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*HOW DUMB CAN YOU BE?*
A LESSON IN UNBELIEF
I'M SOOOOO BIG
ILLUSTRATION
“As soon as children are old enough to speak, one of the first questions parents ask is, “How big are you?”
Children seem to always give the same answer, “I’m THISSSSS big!”
They generally raise their hands to look as big as they can,
as if to say, “I’m huge.
I’m enormous.
There’s no telling how big I may be.”
This is not an answer you can use in all cases.
For example, if your spouse were to ask, “How big do my hips look to you?”
you might not want to throw your hands high over your head and exclaim,
“Your hips are THISSSSS big.”
WE TEACH OUR CHILDREN TO SAY THIS BECAUSE WE WANT THEM TO REALIZE THAT THEY ARE GROWING
AND SO THAT THEY WILL HAVE A GOOD ATTITUDE
ABOUT THEMSELVES AND THEIR ABILITY TO FACE CHALLENGES IN THE WORLD.
WHAT THEY THINK ABOUT THEMSELVES MATTERS.
WE DON'T WANT THEM TO THINK OF THEMSELVES AS SMALL, WEAK AND LACKING ADEQUATE STRENGTH FOR THE CHALLENGES OF LIFE
LET ME ASK YOU A QUESTION;
HOW BIG IS GOD?
HOW BIG IS GOD IN YOUR LIFE
*TODAY'S SERMON IS ABOUT THE ISRAELITES FIRST ATTEMPT TO ENTER THE PROMISED LAND*
AFTER ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF OF TRAVELING THROUGH THE DESERT, THE ISRAELITES HAD ARRIVED AT THE VERY EDGE OF THE PROMISED LAND.
GOD TOLD MOSES TO SEND 12 SPIES INTO THE PROMISED LAND AND CHECK IT OUT SO THAT THE ISRAELITES COULD SEE WHAT A GOOD AND FRUITFUL LAND IT WAS.
HOWEVER WHEN THE SPIES CAME BACK, THINGS DIDN’T GO AS PLANNED.
THE WHOLE STORY CAN BE FOUND IN
*Numbers 13:26-14:45 (NIV) \\ \\ *
LET’S BEGIN READING AT:
*Numbers 13:26-33 (NIV) \\ \\ *
*26 They */(the spies)/* came back to Moses and Aaron and the whole Israelite community at Kadesh in the Desert of Paran.
There they reported to them and to the whole assembly and showed them the fruit of the land.
27 They gave Moses this account: “We went into the land to which you sent us, and it does flow with milk and honey!
Here is its fruit.
28 **But the people who live there are powerful, and the cities are fortified and very large.
We even saw descendants of Anak there.
29 The Amalekites live in the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites and Amorites live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live near the sea and along the Jordan.”
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*30 Then Caleb silenced the people before Moses and said, “We should go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly do it.”
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*31 But the men who had gone up with him said, “We can’t attack those people; they are stronger than we are.”
32 And they spread among the Israelites a bad report about the land they had explored.
They said, “The land we explored devours those living in it.
All the people we saw there are of great size.
33 We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim).
We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them.”
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TEN OF THE SPIES GAVE A NEGATIVE REPORT.
THEY SAID “WE CAN’T ATTACK THOSE PEOPLE; THEY’RE STRONGER THAN WE ARE.
OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS I’VE BEEN AMAZED AT HOW THE MEDIA HAS MANAGED TO POUR THE PEOPLE
THAT I WORK WITH INTO THE MOLD OF THEIR CHOOSING.
IT’S LIKE THE GENERAL PUBLIC DOSEN’T HAVE A MIND OF THEIR OWN.
THEY JUST BELIEVE WHAT EVER THEY ARE TOLD TO BELIEVE.
THE BASHING OF PRESIDENT BUSH WAS RELENTLESS
I WAS SO UTTERLY SICK OF HEARING HOW HE WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR EVERYTHING WRONG IN THE WORLD.
I STAND AMAZED AT THE ABILITY OF THE MEDIA TO SWAY THE PUBLIC OPINION IN THE WORLD TODAY.
WHEN THE WRONG MESSAGE PREVAILS PEOPLE ACT STUPIDLY.
