Lesson 26

All right, if you take your bios, turn to Numbers, Chapter 13. 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,640 Numbers, Chapter 13. 00:00:04,640 --> 00:00:08,360 Chris, would you mind closing that door behind you, sir? 00:00:08,360 --> 00:00:14,040 Would you mind? Thank you, sir. 00:00:14,040 --> 00:00:16,800 Yeah, there's two Chrises. Two Chrises. 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:20,960 The young Chris, the old Chris. 00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:23,760 [laughter] 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:30,760 All right, so... 00:00:30,760 --> 00:00:35,040 So here we are this morning. 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:41,560 So this morning, here's where we are chronologically in our study. 00:00:41,560 --> 00:00:48,080 Israel has now come out of Egypt. 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:50,960 They are now in the Sinai Desert. 00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:53,960 Last week, in the week before, we learned about God's mercy. 00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:58,960 We learned that mercy is defined by the tabernacle that God had them made. 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:05,800 It was defined by how God gave mercy through the sacrifice 00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:11,240 and that blood that was put on the mercy seat. 00:01:11,240 --> 00:01:13,760 All right? 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:15,200 We learned about the day of Passover, okay? 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:18,840 About the day of Passover, the day of Atonement, where you had two goats. 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:23,280 One was sacrificed, the blood was put on the mercy seat. 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:26,440 The other goat was sent away alive, so far away that it would never meet a man again, 00:01:26,440 --> 00:01:32,680 showing that once our sins are put away by God's mercy, 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:36,920 through the sacrifice the coming Savior would make, 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:40,760 we and our sins never meet again. 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:43,600 The Bible puts it this way. 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:44,920 Separate as far as the east is from the west. 00:01:44,920 --> 00:01:48,360 They never meet. 00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:50,800 So they're still here in the Sinai Desert, but what is the objective of God bringing them 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:56,800 out of Egypt? 00:01:56,800 --> 00:01:57,800 He didn't bring them out of Egypt to leave them in a desert. 00:01:57,800 --> 00:02:01,080 He brought them out of Egypt to bring them to a promised land, 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:04,160 the land that he, in his words, described, flowed with milk and honey. 00:02:04,160 --> 00:02:09,080 All right, so here we are on our chronological chart. 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:14,320 Israel is out of Egypt now. 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:16,280 We have Moses, Aaron, and Joshua, which we'll move to next week. 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:22,120 We'll move to Joshua's leadership next week. 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:25,240 We looked at the Exodus. 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:26,560 We looked at the law, the Ten Commandments being given. 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:28,800 We looked at the tabernacle being made. 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:31,240 And now we're going to see them in the wilderness for 40 years today. 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:37,320 40 years in the wilderness. 00:02:37,320 --> 00:02:39,880 That was not God's plan. 00:02:39,880 --> 00:02:41,800 That was not his desire for them. 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:43,560 But let's look and see what happened. 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:46,000 Okay? 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:47,000 Numbers 13, verse 1. 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:53,520 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, send thou men that they may search the land of 00:02:53,520 --> 00:03:09,320 Canaan which I give unto the children of Israel. 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:15,400 Of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, every one a ruler among them. 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:22,400 And then if you'll look down in verse 5 of the Tribes Simeon, 6, Tribe of Judah, 7, Issachar, 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:30,440 8, Tribe of Ephraim, 9, Tribe of Benjamin, 10, Tribe of Zebulun, 11, Tribe of Joseph, 00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:39,880 Dan, Asher, Naphtali, Gad, and it goes on. 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:48,640 And so they're sending spies out from these tribes to go spy out the land. 00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:55,640 And so what they're doing, they're going on a reconnaissance mission. 00:03:55,640 --> 00:04:01,280 All right? 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:02,880 So we're going to send them from here, which is where they're staged. 00:04:02,880 --> 00:04:07,280 We're going to send them into the promised land over here and spy it out. 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:13,040 They're going to come back idealistically with the where to go, the routes to take, everything 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:20,040 that they're going to do, what they saw over there, hopefully encourage the people's hearts. 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:26,280 And then once they have this reconnaissance mission, God's going to send them in and they're 00:04:26,280 --> 00:04:30,560 going to have their first campaign, their first military campaign on the promised land. 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:37,560 Because these people here, don't feel sorry for these folks, these people here were ready 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:45,360 for God's judgment. 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:47,880 They had defied God's commands. 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:49,960 They had rejected God as their God. 00:04:49,960 --> 00:04:53,020 They were evil people. 00:04:53,020 --> 00:04:55,040 And so God was going to use his people to drive them out of the land, kill any of that resisted, 00:04:55,040 --> 00:05:02,040 and then they were going to take that land and God was going to give that to them. 00:05:02,040 --> 00:05:09,520 All of this, once again, is a picture. 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:13,640 Remember when God released them from their captivity of Egypt, that was a picture of 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:19,960 us being delivered from our bondage to sin and death. 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:24,680 He released them, he freed them through the blood of a Passover lamb. 