God is Still Moving in the Wilderness - Pastor Nathaniel Haney - January 24, 2021

you you you you hallelujah can we all stand to our feet today amen praise god praise god praise god we love you god we bless you god today thank you jesus thank you jesus thank you god thank you god oh have your way god today can we all stand to our feet today amen man i feel the holy ghost today after the spirit this morning is a verse of scripture a passage of scripture that's been on my heart the past few days and it's isaiah chapter 64 verses 1 through 4. it says oh that you would rend the heavens hey that you would come down that the mountains might shake at your presence whoo as fire burns burst brushwood as fire causes water to boil to make your name known to your adversaries that the nations may tremble at your presence verse 4 it says since the beginning of the world men have not heard nor perceived by the ear nor has the eye seen any god beside you who acts for the one who waits for him hey this verse of scripture starts oh that you would rent the heavens and come down you know what this means a tearing open of the heavens like someone who's breaking through right but it's a tearing as if it were cloth where god he tears open the heavens with such a breaking force a breaking forth into the world that it would fill the world with fire and make the mountains tremble that the nations might know who he is amen the word of god says that the world has not known any god but him but he acts upon those that wait for him what does this mean he only acts upon those who are in anticipation and desire to see this god break through the heavens hey that means you can't be you gotta want this thing hallelujah you gotta desire this thing you gotta want god to break open hallelujah and come down like fire and consume and tremble the world does anyone desire god this morning hallelujah is anyone waiting for the lord today is anyone in anticipation for the power of the holy ghost i don't know about you but i am hallelujah [Applause] and you know what we need to do this morning is we need to act like we are in anticipation we need to praise him in anticipation we need to worship him in anticipation we need to sing with anticipation in our spirit you can't do it just with your mouth god's not going to act on your behalf you gotta desire this thing you gotta want it for yourself so right now can we just lift up our hands and say god we desire you oh that you would tear open god the heavens today tear open the heavens god and pour out your power tear up the heavens god and pour out your spirit we are in desire of you god today and we worship your holy name come on somebody lift up your voice to heaven somebody tell them god tear open the heavens today [Music] i have no doubt that god's gonna do it today he's going to tear open the heavens he's going to pour out his spirit because there are a people that desire him hallelujah one more time churches lift up your hands and lift up your voice said god we want you lord we love you lord we desire you in this place we await god your manifestation and your demonstration today in jesus name [Music] amen one more time let's give the lord some praise this morning jesus we worship you god we glorify your name you are powerful and almighty god jesus we worship you lord we worship you jesus hallelujah come on let's give him some praise this morning hallelujah jesus hallelujah jesus we glorify you god we worship you jesus we praise your name how many of you thankful for the blood of jesus this morning that washed away all your sins that made you whole that cleansed your sins in the name of jesus let's worship him hallelujah [Music] would you be free from your burden of sins oh yes there's love would you evil a victory when there is oh there's wonderful power in the blood oh yes there is [Applause] much wider [Music] there's wonderful there is power oh when would you do service for jesus [Applause] daily his praises [Applause] oh [Music] nothing but the blood yes amen [Music] [Applause] hallelujah [Applause] is this is all my hope and peace and this is [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] [Applause] oh [Applause] i want us all to sing that there is [Applause] there is oh come on somebody let's praise him let's thank him for the blood that he shed on calvary for us hallelujah jesus hallelujah we worship you lord we praise your name come on let's lift our hands with our hands right now let's worship him jesus we worship you god we praise your name there's nobody like you lord oh you are so mighty lord we love you lord i'm thankful for the blood it came streaming down for me lord i'm thankful for the blood when i think of calvary if it had not been for jesus i don't know where i would be if it had not been for mercy and the bloody shed for me [Music] lord i'm thankful for the blood [Music] [Music] if it had not been for jesus [Applause] me the blood and made the difference gave the world redemption's plan there's no greater love than this love laid his life down for there's no greater love than this love lay his life down [Music] when i think of calvary if it had not been for jesus [Applause] thank [Applause] [Music] oh yes thank [Applause] oh jesus i'm so grateful oh god lord i'm thankful for [Applause] [Music] [Music] hallelujah jesus i thank you lord i thank you god i thank you jesus i'm thankful for the blood that you shed on calvary for me lord [Music] hallelujah come on somebody thank him for the blood that he gave to set us free from all our shame from all the sins that were binding us hallelujah hallelujah [Applause] [Music] thank you jesus thank you jesus we worship you lord come on don't stop worshiping the lord just because we're going to next song he deserves our praise no matter what hallelujah jesus we worship you the blood that jesus shed for me wait [Applause] it's the blood that gives me strength [Music] [Applause] [Music] it reaches [Applause] is strength yes [Music] is [Music] that same blood is [Applause] that gives me [Applause] [Music] oh [Applause] and it flows [Music] today [Applause] come on i want everyone to sing that this morning before it reaches to the highest and it flows from day to day [Music] no we will never lose hallelujah let's give the lord some praise this morning thank you jesus hallelujah how many of you are thankful for the blood this morning hallelujah how many recognize the power of the blood this morning the book of revelation says it like this they overcame him that was the devil that was the accuser of the brethren they overcame him by the blood of the lamb and by the word of their testimony you don't if you're struggling with condemnation you don't have to have some elaborate prayer you need to pray you can just get in the prayer room and say i plead the blood of jesus if you're sick in your body you might not have the words to say but because he went to the cross you can say i plead the blood of jesus if you are struggling i'm telling you right now in the holy ghost you're struggling in your mind the bible says that the blood cleanses us from an evil conscience it gives us access into the holiest of holies thank god for the blood hallelujah thank god he went to calvary [Music] you and i belong to jesus because the bible said he purchased us with his own blood amen you belong to god because of that blood could you lift your hands one more time and would you just plead the blood over your mind plead the blood over your family [Applause] hallelujah hallelujah there's always faith that stares up when you start talking about the blood amen there's so much power in that blood and we're going to do something so fitting and appropriate we're going to pleat that blood over our city right now we're going to pray for stockton we're still believing for revival anybody still believing for a revival amen it's not just an idea but it's a reality hallelujah we're going to plead the blood over california we're going to plead the blood over our state over our nation because we believe as long as there is a church praying god has not given up on this nation amen so would you would you lift your hands to heaven right now let's go into the war room one more time in the name of the lord jesus christ we come before you god pleading the blood over stockton california god give us a revival of righteousness in our city like we've never seen before god i pray lord jesus that this church that your house may be filled with backsliders lord with hungry souls people that need restoration people that need a miracle lord god send laborers into the harvest lord jesus we pray for this state we pray for this nation god we pray you'd give us righteous leaders righteous and godly leaders we pray for our governor we