moment that this is not like the rock that the nation needed for water. Because time and time again, the nation got thirsty, and thirsty, and thirsty, but know what the Bible tells us and shows us what we’ve experienced in our lives if we believe in Jesus is that he is the rock who has been struck once for our sin. And then as we put our faith and trust in Him as we believe Him to be Lord of our lives, we never thirst again. We don’t wander like the nation in search of momentary refreshment. We have eternal refreshment that we need in Jesus. And so as we experienced the water salvation that flows from the rock of Christ, we gain the knowledge and confidence that now we can say exactly what our big idea was this morning. We can say with confidence that God always provides because he’s provided for us as Paul states enrollments. He who did not spare His own Son, but gave him up for us all, how will he not also, along with him graciously give us all things. That’s the mediator that you and I are in need of. And that’s the mediator who’s ready to mediate on our behalf. In Christ you and I can stand and say this morning that God always provides.
And so as we sit at the end of our see, there are three different responses. I think that can come from our passage this morning. First, for the believer in Jesus Christ, if you’re here this morning, ask yourself this. am I allowing Jesus to be the mediator of my life? Sure, maybe I did at the start. Maybe there have been seasons in my life where I have before. But life’s gotten tough, and situations have changed. And things are different than they used to be. So like the nation of Israel, I find myself in the midst of trouble and hardship, I start looking back for better days looking back to Egypt. Too often my refrain has been has been let me go to where I was before, bring me back to that relationship. Bring me back to that job. Bring me back to that time of life. I want to go back, I need to go back. What does our passage reveal to us that we can hold on to with confidence this morning, God always provides. So let him provide as your mediator today. Don’t pined for Egypt, run instead to the rock. Come and drink from the rock that flows with water for you. Secondly, for the questioning individual who might be with us this morning, ask yourself this. If you are here and doubting that God will or even can ever provide, allow the words that we referenced from Paul, to be the confidence you need, in the face of doubt. He did not spare His own Son but gave us up gave him up for us all, how will he not also along with him, graciously give us all things God always provides. God provided for us His Son, like God provided water in the desert. The nation of Israel was not following the Lord. And then he brought forth water. No, they were grumbling. They were complaining they were calling out for a return to Egypt. Yet still, in that moment God provided water and his provision of His Son for you and I is the same. He provides Jesus for us striking the rock and bringing forth salvation while we were still actively in rebellion against Him. In light of that reality, how could we ever think you wouldn’t provide? And finally, if you’re here today, and you aren’t too sure about Jesus, maybe you’re still seeking, questioning, wondering what Christianity is. Let me say I’m glad that you’re here. Thank you for being a part of this church this morning and trusting us enough to ask questions alongside us. Here’s a question I have for you. what or whom can you trust to absolutely provide for you, because relationships will come to an end, layoffs will occur and the stock market can crash. Popularity comes and goes your family upbringing can only take you so far. Avenue after Avenue identifier after identifier. Everything has an end, and everything will fall short. Like Jake said to us last week, our lives need a foundation. And if you’re seeking to make your foundation one of any of those things, if you’re seeking to make your foundation pining to go back for Egypt, it will fail and it will fall. But like Jake reminded us last week, we need a foundation. And that foundation has to be built upon a rock that storms can’t touch. There’s only one rock and his name is Jesus. There’s only one person who will never let you down. And his name is Jesus. And so I’d invite you today to put your trust in Him. Drink from the rock and never thirst again. All other foundations will move any other source of water you will need a drink from again. But not Jesus, not the rock of our salvation, not the rock of our salvation. Allow him to provide for you that thirst quenching water and never thirst again. Let’s pray. Jesus, we come before you this morning and we admit that we so often are hoping and desiring for that which does not bring life. Father forgive us for putting our confidence in things that are not you. Forgive us for looking back and pining for a way that things used to be God would you in us build a foundation that we would put our trust and our hope, our faith in you, that we would be able to say whether it’s from the top of the mountain or in as simple as a moment. As waking up in the morning, God always provides and so he will provide this day. Help us to see, to know to understand and believe your provision, that you are the one who has always provided for us. Thank you for providing Jesus your son as our Savior. Thank you for making it possible for us to enter into life and relationship with you eternally by the way of your son, The Rock who was struck for our sins. We love you God. And in light of this truth, we come to give you praise and worship, in Jesus name. Amen.