What Got You Here Won’t Get You There – Part 1

WHAT GOT YOU HERE, WON’T GET YOU THERE!

Part 1

Numbers 13:1-3, 23, 25-33 – ¹The Lord now said to Moses, ² “Send out men to explore the land of Canaan, the land I am giving to the Israelites. Send one leader from each of the twelve ancestral tribes.” ³ So Moses did as the Lord commanded him. He sent out twelve men, all tribal leaders of Israel, from their camp in the wilderness of Paran

²³ When they came to the valley of Eshcol, they cut down a branch with a single cluster of grapes so large that it took two of them to carry it on a pole between them! They also brought back samples of the pomegranates and figs.

²⁵ After exploring the land for forty days, the men returned ²⁶ to Moses, Aaron, and the whole community of Israel at Kadesh in the wilderness of Paran. They reported to the whole community what they had seen and showed them the fruit they had taken from the land. ²⁷ This was their report to Moses: “We entered the land you sent us to explore, and it is indeed a bountiful country—a land flowing with milk and honey. Here is the kind of fruit it produces. ²⁸ But the people living there are powerful, and their towns are large and fortified. We even saw giants there, the descendants of Anak!  ²⁹ The Amalekites live in the Negev, and the Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites live in the hill country. The Canaanites live along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea and along the Jordan Valley.”

³⁰ But Caleb tried to quiet the people as they stood before Moses. “Let’s go at once to take the land,” he said. “We can certainly conquer it!”

³¹ But the other men who had explored the land with him disagreed. “We can’t go up against them! They are stronger than we are!” ³² So they spread this bad report about the land among the Israelites: “The land we traveled through and explored will devour anyone who goes to live there. All the people we saw were huge. ³³ We even saw giants there, the descendants of Anak. Next to them we felt like grasshoppers, and that’s what they thought, too!”

WHAT YOU SEE IS INFLUENCED BY WHAT

• ^{v. 32} So they spread this bad report about the land among the Israelites….
• ^{v. 30}…“Let’s go at once to take the land,” he said. “We can certainly conquer it!”
• My Determines The .
• Proverbs 18:21 – Death and life are in the power of the tongue.
• Don’t Let Fear Cause You To

WHAT YOU SEE IS INFLUENCED BY WHO

• Recognize The Source Of The Self-Defeating Thoughts.
• Psalm 34 – Oh magnify the Lord with me and let us exalt his name together.
• If you focus on the obstacles, you’ll miss the blessings.

WHAT YOU SEE IS INFLUENCED BY HOW YOU FEEL

• ^{v. 33} … Next to them we felt like grasshoppers.
• The Easy Way Out Is Not What You Think It Is.
• If You’re Scared By The Weight Of The Work, Then You’ll Forfeit The Volume Of The Harvest