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:29,560 He brings them across the Red Sea, which is like us being raised from the dead. 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:36,560 That barrier that separates us from our eternal life. 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:41,120 He takes them through the Sinai Desert, which is a picture of our trials in this world that 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:46,920 we face. 00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:49,360 And then ultimately, they come into the promised land, execute judgment on the wicked people 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:56,360 who are there, and then they occupy that land in their stead, which is a picture of us when 00:05:56,360 --> 00:06:04,280 Jesus returns. 00:06:04,280 --> 00:06:06,680 He's going to judge the people of this wicked world and we're going to occupy the world 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:10,840 in their stead. 00:06:10,840 --> 00:06:11,800 You see? 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:12,800 All of this is an illustrative, prophetic foreshadowing of what's to come. 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:21,640 So this is what's supposed to take place and you would think that after watching God bring 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:28,160 these plagues upon Egypt, after watching God open the Red Sea, after having manna come 00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:35,160 down from heaven and water coming out of a rock for you to drink while you're in the wilderness 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:42,800 and watching all these wonderful things take place, that they would think, "Man, our God 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:47,500 can do anything. Here we go." 00:06:47,500 --> 00:06:48,960 Let's go ahead and look here now. 00:06:48,960 --> 00:06:52,720 They send these spies. 00:06:52,720 --> 00:06:54,840 Look here if you would in verse 13. 00:06:54,840 --> 00:07:01,840 Verse 13. I'm sorry, chapter 13, verse 17. 00:07:01,840 --> 00:07:06,840 Numbers 13, 17. 00:07:06,840 --> 00:07:08,840 "And Moses sent them to spout the land of Canaan and said unto them, Get you up this 00:07:08,840 --> 00:07:14,040 way southward and go up into the mountain and see the land, what it is, and the people 00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:20,040 that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many, and what the land is 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:26,360 that they dwell in, whether it be good or bad, and what cities they be that they dwell in, 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:31,800 whether in tents or in strongholds." 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:34,000 This is definitely a reconnaissance mission. 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:36,080 Find their weaknesses, their strengths, see what type of resources are in the land so 00:07:36,080 --> 00:07:41,240 when we go we'll know what we have. 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:44,220 Verse 20. 00:07:44,220 --> 00:07:45,720 "And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether it be wood therein or not, 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:50,880 and be of good courage." 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:52,200 That's the key. 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:53,200 Be of good courage. 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:54,560 Why does he tell them that? 00:07:54,560 --> 00:07:57,000 Because when you're going to spout your enemies it can be scary. 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:00,600 What if they get captured? 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:04,080 What if they look stronger than us? 00:08:04,080 --> 00:08:06,480 Be of good courage. 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:08,240 And bring of the fruit of the land, in other words, bring us a sample back of what you 00:08:08,240 --> 00:08:12,400 find over there. 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:15,640 Now the time was the time of the first ripe grapes. 00:08:15,640 --> 00:08:22,120 It was summertime and there was about time for grapes to be harvested. 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:27,840 Verse 21. 00:08:27,840 --> 00:08:28,840 "So they went up and searched the land from the wilderness of Zen unto Rehob as men come 00:08:28,840 --> 00:08:35,640 to Hamath. 00:08:35,640 --> 00:08:37,600 And they ascended by the south and came unto Hebron, where a hymen, Shashiach, Telmea, the 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:47,480 children of Anak were." 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:49,960 Now Hebron was built seven years before Zon in Egypt. 00:08:49,960 --> 00:08:53,160 Man, I love all the history here. 00:08:53,160 --> 00:08:56,200 A lot of this we don't know about, but the details are amazing. 00:08:56,200 --> 00:09:00,920 Okay? 00:09:00,920 --> 00:09:01,920 And anyone back then that would have read this would have loved the details. 00:09:01,920 --> 00:09:06,360 All right? 00:09:06,360 --> 00:09:07,360 So let's go ahead and look here now. 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:09,760 In verse 23. 00:09:09,760 --> 00:09:10,760 "And they came unto the brook, Eschkol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster 00:09:10,760 --> 00:09:16,600 of grapes. 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:18,240 And they bared between them, I'm sorry, between two upon a staff. 00:09:18,240 --> 00:09:24,280 And they brought of the palm granites and of the figs." 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:28,120 So they've got a staff here. 00:09:28,120 --> 00:09:31,000 They've got grapes that are so big when they hang them off there. 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:33,720 And I've seen some of those grapes in Israel, even though they even that they grow today. 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:37,880 And they're huge clusters that come down. 00:09:37,880 --> 00:09:41,040 And they got them hanging off this staff and two men are carrying it. 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:45,680 They've got palm granites. 00:09:45,680 --> 00:09:46,880 They've got figs. 00:09:46,880 --> 00:09:49,000 Verse 24, "The place was called the brook, Eschkol, because of the cluster of grapes 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:54,360 which the children of Israel cut down from thence." 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:58,000 Verse 25, "And they returned from searching of the land after forty days." 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:02,560 Now there's that number 40 again. 00:10:02,560 --> 00:10:04,160 What have we learned about 40 in the Bible? 00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:06,680 Can anyone remember? 00:10:06,680 --> 00:10:08,400 That's very close. 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:11,960 It's a number of a perfect testing. 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:14,400 Right. 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:15,400 Like 40 days and 49 nights of rain, Jesus being tempted for 40 days, 40 years in the 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:22,840 wilderness. 