Conquering Canaan: We Are Going To Have To Fight

Conquering Canaan: We are Going to Have to Fight

Num 33:50-53

50 And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,

51 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan;

52 Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:

53 And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it.

(KJV)

Our text this morning takes place in the plains of Moab and the Israelites have been wondering in the wilderness for 40 years and they are now receiving instruction on how they are to take the land: how they are to CONQUER CANAAN. And this is what I want to talk to you about this morning.

Sometime around 600 years prior to our text God spoke to Abraham...

Gen 12:7

7 And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.

(KJV)

And so we find this being fulfilled here this morning. Although, they have not yet gone over into Canaan just yet. They are here receiving instruction on what to do.

We as a church, as the people of God, have been given a promise. We have a land awaiting us in which we have yet to inherit. It is already ours but for us to receive it, we like the Israelites need some instruction.

The land I am talking about this morning is not the blessed promised land of heaven but the promise of God building a church with this group of people here.

We, like the Israelites have done our share of wandering and have had our times of discouragement, but as time goes on, I find that it is time TO MOVE TOWARD CANAAN, and then we must CONQUER CANAAN.

In order to do so we must realize that it is not going to be

pie in the ski or smooth sailing.

It is going to be a road that will lead to many battles, battles that many are facing today.

The Israelites didn’t have the land just handed over to them

and we aren’t going to have the land just handed over to us.

The Israelites had to fight many battles

We are going to fight many battles

The Israelites fought with sword and shield

We will fight with shields of faith and the sword of the Spirit

The Israelites fought flesh against flesh

But the battles we fight we cannot fight in the flesh

The Israelites won because they obeyed The Captain of the Lord’s Host

We will win because we will obey The Captain of our Salvation

What made the Israelites so powerful was the Lord their God

What makes us so powerful is the Lord our God

for God is never changing...he was looking to give his people their promise and he is looking to give us our promise.

The Israelites coming out of Egypt and going into Canaan had to become warriors and so must we, we must be warriors if we are going to Conquer Canaan. We must understand that we are at WAR.

And there is some organization to War.

1. Planning and Organization of Warfare

The overall plan devised to defeat an enemy is called strategy.

To fight in this war we have to have a strategy-a plan.

1. Recognize the enemy-----Satan—throughout the word of God he is known as....

- Abaddon (Hebrew: Destroyer)

-The accuser of our brethren

-The adversary

-The Devil

-Our common enemy

-Evil spirit

-The father of all lies

-Great red dragon

-The liar

-Lying spirit

-The murderer

-That old serpent

-The power of darkness

-The prince

.Of this world

.Of demons

.Of the power of the air

.Ruler of the darkness of this world

.The serpent

.The spirit that works in all disobedient people

.The Tempter

.The god of this world

.Unclean spirit

.The wicked one

It is he that we are at war against!

His mission is to wear out the saints of the Most High God and to destroy the life of man.

A.

His weapons are Deceit

Discouragement

Complacency

Temptation to sin and the list goes on

**Mom and Dad he doesn’t only want you but he wants your children.

He is invading their lives through TV, Music, Video Games, and even through their schools by having the ten commandments stripped of the walls and prayer put to a halt.

He is using Musical Artists such as EMINEM, NELLY, CHRISTINA AGUILERA, AND THESE SO CALLED BOY BANDS TO POLLUTE YOUR CHILDREN MIND WITH VERBAL PORNOGRAPHY AND GLORIFYING THE LIFE STYLE OF MULTIPLE SEXUAL PARTNERS AND DRUGS.