Leave No One Behind | Pastor Paul McGee

Hallelujah, Amen. I have felt the glory of the

Lord, a man rise among us in this place this morning.

And if you're feeling something else, it's probably the humidity

in the room. All right.

And so please bear with us. We do have a baptism today.

Anytime we make the baptismal hot, it makes us all hot.

But I would live with it like this if that meant someone was

baptizing each Sunday, then to be quote UN quote comfortable.

All right, Amen. So we're happy about that.

Ray Mcveigh's going to be baptized later today.

And so there's a lot of it's like that's happening and then

we're going to be dedicating a little Cade Amen this morning as

well. So we almost have, I mean, we

need to have a wedding and something else.

We just almost have an all the pastoral rows like within a day.

But my wife raised asked her to baptize.

So I think my wife and my daughter's going to be aiding

Ray and being baptized this morning.

Amen. And so that's going to be great.

Hallelujah. Good to see all your smiling

faces today. Amen.

If you can stand for me, we'll turn to the book of numbers.

And so there's I know there's a lot going on.

So it's probably going to be a little bit more of an extended

service and I'm trying to be mindful of that on my end.

And the operative keyword there is trying.

I'm trying to be mindful of that on my end.

Sometimes I'm successful and sometimes I fail miserably.

And so please offer me grace and forgiveness if that happens to

be the case today. But we'll try to do that.

Sister Cox is going to keep track of me.

She walked in with a couple of mints and she said, you're not

going to take my mints. And I said, well, is that how

you keep track of how long I preach?

Like, you put a mint in and you just let it dissolve and you're

like, oh, he's on mint #2 now. And so I don't, I don't know.

I'm really trying to figure out the dynamic.

Brown says he just raises his arm and taps his watch or his

belly. But I'm, you know, sometimes I

just don't look at them. Numbers chapter #12 Numbers

chapter #12 Glad to have each one that's with us, some that

are visiting and such. And we're appreciate we got both

sides of the Zach and Malin family here today.

And I know that they're probably just overjoyed with having their

family with him this morning. Numbers chapter 12, verse #10

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I'm going to begin reading and then I'll, I'll skip down just

just once, but you can follow my lead here.

Today the Bible says, And the cloud departed off the

Tabernacle. And behold, Miriam became

leprous, white as snow. And Aaron looked upon Miriam,

and behold, she was leprous. And Aaron said unto Moses, Alas,

my Lord, I beseech thee, lay not the sin upon us, wherein we have

done foolishly, and wherein we have sinned.

Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed,

when he cometh out of his mother's womb.

Skipping down to verse #15 if we can.

And Miriam was shut out from the camp seven days.

And the people journey not to Miriam was brought in again,

Amen. With the help of the Holy Ghost,

Amen. I want to minister something

that kind of fell in my spirit back in February but came back

to my mind's remembrance this week.

I want to minister this. Leave no one behind.

Leave no one behind, Amen. Can we talk?

To the Lord right now. Father, I need you today.

God, we're grateful. For the people that have

gathered here this morning, we pray, oh Lord, with their own

individual needs and concerns. We pray God that you're able to

meet them, Lord, before they leave this place, or at least

comfort them. I pray, Lord, let your word,

Jesus be a comfort. Let your word, Lord Jesus, be an

upholder. Lord of spirits today, God, give

us direction and guidance and Lord, edification, God,

encouragement by the word today. Let it go forth and do that

which it was sent to accomplish in our lives.

God and will not fail to thank you and praise you Lord, for

what you accomplish here today. Say this morning in the name of

Jesus Christ that I pray a man of the church say man Amen.

You may be seated this morning in Jesus name.

Leave no one. Look at your neighbor and say

leave no one behind. Leave no one behind.

It is the military mantra that embodying the promise that

military personnel will do everything possible to recover

and care for their fellow soldiers, whether wounded,

captured or killed. It ensures that no one is

abandoned and forgotten, that everyone returns home, whether

they are missing in action, whether they are prisoners of

war. It underscores the importance of

looking. Out.

For each other in our Scripture today, Moses, Aaron, and Miriam

are the triad or the. Trifecta of the Nation.

