Choose the Right Words!
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This Week’s Theme: Just Do It!
Word for the Week: Encourage: To inspire with courage, spirit, or confidence. To be strong.
Memory Verse: Joshua 1:9 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the LORD your God [is] with you wherever you go.
Essence of the Text in a Sentence: At the brink of going into the Promised Land, the Israelites received a discouraging report from ten of the spies which prevented them from trusting God’s plan for them.
Sermon Proposition: A Christian’s words are meant to lead others to pursue God’s Will.
Sermon Objective: I want those in attendance to determine what biblically based words they would use to encourage someone to trust God’s instructions for marriage, for singleness, for parenting, and for life.
Sermon Text: Numbers 13:30-14:4
30 Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, “Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it.”
31 But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.”
32 And they gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature.
33 There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.”
1 So all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the people wept that night.
2 And all the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we had died in this wilderness!
3 Why has the Lord brought us to this land to fall by the sword, that our wives and children should become victims? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?”
4 So they said to one another, “Let us select a leader and return to Egypt.”
INTRODUCTION:
TRANSITION:
I. Do Your Words Magnify Man or the Master?
I. Do Your Words Magnify Man or the Master?
28 Nevertheless the people who dwell in the land are strong; the cities are fortified and very large; moreover we saw the descendants of Anak there.
31 But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.”
The Master is
Dependable through every difficulty
Trustworthy through every trial
Competent in all circumstances
The Master is
Effective in every environment
Capable in every condition
Steadfast in every situation
II. Do Your Words Form Fear or Faith?
II. Do Your Words Form Fear or Faith?
32 And they gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature.
1 So all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the people wept that night.
2 And all the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we had died in this wilderness!
25 Anxiety in the heart of man causes depression, But a good word makes it glad.
THEY SHOULD HAVE GAVE WORDS THAT FORM FAITH NOT FEAR
REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED IN EGYPT OUR GOD IS ABLE
THEIR WORDS SHOULD HAVE BEEN FORMED FAITH
9 Ointment and perfume delight the heart, And the sweetness of a man’s friend gives delight by hearty counsel.
8 If the Lord delights in us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us, ‘a land which flows with milk and honey.’
9 Only do not rebel against the Lord, nor fear the people of the land, for they are our bread; their protection has departed from them, and the Lord is with us. Do not fear them.”
19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
Caleb said
8 Nevertheless my brethren who went up with me made the heart of the people melt, but I wholly followed the Lord my God.
FOCUS ON
Trusting the LORD not the Trouble
Confidence in the LORD not the Circumstance
Anticipating the LORD not the Adversity
Believing the LORD not in the Bitterness of the days
III. Do Your Words Advance Avoiding God’s Plan or Accepting It?
III. Do Your Words Advance Avoiding God’s Plan or Accepting It?
31 But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.”
3 Why has the Lord brought us to this land to fall by the sword, that our wives and children should become victims? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?”
4 So they said to one another, “Let us select a leader and return to Egypt.”
10 And all the congregation said to stone them with stones. Now the glory of the Lord appeared in the tabernacle of meeting before all the children of Israel.
24 Then they despised the pleasant land; They did not believe His word,
THE GOOD LAND BECAME A GRUESOME LAND
THE PROSPEROUS LAND BECAME A PROBLEM LAND
ARE YOUR WORDS CAUSING PEOPLE TO
Dumped GOD’S Demands
Left GOD’S Law
Strayed From HIS Statues
Junked HIS Judgments
Trashed HIS Testimonies
Walked Away FROM HIS Word
27 and you complained in your tents, and said, ‘Because the Lord hates us, He has brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
28 Where can we go up? Our brethren have discouraged our hearts, saying, “The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.” ’