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And I've been telling you we 
have 222 sections to this series

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that we're in this this time. 
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valleys. 
And we just finished the 

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mountains last week. 
So now we are going to jump to 

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the valleys. 
And we said that the mountains 

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are, are, are are means of 
inspiration for us. 

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And I think they are. 
And we looked at seven of those.

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But, you know, sometimes, and I 
think this is maybe the mark of,

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of somebody who's truly a 
Christian or, or maybe somebody 

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who's at least wanting to hear 
from God and wanting to grow as 

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a Christian is that sometimes, 
you know, we don't like to have 

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our toes stepped on 
particularly. 

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And so we like lessons and and 
messages that encourage us. 

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But I think any Christian worth 
their salt likes to be told what

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the Bible says that they need to
do, especially when they're not 

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doing it properly or they're 
they're struggling in their 

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Christian life. 
They want to be maybe not have 

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their feelings hurt, but be 
instructed. 

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And so that's what we're going 
to get into this morning. 

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We've got 6 valleys that we're 
going to look at. 

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And these are, as we said all 
the way from the beginning, 

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valleys of instruction times, 
times, things that we can look 

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at and be instructed from them 
because we need that, You know, 

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we, we know often what we should
be doing, but we need to be 

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reminded of that. 
And, and this is different than 

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just being encouraged to do it. 
This is sometimes being 

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reprimanded or being edified to,
to do what we know we should be 

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doing. 
So this morning we're going to 

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look at the valley of 
discouragement. 

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And I'm not even going to have 
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ask you this. 
How many have ever had a time of

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discouragement? 
We all have. 

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So no point in even raising our 
hands. 

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But I'll tell you this, one of 
the problems with discouragement

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is that it's contagious. 
And so when you're feeling, you 

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know, down in the dumps and 
feeling, feeling sorry for 

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yourself, maybe because you're 
discouraged for whatever reason,

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in whatever capacity, that is 
contagious to those around you. 

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And we may, we almost get this 
mindset of good, everybody needs

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to know how I'm feeling. 
But what happens is it 

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discourages the people of God in
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And we see that in Numbers 
chapter 32. 

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I want to read these 10 verses, 
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through 10 and talk about them 
for just a second. 

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And then we're going to move 
away from Numbers 32 to another 

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passage that it actually 
references in these verses. 

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So let's jump right into that 
Numbers chapter 32 and verse 

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one. 
Now the children of Reuben and 

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the children of Gad had a very 
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And when they saw the land of 
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that behold, the place was a 
place for cattle, the children 

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of Gad and the children of 
Reuben came and spake unto 

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Moses, and to Eliezer the 
priest, and under the Princess 

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of the congregation, saying, 
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and Nimrah, and Heshman, and 
Eliela, and Shebum and Nebo, and

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beyond, even the country, those 
are all cities, even the country

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which the Lord smote before the 
congregation of Israel is a land

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for cattle. 
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Wherefore, said they, if we have
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this land be given unto thy 
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bring us not over Jordan. 
And Moses said unto the children

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of Gad, unto the children of 
Reuben, Shall your brethren go 

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to war, and shall ye sit here? 
And wherefore discourage ye the 

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heart of the children of Israel,
from going over into the land 

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which the Lord hath given them? 
Thus did your father's when I 

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sent them from Kadesh Barn Dia 
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For when they went up into the 
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land, they discouraged the heart
of the children of Israel, that 

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they should not go into the land
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And the Lord's angle was kindled
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saying, surely none of the men 
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20 years old and upwards shall 
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Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto 
Jacob, because they have not 

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wholly followed me. 
So to, to give you an 

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explanation of what's going on 
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And maybe maybe you do 
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I, I've often read this passage,
maybe when I was younger and not

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really understood what's going 
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You, you understand it's not a 
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But what is happening? 
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9 When when I when the when the 
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the valley of Eshkol and saw the
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discourage the heart of the 
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So what's he referring to? 
He's referring to when the spies

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went into Canaan. 
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for 40 years. 
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of Egypt camp, go spy out the 
land and then go in and take it.