Of Israel, they seem to be the the the three that are leading

and spearheading this nation through their wilderness

journey. These three are civil siblings

from the same parents. Of course, Moses is their

deliverer. He is.

Notably, their lawgiver not too. Much time removed from this

moment in Scripture, he was there at Sinai, and he conveyed

to them the law of God. He is known as their Lawgiver.

Aaron, on the other hand, is Israel's high priest, a notable

position to serve. Him and.

Then there is Miriam. Miriam is the eldest of the

she's she's the older sister if you.

Will a man of these. Two other boys and.

She is according to scripture. Exodus 15.

She is a prophetess. And she may have very easily

with with. Aaron in such a prominent.

Row. And Moses in such a.

Prominent row She may have taken first rank among the women of

Israel. To.

Exemplify a pattern of how to live life and how how to go

forward in their journey. To the promised land.

It was Miriam that stood idly by with bated breath.

As she was observing the. Outcome of her baby brother

Moses that had been placed in the Nile river in a basket of.

Bulrushes by his mother. Mother.

That set him there, hoping that he would be saved, because

Pharaoh, of course, had called for those type of boys to be

thrown into the Nile River without any provision, without

any protection. But Moses's mother, seeing that

he was a goodly child, had kept him for three.

Months and made this basket that she would settle.

Him down in into the Nile River, which.

Had all types of of. Predators like alligators.

And things of that nature. And so it was Miriam, though,

that stood a little in the distance after her mom had

placed Moses down in that Nile. It was Miriam that negotiated

with Pharaoh's daughter and began to say, Ma'am, do you need

a nurse for this child? It was Miriam that found then

her own mother to be the nurse to her own child Moses, and

negotiated that with Pharaoh's daughter.

In a sense, Miriam in this moment helped deliver who would

eventually deliver her. It's just a.

Bewildering thought to even consider.

Imagine, if you will, the banter.

You know how siblings are. I know how our household is

siblings. Imagine the banter that was

exchanged between the three of them, Moses and Aaron and

Miriam. They most likely at times

antagonized Moses for being the. Deliverer, you know, like.

Your big stuff. Moses, you know.

You're a big deal. I can hear it among the family.

You're you're really big. And I can hear Miriam almost

playfully holding over Moses's head.

Don't forget that if it wasn't for me, your mom wouldn't have

been your nurse after you was put down in that river.

So, you know, Moses, you really kind of owe me one.

You can see a little bit of the family rivalry.

And some of the bantering. That would take place, but it

was Miriam that shortly after they had.

Crossed over the Red Sea. And the bodies of the Egyptians

were? Drifting along the shore.

That Marion came forth. Echoing the song of.

Moses and she begin to. Sing and say, sing ye.

To the Lord, for he have triumphed the.

Gloriously, the horse and his. Rider hath he.

Thrown into the sea. The.

Bible says she came forth. Doing that after they crossed

over, the Bible also tells us that in the process of doing

that she grabbed a timbrel and she beat that timbrel and waved

that timbrel and began to dance. In doing so leading the women of

the nation all in timbrels and dances before the Lord.

She allowed all these women and was leadership for them as they

joined in celebrating the significant victory.

In retrospect, it is the prophet Micah that clearly states God's

opinion of Miriam's integral role played alongside her

brothers when Micah prophesied the words of the Lord.

In Micah chapter 6 and verse #4 it says God speaking, For I

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brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out

of the. House of Servants.

And I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

That within itself testifies to her role, to her placement, to

her importance, right as alongside Moses and Aaron was

the important placement of the prophetess Miriam in her

spiritual ability. Amen.

To inspire and guide others, and expressions of faith and

expressions of joy. As a prophetess, no doubt she

had to have spiritual inside at times and discernment that went

along with that. And here's a lady.

What even in this society that customarily is a patriarchal

society, which means it was men driven, here is a female leader

among a patriarchal society that is commanding the respect of all

Israel. So Miriam is a notable

individual, notable lady and all.

That thing may seem to be overshadowed by the events of

Numbers chapter #12 because the same woman who led others in

celebration over their deliverance now seemingly

enslaves herself by her behavior.

