Hello and welcome once again
to 3ABN Spring Camp Meeting
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2019 Living Above The Crowd.
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Isn't it wonderful?
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Are you having a good time here?
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If you are, say Hallelujah!
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HALLELUJAH! Whoo!
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We wish that you at
home could have joined us
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but we're glad that
you're watching on television
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or listening by the Internet.
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It is my pleasure to
introduce our featured speaker
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Pastor Doug Batchelor.
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He is the
president of Amazing Facts.
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Senior Pastor for the Granite
Bay SDA Church in California.
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But I'm going to tell you
something y'all don't know.
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Doug... When I first
joined the SDA church
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we lived in Coleman, Texas.
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We joined the church that
had a membership of 10 people.
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Doug used to pastor that church.
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I think he said
there were maybe 8 people.
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I'll let him straighten me out,
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but we both
started in Coleman, Texas.
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How amazing!
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Well he has brought us
some wonderful messages!
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It has just been...
Climbing The Tree of Life.
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Persisting Into His Presence.
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And it won't disappoint today
because he is going to talk
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about Resisting
Grasshopper Thinking.
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And that's
important. But before he does
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Ladye Love Smith, who is just
a precious sister in the Lord
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and probably one of
my favorite fe... not...
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Yes! Not probably, IS one of
my favorite female vocalists...
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is going to sing a
song. Ladye Love, come on out.
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She is going to sing God Knows.
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Thank you.
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You think
there's no one out there
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who understands or cares.
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And you feel
God would not listen
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if you even had a prayer.
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Your faith has been so shaken
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you can't get
down on your knees.
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And
disappointment is keeping you
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from saying "Father, please. "
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God knows.
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God knows.
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He feels the pain
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you bear.
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God knows.
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God knows.
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God knows
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and God cares.
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He's calling in the silence
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you do not hear a sound.
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He whispers to your spirit
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when answers can't be found
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saying: "Fear not, I am with you
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right where I've always been.
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So cast your cares upon Me;
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I am your dearest Friend. "
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God knows.
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God knows.
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He feels the pain
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you bear.
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God knows.
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God knows.
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God knows
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and God cares.
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God knows.
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God knows.
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He feels the pain
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you bear.
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God knows.
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God knows.
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God knows
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and God cares.
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God knows
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and God
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cares.
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He does! He says: "I'll never
leave you or forsake you. "
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God knows every
situation in your life
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and He cares.
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God
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cares.
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Amen!
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Amen! Thank you
so much, Ladye Love.
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Happy Sabbath! Amen!
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Boy, I tell you it's
been a wonderful day.
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It's been exciting.
I've done a little crying,
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a little laughing.
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Did a lot of laughing.
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But it's been a
joy to be with you.
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It's wonderful to
just come around and visit
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and hear the
exciting testimonies
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and get to know brothers
and sisters in the Lord.
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It's always good to
be back here at 3ABN.
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I think it's been
twenty-five years or so...
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Well, it's longer than
that. It's before... yeah.
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Uh-huh, yeah.
I'm looking at Karen
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while I'm doing some
math in my head right now.
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And I'm not very good at that.
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But, yeah, it must
be twenty-seven years.
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'Cause 3ABN started airing
a tape we taped at Carmichael
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it's been over
twenty-seven years ago.
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And so yeah, it's been fun just
watching the way the Lord has
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blessed the
ministry and seeing it grow.
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I remember when I first
started coming everything was
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all in one building over there.
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And I'd come in late
at night from Sacramento
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and Mitch was here.
He just prayed with me.
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He was there waiting.
He'd be up all night long
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at master control
watching the dials.
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I'd bang on the door
and they'd let me go in.
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They had this attic
bedroom guest room we'd stay in.
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And it's just been fun
to see how God has blessed
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and blossomed.
You know, as long as
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you keep the main
thing the main thing
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God is going to
bless. I'll tell you why.
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Why did Jesus
come into the world?
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To seek and to save the lost.
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What are the last
words that Jesus said as He
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ascended to heaven? "Go
and teach all nations. "
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Jesus wants to see people saved.
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The most important thing to the
Lord is that people get saved.
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If you say
"Lord, will You send me?
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Use me in reaching
others. " He will bless you.
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Even if you don't do everything
right, He'd rather you do
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something and
maybe make a mistake
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than to do nothing very well.
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And so I think if we
make an effort the Lord...
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I might not be perfect
but I want You to use me
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in reaching others
He will bless you. Amen!
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Didn't the Lord use the apostles
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to go out
teaching and preaching?
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And they still had a few
things to learn along the way,
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didn't they? So don't wait until
you feel like you're perfect
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before God uses you.
If you start with a dream
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and a vision to reach
others, God will bless you
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and He'll teach you in the
process. Take my word for it.
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So it has just been a joy
to see how God has blessed
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over the years.
We're going to be talking
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in keeping with our
theme: Living Above The Crowd
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today the message is To
Avoid Grasshopper Thinking.
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And I'd like to begin
with just a little story.
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An amazing fact if
you will. I love history.
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I'm reading another book
right now about Magellan's
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journey around the world,
and I'm fascinated by history.
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I keep stopping Karen and
telling her: "This is what's
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happening and this is what's
happening. It's so incredible! "
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One of the other great adven-
tures that I enjoy reading about
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was the Lewis
and Clark expedition.
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In fact, I don't know
if you've ever fantasized
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that you could go back in
time when you would want to go.
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I know there's a lot of places
I wouldn't want to go back
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in time. But one place I thought
would really be something
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is to be part of that expedition
and go across the U.S.
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when it was so pure
and it was so grand.
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They waited for a day and a half
for one buffalo herd to cross
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a creek. I mean, they
saw birds darken the sky
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for six hours flocks of them so
big that they just blocked out
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the sun. The wildlife and
the natural wonders they saw!
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And for them to see it for the
first time! It was so amazing.
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And the reason it all
happened is because Napoleon
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ran out of money.
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Napoleon ran out of
money and he sent a message
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which went very slowly - they
didn't have Internet back then -
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to Jefferson that
he was willing to sell
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what we know now as
the Louisiana Purchase
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which is a great big swath.
It's about one-third of the US.
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And it's like a million dollars.
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I don't know... it
wasn't a lot of money.
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No, I think we bought Alaska
from the Russians for a million.
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How much did we
pay for Greenland?
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I forgot. Oh, that
hasn't happened yet.
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I'm sorry... that's another one.
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Anyway, so it may have
been a few million dollars
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but it was nothing and
he's buying... he's buying
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1/3 of the United
States from the French.
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And Jefferson... he had to work
on Congress. And they bought it.
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So he gets this
expedition together.
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He says: "We bought it
but we don't know what it is
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so we've gotta look at
it. " So he gets these 43 men
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from 1804 to 1806
and he sends them.
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They start by foot in Pittsburgh
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but the mission
really begins in St. Louis.
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And they end up going all
the way to the Pacific Ocean.
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They're looking for...
First of all they wanted to
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make sure they claimed it before
the British and the Spanish did.
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Secondly, they
wanted to find out...
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Jefferson... he was a
scientist and a farmer.
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He said: "Get the animals and
the plants and find out what's
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going on with the country.
What kind of wildlife there is
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and make some notes. "
And then to establish trade
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with the native
tribes along the way.
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They took off on this journey.
It was just such an epic
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adventure. And to live with
them and see the wonders that
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they saw and the courage...
never knowing what was around
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the next bend. Some of the
Indians told them, they said:
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"As you go West you're
going to see some big bears. "
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They said: "Ah... " You know,
they were used to all the black
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bears in Kentucky. You
know, little teddy bears.
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And the Indians said:
"No, these are BIG bears. "
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And they were very curious.
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Lewis writes: "Very curious
to find out what these big bears
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were. " Said: "We've got
Kentucky rifles. We're not
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afraid of any big bears. "
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And Merriweather Lewis and
one of the hunters were out
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looking for game and they
ran into their first grizzly.
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And along the way they
had to shoot 2 or 3 grizzlies.
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They got chased by them
and they had to unload like
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half of their
rifles into one bear.
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And Lewis records: "The
curiosity of the men has
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been fully satisfied. "
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So it was a wonderful...
it was a wonderful story
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of how they barely...
Only one man died: appendicitis
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of all things. It was
an incredible journey.
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Eight thousand miles, and
they were hoping they'd find
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a waterway across
the Northwest Passage
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but they didn't.
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But one of the reasons
that Jefferson did that:
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he was thinking
about a story in the Bible.
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You know, Jefferson didn't
believe all the miracles in the
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Bible but he did believe
the Bible was a historical book.
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And he read where the children
of Israel were going to take
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possession of a land
that God had given them
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but they had not
looked at it in generations
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and nobody including
Moses had ever been there.
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And he said: "We've gotta
send an expedition to find out
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what it is. " We're going to
go to that story in the Bible.
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So if you have your
Bibles you might want to turn
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to the book of
Numbers chapter 13
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and I'll start with verse 1.
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"And the Lord
spoke to Moses saying:
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'Send men to spy
out the land of Canaan
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that I am giving to
the children of Israel.
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From each man of the
fathers you'll send a man,
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every one a leader among them. '
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So Moses sent them
from the wilderness of Paran
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according to the
command of the Lord
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all of them who were heads
of the children of Israel. "
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They simply sent one leader -
maybe Democraticically chosen -
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from each tribe. And
I'm not going to even read
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all the names of the
characters that were chosen
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because they sort of
evaporated into insignificance
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in history with the
exception of two names.
