It's A Fixed Fight
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And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land,
Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the Lord.
But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still.
And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.
And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the place which the Lord hath promised: for we have sinned.
And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the Lord? but it shall not prosper.
Go not up, for the Lord is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies.
For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the Lord, therefore the Lord will not be with you.
And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.
And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land.
And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.
Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.
The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan.
And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.
But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.
And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.
And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
Numbers 13:
It's A Fixed Fight
It's A Fixed Fight
Numbers 14:36
God will allow you to live on whatever level you settle for.
If we settle for a mediocre life, then that is what God will let you have.
If you are satisfied staying by the pool of Bethesda with an infirmity for 38 years and you are willing to live in that condition, that is what God will allow you to experience.
If you chose to wonder in the wilderness for 40 years instead of resting in Canaan, that is what God will allow you to experience.
God is a leader, not a draggier.
He is a shepherd not a Pharoah.
He will only fill you in the dimension of your hunger.
Your potential requires your participation. God will only do what you can’t do. He will not do what you are unwilling to do.
We see this in John when Jesus instruct them to move the stone in front of Lazarus’s tomb.
God will only do what you can’t do. He will not do what you are unwilling to do.
So the question to all of us is, “How bad do you want it?”
If we don’t increase our appetite and operate with an anointed aggression, we will continue to stay in the wilderness and never make it to Canaan.
Israel had to go through the wilderness but they didn’t have to stay there.
Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward.
Det. 2:3
It’s our season to move and occupy. It’s our time to walk in the promise God has given us.
There is an effectual door open for us but there is also opposition. All of God’s promises are tied to opposition. There are many adversaries that will oppose us. That is a given but your willingness to fight through that opposition determines if we get it or not. We can’t have a victory without a fight but the fight is fixed. The only way you don’t win is if you don’t fight!
The story really begins in the book of Exodus. Exodus means Exit. It lets us know that with God, you are never trapped, there is always an exit. You may feel trapped, it may look trapped, but there is always an exit. Just because you don’t see an exit sign doesn’t mean that there is not an exit. God will make a way out of no way. The devil thinks he has you trapped but God has an exit for you.
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400 years of bondage.
God will allow you to live on whatever level you settle for.
They live in bondage for over 400 years and didn’t get out until they asked God.
And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.
And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
They talked to God and God started talking to Moses.
They feel ignored while God is busy working on the answer.
Just because God is not talking to you about the problem doesn’t mean he’s not working on the problem.
God reveals the assignment and Moses start to reveal his inadequacies. He talks to God as if God is not aware of them. God knows us better than we know ourselves. If your inadequacies were a problem, he would have mentioned that when He called you. If God didn’t bring them up, then it didn’t matter.
So God doesn’t allow Moses to use his excuse to exempt him from his assignment.
God had already tapped Aaron on the shoulder. Aaron is a metaphor for a paraclete.
You may not know what a paraclete is but you know what a participle is. It’s not the whole sentence but it’s enough of the sentence so that you get the point.
The Holy Ghost is not all my inheritance but he is enough. He is the earnest of our inheritance.
He is an assistant.
Moses ask his name.
He was Hebrew so he knew that he was the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, but he didn’t know his name.
You can tell how well someone knows a person by what they call them.
If you call him healer, if you call him deliverer.
God gave him his covenant name
Jehovah is like a pre-fix
I am, not just I was, not someday I will be
He always is
He was a waymaker, He is a waymaker, He will be a waymaker
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn and encamp before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, over against Baal-zephon: before it shall ye encamp by the sea.
For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.
And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, that he shall follow after them; and I will be honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; that the Egyptians may know that I am the Lord. And they did so.
And it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against the people, and they said, Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us?
And he made ready his chariot, and took his people with him:
And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them.
And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel: and the children of Israel went out with an high hand.
But the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pi-hahiroth, before Baal-zephon.
And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians marched after them; and they were sore afraid: and the children of Israel cried out unto the Lord.
And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt?
Is not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.
And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will shew to you to day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no more for ever.
The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.
And the Lord said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward:
But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.
And I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall follow them: and I will get me honour upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.
And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I have gotten me honour upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.
And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them:
And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night.
And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them to the midst of the sea, even all Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.
And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the Lord looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians,
And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily: so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the Lord fighteth for them against the Egyptians.
And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen.
And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.
And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them.
But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
Thus the Lord saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore.
And Israel saw that great work which the Lord did upon the Egyptians: and the people feared the Lord, and believed the Lord, and his servant Moses.
He lead them to the Red Sea
All that night
Dry ground
Mud = where you have been
Angel moved behind them
They still didn’t believe God so they never saw the promise fulfilled except Joshua and Caleb