She and Aaron, according to Numbers 12, they come together

and they speak against Moses because he has married an

Ethiopian woman. And also they begin to argue

among themselves. I know that people say that God

speaks through Moses or by Moses.

Aaron does not God also speak by us and through US.

And so Miriam's behavior here in this chapter would shortly be

manifested by a condition that the Old Testament and both the

New Testament right of the Bible says that her body.

Would be covered with. Leprosy.

Leprosy and Scripture from start to finish is a.

Emblem of sin. We understand even this, this

emblem being recognized and understood whenever Aaron cries

out in verse 11 to Moses and says lay not this sin up on us,

particularly he has in mind because of Miriam turning to a

leper in the moment, particularly Moses.

Don't allow this sin to fall upon her.

You must understand the position, listen to me today,

that Aaron is in He is a priest. He is the high priest, and

therefore it is his role and his responsibility to look at Miriam

and confirm that she is indeed a leper.

And based upon what he gathers from looking at her, it is his

responsibility to pronounce her unclean.

Think of it for a moment. This is his sister.

This is someone that has served with him.

They come over the the the the red seat together.

You understand all these shared experiences and now he has this

responsibility to look upon. His own sister and confirm.

There's leprosy, confirm. There's sin, confirm you are

unclean. More than anyone, I want you to

understand today that more than anyone, Aaron understands the

severity of Miriam's situation. More than anyone, he understands

the gravity of what has just happened to her.

The Bible even tells us that Aaron sobs in verse #12 he cries

out and he says let her not be as one dead.

He's shaken from his core to circumference.

I can't imagine this happening to Miriam.

Don't allow her to be as one dead.

Her ordeal will be like a person that's the living dead.

She'll be alive, but she'll be dying every day.

Don't allow her to be like. Don't allow her to have her

flesh appear as though it's already half consumed.

Don't allow her this. I can't believe it.

How in the world this Miriam, my sister, the same woman that was

so sensitive to the Spirit of God, now will physically be

desensitized by leprosy and she'll lose her ability to feel.

Don't allow her to be as one, dead.

But he knows they know she's a leper.

Nonetheless, and as a leper, she's going to be subjected to

the law of a leper and she's going to have to dwell alone,

much like Uzziah and Second Chronicles that was cut off from

the House of the Lord. Miriam is going to be.

Shut outside the camp. Leprosy will do it to you.

Sin will do it to you. He'll separate you.

It's separated with Adam and Eve in the garden and it's still,

it'll separate you, it'll isolate you, it'll humiliate

you, it'll shame you. He'll he'll cut you off, if you

will, from God's house and from God's people and where you once

sang and where you once danced will become strange to you,

leprosy. He'll do it to you.

But the Bible says in verse 15 and Miriam was shut out from the

camp seven days and the people journey not till Miriam was

brought in again. I meant to you.

I've cut my. Teeth on a Pew and plucked the

hardened gum off the bottom of them.

I've heard this passage preach. More than once in my lifetime.

And for the most part, whenever I've ever heard this message

from this passage preach. Preachers have underscored how

Miriam's critical spirit. That spirit that she exemplified

to being critical of Moses and critical of his marriage, that

critical spirit stopped a whole nation's progress.

So as a result, in my lifetime of growing up, I've always

viewed this as one person sin impacting the whole nation.

I've chopped it up to how it just relates to the

pervasiveness of sin, how one person sin never effects them

along that it's impact is far reaching.

And I'm telling you today, I'm not saying that is the wrong

view, but I don't think that is the only view.

In February, as God had my eyes Passover, this text in the Home

and Christian Standard Bible, the translation that I was

reading, there was a phrase there that read like this, very

similar, but sometimes reading something just a little

different catches your attention.

It says the people did not move on until Miriam was brought back

in. It's not that it's not that

Israel couldn't move, it's that Israel didn't move.