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You had one by the name of
Caleb from the tribe of Judah
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and you had Joshua
from the tribe of Ephraim.
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And so then you
can pick it up here
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in Numbers chapter 13 verse 17.
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"So Moses sent them to
spy out the land of Canaan.
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And he said to them: 'Go
up this way into the South.
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Go into the mountains;
see what the land is like.
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Whether the people who
dwell in it are strong or weak,
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few or many. Whether
the land they live in
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is good or bad.
Whether the cities they inhabit
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are like camps,
villages, or stronghold cities.
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Whether the
land is rich or poor.
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Whether there
are forests or not.
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Be of good courage. ' "
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Don't be afraid.
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"And bring some of the
fruit. " Bring samples back.
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"Now the time was the
season of first-ripe grapes.
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So in obedience with
their commission they went up
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and they spied out the
land from the wilderness of Zin
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as far as Rehob near
the entrance of Hamath.
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And they went up through the
South and they came to Hebron.
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Ahiman, Sheshai, and
Talmai, the descendants of Anak
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were there. " Now Anak is a king
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who has a bed
that's 13 feet long.
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Goliath is only 9-1/2 feet.
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So when they talk later about
the Anakum, just be thinking
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a race of giants.
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"Now the Anakim were there.
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Then they came to
the Valley of Eshcol... "
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I'm in verse 23...
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"and there they
cut down a branch
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with one cluster of grapes... "
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The word Eshcol means cluster.
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"that was so big they carried it
between two of them on a pole. "
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Can you imagine that?
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You invite
somebody over for breakfast,
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say: "You want a grape? "
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Not a grapefruit... a grape!
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These were huge!
That's why they called it
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"a land flowing
with milk and honey. "
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It literally was a land...
It's not just a figure of speech
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or a metaphor. You
can read in the Bible
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that when Jonathan was
going through the woods
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during a war it says:
"Honey dripped from the trees
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and puddled on the ground.
" And he stuck his pole in it.
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You remember that?
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And there was so much
vegetation greenery and flowers
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that the goats and
the cows when they ate
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their udders would
squirt milk as they walked.
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It doesn't say that but
I'm imagining that because...
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I used to have goats.
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And if you
didn't milk them on time
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they'd start without me.
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It's true!
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So... land "flowing
with milk and honey. "
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And so it says they cut
down a big cluster of grapes
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and they brought some of
the pomegranates and the figs
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and the place was called the
Valley of Eshcol because of the
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grapes that they cut down there.
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"And they returned from spying
the land after forty days.
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And they departed and
came back to Moses and Aaron
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and all the
congregation of Israel
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in the wilderness of
Paran at Kadesh Barnea.
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They brought back
word to them. " Now,
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I've gotta just pause here and
tell you that there was a big
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difference between 2
of them and 10 of them.
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Two of the spies, as they
crossed over the Jordan River
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and they saw the
land around Jericho,
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they said: "Will you look
at those springs of water! "
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"Look at the date
trees and the palms! "
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"What a beautiful
place... it's an oasis! "
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Ten of them said:
"Look at the people!
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Look at their fortifications!
Look at the walls!
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How could we ever conquer
a city with walls that big? "
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And it was that way
the whole trip for 40 days.
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You had two people
that had a lot of good news
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and ten people that
had a lot of bad news.
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Two of them were very
positive and believed;
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ten of them only saw the
obstacles and the problems.
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They came up to the area of
Hebron where the Anakim lived
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and the people...
ten of the spies said:
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"Oh, look at this!
This is a race of giants! "
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"We're like grasshoppers.
How can we conquer people
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like this? They're HUGE! "
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"We've never fought anyone
like this. There's no one like
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this in Egypt. "
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And Caleb said: "Wow!
Look at the rich soil!
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Look at the springs of water! "
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And the go up into the
land of the North: Carmel
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not too far from Eschol
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and they see the
Amalekites and the Jebusites
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and the
Hittites and the termites
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and they see all
these different nations
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and they say: "How could we
conquer all of these nations? "
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And that's where they cut
down the cluster of grapes.
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And it says two
of them carried it.
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Which two do you
think are doing it?
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Joshua and Caleb said:
"Oh, we've gotta take these back
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to the camp. We've gotta do it
before it turns into raisins. "
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So right after they
cut the cluster they said:
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"Let's head back now. "
Their pockets are bulging.
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Joshua and Caleb. You know,
they've got figs and they've got
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pomegranates and
pomelos and dates
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and there's probably a cloud
of fruit flies following them
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as they head back down
towards the children of Israel.
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And they're so excited.
Now they're also... they're
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smart and they know: "Look,
these guys are just bad news.
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All they see is the problems. "
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And they said: "We'd better
get there and set the tone
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before they start talking or
they're going to bring everybody
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down. They're just... Every-
thing they see is a problem,
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problem, obstacle, problem. "
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And Joshua and Caleb said:
"Look, this is the Promised
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Land. It's called the Promised
Land because God promised
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to give it to us!
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Why would God
promise to give it to us
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if He couldn't give it to us? "
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Now most people agree
that Jesus... believers...
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came and died for
the sins of the world.
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But even among Christians
there are still a lot of people
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that doubt that He's
big enough to save them.
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They say: "I hope to be saved. "
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"It might be nice
but I'm such a sinner. "
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They have more faith in their
sin than God's power to save.
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They think the devil
is good at tempting them
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and they know how easy it
is to fall into temptation
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but they lack faith that
Jesus is able to keep them.
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So in reality their devil
is bigger than their Savior.
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So Joshua and Caleb outrun
the other ten negative spies.
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They're supposed to be bringing
a report of how wonderful
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the Promised Land is, and
they're going to tell them
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how inaccessible
the Promised Land is.
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God have mercy if
any pastors ever do that.
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We're supposed to be
messengers that tell people
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"You can make it. "
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So notice what happens.
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"They came back to the children
of Israel, to the congregation.
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They showed them the fruit
of the land. " I'm in verse 27.
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Numbers 13:27.
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"And they told him and
they said: 'We went to the land
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you sent us and truly it
flows with milk and honey
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and this is the fruit. ' "
And I just can picture that:
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Caleb and Joshua
plucking off grapes and saying:
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"Dodge! Heads up! Here
comes another one! Heads up! "
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And they're throwing grapes
and dates and pomelos and figs
00:21:03.63\00:21:06.39
and things. And
everybody's having a food fight!
00:21:06.59\00:21:08.36
And everyone's going:
"Oh, oh! Look at all the fruit!
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This is wonderful!
" They're rejoicing.
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And then the other
ten came dragging in.
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You notice instantly
the conversation changes.
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They butt in and say: "Wait,
Wait! Don't get too excited. "
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Verse 28: "Nevertheless
people who dwell in the land
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are strong and the cities
are fortified and very large. "
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They started talking about the
walls of Jericho and they said:
00:21:31.32\00:21:33.52
"We'll never be able to
knock down those walls. "
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They had no idea that
God's got a thousand ways
00:21:36.89\00:21:39.76
to deal with our
problems when we can't see one.
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And by the way, God is
not always going to give you
00:21:44.10\00:21:48.04
the answer to your
problem before you need it.
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You can't move forward
with the Lord and say: "I'm not
00:21:51.94\00:21:54.28
going to take a step until
I know how it's all going to
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work out. " God very often
does not supply what you need
00:21:56.34\00:22:00.65
until the very
moment you need it.
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People sometimes ask me:
"Pastor Doug, do you think
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you have enough faith to
die, be tortured for Christ? "
00:22:04.85\00:22:07.89
I said: "Not now I don't.
00:22:08.09\00:22:09.42
But I'm hoping if,
heaven forbid, that ever happens
00:22:10.33\00:22:12.19
I trust that He will then
give it to me when I need it. "
00:22:12.39\00:22:15.70
But I'm not going to
worry about having it now
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because I'd spend my
whole life worried about it.
00:22:18.33\00:22:19.93
Instead I want to believe
that God's going to give me
00:22:20.44\00:22:23.14
what I need when I need it.
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Amen! And how
many times in your life
00:22:24.91\00:22:27.61
at the last minute God moves the
mountain, He parts the water.
00:22:27.81\00:22:31.85
And then you say: "Oh Lord,
why did I not believe sooner
00:22:32.81\00:22:35.68
that You could provide
for me when the time comes? "
00:22:36.45\00:22:40.82
I remember
hearing about a story.
00:22:41.56\00:22:42.99
My father was a
pilot in World War II.
00:22:43.19\00:22:45.53
He flew during D-Day in Europe,
00:22:45.73\00:22:48.06
but this is a
story from the Pacific.
00:22:48.26\00:22:50.20
And some soldiers
ran out of fuel flying -
00:22:50.70\00:22:56.07
some pilots and a crew -
00:22:56.27\00:22:57.84
in Japanese-held
territory. And the only place
00:22:58.84\00:23:01.44
they could put down the
plane they just sputtered in
00:23:01.64\00:23:03.75
running out of fuel. And
they sputtered in, they landed
00:23:03.95\00:23:06.72
on an abandoned
field but it was an island.
00:23:06.92\00:23:08.62
The other end of the
island was held by the Japanese.
