“20. And Moses said unto them, If ye will do this thing, if ye will go armed before the LORD to war, 21. And will go all of you armed over Jordan before the LORD, until he hath driven out his enemies from before him, 22. And the land be subdued before the LORD: then afterward ye shall return, and be guiltless before the LORD, and before Israel; and this land shall be your possession before the LORD. 23. But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have not sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out.”
The children of Israel have went through their forty years of wandering in the wilderness. They are starting to approach the promise land that was promised to them so many years ago. As they approach the Jordan River, there are two tribes that like the looks of the land(Gad and Rueben) on this side of Jordan. They request of Moses that they can inherit that land and Moses makes it very clear to them; “Look” our generation of the past has caused great depression to the children of Israel because their lack of faith and fear when we first encountered the Jordan forty years ago. Moses tells them yes you can have this land, but you must go to battle and fight with Israel to conquer these wicked nations! Vs 23 sums it up, if you don’t go with us, it will be sin! Gad and Rueben make it very clear to Moses that they will be going to battle and will fight until the last city is conquered! After the cities were conquered Gad and Rueben returned to their land just as they had spoken. God has so many promises for the believer! How much do you trust the Bible today? Before every victory there is always a battle. Whether physically, like in the children of Israel’s lives, or most importantly, spiritually! There is a spiritual battle in the walk of every believer and only by trusting in the Word of God will we ever see God’s promises come to pass. What happens when the spiritual battle arises and we quit? Vs 23 tells us that our sin will find us out.How many people do you walk past everyday and never make one effort to share with them the gospel? You may not be to the point of sharing the gospel with someone, but passing out a gospel tract is very simple. Do you allow fear to keep you from telling others about Christ? Fear keeps gospel tracts in the tract rack at church, or on the counter at home. What good are they there? Even sharing the gospel with someone is not that difficult. Read Acts 9, the Apostle Paul was saved on the road to Damascus! As his life unfolds after salvation you will come to see that so many times Paul preaches to others by using his personal testimony of salvation. If you don’t have a testimony of salvation you really need to get that settled(Please visit our Lost page). If your saved, that means you have a testimony of how you accepted Christ. God has great promises for the believer, but if we don’t follow His simple instruction, we will never see God’s promises come to pass! Mark 16:15 “And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.”
Memory Verse Week 10/30/17
Numbers 23:19
“God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?”
