WHAT GOD DOES WHEN WE’RE WILLING
Numbers 13 & 14
Promised Land: Following God’s Lead – Part 3
Jeremiah 29.13 “You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.” (esv)
RECOGNIZE OUR CALLING: WE ARE SAVED TO SERVE …
v.2 “Send some men to explore the land … which I am giving to the Israelites.” (niv)
IN A Fruitful …
v. 14.7-8 “The land we passed through and explored is an extremely good land … a land flowing with milk and honey …”(csb)
AND Fortified PLACE
1 Timothy 6.12 “Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called ...” (esv)
PUBLICIZE OUR LIFE’S THEME: TELLING … God WHAT We Can’t Do
v. 31 “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are.” (esv)
v. 33 “We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them." (niv)
When We Play The World’s Comparison Game We Become …
* Hopeless v. 2 “If only we had died in Egypt!” (niv)
* Faithless v. 3 “Why is the LORD bringing us into this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become a prey.” (esv)
* Faithless v. 4 “Let us choose a leader and go back to Egypt.” (esv)
The World WHAT Our God Can Do
vv. 14.8-9 “If the LORD delights in us, he will bring us into this land and give it to us … Only do not rebel against the LORD. And do not fear the people of the land … the LORD is with us; do not fear them.” (esv)