Go For It, Take Possession

Go For It, Take Possession

And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at

once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.

Numbers 13:30June 17, 2012

Rev. David B. HansonDeaf Liberty Baptist Church

Overland Park, Kansas

God’s PromiseExodus 3:8And I am come down to deliver them out

of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

Twelve Spies – Numbers 13

Tribe SpyReuben ShammuaSimeon ShaphatJudah Caleb

Twelve Spies – Numbers 13

Tribe SpyIssachar IgalEphraim Oshea

(Joshua)Benjamin Palti

Twelve Spies – Numbers 13

Tribe SpyZebulun GaddielManasseh (Joseph) GaddiDan Ammiel

Twelve Spies – Numbers 13

Tribe SpyAsher SethurNaphali NahbiGad Geuel

Twelve Spies’ Journey – Numbers 13

Land – What it isPeople – Strong or weakPeople – Few or many

Twelve Spies’ Journey – Numbers 13

Land – What it isLand – Good or badPeople – Tents or strongholdsLand – Fat or leanLand – Wood or not

Moses’ AdviceNumbers 13:20…And be ye of good

courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the firstripe grapes.

Twelve Spies’ Journey – Numbers 13

Twelve Spies

The Fruits of the Land – Numbers 13

GrapesPomegranatesFigs

Two Courageous Spies – Numbers 13

Caleb’s Bold StatementNumbers 13:30And Caleb stilled the people

before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.

Joshua’s and Caleb’s Bold Statement

Numbers 14:8If the Lord delight in us,

then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.

Ten Spies’ StatementNumbers 13:33And there we saw the

giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.