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And because they, they didn't 
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they and they voted basically 
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God says, fine, you're not going
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here for 40 years and every man 
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die in the wilderness before I 
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The problem is Gad. 
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and gone. 
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And we see here in verse one, 
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children of Gad had a very great
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They have gotten so comfortable 
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They don't want to go in now. 
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this all the time or fairly 
often where he says, you know, 

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crossing into Canaan is not 
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It's going into the Christian 
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Imagine being so comfortable in 
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whatever it is that that when 
the gospel is given to you, no 

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thanks. 
I'd rather have what I have 

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here. 
That that's happens all the 

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time, doesn't it? 
We, we witness to people all the

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time who are just, there's no 
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They, they're fine. 
The Bible says that what is the 

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profit of man if he gains the 
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soul? 
Well, that's a picture of what's

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going on here. 
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in, in the sense of gaining 
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They're not interested. 
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to fight because if you keep on 
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even tell Moses, fine, we'll go 
fight when you have battles, but

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we, we want to come back out 
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our cattle are. 
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We don't want the promised land.
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that this whole tribe of people 
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promised land. 
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But in verse 9, we see when they
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Eschol. 
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children of Israel. 
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they went up into the valley of 
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discouraged the heart of the 
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should not go into the land 
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So this is referring to Numbers 
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So I want you to go back to 
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We won't be back in Numbers 32. 
So don't don't need to hold your

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your spot there, but we're going
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We're going to pray and then 
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lesson on the valley of 
discouragement and let's pray 

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and then we'll get right into 
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Father, I thank you for this day
that you've given us. 

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God, I thank you for your word 
and the lessons that we can 

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learn in it. 
God, I pray that you'd help us 

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to be encouragers like Barnabas 
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God just encouraging your people
not just but to be happy or 

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anything like that, but to to go
forward to work for you and to 

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go forward in our Christian 
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God, just as we get closer to 
heaven that we would do 

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everything we can to live 
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And I pray that you'd use this 
lesson this morning to help us 

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do that and kind of just pray 
that you be with the words that 

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come out of my mouth to to 
instruct and to edify your 

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people in Jesus name, I pray, 
Amen. 

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All right, so numbers chapter 13
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in verse 9, when you were 
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land to spy it out, you 
discouraged the heart of the 

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people. 
Now the name Eshkol means a 

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bunch or a cluster, which kind 
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And so when you, when you, you 
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from Canaan spying, they, they 
were carrying clusters of grapes

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between two men. 
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clusters of grapes that were in 
that land. 

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And that was just a small 
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on in the land of Canaan. 
And they had seen all these 

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victories that God had given 
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They, they've been given this 
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They had been delivered from the
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They had seeing the presence of 
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instructed them to build. 
And yet when it comes time to go

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spy out this land, Gad and 
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Now there were ten of them, but 
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10 that said we can't do it. 
We can't do it and discourage 

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the heart of God's people. 
So Numbers chapter 13 and verse 

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one and two. 
This Commission that got that 

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they were given to go spy out 
the land was given by God and we

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see that all the way through 
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God tells the people to do 
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This is God telling them to go 
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It's not just something that 
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I don't think we can take it. 
Let's, let's check it out first.

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God tells them to do that. 
Look at verses 1 and 2. 

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The Lord spake unto Moses 
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may search the land of Canaan, 
which I gave unto the children 

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of Israel of every tribe of 
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Shall ye send Amen, everyone a 
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You know, if, if it'd be one 
thing if we, if we were going to

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look for a piece of land, right 
for for a property to, to put a 

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church on. 
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teenagers, y'all just go figure 
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You know, OK, we could give them
a pass that they can't figure it

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They didn't find a good deal. 

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They don't know what they're 
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We could give them a pass. 
These guys look at verse 2 of 

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every tribe of their father 
Shahi send Amen, everyone a 

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ruler among them. 
These are rulers. 

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So the the elite of each tribe 
send the best man you have from 

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each tribe, a ruler of each one 
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These men knew what they were 
looking for. 

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They knew what was expected. 
They knew what God had promised.

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They're leading their tribe 
through, through or out of Egypt

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behind Moses. 
And those are the men that said,

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we can't do it. 
We we cannot do it. 

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So it's not that there was just 
these 12 random men or these 10 

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random men who told Israel we're
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And then there were other more 
spiritual men that went with 

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them. 
These were the the leaders of 

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their tribes. 
Well, of course the people are 

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going to go along with them and,
and be discouraged in what God 

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was telling them to do. 
This was a, a divine Commission,

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but it was actually very, very 
detailed, exactly what they were

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supposed to be doing. 
Look at verse 17. 

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So verses 4 through 16 are all 
the men that went, and we're not

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going to read through them, but 
it gives you each man from each 

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tribe, and you recognize a few 
of those names in there, 

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hopefully. 
But then verse 17, Moses sent 

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them to spy out the land of 
Canaan and said unto them, get 

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you up this way southward and go
up into the mountain and see the

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land what it is. 
So they're supposed to go up 

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there and see the country, see 
what they're up against. 