pray for our president god give them wisdom save them send them a preacher lord god send them somebody to share the gospel with them lord god and we're just believing in these last days you're going to pour out your spirit like never before we believe in god if you believe it would you clap your hands to the lord one more time hallelujah thank you jesus and if you came in this house tonight we're believing that god can do a miracle for you amen if you came sick in your body we talked about the blood this morning the bible says that he took the stripes so you could be healed amen he didn't take the stripes so you had to live in sickness he didn't take the stripes so you had to struggle for the rest of your life but it says by his stripes you were healed the healing already took place at calvary you've just got to get the faith to receive it this morning amen by those stripes cancers could be healed amen by those stripes diabetes could be healed and it doesn't have to just be physical it could be in your mind you could be struggling with depression he took the crown of thorns for your mind hallelujah so you didn't have to struggle with anxiety i want to give someone faith today that jesus went to the cross to save you from your sins but that you might be healed hallelujah so if you've got a sickness in your body i don't care how big it is and i don't care how long you've had it jesus can touch you if you get a hold of some faith right now hallelujah if you need a financial miracle you can trust on the lord of the harvest amen if you need marriage restoration he's the bringer of peace this morning amen so if you've got a need if you're watching online we've got pastor standing by well you don't have to be in the building jesus could touch you in your home amen praise god so if you've got a need would you lift your hand to heaven let it be a sign of faith that i'm standing up i'm saying jesus would you touch me right now saints of god there's hands all across the building all in the balcony right now would you just stretch your hand in their direction and when you impart some faith in that situation in the name of jesus lord we know you're the healer this morning we know you took the strikes and so god i pray that the gift of faith would move in this place right now let it be a testimony of your power in these last days god we're believing for instant miracles we're believing for miracles we can tell our lost family about miracles that point to your power miracles that point to your involvement with humanity i rebuke cancer in jesus name i rebuke diabetes in jesus name depression be gone in jesus name oh hallelujah i feel faith in the atmosphere if you believe god did a work would you just thank him for it right now hallelujah i mean if you really believe it would you say thank you jesus [Applause] [Music] amen christian life center the lord is good amen i'm so thankful that we live in a church that the spirit of god can move in amen i don't want to be a church that's just a church in word only but i want to see the power of god amen and we have just one exciting announcement for you this morning everybody landmarks coming up this week amen how many of you guys how many is excited for landmark amen let me ask you another question how many of you already registered for landmark yeah amen if you're in this building this morning and you want to be a part of landmark please register if you have not done so just so we can be safe with all the protocols and social distancing it's going to help us tremendously to know how many people are coming but i'm going to tell you social distancing or not covet or not there's going to be a powerful move of god at landmark amen it we've said it multiple times but just to reemphasize it is for the christian life center family only uh for the evening services uh but for the day services two in particular the men's day and the ladies day it is open for outside visitors the men will be at the west lane so we are limiting 200 guests so if you're watching online or you know somebody please register i have not heard if it's full yet so please go on and register ladies will be in this building so we do expect to be able to accommodate all the visitors that will come in this building for the ladies but you still need to register so please go online and register we're gonna have a great time everyone said amen praise god we're gonna now take our sunday morning tithe and offering amen praise god as we have been doing for the past several months we are going to continue with our online giving and um and if you will have ushers in the hallways to take if you do have monetary gifts let's pray for this offering right now dear heavenly father jesus we thank you so much for the opportunity that we have to give you have blessed us so much in america god we don't give out of a necessity but we give out of abundance lord god and put it on somebody's heart if they need to bless the ministry or god a spirit of giving would come on them lord we know that you always repay more than we give it's more blessed to give than it is to receive and we thank you so much that we can give bless the giver lord jesus and bless those that do not have to give lord we love you we give you all the glory and everybody said amen amen we're going to continue with online giving after you're done would you turn around and give someone a friendly social distance wave god bless you [Applause] [Music] so [Music] [Music] amen if you have your bibles today we are going to go to the book of numbers chapter 13 and we're going to read from chapter 13 and chapter 14 and i feel the wonderful power of god in this place today it's alive it's tangible it's real and it's moving in and among us touching different ones and it's present for us to reach out and touch it and i love it when the lord pays a very special visit it always reminds me of the time that abraham was sitting in the door of his tent a hot summer day in the middle of nowhere and the lord began to pass by and while he was passing by he made as if he would just keep going by but he revealed himself to the sight of abraham the bible says that abraham got up and he ran after him and said don't pass me by turn in and let me fix you something to eat i think sometimes we uh want god to do everything the lord shows up and we keep waiting for and the lord's waiting for someone to get up and go after him in service and say don't pass me by i need you to sup with me this morning i need to have your spirit with me and i believe that's what many of us have done today is we've reached out and told the lord we want you to stop we don't want you just to pass through the service but want you to stop and have a little fellowship with us have a little sup with us today amen i feel that presence and god is going to continue throughout the rest of this service to do some wonderful things i do want to mention the landmark that brother morgan mentioned earlier um we are only going to have so many people that can come and so it's important that if you plan to be here you register i won't be at the door to uh make an exception for you and uh someone else may be there that's gonna just be real strict with you and say i'm sorry you're not on the list and so you need to register it doesn't take much you can just call the church or i think it's they have form online but i think calling the office tomorrow or tuesday would be the best scenario and letting us know that you're going to be here we plan to have a great time in service and we plan to have a great time through the internet to wherever people or the broadcast wherever people are watching but there is something special about being in the physical facility and we've reserved that for clc members so please uh do your best to make that uh make us aware that you plan to be here that will help us that we don't overcrowd at the same time that we know that you're part of it all right numbers chapter 13 what a passage of scripture the bible says that in verse 17 and moses sent them to spy out the land of canaan and said unto them get you up this way southward and go up into the mountain and see the land what it is and the people that dwelleth therein whether they be strong or weak few or many and what the land is that they dwell in whether it be good or bad and what cities they be that they dwell in whether in tents or in strongholds and what the land is whether it be fat or lean whether there be wood therein or not and be of good courage and bring of the fruit of the land now the time was the time of the first harvest of the grapes so they went up and searched the land from the wilderness of zinn and rihab as men of hammath and they ascended by the south it came to hebron let's look over at