Sister Alice
My first lesson was that we can change our name. The second was that we have an identity with
victory and with heaven. Sister Kelly’s
grandchildren, though they were not raised in church, had an identity of being
with their grandma and that they could be changed.
The third lesson was to be on total consecration: Caleb
wholly and fully followed the Lord. The
forth holding faith in God. You cannot
separate total consecration and holding faith in God. So we will have two lessons on total
consecration and holding faith in God.
Num 13:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Num 13:2
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.
Num 13:23 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 13:24 The place was called the brook Eshcol,
because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from
thence.
Num 13:25 And they returned from searching of the land
after forty days.
Num 13:26 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.
Num 13:27 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.
Num 13:28 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.
Num 13:29 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 13:30 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.
We can see that the land was as promised: a land flowing
with milk and honey.
After the discouraging report, Caleb jumped up and said,
“Let us go and possess it. It is ours. It has been promised us.” Keep in mind the things that have been promised;
they are as good as promised. This was
the land that He swore that he would give to Abraham, Isaac and to their
seed.
Exo 33:1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Depart, and go up hence, thou and the people which thou
hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, unto the land which I sware unto
Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, Unto thy seed will I give it:
Exo 33:2
And I will send an angel before thee; and I will drive out the
Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the
Jebusite:
They had God’s word on it.
It had been promised.
Num 13:31 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 13:32 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.
Num 13:33 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.
Where was their vision of God in this? It was all about themselves.
What could have been done that this could have been
avoided? Remember where they set up the
singers and let God fight? Maybe they
could have set up their singers to sing the songs of victory as they came.
How did the Children of Israel even have patience for the
spies to come back before going in to possess the land after all the miracles
that had been done for them as they escaped the land of Egypt and came across
the wilderness and how God took care of them?
Moses was totally blindsided by this. He would have thought that everyone would
come back with Caleb and Joshua’s report.
These men gave into fear.
Fear is a very viable and large enemy.
One time I was walking with Jimmy and Myron on the top of this
ridge. If you would kick the snow it
would roll down the ridge and become a huge snowball. You have to stop fear right away or it will
become a snowball.
We can use a song to change any unbelief or doubt. When you feel anything coming, then get a
song going. I want to encourage you to
write your own song. You can write a
poem and then put music to it. We can
borrow another’s music or another’s song but write our own words to it. Put our stamp of identity to it.
I have been blindsided by what has happened to my son. How could sin cause one to stoop so low? I was walking in love. Love can be blind.
Caleb means all heart, bold as the lion of Judah,
strong. He could have helped them if
they would have let him. We can only help
as they will let.
Num 14:1 And all the congregation lifted up their
voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
Why are people so easily stirred to bad things but cannot be
stirred up to good?
Num 14:2
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!
When people are stirred up to bad then they find someone to
blame it on.
Num 14:3
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?
How did they forget the bondage that was in Egypt after
being a few months out of it? David
counseled, “Remember the pit from which you have been dug.” Remember how you would have given everything
to get out of it.
When Matthew learned to read, he taught himself. He sat on my lap and we read together and he
got it. He got it so strong that when we
went to kindergarten he was sleepy. He
would read through the night under the yard light that shone through his
window.
When it came time to teach Ted to read, we worked and worked
at it. Finally in the third grade in
just a short time he was reading westerns.
He told me, “You want to know how I finally learned to read? It was singing the songs in church and you
following along with the words. I
learned that I could read even big words like victory and salvation.”
People that stutter can often sing. It uses a whole different side of the brain.
God has promised us a song in the night. Don’t underestimate the strength and the
fullness that a good song will bring and help.
To get the songs the old brethren would get together; one would write
the words and another would write the music.
Num 14:4
And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return
into Egypt.
Num 14:5
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the
congregation of the children of Israel.
Num 14:6
And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent
their clothes:
I don’t know how many pairs of clothes that they had there,
but this rent their hearts to the depths so that they rent their clothes. When loved ones go back it rends our
heart. It was so unnecessary. There was no excuse for what they did here.