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So see what it is and the people
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So see what country it is, what 
people there are there, whether 

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they be strong, or weak, or few,
or many. 

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Verse 19. 
And what the land is that they 

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dwell in, whether it be good or 
bad. 

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And what cities they be that 
they dwell in, whether in tents 

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or in strongholds. 
And what the land is, whether it

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be fat or lean, whether there be
wood there in or not. 

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And be of good courage, and 
bring of the fruit of the land. 

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And now the time was the time of
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Commission of what they're 
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And he says in verse 20, and be 
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And the first thing they do is 
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And we'll look at that in just 
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But be of good courage and, and 
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the land. 
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bringing back clusters of grapes
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good report back of the land. 
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I believe it says it's a place 
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not literally, but there that 
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there's it's just a overflowing 
it's abundant with fruit and and

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everything that we'd we would 
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But we can't we can't take these
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through 25, they go and do what 
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days. 
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land from the wilderness of Zen 
unto rehab as men come to 

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Hamath. 
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by the South and came up onto 
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Talmai, the children of Anak 
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Now Hebron was built seven years
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came under the brook of Eshkol. 
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close they are to Egypt. 
They, they have not when we talk

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about them wandering for 40 
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because they were trying to get 
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Hebron is a that's where the 
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they were slaves in Egypt. 
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out of Egypt. 
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this discouragement that they 
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wander around and and surely 
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things over and over and over. 
Talk about discouraging but that

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was their punishment anyway. 
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the brook of Eshkol, and cut 
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11 cluster of grapes and bear it
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And they brought up the 
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The place was called the brook 
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grapes which the children of 
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a staff and it's hanging from 
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of clusters because of the fruit
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But they spent 40 days just like
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And this is and here's what we 
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And when they and there that we 
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majority of these spies, the 10 
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report go to go to verse 32. 
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report of the land which they 
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of Israel, saying the land 
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have gone to search is a land 
that eateth up the inhabitants 

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thereof. 
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in it are men of a great 
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you know, every single person 
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They're men of great stature. 
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sons of Attic which came of the 
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And we were in our own sight as 
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And so we were in their sight. 
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looked like grasshoppers to them
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ourselves. 
We cannot take this land of 

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Eshkol. 
The, the fruit is great, but we 

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can't take it. 
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heard that before. 
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Caleb and Joshua. 
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the children of the, of the 
other 10 tribes were looking at 

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themselves compared to the 
enemy. 

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Joshua and Caleb looked at 
themselves compared to or the 

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enemy compared to God. 
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and we can't take them without 
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our own lives. 
You know, I was thinking about 

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this as I studied this lesson 
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You know, we, we don't only get 
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day at work. 
Sometimes we get discouraged for

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good reasons. 
I am doing everything I can or, 

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or I'm trying to do what I need 
to do to fight this temptation 

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or this sin that keeps on taking
me down and I'm discouraged 

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because it keeps it keeps on 
getting me. 

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That's a good thing to be upset 
about that. 

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That shows that your heart is 
still soft. 

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And in the sense that you want 
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thing. 
But when we get to the point 

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where we say, yeah, there's no 
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that's what the children of 
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where they had gotten to this. 
It's a good land that you've 

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sent us to. 
But there's no way that we can 

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take it where the other two that
we can take encouragement from 

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even in our own lives. 
It is this sin is something I've

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dealt with for so long. 
What, whatever it is bitterness 

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or, or or envy or pride, that's 
one thing we we deal with in our

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own home. 
Everything I believe we do, we 

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can almost trace it. 
Almost everything we can trace 

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it back to pride. 
If you're mad at somebody else, 

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it's because you feel like 
you've been mistreated. 

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If you disagree to the point of,
you know, anger with someone 

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because you feel like you 
weren't hurt. 

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If we are not witnessing the way
we should, almost always it's 

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because I don't feel I feel too 
shy that that's pride. 

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When we were in Belize, I, I 
this always goes through my 

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mind. 
We walked into the school 

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because we were there doing a 
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And so we went in to see the 
kids while they were in class 

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and one of the teachers said, 
say hi, say hi to pastor Boots 

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and brother Brian kids. 
And and it was kind of like, and

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she said being shy is selfish 
and it's proud. 

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Remember that she told all the 
kids that it was obviously 

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something they always they go 
over being shy is pride. 