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:23,840 And then we have increments of 400 years, historically throughout the Bible, 400 in 00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:31,960 the Judges, 400 in the Kings, 400 silent years. 00:10:31,960 --> 00:10:36,240 You'll see it all throughout the Bible. 00:10:36,240 --> 00:10:38,000 So they're there. 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:40,400 They spout the land for 40 days. 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:43,040 Let's go ahead and look here now in verse 26. 00:10:43,040 --> 00:10:45,160 "And they went and came to Moses and to Aaron, into all the congregation of the children 00:10:45,160 --> 00:10:50,600 of Israel, into the wilderness of Peron, to Caddish, and brought back word into them, 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:55,960 and unto all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land." 00:10:55,960 --> 00:10:58,720 So they're coming back. 00:10:58,720 --> 00:11:00,440 They're giving them their report of what they saw. 00:11:00,440 --> 00:11:03,200 You've got 12 spies. 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:05,800 And you've got all this wonderful fruit. 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:09,000 Now these guys haven't eaten fresh fruit in a while. 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:12,960 They're in the desert. 00:11:12,960 --> 00:11:14,960 And you would think that they would look at that and think, "See, that should be an encouragement 00:11:14,960 --> 00:11:19,160 to them. 00:11:19,160 --> 00:11:20,560 Hey, let's go get this land and let's go live off of the fat of it." 00:11:20,560 --> 00:11:25,560 You know? 00:11:25,560 --> 00:11:26,560 So let's see what happens here now. 00:11:26,560 --> 00:11:32,840 Verse 27, "And they told him and said, 'We came into the land, whither thou sentest us," 00:11:32,840 --> 00:11:40,360 this is them talking to Moses, "'and surely it floweth with milk and honey, and this is 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:45,440 the fruit of.'" 00:11:45,440 --> 00:11:46,440 In other words, the land is just like God described. 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:50,800 Man, you've got honey. 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:53,560 You've got milk. 00:11:53,560 --> 00:11:55,440 And that's just a way of saying the land is rich. 00:11:55,440 --> 00:11:57,640 It's a metaphor. 00:11:57,640 --> 00:11:58,640 It didn't mean honey and milk were oozing out of the soil or anything. 00:11:58,640 --> 00:12:03,080 But it's a metaphor to say, "Man, this is a rich land." 00:12:03,080 --> 00:12:08,360 Anything you could ever dream of is in this land. 00:12:08,360 --> 00:12:11,640 Look at it! 00:12:11,640 --> 00:12:14,080 Verse 28, "That was the good news." 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:16,840 Now here's the bad news. 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:18,920 "Nevertheless, the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled and 00:12:18,920 --> 00:12:25,320 very great. 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:26,320 And moreover, we saw the children of Anak there." 00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:29,400 Now the children of Anak were giants. 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:31,400 They were very tall men. 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:35,200 Verse 29, "The Malachites dwell in the land of the south, and the Hittites and the Jebusites 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:40,600 and the Amorites dwell in the mountains, and the Canaanites dwell by the sea and by the 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:45,760 coast of Jordan." 00:12:45,760 --> 00:12:48,200 So look what they're saying. 00:12:48,200 --> 00:12:49,200 "Hey, yeah, it's a great land, but man, there's some big people there, and they're 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:54,200 not living in tents. 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:55,200 They're living in cities that are walled." 00:12:55,200 --> 00:12:58,280 Look at us. 00:12:58,280 --> 00:12:59,280 We're just out here. 00:12:59,280 --> 00:13:01,880 We have no battering rams. 00:13:01,880 --> 00:13:07,040 We're not a modern military, and they're scared to death. 00:13:07,040 --> 00:13:14,200 And so Caleb was one of the spies. 00:13:14,200 --> 00:13:19,680 Caleb was a godly man. 00:13:19,680 --> 00:13:21,680 He believed God. 00:13:21,680 --> 00:13:23,520 He trusted him with all of his heart. 00:13:23,520 --> 00:13:26,040 And Caleb could see that the people, when they hear this report, they're getting very 00:13:26,040 --> 00:13:30,880 nervous. 00:13:30,880 --> 00:13:31,880 They're like, "Ooh, we better stay out here in the wilderness, or better than that, 00:13:31,880 --> 00:13:35,640 maybe we ought to go back to Egypt. 00:13:35,640 --> 00:13:38,640 We don't want to go in there and mess with that and end up getting ourselves killed." 00:13:38,640 --> 00:13:42,360 And he could tell that the people are getting really restless. 00:13:42,360 --> 00:13:45,800 And so Caleb said, "Hey, hey, hey, hang on, hang on." 00:13:45,800 --> 00:13:49,520 So let's look and see what Caleb says in verse 30. 00:13:49,520 --> 00:13:51,840 "And Caleb stilled the people before Moses and said, 'Let us go up at once and possess 00:13:51,840 --> 00:13:56,960 it, for we are well able to overcome it.'" 00:13:56,960 --> 00:13:59,280 He said, "Man, we can do this. 00:13:59,280 --> 00:14:01,000 Let's go now. 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:02,000 What are we waiting for? 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:04,000 Let's go back and get them now." 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:07,160 All right. 00:14:07,160 --> 00:14:10,120 When the spies that had the bad news told them that the people were strong and there 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:16,880 were giants in the land, what were they not considering? 00:14:16,880 --> 00:14:22,720 Yeah, they may have been stronger than the Israelites. 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:27,600 But what? 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:28,600 They weren't stronger than God, were they? 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:32,920 They weren't stronger than God. 00:14:32,920 --> 00:14:35,160 That's what they were not considering. 00:14:35,160 --> 00:14:36,760 They wouldn't consider that, it seems, how everything they have seen God do for them 00:14:36,760 --> 00:14:44,160 to get them to where they're at. 00:14:44,160 --> 00:14:46,440 Yeah, and if you're, you know, you probably couldn't hear that, but we had a student 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:51,120 here say it seems crazy that they wouldn't consider that seeing everything that God 00:14:51,120 --> 00:14:56,440 had done for them so far. 00:14:56,440 --> 00:14:59,080 But that is the carnal, fallen human nature. 00:14:59,080 --> 00:15:03,440 And even we ourselves can attest that when God has done things for us in the past, when 00:15:03,440 --> 00:15:10,000 we face trials in the future, a lot of times we still get, "Oh, you know, we still get 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:14,520 shaken up." 00:15:14,520 --> 00:15:15,520 And we always have to remember, look back and remember what God's done for us, remember 00:15:15,520 --> 00:15:21,320 who fights the battles for us. 00:15:21,320 --> 00:15:23,520 The whole thing is this, did they get out of Egypt by their own power? 