Pastor Jeremy continues his, It Just Might Be Faith, series on Sunday in Glendive.
James 3:3 Indeed, we put bits in horses’ mouths that
they may obey us, and we turn their whole body. 4 Look
also at ships: although they are so large and are driven
by fierce winds, they are turned by a very small rudder
wherever the pilot desires. 5 Even so the tongue is a
little member and boasts great things.
Prov 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the
tongue, And those who love it will eat its fruit.
Example of Moses - Children of Israel - Caleb
Ex. 3:16 Go and gather the elders of Israel together, and
say to them, ‘The LORD God of your fathers, the God of
Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared to me,
saying, “I have surely visited you and seen what is done
to you in Egypt; 17 and I have said I will bring you up out
of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites
and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and
the Hivites and the Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk
and honey.”
What Doubt Sounds Like
1. Ex 14:11 Then they said to Moses, “Because there
were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to
die in the wilderness? Why have you so dealt with
us, to bring us up out of Egypt? 12 Is this not the
word that we told you in Egypt, saying, ‘Let us
alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it
would have been better for us to serve the
Egyptians than that we should die in the
wilderness.”
2. Ex 15:24 And the people complained against
Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”
3. Ex 16:2 Then the whole congregation of the
children of Israel complained against Moses and
Aaron in the wilderness. 3 And the children of
Israel said to them, “Oh, that we had died by the
hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat
by the pots of meat and when we ate bread to the
full! For you have brought us out into this
wilderness to kill this whole assembly with
hunger.”
4. Ex 17:3 And the people thirsted there for water,
and the people complained against Moses, and
said, “Why is it you have brought us up out of
Egypt, to kill us and our children and our livestock
with thirst?”
5. Num 11:4 Now the mixed multitude who were
among them yielded to intense craving; so the
children of Israel also wept again and said: “Who
will give us meat to eat? 5 We remember the fish
which we ate freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the
melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic; 6 but
now our whole being is dried up; there is nothing
at all except this manna before our eyes!”
6. Num 14:1 So all the congregation lifted up their
voices and cried, and the people wept that night. 2
And all the children of Israel complained against
Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation
said to them, “If only we had died in the land of
Egypt! Or if only we had died in this wilderness!
What Faith Sounds Like
1. Num 13:30 Then Caleb quieted the people before
Moses, and said, “Let us go up at once and take
possession, for we are well able to overcome it.”
2. Num 14:6 But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb
the son of Jephunneh, who were among those who
had spied out the land, tore their clothes; 7 and
they spoke to all the congregation of the children
of Israel, saying: “The land we passed through to
spy out is an exceedingly good land. 8 If the LORD
delights in us, then He will bring us into this land
and give it to us, ‘a land which flows with milk and
honey.’ 9 Only do not rebel against the LORD, nor
fear the people of the land, for they are our bread;
their protection has departed from them, and the
LORD is with us. Do not fear them.”
3. Joshua 14:11 As yet I am as strong this day as on
the day that Moses sent me; just as my strength
was then, so now is my strength for war, both for
going out and for coming in. 12 Now therefore,
give me this mountain of which the LORD spoke in
that day; for you heard in that day how the Anakim
were there, and that the cities were great and
fortified. It may be that the LORD will be with me,
and I shall be able to drive them out as the LORD
said.”
