<TITLE>13. Par 36-38</TITLE>L-36 I like this here middle piece that Paul talks about here (You know?), the--the buckler. Did you realize the buckler's the main part? Not very much said about it in the Bible, but that's a real part. The buckler's what holds the--the--the breeches of the harness together. Is that right? So I got the helmet and all these different pieces on, the breastplate. But the--don't forget the buckler that buckles it up and tightens it up. Oh, my. Then buckle up, and get a good tight hold, and move on again (You know?), and start moving.

L-37 Joshua come back, said, "Sure, we can take it. God said so." Kadesh-barnea, there's where they met the judgment. There's where God judged them. Now, what was God's judgment? Because they disbelieved. Kadesh-barnea was the judgment seat of Israel, for they disbelieved the Word (See?), not what the evidence was.
Now, here they was in the wilderness. Wish we had time to read a whole lot of it, but we haven't. But the wilderness and the journey, and how they was saying, "This is no place of pomegranates. This is no place to have grapes or figs," and "You brought us up out of Egypt; and we had a pretty good home down there, and here you brought us out here to die in this wilderness, without water, without food, without anything. And here you brought us." All evidence against them. "Here you--here you've led us up here to the side of this little old river now where these springs and this oasis coming up just barely enough water to drink with it." Oh, my. Isn't that just the way the complainer does when he gets sick?
Then, "Here we are. We haven't got nothing to eat. We haven't got no pomegranates. And only thing we're getting is just a little manna rained down of a nighttime. And now you tell us when the men come back from over there, saying, 'Oh, my, it's all been in vain. My...' Here, we come up out of the--left our countries and we can't go back. Why, our children has to be raised in this kind of a condition here. And all the cities are fancy, till they can run chariot races around it. We don't have nothing but just a few old pruning hooks and swords and things in our hand. And look at that great army over there, the opposition. And they're so big; well, one of them could whip a dozen of us." Isn't that the way the devil pictures it?

L-38 Joshua, I can see him standing there, Caleb alone, his face's all brightened up, saying, "Glory to God, we can take it anyhow."
"Oh, how you're going to take it?"
"It ain't how I'm going to take it. Isn't my business to figure that out, but God said it belonged to us and I--so it's mine. God said so."
So healing belongs to me this morning. Healing belongs to you. Salvation belongs to you. Salvation belongs to me. You say, "I can't live the right kind of life." Yes, you can. God said we could. I believe it. Don't you? How can you live in this present world without going out and associating with the crowds and doing the things that they do? God said we could; His grace is sufficient. That settles it, so let's just tighten up and go on.
Kadesh-barnea, the judgment seat, where all was to be judged at Kadesh-barnea. And only two stood the judgment. And how did they say they stood it? Basing their faith on THUS SAITH THE LORD. That's all. God promised it. And not only that, but they proved it. Amen. That's the thing to do. Amen.


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