00:15:23,520 --> 00:15:29,080 No. 00:15:29,080 --> 00:15:30,680 Just as they couldn't get out of Egypt by their own power, they couldn't get into Canaan 00:15:30,680 --> 00:15:35,200 by their own power. 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:36,920 Now what do we learn from that? 00:15:36,920 --> 00:15:38,320 Some people say, "Well, once you're saved, you're saved through what Jesus did for you, 00:15:38,320 --> 00:15:45,760 the blood of the Passover lamb. 00:15:45,760 --> 00:15:48,320 But to go to heaven, you have to keep living good, doing good, all this stuff, keep a good 00:15:48,320 --> 00:15:54,520 life, keep serving God. 00:15:54,520 --> 00:15:55,680 And if you don't, you're not going to make it into heaven." 00:15:55,680 --> 00:16:00,960 So those people that believe like that, they're just like these unbelieving Israelites. 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:07,520 They think, "Well, we'll get out by God's power, but we'll get in by our own." 00:16:07,520 --> 00:16:11,200 It doesn't work that way. 00:16:11,200 --> 00:16:13,400 You get out of sin and death by God's power. 00:16:13,400 --> 00:16:16,940 You get into heaven by God's power. 00:16:16,940 --> 00:16:19,400 You were kept by the power of God through faith, the Scripture says. 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:24,520 Kept. 00:16:24,520 --> 00:16:25,780 So released by God's power, kept by God's power. 00:16:25,780 --> 00:16:31,960 Remember how God showed Abraham how this would take place? 00:16:31,960 --> 00:16:37,360 Abraham was in a deep sleep and God alone went between those pieces. 00:16:37,360 --> 00:16:42,320 This is God's fight, not theirs. 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:46,720 All right, let's go ahead and look here now. 00:16:46,720 --> 00:16:52,000 Verse 30, Caleb says, "We're well able to overcome it." 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:54,400 Verse 31, "But the men that went up with him said, 'We be not able to go up against the 00:16:54,400 --> 00:17:01,480 people, for they are stronger than way.'" 00:17:01,480 --> 00:17:05,200 Where was their faith? 00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:06,400 They were trusting in themselves. 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:08,960 Man, if I had to trust in myself, I'd never make it to heaven. 00:17:08,960 --> 00:17:13,600 If I had to trust in myself, God would never accept me. 00:17:13,600 --> 00:17:17,320 I wouldn't trust the best five minutes of my life. 00:17:17,320 --> 00:17:22,040 I trust the life and death of the one who came from me. 00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:27,120 I trust my Savior. 00:17:27,120 --> 00:17:29,200 That's what my faith is in. 00:17:29,200 --> 00:17:31,440 And so what this story is showing us is all of salvation from start to finish is of the 00:17:31,440 --> 00:17:43,400 Word. 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:44,600 It's not our work. 00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:46,620 It's His work. 00:17:46,620 --> 00:17:49,000 Take your Bibles, if you would, and turn to Ephesians 2. 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:53,280 Ephesians 2. 00:17:53,280 --> 00:17:56,840 And man, if this just doesn't make it plain, nothing will. 00:17:56,840 --> 00:18:04,080 Ephesians 2, that's in the New Testament. 00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:07,320 It's right after Galatians. If you find Romans, just keep going. 00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:14,280 It's going to be right after Romans and Galatians. 00:18:14,280 --> 00:18:20,200 Chapter 2, please. 00:18:20,200 --> 00:18:25,120 Ephesians 2. 00:18:25,120 --> 00:18:28,120 Huh? 00:18:28,120 --> 00:18:30,120 The God's Electric Power Company. 00:18:30,120 --> 00:18:32,120 Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians. 00:18:32,120 --> 00:18:34,760 Ephesians 2. 00:18:34,760 --> 00:18:37,480 Look here now in verse 8 with me. 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:40,920 For by grace are you saved through faith. 00:18:40,920 --> 00:18:47,400 Read this part with me. 00:18:47,400 --> 00:18:49,200 And that not of yourselves. 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:54,160 It is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast. 00:18:54,160 --> 00:19:00,800 How about that? 00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:03,140 So if they got into the Promised Land because they were stronger than the Canaanites and 00:19:03,140 --> 00:19:12,240 the Amorites and the Hittites and the Jebusites, if they got into the Canaan by their own power, 00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:19,680 they would be able to boast. 00:19:19,680 --> 00:19:21,640 Oh, look what we did. 00:19:21,640 --> 00:19:22,840 Man, we licked them. 00:19:22,840 --> 00:19:25,060 We're bigger and tougher than them. 00:19:25,060 --> 00:19:29,520 But salvation is by grace. 00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:31,600 That means God's work through faith in God's work. 00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:36,800 And that not of ourselves. 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:39,040 It is the gift of God. 00:19:39,040 --> 00:19:41,320 Now, if I gave you a gift, let's say it's your birthday. 00:19:41,320 --> 00:19:46,960 All right. 00:19:46,960 --> 00:19:47,960 And you've had a bunch of them. 00:19:47,960 --> 00:19:49,480 Let's say it's your birthday. 00:19:49,480 --> 00:19:50,480 All right. 00:19:50,480 --> 00:19:51,480 That's an inside joke to those who are watching online. 00:19:51,480 --> 00:19:54,400 Let's say it's your birthday. 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:55,400 He accused me of being 74 this morning. 00:19:55,400 --> 00:19:57,680 All right. 00:19:57,680 --> 00:19:58,680 So we're having a little fun with each other. 00:19:58,680 --> 00:20:01,560 Let's say it's your birthday and I gave you a gift. 00:20:01,560 --> 00:20:03,840 I say, Chris, happy birthday. 00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:06,520 I know you've been wanting whatever. 00:20:06,520 --> 00:20:09,680 And I hand you a box. 00:20:09,680 --> 00:20:11,760 Would you pull out your wallet and say, how much do I owe you for that? 00:20:11,760 --> 00:20:14,840 Nope. 00:20:14,840 --> 00:20:15,840 It's a gift. 00:20:15,840 --> 00:20:18,200 Salvation, we just read it. 00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:21,000 Black ink on white paper. 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:22,960 It is the gift of God. 00:20:22,960 --> 00:20:27,920 Not of works, not our works, lest any man should boast. 00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:31,400 When we are accepted by God, when we go to heaven, when we live forever, it will not 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:38,640 be anything we can boast about. 00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:42,480 The only thing we can boast about is what he did for us. 00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:46,080 That's it. 00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:47,080 Not what we did for him. 00:20:47,080 --> 00:20:48,080 Man, I love it. 00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:50,080 All right. 