Numbers chapter 11. As we continue our study in the
book of Numbers, we're at the close of chapter 11, and at the
close of chapter 11, there's an incident that is, it must
be brought out, it must be discussed, it must be presented as it is
presented here. As I have been reading through
the book of Numbers, and we're going to spend just a moment
in chapter 33 after reading this. In chapter 33, there are multiple
places where the children of Israel stop for a moment. We'll
just leave it at that for a moment. But turn with me to Numbers chapter
11. I want to read verses 33, 34, and 35. The title of my message
today is Trail of Tears. Trail of Tears. While the flesh,
now God had granted the children of Israel meat in the form of
quail. Most of the people were not happy
with just manna. And so he gave them meat to eat
and in verse 33 we find out how they appreciated or didn't appreciate
this gift that God had given them It says, while the flesh
was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath
of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord smote
the people with a very great plague. Verse 34, and he called
the name of that place, Kibroth Hathavah, and that word means,
graves of lust. Graves of lust. And then it says,
because they buried the people that lusted. And the people journeyed
for Kibra Hathavah unto Hezroth and abode at Hezroth. Now if
you go to the next chapter, chapter 12 and verse 16, we have these
words. And afterward, the people removed
from Hezroth and pitched in the wilderness of Paran. So this
is a stopping place that the children of Israel had. Now we
know from previous readings, from previous studies of the
book of Numbers, that they moved when the spirit or the cloud
moved, or when the fire moved, they moved. And when it stopped,
they settled down. And this is going to be the way
that they travel. Now, if you turn with me over
to the book of Numbers chapter 33, I'm not going to read this
entire chapter, but we notice in chapter 33 that there's a list of the places
where the children of Israel were for 40 years. It begins in Ramses in Egypt. That's where they started their
travels from. And it goes through the land
there. It tells us in verse 3, they
departed from Ramses in the first month of the 15th day, the first
month on the morrow after the Passover. And their journeys
began at that point. And if we go down to the end
of that, and I think there's 46 different places that are
shared in this chapter where the children of Israel stopped
for some period of time, and then they moved on for the next
period of time. It tells us there towards the
end of that chapter, it says that, Verse 51, or verse 50, and the
Lord spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near
Jericho saying, so we're gonna have 40 years here between the
time that they left Egypt and the time that this group of people
came up to the Jordan River. Now they'd been there close before,
and we won't be long here in the book of Numbers, we find
that they were, they spied out the land, people came back with
a report, 10 of them had an evil report, two of them had a, a
positive report and the heart of the people was moved against
going into the promised land. Now, it seems that most of the
travels from Egypt to Canaan was a trail of tears. Not much
of the travel seems to be pleasant. That is a way of lost sinners,
lost ones. Now, when I grew up in Sunday
school, I was taught that all of these people that went through
the wilderness wanderings were saved people, but many times
they were just backslidden. Well, the New Testament shares
a lot of light on that, and so does the Old Testament about
what kinds of people are traveling here as they go through this
land. It's just like you and I traveling
from the day we're born to the time we end. I was interested
to notice that Augustus Toplady, who wrote one of my favorite
hymns, Rock of Ages, was 38 years old when the Lord took him out
of this world. But he had 38 years of travel.
That's almost the amount of time that the children of Israel had
from Egypt to Canaan land. We find that the scriptures share
a lot of information about the hearts of these people as they
were traveling, and we must come to the conclusion that the Bible
comes to that most of these people were walking along in a physical
life in unbelief. They did not know the gospel
and they did not know the God that demonstrated so many things
to them. You know, it doesn't take much
for a person who knows the gospel to look at the lightning and
say, what a mighty work of God. To the natural man, it's only
a physical act of physics and electricity and all of that,
but it's the hand of God that has moved there. Turn with me,
if you would, to the book of Hebrews for just a moment. The
book of Hebrews does so much for our study of the book of
Leviticus, Deuteronomy, Old Testament passages of scripture that have
so much about the law and so much about the people of God
in the Old Testament. Here in the book of Hebrews chapter
3, We read some verses of scripture that share with us a lot of information.
And in fact, we're gonna come to the conclusion that these
people that did what they did and did not know God are just
like people today that have never been born again. Do you know
what the scriptures say there in John chapter three? It says,
if you're not born again, you cannot see. And if you're not
born again, you cannot enter. Well, that just goes right back
to the Old Testament here in the book of Numbers that we're
going through, and we find out the real problem with these people.
