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Week 148.4 - Faith For Provision: Reason #16: The Promised Land - III (Thu)
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I've got the victory living inside of me I got the greater one I can overcome this ain't no time to turn back no the less to grow slack I gotta keep pressing on Till every battle is wonder Good morning, class. Good morning, Brother Keith. Hi, I'm Keith Moore, and we welcome you to Faith School. Faith School is the place where my spirit is fed, where my faith grows stronger, and where I learn how to be an overcomer. Strength of spirit is just as real. If your body gets really weak, then the smallest activity is hard or too hard. You know, just walking across the room or just lifting a can of soup or something. If you're really, really weak, that's a hard thing to do. But if you're strong, it's nothing, right? You do it without thinking about it. Pick that can up like it's nothing. Well, your spirit is that way. If your spirit is really weak, then any challenge just seems impossible. If you have little faith or no faith in an area and something comes up in that area, you just hopelessness and oppression and that kind of thing will just seem overwhelming. But if your spirit is strong and the same kind of thing comes up again, you're like, hey, this isn't no problem for God, right? Greater is he that's in me. But the strength is either there or it's not. You wishing you were stronger doesn't make you stronger. If your body was weak, something has to change for it to become stronger. And if your spirit is weak, something's got to change. You need to start feeding on the right things and you need to start using your faith. And that's what Faith School is all about. So if you're here with us today and you'll give the Lord your full attention, you will already be getting stronger by the end of this class. You watch and see, Father. All of us agree together. Looking to youo. You are the source of our strength and you'd words do quicken us and lift us and heal us and restore us. We're asking for the utterance and the anointing and the ears to hear and the answers. In Jesus name, Amen. We've been on this series for weeks now called Faith for Provision. And we're going one by one through 30 reasons in scripture why we are sure. Abundant provision is always God's will for us all. Say it out loud. Abundant provision is always God's will for us all. Now that's a big statement. Us all means every person around. Every particularly. We're talking about every believer, every person in the Body of Christ, it's God's will for them to have abundant provision every day of their life. That means if you see lack and you see poverty, that's not the will of God, not God's plan, not God's will. And I realize there are people planet right now starving to death for lack of something decent to eat. No way. That's the will of God. No way. Well, if you just don't have enough to pay your electric bill or if you don't have enough to keep your body alive, that's the same evil stuff, just different degrees of lack. Enough lack. Can you see this? So if a lot of it is bad and evil, a little of it is bad too, right? And anything in between. And so in our study we've been seeing that our 16th reason in our study of 30 is the promised Land. And how that the Lord said, the promised land is a land where you will have no scarceness and a land where you will not lack anything in it. Well, is that the will of God? And is he able to do that? Can he do things in your life to where you get to the point where you go day after day, week after week, month after month, and are not behind on any bills, not short on anything, no scarceness and not lacking anything? Hallelujah. That's good news, which is the word for gospel. Hallelujah. That's the gospel. I know people argue and fuss about it, but it is the gospel. It's part of the good news of what Christ has done for us in redeeming us. Well, like we said, we've been talking about the reasons. And now number 16, the promised land. And he told them this generation of Israelites that he delivered out of Egyptian bondage, that he had spied out a land for them, a pleasant land, good land, the land of Canaan, a land flow and honey. That's God describing it. A land where you will not lack anything in it. A land of no scarceness. Now, get rid of religious interference and hear how God is talking about this, right? If God didn't like abundance more than enough good and nice things and stuff, if God really did like minimalism, not anything more than what's necessary living a minimalist life, then when he got them to the wilderness, they're there, right? He would have just said, hey, you're home, right? Your home. We'll believe God. You don't have anything big, you don't have anything fancy. If that's the will of God, they're perfect right where they are. Nothing fancy, nothing Extra everything you need to survive and live. But that wasn't God's plan for them. They just had to go through there, where he's taking them now. Some people have said, yeah, that's heaven. And his will for this life is the wilderness. No, no, no. Because once they got to the promised land, it was not rest from your labors. It was strap on your fighting gear. Is that right? Right? It was get ready to fight. That's why the first generation didn't go in there. Because. Because they were too scared to fight and didn't believe they could win any battles. No, they're in the promised land. There were giants. There were seemingly insurmountable defenses of these cities walled up. The Bible said to heaven. They describe it like that because it just looked like there's no way you could ever get in there. And once you got in there, giants are waiting on you. Is that right? With metal spears and lances and bows and chariots. And you have to remember this bunch were slaves a few months ago, Right? They're not a trained army and they don't have all the gear for fighting battles. But they had God. I said, but they had God. And he was way more than enough. He already knew how he was going to do it, but it would take faith. But Egypt was not enough. They didn't even own their own bodies. Wilderness was just enough. He that gathered much, didn't have anything over. He that gathered little, had no lack, just enough. But that wasn't God's plan. And will, he said, I have a land