Rebellion,Unbelief and Conquences
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Rebellion, Unbelief and Consequences
Rebellion, Unbelief and Consequences
30 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.
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31 But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.
num 13:
The nation was given a simple command:
Go spy out the Land that we will pocess .....
Simple as that
Come back
But the results were very traumatic
We can take the land
Too hard
lets go back to Egypt
We can take the land God has said it
How do you handle a command from God or a step of faith!
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Obedience Comes Before Understanding
Obedience Comes Before Understanding
I remember hearing someone say that obedience comes before understanding, and that is so true.
We should obey even without having a complete understanding, and if God’s Word commands us to do something that we don’t fully understand, we should do it anyway.
My experience has been to obey without a full understanding; after obedience, understanding finally comes.
It is rarely the other way around. That’s why He is God. He can see into the future.
If we were headed down the highway and a police officer stopped us and told us that the bridge was out, surely we would obey them by stopping, wouldn’t we?
God knows so much more, though, and He knows the future perfectly, so we have to step out in obedience first.
We tell our children to do certain things before they fully understand, right?
They don’t yet know that greater harm will come to them if they don’t do as they’re told, at least not yet. It’s only after they grow older that they finally see the wisdom in why we asked them to do it.
Faith is taking that first step of obedience, even if we don’t know where the staircase is leading us or see the staircase at all!
As a result of the Israelites’ rebellion and unbelief, they suffered severe consequences. That generation was prohibited from entering the promised land. They were doomed to keep circling the desert for another forty years until they died, and the next generation could enter in
Illustration here
Forgetting the Old You Means I hear the request:
I The Request
I The Request
The land will be yours!
2 Send thou men, that they may search the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, every one a ruler among them.
What to look for
num 13
17 And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this way southward, and go up into the mountain: 18 And see the land, what it is; and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many; 19 And what the land is that they dwell in, whether it be good or bad; and what cities they be that they dwell in, whether in tents, or in strong holds; 20 And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. And be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the firstripe grapes.
So it was a simple as that!
Go search out the land
What you see the will be a very fruitful land - so encouraging
23 And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, 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.
num 13.
God waved this in front of them and said all of this can be yours ...
I opened up the Red Sea, I destroyed the most powerful army on the planet so this is your reward.
Wow - lets go get it.....
God has so many promises for us all it takes is obediance..
Marriage
Finances
Family
Even out health
This does not men that all things will work out all the time but our end goals will be a blessing....
Forgetting the Old You Means I file an accurate :
II The Report
II The Report
look its all true - wow
26 And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land. 27 And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.
The negative nay Sayers - exaggerated to push an agenda
28 Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there. 29 The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan.
num 13.2
the key word is nevertheless
This reversal of mood was deadly. The size of the grape cluster now became ominous. No longer did it point to plenty but to people, no longer to joy but to fear. The cities were described as being inaccessible, impregnable[1]
This reversal of mood was deadly. The size of the grape cluster now became ominous. No longer did it point to plenty but to people, no longer to joy but to fear. The cities were described as being inaccessible, impregnable[1]
Look at the other side
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30 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.
30 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.
num 13:
The report of the majority must have caused the people to become very frightened. This is indicated by the words that speak of Caleb’s silencing the people
Its getting out of control .... read the verses
31 But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we. 32 And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature. 33 And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
num 13.
num 13:2
But the evil report prevailed.
Ten fearful men can out-shout, and certainly out-scare, two brave men. At last they state explicitly what they had implied, “We are unable to do it” (cf. v.31).
In this strong denial they not gave a negative caste to the words of faith that Caleb had just spoken; they indeed said that God was not sufficient to bring the task to completion.
At this point these men were in a state of denial that included the power and presence of God, the promises and assurances of God, their own resources—
The Land of Promise was a good land, a gracious gift of the Lord. By speaking evil concerning the land, the faithless spies were speaking evil of him. At this point their words became exaggerations and distortions.
the negative spirit against faith is now out of control...
Illustration
A Run on the bank
Gossiping
A health issue
Forgetting the Old You remembers the bad outcome:
III The Result
III The Result
Amnesia about he past
1 And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night. 2 And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness! 3 And wherefore hath the Lord brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt? 4 And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
The malicious report of the ten spies (13:26–33) spread throughout the populace like a vicious virus on rampage[1]
Fear unchecked becomes its own fuel, a self-propelling force that expands as it expends. The words of a mid-twentieth-century American president, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” have their outworking in the self-consumptive absorbtion with terror that raged through the camps that night
The more the people wailed, the more excessive their words. The more the people cried, the more they outreached one another in protests of rage. This is the crowd psychology that leads to riots, lynchings, stormings, and rampages. Now they begin to aim their anger more directly at Yahweh himself.[1]
So it was that the frightening words of the faithless spies led to the mourning of the entire community and to their great rebellion against the Lord. They forgot all the miracles that the Lord had done for them[2]
The pleading
6 And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes: 7 And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land. 8 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. 9 Only rebel not ye against the Lord, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the Lord is with us: fear them not.
5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel. 6 And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes: 7 And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land. 8 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. 9 Only rebel not ye against the Lord, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the Lord is with us: fear them not.
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[2] Allen, R. B. (1990). Numbers. In F. E. Gaebelein (Ed.), The Expositor’s Bible Commentary: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers (Vol. 2, p. 814). Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House.
Don;t do this
Illustration of a negative spirit taking over ....
Rodeny King 1992 PHL subway
Families that fight and don't even remember what started it only we will never talf
Hatfield and McCoy
No matter what you say their mind is made up and it bad......
Forgetting the Old you understands the cost of rebellion
III The Relinquishment 14:30-34
III The Relinquishment 14:30-34
Guess what you will never see the land
Those that obey will
Joshua
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Caleb you will wonder for 40 years one year for every day you searched the land
vs 31 - you were so concerned about the children safety well guess what they will be the only ones to go in ....
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30 Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. 31 But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised. 32 But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness. 33 And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness. 34 After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.
22 Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice; 23 Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it: 24 But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.
num 14:30-34
Look what you could have had
Look what could have been
How sad a wasted life that that refused to obey ....
They wonder in circles until death ......
There is a cost for unbelief, rebellion
Replacing the old me requires obedience
num 14.