They're not in a backslidden condition. They've never been
slid in to begin with. They don't know the gospel at
all. They've seen God and they've seen these activities, but there's
nothing spiritual about that. Here in the book of Hebrews,
we find the author of the book of Hebrews, the Holy Spirit shared
with someone to have this pinned. I personally think it was the
Apostle Paul, but there's much discussion on it. But Hebrews
chapter three. There, beginning with verse 1,
it says, wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling. Now, there's a bunch of people
over here that we're going to read about that have never had
this heavenly calling. That heavenly calling is the
new birth. And if you don't have the new birth, you cannot see
the kingdom of God. Who is the kingdom of God? It's
not a place, it's a person. The kingdom of God is Christ.
The kingdom of God is all that is applied about Christ. Wherefore,
holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the
apostle and high priest of our profession, Christ Jesus. Take
a look at him. Who was faithful to him that
appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house? Now, there's a wonderful statement
here about Moses. Moses gets exasperated at times,
but we have this testimony about him that he is a faithful person
of God. He's a faithful believer. He
has been given faith to believe God. And it says in verse 4,
for this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses. inasmuch as he who had built
the house hath more honor than the house. For every house is
built by some man, but he that built all things is God. And
Moses barely was faithful in all his house as a servant for
a testimony of those things which were to be spoken of after. But
Christ as a son over his own house, whose house are we, if
we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of hope firm unto
the end. Now, many people are going to
be like these Israelites who are traveling through that have
a semblance of, they have a type of, they have some pictures of,
but they don't have any substance at all. Why? Because God has
not given them the new birth. It's no wonder they stumble around.
It's no wonder they complain. It's no wonder that they did
what they did with that flesh that God had given. It's no wonder.
There was only a few of them that saw that this was a true
benefit from God and the rest of them expected it from God
and said, God is required to do that. We need this and he
needs to do this for us. Wherefore, verse seven, as the
Holy Ghost saith today, if ye will hear his voice, harden not
your hearts as in the day, in the provocation, in the day of
temptation in the wilderness. So he's gonna take us right back
here to the children of Israel in the book of Numbers, the children
of Israel in the book of Leviticus, the children of Israel in the
book of Exodus, and say, these people are a type, a shadow,
and a picture. Let's take a look at them. when
your fathers tempted me, proved me and saw my works 40 years. Wherefore I was grieved with
that generation and said, they do all we err in their heart."
We have God's testimony about these folks. We have some people
here that have erred in their heart. Now when did this erring
begin? In the fall. As Mike brought
out this morning in the Bible class, not one single atom in
this podium was not affected by the fall. Not one single atom
in air or wherever it was is not affected by the fall. And
what we find out and we thank God for is in this mess that
we're in, an erring in our heart that if God does not come and
he is pleased to do it for those he has chosen before the foundation
of the world, he is pleased to give them the new birth and to
give them a view of God that is great and mighty and sovereign
and powerful and holy and true. and we rest upon him, just as
it goes on here to tell us they did not enter into rest. Canaan
was a picture of entering into rest, and they did not enter
into rest. Why? Because of unbelief. It
wasn't because they were not children of Abraham. It was not
because they were not people there in the wilderness. It did
not mean that they had not been physically freed from slavery
in Egypt. It meant they were not born again. They did not have the gospel
in their heart. He's gonna go on and share that
with us. Take heed, brethren. Verse 12, be any of you an evil
heart of unbelief in departing from the living God. But exhort
one another daily, while it is called today, lest any of you
be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. For we are made partakers
of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto
the end. While it is said today, if ye
will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. For some, when they had heard,
did provoke, albeit not all that came out of Egypt, by Moses,
but with whom was he grieved forty years, as it is not with
them that have sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?
