ExodusLA Part 2 Deuteronomy 8:1-10

1. ExodusLA: Into the Wilderness

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6. “Embrace the Wilderness,
knowing the wealth of who
you are to become will only be
found in the Desert Places.”
— Alisa Hope Wagner

7. Unsettling News
Deuteronomy 1:1 These are the words Moses spoke
to all Israel in the wilderness east of the Jordan—
that is, in the Arabah—opposite Suph, between
Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth and Dizahab. 2
(It takes eleven days to go from Horeb to Kadesh
Barnea by the Mount Seir road.)
3 In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh
month, Moses proclaimed to the Israelites all that
the Lord had commanded him concerning them.

8. It’s time to keep journeying into the Purposes and Plans
of the Lord. To strike your tents and leave the mountain
that has become too predictable and too comfortable.
Deuteronomy 1:6 The Lord our God said to us at Horeb, “You have stayed
long enough at this mountain. 7 Break camp and advance into the hill
country of the Amorites; go to all the neighboring peoples in the Arabah, in
the mountains, in the western foothills, in the Negev and along the coast, to
the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great river, the
Euphrates. 8 See, I have given you this land. Go in and take possession of
the land the Lord swore he would give to your fathers—to Abraham, Isaac
and Jacob—and to their descendants after them.”

9. “The Hero’s Journey
always begins with the call. One way or another, a
guide must come to say, ‘Look, you’re in Sleepy
Land. Wake. Come on a trip. There is a whole
aspect of your consciousness, your being, that’s
not been touched. So you’re at home here? Well,
there’s not enough of you there.’ And so it starts.”
—Joseph Campbell—

10. Time for Israel to apply all their
preparation to a new way of
being together in a place
they’d never been to before.
Learning (Moses)
Building (tabernacle)
Training (Levites)
Organizing (life together)
“You still aren’t There yet.”

11. “A Picture and a Preview of what God is
doing in and for all of God’s creation.”
A FAITH VILLAGE

12. Learning to Thrive,
Not Just Survive
Prayerful
Reconciled
Compassionate
Merciful
Just
Committed
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13. Needless Wandering
Hebrews 3:15 As has just been said:
“Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts
as you did in the rebellion.”
16 Who were they who heard and
rebelled? Were they not all those
Moses led out of Egypt?

14. Testing & Stretching
Hebrews 3:17 And with whom was he angry
for forty years? Was it not with those who
sinned, whose bodies perished in the
wilderness? 18 And to whom did God
swear that they would never enter his rest
if not to those who disobeyed? 19 So we
see that they were not able to enter,
because of their unbelief.

15. And so it starts.
“Embrace the Wilderness, knowing the wealth of who you
are to become will only be found in the Desert Places.”