I suppose the nation of Israel could have just easily moved on,

pulled up states of their tent and went on just a little

further. But the fact of the matter that

the Scripture conveys us is this they didn't Rather what the

nation did is that they waited until Miriam got back in the

congregation. They waited until Miriam got

back in the camp. Some picture this Amen as a

journey that has been hindered by a pause or a stop, but I'd

rather look at it as a people and a nation that was given some

consideration. Given some consideration Amen to

someone that was presently outside the camp.

I don't know what their mindset is, but I tend to believe that

they adopted the mindset. Listen ladies and gentlemen,

listen boys and girls. We are unwilling to leave anyone

behind. She's she's been a leader, she's

been a worshipper, she's been a prophetess, she's been a helper,

she's been an encourager. And I know some things went left

and right, but I'm not willing to leave her behind.

So we're going to tread some water right here.

We're going to tread some ground right here.

Hey, what? What are they doing at this

moment in time? Think of it.

For a moment. They are on the journey in the

wilderness, predominantly from Egypt to the promised land, to

the land that God said is yours, to the land God said that there

is a rest that is awaiting you. Amen.

There. You know what they're doing.

They're in their mode of picking up stakes, putting them down,

and with every trip getting a little closer to the land of

promise. You know what they decided from

this moment? We're going to pause here for a

moment. Rather drawing naire to our

intended destiny. We're going to pause here for a

moment because there's somebody that's not in the camp.

There's somebody that used to be that's not in the camp.

I wonder if anybody's ever got on your mind or your heart,

Someone that used to be in the camp that isn't in the camp.

And you said, Lord, just wait a little longer, please, Jesus.

Why? Because I have a feeling we need

to stay right here until they return, until they come back,

until they show back up. Someone came in.

Yes, Miriam had misspoken. Yes, leprosy clung to her.

But Israel was exercising compassion.

Why? Well, number one, they should,

but secondly. They had seen her.

Operate in a. Leper less state and they

resolved we're not going to go. Ahead without.

Her let. Me ask you a question today,

what would happen if churches refused to continue?

And to those set outside the camp were brought back in, can I

ask you where are the errands that are beseeching and

jockeying for a different outcome that can recognize, I

know it was wrong. I know they're a leper.

I know that that's their state. But does it have to be this way?

Does does it have, does this have to be the defining moment

of their legacy? Does it Moses?

Does she have to live a stone? She's have to.

Does this have to be the moment? Come here.

Do you understand? Look at your Bibles.

Look, look at verse #13 Aaron cries out to Moses.

Moses was the person wronged. You don't like your marriage.

And God speaks to us just as much as you.

Moses was the person wronged by Miriam.

But in in verse 13, what do we see Moses doing?

He's crying out. He's praying and he's saying

heal her now, God, heal her now. God, I beseech, see what's

honey? The one that was even wronged

was lifting his voice and saying, I don't want to see it

this way. God, please don't allow it to be

this way. Heal her, change her mind, touch

her heart, do what is ever necessary.

So she's back in the camp. I'm here to tell you today we

need to assume the attitude of an errand and the attitude of a

Moses. I don't care if people's left

and you were offended or got hurt and they're leaving or they

were against you, you need to. I hide the heart of Moses that

says God, I know they're a leper, but heal them.

I know that they're a leper, but hey man.

Someone come soak this water up off the floor when I'm all done

and put me back together. Scholars can't be sure.

No one can for sure whether Miriam was healed in the moment.

Nonetheless, the Bible tells us that she was set outside of the

camp for seven days. There, Terry, can I say for some

it's been seven days, for some it's been months, for some it's

been years. But the.

Congregation still cries. Let's wait just a little longer.

Because there's some still some. Miriam's.

There's still some Miriam's. That's out there.

Can I talk? Maybe even this morning he meant

through live stream today, if there are any Merriams out there

under the sound of my voice that may be wringing their hands in

the isolation of their condition of leprosy, and you're walking

back and forth and you're thinking about what you have

done and how you would have done it differently.

Can I tell you that while you are doing that, there ought to

be a congregation treading the waters of time to hold back

eternity until they return? They should be.

And for that matter, Brother Ted, what was what was?

What was Moses's wife's response?

Your thought about that? What was her response?

Was it good enough for her? I hope her fingers and legs.