And to whom swear he that they should not enter into his rest,
but to them that believe not? So we see that they could not
enter in because of unbelief. a trail of tears for 40 years
for most of these people. They're going to go from one
place to another place just like we do in our natural life, going
from one place to another place. Now we might even not even move
across town but we're going to go from one place to another
place in our mind about what we think is right and then we
find out in the end as we stand as people stand before God in
that day and find out that all the good works that they ever
performed does not count for one iota of peace with God. So here in the book of Hebrews
and turn with me again to that book of Hebrews this very next
chapter. Let us therefore fear lest a
promise being left us of entering into his rest. Any of you should
seem to come short of he's dealing with people that are under the
name of Israelites. under the name of Christians,
and a whole bunch of them are bitter towards God, they are
complainers towards God, they're not satisfied with Christ, they're
not satisfied with the manna, they're not satisfied with the
way God's taking care of them, and they're just interpreting
to other people, we don't know anything about the God that you
know about. I don't think there's been any
harsher words ever said to me but over this one subject that
salvation is of the Lord in totality beginning to end nobody has any
part of it except God move on us first chapter verse 2 there
in Hebrews 4 says for unto us the gospel unto us was the gospel
preached as well as unto them. Now we have this removed that
they didn't even hear the gospel. Oh yes they did. They saw the
gospel. They heard the gospel. But what
was the difference? It was not mixed with faith. Now we have religions come along
and say, see, they need to have faith. Well, the Bible teaches
us who gives that faith? Who's the one that supplies that
faith? Where does that faith come from?
It doesn't come from our hearts that are wicked and sinful. It doesn't come from inside of
us. It comes from the Lord and the Lord alone. He is the author
and finisher of our faith. It tells us that there's a rest,
yes, but that rest is in Christ, and when we are resting in Christ,
we cease from our works as he ceased from his works. Now, these
people are going to go through their 40 years, most of them,
majority of them, lots of them, who knows the number, and they're
going to witness a miracle. I figured up last night that
they're going to witness from 150 to 300 deaths a day. After they come to Kadesh Barnea
because the Lord said, all of you that are 20 years and older
are going to die in the wilderness and these all died in unbelief. It was a sentence placed upon
them. They were not going to enter
in to this land. There's only three that I know
of that entered into the land. I have no problem with Aaron.
Aaron was called a saint of God. I have no problem with Moses.
He didn't enter in, but he is called a man after God's own
heart like David. He spoke to him face-to-face.
He was a believer in Christ Jesus because God gave him the faith.
Now, the rest of the folks I've had some difficulty with. except
for Joshua, Caleb, and Eliezer. They're the three that go through
the Jordan River that were born in Egypt. The rest of them, 20
years and older, they're out there and they are born in the
travels. They're born after Egypt. They're
born and they're the ones that get to go in and they get to
go in because God said they get to go in, not because they said
they need to go in. Now about the others. How about
the others? How about Joshua and Caleb? How
about Eliezer? How about the rest of them? You
know, we find out that the only reason that those people could
go in as a type and a shadow and picture of true salvation
is God elected them before the foundation of the world. God
had an interest in them before they were ever born. It tells
us there in the book of Romans chapter 9, before they were born,
before they could do any good or evil. What is that telling
us? We have no involvement in this except we're the recipients
of grace. We are an empty vessel, we're
an empty glass and we cannot bring any moisture, we cannot
bring any water, we cannot bring anything to fill it on our own.
We are dependent upon someone else to come fill our glass and
that person is God Almighty through the ministry and work of our
Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. Turn with me again to the book
of Hebrews here. Hebrews chapter 11 and verse
13. Hebrews chapter 11 and verse 13. We have a long list of folks
here and it tells us about, this is what it says about them. There is a few according to the
election of grace. There are a few according to
God's purpose of grace. And here in chapter 11 and verse
13, all of those that were listed here, these all died in faith. Noah died in faith. These died in faith. God had
given them faith. God had given them the new birth.
God had given them all the spiritual being he had for them. He had
given them Christ. He had given them the ability
to look to God and see him as a spiritual being and not just
a supplier of food. These all died in faith, not
having received the promises, but having seen them afar off,
and were persuaded of them and embraced them. What was the promise
that had been made? The promise made to Adam and
to Eve that there would be one come, born of a woman, who would
take care of the problem. They didn't see that. They didn't
see that promise fulfilled. It was not the appointed time.
It was not the right moment. It was going to be years and
years after that. We're going to go through centuries
before the right time came when the Son of God was given, born
of a virgin, laid in a manger there in Bethlehem. It's going
to be centuries, but they looked for it. My friends, just as they
look forward to the coming of Christ the first time, believers
in Christ Jesus look forward to the coming of Christ the second
time. We have the same faith that they
did. He's coming. He said he's coming.
