Read the passage Numbers 13
Read the passage Numbers 14
Looking at the promise as God gave it, not as Israel saw it.
Our challenge: not what we see but what we don’t see; often what we see
causes us halt. We need to see what God sees.
v.2 1. A place given of God; given to/for the people of God.
v.4-16 (And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying,) ( Send thou men that they may search
the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: )…
v.4-16,2. A place meant to give courage and strength to the faith of God’s people.
20 (and be ye of good courage, )
v.17-3. A place of inspiration- inspiring the hearts of God’s people to behold and know
20,25 the larger plan of God.
(…(and see the land, what it is; …)
v.23,4. A place where fruitfulness is presently validated and prospectively suggested-
a place of plenty.
24, 26,27 (And they came unto the brook of Eschol, and cut down from thence a branch
with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they
brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs.)
v.28- 5. A place where victory awaiteth those with claims of faith.
(Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are
walled, and very great: …)
v.29 6. A place for the dwelling of many.
(The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south, …the mountains: …by the sea,
and by the coast of Jordan.)
It was a large land as God promised elsewhere.
v.30 7. A place readily available and needing a ready response by God’s people.
(And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and
possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.)
v.31,8. A place that must be viewed with God’s vision, God’s eyes.
32 (But the men that went up with them said, We be not able to go up against the
people; for they are stronger than we.) …
Some see only the challenge.
Some see the worthiness of God and His will.
14:1-9. A place needing the voice of faith amongst God’s people for them to move
forward.
(And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried, and the people wept
that night.)…
14:7 10. A place that is an exceeding good land, worth fighting for.
(And they spoke unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land,
which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land.)
v.8 11. A place which is a testimony of God’s delight- to give, to be the provider, to
increase.
(If the Lord delight in us, then He will bring us into this land, and give it us; a
land which floweth with milk and honey.)
v.9 12. A place where fear does not rule, nor betray.
(Only rebel not ye against the Lord, neither fear ye the people of the land; for
they are bread for us: their defense is departed from them, and the Lord is with
us: fear them not.)
v.7 13. A place that tests the believer’s views of God.
God’s worthiness,; His trustworthiness; His power; His promises; His leading; His
commitment; His ability; His love.
v.8 14. A place full of blessing; of full blessing
4 (If the Lord delight in us, then He will bring us into this land, and give it
us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.)
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