verse 28. in fact we better start with verse 26 it says and they went and came to moses and to aaron and to all the congregation of the children of israel unto the wilderness verse 27 and they told him and said we came into the land whither thou sent us us and surely it flowed with milk and honey and this is the fruit of it nevertheless the people are strong that dwell in the land the cities are walled and very great and moreover we saw the children of anak there those were people that were descendants of giants amalekites dwell in the land of the south and the hittites and the jebusites and the amorites well of the mountains of the canaanites dwell by the sea and by the coast of jordan and caleb still the people before moses and said let us go up at once and possess it for we are well able everybody say well able 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 great stature and there we saw the giants the son of anak which came of the giants and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers and so we were in their sight now we'll look at verse or chapter 14 a little later but let's start here god has promised the israelite people that they were going to inherit a land that was inhabited by a number of tribes which we find in the book of genesis chapter 15. the first promise came to abraham where god called abraham out of her the chaldees a place that was about 60 miles from modern baghdad in the country of iraq and somewhere in that area of the uh by the euphrates river there was a trade center and that was in the uh time of the acadian kings that ruled there and god began to speak to him and begin to talk to him and call him and so he did not immediately answer god because he was connected with his family and he was connected with the family business that was uh making idols and gods for the different nations that were in existence of that air of time about 4 000 years ago and but eventually the mountain people begin to come down in the plains and begin to attack the caravans and the uh the barges that brought the trade to the city so uh the father of abraham terror moves back up towards syria and there where they originally were from and so they worked there for a while and god came back and revisited abraham and said get the out from among your people leave your father's house leave your land and i want you to come away with me and i'm going to show you a new land i'm going to show you a place you've never been and i'm going to bless you and give this place to you so he still did not respond but at the age of 75 his father passes away and so he decides now is the time i can leave my father's dead i can cut ties with the rest of the family and he starts a journey and that journey begins by crossing over the euphrates river and making his way down into the land that we call canaan in the scripture partially of what is known as modern israel today is that land not the totality of it but uh partially it well he makes his way down into that land and god begins to talk to him and says i'm going to give all this to you but there's a problem here the people that live in this country the hittites the amorites uh the jebusites and the different nations that are here they have not yet filled the cup of sin and therefore my judgment is not ready to flow upon them this is an important concept that we understand about god god predicts and he orchestrates the judgment of people in future times but there is a season where god restrains himself from lashing out in judgment of his creation in his desire to see them repent and change from the way they're traveling second is it takes a certain level of atrocities against the almighty before it brings forth the judgment in other words the wages of sin is death it takes a while to earn the paycheck that brings the final blow of death against the center but if you work long enough and save up enough you'll get that paycheck where the wages will come into your life and bring things to you that you never wanted to receive and so it was that he said it's going to be about 400 more years before your people your descendants can go into this land because right now even though they've been here for about a thousand twelve hundred years they have not committed enough sins to be destroyed and wiped out they haven't committed enough sins for me to remove them from the land and put you in their place and so i want you to understand they're going to go down into another land and they're going to be ill-treated and turned into slaves and why they're slaves there they'll be there for 400 years but our the 400-year mark i'm going to bring them out and i'm going to bring them to this land that i'm making a promise abraham lives his life and he dies he has a son named uh isaac who lives and dies he has another son or a grandson named jacob who lives and dies and then jacob has 12 sons and we know the story of joseph being sold to the amalekites and taken down into the land of egypt and raising up in the house of pharaoh and bringing his family down and then from bringing his family there they became prominent citizens in the country of egypt which was the superpower of the day but in time a new pharaoh a new king a new leader of egypt arose from a different ethnic background and turned upon the hebrew people the semitic people and begin to bring them into uh slavery and and hard labor that was for the household of the pharaohs the kings and so it was during that time that they begin to remember that there was a promise made to them and they began to pray the years went by and we're not given the exact amount of years in the bible although we do have some archaeology extra biblical history that gives us a a a general a time period that this took place but they begin to pray and begin to seek god and the bible says that the lord heard their cries and when he heard their cries he responded to them by raising up a savior or raising up a man to lead them out however the 400 years was not yet ready and so if you are watching the storyline timing is everything connected to god's promises we don't often want to face the reality that our watch is not often set to the clock on the wall of heaven and so therefore we often hear just god's going to do but we don't hear the timing by which he's going to do and in between the timing of the promise and the timing of the fulfillment is the battle of faith to keep encouraged that god's word will not fail and if you lose track and you lose the ability to understand that god has steps in the process of accomplishment to bringing the promises to pass you will find yourself in a place of utter despair thinking that god has failed you oh i feel like preaching to somebody today i feel like building somebody's faith today in the word of the lord abraham had 400 years the children of israel had several hundred years themselves and once god raised up the savior there was still another 40 years because the savior had to have a little work done to him and so he raises up he says god called me i'm 40 years old i'm going to go out and save israel by my own power he sees an egyptian test massacre that's a slave uh manager a so supervisor of the project who's whipping a uh an israelite and he goes out there and he tries to stop him and in the process of trying to stop him he ends up killing him then he says i think i'm in trouble so he buries the man in the sand the next day he's out at the same spot the always returns to the scene of the crime this is a real good case for that he goes to the same thing and two slaves two israelites are out there and they're fighting with each other and he says hey brothers you should be fighting you're you're of blood you're you're supposed to be working together and they turn to him and say are you going to kill us like you did the egyptian and he realizes that he has been seen and the rumor and the knowledge of this is beginning to spread and fear attacks moses and moses flees into the wilderness and for 40 years he's out there he gets married he has a family he tends sheep and we don't know all the other stuff but presumably he's being worked on in relationship with god and one day he walks by and there is a bush off to his side that is burning and he says i'll turn aside and see why this isn't burning now they tell us that the desert gets so hot there that it there is combustion that takes place and once in a while a bush does catch on fire um i've read that several times i've never seen it that hot or the the moisture i know a silo can do that but whether that's true or not whatever it was it perked his interest and he went over and as he got close the bush just kept burning but it was not consumed because it was spiritual fire that was connected to a natural