He's promised to come. And now we look ahead and say,
he said he's coming. He's promised to come. He will
come at his appointed time. Nobody's going to find out by
some soothsaying that this is the time. It's going to happen
at His appointed time. God will come at His appointed
time. Now if it's today, we'll say
hallelujah. If he comes and waits a thousand
years, we'll say hallelujah. Why? Because he is long-suffering
to usward, not willing that any should perish, but all should
come to repentance, and he's talking about his sheep. If he
came today and there were some lost sheep, he would have thwarted
his business at the cross. He is going to wait until every
one of his lost sheep are born, everyone he knows where they
are, and he's going to send the gospel in some manner. It may
be through Zoom, it may be through sermon audio, it may be audible
from a pulpit, or they're going to be brought to a place, or
someone's going to be sent to them, but they're going to hear
the gospel and the Holy Spirit will work in them. What Jesus
Christ shared with Nicodemus, you must be born again. And the only one that can give
spiritual birth is God. We are unable to take care of
our own physical birth. It was left up to someone else. And just think for a moment that
we have the ability to take care of our spiritual birth when our
physical birth is left out of our hands. No, God's not going
to leave that up to us. He's going to take care of it
because we'd make a wreck of it. we'd make a we'd just tear
it apart we'd brag about it and he said that no man should boast
in himself but would boast in the glory of the lord so here
it tells us again in hebrews chapter 11 verse 14 for they
that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country
and truly if If they had been mindful of the country from whence
they came out, they might have an opportunity to return. What
do we find this great host of Israelites when they got out
there into the wilderness? What did they say? I wish we
were in Egypt. I wish we were back there with
the flesh pots, the melons, and the leeks. What are they saying? I wish we were back in slavery
because that's all that Egypt meant to them. All they had through
their generations for 400 years was slavery. Well, you know,
natural man is just open to being a slave to anything and religion
is just out there for anybody to grasp a hold of. But salvation
is a gift of Almighty God to his people and it takes us out
of that misery of self and translates us into the kingdom of his dear
son. In desiring a better country, these pilgrims wanted something
heavenly, something that tasted of God. There was a bunch of
people that saw that that manna was sufficient. There was no
need for anything else. This fulfills every need that
I have. I'm not looking elsewhere. I'm
not going to look to some theology book. I'm going to look to Christ.
I'm not going to look to some religion. I'm going to look to
Christ. So they had what God had given them and they were
satisfied with it. Yet we find a whole host of them
that just could not stand it. They made it quite plain that
it was disagreeable to them. And then with those quails, God
took care of them and they just complained. A heavenly religion,
a spiritual faith. A gracious hope. The carnal mind
has no taste for heavenly things. Those people demonstrated that
quite well. We find out the whole reason
that they had that problem is, as Jesus spoke to Nicodemus,
he didn't bring up a new doctrine. Over in the Old Testament, it's
called circumcision of the heart. That's the same as the new birth.
We can't do that. Only God can do that. He spoke
about these things. Throughout the Old Testament,
he came up to a man who was knowledgeable about the Bible. He was a teacher
of the law and said, you must be born again. He never said
one word to that man about how to be born again. He said, you
must be. And unless God does it, you'll
go through the rest of your life in the same condition that you're
in. But if God grants to you the new birth, you will rejoice
in him and the truth that is in Christ Jesus, the Lord. In
the book of Isaiah chapter one, would you turn there with me?
Isaiah chapter one. In Isaiah chapter one, Isaiah,
by inspiration, realized that the trouble that we're in, the
problem that we face, Isaiah chapter one, there in verse nine,
he says this. As he speaks about Israel, and
Israel so often in the Old Testament is a picture and a type and a
shadow of the church. And he says here, except the
Lord of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant. If he hadn't
been involved and he hadn't taken care, there would be nobody. In fact, he goes on to say there,
we should have been as Sodom and we should have been like
under Gomorrah. Now, I have never found anybody that has raised
their hand at wanting to go live in Sodom and Gomorrah, especially
when we know what's going to happen to that place. But here
he said, this is where we should have been. We should have been
destroyed. If it was up to ourselves, we
would have been. But by the grace of God, and
in the same book, Isaiah chapter 10, Isaiah chapter 10, and there
in verse 20, 21 and 22, Isaiah chapter 10, verse 20. The scriptures share this, and
it shall come to pass in that day that the remnant of Israel
and such as are escaped to the house of Jacob shall no more
again stay upon him that smote them, but shall stay upon the
Lord, the Holy One of Israel in truth. Verse 21, the remnant
shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God. This is the promise of the Lord,
that He is going to bring the remnant, even though they are
born in the same fashion that everyone else is, and have the
same corrupted heart that everyone else has. God's going to do something
for them that He's not going to do for anyone else. He is
going to bring them to Him and they will see Him and acknowledge
Him and glory in Him and thank Him for the salvation that He's
given to them. That it's not of works, lest
any man should boast. It is a power of God unto salvation. Here it goes on in that same
chapter, chapter 10, verse 22. For though thy people Israel
be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return.
Consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness, even though
they're like the sands of the sea. A remnant shall be saved. Paul brings this out in the book
of Romans and says, don't look to Israel as your hope, look
to Christ as your hope because not all Israel is of Israel.
Look unto the one that saved them out of Israel. Look unto
the one that saved Abraham. Look to the one that saved Isaac.
Look to the one that saved Jacob. Look to the ones that he saved
throughout all those people. Look to the one he saved out
of Jacob. His name was Moses. And Caleb, look to him. Look
what they bragged on. Those two that came back from
Canaan land and had a good report, they said, ''God is able to do
everything he said he would do.'' Those who didn't know anything
says, ''He can't do it.'' What a difference this great God makes
upon his people. They brag on God. I love the
term sovereignty of God. That's a big brag on God. It's a capital S and a capital
G. Sovereignty of God. What's that
mean? He's in charge of everything, including our salvation. He doesn't just run the world.
He takes care of his people from beginning to end. Isaiah chapter
11. One more chapter there. Isaiah
chapter 11. We read these words about God's
great work, Isaiah chapter 11, verse one, excuse me, verse 11. The scriptures share this, and
it shall come to pass in that day that the Lord shall set his
hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people. They're gonna be, now, religion,
commentaries will say, this is talking about them being brought
back out of Babylonian captivity. Well, Babylonian captivity to
the church is just another sign, another picture of where we are
by nature. We might go through a reformation,
we might go through a religion, we might go through all sorts
of things, and yet we're still in the same position that we
were by nature, imprisoned by sin, held by sin. Well, it tells
us here, it shall come to pass in the that the Lord in that
day shall set his hand against the second time to recover the
remnant of his people, which shall be left from Assyria, and
from Egypt, and Pathos, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from
Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
I will get my people out of everywhere they are, and I'll bring them
all to Zion. We may not move from New Guinea,
We may not move from Oregon, we may not move some place to
another place, but he's going to bring every one of his people
to Zion and we will worship at his feet. We will love him and
we will love his truth. We'll love the truth of the gospel.
We'll love every bit of it. And when it's revealed to us,
we'll grab a hold of it like a piece of manna cake and say,
how delicious this is. And then tomorrow when he reveals
something, oh, here's another piece of manna cake and how delicious
it is. What's it taste like? Sweet oil. The Lord Jesus is sweet to the
mouth of a believer. Oh, there's not one bone to pick
out. There's not one sour piece. I
remember my dad telling about giving my mother a pear off of
a seedling pear tree. And he pretended like he ate
part of it, and then he handed my mother, and it was just as
bitter as gall. You know, Christ is never that
way. Never that way. The worst that
we ever go through is when we find out that what we've been
taught all our life is a lie. That's the worst. Well, Christ
fulfills, takes care of. In the book of the Psalms, Psalm
107 and verse 2, we're going to find there a passage that
most of the time we're going to notice that Moses and Joshua
and Caleb I believe they understood like God's people understand
today. These folks are doing no better
than they can do. They just can't get any higher.
If you don't know Christ, you just can't get any higher. You
can't worship him. You can't love him. You can't
love his people. It's just an impossibility that
we have in our life. But here in Psalm 107 and verse
2, the scripture says, let the redeemed of the Lord say. Now, I like to interpret this.
Sometimes I look at it and say, OK, if you're redeemed, say so.
But I think it says more than that. Let the redeemed of the
Lord say so. I've been given this, so. I've
been given that, so. I believe Moses said that so
often. They can't do any different than
they're doing. They can't get above the edge of the glass.
They're just without God, without help, without hope in this world.