00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:51,080 Now let's look here. 00:20:51,080 --> 00:20:52,080 Verse 31. 00:20:52,080 --> 00:20:53,080 They are stronger than we, they said. 00:20:53,080 --> 00:20:55,760 So anyone who trusts in their own abilities, they're represented by these ten spies that 00:20:55,760 --> 00:21:06,280 said nope, can't do it. 00:21:06,280 --> 00:21:08,760 Anyone who trusts in God's ability, they're represented by Caleb and also Joshua, which 00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:14,680 we'll see here in just a little bit. 00:21:14,680 --> 00:21:16,840 Let's go ahead and look here now in verse 32. 00:21:16,840 --> 00:21:24,720 One day, that is the ten spies, brought up an evil report of the land which they had 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:30,760 searched unto the children of Israel, saying, "The land through which we have gone to search 00:21:30,760 --> 00:21:35,420 it is a land that eats up the inhabitants thereof, and all the people that we saw in 00:21:35,420 --> 00:21:41,960 it are men of great stature." 00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:45,360 Verse 33. 00:21:45,360 --> 00:21:46,360 "And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants, and we were 00:21:46,360 --> 00:21:51,440 in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight." 00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:57,960 Man, they looked like giants to us. 00:21:57,960 --> 00:22:01,000 We looked like grasshoppers to them. 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:04,960 Chapter 14 now, Numbers chapter 14. 00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:08,160 "And all the congregation lifted up their voice and cried, and the people wept that 00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:15,280 night." 00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:17,560 Let me point something out to you. 00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:22,080 The majority of the spies said they couldn't go. 00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:29,860 The majority of the spies said, "I know God promised us this, but it's not possible." 00:22:29,860 --> 00:22:39,720 The majority of the spies shot down God's plan, and the majority of the people believed 00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:47,160 the majority of the spies. 00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:49,320 Do you know what we learned from that? 00:22:49,320 --> 00:22:53,360 We had some spies telling us the good news about the land. 00:22:53,360 --> 00:22:57,000 The majority of the spies were telling us the bad news about the land. 00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:59,920 You can't do it. 00:22:59,920 --> 00:23:00,920 You're not strong enough. 00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:05,240 The majority of people in this world will not tell you God's truth, and the majority 00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:13,480 of people in this world will accept the lies of the majority. 00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:20,920 That's it. 00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:22,880 Don't ever think, "Well, I'm going to see what the majority is going to do, and I'm 00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:26,680 going to follow them. 00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:27,680 If you do that, you're going to be wrong every time." 00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:30,680 I was listening to C-SPAN many years ago, and there was someone in Congress, and he 00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:40,200 stood up and he says, "Can all of these representatives, we've all voted for this, 00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:46,520 can all of us possibly be wrong?" 00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:48,440 I remember thinking, "Yes, yes you can. 00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:51,960 Yes you can." 00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:52,960 They're still messing up. 00:23:52,960 --> 00:24:00,400 That'll tell us. 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:03,520 You want to be in the minority. 00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:06,880 Jesus, when he came, he said, "Broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many go 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:14,520 down that broad road, but narrow is the way that leads to life, and few there be that 00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:20,560 find it." 00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:22,560 So, don't be discouraged. 00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:25,440 This is what the people did in the wilderness. 00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:28,320 They thought, "Man, the majority of these spies here, why should we listen to Caleb? 00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:33,800 All these men here are outnumbering Caleb. 00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:36,920 We're going to go with their report." 00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:39,880 They were wrong. 00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:42,480 Don't listen to the majority of people and think, "Well, they've got to be right." 00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:48,560 I don't care if most churches say, "You've got to do this, that or the other to go to 00:24:48,560 --> 00:24:55,440 heaven." 00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:56,440 I don't care if most people say, "There's no God." 00:24:56,440 --> 00:24:58,640 I don't care if most teachers teach against the Bible. 00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:03,400 I don't care. 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:06,000 I care about the truth. 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:10,600 If I am the only person in the world that believes it, that's okay, because I'm going 00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:17,880 to stick with God's word. 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:19,280 I'm going to stick with what I know to be true. 00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:21,920 You let all those other people wring their hands and weep and all this other stuff here. 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:28,000 They have no hope because they put their hope in themselves. 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:31,560 That's why they were crying and wringing their hands. 00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:34,360 Caleb and Joshua were the two spies that trusted God's word. 00:25:34,360 --> 00:25:40,360 They weren't wringing their hands. 00:25:40,360 --> 00:25:42,480 They were ready to go fight with their hands in God's name and God's strength. 00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:49,560 So they're crying all night. 00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:51,560 Verse 2, Numbers 14.2, "And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against 00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:56,480 Aaron. 