00:23:08.82\00:23:10.79
They know that
Japanese spies saw them come in
00:23:10.99\00:23:13.46
and they knew it'd only
be matter of a day or so
00:23:13.66\00:23:15.79
before they got from one
end of the island to the other
00:23:15.99\00:23:17.86
to arrest them.
They had no lifeboats
00:23:18.06\00:23:20.90
or anything to get away
and they nearly despaired.
00:23:21.03\00:23:23.73
They were just
waiting to either be killed
00:23:24.43\00:23:26.70
or be captured and
spend the rest of the war
00:23:26.90\00:23:29.44
in a prisoner of war camp.
00:23:29.64\00:23:31.31
But there was a
chaplain in the group.
00:23:31.51\00:23:33.07
Said: "Men, we
shouldn't lose hope. "
00:23:33.48\00:23:35.14
They're all saying:
"Where're we going to go?
00:23:35.34\00:23:36.71
We're out of fuel...
there's nothing we can do. "
00:23:36.91\00:23:38.25
"So let's pray. " And he encou-
raged them all to come together
00:23:38.28\00:23:41.75
and they had a prayer meeting.
00:23:41.95\00:23:43.28
And so they prayed and even-
tually some of them drifted off
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to sleep. And then the next
morning one of the sailors just
00:23:47.16\00:23:49.22
felt impressed to go up
and walk along the beach.
00:23:49.42\00:23:51.53
And he went up from the
dirt field where they landed.
00:23:52.49\00:23:56.16
Went down to the
beach... started walking along.
00:23:56.36\00:23:57.83
And he saw something
bobbing in the water.
00:23:58.03\00:24:00.87
And it was a large
canister of aviation fuel.
00:24:01.80\00:24:06.51
And he went and
hooted... woke up his friends.
00:24:08.41\00:24:10.38
They came and
they wrestled this can
00:24:10.58\00:24:12.15
up the shore and
up onto the field.
00:24:12.35\00:24:14.25
They somehow
pumped it into the wings
00:24:14.45\00:24:16.55
and they had enough
runway to take off... barely
00:24:16.79\00:24:19.02
clipping the palm trees,
00:24:19.22\00:24:20.66
and they escaped
to friendly territory.
00:24:20.96\00:24:24.23
Before they took off, one of
them took a note of the serial
00:24:24.79\00:24:28.40
number and wrote
it down of the can.
00:24:28.60\00:24:30.37
And it turns out the can had
been jettisoned by another ship
00:24:31.27\00:24:34.84
when they realized they were
under... They were carrying fuel
00:24:35.04\00:24:37.17
and a whole bunch of tanks
had been jettisoned by another
00:24:37.37\00:24:40.34
American ship when it
was under a torpedo attack
00:24:40.54\00:24:43.45
from the Japanese a
thousand miles away.
00:24:43.65\00:24:46.11
And none of the other cans
was ever recovered, and this can
00:24:47.78\00:24:50.35
somehow drifted 1,000 miles.
00:24:50.55\00:24:52.25
It went by 25 other islands
00:24:52.45\00:24:55.26
and it washed up on the shore
00:24:55.56\00:24:58.03
of the pilots that needed it
the morning after they prayed.
00:24:58.23\00:25:03.37
God always gives you what
you need at the very minute
00:25:05.80\00:25:08.44
you need it. Amen!
00:25:08.64\00:25:10.24
All things are
possible with God.
00:25:10.94\00:25:12.64
"Oh, " they said, 10 of
the spies, "we can't do it. "
00:25:12.84\00:25:15.94
"We saw the descendants
of Anak there. " Verse 29.
00:25:17.01\00:25:20.52
"Amalekites dwell in
the land of the South.
00:25:20.72\00:25:22.62
The Hittites and
the Jebusites... "
00:25:22.82\00:25:24.62
How little did they know
that one of the most famous
00:25:25.12\00:25:27.26
Israeli soldiers was
going to be Uriah the Hittite.
00:25:27.46\00:25:30.33
They thought they were
enemies. They even converted
00:25:31.23\00:25:32.59
some of them. "The
Jebusites and the Amorites
00:25:32.79\00:25:35.86
dwell in the mountains and
the Canaanites dwell by the sea
00:25:36.06\00:25:38.30
along the banks of Jordan.
" And they were so depressed
00:25:38.50\00:25:43.14
and so discouraged and
spent so much time focusing
00:25:43.37\00:25:45.67
on the problems. And all
the people are passing along
00:25:45.87\00:25:47.88
the bad news. Pretty soon
this cloud of discouragement
00:25:48.08\00:25:50.71
and unbelief swept
over the whole congregation.
00:25:50.91\00:25:53.38
Now keep in mind
these are the people
00:25:54.12\00:25:56.02
who had just escaped from the
mightiest empire in the world.
00:25:56.22\00:25:59.82
Through the power of God
they had seen ten plagues
00:26:00.96\00:26:03.96
unlike anything you've
ever seen fall on their enemies.
00:26:04.16\00:26:06.49
God had taken them by
the hand with a mighty hand.
00:26:06.93\00:26:09.33
With an outstretched
arm He brought down plagues
00:26:09.53\00:26:12.83
on their enemies and
through the seven last plagues,
00:26:13.03\00:26:15.14
you know there were 10
plagues to fall on Egypt,
00:26:15.34\00:26:16.91
the Israelis experienced
the first 3 of the 10
00:26:17.41\00:26:20.71
but He protected them
from the last seven plagues.
00:26:20.91\00:26:24.25
How many plagues does
Revelation talk about?
00:26:24.61\00:26:26.72
Seven. Are you worried
about that tribulation?
00:26:26.92\00:26:29.45
Did God protect them
through that tribulation?
00:26:29.85\00:26:32.49
Will He save us
through that tribulation? Yes!
00:26:32.89\00:26:36.06
And they said:
"We'll never make it! "
00:26:36.83\00:26:38.36
And all the people of
Israel began to get discouraged.
00:26:38.76\00:26:42.90
They began to lift
up their voices and cry.
00:26:43.10\00:26:44.80
And you read in verse
30: "Caleb quieted the people
00:26:45.00\00:26:48.44
before Moses. " Now
why'd he have to quiet them?
00:26:48.84\00:26:50.77
They're all moaning
and saying: "Oy vey! "
00:26:51.54\00:26:53.98
"We're never going to make
it! Why did God bring us? "
00:26:54.18\00:26:56.08
They forgot all the
miracles. They forgot the bread
00:26:56.48\00:26:58.51
from heaven they
saw every morning.
00:26:58.71\00:27:00.35
They forgot the glory
of God was within sight.
00:27:00.55\00:27:03.28
You know if you listen
to the devil for 5 minutes
00:27:06.05\00:27:07.96
you can forget a
whole lifetime of victory.
00:27:08.16\00:27:10.16
It's amazing how quickly we
can forget all our blessings
00:27:11.49\00:27:15.23
and focus on one
little dot of discouragement.
00:27:15.43\00:27:17.90
And he had to quiet the people
00:27:19.50\00:27:21.37
because he could see they
were moaning and losing faith.
00:27:21.57\00:27:23.71
And he said: "Let us go
up! " Not only let us go up:
00:27:23.91\00:27:25.67
"Let us go up at
once and take it. "
00:27:25.87\00:27:27.21
He'd just come back. You'd think
he'd want to spend the night.
00:27:27.28\00:27:28.98
He'd just come back
from a 40-day expedition.
00:27:29.61\00:27:31.68
He said: "Let us go up
at once and take possession
00:27:32.08\00:27:34.52
for we are well
able to overcome it. "
00:27:34.72\00:27:37.39
One of the first evangelistic
meetings I ever went to was
00:27:38.39\00:27:41.32
in the little town of Covelo.
An evangelist named Monty Jones.
00:27:41.52\00:27:44.76
And that's where I first
heard the song He's Able.
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And for some of you who grew
up in the church you've heard it
00:27:48.43\00:27:51.03
for years. I'd never heard
it before. It's a great song!
00:27:51.27\00:27:53.44
He's able; He's
able... I KNOW He's able!
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So I started doing it at
all our evangelistic meetings.
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If you ever watch Net New
York and some of the others
00:27:58.71\00:28:00.81
we always sang He's Able.
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We've gotta remember He IS ABLE.
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"But the men who had
gone up with him said:
00:28:05.55\00:28:08.45
'We are not able. ' "
00:28:08.65\00:28:10.02
So you've gotta
make up your mind.
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Who are you gonna believe?
00:28:13.99\00:28:15.46
The majority? Or
the faithful minority?
00:28:15.86\00:28:20.13
What's our message
about? Living Above The Crowd.
00:28:21.10\00:28:23.90
Now wait a second. How many of
those spies were church members?
00:28:24.97\00:28:27.97
All!
00:28:28.17\00:28:29.57
No, Pastor...
tell me it ain't so.
00:28:30.21\00:28:32.64
That... that they were leaders!
00:28:33.78\00:28:37.05
It says: "They picked
every one a leader among them. "
00:28:37.45\00:28:39.88
And they started telling the
people: "No you can't do it. "
00:28:40.65\00:28:43.39
"The enemy's too big. "
00:28:44.12\00:28:45.72
And they said: "You know
let's just get comfortable
00:28:46.12\00:28:47.66
right here in
the desert forever. "
00:28:47.82\00:28:49.32
Or: "Let's go back to
Egypt and be slaves! "
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That's what their options were.
