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*Bound for the Promised Land*
Numbers 13, 14, Joshua
The year was 1984.
I was a 20 year old carefree man
Who couldn’t wait to leave home.
I married Hedi after 4 years of courtship
And decided to follow an inner call
To move to Canada to study at the Bible College.
We didn’t know the language.
We didn’t know the people…
Except for a couple of uncles and aunts.
Hedi didn’t have Canadian papers…
And we didn’t know what the future would bring.
And we were “Bound for the Promised Land.”
I perceived the voice of God saying to me,
“Take your family and your possessions…”
(not that I had any possessions…
In fact, my parents gave us the trip as a parting gift…
I’m still trying to figure out
what they were trying to say with that)…
“Take your wife and your possessions,
And go to the land that I will show you.”
The future stood open before us.
As a twenty year old – full of visions of changing the world –
I was “bound for the promised land.”
You see, it was not that I didn’t have it good at home.
I had it really good.
But, there was a longing…
A yearning in my soul for something more…
For purpose and meaning…
For a sense of direction for my life…
Yea, a hunger for fulfillment.
Twenty-some years later
I’m still “bound for the Promised Land!”
There is still a yearning to see the fulfillment
Of all my longings…
The purpose and end for which I am here.
We are a People “Bound for the Promised Land.”
We are a people on a journey…
The “Promised Land” is a symbol or a metaphor
For getting where we want to end up…
It speaks of reaching goals that we strive for…
Achieving something that we desire or long for.
In the Bible the land Canaan was promised by God
as an everlasting possession
to the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob:
*In the story of Abraham* we read
/On that day, God made a covenant with Abraham, saying: /
/"To your descendants I have given this land, /
/from the river of Egypt /
/as far as the great river the Euphrates."
/(Genesis 15:18-21)
In Genesis 26:3 the promise is repeated to *Isaac:*
/"To you and your descendants I give this land."
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And in Genesis 28:13 to *Jacob: *
/"The ground upon which you are lying /
/I give to you and your descendants."
/
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During the* Exodus *God spoke to* Moses:*
/"I made a pact with them to give them the land of Canaan.”
(Exodus 6:4)/
And in Deuteronomy 34:1-4 we read,
/“Now Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo,/
/ to the top… /
/And the LORD showed him all the land….
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/Then the LORD said to him, /
/“This is the land which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, /
/saying, ‘I will give it to your descendants’; /
/I have let you see with your eyes, /
/but you shall not go over there.”
/
As a consequence for Israel’s disobedience,
an entire generation of grumbling Israelites
were denied entrance into the promised land.
Even Moses himself…
Called by God as a great leader
to free his people from Pharao’s oppression…
Standing firm as God’s spokesperson
Throughout the wilderness experience...
Moses was denied entrance into the promised land.
And here he stands on top of the mountain
Getting a sneak peak.
The promised land was within eyeshot.
He could almost touch the ground…
Almost smell its flowers…
Almost taste the milk and honey flowing through the land…
*Oh, the hunger for God to still that longing…*
In 1968 an American civil rights activist
By the name of Martin Luther King Jr.
got a glimpse of the promised land…
and he also was denied entrance…
Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister by training,
And he became a civil rights activist early in his career.
His efforts led to the 1963 March on Washington,
where King delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech,
raising national consciousness about the social inequality.
In 1964, King became the youngest person
to receive the Nobel Peace Prize
for his efforts to end segregation and racial discrimination
through civil disobedience and other non-violent means.
Dr.
King was assassinated on April 4, 1968,
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