00:25:56,480 --> 00:25:57,480 And the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of 00:25:57,480 --> 00:26:01,520 Egypt, or would God we had died in this wilderness? 00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:04,440 And wherefore hath the Lord brought us unto this land to fall by the sword, that our wives 00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:10,440 and our children should be a prey? 00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:12,640 Were it not better for us to return into Egypt? 00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:15,480 And they said one to another, Let us make a captain and let us return into Egypt." 00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:21,680 Now you'll see here that these people didn't believe God. 00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:26,240 The majority of people did not believe God, even though they all came out of Egypt together. 00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:31,240 And that'll show you the majority of people who go to church, the majority of people who 00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:38,260 claim to be followers of God, they don't actually believe Him. 00:26:38,260 --> 00:26:44,320 And so here they are, they're saying, "Let's make us a leader. 00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:49,480 Forget Moses. 00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:50,560 He brought us out of Egypt just to die in this wilderness." 00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:55,280 What were they doing? 00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:56,520 They were believing the spies' words over God's word. 00:26:56,520 --> 00:27:02,160 The Bible says, "Let God be true in every man a liar." 00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:06,500 So it doesn't matter what the world says, it matters what God says. 00:27:06,500 --> 00:27:10,760 So they said, "Well, forget Moses. 00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:13,200 We'll make us a leader. 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:14,840 We'll then follow him back into Egypt. 00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:16,760 We'll get on our hands and knees and we'll say, 'Hey, we'll come back into bondage to 00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:20,680 you.'" 00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:22,120 These people never truly believed to begin with. 00:27:22,120 --> 00:27:27,040 Only a few believed. 00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:31,200 When Jesus comes, the same thing will happen with Him. 00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:35,480 He's going to have a great big following in the New Testament. 00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:40,560 Thousands will follow Him, and then thousands will flee Him and go away and follow Him no 00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:47,360 more. 00:27:47,360 --> 00:27:48,360 And only a few will remain and trust His word. 00:27:48,360 --> 00:27:53,360 It's consistently like that in the Bible. 00:27:53,360 --> 00:27:58,040 Only eight people got on the ark. 00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:02,360 The rest did not believe and were destroyed. 00:28:02,360 --> 00:28:05,480 All right? 00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:06,880 Same thing. 00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:07,880 Let's go ahead and look here now. 00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:09,960 Verse 5, "Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation 00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:15,240 of the children of Israel. 00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:16,920 They broke their heart." 00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:18,320 Verse 6, "And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephanah, which were of them that 00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:24,800 searched the land, rent their clothes." 00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:27,320 So Joshua was with Caleb. 00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:30,120 So Moses and Aaron are falling on their faces before God like, "Dear God, how do we get 00:28:30,120 --> 00:28:36,880 into this mess? 00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:38,520 These people won't believe." 00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:40,880 And Joshua and Caleb, they're renting their clothes. 00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:43,800 When a Jew in the Old Testament, and they may still do it today some, but when a Jew 00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:48,760 would tear their clothes, it was a picture of them having a broken heart. 00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:54,640 They were tearing on the outside, showing what their heart was feeling on the inside. 00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:58,840 Okay? 00:28:58,840 --> 00:28:59,840 It wasn't that they didn't like their clothes. 00:28:59,840 --> 00:29:01,920 Well, these are too big. 00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:04,400 But they would tear their clothes to represent a broken heart. 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:09,320 And so their heart broke. 00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:10,320 And Joshua and Caleb, the two spies that went in, their heart broke over all of this. 00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:15,360 Let's go ahead and look here now in verse 7. 00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:16,880 "And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying," now this is Joshua 00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:21,480 and Caleb, "The land which we pass through to search it is an exceeding good land. 00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:28,320 If the Lord delight in us, then he will bring us into this land and give it us a land which 00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:36,600 will flow with milk and honey, only rebel not ye against the Lord. 00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:41,640 Neither fear ye the people of the land, for they are bred for us." 00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:45,240 What does that mean? 00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:46,240 We'll eat them up. 00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:47,240 "Their defense is departed from them, and the Lord is with us." 00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:52,960 Fear them not. 00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:54,480 Who was Joshua and Caleb trusting in? 00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:57,880 The Lord. 00:29:57,880 --> 00:29:59,120 He will bring us into this land. 00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:01,600 Their defense is departed from them. 00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:03,480 God's not going to protect them. 00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:04,920 He's with us. 00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:06,480 They were trusting in God. 00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:08,280 Moses and Aaron were trusting in God, but the other people were not trusting in God. 00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:15,720 And you can't get into heaven by trusting in yourself. 