bush and these two came together we learned something here we learned that the spirit wants to use earthly vessels the fire could have stayed away from the bush the fire could have just appeared as a pillar of fire as it did often in the in issuing a history of israel it could have appeared as an angel but god chose to take some natural substance of creation and to put his spirit in consument of it like a garment upon it to draw the attention of moses you see the bible says in the new testament that we have this heavenly treasure which is the baptism of the holy ghost in this earthen vessel there's something way back in the mind and history of god going back to the creation of man made of the dust of the earth and then bending down and breathing his own breath combining the spirit and the elements of creation together to produce something that likens itself unto the image of god and what came out of the soil was a man that was made in the image of god in the likeness of god you see that process is still taking place today through the salvation power of jesus christ we have a marred image that is torn and battered by the sins of life and the adamic nature that we inherited from adam in his rebellion against god but when god saved us and god delivered us from sin and filled us with his power and put his holy spirit within us and we went down in the water in jesus name and the preacher said in the name of jesus i baptize you for the remission of your sins there was a surgery that took place in that water you didn't see it with the natural eye i didn't see it with a natural eye but two nail-scarred hands reach down into those troubled waters and begin to remove the body of sin and begin to make a separation from the old man to the new man and when i came out there was a living me that no longer was like the old man that used to be praise god [Applause] god's still delivering god's still setting free god still making people whole through the power of the spirit and he moves in this bush and begins to moses gets up and then the bush and the fire a voice comes out and says moses you're on holy ground you see holiness is the overall covering that produces sanctification and when god told joshua he was bringing him into the promised land many years later joshua knew they couldn't inherit until they were sanctified so he told them he said sanctify your self what is sanctification sanctification is the process of becoming holy it's a process of separating from those things that god wants nothing to do with and separating unto god often times when we think of holiness we think of it in a negative connotation because it's always been presented as don't do this and don't do that and you if you do this you'll be uh banished from god's presence etc etc there is that side of holiness there's no doubt about it but really what holiness is in its totality and its pureness and what god meant for it to be is that you would draw so close to god that just by the process of moving toward god you have moved away from the things that god doesn't want when i draw near to god naturally god is not in the filth of the world so to draw near to god i have to make a decision what i'm going to be closer to am i going to be close to the failures in the world or i'm going to be closer to the presence of the lord you see let's take something like a pornography you can't simultaneously look at pornography get involved in pornography and perversion and be a holy man of god or a holy woman of god now some people think that sin and god are compatible you are delusional it is not compatible it will never be compatible now we sung about the blood that's the answer when you fall into sin is to get back on the altar and ask god to wash you and cleanse you and god makes you whole but you cannot be an habitual sinner and end up in a deep relationship with god you have to come to grips and make decision do i want the lord more than i want the world or do i want the world more than i want the lord that is what holiness is is when you come to grips in your mind and say i want jesus more than i want what my eyes can see and my flesh can touch and my ears can hear and my mouth can taste and my nose can smell i want more than what the five senses can get i want the spirit of god and so you start the process of separating yourself from the old life and being joined together with the lord that's holiness and that's also sanctification god is holy and as we make that transition to him his holiness begins to permeate through us and makes us holy and so we have sanctification and so when it says sanctify yourself that's what he told them as they come in paul said the same thing he said presenting your is a living sacrifice holy and acceptable unto god which is your reasonable service what does that mean there's things i can say no to there's things i can walk away from there's things i can reach out to that are spiritual and good that i can give myself to that's what i can do and then what i can't do beyond that that's what god does and that's the common theme of scripture man does what god asked him to do that's faith and that's obedience and then god does what man cannot do that's the supernatural product of the word of god manifesting in my faith and obedience and so it was that noah or excuse me moses is here and the bush says i want you to go tell pharaoh to let my people go and moses goes and you know the story there's actually ten plagues that take place the last one is the uh angel of destruction it's the destroyer that comes over and he comes in and he kills the firstborn and they leave and then they go through the red sea now they're on their way you know when you get out of the world the battles are not over some people think you know we got out of egypt well when you get out of egypt sometimes the conditions are desert-like there's withdrawals to the cycle of the human because you're used to a certain lifestyle and you're used to certain things and you've been delivered it was miraculous it was wonderful in that time when god did that but now you come back to the real world with your feet on the ground the next day after a wonderful holy ghost experience and you've got to face everything and you're excited and you're full of the zeal of god but as time goes on and you begin to walk through life now you start battling with emotions you have the ups and the downs the excitements and the loaves and depressions and and and you have uh enemies that come in against you and you you have to depend on god and and that's an adjustment learning how to do that and so they're in this process of traveling and finally they get from point a to point b and the promised land is right there and god made this promise it's been 400 years and everything is is really like god said it was going to be and moses is ordered by god to send spies now these spies were not to come back and tell us what we couldn't do they were to give us a lay of the land so we would know how to prepare for battle there is a huge difference assessing a problem assessing a situation or letting the situation dictate your thinking and they were sent by moses not to come back and to stir the people to doubt against god's promise but to tell them this is the strong points this is the weak points and let moses the general of israel plan out how they could go in and conquer this land with god's leading inheritance the promises of god and when they did this they went out they were out for 40 days that's why they got stuck in the wilderness for 40 years is because every day they searched the land when they rebelled against god god said one day is going to represent 40 years and 40 years you're going to travel around until you're all dead and only the 20 year old and younger are uh are going to live so at that time there could have been 60 year old people heading into israel because they were 20 years old they were at the top of the the line before they were there they had to die in the wilderness and then they had 40 years in the wilderness and that everything underneath that so it's quite a crowd that's here and these people come in and they say uh moses everything that god told us is true about the land everything that god said we could have everything the fruit's good there's milk and honey there's clear waters in the rivers there's vegetation it just is a great place but there is a problem we saw the sons of anak they live there now that don't mean a whole lot to us with modern weaponry but when you're got a sling and a stick a sword made of inferior metals because they only had so much technology of that day and you got to go up these against these giants and there's not really an equalizer there's a saying in the gun world that says god made