The NXR Podcast - DAILY TRUTH - Trusting God’s Promises When They Seem Impossible

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00:00:42.320 Jesus said, man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of

00:00:47.420 God. You're listening to Daily Truth. Joshua is not sending the spies to see whether or not Jericho

00:00:57.160 is weak enough for god to actually make good on his promise now rather he's sending the spies to

00:01:04.140 see to see what the means will be that god utilizes to bring about his promised end joshua is trusting 0.72

00:01:12.640 that the end result is that jericho will be conquered but joshua is sending spies into the

00:01:18.660 land to detect the practical means by which this will come about what are the particular weak points

00:01:25.280 of this city of jericho how are we going to conquer it not if we'll conquer it god has promised that

00:01:32.080 we trust his promise but we want to see how it's going to be conquered and so joshua sends these

00:01:37.820 spies secretly not secretly in regards to the inhabitants of jericho hence the fact that

00:01:44.680 they're spies that's assumed but he's secretly sending them out in regards to the knowledge

00:01:50.780 of israel he doesn't want israel to be aware that joshua is sending spies out to detect weak points

00:01:58.760 points of vulnerability with their enemies at jericho because he doesn't want that action to

00:02:05.300 be interpreted by his own people by the people of israel as distrust in the covenant promises of god

00:02:12.940 now the reason you might wonder why is he sending the spies out at all god's going to come through

00:02:19.260 with his promise well that's because you know the end of the story all right this is one of the most

00:02:24.760 commonly known stories in the whole of scripture all right we before phil visher went woke you

00:02:30.880 know he got veggie tales right the people at jericho you know and the walls come down i mean

00:02:35.880 every child even children not raised in a christian family are probably aware of the walls of jericho

00:02:43.220 crumbling but joshua and israel weren't not at this moment so they're not doubting joshua is

00:02:50.520 not doubting whether or not god will fulfill his promise he's asking how this is similar to the

00:02:56.620 virgin mary right there are instances where god gave a promise right perhaps he even sent an angel

00:03:03.120 and the person did not believe the promise and there was a judgment for their unbelief

00:03:10.240 think of zachariah zachariah who is serving as a priest that he goes into the holy of holies to

00:03:18.340 perform his priestly duty and it is spoken to him by the lord through a messenger that he's going to

00:03:26.580 have a son and that this son is going to pave the way make straight the path level every mountain

00:03:33.620 raise every valley for the messiah that he's going to have a son namely john the baptist who would be

00:03:39.520 a forerunner of jesus and zachariah questions this in unbelief now listen here's the distinction

00:03:46.660 not unbelief in how god could bring this about in terms of what god's means will be in fulfilling

00:03:53.920 the promise but zachariah actually doubts god's ability to fulfill the promise at all and so he's

00:04:02.400 stricken with muteness he becomes dumb and unable to speak dumb in the proper sense he's unable to

00:04:09.500 speak until the birth of the child now mary on the other hand by way of contrast the same kind 0.93

00:04:17.780 of event happens for her where an angel comes and says blessed are you this is what the lord is

00:04:24.240 going to do for you that you will conceive by the holy spirit the spirit will come upon you

00:04:29.740 and you will conceive a son and his his name shall be jesus and and she receives this message

00:04:37.040 Her response is not, I don't see how God could pull this off in terms of the how referencing.

00:04:46.160 I don't know how this is possible, a.k.a. I don't know if God can do it.

00:04:51.660 No, her question of how has to do with not is God capable of the end of his promise,

00:04:58.380 fulfilling the end of his promise, but her question of how is in regards to

00:05:02.720 what particular means will he use to bring about the end of his promise mary is not doubting whether

00:05:09.780 or not god can pull it off when she asks how can this be she's literally asking she's not saying

00:05:15.180 it cannot be or i don't think it can be she's saying essentially it will be because the lord

00:05:21.420 has spoken but i'm a virgin and practically from just a scientific perspective here i'm just

00:05:29.660 wondering how that's going to work. Right? That's very different than Zachariah. That's very different

00:05:36.780 than other individuals. It's different than Sarah, Abraham's wife, who laughs. She laughs at the

00:05:44.680 promise that she would bear a son in her old age. That wasn't, I don't know how God can bring this

00:05:51.980 about, but I'm sure he will. That was, I'm doubting whether or not he can bring this about. That's

00:05:58.200 the difference and so from the very first verse of our text joshua i do not believe is doubting

00:06:04.300 the promise of god in terms of the end result jericho will be conquered the land of canaan

00:06:10.800 will be given as a promise to god's people as an inheritance but rather he's sending out these two

00:06:17.680 spies because he knows god's going to bring it about but he doesn't know what means by which

00:06:23.380 god will bring it about can i be frank with you for just a second right here at the end

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The NXR Podcast - May 11, 2023

DAILY TRUTH - Trusting God’s Promises When They Seem Impossible

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