Book: Numbers
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NUMBERS 32:23

"BE SURE YOUR SINS WILL FIND YOU OUT"

I. THE OCCASION.
        A. Men of God and Reuben desired inheritance outside land.
                1. Desired to live on borders.
                2. Danger of living on border.
                        a. First to be conquered.
                        b. The Gaderrenes asked Christ to depart from their coasts.

II. MOSES COMMAND AND WARNING.
        A. "You have sinned against the Lord."
                1. "All have sinned" "None righteous."
        B. Be sure your sins will find you out.
                1. Conscience.
                        a. Treasury Dept. conscience fund.
                2. Face.
                3. In the end.
                        a. You might be clever in concealing from men. You cannot hide
                           from God.
                        b. You might deceive men. You cannot deceive God. "AII things
                           are open and revealed before Him with whom we deal."
                4. Two Arctic explorers.
        C. The cleansing for sin.
                1. "The blood of Jesus Christ. God's Son."