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What seest thou, Sir? Grasshoppers or giants? Art thou using Russian or American bino? |
https://www.facebook.com/sing.f.lau/posts/10201740204322329
March 23, 2014
What
do you see?
Twelve
men were sent to scout out the land promised repeatedly to the nation of
Israel. They saw exactly the same land, but came to vastly different
conclusions! (Num 13:26 - 14:10)
The Majority
report:
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Surely it flows with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.
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BUT the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and
very great.
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We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.
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The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eats up the
inhabitants.
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They saw the inhabitants as giants, and themselves as grasshoppers.
The majority view betrays unbelief, and rebellion against their LORD!
They
would rather return to Egypt, or remain where they are, instead of moving
forward into the blessing the Lord intended for them!
The Minority
report:
a.
Caleb: Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome
it.
b.
Joshua:
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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.
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Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for
they are bread for us.
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Their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.
The Minority
view reflects faith in, and submission to the LORD's will for them!
Joshua's
perspective is LORD-centred, not man-centred:
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"if the LORD delight in us..." that's all that counts and matters!
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"only rebel not ye against the LORD..." that's what it amounts to!
Unbelief is rebellion!
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"and the LORD is with us..." thus we are those giants that shall eat
up the grasshoppers! (they shall be bread for us!)
What
a man perceives is to a very great extent determined by his faith in the LORD,
and His word, or lack of it.
He
who has eyes to see, let him see rightly.