00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:22,240 And so, since they were trusting in themselves to go into the Promised Land, God says, "Nope, 00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:29,800 you're going to stay right here." 00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:32,360 For how long? 00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:35,120 Forty years. 00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:38,400 Forty years. 00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:39,400 Let's go ahead and look here now. 00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:43,320 Verse 10, "But all the congregation abates, stoned them with stones." 00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:47,240 In other words, we're not listening to you, Joshua and Caleb. 00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:49,720 We're going to stone you. 00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:50,720 We'll put you to death. 00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:52,320 Isn't that what they tried to do with Jesus when he came to? 00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:56,320 Yeah. 00:30:56,320 --> 00:30:57,320 Same rebellious heart. 00:30:57,320 --> 00:30:58,640 "And the glory of the Lord appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all 00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:02,400 the children of Israel." 00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:03,400 Uh-oh. 00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:04,400 In other words, enough of Joshua and Caleb, enough of Moses and Aaron, now you're going 00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:10,040 to hear from God. 00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:11,640 God shows up. 00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:12,640 God watches all this happen, and now he shows up. 00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:16,800 Verse 11, "And the Lord said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? 00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:21,720 And how long will it be ere they believe me? 00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:24,720 For all the signs which I have showed among them, I will smite them with pestilence and 00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:30,400 disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation in my dear than they." 00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:35,640 In other words, God told Moses, "I'm done with these people. 00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:40,000 I'm going to destroy them. 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:41,600 I'll use your offspring, and I'll make a greater nation than them." 00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:45,320 He would still be fulfilling his covenant to Abraham because Moses was a descendant 00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:49,360 of Abraham, but Moses was a picture of Jesus. 00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:54,560 And so watch what Moses does. 00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:57,200 In verse 13, "And Moses said unto the Lord, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, for thou 00:31:57,200 --> 00:32:01,160 broughtest up this people, and thy might from among them. 00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:04,520 And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land, for they have heard that thou, 00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:09,040 Lord, art among this people, that thou, Lord, art seen face to face, and that thou cloud 00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:14,760 standeth over them, and that thou goest before them by day in a pillar of cloud, and in a 00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:19,720 pillar of fire by night. 00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:21,560 Now thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the 00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:26,200 fame of thee will speak, saying, Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into 00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:30,760 the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness. 00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:35,200 And now I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, 00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:40,800 saying the Lord is long suffering and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, 00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:45,960 and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children 00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:50,440 unto the third and fourth generation. 00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:52,240 Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people, according unto the greatness of thy 00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:57,280 mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people from Egypt even until now. 00:32:57,280 --> 00:33:04,640 You see what Moses is doing? 00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:06,640 Moses didn't say, Hey, that's a good idea. 00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:08,280 Let's just get rid of all of them. 00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:09,880 I'll be the father of the new nation from Abraham. 00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:16,280 That's not what Moses did, because that's not what Jesus did. 00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:21,480 Moses came to God and said, Oh Lord, we don't want people to think that you couldn't get 00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:26,760 them into the promised land. 00:33:26,760 --> 00:33:28,680 We want you to be glorified in all of this. 00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:31,840 And we don't want these people to be destroyed. 00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:37,720 Forgive them, pardon them, according to your great mercy. 00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:41,920 Verse 20, and the Lord said, I have pardoned according to your word. 00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:46,320 I've pardoned them. 00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:48,640 I've pardoned them. 00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:50,800 But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord, because 00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:56,440 all those men which have seen my glory, my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the 00:33:56,440 --> 00:34:00,480 wilderness and have tempted me now these 10 times and have not hearkened to my voice. 00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:04,920 Surely they shall not see the land which I swear unto their fathers. 00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:08,920 Neither shall any of them that provoke me see it. 00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:11,760 But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, hath followed me fully. 