<TITLE>08. Par 23-25</TITLE>L-23 Now, remember. Nobody had ever been in this land in their group. They'd heard of it. Faith cometh by hearing, and God made the promise. You get it? God made the promise, and here come Moses, the runaway prophet, in there with vindicated signs, and proving that it was God taking them to this land that they'd never seen. What a perfect type of today. None of us has ever been over. Notice. When they come to Kadesh-barnea, the judgment seat, they had a great warrior among them named Joshua, which means Jehovah-Saviour, Joshua. Now, he crossed over Jordan into that promised land, and returned back with the evidence that it was a good land. He had grapes, two men packed a bunch. They could taste the heavenly things from over in the promised land, the good land flowing with milk and honey. They come back to prove that the land was truth, that God's Word was exactly what Moses had said it was through the inspiration of God. It was there.

L-24 They could have their own homes. The occupants... 'Course, they had to fight every inch of the road they took. God told Joshua in Joshua 1, that "everywhere the soles of your feet sets, that's possession." That's the way it is today. Everywhere the soles of our feet sets, it's possession. Just keep walking. Footprints means possession. Just take it.
Now, remember, they had to fight every inch of the way. Some people can just take the two-handed sword and fight just a little bit of shadow away. Some can cut through to Divine healing, every promise of God with it. That's right. The Word is a Sword, and takes faith to yield that sword (That's right.), faith in the promised Word.
Now, we notice that when... They come back, and they said they could have their homes and so forth. Israel crossed over into the promised land, built homes, raised their children, lived in peace. All the rest of the nations respected them. What a wonderful thing. But finally, up on the hillside... become dotted with graves. They got old, died, buried.

L-25 Then one day came another great Warrior, the greatest of all of them--Immanuel. He come down, and He said, "This is not the land. But in My Father's house is many mansions. If it wasn't so I would've told you. And I'll go and prepare a place for you, and return again to receive you unto Myself." Notice. He came to His Kadesh-barnea, Calvary, where He stood the sin-judgment for all of us. The penalty of God's judgment was met in justice when Christ died at Calvary, paying the price of sin for all of us. And He crossed over in a Jordan, as we know it, the Jordan of death, over into the land, and returned back on the third day, like Joshua did, bringing the evidence that after a man dies he can live again. There's life beyond death. He proved it.
And now... He said, "For the earnest of this, the down... (You know what the earnest of anything is--the down payment), go up there to the city of Jerusalem and wait. I'm going to send you the earnest of your salvation." Amen. Now, I begin to feel religious. And they waited until they received the earnest.


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