God told Moses to send out men to spy out the land He had promised to give them. There had to be one representative from each tribe. So they went out, the 12 of them and came back with samples of the luscious fruit they found there. They reported that it was truly a land flowing with milk and honey. But they also reported about the difficult foes they would have to fight against to be able to take over the land. There were well fortified and protected cities with strong men, even men of the stature of giants, descendants of Anak. In front of these men, the Israelites felt like grasshoppers and the men of those cities also considered them to be so. They passed on their fear to the awaiting congregation. Only two of them, Caleb and Joshua were willing to trust God and said, “Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it.”
Pastor Robin noted that like the fearful Israelites, there are many born again Christians who have left Egypt, meaning the old life, but are still in the desert. They have not yet got into the Promised Land, the Kingdom of God, where they can enjoy the complete care and protection of the Lord and avail of all it offers namely love, joy, peace, good health and God’s blessings of abundance. The desert is meant to be only a necessary passage to The Kingdom of God. But to get into the Kingdom, we need to trust God to overcome every obstacle of our minds, mainly the lies that Satan has put in and keeps reinforcing by whispering negative thoughts to us if we listen to him. Many Christians believe Satan’s lie and depend on their own strength rather than God’s mighty power to overcome them and experience failure. So they feel themselves to be as small as grasshoppers and those whom they have to deal with also see them in the same light. They do not always feel capable of taking a bold stand for truth and feel the need of merging with the society in which they live. That’s what grasshoppers do. Green, brown and mud colored grasshoppers are always found in the environment of their particular color.
Satan protects and prospers his own people while they are in the world because he knows they will eventually be with him in Hell. God protects and prospers His own people who are in His Kingdom. But for those who remain in the desert, there is no one! So we should boldly go forward in the mighty power of God and enter the Kingdom that is our eternal destiny. Pastor Robin said that in one finger of a believer is more power than the whole of Hell! Praise the Lord! Then he prayed for the whole class to be convinced of whom they really are as born again children of God. After that, many came forward to share how the teaching had really applied to them and while thanking the Lord and Pastor Robin through whom He had spoken, took a decision to move forward boldly. Praise the Lord!
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