Sermon Thoughts from September 12, 2004

What Do You See? Numbers 13-14


1. What you see depends on what you are looking for 13.18-20

• They saw what they wanted to see because some of them wanted to go back to Egypt
• What we see depends on what we are looking for
• If you are looking for problems - you will find problems
• If you are looking for hypocrites - you will find hypocrites
• If you are looking for blessings - you will find blessings
• If you are looking for faithfulness - you will find faithfulness
• What you see depends on what you are looking for
• As parents - look for the best in your children
• As spouses - look for the best in your spouse

2. What you see depends on what your perspective is 13.33

• The 10 who didn’t want to go into the promised land looked at the situation from their perspective
• Joshua and Caleb looked at the situation from God’s perspective
• When they looked they saw giants
• When Joshua and Caleb looked - they saw God - the giants didn’t look so big

3. What you see depends on what your relationship to God is 14.8,9

• The people were wailing and crying grumbling wanting to go back to Egypt
• There relationship to God was lacking and so they saw only problems
• Joshua and Caleb had a right relationship with God and they saw only promise
  

4. What you see depends on what you remember 14.11

• It not that they didn’t believe in God
• They refused to believe the God they believed in
• They didn’t trust his Promises even after he provided
• They didn’t trust his Word even after He proved it
• They didn’t trust his Power even though they had seen it first-hand
• If they would have remembered - They would have seen things differently

What you see determines your destiny 14.26-35

• Caleb and Joshua saw God therefore they saw the promised land
• The ten other spies saw destruction therefore they were destroyed

What do you see?