What Seems Right or What God Says? This message presents the opening chapters of Numbers as God's careful preparation of a redeemed people to move from Sinai toward His promised land. Israel had been out of Egypt only a little over a year when God numbered the fighting men, arranged the tribes around the tabernacle, assigned the Levites their responsibilities, required purity within the camp, called His people to consecration, and placed His blessing upon them. Everything centered around one great reality: God was dwelling in their midst. Their strength was not in their numbers, organization, or military ability, but in the presence, provision, Word, and promises of the Lord. The message then looks ahead to Kadesh Barnea, where the preparation of Numbers 1–10 is tested by the report of the twelve spies. All twelve saw the same fruitful land, fortified cities, powerful enemies, and giants, but they interpreted what they saw differently. Ten allowed circumstances to interpret God's promise, while Joshua and Caleb allowed God's promise to interpret their circumstances. This becomes the central contrast between Proverbs 14:12—the way that seems right to a man—and Proverbs 3:5–6—trusting the Lord rather than leaning on our own understanding. Faith does not deny difficulties; it simply refuses to give difficulties more authority than what God has said. Israel's unbelief ultimately became disobedience. Though God had delivered, fed, protected, instructed, and led them, they refused to trust Him at the threshold of the promise. Their forty days of spying became forty years of wilderness judgment, and the numbered generation died without entering the land. The tragedy was not t

When the Jewish people see the Lord Jesus Christ as their messiah is when the world is going to see a great change.

The death of the Lord Jesus Christ was an example of true humility as the King of the Jews was brought very low.

He Brought Them Out… …To Bring Them In Has He… "He Brought You Out — to Bring You In" This message walks through the first five books of Moses to show the unfolding purpose of God: Genesis reveals His promises, Exodus His deliverance, Leviticus His holiness, Numbers the necessity of trusting Him in the wilderness, and Deuteronomy the call to remember and obey Him as His people enter the promise. In Numbers, Israel had been delivered from Egypt, organized around the tabernacle, and prepared to move toward Canaan. Yet when they reached Kadesh Barnea, ten spies trusted what they could see more than what God had said. Their unbelief turned an eleven-day journey into decades of wandering. Using Proverbs 16:3-4, Proverbs 14:12, and Proverbs 3:5–6, the message warns that what seems right to us can lead us away from what God says is right. Faith does not deny the giants, walls, or difficulties; it simply refuses to make them greater than God. Joshua and Caleb saw the same obstacles as everyone else, but they trusted the Lord who had already promised to fight for them. Exodus 6 provides the heart of the message through four great purposes of God: He delivers His people, gathers them around Himself, makes Himself known to them, and brings them into His promised rest. Israel's physical deliverance from Egypt also warns us that being among God's people is not the same as personally knowing Him. No one can borrow another person's faith. Every individual must personally surrender to Jesus, trust His finished work, and be born again. The message closes by showing that God's purpose has not changed. In Jesus, He brings us out of bondage to bring us into life, fellowship, obedienc

The Lord Jesus Christ has our appointment schedule prepared for each day and what we consider interruptions He considers special divine appointments.

Many people become discouraged and disillusioned in their faith when they don't have their prayers answered and things don't happen in their time, but the Lord Jesus Christ causes things to happen in His time.

The world around us is in a sense of hopelessness today, yet when a sinner repents and turns to the Lord Jesus Christ Jesus he becomes full of hope for the present time and for the future.

Martyrs Memorial.