The Problems with Settling Outside the Promised Land

Settling outside the Promised Land is problematic. The Promised Land’s physical rest prefigures the Christian’s spiritual rest in Christ. Two-and-a-half tribes stayed on the east side of the Jordan, outside the Promised Land, and it was detrimental to them. Spiritually it is detrimental to us when we stay outside the rest we can have in Christ.

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00:00 The Problems with Settling Outside the Promised Land

08:18 Lesson One: The Promised Land was a place of ________ beyond the ____________.

23:57 Lesson Two: The 2½ tribes got what they wanted to __________ __________________.

30:35 Lesson Three: The Promised Land’s physical rest prefigures __________________ ________ in Christ.

Lesson Four: We settle outside the Promised Land when we don’t rest in Christ’s:

40:16 Part One: ________________ ________.

45:17 Part Two: ______________________.

47:30 Part Three: ______________ ________ Death.

Family Worship Guide
Directions: Read the verses and then answer the questions:

Day 1: Deuteronomy 3:20, 12:9-10, Joshua 22:4, Numbers 32:1-15, 33 cf. Joshua 22:10-12, 1 Chronicles 5:26—How was the Promised Land a place of rest? How was it NOT a place of rest? Why didn’t the 2 ½ tribes want to settle in the Promised Land? Why was Moses concerned about them not settling in the Promised Land? What did the 2 ½ tribes experience to their detriment for settling outside the Promised Land?

Day 2: Hebrews 3-4—How does the physical Promised Land prefigure our spiritual rest in Christ? In what ways is Moses a type of the law? In what ways is Joshua a type of Jesus? How does the law serve as our tutor?

Day 3: Matthew 11:28-30, 12:5, Hebrews 10:11-12, John 1:29, Hebrews 2:15, 1 John 5:13—Why do we struggle to rest in Christ’s finished work? Why do we struggle with whether we have truly been forgiven of our sins? Why do we still fear Death despite Christ’s victory over it? What can we do to overcome these struggles and truly rest in Christ?

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