Fall off. I hope the oozing of of the.

Body of fluids from her body and the pain is excruciating on her.

She's got what's coming to her. What is Moses's wife, responds.

Fact of the matter, in Scripture nothing is recorded.

Nothing is recorded. Did she think she she?

Just rot outside the camp for despising her.

Nothing is recorded. Here's all I do know.

All I know is that the people which must have.

Included moses's wife did not journey and to Miriam was

brought. Back in do you even?

Understand this morning that God took leprosy.

What was? Typically a lifelong agonizing

separation. From the camp, from the.

House of God. From God's people.

That was typically a lifelong. Agonizing separation until

death. And by healing or?

Whatever, by miracle reduced. That to a.

Seven day exclusion. Let me tell you what that's.

That. Is that's mercy.

That's Grace. That's long.

Suffering and to emulate. Him that's.

What we've been called to do. The Bible says in second.

Peter 3:00 and 9:00 The Lord is not slack concerning his

promise, particularly the promise of his return, as some

men count slackness, but is long-suffering to.

US word not willing that huh? I know how we are.

Sometimes I know how. I let me speak.

For I know how I am sometimes. Serves.

Them right I'm just being real, huh you.

Know had a headache every. Day, but once they were outside

the camp. Doing pretty good maybe.

I'm too real. Here for a moment.

But to adopt and pattern. At the Lord is he's not willing

to. Any.

It's a big word. 3 letters. But it's a big word.

Any should perish. But that all should come.

To repentance. The scripture doesn't tell us

particularly, but we assumed then that Miriam did indeed

repent. However, that wasn't the focus

for this. The focus is what is highlighted

that. Aaron grieved over her state.

Moses interceded on her behalf, and the people took center stage

by. Keeping the holding pattern of

not going anywhere until she was restored, am I doing?

OK, according to the law. In the book of Leviticus and

folks. If I if I read every scripture I

have tucked in here, it'd be. We.

Would baptize Ray tonight, but according.

To the law Leviticus 14 and 8 which this applied to man or

woman all right concerning the law of leprosy even in leviticus

1329 those who were cleansed of leprosy were required to.

Shave off. All their hair.

This. Was part of the ritual.

Are the ritual purification. Process prescribed in the law.

Of Moses, the verse states that after they were declared.

Clean by the priest. The person must.

Wash their clothes. Shave.

Off all their hair, bathe in. Water to become ceremonia clean

again, to be introduced into the company of the congregation

again. This is a humiliating act.

To anyone, but particularly. Two women with long hair Miriam

is. Permitted back into the camp.

Just follow me. She's permitted.

Back into the camp. But her?

Bald head. At the initiation.

Of her entrance back into the camp is the end sign of her

disgrace. From what had happened, she is

cling. She is.

Clean. But it's going to take.

Some time to lose? That marks, not just.

Identify identifier of her purification, but it's also

identifier that she had been unclean, so she has a bald head.

She's clean upon entrance, but it's going to take some time to

lose the identity of the mark of what she had been.

And I suspect Sister Sheila, that the congregation waited.

For her and if they. Waited for her they they would

also be the same ones. That regardless of the marks,

they would be the. Ones that would welcome her.

If you only want to. Love people.

Whenever they reach. Your Apostolic status?

That's not love you need. Them to walk.

In with their bald head. You need them to.

Walk in with the tattering of where they've been or what

leprosy had served. Up on them and.

Go on and pull that bald head into the embrace of your chest

and say we're glad you're back, we're glad you're home.

We've been waiting on you. We've been anticipating this

moment. I don't want to, you know, wait

past the time that they walk in and are clean and say, no, no,

we're going to wait a little longer before we show you any

attention or any affection. No, no, the moment that they

walk back, they're worthy of your embrace.

That even before they are God's love, no snow bounds.

I got to. I got to hurry.

Don't. Want to become one of those

lying preachers you know? Got to hurry. 2nd Corinthians.

Chapter #2 Go there, if you will.

We'll go there on the screen, but you might want to go there.

Second Corinthians chapter #2. There's some verses of.

Scripture here that that begin around like verse #5 or so that

the apostle. Paul and.

