Tabor Baptist Church

Introduction

• Have you ever doubted God and His promises?
  • Example – Ps 39
  • We can trust God
• In Numbers – we see:
  • A small number of people who trust God
  • A very large group of people that do no trust God
• Trust
  • Example
  • Sometimes we come to God as though He is not there
    • Do we really trust Him?
    • Are you looking at your circumstances rather than looking at Almighty God?
    • God leads us through good and bad
• Numbers:
  • It is the promised land
  • However a whole generation doubted
• We will see three sets of people

Faith’s Clear Voice

• God had made a covenant with Abraham
  • The children of Israel should have remembered God’s promise
• Joshua
  • 14:8 – God delights in His people
  • Ex 3:8 – God had promised
• Example of John Bunyon
• God is trustworthy
• Listen carefully to God’s voice – God’s clear voice
• God keeps His promises – examples

Fears Rebellious Grip

• The people of Israel rebel – they made excuses
  • Example of ‘little man of faith’
  • Do your part
  • God will do His part – He is bigger and well able
• The people wanted to go back to the slavery of Egypt
  • Do not go back to sin
  • God saves completely from sin
  • Christ Jesus saves sinners
• Go forward with the Saviour Jesus Christ … who is the Good Shepherd

God’s Holy Response

• How does God respond to doubt and these two men?
  • The two men will go into the promised land
  • Those who doubt – "Now the glory of the Lord appeared in the tabernacle of meeting before all the children of Israel"
    • They were going to stone Moses, Aaron, Joshua and Caleb
    • But God came near
      • Did the people remember all of God’s deliverances – examples
      • Do not look at Calvary and doubt God’s power
    • The Israelites were looking at themselves and not God
  • Examples of doubt (from the apostles) – Jesus calming the storm, Peter walking on the water
  • Do we need to be rescued from doubt?
    • We have an anchor for our soul
    • Look heavenward
  • Are you like Joshua and Caleb or full of fear?
• God has shown us these things – do we believe?
• Start, continue and end with Jesus the Saviour

Closing Remarks