00:28:52.66\00:28:54.30
And you know I'm shocked as
I go around and I hear people
00:28:55.96\00:28:58.77
say: "Well I know Jesus
claims to forgive our sins
00:28:58.97\00:29:01.20
but He doesn't really expect
us to like stop sinning. "
00:29:01.40\00:29:04.41
"I mean does He expect us
to have like victory over sin?
00:29:06.31\00:29:09.41
Let's not get carried away!
00:29:09.61\00:29:10.98
I mean He's not
able to do that! "
00:29:11.01\00:29:12.35
Can the devil tempt us to sin?
00:29:12.48\00:29:13.85
Yeah, of course, the devil: he's
really good at what he does.
00:29:13.88\00:29:15.75
But can God save us
from sin? "Oh, no... "
00:29:16.25\00:29:18.95
"The Amalekites are too big. "
00:29:19.89\00:29:21.96
"And the Jebusites and
the Hittites and all of them:
00:29:22.82\00:29:25.99
they're too big! The
Himites and the Herites
00:29:26.19\00:29:29.20
and all of them are too big
00:29:29.40\00:29:30.90
and we can't overcome. "
00:29:31.30\00:29:33.77
So Joshua said:
"We are well able. "
00:29:34.94\00:29:37.51
Caleb said: "We are well able. "
00:29:37.64\00:29:39.91
The others said:
"We are not able. "
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You and I are faced with
who you want to believe today.
00:29:43.08\00:29:45.65
The Bible tells me
angel comes to Zechariah.
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He comes to Mary. They said:
"How can these things be? "
00:29:52.22\00:29:55.39
Zechariah says:
"We're too old. "
00:29:56.12\00:29:58.03
Angel said: "You should have
believed. Now you're not going
00:29:58.23\00:29:59.79
to get to say
anything until John is born. "
00:30:00.00\00:30:02.00
Mary says: "But
I'm not married yet. "
00:30:04.13\00:30:06.43
And the angel says: "With God
all things are possible. " Amen!
00:30:06.63\00:30:09.74
All things are possible to God.
00:30:11.41\00:30:13.04
"I can do all
things through Christ. "
00:30:13.24\00:30:15.34
You know, I get so
exasperated because
00:30:15.74\00:30:17.85
when I came to the
Lord you know I was drinking
00:30:18.05\00:30:21.15
and smoking and
stealing and cursing.
00:30:21.35\00:30:23.55
And I was just you
know... I was a big zero.
00:30:23.75\00:30:27.62
I think it was
Martin Luther that said:
00:30:30.19\00:30:32.03
"God creates from nothing
so until you become nothing
00:30:32.69\00:30:35.33
He can do nothing with you. "
00:30:35.53\00:30:36.90
And once you realize
you've reached the bottom
00:30:37.83\00:30:39.63
and you surrender and
you are crucified with Christ
00:30:41.14\00:30:43.47
He can re-create you then
and make you a new creature.
00:30:43.67\00:30:47.11
But you must be broken.
00:30:47.78\00:30:49.11
"He that falls on the
rock and is broken... "
00:30:49.18\00:30:51.11
There's hope for him.
00:30:51.31\00:30:53.15
And God helped me
quit smoking and drinking
00:30:54.25\00:30:58.09
and cursing. And it's not
because I don't have the freedom
00:30:58.29\00:31:01.22
to do those things. And
you know what? I know what all
00:31:01.42\00:31:02.92
the curse words are.
I still remember them.
00:31:03.12\00:31:04.76
I don't say them... I
don't think about them
00:31:06.03\00:31:08.26
because I'm a new person now.
00:31:08.93\00:31:11.57
And so when people start telling
me and making all these excuses
00:31:11.77\00:31:14.80
for sin I just think: "I
don't want to hear that. "
00:31:15.00\00:31:17.57
Don't tell me you
can't with Christ.
00:31:18.41\00:31:21.61
That's right.
Because... I'll tell you what
00:31:21.81\00:31:24.95
the rest of the story is.
00:31:25.15\00:31:26.92
If you don't believe
you can, then you can't.
00:31:27.78\00:31:32.19
Amen! Jesus
said: "Be it unto you
00:31:32.39\00:31:35.16
according to your faith. "
00:31:35.36\00:31:36.99
"All things are
possible to him that believes. "
00:31:37.39\00:31:40.66
"But the men who had gone
up said: 'We are not able.
00:31:42.56\00:31:45.10
The people are
stronger than we. ' "
00:31:45.30\00:31:46.67
Well, he was right
but that doesn't matter.
00:31:46.70\00:31:48.20
Yeah, they did not have
as much military experience.
00:31:49.00\00:31:52.01
They were outnumbered.
00:31:52.21\00:31:53.54
They were under fortified.
00:31:54.24\00:31:56.14
But none of that
matters because you and God
00:31:56.88\00:31:59.28
are always a majority.
00:31:59.48\00:32:01.15
The Bible promise is that "one
of you will chase a thousand. "
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So the numbers never matter.
00:32:06.05\00:32:07.46
Jonathan and his armor bearer
go up against the Philistines
00:32:08.46\00:32:11.49
and Jonathan says
to his armor bearer:
00:32:11.69\00:32:13.06
"There is no restraint with the
Lord to deliver by few or many.
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And I realize we're
terribly outnumbered
00:32:16.53\00:32:18.43
but I think with God we
can take on that garrison. "
00:32:18.63\00:32:21.07
So the two of them take
on a garrison of Philistines
00:32:21.90\00:32:24.44
and they win. And they both
survive and the Philistines fall
00:32:24.64\00:32:27.28
because they believe.
00:32:28.18\00:32:29.71
Don't
underestimate what God can do.
00:32:30.91\00:32:33.18
And is there any
area in your life
00:32:33.58\00:32:35.72
that you've not conquered
the Hittites and the Jebusites
00:32:36.79\00:32:40.52
and you've just
gotten comfortable?
00:32:41.46\00:32:42.89
You know, when the children of
Israel entered the Promised Land
00:32:43.09\00:32:45.16
God said: "Now don't let up
until you've driven them out
00:32:45.36\00:32:48.26
because if you don't
drive them out, they will be
00:32:50.53\00:32:54.30
thorns in your side and
splinters in your eyes. "
00:32:54.50\00:32:57.87
And you know, after they
got comfortable in the land
00:32:58.71\00:33:01.68
they said: "Well, you know,
we've kind of whittled them down
00:33:01.88\00:33:03.78
to size. We don't need to
drive them completely out. "
00:33:03.98\00:33:06.18
Moses said: "Don't do that
because you're going to start
00:33:06.48\00:33:08.78
making alliances with them
and your sons are going to marry
00:33:08.98\00:33:11.15
them. They're going to
start eroding your faith.
00:33:11.35\00:33:12.92
You don't settle
until you've driven them out
00:33:13.12\00:33:14.82
and you are free indeed. "
00:33:15.02\00:33:16.42
You know what's happened to
the church is we got comfortable
00:33:18.13\00:33:20.30
with a little bit of the world
00:33:20.50\00:33:22.00
and started
compromising with the world.
00:33:22.90\00:33:25.03
Started saying: "Wow! " And
you know what? Those nations...
00:33:25.87\00:33:29.30
while they weren't watching
those nations began to grow
00:33:29.50\00:33:31.44
again and they started inter-
marrying with their children.
00:33:31.64\00:33:34.81
And they started
compromising their beliefs.
00:33:35.31\00:33:37.45
And next thing you know
they were worshiping their gods.
00:33:37.65\00:33:39.65
And it all happened
in the Promised Land
00:33:40.48\00:33:42.58
because they began to
settle for too little.
00:33:42.78\00:33:47.12
God said: "I want you
to have complete victory. "
00:33:47.92\00:33:50.13
They said: "Oh, we'd
better tolerate some enemies
00:33:50.89\00:33:53.86
among us. " Is there
any area in your life
00:33:54.03\00:33:57.70
where the devil
still has a foothold?
00:33:57.90\00:33:59.63
"If the Son will make you free,
you shall be free indeed. "
00:34:01.20\00:34:04.01
You've gotta believe
either the 10 spies or the 2.
00:34:05.07\00:34:09.58
You need to
live above the crowd.
00:34:10.65\00:34:12.01
Don't... Sometimes you can't
always go with the majority
00:34:12.21\00:34:15.18
report. "And they gave the
children of Israel a bad report
00:34:15.38\00:34:19.62
of the Promised Land.
" Can you imagine that?
00:34:19.82\00:34:21.79
Gospel is good news!
00:34:21.99\00:34:23.53
How do you communicate
the gospel to others?
00:34:24.63\00:34:27.00
Do they look at you and
think: "I want to be a Christian
00:34:27.20\00:34:28.93
like them 'cause
they're so happy. "
00:34:29.13\00:34:30.73
"Because they're joyful. "
00:34:31.57\00:34:33.10
Do you look like
Christianity's good news
00:34:33.60\00:34:37.47
when people meet you?
When they talk to you?
00:34:37.67\00:34:39.57
Do you talk about the
positive side of life?
00:34:39.77\00:34:41.94
Are you always focusing on
what's wrong with everybody
00:34:42.14\00:34:44.38
and everything?
00:34:44.58\00:34:45.91
I heard a pastor say once
that some Christians look like
00:34:46.68\00:34:49.62
they've been
baptized in pickle juice.
