DAILY TRUTH - Trusting God’s Promises When They Seem Impossible
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Is God capable of fulfilling the promise that was given to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob? Is it possible that God could fulfill the promise to Abraham and Isaac that they were told by the Lord that they would have a son? Is there any doubt in their minds that God is capable of doing so? Or is there doubt in the hearts of the people of Israel that God will fulfill this promise?
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Jesus said, man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of
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God. You're listening to Daily Truth. Joshua is not sending the spies to see whether or not Jericho
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is weak enough for god to actually make good on his promise now rather he's sending the spies to
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see to see what the means will be that god utilizes to bring about his promised end joshua is trusting
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that the end result is that jericho will be conquered but joshua is sending spies into the
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land to detect the practical means by which this will come about what are the particular weak points
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of this city of jericho how are we going to conquer it not if we'll conquer it god has promised that
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we trust his promise but we want to see how it's going to be conquered and so joshua sends these
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spies secretly not secretly in regards to the inhabitants of jericho hence the fact that
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they're spies that's assumed but he's secretly sending them out in regards to the knowledge
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of israel he doesn't want israel to be aware that joshua is sending spies out to detect weak points
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points of vulnerability with their enemies at jericho because he doesn't want that action to
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be interpreted by his own people by the people of israel as distrust in the covenant promises of god
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now the reason you might wonder why is he sending the spies out at all god's going to come through
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with his promise well that's because you know the end of the story all right this is one of the most
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commonly known stories in the whole of scripture all right we before phil visher went woke you
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know he got veggie tales right the people at jericho you know and the walls come down i mean
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every child even children not raised in a christian family are probably aware of the walls of jericho
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crumbling but joshua and israel weren't not at this moment so they're not doubting joshua is
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not doubting whether or not god will fulfill his promise he's asking how this is similar to the
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virgin mary right there are instances where god gave a promise right perhaps he even sent an angel
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and the person did not believe the promise and there was a judgment for their unbelief
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think of zachariah zachariah who is serving as a priest that he goes into the holy of holies to
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perform his priestly duty and it is spoken to him by the lord through a messenger that he's going to
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have a son and that this son is going to pave the way make straight the path level every mountain
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raise every valley for the messiah that he's going to have a son namely john the baptist who would be
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a forerunner of jesus and zachariah questions this in unbelief now listen here's the distinction
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not unbelief in how god could bring this about in terms of what god's means will be in fulfilling
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the promise but zachariah actually doubts god's ability to fulfill the promise at all and so he's
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stricken with muteness he becomes dumb and unable to speak dumb in the proper sense he's unable to
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speak until the birth of the child now mary on the other hand by way of contrast the same kind
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of event happens for her where an angel comes and says blessed are you this is what the lord is
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going to do for you that you will conceive by the holy spirit the spirit will come upon you
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and you will conceive a son and his his name shall be jesus and and she receives this message
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Her response is not, I don't see how God could pull this off in terms of the how referencing.
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I don't know how this is possible, a.k.a. I don't know if God can do it.
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No, her question of how has to do with not is God capable of the end of his promise,
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fulfilling the end of his promise, but her question of how is in regards to
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what particular means will he use to bring about the end of his promise mary is not doubting whether
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or not god can pull it off when she asks how can this be she's literally asking she's not saying
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it cannot be or i don't think it can be she's saying essentially it will be because the lord
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has spoken but i'm a virgin and practically from just a scientific perspective here i'm just
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wondering how that's going to work. Right? That's very different than Zachariah. That's very different
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than other individuals. It's different than Sarah, Abraham's wife, who laughs. She laughs at the
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promise that she would bear a son in her old age. That wasn't, I don't know how God can bring this
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about, but I'm sure he will. That was, I'm doubting whether or not he can bring this about. That's
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the difference and so from the very first verse of our text joshua i do not believe is doubting
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the promise of god in terms of the end result jericho will be conquered the land of canaan
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will be given as a promise to god's people as an inheritance but rather he's sending out these two
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spies because he knows god's going to bring it about but he doesn't know what means by which
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god will bring it about can i be frank with you for just a second right here at the end
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