13. The Giant Of Discouragement (Num. 13:1-14:45) | Bible.org But one thing is certain: it should not involve injustice and ruthless exploitation that make us feared and hated. Lesson number two comes from the Midrash. I cant serve because I dont know where to start. All you have to do is ask. He wants the Israelites to enter the land and conquer it, undaunted by the peoples already living there. The twelve spies whom Moses sent in to report on the Promised Land saw the same things. On a mountain where 90 We live the life of faith as we feed our souls on Gods Word, paying attention to the promises Hes made, and as we see from His dealings with us in the past, our own past, our collective past as a congregation, that He is faithful and true. But the people who live there are powerful, and the cities are fortified and very large. They may have been giants who were strong and tall. It will be the new year that well think about in this look at Numbers chapter 13. In verse 32, we see that the doubt-casters spread the word. For this they could be forgiven. But Moses replied, Are you jealous for my sake? Sermons about Grasshopper - SermonCentral.com The theme of food and eating is not restricted to the spies report. But lets go forward confident in the God who equips the available, who enables the unable, who empowers the powerless, who gives unforeseen and unknown wisdom to the unprepared for the doing of His will, all for His glory and our good. 28So tell them, As surely as I live,declares theLord, I will do to youthe very thing I heard you say:29In this wilderness your carcasses will fallevery one of you twenty years old or morewho was counted in the censusand who has grumbled against me. Such is the case of the Israelites. One of the most damaging things that can ever happen in a church is for one or two people to start casting doubt. Theres nothing new under the sun, but still I want to offer what to my knowledge is a fresh perspective on the grasshoppers. More significantly, parshat Balak, which is coming up soon, opens with statements by the Moabites and their king that mirror exactly the sentiment I think the spies have in mind when they describe themselves as grasshoppers. Young man, says the master, how is it that you do not?. They said, The land we explored devoursits inhabitants. He who did not spare His own Son, but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also graciously with Him give us all things?. 'We were like grasshoppers': a new reading - The Times of Israel John 3:16 "Life as a Grasshopper" - Salem Lutheran Church He ended up digging a 12 foot hole and could not find anything. GOD WANTS US TO PRAY AND THEN SEE OUR PRAYERS ANSWERED. Lesson number one, young grasshoppers: there are many ways of knowing, many ways of seeing, many ways of apprehending and sensing. Will we have fooled ourselves? In order to do so, we have to resolve that there is nothing bigger than God Almighty. The fear of the Israelites caused them to have to wander the wilderness for 38 more years. Like Grasshoppers - First Presbyterian Church, Jackson, Mississippi Giants are in the land! The Bible says in. We cant send spies into 2020. Joshua and Caleb believed that God had brought them that far to keep His promise, in light of all that He had done for them to that point, in light of His sure promise to plant them in the land that He had promised their ancestors. 33 We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). I cant serve the Lord because its too hard. Sometimes in life and in our spirituality we have to understand that nothing worth having comes easy. read more, Scripture: And then, after just praising the land for its bounty, they now spread lies about it, calling it a land devours its inhabitants .