00:34:49.82\00:34:51.55
We're supposed to be on our
way to a feast not a funeral.
00:34:51.95\00:34:57.23
Right? Amen.
00:34:57.59\00:34:59.59
Spurgeon when he
would train ministers
00:35:00.06\00:35:01.70
he'd say: "When you preach
00:35:02.30\00:35:04.17
your face should reflect the
subject you're talking about.
00:35:04.83\00:35:07.67
For example, if
you're talking about heaven
00:35:07.87\00:35:09.77
and you describe the golden
streets, your face should shine!
00:35:10.01\00:35:12.64
If you talk about the
pearly gates, your eyes should
00:35:13.04\00:35:14.94
sparkle! " And he said:
"And if you're preaching on
00:35:15.14\00:35:17.25
the subject of hell, use your
regular everyday expression. "
00:35:17.45\00:35:20.52
The gospel is good news!
00:35:25.05\00:35:26.86
And here you've got one group
that says: "Ah, the land through
00:35:30.43\00:35:34.00
which we went it
devours the inhabitants. "
00:35:34.20\00:35:36.73
It's like the land... you know,
they were going to cross over
00:35:36.93\00:35:38.47
and start getting gobbled
up by the plants or something.
00:35:38.67\00:35:41.14
"It's a land that
devours the inhabitants. "
00:35:42.10\00:35:43.77
Well Caleb and Joshua said "It's
flowing with milk and honey. "
00:35:43.97\00:35:45.84
Which is it?
00:35:46.04\00:35:47.38
"All the people that we saw
there were like men of great
00:35:47.44\00:35:49.78
stature. We saw the giants...
the descendants of Anak.
00:35:50.01\00:35:52.98
We were like
grasshoppers in our own sight. "
00:35:53.18\00:35:55.88
Notice it began
with their own sight.
00:35:56.08\00:35:58.19
That was the problem:
00:35:58.89\00:36:00.29
they saw themselves
as grasshoppers. Amen!
00:36:00.69\00:36:04.36
And then it says:
"And in their sight. "
00:36:04.59\00:36:06.53
Well the reason they looked
like grasshoppers in their sight
00:36:06.73\00:36:08.83
is 'cause they saw
themselves as grasshoppers.
00:36:09.03\00:36:11.00
You know, I think
it was John Wesley -
00:36:12.70\00:36:14.97
kind of turned the
Christian world upside down -
00:36:15.17\00:36:17.31
he was like 5'2".
00:36:17.67\00:36:20.78
And some people would
comment on his diminutive size.
00:36:21.11\00:36:25.88
And he said: "You
know, it doesn't matter
00:36:26.28\00:36:28.22
how big the dog is in the fight.
It matters how big the fight is
00:36:28.42\00:36:31.62
in the dog. " Amen!
00:36:31.82\00:36:33.49
And he just turned the
Christian world upside down.
00:36:33.89\00:36:35.82
He never let up. Went
till he was 87 years old
00:36:36.02\00:36:38.29
preaching and teaching.
00:36:38.83\00:36:40.50
Started a whole
movement and a great revival.
00:36:40.90\00:36:43.33
Can't be thinking
of yourself that way.
00:36:44.13\00:36:46.27
You know the story
of David and Goliath.
00:36:46.80\00:36:48.30
In I Samuel chapter 17
this champion of the Philistines
00:36:50.01\00:36:54.24
comes marching down
into the Valley of Elah
00:36:54.44\00:36:56.81
and he begins... You know the
Philistines and the Israelites
00:36:57.21\00:36:59.85
they're always facing
off against each other.
00:37:00.15\00:37:01.98
Philistines
occupied a big swath of land
00:37:02.18\00:37:04.22
between the
mountains and the sea.
00:37:04.59\00:37:06.49
Beautiful farm land.
00:37:06.69\00:37:08.02
And the Israelites,
especially the people of Judah,
00:37:08.26\00:37:10.99
were up in the mountains above.
00:37:11.19\00:37:12.59
And they were always
facing off for battles.
00:37:12.99\00:37:14.60
And they armed themselves
on each side of this valley
00:37:14.83\00:37:18.20
kind of waiting to
engage and taunting each other.
00:37:18.40\00:37:20.54
They kind of had no
man's land in between them.
00:37:20.94\00:37:23.07
And out of the Philistine
camp came marching this guy
00:37:23.51\00:37:27.58
that was a virtual redwood tree.
00:37:27.71\00:37:30.65
He came thundering down.
00:37:31.95\00:37:33.62
Now he's around... depending
on which cubit you use:
00:37:33.82\00:37:37.39
Egyptian cubit or Hebrew
cubit or Babylonian cubit.
00:37:37.59\00:37:39.85
I don't know what cubit they
were using but he's at least
00:37:40.06\00:37:41.39
like nine and a half feet tall.
00:37:41.59\00:37:43.43
And he's not like some
people who are real tall
00:37:44.33\00:37:47.60
and real spindly.
00:37:47.76\00:37:49.30
He's like
Shaquille O'Neal, you know.
00:37:49.70\00:37:51.60
He's symmetrically huge.
00:37:51.80\00:37:54.27
And he comes marching
down. He issues a challenge.
00:37:56.10\00:37:59.74
They'd never heard
any army do this before.
00:37:59.94\00:38:01.94
They said: "Look, why do
we all need to die in battle?
00:38:02.14\00:38:04.01
Let's just have... You
send out your best man;
00:38:04.21\00:38:05.81
we'll send out our best man
00:38:06.01\00:38:07.45
and whoever wins that
nation will pay tribute
00:38:07.65\00:38:10.82
to the other nation...
you become our servants. "
00:38:11.02\00:38:12.72
Well they didn't know what
to say. They didn't want to say:
00:38:13.62\00:38:15.46
"No, we don't have anyone that
can take on your best man. "
00:38:15.66\00:38:17.36
And so day after day for 40 days
00:38:18.36\00:38:20.43
Goliath comes
down and he taunts them
00:38:20.63\00:38:22.43
and he say: "Come on...
send me one. Don't you have one
00:38:22.63\00:38:24.20
man who's willing to
fight? Is there not one man? "
00:38:24.40\00:38:26.40
I used to wonder: why
didn't Saul go fight him?
00:38:27.64\00:38:29.50
The Bible says Saul was
a head and shoulders taller
00:38:29.70\00:38:31.34
than everyone else.
That would give you an edge.
00:38:31.54\00:38:33.31
Jonathan had faith, but I don't
think Saul was going to let
00:38:34.18\00:38:36.95
the crown prince go fight him.
00:38:37.15\00:38:38.65
The Bible tells us that
when Samuel went to pick David
00:38:39.51\00:38:42.32
and anoint him, first
Samuel put his eyes on
00:38:42.52\00:38:45.19
Eliab, David's older
brother, and he was tall also.
00:38:45.39\00:38:47.96
And he said: "Oh
surely the Lord's anointed
00:38:48.16\00:38:49.69
is before me. " God said:
"Don't look on his height. "
00:38:49.89\00:38:52.59
"Don't look on how big he is
on the outside... look at how
00:38:53.70\00:38:55.93
big he is on the inside. "
00:38:56.13\00:38:57.47
And he ends up with David
00:38:58.37\00:38:59.93
who just so
happened to be my height.
00:39:00.40\00:39:02.40
Oh... I don't know...
00:39:02.80\00:39:04.14
And so after this
goes on for 39 days
00:39:07.94\00:39:12.95
Jesse says: "David, look...
your brothers are on the front
00:39:13.35\00:39:15.28
lines. You'd better
bring them some provisions. "
00:39:15.48\00:39:17.42
David comes to the front lines
and just about the time he's
00:39:18.55\00:39:21.02
handing out
provisions to his brothers
00:39:21.22\00:39:22.89
Goliath comes storming down.
00:39:23.09\00:39:25.03
He issues his
challenge. Every time he comes
00:39:25.43\00:39:27.66
he's taunting more than ever.
00:39:27.86\00:39:30.10
He's mocking the God of Israel.
00:39:30.30\00:39:32.10
And David hears this
and he's looking around.
00:39:32.30\00:39:35.90
He's thinking: "We just
going to stand and take this?
00:39:36.10\00:39:38.87
Isn't anybody... "
This righteous indignation -
00:39:39.07\00:39:41.91
Spirit inspired -
wells up within David
00:39:42.31\00:39:45.28
and he thinks: "Isn't anybody
going to speak up for the glory
00:39:45.48\00:39:48.75
of God against these heathens? "
00:39:48.95\00:39:52.75
Nobody. And finally David said:
00:39:53.86\00:39:55.22
"What's the reward for
the guy who takes him out? "
00:39:55.42\00:39:57.36
He already had his mind made
up: "If no one's going to do it
00:39:57.56\00:39:59.16
I'm going to do it. I just
wonder: what's the reward? "
00:39:59.36\00:40:00.90
"Oh, he'll be tax free
in Israel. King'll probably
00:40:02.10\00:40:04.43
give him his
daughter to marry. "
00:40:04.63\00:40:06.23
That ended up
backfiring... but it did work.