all men and sam colt made them equal take you a while to get that well there wasn't no sam colt back then to make them all equal when you have a huge giant and you got somebody that's been a slave and you got somebody that's a giant who's been a warrior and there's whole communities of these people that terrorizes people and then they're walking through the land and every city they come to these people were naturally a taller people they had walled cities they were established and the fear that struck these spies there were ten of them that came back fearful they made a statement they said there are giants in the land and we cannot take this land now that on the surface does not seem like it really is um that bad of an uh statement it's just negative it's just not accepting it's it's it's being afraid but in god's mind he took that personal because he had told them he was going to give them the land and 400 years had come and gone and the timing was now and he brings them right to the land and they didn't just speak negative they actually contradicted the word of god if you can't believe the scripture at least bites your tongue if you can't confess god is going to do or i believe god's word just chew on your lip a while but don't speak what's going through your mind [Applause] it's a dangerous thing for this book to say one thing and you let your emotions defy the word of god i'm preaching teaching whatever you want to call it but i'm getting down where you're living we all have times where the bible says one thing and life says another and our emotions and our feelings and everything wants to side with the reality of the world we live in rather than moving over by faith and saying i'm going to hold on to this no matter what and god looked at that and he said that's a bad thing i consider that evil and they said nevertheless verse 28 the people be strong that dwell in the land and the cities are walled and very great and moreover we saw the children around it so the people they're strong they have defenses and then if that isn't enough we saw the children we saw the giants that's why you cannot believe everything you receive through the five senses when it is in contrast with the word of god so i just know yeah you know through the natural man but you don't know through the spirit and you're basing your faith on what you can see see paul was in the storm as a captive headed to rome for trial in front of nero and the storm was so bad that the clouds came in and the sun did not penetrate they lived in a continual darkness for 14 days in the darkness the waves were breaking the ship up they could not eat and they had thrown everything and they were afraid of dying and everybody on the ship thought they were going to die except one man and he's sitting there and he wakes up one morning says be of good cheer what do i've got to be cheerful about go tell somebody else about being happy and excited and i'm i'm living in a hell right now i'm the captain of the ship i just lost the cargo i'm the centerian i'm about to lose uh my soldiers and and the prisoners i don't have anything to look forward to he says be of good cheer he says there was an angel of the lord who i belong to so you got to know who you are in god and he said he stood by me and he told this and then he makes a statement he says i'm not moved by what i see if i looked around me i don't have anything to be cheerful about if i looked around me i don't have anything to have hope in this was paul's scenario but i do have the word of god i can't see it i can't taste it i can't hear it with my natural ears but i have it in here and he's given me victory before the storm is through he said i believe it shall be as god told me that's the key to faith is believing god before god performs what he's going to do that's hard to do it's not always easy to do but god requires somebody to have faith in him what if abraham who was the father of faith could not have believed god for something that was 400 years beyond his life the chain reaction would be devastating to humanity i'm sure god would have probably had another plan but let's say that god did not create another plan you and i would not be sitting here because jesus wouldn't have been to calvary one man could have bottlenecked the whole plan of god through doubt and unbelief but he kept his faith in god and it just kept going and so god understood i cannot afford to have a people that will not trust me in the lineage of the promises of god that are going to unfold over the next 4 000 years or 3 500 years therefore they've got to be removed and i got to raise up a new people god forbid that he would ever say that of this generation they didn't have any faith they wouldn't believe the word of god the storms of life uh sacked them and discouraged them and whatever i told them they would never receive my word but they always took the word of the enemy and god says i'm going to have to let them die off and raise up their kids and build faith in them and start all over again god have mercy on us if yet ever was to happen but i believe that i'm preaching to people that have a whole lot more understanding and faith than the children of israel did at this moment in the wilderness i believe that if some of us were there based on the character that i know that you would not have been those that were persuaded by the ten but you would have been those who were persuaded by the two saying i believe that god is well able let us go up and take the land you're that kind of people now they said nevertheless we can't do this verse 30 caleb steal the people before moses and he said let us go up at once and possess it for we are well able to overcome it now you got two spies that said let's do it right now we can do this thing god promised it we are well able and you got 10 that say we are going to be wiped out we cannot do it now notice what happens the response to that was that they said and there we saw the giants the sons of anak which came of the giants and we were in our own sight it's the way you look at yourself we were in our own sight as grasshoppers half of the battle of victory is getting a right view of what god has made you it's not based on the swiftness the skill the talent it's not based on the chariot or the horses it's not based on the archer and the swordsman but it's based on the woman or the man that says this is what god said this is what god spoke to me and i may be short in statute by the world standard i may not be the strongest kid on the block but i got something inside of me that is a big big man i got something inside of me that is a big big woman and that's how i got faith in god that he's gonna do what he said he would do you got to believe in yourself as to what god has spoken about you as a pastor i have the privilege of talking to people and it always amazes me how many people are born again and still can't have faith that god would use them they had a low self-esteem in the world and they got a low self-esteem in the church they're pessimistic it's not so much against god but it's they can't come to grips with the clay flesh this is not perfect this will never be perfect this cannot be perfect and if you're waiting for your flesh to become perfect like that of jesus christ in this life you are going to wait till you die because it cannot happen jesus christ was without sin at his birth you were with sin at your birth jesus christ rejected sin and temptation you have struggled with temptation and at times fallen into it i'm including myself not just you we all have we have a lot of similarities we're flesh and blood we're truly man truly humanity he was truly human yes all that's the same but the sin nature's different and that's why we get born again and then when we die at the time of death we take off that old sin nature once and for all and we put on immortality a new nature which is the nature of christ and so we are struggling with this and the hardest thing in the world to have faith over is a heart that condemns us how many times have you got down to pray and you didn't even do anything wrong but you just felt like you wasn't good enough you just felt like you hadn't been spiritual enough lately or how many times did some failure that you've had come back and haunt you like a ghost and torment you and you couldn't pray through you had to get them walk away you wanted to believe god but you thought to yourself i'm not a great man of faith i'm not a great woman of faith i'm just an average person and and that's for someone that prays all day long or someone uh special but me i can't attain to that and the way you think about yourself the way you feel about yourself begins to dictate how you latch onto the promises of god and