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All right, we are in the book of Numbers. And we're going to finish up chapter 13. And, and then and then Lord willing start chapter 14. But we kind of passed over a portion in Numbers chapter 13 that I wanted to go back to and talk about a little bit. And there's a very strange piece of scripture in here that goes back to another strange piece of scripture in Genesis and I just wanted to talk about it and go over it. If If anybody's interested in in my notes, I have all my notes here. I can airdrop it to you or texted to you or email it to you, if you're so if you're so inclined to take them but if you turn with me in Numbers, chapter 13 verse 33, and remember, the 12 spies were sent out to spy out the land. And one of the things that we talked about was, that wasn't God's plan. That was the people's plan. God said go in and inhabit the land, right? Go take the land. It was the people that said, Well, we should probably send some spies in there first to see what we're dealing with. And that's a bad idea. Because it's like Peter, when he said to Jesus, when Jesus came walking out to the disciples on the water, and they're in the boat, and Peter said, Lord, if it's really you, then call me to come to you and to walk on the water. And Jesus said, Come on out. And Peter cut out sort of walking on the water to Jesus. But then he stopped to think about the fact that he was walking on water. And it's impossible. And it says that he looked around and he saw the waves in the storm and the scene you started to see the circumstances and he started to realize to himself, this is impossible. This is an impossible ridiculous situation. I can't be doing that. It's like well dummy, you are doing That, because why? Because Jesus said, whatever Jesus says, I want you to do this, he then gives you the ability to do these things, right? That's the whole purpose of the Holy Spirit. When Jesus said, you'll be endowed with power from on high, the Greek word there is due to miss, which is where we get our word dynamite from what the word literally means the ability to do, the ability to do the ability to do what live this Christian life, that's just as well beyond you as walking on water, right to walk in his steps to be like Jesus. And yet when God calls us to do something, we have but to will to obey. Pastor Chuck Smith preached an awesome message one of my all time favorites are Pastor Chuck, about when Jesus healed the man with the withered hand. And when Jesus spoke to the man and he said, I want you to stretch out your hand all of the power and all of the ability that was necessary for that man to reach out his hand was there to stretch out his hand was there the man simply had To will to obey, he had to will to obey the commandment of God. If God commands you, then he's going to give the ability to you to do the thing that he's commanded you to do. And so when God said, I want you to go in and inhabit the land, there wasn't supposed to be any spies. Well, let's go. Let's see what we're dealing with. So of course, they send in the 12 spies, and as you guys know, they come back and 10 of the spies bring a bad report, only Joshua and Caleb, bring a good report. And their entire good report, they don't question and they don't deny. And they don't say that any of the parts of the bad reporter wrong or false or a lie. They don't deny any of the difficulty. They don't deny any of the seemingly impossible tasks that lay before the children of Israel...