Attitude Adjustments
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“Pass through the midst of the camp and command the people, ‘Prepare your provisions, for within three days you are to pass over this Jordan to go in to take possession of the land that the Lord your God is giving you to possess.’ ”
until the Lord gives rest to your brothers as he has to you, and they also take possession of the land that the Lord your God is giving them. Then you shall return to the land of your possession and shall possess it, the land that Moses the servant of the Lord gave you beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise.”
In Genesis He Chooses His People
In Exodus He Redeems His People
In Leviticus He comes among His People
In Numbers He Commissions His people
Right in the Being of the Book of Numbers you can see that God was Preparing His People for Something
In Fact He was Preparing His beloved people for War
God tells Moses to take a Census of all of the capable Men that could fight
In Exodus He Redeems His People
In Leviticus
In Numbers He Commissions His people
Two Months to Sinai
10 Months training the Levites and constructing the temple
One Year in the Wilderness
Now God Is ready for them to break camp into what He has promised them
They Sent Out A Leader From each Tribe : Chief Among Them
They All Received the same Promise : I’m giving to the people
They All Had the Same Opportunity
Attitude Adjustment #1 Complaing
Attitude Adjustment #1 Complaing
Complaing about the Food
Now the rabble that was among them had a strong craving. And the people of Israel also wept again and said, “Oh that we had meat to eat!
Num 11
We remember the fish we ate in Egypt that cost nothing, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic.
But now our strength is dried up, and there is nothing at all but this manna to look at.”
Unlikely Blessed but Dissatisfied
Dissatisfied
Now Complaing about Leadership
Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married, for he had married a Cushite woman.
And they said, “Has the Lord indeed spoken only through Moses? Has he not spoken through us also?” And the Lord heard it.
Num 12:
When We complain and criticize we are not ready for the Next Move of God
The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
“Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the people of Israel. From each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, every one a chief among them.”
plural -cies 1650
1: self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies
2: an instance of complacency
See, the Lord your God has set the land before you. Go up, take possession, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has told you. Do not fear or be dismayed.’
Det 1:21
Then all of you came near me and said, ‘Let us send men before us, that they may explore the land for us and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up and the cities into which we shall come.’
Deut 1:
The thing seemed good to me, and I took twelve men from you, one man from each tribe.
Attitude Adjustment #2: Wanting My Own Way
Attitude Adjustment #2: Wanting My Own Way
That there is no contradiction between the two accounts. We may be certain from many a recorded example that Moses would not have acted on the popular suggestion without referring the matter to the Lord, and that it would be the Divine command (when given) which would really weigh with him.
That there is no contradiction between the two accounts. We may be certain from many a recorded example that Moses would not have acted on the popular suggestion without referring the matter to the Lord, and that it would be the Divine command (when given) which would really weigh with him.
THE unbelief of the children of Israel, prompted them to send spies into Canaan. God had told them that it was a good land, and he had promised to drive out their enemies; they ought therefore to have marched forward with all confidence to possess the promised heritage. Instead of this, they send twelve princes to spy out the land, and “alas, for human nature,” ten of these were faithless, and only two true to the Lord. Read over the narrative, and mark the ill effect of the lying message, and the holy boldness of the true spies.
THE unbelief of the children of Israel, prompted them to send spies into Canaan. God had told them that it was a good land, and he had promised to drive out their enemies; they ought therefore to have marched forward with all confidence to possess the promised heritage. Instead of this, they send twelve princes to spy out the land, and “alas, for human nature,” ten of these were faithless, and only two true to the Lord. Read over the narrative, and mark the ill effect of the lying message, and the holy boldness of the true spies.
The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
“Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the people of Israel. From each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, every one a chief among them.”
Num 13:
And they came to the Valley of Eshcol and cut down from there a branch with a single cluster of grapes, and they carried it on a pole between two of them; they also brought some pomegranates and figs.
At the end of forty days they returned from spying out the land.
And they came to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation of the people of Israel in the wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh. They brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.
And they told him, “We came to the land to which you sent us. It flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.
Num 12
It’s Just Like God Said
It’s Just Like God Said
And they told him, “We came to the land to which you sent us. It flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.
However, the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. And besides, we saw the descendants of Anak there.
They are on the Verge of a great Victory and they
Complacent Leaders
Complacent Leaders
1: self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies
2: an instance of complacency
The Information that they brought back was to tell Moses that the will of God isn't do able
They stopped Asking the Question what does God want us to do, what is manageable
Adjust from Making Excuses for our Giants
Adjust from Making Excuses for our Giants
Instead of Executing Them
Instead of Executing Them
This Situation is beyond us
The Amalekites dwell in the land of the Negeb. The Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the hill country. And the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and along the Jordan.”
Num 13:
Num 12:25
They Talk All about their enemies and never mention God
But Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, “Let us go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it.”
Obeyed God
Obeyed God
Insist they should enter and possess the land
Insist they should enter and possess the land
Displayed Courage Rooted in Faith
Displayed Courage Rooted in Faith
Attitude Adjustment #3 Have Calm Assurance
Attitude Adjustment #3 Have Calm Assurance
Then 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 are.”
And I said to you, ‘You have come to the hill country of the Amorites, which the Lord our God is giving us.
See, the Lord your God has set the land before you. Go up, take possession, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has told you. Do not fear or be dismayed.’
‘You have been traveling around this mountain country long enough. Turn northward
Deut
So they brought to the people of Israel a bad report of the land that they had spied out, saying, “The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people that we saw in it are of great height.
Disobeyed God
And there we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim), and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.”
Attitude Adjustment #4 Don’t Be Self Defeating
Attitude Adjustment #4 Don’t Be Self Defeating
Then all the congregation raised a loud cry, and the people wept that night.
And all the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would that we had died in this wilderness!
Why is the Lord bringing us into this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become a prey. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?”
Number 14
And they said to one another, “Let us choose a leader and go back to Egypt.”
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the people of Israel.
And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes
and said to all the congregation of the people of Israel, “The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceedingly good land.
If the Lord delights in us, he will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land that flows with milk and honey.
Num 14:
Only do not rebel against the Lord. And do not fear the people of the land, for they are bread for us. Their protection is removed from them, and the Lord is with us; do not fear them.”
Then all the congregation said to stone them with stones. But the glory of the Lord appeared at the tent of meeting to all the people of Israel.
And the Lord said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? And how long will they not believe in me, in spite of all the signs that I have done among them?
I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”
But my servant Caleb has a different attitude than the others have. He has remained loyal to me, so I will bring him into the land he explored. His descendants will possess their full share of that land.