for you. Right? It flows. Flows with milk and honey and houses you didn't build, filled with all good things. I think we need to look at that verse again. What do you think? You'll see that in Nehemiah 9 he referred to that. You also see it in a couple of places in Deuteronomy. But I tell you what, let's look at Deuteronomy 6:10. Deuteronomy 6:10 it says, it will be when the Lord your God shall have brought you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob to give you. Now, a couple of classes back, we studied in Deuteronomy 8:18 about how the Lord said that, about giving them all this stuff was actually keeping his covenant forefathers, which was Abraham. And he said, when you get all these things, don't forget God. But Deuteronomy 8:18, you will remember that it was the Lord your God who gave you the power to get this wealth. So that he might establish the covenant. And so that's still what's going on today. The reason that you and I have a right to blessings in this life in Christ, not based on us after the flesh, because most of us were outside the covenant. Gentiles without God, no hope in the world, the Scripture said. But by faith in Jesus Christ, we now, who were afar off, have been brought near. Hallelujah. And like we read in Galatians 3:13, he redeemed us from the curse so that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. And that's why he said so. Then we that are of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. Well, that's what he's talking about. This covenant that was the promised land was the fulfillment of the covenant that he made with Abraham. That's what it was. And he's still fulfilling the same covenant today. Because we are the seed of Abraham and the blessing rests on us. And so he goes on to say, verse 10. The Lord your God shall have brought you into the land which you swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, to Jacob, to give you great and goodly cities, which you builded not. And houses full of all good things which you filled not. And wells digged, which you digged not. Vineyards and olive trees that you planted not. This is the language we see repeatedly that God said. Of course, first off, they didn't make the land. God made the land, right? Then they didn't build the cities, they didn't build houses, they didn't plant. You know, some of these things take decades to develop. Even including things like vineyards and orchards take years, right? Sometimes several years. And he is saying you're just going to walk in. You know, there's a phrase we use in modern things. Turnkey, right? What does that mean? Everything's ready to go. You just turn the key, walk in the house, right? Turn the key, start the car. Everything is done. It's not in the planning stages, it's not in the intermediary construction stage. Boy, think about all the noise they missed, right? All the construction noise, the hauling, the beep, beep, beep. I don't know that the donkeys did that back then, but you know what I'm saying? There was noise and the dust. Is that right? And all of that stuff. You know, there's a higher way. I said there's a higher way of getting things. And what it is, is, is Matthew 6:33. That's it. Hold your place here and let's look at Matthew 6. There's a higher way of getting things. You can work yourself silly. You can work three jobs, you can burn. Now, working is good. Working is God's idea. But it's possible to work hard all your life. And it is. Too many times it's happened. And if you're only counting on what you can produce, you are severely limited. Somebody said you don't know how to make good money, not as good as what God can do. And a lot of times people who push themselves hard, they do it at great expense. They do it at the cost of their health, they do it at the cost of their families, their relationships. And a lot of times at their length of days is cut short. And it's not just reaching a certain level of things. Are you in the will of God? Right. Because I don't care how big and nice the house is, if you're out of the will of God, you don't have peace, you don't have joy, you can't enjoy it. No. And do you have the presence of God in your life from knowing that that's richness. Hallelujah. And good relationships with your spouse and your children, your grandchildren, your friends, your neighbors, your church family and those kind of things. That's being rich. That's being rich. And with the support of the natural things to do what you need to do. That's the promised land. That's what he was talking about. Now, he said in Matthew 6:31, Take no thought saying, what shall we eat? What shall we drink? Wherewithal shall we be clothed? For after all these things do the Gentiles seek. Your Heavenly Father knows that you have need of all these things. So he's describing what some people have called the rat race, the dog eat dog, the hustling and the working and the straining. He said the whole. The Gentiles described all the nations outside of God. And he said, all of them. That's what they're doing. They're chasing a dollar, they're chasing a dream, they're chasing success. He said, don't do that. See, some people have taken that as meaning you'll never have anything. And you just need to accept that and be okay with that. That's God's plan. That's not what he said. That's not what he said. He said, don't take any thought, no anxious worry or care about any of that. For your Heavenly Father knows you have need of all these things. But here's what you do. Seek ye first, the kingdom of God and his righteousness. And what? And when you get to heaven, it will be nice. No, no, he's talking about this life. All these things. What things? The things. Verse 32. All these things the Gentiles are seeking after. Your Father knows you have need of all these things. See, he had already used that phrase twice before in the previous verse. All these things. All what things? What you eat, what you drink, what you wear, where you live. He's talking about stuff in this life. And what did he say? If you will seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness. Instead of taking five years and two lawsuits and four stomach problems to get that house built, God works it out where it's already built, it's already done, and the money is already here. But it's not because you were just doing nothing. And it's not because you were lusting after