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And I thought, man, that that is
very interesting. 

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That's that's actually what it 
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When I'm too shy to to witness 
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about anything else with them. 
But when it's time to witness to

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them, I'm too shy. 
You're not shy. 

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We're proud because we're afraid
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But pride. 
But anyways, my whole point is 

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when we think that I cannot 
conquer this thing, it's because

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we are looking at us compared to
that thing or that sin rather 

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than that sin compared to God. 
He's much stronger than that 

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sin, but we need him to help us 
to take over to, to conquer that

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sin. 
And So what were the conclusions

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that these, these spies had come
to? 

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They, they concluded that 
because we are grasshoppers in 

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their sight, we cannot take them
take, take this land. 

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And you know, it's, it's 
interesting that our focus, and 

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I've already sort of mentioned 
this, our focus, what we are 

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focusing on effects our faith. 
We have so many examples of it 

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in the Bible, but even we, we 
have examples of this in our own

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life. 
When when you are focused on 

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what I'm not going to be able to
do is there's just no way it 

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does affect our faith in, in, in
meaning. 

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These children of Vigil came 
back to the to these spies came 

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back to the children of Vigil 
and said what we've seen and 

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what were they focused on? 
They weren't even focused on the

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fruit of the land. 
They certainly weren't focused 

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on the command of God to go take
this land. 

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They were focused on. 
These giants were grasshoppers 

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in their sight. 
And they're not afraid of us. 

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We are very afraid of them. 
They were their focus affected 

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what they were supposed to go 
do. 

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I don't think that Moses, in 
fact, I know because of the what

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the passage here. 
Moses was not telling them go 

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see if we can take the land. 
He was telling them from God's 

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command. 
Go see basically what's the best

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route to do it and and what are 
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Surely they saw Jericho when 
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they see these giants who are 
now not just giants, they're in 

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these fortified cities. 
And their focus was on that 

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there's no way, no way we can 
take this land. 

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And so in verse 31, we see that 
the majority of these spies, but

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the men that went up with him 
said we be not able to go up 

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against the people for they are 
stronger than we. 

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Their focus was on those people.
But you see in in the minority 

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reported in verse 30, Caleb 
stilled the people before Moses 

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and said, let us go up at once 
and possess it for we are well 

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able to overcome it because of 
their focus. 

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What were they focusing on? 
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dead horse, but that's their 
focus was on God told us to do 

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this and with his help we can. 
And then 40 years later, they 

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see that that's exactly what God
wanted them to do. 

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No, you can't take Jericho, not 
on your own. 

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And pastor just preached a 
message on this. 

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But but I can take it any. 
And I believe that he did that 

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for for that specific reason. 
Had them March around the city, 

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never lift the sword against it 
to take the walls down or 

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anything like that to show them 
40 years ago, I had this exact 

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same power and this is what I 
wanted you to do. 

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But you waited 40 years to come 
conquer this land that I was 

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going to conquer for you, but 
you were discouraged. 

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And the children of Gad and the 
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It's it's interesting in numbers
chapter 32 where we started, he 

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doesn't call all the other 8 
tribes out. 

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He calls out Gad and Reuben for 
discouraging the heart of the 

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people. 
Now they're getting ready to go 

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in 40 years later. 
And I do believe that if Gad and

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Reuben had been given a chance 
to go talk to the children of 

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Israel about going in to Canaan 
40 years later, they would have 

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discouraged them again and said,
I don't think we should. 

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We're fine here. 
We've we've built lives for 

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ourselves. 
And that's why Moses was so 

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upset 40 years ago. 
You discouraged the heart of the

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people. 
And now here you are again 

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trying to, to, to get the 
children of Israel not to go in.

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Or if nothing else, at least you
guys all go. 

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We're not going to fight with 
you. 

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And anyway, So what are the 
consequences of actually, I 

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wanted, I wanted to show you 
something else. 

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In verse 30, Caleb stills the 
the people before Moses and he 

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doesn't say we are able to 
overcome it. 

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He says we are well able to 
overcome it. 

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And the point here of this 
lesson that I that I want you to

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get out of this is I said this 
at the very beginning, but our 

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discouragement is contagious. 
And you, I, I know we've all 

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seen this, whether it's at work 
or whatever else. 

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It happens fairly often. 
If you when I'm on a job site 

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and things aren't going right, 
it's like people pile on what 

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the problems, right? 
Well, yeah. 

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What are we going to do about 
this? 

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What are we going to do about 
this? 

