Page 31 - Prophetic Word Newsletter Archive 2011

“BE ANGRY, AND DO NOT SIN” 31
DO NOT LET THE SUN GO DOWN ON YOUR WRATH, NOR GIVE PLACE TO THE DEVIL.” Eph. 4:26

There was a time near the end of the life of Moses that he was angry and did sin, giving
great place to the devil. It cost Moses the mission of God in his life as well as life itself:

“THEN THE LORD SPOKE TO MOSES, SAYING … ‘SPEAK TO THE ROCK BEFORE THEIR

EYES, AND IT WILL YIELD ITS WATER; THUS YOU SHALL BRING WATER FOR THEM OUT OF
THE ROCK, AND GIVE DRINK TO THE CONGREGATION AND THEIR ANIMALS. SO MOSES
TOOK THE ROD FROM BEFORE THE LORD AS HE COMMANDED HIM. AND MOSES AND
AARON GATHERED THE ASSEMBLY TOGETHER BEFORE THE ROCK; AND HE SAID TO
THEM,"HEAR NOW, YOU REBELS! MUST WE BRING WATER FOR YOU OUT OF THIS
ROCK?" THEN MOSES LIFTED HIS HAND AND STRUCK THE ROCK TWICE WITH HIS ROD…
THEN THE LORD SPOKE TO MOSES AND AARON, ‘BECAUSE YOU DID NOT BELIEVE ME,
TO HALLOW ME IN THE EYES OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, THEREFORE YOU SHALL NOT
BRING THIS ASSEMBLY INTO THE LAND WHICH I HAVE GIVEN THEM.’” Num 20:7-12

“…SO THAT IT WENT ILL WITH MOSES ON ACCOUNT OF THEM; BECAUSE THEY REBELLED

AGAINST HIS SPIRIT, SO THAT HE SPOKE RASHLY WITH HIS LIPS.” Ps 106:32-33

“YOU SHALL DIE…BECAUSE YOU TRESPASSED AGAINST ME AMONG THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL AT
THE WATERS OF MERIBAH KADESH, IN THE WILDERNESS OF ZIN, BECAUSE YOU DID NOT HALLOW

ME IN THE MIDST OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL.” Deut 32:51-52

The lesson to be learned from Moses’ single failure is that yielding to meekness is always a choice.
This great man of God had a sinful flesh nature just as we also do. After forty years on what should
have been an eleven day journey (Deut. 1:2-3) , the people’s constant rebellion finally pushed Moses over
the brink and he gave in to an act of willful rebellion against God. He knew perfectly well that he was to
speak to the rock, but he struck it twice in unbridled anger. Later, Paul would reveal that the Rock that
followed them was Christ (1 Cor. 10:4). The needful point to make is that our sinful flesh nature is always
capable of rising up in a moment if we give place to it. Meekness was Moses’ strength for 40 years.
When he chose to set it aside, he instantly sinned.

The key to “COME UNTO ME,
maintaining ALL YOU WHO LABOR AND ARE HEAVY LADEN,
a spirit of meekness
lies in being yoked AND I WILL GIVE YOU REST.
together with the
meekness of Jesus: TAKE MY YOKE UPON YOU
AND LEARN FROM ME,
FOR I AM MEEK
AND
LOWLY IN HEART,

AND YOU FOR MY YOKE IS EASY
WILL FIND REST AND MY BURDEN IS LIGHT.”
FOR YOUR SOULS.
Matt. 11:28-30