Num 14:7
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.
That is how it is with all the Lord gives us.
Num 14:8
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.
Num 14:9
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.
What can we not do if God is for us? Who can be against us if God is for us? “Maybe I allowed my heart to go out too far
toward this decision; that is why it is being broken.” God’s will and our deepest happiness are
synonymous.
It is costly to stand against a mob.
Num 14:10 But all the congregation bade stone them with
stones. And the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the
congregation before all the children of Israel.
The men that have been the greatest blessings of their age
have represented not only the greatest blessing but also the greatest plagues
of their age. Matthew Henry.
It is going to cost us something to take a stand. Job said, “Though He slay me yet will I
praise Him.”
Num 14:11 And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will
this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all
the signs which I have shewed among them?
“If the Lord delight in us then He will bring us into this
land.” What does it take for the Lord to
delight in us?
Deu 10:11 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before the people, that they may go
in and possess the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give unto them.
Deu 10:12 And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God
require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to
love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy
soul,
Deu 10:13 To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his
statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?
God’s commandments are not grievous. They take care of us and are a strength to
us. Everything we have belongs to
God. He has given us the way: how to use
it and how to be.
Deu 10:14 Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD'S thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is.
Deu 10:15 Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to
love them, and he chose their seed after them, even
you above all people, as it is this day.
Deu 10:16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your
heart, and be no more stiffnecked.
Deu 10:17 For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a
mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:
Deu 10:18 He doth execute the judgment of the
fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
Deu 10:19 Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were
strangers in the land of Egypt.
Deu 10:20 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt
thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.
Deu 10:21 He is
thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath
done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.
Deu 10:22 Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore
and ten persons; and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven
for multitude.
Heb 11:6
But without faith it is
impossible to please him: for he that
cometh to God must believe that he is, and that
he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
First you must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder
to them that diligently seek Him. The
other ten spies were cowards and had an evil heart of unbelief.
Heb 13:5
Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for
he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
Heb 13:6
So that we may boldly say, The Lord is
my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.
We are talking of how to be a delight to God. If we are with God the worst that can come to
us is that we will be a tired and weary traveler on the other side and yet have
stories of victory on the way.
You may boldly say:
if they had only had a bit of that attitude. We can have that attitude for all time.
Brother Bill - There is a connection of unbelief and the way
our eyesight is. In Hebrews 4:11 it
talks about laboring to enter into the rest lest any man fall after the same
example of unbelief. In the center
reference it speaks of disobedience. Our
faith is our obedience. If we are
walking with God and spending time with God, it is a fertile ground of hearing
from and having faith in God.
Those that fell away: their eyesight was not seeing
right. They fell away because the world
began to look good to them. The reason
that Caleb and Joshua saw the way they did is because they were wholly following
after God. The others left God out
completely.
Fear not: if we give
into fear at all it will be as the snowball effect. Fear is sin.
Fear of the world can overcome us.
Rev 21:7
He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and
I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
Rev 21:8
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the
abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and
all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and
brimstone: which is the second death.
I will be His God and He shall be my son. It is God that will fight for us. The fearful and unbelieving are with horrible
things. To be fearful is in the same
category as a murderer.
2Ti 1:7
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love,
and of a sound mind.
If we are fussing with anything about fear, somehow we have
sidestepped God in this. We have let the
enemy cloud our vision.
What a huge difference on the scale: power, love, and a
sound mind. They are ours through the
blood of Christ.
1Jn 4:18
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because
fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
1Jn 4:19
We love him, because he first loved us.
There is no fear in love.
When we are battling the snow ball, put the heat of love on it. Know that God loves us and will bring us to
an expected end.
We may have boldness:
can you imagine standing in the judgment line, instead of fearful
looking we can have boldness.
Not only can we claim the blood of Christ but we can claim His
love.
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