Introduction
Numbers 22:1-6 – Balak was scared of the people of Israel.Numbers 26:51Numbers 22:7-14 – The story should have ended here!Numbers 22:19 – Balaam asked God again because he wanted the money!Sometimes we just want to sin
II Peter 2:15-16Jude 1:11Numbers 22:20-22 – God did not want Balaam to go, but since he was determined to sin, God allowed him to go.I John 2:15We need to see our sin the way God does.Israel destroyed themselves from the inside
Numbers 23:7-12, 18-27; 24:9-11Numbers 25:1-5Numbers 31:7-8, 15-16 – Balaam was killed. He didn’t curse Israel, but he taught Balak how to cause Israel to sin.Revelation 2:14Could Benchley destroy itself from within some day?Acts 20:17, 28-31Ephesians 1:15; 6:23; I Timothy 1:3, 19; II Timothy 2:17; Revelation 2:1-7 – Ephesus had left their first love!This could happen to us!God is faithful
Numbers 23:27Numbers 22:31Deuteronomy 23:3 – God had been protecting Israel even though they didn’t know it.Micah 6:1-5 – God had been faithful to Israel the entire time!I John 5:14Romans 8:35