The church at Corinth had dealt with a incestuous man.

We gather this from. Paul's first letter to the to

the book. Or to the church at.

Corinth like in chapter #5 it kind of describes the incestuous

relationship that a man had had among his family.

So they had dealt. With this at Paul's.

Direction this person and it kind of.

Harmonizes a little. Bit with that being said,

outside the camp they were removed.

From. The church, and even by the.

Church of Corinth through the direction.

Of Paul and and the Lord. It was a collective effort, he

said outside of the tent. But it's important.

To know as you read through these passages.

Please listen to me there. I feel the Holy Ghost that as

you read. Through these passages,

something that Paul never does. Paul never mentions the man's

name. He only.

Speaks of this incestuous man in soft terms.

Like such a man. Or such a one because Paul

understands I'm writing a letter.

I'm putting. Pin to parchment and this is

going to become a permanent record 0 God, I'm writing a

letter here and this is going to be a permanent record and.

So I'm going to. Talk, yes, maybe about the

offense, but it's just such a one, such a man of like kind

because future generations, I don't want them to pull up this

permanent record. I don't want them to ever know

the man's name. I only want them to know how

they should respond. Watch it.

For six, he's picking back up on the story of this incestuous

man. He said sufficient to such.

A man is this punishment what he was set outside the camp, so to

speak. Which was inflicted of many why

it was a corporate. It was a corporate.

Doing of the Church. At Corinth.

Inflicted by many, he was set outside this in other words,

Paul's saying this man's. Punishment of being separated.

Is enough. The separation is enough of a

punishment. He was separated.

From the congregation he was. Separated.

From the corporate body this discipline all took place, but

that was sufficient. Look at verse 7 so that contrary

wise ye speaking to the Church of Corinth ought rather here's

what he's telling. Here's you don't need to know

his name, but this you need to know how to respond.

He. Ought rather to forgive him and

comfort him, lest such a one again.

He could have named the name, but he didn't.

Should be swallowed up with over much sorrow.

You know what Paul's saying. That man has already suffered

enough for his punishment. The day that the.

Deed was done, the suffering ensued, and from that moment

until now of him rejoining the church.

That man. Has already went through enough.

No one has to tell him what he did wrong.

Nobody's got to tell him how awful it was.

He knows he has felt that every day when he's been separated.

No one's got to point that out, he says.

But what we do need to do is when he's brought back among

you, he doesn't need more punishment.

What he he needs his forgiveness.

What he needs is comfort. Don't let his past failures

overtake him. You smother him with love.

You smother him with comfort you.

He says in verse. 8 Wherefore I beseech you, that ye confirm

your love toward. Him.

Somebody here this pastor? Today.

That the church should. Discuss.

Forgiveness more readily than they.

Discuss faults and failures I. Want to say that?

One more time. The church should discuss.

Forgiveness more readily than they.

Discuss faults and failures. What are you saying if?

I'm putting these terms of our text and story.

Today, don't be pointing out Miriam's bald head.

Pull it towards you. Her consequences?

Were sufficient. You waited for her now.

Love her if you can stand for me.

Today I'm hastening too close, man.

I'm just about right on schedule.

Whatever that means this is. Important.

I won't hold you much longer. Youth.

Class you probably. Hear me, you told.

Me to give you a sign. There's your sign.

The last recorded public event of Miriam's.

Life aside from her death. Wasn't.

Her sin. Wasn't.

Her being cut off wasn't. Her being ashamed the last

recorded. Public event of Miriam's life

was. Her.

Being. Restored everything that's.

Recorded about her from watching the basket of bull rushes to the

timber on the. Dance over the Jordan to her

failure. The last public.

Event recorded was nothing but about her restoration.

Galatians 6 and. One states these words many are

familiar with. Paul speaking to the church.

Of Galatia, he said, Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a

fault. Ye which are.

Spiritual and let's pause for a moment and define spiritual.

Spiritual is not that you see angels all day and you speak in

tongues 23 hours out 24 of the day being spiritual?

Is this those that are spiritual?

Are those that are filled with His spirit.

