The NXR Podcast - September 22, 2023


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


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9 minutes

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130.48

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1,190

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63

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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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00:00:27.500 As an ordinary principle or pattern, God often, in our sanctification, in our spiritual maturing,
00:00:37.100 God often ordains and allows that we might face last what we feared at first.
00:00:46.420 We fear this particular giant, this particular dragon, this particular enemy.
00:00:52.500 and yet God would have it
00:00:55.840 if we simply trusted him
00:00:58.440 that the thing that we feared at first
00:01:01.500 is the very thing that God allows us to face at last
00:01:06.640 and that God allows us like David
00:01:09.860 to face lions and bears before Goliath
00:01:12.920 that God allows us in his mercy
00:01:16.200 and this is an example of God's mercy
00:01:18.400 to be progressively sanctified
00:01:21.220 progressively sanctified growing each day along the way facing one challenge that often in god's
00:01:31.220 ordinance in his sovereign plant that one particular challenge today is precisely what
00:01:37.640 prepares us for the challenge tomorrow and this is a kindness of the lord to us i've written in
00:01:45.860 your notes this, Israel's fear of the Anakim, that is a tribe of great giants. That's right, giants.
00:01:52.940 It's just giants, guys. A tribe of great giants. Their fear of the Anakim is precisely the fear.
00:02:00.520 This is the specific fear that caused them to refuse to enter the land of Canaan 38 years 0.93
00:02:05.500 earlier underneath the leadership of Moses. And yet, when Israel finally did enter into the promised
00:02:13.280 land, they faced the Anakim last. It was only after God had thoroughly trained them in conquest, 0.98
00:02:23.500 in war, that he finally caused Israel to wage battle with the Anakim. God is exceedingly gracious 0.82
00:02:30.940 in the order in which he arranges the battles of our lives. Too often we convince ourselves that
00:02:37.860 we must fight our biggest giants first
00:02:40.560 when God would have us fight them last. 0.93
00:02:46.260 What happens is that Israel, 0.95
00:02:49.160 after having left Egypt, they wander. 0.95
00:02:51.560 It's 40 years in total,
00:02:53.160 but there's a pivotal moment
00:02:55.940 two years into their wilderness wandering
00:02:58.420 where they come to the border of the land of Canaan
00:03:02.800 and at the particular border
00:03:04.380 where they're at in that moment,
00:03:06.960 And they send out 12 Israelite spies. 0.70
00:03:11.100 You remember this account. 0.72
00:03:13.040 And they go in and they see the Hannah king.
00:03:16.800 Not just any of the Canaanite tribes,
00:03:18.960 but particularly this tribe, the Hannah king.
00:03:23.400 And two of the spies, Israelite spies,
00:03:26.000 come back and say, we can take them. 0.74
00:03:28.400 The land is good and the enemy is formidable, 0.98
00:03:33.520 but we have Yahweh. 0.99
00:03:35.060 We can take them.
00:03:35.740 That's Joshua and Caleb. 0.98
00:03:37.980 But the other 10 Israelite spies, 0.66
00:03:40.080 they bring back a bad report. 0.97
00:03:41.820 And it's important that we recognize
00:03:43.300 that this bad report is not,
00:03:46.400 the Bible does not say that it is a deceitful
00:03:49.120 or lying or false report.
00:03:52.940 It is merely a bad report.
00:03:56.380 We might illustrate that point by saying that
00:03:59.660 if you, God forbid, go to the doctor
00:04:02.580 and he runs certain tests
00:04:05.020 because he has concerns and you have concerns you haven't been feeling as healthy as you once did
00:04:11.200 and after performing certain tests the doctor sits you down and he gives you a diagnosis
00:04:18.820 that you have cancer that would be a bad report it is not necessarily a lying report
00:04:29.940 but it is bad news.
00:04:33.240 Bad news does not have to be false news.
00:04:36.800 Bad news and fake news are not the same.
00:04:41.020 Not necessarily.
00:04:44.020 And so these 10 Israelite spies bring back not a false report,
00:04:49.520 not fake news, but bad news.
00:04:52.260 A bad report.
00:04:53.860 Instead of focusing on the goodness of the land
00:04:56.680 and implicitly trusting in the power of Yahweh
00:05:00.360 to defeat whatever inhabitants there might be,
00:05:03.140 they focus on the strength and caliber and might of the enemy. 0.87
00:05:09.740 And because of that, the Lord determines that Israel, 0.96
00:05:13.960 because of their unbelief,
00:05:16.780 their fear is an indictment of their trust in Yahweh.
00:05:21.760 They are essentially saying Yahweh cannot be trusted.
00:05:24.700 And this is the very God of Israel who just performed awesome signs and wonders in Egypt,
00:05:30.480 who literally parted the Red Sea. You think that's enough? All right, there are giants.
00:05:36.960 Yeah, that's a big deal. That's scary. All right, there's some credence there. Giants,
00:05:41.240 that's a big deal. But our God just caused us to walk across a sea on dry land.
00:05:49.920 So I think we can handle giants if the Lord is with us.
00:05:55.040 But instead, they chose to harden their hearts in unbelief.
00:05:59.360 And as a consequence, a just consequence and discipline for that unbelief,
00:06:05.840 Israel's refusal to trust in God who had been with them and faithful thus far,
00:06:10.780 they were forced to wander in the wilderness for 38 more years.
00:06:16.360 now let me give you some of these verses but real quick remember the primary point because i'm going
00:06:23.560 to get into giants but the primary point the primary point is that god is gracious in his
00:06:29.440 presence i've said this before i'll say it again god is gracious in his presence that he speaks to
00:06:35.220 us by the illumination of the holy spirit of the holy word of god god speaks to us in his presence
00:06:41.900 in our time of need. There is grace in every time of need. So God is gracious in at least
00:06:48.680 two ways. One, he is gracious in his presence, that he speaks to us when we cry out to him for
00:06:55.900 help, that he comes to us, he consoles us, he comforts us, he is Emmanuel, God with us. So God
00:07:04.280 is gracious in every time of need through his presence, but also the point that's being made
00:07:10.220 today is in his providence. God's grace in his presence and in his providence. In his presence,
00:07:18.540 that is that the Lord is near to us, near to the one who cries out to him for help. But also God
00:07:25.800 is gracious not only in his presence, in his nearness, in his imminence, but God is gracious
00:07:30.600 in his providence. That God is gracious in the way that he orchestrates and ordains the challenges
00:07:37.780 that each of us face progressively,
00:07:41.800 increasingly, gradually
00:07:43.880 in this lifelong process of sanctification. 0.83
00:07:47.340 And so it was with Israel. 0.91
00:07:49.120 God would have Israel face at last
00:07:52.640 what they feared at first.
00:07:56.120 That their first fear
00:07:57.700 is they had a king, giants.
00:08:02.240 And yet in terms of the progressive conquest of Canaan,
00:08:05.400 their last enemy,
00:08:07.220 their last adversary that they actually have to engage
00:08:10.780 is the henna king, the giants,
00:08:13.440 only after progressively and gradually being trained
00:08:17.220 by the Lord in war
00:08:19.500 for at least months, if not perhaps longer.
00:08:26.640 This is the kindness and grace of God,
00:08:29.960 both in his presence, he is near to us,
00:08:32.800 he speaks to us, and in his providence.
00:08:37.220 We'll be right back.