these people they saw everything around them and they started comparing themselves that's dangerous that's dangerous they compared themselves they said they have walled cities they're bigger than us they have giants they're more skillful they're this and they're that then they they looked at that and then that became the measuring stick of how they measured themselves and when you measure yourself against the enemy you are foolish i said you are foolish when you measure yourself against the enemy you don't measure yourself against the enemy that's not the way you do it you measure the enemy against god well i gotta say it again you don't measure yourself against the enemy that's foolishness because a lot of time the enemy in that realm is going to be greater and more successful than you but when you take that enemy and you move him over in front of god and you begin to look up at how great the lord is how wonderful jesus is then that enemy begins to pale in comparison that big tall giant begins to look like a little in the presence of the lord because god is greater than all of creation combined and that's what i measure my problems again stuff god give us the spirit of caleb that doesn't look at the giants but looks at the god that told you could conquer the giants looks at the god that promised abraham isaac and jacob and his descendants you can have the land that's who we got to measure the enemy against so that we never lose faith of how great god is you see god is not of a species that climbed to the top of his food chain he's not a god that became more powerful than the other gods and became the supreme god that's not the god of the bible that's the god of mythology that's the god of often other religions but that's not the god of the scripture the god of the scripture is not a species he's not a creature but he is a spirit that is eternal and he was here before anything was and if it was all to go away he would still exist when you think of hot you think of cold when you think of sweet you think of sour when you think of day you think of night and you can go on the list opposite opposite opposite but when you think of god there is no opposite you see the devil is only the opposite of another angel not of god god is alone by himself and beside him there is no other when you think of michael the archangel you think of his opposite as the enemy satan two angels on this on different sides of the spectrum but when you think of god he fills heaven and earth there's no place for another god there's no place for another deity he is the only one the all-powerful one oh hallelujah so how is it uh that i could look at something like a giant in my world and think that it's the opposite in power of the god that i serve i want to tell you there's no opposite to the power that has promised you there's no opposite to the god you believed in he is well able to do what no other power can ever attend to oh hallelujah hallelujah and so they said we are in our own side as grasshoppers and so and is conjunctive it is connecting a reason here and so we were also grasshoppers in their sight now do you realize the implication of that the enemy picked up on their the enemy was able to read the enemy understood they sensed how they felt and when they felt like they were intimidated and they were inferior the enemy naturally became more empowered and more emboldened with himself saying if our enemy feels that way we must be cast in a big shadow and they rose up and spread themselves out a little bit more and dominated a little stronger and this is a natural cycle in life you let somebody come in that's got their lip dragging the ground milly mac won't look you in the eye you automatically feel like someone there uh doesn't have much about them you go to in the prisons you show weakness you're done for and but you let somebody come in there that acts like they own the world has their shoulders square back they may call them a little banny rooster but they got something in them that crows got some men that struts around the yard oh hallelujah you may not have much about inside of you you may be just about a pound when you're soaking wet but i'm going to tell you something if you know who god is you can strut in the barnyard in front of all the devils of hell and you can crow whenever you want to and it's not about you but it's the shadow you're casting off and they're saying i don't think i can take that one on but when you're squawking like a chicken and running and trying to get away so i was raised in the country with farm and and we still have chickens once in a while and and i'll tell you what them chickens if they'll run the dogs will go after them but you let that old rooster turn around and face that dog and i've seen some big old dogs it just kind of arrested them now i know i got teeth and it just got a little beak i know i can grab it and rip its neck off i know i can shake it around but there's something in the attitude that makes me back up and say i'm not so sure about what's going on and some of you are like the old hen that's a quacking and running and trying to find a place and you just got the enemy chasing after you and you're squawking and he thinks he's empowered why don't you just turn around and look at him eye to eye and say you may be bigger but i ain't running no more oh hallelujah hallelujah i'm not looking for a place to hide this barnyard belongs to me and i'll strut across it whenever i want because this is my territory that god gave me oh hallelujah i'm preaching to somebody today you need an attitude change about the way you act in front of the enemy you need to let the enemy know i'm not intimidated with you i know who my god is and he's greater than you could ever imagine oh hallelujah well let me preach just a few more minutes verse 1 of chapter 14 says and all the congregation lifted up their voice and cried and the people wept that night you better be careful to what you listen to and how you let it into your spirit because it will affect your actions these were god's people they had just a few years earlier beat farrell in his armies saw the ten plagues saw the waters crash in and wipe out pharaoh's armies had mana coming down during the day had a rock that rolled behind him and rolled water out to a literal river that the animals drank and the families drinking the clothes were wars and the bodies were bathed and had been in some war and god came down and delivered them and it already fought with these some of these giants in their journey next time you hear a discouraging report you need to go down memory lane you remember how god brought you out of egypt how god closed the red sea around the enemy that was after you to destroy you how god has sustained you through life when all hell has come against you you didn't get this far by accident but you got this far by special divine design god brought you this far and he didn't bring you out in the desert to let you die and to let your bones bleach in the sun but he brought you out of egypt to take you to canaan you just got to keep believing and holding on by faith and moving forward in the name of jesus and the belief in trusting the word of god and they begin to cry and weep and one step of doubt snowballs into another just as faith builds faith doubt builds doubt the bible says they started crying and they cried throughout the night all the children of israel murmured when you get discouraged you start murmuring murmur doesn't mean just a little whisper it means that you actively engage in conversation against and you get discouraged and so instead of just biting your mouth and and keeping it shut biting your tongue and not saying anything they started talking it's dangerous to talk when you're discouraged i said it's dangerous to talk when you feel like all hell is against you and you don't have any faith going on that's when you need to shut up and let god talk to you that's when you need to shut down and say i'm going to get in the word of god and let the word speak to me i'm not going to talk during this season because i don't have enough control of my emotions right now and i might say something against the word so i'm not going to say i'm just going to read the book until my faith begins to rise i'm just going to get into the scripture and let god begin to talk to me and if you have to say something speak in tongues then you won't be the one saying it it'll be the spirit in you but i've seen people that were good people but when they got discouraged they went all over the board with negativism and they they made accusations against god you got to know when to shut up and say nothing to stand still and see the salvation of the lord oh hallelujah and then they murmured against