<TITLE>06. Par 18-20</TITLE>L-18 Now, when they got there, they camped. God had been good to them, showed them many great wonders and signs down in Egypt. On their journey He had prepared everything for them, but still they had to come to this place which was almost in sight of the promised land, just a little while after they had left. And when they got to this place, Moses took a man out of each tribe and sent them over into Canaan to spy out the land. We're all acquainted with the story, how they come to--two of them, up to Jericho, and how the harlot had hid the spies and so forth and all, when they went into the land they searched it out to see if they--the promise was right. When they returned back, they brought bunches of grapes that had taken two men to pack one bunch of grapes. I've often thought, if a land with a curse on it would grow that kind of grapes, what will it be when the curse is taken off? What a bunch of grapes it'll be. Oh, my.
I--I--I--I just get a little foretaste of it once in a while. I was preaching here not long ago; I was thinking this morning. I do a lot of slobbering, you know, I guess when I'm preaching, but I've been eating some of them grapes that's been brought back, and it kinda causes me to slobber a little, you know, like a horse eating clover.

L-19 So then when we... When they come back, they brought this great bunch of grapes, and they all gathered before the congregation of the Lord, and they brought a report, "Oh, God has told the truth; the land is flowing with milk and honey. It's a good land; it's a land of seed; it'll grow anything. Oh, it's a wonderful place; we got plenty of water and rivers and irrigations and everything to make a great nation. But oh, the--the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the--all the others are there. Some of them are giants, and we look like little grasshoppers." And when they begin to say that, oh, the strength left the children of Israel. They begin to cry and to scream; they'd left Egypt and come up, all these things, and that had taken place.
But there was two; out of the whole twelve of them there were two that had confidence. Rest of them said, "We can't do it; we just can't go any further; we're... It's impossible for us to meet that kind of people."
But Caleb and Joshua said, "We are more than able to take it." Why was it? The others, the one with the intellectual part, was looking at what the giants looked like. But Caleb and Joshua was looking at the promise that God had given. Now, it all depends on what you're looking at.

L-20 There's people setting here tonight that was in wheelchairs a night or two ago. They're up walking around now. It depends on what you look at. If you look at your affliction, you'll never go any farther. But if you look at the promise of God, you've got a right to every redemptive blessing that God promised in His Word is yours. Right. The Christian always looks at the unseen things. Every redemptive blessing of God is unseen. The... Here's the whole armor of the Christian: love, joy, faith, longsuffering, goodness, meekness, gentleness, patience. It's all unseen forces that works in the heart of a believer. Amen. That's right. We look at things we do not see. If we're the children of Abraham, then we don't walk by sight; we walk by faith. For Abraham walked by faith and called those things which were not as though they were, because God said so.


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