00:40:06.63\00:40:09.37
And pretty soon
word gets to Saul:
00:40:09.97\00:40:12.71
"There's this
whippersnapper from Bethlehem
00:40:12.91\00:40:15.58
who has come out saying he's
going to take on the giant. "
00:40:15.98\00:40:18.01
And Saul's thinking:
"Is that my musician? "
00:40:18.41\00:40:20.82
"Bring him to me. "
00:40:22.02\00:40:23.85
And David says: "Look,
why would you let this giant
00:40:24.05\00:40:29.06
intimidate you? "
00:40:29.46\00:40:31.46
He said: "A bear
came and took sheep. "
00:40:32.63\00:40:37.73
Said: "I killed the bear. "
00:40:37.93\00:40:39.43
"A lion came... I
killed the lion. "
00:40:39.63\00:40:41.10
And it doesn't say David
killed the lion with a sling.
00:40:42.04\00:40:45.94
We always portray it that way.
00:40:46.14\00:40:47.51
Said he took him by the beard.
00:40:47.71\00:40:49.44
The Holy Spirit came on
David like it came on Samson.
00:40:50.38\00:40:53.11
You know, Samson
never... Show me where it says
00:40:53.35\00:40:55.02
Samson had big muscles.
00:40:55.22\00:40:56.55
Samson actually was 5'9".
00:40:58.69\00:41:02.32
Well we don't know that...
It doesn't say that exactly.
00:41:07.40\00:41:10.33
But it does say when the
Spirit of the Lord left him
00:41:11.00\00:41:13.10
he was as other men, doesn't it?
00:41:13.30\00:41:16.17
So what made the difference?
00:41:17.84\00:41:19.34
How big the fight is in the dog.
00:41:20.28\00:41:22.38
How big the faith
is in the believer -
00:41:22.78\00:41:24.71
Amen - is what
makes the difference.
00:41:25.38\00:41:26.72
He said: "I'll go
fight this giant. "
00:41:27.58\00:41:30.25
Now Saul is thinking: "Well,
if we send out our best man
00:41:31.39\00:41:35.42
and he gets 'beat'
we're just going to look bad
00:41:35.82\00:41:38.83
and we'll have to be their
slaves. If we send out a kid,
00:41:39.03\00:41:41.06
we may still have to be their
slaves but we won't feel bad
00:41:41.26\00:41:43.50
because, you know, at least
they're going to feel bad. "
00:41:43.70\00:41:46.60
And he said: "All right...
00:41:46.80\00:41:49.27
I'm inspired by your
optimism. You can go. "
00:41:49.67\00:41:54.01
And then Saul tries to
put his armor on David.
00:41:54.38\00:41:56.88
And you know, Saul was a
head and shoulders taller than
00:41:57.98\00:42:01.02
everyone else. He
puts on Saul's armor
00:42:01.22\00:42:03.42
and he's probably peeking
out the neck hole like this!
00:42:03.62\00:42:05.49
And it says:
"He assayed to go. "
00:42:05.69\00:42:07.56
That means he tried to walk
and he's like... you know...
00:42:07.76\00:42:09.66
"I'm not going to fight
the giant in this stuff! "
00:42:09.86\00:42:11.33
He says: "I'm dead
before I get out in the field! "
00:42:11.53\00:42:14.50
So he takes the 5 smooth
stones. See, everyone else
00:42:15.66\00:42:18.23
saw a giant that was 9'6".
00:42:18.43\00:42:20.94
David knew he was
only 5 feet 54 inches
00:42:21.14\00:42:23.51
as a matter of perspective.
00:42:26.27\00:42:28.24
And David didn't even
know how he was going to do it.
00:42:32.85\00:42:35.75
He knew he was
pretty good with a sling.
00:42:37.59\00:42:39.12
You know, the Bible tells us
that there were some Benjamites.
00:42:40.02\00:42:42.16
Now David was from
Judah, but the Bible does say
00:42:42.36\00:42:44.53
in the book of Judges
there were some Benjamites that
00:42:44.73\00:42:46.66
could sling stones left
handed at a hair's breath
00:42:46.86\00:42:49.30
and not miss. I had a
friend that lived in Alaska.
00:42:49.50\00:42:54.17
Some of the Inuits up there...
they would sling stones.
00:42:54.34\00:42:57.77
And they said you could put a
stone, if you picked your stone
00:42:57.97\00:43:00.31
carefully, you cut put it
through a 1/2" piece of plywood.
00:43:00.51\00:43:02.88
Those things really have
pretty good muscle velocity.
00:43:03.68\00:43:06.75
So David carefully
picked five smooth stones.
00:43:07.62\00:43:11.79
And I can just see it:
Goliath on the other side
00:43:11.99\00:43:14.59
of the mountains and
they're all taunting and mocking
00:43:14.79\00:43:16.59
one army's rate against another.
00:43:16.83\00:43:18.16
And David walks down to
this creek between the two
00:43:18.19\00:43:20.73
and he starts
fishing around in the water
00:43:20.93\00:43:22.86
and he picks out what he
knows will be good projectiles.
00:43:23.26\00:43:26.30
And he gets five. Someone said:
"If David had so much faith,
00:43:26.50\00:43:29.00
why didn't he just get one? "
00:43:29.20\00:43:30.57
Well, you read on in the
Bible you find out Goliath
00:43:31.47\00:43:33.68
had four other
relatives that were giants.
00:43:33.88\00:43:36.38
David figured if they showed up
he'd be ready for any of them.
00:43:37.21\00:43:39.78
And Goliath comes
out and he sees this boy.
00:43:43.22\00:43:45.19
He thinks he's bringing a
message. He sees the fight
00:43:45.39\00:43:47.12
in David's eyes and he thinks:
"You've gotta be kidding. "
00:43:47.32\00:43:49.69
And David's got
his shepherd's staff.
00:43:50.39\00:43:52.33
And Goliath says:
"What? No armor? "
00:43:53.09\00:43:55.23
"You won't even send me someone
to kill that's got armor on? "
00:43:55.43\00:43:58.13
Said: "What am I? A dog that you
come against me with a stick? "
00:43:58.53\00:44:01.00
And Goliath begins to stomp
around and stir up the dust.
00:44:01.87\00:44:04.61
And he's shouting and
cursing by the Philistine gods.
00:44:04.81\00:44:07.28
"I'm going to take your head
off you; I'm going to kill you.
00:44:07.48\00:44:09.61
I'm going to feed you to
the buzzards and the skunks
00:44:10.05\00:44:11.78
and... " If you're
going to fight a giant,
00:44:11.98\00:44:15.02
don't make him mad first. Right?
00:44:15.22\00:44:16.72
David doesn't... he
doesn't back down one bit.
00:44:18.92\00:44:21.42
The courage! The audacity!
The boldness! The faith!
00:44:21.62\00:44:25.26
He said: "No, no,
no... let me tell you
00:44:26.36\00:44:27.66
how this is going to end. "
00:44:27.86\00:44:29.20
Said: "I'm going to kill you
00:44:29.73\00:44:31.27
and I'm going to
take your head from you. "
00:44:32.20\00:44:33.80
"You come against me
with a sword and a spear
00:44:34.20\00:44:36.87
and a shield, but I come against
you with something much bigger
00:44:37.07\00:44:39.34
than anything you've got. "
00:44:39.54\00:44:40.88
"I come against you
in the name of God. "
00:44:41.41\00:44:44.15
Amen! And you and God
are always the winning team.
00:44:44.35\00:44:48.28
Amen.
00:44:48.48\00:44:49.92
Now has Goliath
ever taunted you?
00:44:50.45\00:44:52.99
Have you ever felt
like the devil was too big?
00:44:53.72\00:44:55.86
What does David use
to bring down the giant?
00:44:57.33\00:44:59.39
A stone.
00:45:00.43\00:45:02.06
Jesus said: "He that hears these
words of mine and does them
00:45:02.46\00:45:06.00
is like a wise man who's
building his house on... "
00:45:06.20\00:45:08.17
What? "rock. "
00:45:08.37\00:45:10.21
Christ is that Rock.
00:45:10.61\00:45:11.94
In the story that
giant image is brought down
00:45:11.97\00:45:15.01
it is a stone representing
Christ, His kingdom,
00:45:15.21\00:45:17.75
His Word! The Ten Command-
ments were written on what?
00:45:17.95\00:45:20.82
Stone!
00:45:21.18\00:45:22.52
How do we bring down the enemy?
How did Jesus fight the devil?
00:45:22.55\00:45:25.15
"It is written; it is
written; it is written! "
00:45:25.55\00:45:28.29
In the Word of God is
the weapon. It's the sword
00:45:28.49\00:45:31.56
that we need to
defeat the enemy.
00:45:31.96\00:45:33.93
There are promises - exceeding
great and precious promises -
00:45:34.10\00:45:36.83
in His Word that you can
use to bring down every giant,
00:45:37.03\00:45:39.60
every foreign tribe, that
is in your mind and heart.
00:45:39.80\00:45:43.37
God wants you to be free indeed!
00:45:44.04\00:45:46.54
You must
believe that He is able.
00:45:46.94\00:45:48.91
Can you say Amen? Amen!
00:45:49.11\00:45:50.95
So... David comes
out against Goliath.
00:45:51.61\00:45:54.28
The Bible says the
giant "went to meet David. "
00:45:55.12\00:45:58.05
He walked out.
00:45:58.45\00:45:59.79
And this has
always fascinated me.
00:45:59.92\00:46:01.42
I think I mentioned
it earlier this week.
00:46:01.62\00:46:03.06
David RAN to meet the giant.