They can't do any different. I remember going home and turning
on the TV when I was a kid and watching a football game. Dad
said, those people should be in church. Well, they're doing
what comes natural. They're doing what they want
to do. Worshiping God is a gift. It's a gift given by God to us
to worship him. In Deuteronomy, we heard read
there in chapter 32 of Deuteronomy, Jacob, he found him in a desert
land. That's what it says about Jacob. Now, he's found out there in
Canaan. That's where they're headed.
That's where Jacob was born. You know, it was a place that
had fertility, and yet when it came to Jacob and his spiritual
welfare, it says that he found him in a desert land and in a
waste, howling wilderness. He led him about. Isn't that
wonderful that God would take and picture for us this Jacob,
who is going to be the same Jacob that is mentioned in the book
of Malachi, it's chapter one, Jacob have I loved and Esau have
I hated. Paul was used by the Holy Spirit
to write there in the ninth chapter of the book of Romans and say,
it's written in the Old Testament, it's written in the scripture,
Jacob have I loved and Esau have I hated. This Jacob, where did
God find him? He found him in a waste howling
wilderness. Where did he find us? In a waste
howling wilderness, a wilderness of self, a wilderness of religion,
a wilderness. We had nothing positive around
us, and he is the one that lifted Jacob out of that place. He's
the one that lifts his people out of that place, out of that
terrible pit that we're in, and puts our feet on the solid rock.
In the book of- of Jeremiah, turn there with me if you would,
the book of Jeremiah. How did Moses get turned? How did Jacob get turned? How
did David get turned? How did Peter and Paul get turned?
How did they- what- why did they have such a drastic change or
revelation? What happened to them? Why? Were they just going along one
day and think, well, I think I'll be a Christian today. That's
not what happened to them. I was visiting with that preacher
and he said, what do we do before the Lord saves us and we hear
the gospel? You know what he said? We run. That's our natural
inclination with the gospel is just run. Because we find out
we don't have any participation in it and we can't stand it.
Here in the book of Jeremiah chapter 17. Jeremiah chapter
17 and verse 14. Heal me, O Lord, and I shall
be healed. Well, physically, that's a good
thing, isn't it? Lord, if you want me healed,
I'll be healed. But spiritually, where's our
spiritual healing come from? Heal me, oh Lord, and that word
Lord is Jehovah, and I shall be healed. Save me and I shall
be saved for thou art my praise. Save me and I shall be saved.
And in that same book, chapter 31, Jeremiah chapter 31, what
happens here in Jeremiah chapter 31 and there in verse 18? This
makes all the difference in the world. This is the difference
that God makes with his people. He says here, I have surely heard
Ephraim bemoaning himself thus. Thou hast chastened me, and I
was chastened as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke. Turn thou me, and
I shall be turned, for thou art the Lord my God. The only way. Oh my goodness.
Why can't we turn? Because we're stuck. We're just
stuck. We're just stuck. Adam put us
in a stuck condition and we cannot turn towards God. We cannot.
Our heart is not in it. We're enmity with Him. We're
not wanting it. We're not looking forward to
it. We don't want it. And the Lord comes along and
we find out, Lord, if you'll turn me, I shall be turned. And
that's the only one that turned us. He turned us from worshiping
dumb idols, religion, to the living God. He turned us from
hating God, enmity with God, to loving Him. He turned us from,
this cannot be the truth. I'm going to have to skip over
this passage of scripture because I don't believe it, to believing
the truth of the gospel. He does a whole work. an absolute
work, a considerable work. And in creating the heavens and
the earth, there was absolutely no resistance. Every molecule
followed Him completely in every creative act. When He saves us,
He's fighting all the resistance that we have. But you know what? Since He's God, Jehovah God Sovereign
King His work will be effectual and he'll take us out of the
pit and Put us to glory It's his work. It's a glorious work. It's salvation and it's only
in him There's none of the name under heaven given whereby we
must be saved but in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ our
And so as we follow these people, they're going to go from one
place to another place to another place. And finally, in two years,
they're going to end up at Kadesh Barnea and Moses is going to
say, send in spies. And they come back and they all
agree. It's a wonderful place. They
all agree the bounty is wonderful. But you know what? There are
some monsters there and God can't overcome them. And two came back
and said, whatever he said, he will do. Salvation is of the
Lord.