How does one compromise the Word of God? How is faith displayed in this action? Where is fear? How does God view fear and worry and doubt and unbelief?
Let's look first at what God said....
AND THE Lord said to Moses, Send men to explore and scout out [for yourselves] the land of Canaan, which I give to the Israelites. From each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, every one a leader or head among them.
Numbers 13:1-2 AMPC
http://bible.com/8/num.13.1-2.AMPC
Here's the report that the spies brought back...
So they brought the Israelites an evil report of the land which they had scouted out, saying, The land through which we went to spy it out is a land that devours its inhabitants. And all the people that we saw in it are men of great stature.
Numbers 13:32 AMPC
http://bible.com/8/num.13.32.AMPC
Let's take a gander at what happened to the Israelite when they did not act upon God's Word and grumbled against Him.....
And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, How long will this evil congregation murmur against Me? I have heard the complaints the Israelites murmur against Me. Tell them, As I live, says the Lord, what you have said in My hearing I will do to you: Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness–of all who were numbered of you, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against Me, [Heb. 3:17-19.] Surely none shall come into the land in which I swore to make you dwell, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun. But your little ones whom you said would be a prey, them will I bring in and they shall know the land which you have despised and rejected. But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness. And your children shall be wanderers and shepherds in the wilderness for forty years and shall suffer for your whoredoms (your infidelity to your espoused God), until your corpses are consumed in the wilderness. After the number of the days in which you spied out the land [of Canaan], even forty days, for each day a year shall you bear and suffer for your iniquities, even for forty years, and you shall know My displeasure [the revoking of My promise and My estrangement]. I the Lord have spoken; surely this will I do to all this evil congregation who is gathered together against Me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed [by war, disease, plagues], and here they shall die. [I Cor. 10:10, 11.] And the men whom Moses sent to search the land, who returned and made all the congregation grumble and complain against him by bringing back a slanderous report of the land, Even those men who brought the evil report of the land died by a plague before the Lord. [Heb. 3:17-19; Jude 5-7.] But Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among the men who went to search the land, lived still.
Numbers 14:26-38 AMPC
http://bible.com/8/num.14.26-38.AMPC
Notice that the two who believed in the Lord and His ability to keep His Word and give them the land He promised was theirs....we're accepted by the Lord and no harm came to them. Yes they had to endure the 40 years of wandering in the desert...but they also were able to enter the promised land where the other 10 died.
Sooooo, how does this apply to today's time? Even though God has given us grace....He still expects us to obey His ways and live by every Word that comes forth from His mouth. ....those precious Holy Words that He by His Holy Spirit has brought forth and wrote in a book so that you and I could read them and pattern our life after them. Words so precious and anointed....many people died to protect them.
So what say you? Are you willing to forsake your flesh and natural desires and live by His Words and ways? Making His word final authority? Putting your faith in Him, His Word and His ways?
Blsssings
Let's look first at what God said....
AND THE Lord said to Moses, Send men to explore and scout out [for yourselves] the land of Canaan, which I give to the Israelites. From each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, every one a leader or head among them.
Numbers 13:1-2 AMPC
http://bible.com/8/num.13.1-2.AMPC
Here's the report that the spies brought back...
So they brought the Israelites an evil report of the land which they had scouted out, saying, The land through which we went to spy it out is a land that devours its inhabitants. And all the people that we saw in it are men of great stature.
Numbers 13:32 AMPC
http://bible.com/8/num.13.32.AMPC
Let's take a gander at what happened to the Israelite when they did not act upon God's Word and grumbled against Him.....
And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, How long will this evil congregation murmur against Me? I have heard the complaints the Israelites murmur against Me. Tell them, As I live, says the Lord, what you have said in My hearing I will do to you: Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness–of all who were numbered of you, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against Me, [Heb. 3:17-19.] Surely none shall come into the land in which I swore to make you dwell, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun. But your little ones whom you said would be a prey, them will I bring in and they shall know the land which you have despised and rejected. But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness. And your children shall be wanderers and shepherds in the wilderness for forty years and shall suffer for your whoredoms (your infidelity to your espoused God), until your corpses are consumed in the wilderness. After the number of the days in which you spied out the land [of Canaan], even forty days, for each day a year shall you bear and suffer for your iniquities, even for forty years, and you shall know My displeasure [the revoking of My promise and My estrangement]. I the Lord have spoken; surely this will I do to all this evil congregation who is gathered together against Me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed [by war, disease, plagues], and here they shall die. [I Cor. 10:10, 11.] And the men whom Moses sent to search the land, who returned and made all the congregation grumble and complain against him by bringing back a slanderous report of the land, Even those men who brought the evil report of the land died by a plague before the Lord. [Heb. 3:17-19; Jude 5-7.] But Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among the men who went to search the land, lived still.
Numbers 14:26-38 AMPC
http://bible.com/8/num.14.26-38.AMPC
Notice that the two who believed in the Lord and His ability to keep His Word and give them the land He promised was theirs....we're accepted by the Lord and no harm came to them. Yes they had to endure the 40 years of wandering in the desert...but they also were able to enter the promised land where the other 10 died.
Sooooo, how does this apply to today's time? Even though God has given us grace....He still expects us to obey His ways and live by every Word that comes forth from His mouth. ....those precious Holy Words that He by His Holy Spirit has brought forth and wrote in a book so that you and I could read them and pattern our life after them. Words so precious and anointed....many people died to protect them.
So what say you? Are you willing to forsake your flesh and natural desires and live by His Words and ways? Making His word final authority? Putting your faith in Him, His Word and His ways?
Blsssings