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And what about this? 
And I'll say often, I don't need

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to hear the problems. 
Tell me what your plan is to fix

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those problems. 
I know what the problems are. 

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And I think that's kind of what 
we we have here in this 

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pastor's, but also in our 
Christian lives. 

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You know, the pastor doesn't 
need to hear all the problems 

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with everything. 
And I don't mean he doesn't need

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to know what's going on. 
I mean he doesn't need to hear, 

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you know, somebody for a silly 
example, spill something in the 

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foyer, come run into the pastor.
They spilled something in the 

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foyer. 
Well, clean it up. 

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You know, he's got enough issues
that he's dealing with. 

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But but that's something silly. 
But I'm talking about, you know,

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issues between church members 
and things like that. 

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The Bible tells us exactly how 
to fix those things. 

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You go to them, you fix it. 
You don't need the pastor to get

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involved to, to fix some of 
these small issues because 

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that's what it is. 
It's discouraging that your your

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discouragement if you want to 
call that or call it that or it 

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is contagious to those around 
you. 

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00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:51,040
Anyways, I think, I think we've,
we've covered that enough, but 

445
00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:57,200
think about how your, your 
spirit, because that's what it 

446
00:24:57,200 --> 00:25:00,400
is, a spirit of discouragement. 
But think about how your spirit 

447
00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:03,240
effects other people. 
And we know this is the case 

448
00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:07,360
because looking at this passage,
I believe the children of Israel

449
00:25:07,360 --> 00:25:10,240
are ready to go into Canaan. 
Moses was telling them let's go 

450
00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:15,040
and they were ready to go. 
And then these 1010 men and, and

451
00:25:15,360 --> 00:25:19,760
by all estimates, this is 1 to 2
million people of Israel that 

452
00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:22,880
are ready to go. 
And 10 men discourage them so 

453
00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:26,600
bad that they, they chose to 
stay in, in Canaan against 

454
00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:31,040
Moses's direction and against 
Caleb and Joshua's, you know, 

455
00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:33,600
encouragement. 
They chose to stay in the 

456
00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:36,120
wilderness for the time being. 
And God says, all right, fine, 

457
00:25:36,120 --> 00:25:37,520
I'm going to punish you for 40 
years. 

458
00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:41,160
And but ten men were able to do 
that to 2 million people. 

459
00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:44,640
Think about your spirit in a 
church or maybe a group of 

460
00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:49,480
people in a church that get 
this, maybe not even bitter, but

461
00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:52,000
but an attitude of we can't do 
that. 

462
00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:55,200
We, we can't, we're just not big
enough or whatever the reason 

463
00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:57,800
may be. 
Think what you're that spirit 

464
00:25:57,800 --> 00:26:01,720
can do in a, in a small church 
especially, and and then take it

465
00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:04,720
the other direction. 
When you have a small group that

466
00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:06,520
goes, oh man, we're excited 
about this. 

467
00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:10,000
We can, we can go do that. 
It gets everybody excited. 

468
00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:12,600
And I'm not talking about the 
power of positive thinking, I'm 

469
00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:15,720
talking about a spirit of 
encouragement among God's 

470
00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:18,000
people. 
And So what are the consequences

471
00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:19,720
we have? 
Well, first of all, that 

472
00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:23,360
minority of men, we've already 
talked about this discouraged. 

473
00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:26,000
We see this in Numbers 32, Nine.
You don't need to go back there.

474
00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:29,360
For when they went up unto the 
valley of Eshkol and saw the 

475
00:26:29,360 --> 00:26:33,880
land, they discouraged the heart
of the children of Israel and 

476
00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:37,360
that they should not go into the
land which the Lord had given 

477
00:26:37,360 --> 00:26:39,760
them. 
So they discouraged others. 

478
00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:42,000
And we've talked about this 
already, but it, it was 

479
00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:44,520
completely contagious. 
And 2 million people who had 

480
00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:47,480
never even seen the land said, 
yeah, yeah, we can't go. 

481
00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:51,240
They're too big. 
And I, I can imagine, because I 

482
00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:54,000
know people are we all we, we 
know how we are. 

483
00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:59,200
I can imagine the the murmuring 
that went through that camp. 

484
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:02,120
Yeah, they did You hear what he 
said? 

485
00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:04,600
He said they were, we're 
grasshoppers. 

486
00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:07,200
They must be 12 feet tall. 
You know, who knows how tall 

487
00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:08,480
they actually were? 
They were giants. 