moses they murmured against aaron and the whole congregation said unto them would god that we had died in the land of egypt or would god that we had died in the wilderness be careful what you say because you just might get it a few verses later god said that's a pretty good idea for the negative people you'll all die in the wilderness well god that's not really what we wanted that's what you said in fact they got up the next day and they said we're going and taking the land we've changed our mind god says oh no you're not and they said oh yes we are i said go the lord's not with you and the bible says they were discomforted them enemies took a toll on them now if they went immediately when caleb said let's go and do it that was god's timing now god's timing's moving 40 years in the future this window of opportunity isn't always there you need to treasure it when god opens an opportunity and an open door is created i remember years ago and i've heard it you know different times since and everything but i remember years ago when we we had the the space shuttle went out i was young then and that was a vehicle went out to space and and it went out in orbit and then they kept talking about a window that had to open up to let it into the atmosphere i guess it would come back so fast the speed of it that if it hit this invisible barrier it would just explode and catch on fire but at a certain time i guess the rotation there would be an open spot where it could pass through like a window now i can't say with a natural eye but those guys that are smart and have all the computer technology they they understood that and so they had to keep that if they missed their window they didn't have enough oxygen and supplies because it was a short-term mission and they would be stuck out in orbit and if they ever got it back they would be dead when they opened the capsule to me that's a wonderful analogy god tells abraham 400 years this is going to happen the closer you get to that coming to pass the more intense and the more rough sometimes things begin and if you do not go through the window of opportunity you may never get back to that place in this life again my father used to say of the old blacksmith you gotta strike when the iron's hot have you ever had people ready to do something and then just procrastinate and by the time you got around to doing it there was nobody there to get it done with you spiritually that happens and people don't always realize that and so they murmured now i'll tell you a little secret you can talk about me i got pretty tough skin i've had some pretty harsh things said about me and i deserve some of them be the first to admit it and then some i didn't deserve but it's part of life did it hurt yeah it hurts inside the old saying sticks and stones will break my bones words and never hurt me someone didn't have anybody ever say bad against them because that's not true they do hurt but tough skin will keep the focus of life and the more important things that god and the journey that you're on [Applause] but constructive criticism discussion of things it's hard to find the balance once you start chewing on somebody i don't i sometimes cross that line and i have to go to an altar sometimes if i've talked to others i have to go to the person i talk to sometimes i have to go to god sometimes i have to get everybody involved in the conversation and confess my sins and get straightened out but you see when you talk about the body of christ brothers and sisters when you talk about the man of god in your life i can't do anything to you but god takes it personally because this is his design you talk about a brother or sister yes sometimes a brother sister does wrong there has to be these conversations there has to be these confrontations if you have ought against brother go to them and and talk it i mean it has to be done sometimes they won't listen to you go to someone else and get a group and go i mean the bible gives us a way to handle this kind of stuff so there are times but then there's when we're gonna just go off course and we just start chewing you remember that old pac-man game years ago and that little thing you it just they went all over and your job was trying to keep away from it so it didn't eat you up i think that's how it was maybe the other way around it's been a long time that's back in the days of going to the pizza huts and stuff uh shakies and straw hat how many remember that in stockton yeah and they had those little video games and we'd sneak over there you know that's kind of how a mouth is and it just starts devouring everything and pretty soon you develop habits and the bible said in the book of james it said how can this mouth and this tongue give forth sweet water and then turn around and give forth bitter sometimes you have to sacrifice the urge to gossip be critical tear people apart oh you so want to jump in that conversation and just sink your teeth into that person they're all talking about because you've got a grievance too maybe but sometimes you have to make a decision do i lay that on the altar and sacrifice my desire to tear that person apart so i can have the victory or do i give up the victory so i can get off the altar and chew them up now this is really good teaching and preaching i don't hear a lot of amens but that's all right think it over and these people they laid down the victory and laid it aside and fed and yielded to the desires to speak against the man of god and his brother aaron i told you it progresses then they begin to talk about would god in other words god you your plans screwed up you didn't do this right you should have left us in egypt would have been better if we have died here in other words what you planned originally you're a failure god that's what was in their heart that's what they were saying and wherefore hath the lord brought us up into this land to fall by the sword and our wives and our children should be pray where it is not better for us to return unto egypt or it not better for us and they said one to another let us make a captain and let us return unto egypt their negativism got so intense that it turned into open rebellion and anarchy and they was ready to get rid of moses who had brought them all this way had been to the mountain got the ten commandments got the law they wanted to get rid of all of that and in case anybody's here visiting wondering as far as i know they're not trying to throw me out of being the pastor of the church so i'm not preaching to secure my position here but i am bringing a truth home to this wonderful group of people of how we have to act and handle ourselves as the people of god in connection to the word of god and so it was verse 5 then moses and aaron fell on their faces before the all the assembly of the congregation of the children of israel and joshua and caleb that were with them that searched the land rent their clothes have pondered that statement they all heard the same words everybody heard the exact same thing the majority were moved to tears doubt anarchy anger overthrow and these two men who not only heard the words but they also saw what inspired the words of doubt so they had a better reason to lose faith because they saw the giants they saw the walled cities these were two incredible people when they heard those words they began to tear their clothes that was a sign to god of how they felt in their heart that people wouldn't believe him and god is looking for people when they hear the words he watches the response how do you respond when a negative report comes to you god said this but man said this god said this but man said this it's going to happen to every one of you it's already probably happened to all of us a time or two and it will keep happening while we're breathing breath it's not so much what you hear it's how you respond to what you hear and they spake unto all the company of the children of israel saying the lord which we the land which we passed through to search it is an exceedingly good land i can agree with these other ten that the land is good but we're fixing to have a departure of opinions because their words are not going to sway my original moment of faith when god spoke to me and there have been times where you have felt faith i have felt faith and it was so overflowing i believed god could do anything at that moment and then time came and i got away from that and got around people and i wasn't feeling like i did in that prayer meeting or in that service where i heard the person preach or that time where i was going down the road and god began to where i was reading i don't have that same feeling right now and these words are coming at me i mean if you come at me like that when i'm having a move of