THE HERD MENTALITY TAKES OVER
AND THEY DO DUMB THINGS.
IT WAS NO DIFFERENT THEN.
IT’S SO MUCH EASIER TO BELIEVE THE NEGATIVE THINGS WE HEAR THAN THE POSITIVE THINGS.
THAT’S WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ISRAELITES.
THE TEN SPIES BAD REPORT WAS BELIEVED
AND THE TWO SPIES POSITIVE REPORT WAS IGNORED.
THE WHOLE ASSEMBLY WENT OFF THE DEEP END.
ALL THEY COULD SEE WAS THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF IT ALL.
THEY FULLY EMBRACED THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF OVERPOWERING THOSE HUGE GIANTS IN THE LAND.
IT DIDN'T MATTER THAT GOD HAD ALREADY DELIVERED THEM FROM PHAROAH AND EGYPTIAN BONDAGE.
ALL THE AMAZING THINGS THAT GOD HAD DONE FOR THEM OVER THE LAST YEAR AND A HALF WAS COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN.
THEY CHOSE TO HAVE AN ATTITUDE OF
NEGATIVISM, DEFEATISM, UNBELIEF AND FAILURE.
THEY WEPT
THEY WAILED
THEY SAID WHY DID WE EVER LEAVE EGYPT.
WHY WOULD GOD BRING US HERE TO DIE BY THE SWORD.
OH, IF ONLY WE HAD DIED IN EGYPT OR EVEN IN THE DESERT.
THEN THEY SAID; LET’S CHOOSE A LEADER AND ALL GO BACK TO EGYPT.
IN NEHEMIAH 9:17 WE READ THAT THEY DID CHOOSE A LEADER TO TAKE THEM BACK.
*Nehemiah 9:17 (NIV) SAYS... \\ 17 They refused to listen and failed to remember the miracles you performed among them.
They became stiff-necked and in their rebellion appointed a leader in order to return to their slavery.
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MOSES AND AARON DID ALL THEY COULD TO TURN THE PEOPLE FROM THEIR NEGATIVISM, DEFEATISM, UNBELIEF AND FAILURE.
BUT ALL THAT DID WAS MAKE THE PEOPLE WANT TO STONE MOSES AND AARON TO DEATH.
THEN GOD STEPPED IN:
HE'D BEEN LISTENING TO THEIR UNBELIEF AND NOW HE'D HAD ALL HE COULD TAKE.
*Numbers 14:10b (NIV) \\ 10b Then the glory of the Lord appeared at the Tent of Meeting to all the Israelites.
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GOD WAS SO TOTALLY DISCUSTED WITH THEM THAT HE WAS READY TO DESTROY THEM ALL.
FOR THE SECOND TIME, GOD WANTED TO DESTROY THE ISRAELITES AND RAISE UP A NATION FROM MOSES’S SEED.
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*BUT MOSES STOOD IN THE GAP FOR THEM*
*MOSES ENGAGED IN *INTECESSORY PRAYER
THAT'S PRAYER THAT CAN CHANGE GOD’S MIND.
AND MOSES DID, GET GOD TO CHANGE HIS MIND.
BUT THESE REBELLIOUS PEOPLE HAD ALREADY FORFIETED THEIR ENTERING THE PROMISED LAND.
THEY'D FINALLY PUSHED GOD SO HARD THAT HE TURNED AGAINST THEM.
EVEN THOUGH MOSES MANAGED TO SAVE THEIR LIVES, THERE WERE STILL CONSEQUENCES TO BE PAID FOR THEIR ACTIONS.
*THE 10 SPIES DIED OF A PLAGUE*
*ALL ISRAELITES OVER 20 YEARS OLD WERE SENTENCED TO 40 YEARS IN THE WILDERNESS.*
UNTIL EVERYONE OF THEM HAD DIED IN THE DESERT EXCEPT FOR CALEB AND JOSHUA.
/(CALEB AND JOSHUA WERE THE TWO SPIES THAT GAVE THE GOOD REPORT)/
LET'S READ IT FROM THE BIBLE.
*MOSES DESCRIBES GOD SO WELL IN*
*VERSE 18*
*18 ‘The Lord is slow to anger, abounding in love and forgiving sin and rebellion.
Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation.’
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