00:46:03.26\00:46:06.13
Goliath was so outraged
00:46:06.93\00:46:09.10
at the insults of David.
He thought: "Who in the world
00:46:09.30\00:46:11.93
does he think he is? "
David's thinking: "Lord, You've
00:46:12.13\00:46:14.04
gotta help me now 'cause I don't
know how I'm going to do this. "
00:46:14.24\00:46:15.67
"I don't even have a sword. "
00:46:16.30\00:46:17.64
"What am I going to
do? Kick him in the knee? "
00:46:17.91\00:46:19.57
And Goliath takes his
helmet and he pushes it back
00:46:20.48\00:46:23.21
and he's thinking: "Oh! "
00:46:23.45\00:46:24.78
And David's: "Ah... bullseye! "
00:46:24.81\00:46:26.28
"Praise the Lord! I
was praying for an opening
00:46:27.45\00:46:30.22
and He gave me the
opening I needed! "
00:46:30.42\00:46:32.25
And David was so
good it says: "as he ran
00:46:34.26\00:46:36.86
he put his hand in his bag. "
00:46:37.06\00:46:40.13
You know, I told you
I like reading history
00:46:40.33\00:46:42.36
and I was reading about
some of the Indian battles.
00:46:43.06\00:46:45.27
And these were the
Native Americans fighting with
00:46:45.47\00:46:47.30
Native Americans.
And they were so good
00:46:47.50\00:46:49.10
they would ride a horse,
draw arrows and shoot them
00:46:49.30\00:46:53.04
and not miss while
they're bouncing on a horse.
00:46:53.24\00:46:55.24
How in the world do you do that?
00:46:55.64\00:46:57.61
These slingers... they
could run, load a sling,
00:46:57.78\00:47:02.02
fire it and not miss
while they're on the move!
00:47:02.22\00:47:04.32
I'd trip and wrap my feet up;
I'd never be able to do that.
00:47:05.05\00:47:07.86
And as David's
running he takes that stone.
00:47:09.46\00:47:11.83
He puts it in and he
whips it around his head
00:47:12.03\00:47:14.36
and he sends that thing
just shooting like a bullet
00:47:14.76\00:47:18.33
right at its mark, and it
absolutely knocks Goliath out.
00:47:18.63\00:47:23.04
He hits it... I like reading
this in the book Patriarchs
00:47:23.54\00:47:26.17
and Prophets. All of
a sudden he's shocked
00:47:26.37\00:47:29.18
and he grabs his forehead
and the blood almost instantly
00:47:29.38\00:47:32.48
begins to come out between
his finger and he stumbles.
00:47:32.68\00:47:35.32
And you know the
expression: "The bigger they are
00:47:35.52\00:47:37.72
the harder they fall. "
And he starts to just go over
00:47:37.92\00:47:40.99
and David said: "Timber! "
00:47:41.19\00:47:43.16
He starts to go over and
went face down ingloriously
00:47:44.76\00:47:49.43
in the dirt.
00:47:50.77\00:47:52.27
You know, when I get to
heaven there's certain videos
00:47:54.54\00:47:56.07
I want to check out.
00:47:56.27\00:47:57.61
I'm going to take my angel
in and say: "Where've you got
00:47:59.71\00:48:01.78
this archived? " I'll
say: "I want to see this. "
00:48:01.98\00:48:03.41
And I not only want to see
what happened, I want to see
00:48:04.01\00:48:06.18
the faces of the Philistines.
00:48:06.38\00:48:08.58
I want to see their faces:
"Oh yeah, Goliath... let's go! "
00:48:09.65\00:48:12.52
The disbelief! And
then in the Israeli army
00:48:18.36\00:48:21.83
they're all going:
"How long do you think
00:48:22.03\00:48:24.60
that son of
Jesse's going to last? "
00:48:24.80\00:48:26.33
"I don't know... I
think he's got 20 seconds.
00:48:27.04\00:48:28.57
What do you think? "
"I'll give him 30 seconds. "
00:48:28.77\00:48:30.34
And they're taking money
on it. How long before he's
00:48:30.54\00:48:32.61
snuffed out, you know?
00:48:32.81\00:48:34.34
And then they
see Goliath go down!
00:48:34.74\00:48:36.28
And all the Israelite
soldiers are going: "Huh? "
00:48:37.25\00:48:40.05
Even his own people!
00:48:43.82\00:48:45.15
And there was probably
a long, awkward silence.
00:48:46.09\00:48:48.76
Then... nobody's doing anything.
David said: "You guys aren't
00:48:48.96\00:48:51.26
going to help me? " He goes
and he takes Goliath's sword.
00:48:51.46\00:48:53.73
He's still kind of
moaning. He's not dead yet.
00:48:54.10\00:48:56.46
And he cuts off
the giant's head.
00:48:57.53\00:48:59.67
Lifts it up.
Finally the people are going
00:48:59.87\00:49:03.00
"I don't think
he's getting back up. "
00:49:03.20\00:49:04.91
And the Israelites go:
"Yeah! He's ours! We were on his
00:49:08.31\00:49:11.68
side the whole time! "
00:49:11.88\00:49:13.21
"We knew he could do it! "
00:49:14.25\00:49:15.58
"Yeah... that's
the king's harpist! "
00:49:17.02\00:49:19.89
"The shepherd boy! "
00:49:21.12\00:49:22.96
And they all go charging down
the hill towards the Philistines
00:49:23.99\00:49:26.83
and the Philistines, they
threw their weapons in the air
00:49:27.03\00:49:28.83
and they thought:
"Man, if this young guy
00:49:29.03\00:49:31.30
can do that to our biggest man,
00:49:31.50\00:49:33.44
what are these
guys gonna do to us? "
00:49:33.64\00:49:35.04
And they went running back.
00:49:35.44\00:49:37.14
They got a victory.
00:49:38.07\00:49:39.77
You and God. David
said: "You come against me
00:49:39.97\00:49:42.81
with a sword and
a spear and a shield
00:49:43.01\00:49:44.75
but I come against you
in the name of Jehovah. "
00:49:44.95\00:49:49.12
Amen! So if you
are met with temptation
00:49:49.32\00:49:53.09
and you call out to God
00:49:53.62\00:49:56.32
and you say: "Lord save me!
" like Peter when he's sinking
00:49:56.52\00:49:59.76
God would sooner
empty heaven of every angel
00:50:01.23\00:50:04.03
than let one of His
children that trusts in Him
00:50:04.23\00:50:06.74
fail when they believe.
00:50:07.14\00:50:09.14
You might be looking at yourself
saying: "Lord, I'm not much.
00:50:09.54\00:50:11.84
How am I going to make it? "
00:50:12.04\00:50:14.04
Romans chapter 4 verse 17 says:
"God calls those things that
00:50:14.24\00:50:17.75
are not as though they are. "
00:50:17.95\00:50:19.75
God calls us saints.
00:50:20.52\00:50:22.62
He calls us His children.
00:50:23.02\00:50:24.99
He says: "I've gone to
prepare a place for you"
00:50:25.79\00:50:27.82
before anyone's
earned that place.
00:50:28.42\00:50:29.99
"All things are
possible to them that believe. "
00:50:31.43\00:50:33.76
Now to go back to my story.
00:50:34.56\00:50:36.26
So in the book of
Numbers one group said
00:50:37.60\00:50:41.84
"We can make it. " The other
group said: "We can't make it. "
00:50:42.04\00:50:43.64
"And all the
congregation... " chapter 14...
00:50:43.84\00:50:45.51
"they lift up their
voices. " They weep all night.
00:50:45.71\00:50:47.61
They say: "Let's
kill Moses and Aaron. "
00:50:47.81\00:50:49.81
"Let's go back to Egypt...
we'll go back and be slaves! "
00:50:50.01\00:50:53.85
Believers who would
rather be slaves than be free.
00:50:54.05\00:50:56.62
"We don't
believe we can make it. "
00:50:58.05\00:50:59.39
"It's too hard
to be a Christian. "
00:50:59.65\00:51:01.19
All that... The
only thing that's scaring
00:51:03.16\00:51:04.66
them is the devil!
00:51:04.86\00:51:06.19
I tell you, friends:
it's a lot easier being saved
00:51:07.10\00:51:09.20
than being lost.
00:51:09.40\00:51:10.73
The devil's got us convinced
that it's easier to surrender
00:51:11.73\00:51:14.40
and be a slave.
"And Moses and Aaron
00:51:14.60\00:51:18.17
fell on their faces and
Caleb, the son of Jephunneh... "
00:51:18.37\00:51:20.78
he said: 'The land
through which we passed
00:51:21.18\00:51:24.31
is an exceeding
good land. ' " Verse 8:
00:51:24.51\00:51:26.48
"If the Lord delights in us,
He will bring us into this land
00:51:26.68\00:51:29.32
and give it to us. It
flows with milk and honey.
00:51:29.52\00:51:31.45
Only do not rebel
against the Lord! "
00:51:31.65\00:51:33.42
Don't stop believing the Lord!
00:51:33.62\00:51:35.26
Jesus said:
"Where is your faith? "
00:51:35.46\00:51:37.03
How many times did He ask the
apostles "Where is your faith? "
00:51:37.23\00:51:39.26
So often we focus
on what we can't do.
00:51:41.00\00:51:43.70
Couple of quotes I'd
like to share with you
00:51:45.17\00:51:47.07
before I run out of time here.
