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Have No Fear, God Is Here! Series
Contributed by Nate Barbour on Nov 28, 2017 (message contributor)
Summary: A vibrant tale of Joshua and Caleb’s fearless feat of entering Canaan.
26"Nevertheless you would not go up, but rebelled against the command of the LORD your God; 27and you complained in your tents, and said, "Because the LORD hates us, He has brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us. 28Where can we go up? Our brethren have discouraged our hearts, saying, "The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there."’
29"Then I said to you, "Do not be terrified, or afraid of them. 30The LORD your God, who goes before you, He will fight for you, according to all He did for you in Egypt before your eyes, 31and in the wilderness where you saw how the LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son, in all the way that you went until you came to this place.’ 32Yet, for all that, you did not believe the LORD your God, 33who went in the way before you to search out a place for you to pitch your tents, to show you the way you should go, in the fire by night and in the cloud by day.”
The moral of the story is: Do not fear or be afraid. Moses is saying here, “You want to know why you’ve wandered around this desert and wilderness twiddling your thumbs for 40 years, eating tasteless bread and water instead of the good stuff? Because you’re scared. You yellow-bellied bunch of chickens. You’ve seen what God can do, you’ve seen what He’s done for you already. Why should you be scared? He took care of you before, why wouldn’t He take care of you now?”
IX. Fear Not
Isaiah 35:4 “Say to those who are fearful-hearted, ‘Be strong, do not fear! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, with the recompense of God; He will come and save you.”
Romans 8:31 “What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?”
No matter how many times obstacles and circumstances sneak up on us in the middle of our lives and scream, “BOO,” no matter how many times the enemy comes at us, throwing fiery darts and spitting bile in our face, we don’t have to be afraid because God is on our side. He’s rooting for us and he’s backing us up. So, have no fear, God is here!