488
00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:11,320
But I mean, if I saw a 7 foot 
tall guy, I'd be like, man, he's

489
00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:13,640
a giant. 
You know, I mean, they may not 

490
00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:15,560
have been that big. 
They were big. 

491
00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:19,640
But the whole camp is 
discouraged by these, these ten 

492
00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:22,360
men. 
But then look at Numbers chapter

493
00:27:22,360 --> 00:27:26,960
14 and verse 29. 
So the consequences of this 

494
00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:28,360
where they discourage the 
people. 

495
00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:32,800
But then in Numbers 14, verse 
29, they definitely delayed 

496
00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:34,480
progress. 
How long? 

497
00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:35,960
40 years. 
Verse 29. 

498
00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:39,200
Your carcasses shall fall in 
this wilderness, and all that 

499
00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:41,760
were numbered of you according 
to your whole number from 20 

500
00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:44,320
years old and upward, which have
murmured against me. 

501
00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:48,440
Verse 33 And your children shall
wander in the wilderness 40 

502
00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:51,960
years, and bear your whoredoms 
until your carcasses be wasted 

503
00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:55,560
in the wilderness. 
They delayed this progress. 

504
00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:58,840
I mean, you know, they say, they
say the the eighth wonder of the

505
00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:01,240
world is, is compounding 
interest, right? 

506
00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:04,640
But you have to get started. 
You have to have time to get 

507
00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:06,400
that going. 
Imagine what they could have, 

508
00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:11,400
where they could have been 40 
years down the road with this 

509
00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:14,840
land that God had given them. 
I mean, think about it, a land 

510
00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:19,480
that was OK in 40 years, they 
were able to build it up to such

511
00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:21,560
a point that they weren't they 
didn't want to leave. 

512
00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:25,440
Imagine if they were in this 
land of, of, of milk and honey 

513
00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:28,080
and the grapes that were 
gigantic. 

514
00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:30,720
Imagine, imagine where they 
would have been 40 years down 

515
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:32,520
the road. 
Imagine where they would have 

516
00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:35,640
been in the conquest of Canaan. 
Didn't take them that long to 

517
00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:38,520
take Canaan to take all those 
cities. 

518
00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:40,760
It didn't take them that long. 
They would have, they would have

519
00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:45,920
had the whole land conquered and
been and been living where God 

520
00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:48,760
wanted them to live. 
And I think, think about this in

521
00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:52,920
your life. 
I think there are, there are, 

522
00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:56,320
there are things in our lives 
that we just get. 

523
00:28:56,840 --> 00:28:59,640
I don't mean that we're fine 
with it, but we get so used to 

524
00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:05,000
living with it that we go 
decades living with a, a sin or 

525
00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:09,640
a, a discouragement or, you 
know, whatever it may be. 

526
00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:13,960
Sometimes it we don't even look 
at things as sins where, you 

527
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:17,840
know, maybe you're, you're, you 
have anxiety about, about 

528
00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:19,360
something. 
Sometimes we don't look at those

529
00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:21,760
things as but God wants us to 
conquer those. 

530
00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:25,920
And so as long as we sit outside
of Canaan, because I just, we 

531
00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:28,080
can't, we can't take it. 
It's too hard. 

532
00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:36,640
We sit there for decades in 
discouragement and in, for lack 

533
00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:39,760
of a better term, in our sin 
that we have just become 

534
00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:42,440
comfortable with. 
And, and, and I'm not, I'm 

535
00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:46,560
purposely not mentioning 
specifics because every one of 

536
00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:49,560
us is different and there are 
things that we deal with. 

537
00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:54,320
And you, you know what they are 
in your life that should have 

538
00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:59,560
been conquered 10 years ago. 
But you know, I mean, everybody 

539
00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:00,840
has their thing. 
Why? 

540
00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:04,360
Why do we have our thing? 
Because we've not chosen to go 

541
00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:07,360
into the land and conquer it. 
And so they delayed this 

542
00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:10,600
progress that God had for them 
for 40 years. 

543
00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:14,040
Now look at verse chapter 14 and
verse 30. 

544
00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:18,760
They were denied this 
possibility that God had given 

545
00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:22,000
them. 
Doubtless you men that are 20 

546
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:26,400
years old and up, ye shall not 
come into the land concerning 

547
00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:28,200
which I swear to make you dwell 
therein. 

548
00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:33,120
Except Caleb the son of Jafuna, 
and Joshua the son of Nun, those

549
00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:34,880
are the only two that get to go 
into this land. 

