Sermon Tone Analysis

Introduction

Good morning, so glad you are here today.

Man there is no better place for us that right here, right here with each other on the Lord’s day.

This is special, you are my family, my friends and we gather in the name and presence of the Lord to worship Him.

I never understand those who treat the Lord’s day as their day.... they cast it off and choose not to come .... not be gather and not to be a part of our fellowship...

Man, o man, this is His day and He has given it to us.. Why can’t we give a little back to Him?

Now today we are going to have a great day… Don’t forget this evening, we will eat and worship, it will be a good time.

But lets take some time and focus on our time together this morning.

Let me begin by asking you a question....

Do you trust God?

Why do I ask that question.....

Because at times we struggle with it… Listen to this thought, it is one I’ve stated before..

We trust God with our salvation… which is of the utmost importance, but people tend to struggle with God day to day…

Where he is leading?

What is he desiring to do with my life?

Can I really do that.. ??

And I want to challenge you today to say this… I can trust where He is leading...

If you doubt that… in any way, or have any reservations… then something is off in your life,

Let me share this passage with you....

, and lets find verse 6

Now I have shared this verse with you to remind you of a simple truth, you must have faith if you are going to follow the Lord.

And likewise, if you don’t have faith in God, in where God is leading.. then you cannot follow, and you cannot find what the Lord has in store for you.

Case in point is the children of Israel...

God had made ac covenant with Abraham… he promised him a people and a land.

Now after hundreds of later, God has brought the children of Israel up out of the land of Egypt, out of the suffering of their bondage ....

And now God has brought them to the end of the promised land…The land of their inheritance… all they is required if faith to reach out and take it.

So Lets look at and

Numbers chapter 13, verses 1-3

Numbers 13:-

And then Deuteronomy chapter 1, verses 21-24

So lets begin.... right off the bat, we must see the command God had given to the people...

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The Command of God

Everything begins with the command of God my friends.

For the children of Israel, God had brought them out of the land of their bondage and their suffering,.

He had paralyzed and broke the Egyptians to the point they gave gold and silver to the children of Israel as they left their homes.

God had shown the people his might, his strength and his power.... and now he has led this

people across the wilderness, to the edge of the promised land.

And he tells them to enter

Look back at : Verse 8

The land of promise, come and take, come and enjoy, come and be blessed.. receive what I have promised you....

Man, can you think of anything more special, more wonderful.... NO...

What God has promised he is not giving them....

Friends that is a direct parallel to our life.

God has promised something wonderful, life everlasting.....

Q. Are you ready to take hold of it?

And if you sad no… why?

Now I do not mean go and drink the cool-aid and get it now..

I just mean have you made Jesus the Lord or your life, and heaven is not your home?

If not … what is stopping you?

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Now, take it one step further… What command has God told you to do?

He is trying to grow you, trying to make your walk with him closer, are you listening?

Are you obedient?

Are you entering the land He has showed to you?

My friends, God only tells us to do what he knows we are ready for… do you believe that…?

Do you believe He has prepared your way?

Now let us move on to the second point......

2. A People of Doubt

Think about this my friends, doubt will never allow you to have success.

Instead, the devil will use doubt to keep you from achieving the place, the position, the opportunity God has prepared for you.

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What Command Has God told us About

In this case, the children of Israel are there on the edge of the promised land, they are on the edge of receiving all that God has promised them, that He made a covenant with Abraham about....

And here on the edge of the most beautiful day .... it clouds over with doubt as they people respond halfheartedly toward God.

halfheartedly toward God.

Listen again to Deuteronomy 1:8

God called them, prepared them to entered the Land, and He would give it over to them.

He would do this...

AND here is the the truth of the matter, God would do this… not them.

They just had to move forward and watch God at work.

Just as He released them in Egypt, Just as He had took them through the Red Sea on dry Land, Just as He killed Pharaoh and his army.

Just as He fed them and gave them water…

God has done everything for them.. but yet they still doubt

And so the people said...

Look at Deuteronomy 1:22

Do you see it, God said enter and they said lets send in the spies… They didn’t trust the Word of the Lord, they had to see for themselves.

Now God allowed it..

This is what we see in Numbers 13

Please understand , we see from the Scriptures that the will of God involves three aspects.

A. His perfect will,

B. His permissive will

C.

And then there is out of the will of God.

Let me give you some examples.....

It was God’s will for the Children of Israel to be under his will and rule His is His perfect will, but he allowed them to choose and have an earthy king, His permissive will.

He warned them of the dangers and cost… but he allowed them to have a king, and he anointed Saul as their king.

And Sual was disobedient and the throne was stripped from him.

Saul would later disobey God judge, Samuel and thus he would place himself in disobedience and outside of God’s will...

king.

Saul would later disobey God judge, Samuel and thus he would place himself in disobedience and outside of God’s will....

So God allowed them to send Spies into the land of Canaan, but it was not his perfect will, no…instead God desired that they just follow His command and enter into the land he had promised to them, that he has prepared for them.

God allowed it because they were the people of doubt....

So the spies when out in response to the doubt of the people.

Now let me ask you … are you a person of doubt?

Or are you a person who has faith to follow God where He is leading you....

Which one are you today… God knows.... Do you know who you are?

Now.... if you re a doubter..... what can you do to change it.

So let me share this one last thought with you today…

3. A Day of Opportunity Lost....

Have you ever handled a situation so poorly that you lost a valuable opportunity in the process?

It might have been a interview for a job, a promotion or an opportunity to share your faith with a person or a group… Opportunities lost is a terrible place to find yourself.... for you see the problem but you cannot do anything to change it.

You wish you could do it all over again, but to no avail.