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Rebellion, Unbelief and Consequences
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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!
Illustration -
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
The land will be yours!
What to look for
num 13
So it was a simple as that!
Go search out the land
What you see the will be a very fruitful land - so encouraging
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
look its all true - wow
The negative nay Sayers - exaggerated to push an agenda
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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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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
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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
Amnesia about he past
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
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[2] Allen, R. B. (1990).
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