The NXR Podcast - September 22, 2023


DAILY TRUTH - Facing At Last, What We Feared At First

Hosted by
Joel Webbon Harrison Smith Antonio Griffith Dale Partridge Wewsley Todd Calvin Robinson
Mentioned
Anakim Hannah Jesus Christ Emmanuel Goliath Joshua David
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Length

9 minutes

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Word count

1,190

Sentence count

65

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As an ordinary principle or pattern, God often ordains and allows that we might face last what we feared at first. And yet God would have it if we simply trusted Him that the thing that we feared first is the very thing that He allows us to face at last. Israel's fear of the Anakim is precisely the fear that caused them to refuse to enter the land of Canaan 38 years earlier.

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00:00:27 As an ordinary principle or pattern, God often, in our sanctification, in our spiritual maturing,
00:00:37 God often ordains and allows that we might face last what we feared at first.
00:00:46 We fear this particular giant, this particular dragon, this particular enemy.
00:00:52 and yet God would have it
00:00:55 if we simply trusted him
00:00:58 that the thing that we feared at first
00:01:01 is the very thing that God allows us to face at last
00:01:06 and that God allows us like David
00:01:09 to face lions and bears before Goliath
00:01:12 that God allows us in his mercy
00:01:16 and this is an example of God's mercy
00:01:18 to be progressively sanctified
00:01:21 progressively sanctified growing each day along the way facing one challenge that often in god's
00:01:31 ordinance in his sovereign plant that one particular challenge today is precisely what
00:01:37 prepares us for the challenge tomorrow and this is a kindness of the lord to us i've written in
00:01:45 your notes this, Israel's fear of the Anakim, that is a tribe of great giants. That's right, giants.
00:01:52 It's just giants, guys. A tribe of great giants. Their fear of the Anakim is precisely the fear.
00:02:00 This is the specific fear that caused them to refuse to enter the land of Canaan 38 years 0.93
00:02:05 earlier underneath the leadership of Moses. And yet, when Israel finally did enter into the promised
00:02:13 land, they faced the Anakim last. It was only after God had thoroughly trained them in conquest, 0.98
00:02:23 in war, that he finally caused Israel to wage battle with the Anakim. God is exceedingly gracious 0.82
00:02:30 in the order in which he arranges the battles of our lives. Too often we convince ourselves that
00:02:37 we must fight our biggest giants first
00:02:40 when God would have us fight them last. 0.93
00:02:46 What happens is that Israel, 0.95
00:02:49 after having left Egypt, they wander. 0.95
00:02:51 It's 40 years in total,
00:02:53 but there's a pivotal moment
00:02:55 two years into their wilderness wandering
00:02:58 where they come to the border of the land of Canaan
00:03:02 and at the particular border
00:03:04 where they're at in that moment,
00:03:06 And they send out 12 Israelite spies. 0.70
00:03:11 You remember this account. 0.72
00:03:13 And they go in and they see the Hannah king.
00:03:16 Not just any of the Canaanite tribes,
00:03:18 but particularly this tribe, the Hannah king.
00:03:23 And two of the spies, Israelite spies,
00:03:26 come back and say, we can take them. 0.74
00:03:28 The land is good and the enemy is formidable, 0.98
00:03:33 but we have Yahweh. 0.99
00:03:35 We can take them.
00:03:35 That's Joshua and Caleb. 0.98
00:03:37 But the other 10 Israelite spies, 0.66
00:03:40 they bring back a bad report. 0.97
00:03:41 And it's important that we recognize
00:03:43 that this bad report is not,
00:03:46 the Bible does not say that it is a deceitful
00:03:49 or lying or false report.
00:03:52 It is merely a bad report.
00:03:56 We might illustrate that point by saying that
00:03:59 if you, God forbid, go to the doctor
00:04:02 and he runs certain tests
00:04:05 because he has concerns and you have concerns you haven't been feeling as healthy as you once did
00:04:11 and after performing certain tests the doctor sits you down and he gives you a diagnosis
00:04:18 that you have cancer that would be a bad report it is not necessarily a lying report
00:04:29 but it is bad news.
00:04:33 Bad news does not have to be false news.
00:04:36 Bad news and fake news are not the same.
00:04:41 Not necessarily.
00:04:44 And so these 10 Israelite spies bring back not a false report,
00:04:49 not fake news, but bad news.
00:04:52 A bad report.
00:04:53 Instead of focusing on the goodness of the land
00:04:56 and implicitly trusting in the power of Yahweh
00:05:00 to defeat whatever inhabitants there might be,
00:05:03 they focus on the strength and caliber and might of the enemy. 0.87
00:05:09 And because of that, the Lord determines that Israel, 0.96
00:05:13 because of their unbelief,
00:05:16 their fear is an indictment of their trust in Yahweh.
00:05:21 They are essentially saying Yahweh cannot be trusted.
00:05:24 And this is the very God of Israel who just performed awesome signs and wonders in Egypt,
00:05:30 who literally parted the Red Sea. You think that's enough? All right, there are giants.
00:05:36 Yeah, that's a big deal. That's scary. All right, there's some credence there. Giants,
00:05:41 that's a big deal. But our God just caused us to walk across a sea on dry land.
00:05:49 So I think we can handle giants if the Lord is with us.
00:05:55 But instead, they chose to harden their hearts in unbelief.
00:05:59 And as a consequence, a just consequence and discipline for that unbelief,
00:06:05 Israel's refusal to trust in God who had been with them and faithful thus far,
00:06:10 they were forced to wander in the wilderness for 38 more years.
00:06:16 now let me give you some of these verses but real quick remember the primary point because i'm going
00:06:23 to get into giants but the primary point the primary point is that god is gracious in his
00:06:29 presence i've said this before i'll say it again god is gracious in his presence that he speaks to
00:06:35 us by the illumination of the holy spirit of the holy word of god god speaks to us in his presence
00:06:41 in our time of need. There is grace in every time of need. So God is gracious in at least
00:06:48 two ways. One, he is gracious in his presence, that he speaks to us when we cry out to him for
00:06:55 help, that he comes to us, he consoles us, he comforts us, he is Emmanuel, God with us. So God
00:07:04 is gracious in every time of need through his presence, but also the point that's being made
00:07:10 today is in his providence. God's grace in his presence and in his providence. In his presence,
00:07:18 that is that the Lord is near to us, near to the one who cries out to him for help. But also God
00:07:25 is gracious not only in his presence, in his nearness, in his imminence, but God is gracious
00:07:30 in his providence. That God is gracious in the way that he orchestrates and ordains the challenges
00:07:37 that each of us face progressively,
00:07:41 increasingly, gradually
00:07:43 in this lifelong process of sanctification. 0.83
00:07:47 And so it was with Israel. 0.91
00:07:49 God would have Israel face at last
00:07:52 what they feared at first.
00:07:56 That their first fear
00:07:57 is they had a king, giants.
00:08:02 And yet in terms of the progressive conquest of Canaan,
00:08:05 their last enemy,
00:08:07 their last adversary that they actually have to engage
00:08:10 is the henna king, the giants,
00:08:13 only after progressively and gradually being trained
00:08:17 by the Lord in war
00:08:19 for at least months, if not perhaps longer.
00:08:26 This is the kindness and grace of God,
00:08:29 both in his presence, he is near to us,
00:08:32 he speaks to us, and in his providence.
00:08:37 We'll be right back.