00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:17,200 And will I bring into the land whereunto he went? 00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:20,680 And his seed shall possess it. 00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:22,840 Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley. 00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:26,080 Tomorrow turn you and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea. 00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:33,240 So God says, all right, I'll forgive them. 00:34:33,240 --> 00:34:35,880 I'm not going to destroy them. 00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:38,000 But I'm not going to bring them into the promised land either. 00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:40,120 I'm not going to do it. 00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:42,460 Look here now in verse 29. 00:34:42,460 --> 00:34:45,800 God said, "Your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness." 00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:49,240 Yeah, that's pretty rough speaking, isn't it? 00:34:49,240 --> 00:34:52,200 "And all that were numbered of you according to your whole number from twenty years old 00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:56,800 and upward which have murmured against me, doubtless ye shall not come into the land 00:34:56,800 --> 00:35:02,780 concerning which I swear to make you dwell therein, except save Caleb the son of Jephenai 00:35:02,780 --> 00:35:09,840 and Joshua the son of Nun. 00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:12,520 Such your little ones which ye have said should be a prey, them will I bring in and they shall 00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:18,320 know the land which ye have despised. 00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:20,600 But as for you, your carcasses, they shall fall in this wilderness. 00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:24,480 And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years and bear your hordom until your 00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:30,280 carcasses be wasted in the wilderness." 00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:33,680 So here we go. 00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:38,160 God says, "Y'all are going to stay here for forty years until every one of you that did 00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:44,160 not believe me dies." 00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:49,880 Joshua and Caleb, the two spies that believe me, I want to keep them alive these forty years. 00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:55,680 I want to keep them fit as a fiddle, healthy and ready to fight. 00:35:55,680 --> 00:35:59,840 After that forty years, they're going to come in and they're going to get the land just 00:35:59,840 --> 00:36:03,480 like I promised them. 00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:05,480 That's amazing, that's what God said he's going to do. 00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:08,240 Now the people are upset. 00:36:08,240 --> 00:36:10,560 Now the people are scared. 00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:12,480 Now the people regret not having believed God, but it's too late. 00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:19,240 And so if you were to continue reading this, they decided, "Well you know what, we'll 00:36:19,240 --> 00:36:30,680 go up anyway. 00:36:30,680 --> 00:36:32,600 We'll go get the land anyway. 00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:35,680 We shouldn't have made the decision we made." 00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:38,260 The problem is, if they try to go into the land in their own strength, they're not going 00:36:38,260 --> 00:36:42,960 to make it. 00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:44,800 Just like you can't go into heaven by your own strength. 00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:47,580 And so they said, "We'll go, we'll go." 00:36:47,580 --> 00:36:51,120 And look at verse forty-two, Numbers fourteen forty-two, look what Moses said. 00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:56,800 He said, "Go not up, for the Lord is not among you, that you be not smitten before your 00:36:56,800 --> 00:37:01,680 enemies." 00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:02,680 Moses warned them, but they didn't listen to Moses again. 00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:07,560 They didn't listen to God again. 00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:08,880 They went into fight and they got whooped. 00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:11,880 They got whooped. 00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:15,080 Verse forty-five, "Then the Amalekites came down, the Canaanites was dwelt in that hill 00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:18,780 and smothed them and discomfited them even unto Horma." 00:37:18,780 --> 00:37:21,760 They got whooped. 00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:24,100 Now time passes. 00:37:24,100 --> 00:37:25,600 Oh man, we've got to get out of here. 00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:27,800 We don't have time to do this. 00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:29,280 Next week, God willing, we'll start at Numbers twenty-one. 00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:33,600 We're going to look at something that's critical to understanding the most famous verse in 00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:38,600 the Bible. 00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:39,600 Can anyone tell me the most famous verse in the Bible? 00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:47,040 That's very close, the twenty-third Psalm, huh? 00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:50,880 John three-sixteen. 00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:51,880 Yeah, John three-sixteen. 00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:53,440 That's the verse everyone used to hold up in front of the TV cameras at the football 00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:57,440 stadiums and things like that. 00:37:57,440 --> 00:37:59,260 John three-sixteen. 00:37:59,260 --> 00:38:00,480 John three-sixteen is one of the most misunderstood verses in the Bible, even though it's one 00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:05,640 of the most popular ones. 00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:07,280 The reason they don't understand John three-sixteen is because they don't understand the Old Testament. 00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:15,160 So when we come back next week, God willing, we will move to Numbers chapter twenty-one 00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:23,920 and see what happened in the wilderness and that will explain John three-sixteen for us. 00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:30,680 Then after that, the next week, we're going to get the children of Israel from the wilderness 00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:36,360 into the Promised Land. 00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:39,960 See you next door. 00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:40,560