that house for five years. For five years you were seeking the plan of God, doing God's will and God's things. And he took care of you and put you beyond where you would've put yourself exceeding abundantly above what you asked or thought. Can you say Amen? That's what he's talking about. And that's what the Promised Land is a type of. When he says houses full, this is Deuteronomy 6. Eleven houses full of all good things that you didn't feel. Houses full of good things. Now you might say, yeah, but I want to pick out my own stuff with you. You can still pick out some stuff. But you think God doesn't know what you like. Are you kidding? He knows better than you do what you like. You know, he's the one working on your place in heaven right now. Right? And when you see it, you will not go, oh, I don't like this. This is not my style. No, you won't. No, you won't. If it was possible to faint in heaven, you'd probably faint and go, oh, God, this is better than I ever imagined. Go to Proverbs 24. We talked yesterday's class about not despising the goodness of the Lord, but delighting in it. Now, this is probably bigger than you're hearing right now. This is a very big thing. Despising or delighting? Very big thing. And it's a choice of you believing God or not. We're going to see later on. I think looking at the Israelites that came out of Egypt when they got to Kadesh Barnea and the spies came back. The scripture said they despised the land and they slandered It. And it was kind of the last straw for them. That was the 10th time they had done that since God brought them out of Egypt, where they chose to speak evil of what God said was good. And they chose to mock and doubt and blame Moses and Aaron and blame God and look back to Egypt and say, wish we would've stayed in Egypt and wish we could go back. That's not just history. That's how unbelief sounds. And that's why God has given us this permanent record of it. It sounds exactly the same today. And it sounds like complaining and blaming and negative, and it's evil. Hebrews calls it an evil heart of unbelief. And so what we're talking about right now is absolutely too good for a lot of people. What do you mean? Houses full of good things, right? People go, oh, that's so materialistic. It's Bible, right? Yeah, but that's Old Testament. I just read Matthew, right? You see what I'm saying? Religion. Religion is so evil. Jesus said, you, traditions have made of none effect the word of God. And people don't realize that what they cling to and fight and defend is not God's word. It's tradition. It's men's religious ideas that's actually robbing them of what God has. And so it causes people to wind up. They choose, I should say, to wind up despising the goodness of God. That's a Bible phrase, despising the goodness of God. Wherein the generation that enjoyed it. Nehemiah says, we read that to you. I'll read it again. He said, Nehemiah 9, 25. They took strong cities and a fat land and possessed houses, houses. Houses full of. Of all goods. Like we said before, they don't call them bads because they're not bad. They're good. Good. And the house wasn't barren and it didn't have a bunch of junk that they picked up from flea markets. It was what? Goods. Goods. Top stuff. Top stuff. Wells digged, vineyards, olive yards, fruit trees in abundance. So they did eat and were filled and became fat and delighted themselves in youn great goodness. Let that phrase be imprinted on you. Say it out. They delighted themselves in his great goodness. They did what? They delighted themselves in his great goodness. And there's no coincidence that that agrees with the phrase that Jesus said, I delight to do youo will, O God. They go together because if youf will be willing and obedient. You'll what? Which is what? The goodness of God. It enables you and allows you to eat the good of the land, but you needed to be willing to do his will. So say it out. I delight to do youo will, O God. Hallelujah. I delight to do youo will, O God. And he said, they delighted themselves in youn great goodness. That is the object they did at Kadesh Barnea. When they came back and said, oh, it's a good land. But in other words, none of that matters because we'll never see it. We'll never get to enjoy it. They said, it's a land that will eat you up. It's a land that will kill you. It's a land where we will all die and be destroyed. And. And the Lord took that personally. And he said, you have slandered the land. Because what kind of land did God call it? Good land. What are they saying? It's a bad land that will kill you. Now, this kept them from going into the promised land. This caused them to die young and die wrong in the desert. These principles are still at work today. When you hear about God's goodness, He is so good, you'll have to expand your mind and your heart to embrace it. And the enemy will immediately come and say, are you kidding? That's a crazy dream. You're just dreaming. That's just imagination. Are you saying God can't do it? Are you saying he's not good enough to do it? That is not his will. He wants bad things for us. No. They delighted themselves in the goodness. They got on the good side with the good God and the good plan and said, no, we go into the good land. Is that right? And they did. That's the second generation under Joshua's name. They did. They actually got to move into the house. Hallelujah. They got to swing and the hammock out in the backyard. They got to see the vineyards and the orchards. Caleb said, At 80 years old, give me this mountain. And he got his own mountain. Got to change the name. So what is that? Mount California? That's Caleb's. He got it. He got it because they didn't think it was too big. They didn't think it was too great for God to be able to do or that God would do. He that comes to God must believe. Must believe that he is. Well, if He's God, he can do anything and that he is a rewarder. Well, a reward is something good, not something bad, right? I mean, if I come whack you over the head and go, bam. You say, what was that? That was a reward. A reward. No, it's not a reward. A reward. Something good. Well, our time is up again, everybody. I do believe God's a good God with a good plan for me. Hallelujah. We'll see you again next time here in Faith School. Thank you for joining us at Faith School. 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