What does that mean? That brings the bar really low.

And then, please don't misunderstand me, that brings

the bar. Really low for those that can be

candidates as restorers. If you're filled.

With his spirit. You're a candidate.

To be a restorer to someone else, he said.

Brethren. She said.

If a man is overtaken in a fault, he which are.

Spiritual restore such and. Won in the spirit of meekness.

Now let's. Look at meekness.

You know the Bible talks about Moses.

Being one of the meekest. Men, meekness is not weakness.

Meekness, in the simplest definition, is this power under

control. You know what that.

Means you could cut their legs out from under them.

You could make light of the bald head of Miriam.

You, you, you'd had the power to do that.

But meekness says. I'm going to refrain from doing

that. Brethren, if any man be.

Overtaken the fault. Ye which are spiritual restore

such a one in a spirit of meekness.

Considering. Thyself.

Lest thou also be tempted, Aaron impart.

Was a part of it, but. It could have just easily.

Been Moses. For every David that.

Falls. There's a Solomon that will

fall. What are you saying?

None of us are exempt, per Southeast.

But what we all? Need to draw.

Comfort from is this is that. If it ever happens.

Will there be? A group of people that says

we're not going anywhere. We're just going to wait.

Right here. Until.

So and so in the Miriam's like so and so.

Our prop back. We didn't close our eyes.

Today admonish us today as a church, as a church family.

Let us this morning. If we can, let's let's commit to

creating a community, a church that mirrors God's mercy,

mirrors his long-suffering. We.

We need to be in a position that we're actively.

Trying to. Restore those who have been.

Overtaken by faults. Do that with a spirit of.

Meekness, the spirit of humility.

We need to be. We need to be guilty as a

congregation, as those that not only waits for the return of the

Merriams among us. But also embraces them

wholeheartedly. Confirming our love, encouraging

them on their journey back to wholeness.

Folks, as a church family, can I challenge us today and these?

Altars are open that as we move forward, let's ensure truly that

we're not. Going to leave anyone behind,

but we're going to hold on to the promise of their redeeming.

Their redemption and their reconciliation.

Because there's a spirit. About us that emulates the

Spirit of our God. That says I don't want to see

Andy perish. I don't want to see.

Any perish this altar. Is open today.

It's open to the camp. It's open to the congregation.

It's open to the Miriam's. It's open to the errands.

It's open to the Moseses, it's open to those that are stricken

with leprosy. It's open with those that have

just been cleansed and they had the marks of that cleansing and

that pass upon this their life. It's all here today.

It's all here today. We're we're not here.

We're not going to mention the name.

We don't want to permanently just document Amen, your offense

with your name and put that in perpetuity, Amen, perpetual Amen

for all generations and those to come know.

We want to stand here, Amen alone inside our Savior and say

that his grace is enough, His mercy is enough, and repentance

is powerful in the life of one that desires to stop being

separated from the camp that still would want to stop being

separated from God's house. No one left behind.

If there could be an errand this morning that would raise their

voice and say, let not this come, don't let them live as a

dead person. If there could be a Moses in the

church house today that could say God heal them now, heal them

now. These altars are open today.

You can pray up here you and pray in your Pew wherever you

had. I pray that you would be mindful

and have a prayerful spirit. I feel the presence of the

Master. I hear the footfall of the

Master. Amen.

Parading up and down these house today.

No one left behind. We're going to wait till they

come back. We're going to.

I stop with this, I will shut up.

You read throughout the old. Testament scripture that

ofttimes in their in their journeys that even the camp only

moved when the cloud or the presence of God moved from the

Tabernacle and went on. If that is the case for the

Mason. Then evidently the.

Cloud didn't move in those seven days, which is doing nothing but

God-given his endorsement to the waiting of the camp for the one

that was outside the camp. And if that's something that

God's Spirit endorses, it's something that I need to

embrace. Hallelujah.

Oh, can we talk to God right now, Brother Mason, you have

something prepared. People are praying.

People are talking to God. Hallelujah, you clean.

Come on home. You may have the end signs Amen,

of what was, but we've been waiting on you, and we're here

to embrace you.