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Committed to God's Sovereignty
Pastor Scott
Saturday, July 10, 2004
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"If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey."
(Numbers 14:8)
"If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land...." (Num. 14:8). The rest is the ability to absolutely commit yourself to the sovereignty of God: You don't know what God will do, but you know it will be right, just, good and eternal. Abraham said, "It will not be said that any man has made Abraham rich." Moses said, "Lord, I don't want You to send Your angel before us to prosper us and give us the land. If Your presence doesn't go, I'm not going." If you really believe that, you will be at rest. I don't want that house, that mate, or those resources if God is not the source. Any man can get rich, but it will be with sorrow if God is not the author of it. "Beware," the Lord said, "when I take you into the land; don't think that you have obtained this with your own strength and ability and forget Me." Where are you today in laboring to enter into the rest? What is the rest? God is the source--total dependence on Him.
"If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us;...Only rebel not ye against the LORD...." (Num. 14:8-9). Don't fear the circumstances. There is no weapon formed against us that will prosper. If God is for us who can be against us? "[Don't fear] the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not" (14:9). Are you afraid of failure? Are you afraid of the devil? Are you afraid of the diseases going around? Are you afraid of the terrorists? What are you afraid of if God is for you? Your life is not a life of fate and chance, but your paths are ordered by the Creator of heaven and earth, the Giver of every good and perfect gift. Have you labored to enter into that rest? Have you ceased from your own labors?
Listen to the prayer that Elijah prayed on Mount Carmel, "Lord, let it be known that You are God." We are making decisions to walk differently from the world, to let it be known that He is God in our midst. We don't have to do it their way. We are not serving their gods nor using their methods. If you want to know the supernatural of fire coming out of heaven or the supernatural of preservation like the children of Israel, then put yourself up against the world and say, "Lord, that it might be known that You are God. I'm looking to You totally as my source." Are you ready to enter into that rest, to absolutely be motivated by a jealousy for the glory of God? It is not so I will receive things, but that God would be seen as the source.
"As truly as I live, saith the LORD,...Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; [everyone] twenty years old and upward [are going to die.] Doubtless ye shall not come into the land...But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised" (Num. 14:28-31). We know what it takes to walk in the spirit. We know what brings glory to God. Let's not despise it by failing to partake of this life in the supernatural. When was the last time you did it in the Spirit? When was the last time you wholly trusted God? Caleb had another spirit in him, "[for he has] followed me fully" (14:24). Labor, for there is a rest for the people of God.