550
00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:37,680
You've walked across the Red Sea
on dry land. 

551
00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:41,320
You've been delivered from 
Pharaoh's army. 

552
00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:44,360
You've seen God's presence on 
Mount Sinai. 

553
00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:49,520
You've seen all this stuff. 
But God's not big enough to take

554
00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:53,000
these, these people that we are 
grasshoppers in their sight. 

555
00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:56,040
And so God denies them even the 
chance to go in and take it. 

556
00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:58,800
Fine, you're going to you're 
going to wander for 40 years and

557
00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:02,800
none of you are going to come in
except Joshua and Caleb. 

558
00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:12,120
Now we have, you know, commands 
in the Bible for how we are to 

559
00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:14,520
escape this trap of 
discouragement. 

560
00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:19,120
There's a reason that the Bible 
tells us to rejoice evermore. 

561
00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:20,800
That's how you get out of 
discouragement. 

562
00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:23,640
There's a reason we're told in 
everything, give thanks. 

563
00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:28,160
Not in everything be happy, but 
in everything, give thanks. 

564
00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:33,560
And I mentioned this before, but
you know, give thanks when you 

565
00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:39,720
have a a not I don't even mean 
just a trial, because we can 

566
00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:43,200
give thanks in those for for all
kinds of things. 

567
00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:48,880
But I'm talking about give 
thanks in a battle with a sin 

568
00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:52,680
because you a get a chance to 
fight it and overcome it, but 

569
00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:58,400
also because think about Job. 
It might be Satan being sent 

570
00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:01,400
because God is saying go, go try
him. 

571
00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:06,360
We get we have so much to to 
give thanks for, not to be happy

572
00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:11,200
about in in in temptation, but 
to give thanks for and I want to

573
00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:14,800
think I want to, I want to look 
at one last thing. 

574
00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:17,360
And we're not even going to turn
there forsake of time. 

575
00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:23,040
But think about the lasting, the
lasting effects of 

576
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:26,920
discouragement in your life. 
You know, there's a, there's a 

577
00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:31,320
family I know and I and I won't 
mention their name or anything, 

578
00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:36,000
but the, the mom for decades and
decades has has dealt with 

579
00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:39,600
really just discouragement. 
They, they they've, they've 

580
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:42,160
diagnosed it now as mental 
illness, but she's just 

581
00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:44,440
discouraged. 
Everything discourages her 

582
00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:47,880
super, really nice lady, I 
believe a good Christian woman, 

583
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:53,320
but just discouraged. 
And I saw, I saw something on 

584
00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:55,720
Facebook with her son and her 
daughter. 

585
00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:59,800
They just had the two kids and 
both of them are in therapy for 

586
00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:02,320
mental illness because they're 
so discouraged. 

587
00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:04,760
I think it's, I think it's 
generational. 

588
00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:10,600
And I reason I say that is you 
remember the story of the maniac

589
00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:14,840
of Gadera, right? 
And God heals him, casts out 

590
00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:17,960
those, those, those spirits. 
And where do they go? 

591
00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:22,240
Into the swine, right? 
Then the swine dive off the 

592
00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:24,600
Cliff. 
And what are the, the, the men 

593
00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:27,160
of that city? 
What do they, what do they come 

594
00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:29,840
to Jesus and say, you got to get
out. 

595
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:33,080
You're ruining our, our, our, 
our economy. 

596
00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:35,400
Really. 
Do you know that those are the 

597
00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:40,360
same tribe that are here, the 
Gadarenes, That's Gad. 

598
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:44,760
Do you know that's the same 
tribe in Numbers chapter 32, 

599
00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:46,880
that when they're supposed to be
going into the promised land, 

600
00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:49,600
they're like, we're good here 
with our cattle and our sheep. 

601
00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:53,200
We're fine. 
Now Jesus is coming to save 

602
00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:55,400
their city. 
I mean, he is coming to he. 

603
00:33:55,520 --> 00:33:58,640
He comes to their city and 
shares the good news of Jesus 

604
00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:03,800
Christ, heals A maniac they've 
been dealing with for years. 

605
00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:07,720
And because of their animals and
their thing, they discourage the

606
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:14,400
people from believing in Jesus 
because of their economy, their 

607
00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:17,440
money. 
I think this is generational. 