00:51:47.27\00:51:48.60
"Faith does not operate
in the realm of the possible.
00:51:49.74\00:51:52.81
There is no glory for God in
that which is humanly possible.
00:51:53.41\00:51:56.71
Faith begins where
man's power ends. "
00:51:57.18\00:51:59.81
George Mueller.
00:52:00.28\00:52:01.65
"Unbelief puts our
circumstances between us and God
00:52:01.98\00:52:05.49
but faith puts God between
us and our circumstances. "
00:52:05.89\00:52:09.66
Sometimes we focus on
the giant and not the Lord.
00:52:10.06\00:52:13.40
Victor Franco said:
00:52:15.80\00:52:17.13
"A weak faith is
weakened by predicaments
00:52:17.17\00:52:18.73
and catastrophes
whereas a strong faith
00:52:19.03\00:52:21.44
is strengthened by them. "
00:52:21.64\00:52:23.14
And some anonymous person
said: "Faith sees the invisible,
00:52:24.51\00:52:27.84
believes the incredible,
00:52:28.04\00:52:29.48
and receives the impossible. "
00:52:29.68\00:52:31.65
Amen! If you
believe, you will receive.
00:52:31.85\00:52:35.48
Even if you've
fallen 10 times before,
00:52:36.28\00:52:38.59
a righteous man falls
seven times and rises again.
00:52:38.79\00:52:41.29
Don't stop believing that the
Lord can finish what He started
00:52:42.02\00:52:44.89
in your life. He is
the Author and the Finisher
00:52:45.09\00:52:47.40
of your faith. Amen? "He
that has begun a good work
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in you will perform it. "
Don't believe the lies out there
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that say: "Ah, nobody's
perfect. We can't make it;
00:52:53.20\00:52:56.07
we're all going to fall. "
You strive to be like Christ!
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That's what a
Christian is, amen?
00:52:59.47\00:53:00.88
We're followers of Jesus.
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Keep our eyes fixed on Him.
00:53:03.08\00:53:04.68
How do we lay aside the sin
and the weight? Fixing our eyes.
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Setting our eyes on Jesus.
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We run that race with endurance
00:53:10.52\00:53:12.45
remembering that He was
crucified in our behalf.
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So... you go over
to the book of Joshua.
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And we need to
fast forward 40 years.
00:53:22.50\00:53:24.60
The ones who said:
"We're not going to make it"
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you read in chapter
14 guess what happens.
00:53:28.67\00:53:30.71
They didn't make it.
00:53:31.11\00:53:32.74
Those 10 spies that said: "Oh,
we're never going to make it"
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God said: "Out of your own
mouth I'm going to judge you. "
00:53:36.18\00:53:38.45
That generation that said:
"Better off that we had died
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in the wilderness" God said:
"Be careful what you ask for. "
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That generation that didn't
believe they could make it
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died in the wilderness
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but their kids
learned a few lessons.
00:53:50.93\00:53:52.73
They had child-like faith.
00:53:52.93\00:53:54.56
That next generation
went in, and the only two
00:53:54.76\00:53:57.40
that were over 60 that
made it into the Promised Land
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were the 2 spies that
believed they could make it.
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And then after five
years of fighting and battling
00:54:06.68\00:54:09.41
in the Promised Land
Joshua comes to Caleb.
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And this is chapter
14 of the book of Joshua.
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"Then the children of
Judah came to Joshua in Gilgal
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and Caleb the son of
Jephunneh the Kenizzite
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he said to him: 'You
know the word that the Lord
00:54:21.29\00:54:24.83
said through Moses, the
man of God, concerning you
00:54:25.23\00:54:28.90
and me in Kadesh
Barnea. I was 40 years old
00:54:29.10\00:54:31.87
when Moses, the
servant of the Lord, sent me
00:54:32.07\00:54:34.37
from Kadesh Barnea
to spy out the land.
00:54:34.87\00:54:37.27
And I brought back word
to him as was in my heart.
00:54:37.47\00:54:39.71
Nevertheless, my
brethren who went up with me
00:54:39.91\00:54:42.24
they made the
heart of the people melt
00:54:42.44\00:54:44.65
but I wholly
followed the Lord my God.
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So Moses swore to
me on that day saying:
00:54:47.65\00:54:49.92
'Surely the land that your
foot has trodden on will be
00:54:50.15\00:54:52.25
an inheritance for you
and your children forever
00:54:52.45\00:54:54.99
because you wholly
follow the Lord. ' "
00:54:55.19\00:54:56.79
Can I just tell you
what that word follow means?
00:54:56.99\00:54:59.49
You wholly believed.
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That's what it's saying.
00:55:02.10\00:55:03.47
Jesus says "follow
Me" He says "believe Me. "
00:55:03.50\00:55:05.93
And he says: "And behold,
the Lord has kept me alive
00:55:07.94\00:55:10.14
as He said these 45
years. " So now he's how old?
00:55:10.34\00:55:12.77
Eighty-five. "Ever since the
Lord spoke this word to Moses
00:55:13.81\00:55:18.08
and now here I am this day
85 years old and I am as strong
00:55:18.28\00:55:22.65
this day as I was on that
day... " Wouldn't you like to
00:55:22.85\00:55:24.92
have that problem?
Amen! "that Moses sent me.
00:55:25.12\00:55:27.86
Just as my strength was
then so is my strength now
00:55:28.06\00:55:31.59
both for war, for
going out, for coming in.
00:55:31.79\00:55:34.60
Now therefore give
me this mountain. "
00:55:35.00\00:55:37.63
Jesus said if you've
got faith what can you do?
00:55:37.83\00:55:39.30
"You can say to this
mountain 'be plucked up
00:55:40.20\00:55:42.24
and cast into the
sea' and it will be done. "
00:55:42.44\00:55:44.81
"Give me this
mountain that God promised
00:55:45.51\00:55:49.51
even though the
giants are there. "
00:55:49.71\00:55:52.35
And Joshua blessed him
00:55:54.02\00:55:55.95
and Caleb, the son of Jephunneh,
he went with the tribe of Judah.
00:55:56.35\00:56:00.12
They went into the
mountains of Hebron,
00:56:00.32\00:56:01.82
later known as
the hills of Judea,
00:56:02.22\00:56:04.36
and they took on the giants
00:56:04.73\00:56:06.83
and they trounced them.
00:56:07.60\00:56:09.23
And to this day there's
a city in the land of Judah
00:56:09.86\00:56:12.63
called Jerusalem.
00:56:12.83\00:56:14.17
And David, who is a
descendant from Judah,
00:56:14.57\00:56:17.67
they all possessed that land
because an old man had faith
00:56:18.74\00:56:22.01
that God can do
what He's promised.
00:56:22.64\00:56:23.98
Now he had to wait a little
while to get the full promise,
00:56:24.18\00:56:26.15
didn't he? He had to
wander in the wilderness
00:56:26.35\00:56:28.95
for a little while. But
did Caleb get everything
00:56:29.15\00:56:31.82
that God promised him? Amen.
00:56:32.02\00:56:34.32
And sometimes it might
feel like our wandering is
00:56:34.52\00:56:36.32
going a little long. But
if you believe He is able
00:56:36.52\00:56:40.03
He will finish the work
that He's begun in your life.
00:56:40.23\00:56:42.23
God is faithful.
Can you say "Amen? "
00:56:42.43\00:56:44.70
Amen! Great is His faithfulness.
00:56:44.90\00:56:47.30
He will not let you down.
00:56:47.87\00:56:49.34
"All things are
possible to him that believes. "
00:56:49.74\00:56:52.51
"Without faith it's
impossible to please God.
00:56:52.71\00:56:55.11
If you come to God,
you must believe that He is
00:56:55.31\00:56:57.25
and He is a rewarder of
those who diligently seek Him. "
00:56:57.65\00:57:01.18
Daniel was delivered from the
lions' den because he believed
00:57:01.58\00:57:05.02
in his God. That's what
it says in Daniel chapter 6.
00:57:05.22\00:57:07.59
And so Jesus said:
"Where is your faith? "
00:57:08.62\00:57:11.43
Would you like more faith?
00:57:11.63\00:57:12.99
"Faith comes by hearing and
hearing by the Word of God. "
00:57:13.83\00:57:16.23
God'll give us
faith when we ask Him.
00:57:16.90\00:57:19.07
Would you like to have
that kind of saving faith,
00:57:19.57\00:57:21.64
that kind of faith where
you can take out the giants?
00:57:21.84\00:57:24.14
Let's ask Him together.
00:57:25.47\00:57:26.81
And I want to invite
those who are watching
00:57:26.88\00:57:28.21
as we close with
prayer pray for that faith.
00:57:28.28\00:57:30.45
Father in heaven, we just
thank you for the abundant
00:57:31.78\00:57:34.58
promises we see in Your Word
00:57:34.78\00:57:36.52
just from Genesis to Revelation
00:57:36.72\00:57:38.32
that all things are
possible to those that believe.
00:57:38.82\00:57:41.79
I pray that we'll
do what we can, Lord,
00:57:42.29\00:57:44.96
to fortify our minds
with the truth of Your Word
00:57:45.16\00:57:48.10
that when those
giants show themselves
00:57:48.50\00:57:51.07
through Your promises
we might experience...
00:57:51.47\00:57:54.74