Thursday, April 17, 2014

Numbers 14:39-45 and John 11:38-44 (New Living Translation)

NUMBERS 14:39-45
THE FIRST ATTEMPT TO INVADE THE LAND
39  When Moses reported the Lord’s words to all the Israelites, the people were filled with grief.
40  Then they got up early the next morning and went to the top of the range of hills. “Let’s go,” they said. “We realize that we have sinned, but now we are ready to enter the land the Lord has promised us.”
41  But Moses said, “Why are you now disobeying the Lord’s orders to return to the wilderness? It won’t work.
42  Do not go up into the land now. You will only be crushed by your enemies because the Lord is not with you.
43  When you face the Amalekites and Canaanites in battle, you will be slaughtered. The Lord will abandon you because you have abandoned the Lord.”
44  But the people defiantly pushed ahead toward the hill country, even though neither Moses nor the Ark of the Lord’s Covenant left the camp.
45  Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in those hills came down and attacked them and chased them back as far as Hormah.

JOHN 11:38-44
LAZARUS IS BROUGHT TO LIFE
38  Jesus was still angry as he arrived at the tomb, a cave with a stone rolled across its entrance.
39  “Roll the stone aside,” Jesus told them.  But Martha, the dead man’s sister, protested, “Lord, he has been dead for four days. The smell will be terrible.”
40  Jesus responded, “Didn’t I tell you that you would see God’s glory if you believe?” 
41  So they rolled the stone aside. Then Jesus looked up to heaven and said, “Father, thank you for hearing me. 
42  You always hear me, but I said it out loud for the sake of all these people standing here, so that they will believe you sent me.” 
43  Then Jesus shouted, “Lazarus, come out!” 
44  And the dead man came out, his hands and feet bound in graveclothes, his face wrapped in a headcloth. Jesus told them, “Unwrap him and let him go!”

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