608
00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:20,639
I think, I think it doesn't have
to be, but I think it is when 

609
00:34:20,639 --> 00:34:25,280
you, when your kids are in your 
house and they see nothing, but 

610
00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:35,960
you know, whatever the sin is 
bitterness or or pride or you 

611
00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:39,080
know, you're, you're always 
talking to other people down 

612
00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:42,719
because to, to bring yourself up
and make yourself seem so much 

613
00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:44,400
better. 
Your kids pick up on that. 

614
00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:47,040
It's it. 
And it may be very subtle, but 

615
00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:50,679
they get the same mentality and 
then off they go and they're 

616
00:34:50,679 --> 00:34:53,800
proud and they're, they're 
bitter and they put others down.

617
00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:56,400
What do you think that is? 
Do you think that's a, a 

618
00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:58,840
generational sin in that it was 
passed down in their blood? 

619
00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:02,560
No, they pick up on that and 
they that's how they act because

620
00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:04,880
that's all they've ever seen. 
And I think, I think this 

621
00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:08,960
discouragement can be very much 
picked up by your kids. 

622
00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:12,720
And and they then deal with 
this, maybe not the same sins, 

623
00:35:12,720 --> 00:35:14,800
but the same answer to those 
sins. 

624
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:17,920
We can't, we can't beat it. 
We're just going to have to 

625
00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:21,400
live, you know, as best we can. 
We'll go to church every week 

626
00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:24,640
and we'll, we'll try to serve 
God, but we can't, we can't 

627
00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:28,520
overcome these certain things. 
Yes, you can and and that's what

628
00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:31,840
Moses was so upset with the 
children of Gad and the children

629
00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:34,160
of Reuben. 
You've discouraged the heart of 

630
00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:35,680
the people. 
This is one of my favorite 

631
00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:38,600
verses, first Samuel chapter 30 
and verse 6 and I'll just read 

632
00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:39,720
it to you and then we'll be 
finished. 

633
00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:42,880
What do we do about this 
discouragement? 

634
00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:45,400
David was greatly distressed. 
This is when he came back from 

635
00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:51,840
Ziklag and and well, the the 
Philistines had completely taken

636
00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:54,200
everything, taking their wives, 
taking their kids, completely 

637
00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:57,840
decimated everything they had. 
David was greatly distressed for

638
00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:01,280
the people spake of stoning him,
because the soul of the people 

639
00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:04,480
was grieved every man for his 
sons and for his daughters. 

640
00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:09,080
What's David do? 
But David encouraged himself in 

641
00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:11,680
the Lord his God, and that's the
answer to it. 

642
00:36:12,120 --> 00:36:16,640
Encourage yourself in the Lord. 
The two, the two spies who 

643
00:36:16,720 --> 00:36:18,840
believed they could take the 
land, that's what they were 

644
00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:22,720
doing, encouraging themselves in
the fact that God told us to do 

645
00:36:22,720 --> 00:36:26,160
it so we can do it. 
They encourage themselves in the

646
00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:29,000
Lord. 
And so both ways, discouragement

647
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:32,680
is very contagious and so is a 
spirit of encouragement. 

648
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:35,720
Barnabas was called the son of 
consolation, the encourager. 

649
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:37,440
Why? 
Because it didn't matter what 

650
00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:39,840
situation they were in. 
Hey, God told us to do this, we 

651
00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:43,080
can do this and people were 
encouraged to go do that. 

652
00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:47,480
And so be an encourager this 
morning and and this week 

653
00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:50,400
instead of a discourager. 
It's very easy. 

654
00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:53,040
We all know that quote. 
It's not the the man, the critic

655
00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:56,920
who counts that's a discourager,
somebody who who goes and 

656
00:36:56,960 --> 00:37:00,120
encourages God. 
People though they're rare, but 

657
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:03,680
they're also needed. 
And so I encourage you to be 

658
00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:06,760
that person this weekend and 
going forward. 

659
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:08,360
All right, the valley of 
discouragement. 

660
00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:10,560
Let's pray and we'll be done. 
Father, I thank you for this 

661
00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:12,360
day. 
Thank you again for your word. 

662
00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:14,440
Thank you for the lessons we can
glean from it. 

663
00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:17,480
Thank you for these examples, 
the good and the bad God, the 

664
00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:21,520
ones that we can not emulate and
the ones that we can follow. 

665
00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:24,760
I pray that you'd help us to be 
encouragers to your people, to 

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your church, to your pastor. 
Pray that you to your under 

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shepherd. 
I pray that we be encouragers to

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all of those this week and with 
our lives. 

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Pray that you'd help us to do 
that. 

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In Jesus name I pray. 
Amen.