god it's it's it's like it just there's no effect but you come at me when i'm at a low or when i'm away from that and the bible says they heard their same words he says the land is good but this is what he did if the lord delight in us then he will bring us into the land and give it us a land which floweth with milk and honey only rebel not ye against the lord that is what was happening they were rebelling against what god had said 400 years of repetitive promise and the moment of truth is come and they made a decision to rebel against god you know what rebellion against god's word does it aborts what god originally said and then it said fear ye the people of the neither fear ye the people of the land they were motivated by fear fear is a dangerous tool it's a spirit it's what satan most uses is to make us afraid fear the blood it can stand against anything but fear creates a door that lets the blood be ineffective in your mind nothing else but fear that's why i personally think somehow fear and spirit of satanist kingdom that they're they're somehow the same and i don't exactly know how that is because there's words that strike fear and then there's a spirit of fear god has not given us a spirit of fear that spirit of fear is a real living being not just an attitude and that's the most effective tool and fear is best expressed through words because satan was created with a voice not with the sword i've said it many times but i'm gonna keep driving it home he had a beautiful voice that's why he uses everything that talks in this world to get into your spirit and your mind and your heart uses news he uses music he uses preaching he uses whatever he can conversations but now notice this joshua and caleb said this they said for they are bred for us their defense is departed from them and the lord is with us fear them not their bread for us now faith we showed you what doubt and fear and negativism does it makes you turn on god makes you remember now here's what faith does faith looks that same situation in the face and says that's meat for my bones they are bread for me god has prepared a table before me in the presence of mine enemy i'm gonna taste and see that the lord is good god is spreading a table of splendor and calling me to see the greatness of god it's meat this enemy i'm going to chew them up and spit them out i mean this is really a good thing and then second not only are they bred from me but their defense has departed from them now there was no difference between that moment in time when caleb and joshua said their defenses parted for me and the 40 days where they walked around and saw walled cities giants and soldiers that were able to conquer and defend their land the only difference that took place was not exterior but was internally and they saw in their mind that they were no longer able to defend their position their cities the walls were not so high their statute was not so great the giants were not so powerful what makes two men stand against an entire congregation and say their defense is departed from them and the answer to that is is they knew that the lord is the lifter of my head he is a shield around about me the angel of the lord encampeth around about them that fear him they knew that the sword of the lord was for them and not against them and they knew that they could overcome whatever defense the enemy would put forth to stand against them and so these people had that and then the third thing they understood was this the lord is with us fear them not whose side are you on whose side are you on whose side are you on whose side are you on are you on god's side are you on man's side are you on the word of god or are you on the word of humanity are you standing in what thus saith the lord or are you standing in what uh the world is trying to tell you is so [Music] i've come today to preach faith to god's people if we have ever been in a time where faith is under attack faith is under attack today yesterday last week and in the future it'll be but there's going to be faith in that book and there is a god that is for us and not against us and if god before us who can be against us greater is he that is in us than he that is in the world why do we say this over and over because we know that god has brought us this far and that god has an ultimate plan for his people and we're going to enter in into the promises of the lord jesus christ oh hallelujah hallelujah let's stand this morning [Applause] storms will always come winds will always blow waves will always rise negativism negativism will become more and more and more intense in the world when i grew up there was negativism but it seems like everywhere you go no matter what side of the coin you're on negative negative negative it's going to get to where you're not going to have anything positive unless you manufacture it you come to a church where they have faith because you see it you're going to see it where this entire world is blanket with murmuring and negativism an antichrist an anti-god an anti-word of god but for us who know our god for us that know our god do you have faith today do you believe in his word do you trust in his word that's your defense take ye the sword of the spirit take ye the shield of faith wherewith you will quench put out stop the fiery darts of the wicked oh hallelujah if you've got an issue today you've got a problem you've got a situation that is a little bit pressing upon you and you've been hearing all the gangsters and the negatives and pessimistics and i don't really care what it is because god specializes in all areas we often times are limited to our thinking and have a box of what we think god can do but i imagine there's things that we've never even considered that god has done things that we may never even know about in this life that god will do for someone else that has a need in that area but if you've got a situation today i want you to speak contrary in worship and in thanksgiving i want you to begin to talk to god in worship not not prayer not god help me god do this not asking god you pray when you're at home or some other time but i want you to speak out in worship lord i'm pitting my giants against you i know that you are going to defeat them and lift me up call that situation out and tell god today tell god he's well able to do it tell god you thank him that he's taken care of it oh hallelujah go ahead and worship the lord a moment as our music gets ready to come back go ahead and give god thanks today hallelujah hallelujah jesus [Applause] i feel the low murmur of the holy ghost uh-huh the little rumbling of the spirit taking place uh-huh hallelujah this is your moment in time it doesn't belong to the one next to you it belongs especially for you if you want it you can reach out by faith and worship today and lay hold of it in the name of jesus oh hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hilo boshoko diazata [Applause] breathe on us oh god let the word be like a magnified in our spirit today let your word be amplified in our heart and mind today oh god us help us to see ourselves according to you and the way you view us today god he corrupts wonderful wonderful wonderful wonderful jesus today wonderful wonderful wonderful jesus today oh hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah god i pray that our faith fell as not god let a gift of faith come on this church let a gift of faith rest upon us as a people give us the ability to believe give us the expectation beyond anything we've ever had in the past anoint our minds and our hearts god to speak as the oracle of god to think as the mind of christ let us have the thoughts of god today [Music] allah oh how we worship how we worship how we worship you this day how we lift you up this morning how we magnify you how we exalt you today oh we love you we love you we love you we love you lord and we worship you asata thank you lord thank you lord amen amen amen we're going to sing a course here and i want you just to worship the lord and when you need to you feel dismissed and make your way out god bless you for coming today and may faith rise in your heart may faith lift you up in this book [Music] because [Music] [Music] thank you jesus thank you jesus thank you jesus thank you jesus [Applause] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] [Applause] is [Applause] [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] there's no one like you [Music] there's no one like you [Music] is [Music] is [Music] is [Music] is if our is [Music] [Applause] [Music] stop is [Music] [Music] is is [Applause] [Music] is [Music] then who could ever stop us and if our god is for us [Music] [Music] [Music] you

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