Mankind Sets the Limits on God
Israel limited God (Psalms 78:40-42) “how often did they provoke Him in the
wilderness, and grieve Him in the desert. Yea, they turned back and tempted God,
and limited the Holy One of Israel. They remembered not His hand, nor the day
when He delivered them from the enemy”.
God told the Israelites that He had given them the land, but as ten of the spies
came back with a evil report, saying that they couldn’t take the land, because of the
giants (Numbers 13:31-33) “but the men that went up with him said, we be not able
to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we. And they brought up an
evil report of the land which they had searched to the children of Israel, saying.
The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eats up the
inhabitants thereof, and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great statute.
And 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”; and they
caused all of Israel to mumble and cry for fear (Numbers 14:1-4) “and all the
congregation lifted up their voice, and cried, and the people wept that night. And
all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, and the whole
congregation said to them, would God that we had died in the land of Egypt or
would God we had died in this wilderness. And wherefore has the Lord Yahweh
brought us to this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should
be a pray? Were it not better for us to return into Egypt? And they said one to
another, let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt”; and they wanted to
stone Joshua and Caleb who were trying to get them to go in and possess the
land. God was angry with them, and said “as truly as I live says the Lord Yahweh,
as you have spoken in My ears, so will I do to you” (Numbers 14:28).
The people in Jesus’ hometown could not receive because of doubt (Mark 6:1-6)
“and He went out from there, and came into His own country, and His disciples
follow Him. And when the Sabbath day was come, He began to teach in the
synagogue and many hearing Him were astonished, saying from where has this
man, these things? And what wisdom is this which is given to Him, that even such
mighty works are wrought by His hands? Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary,
the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? And they were offended
at Him. But Jesus said to them, a prophet is not without honor, but in His own
country, and among His own kin, and in His own house. And He could there do no
mighty work, save that He laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them”.
Many people are doing the same thing today, because they don’t trust God, to
believe that what He says will come to pass in their lives.
Now, some even start out well, but become afraid; lets look as when Peter walked
on the water; Peter saw Jesus walking on the water (Matthew 14:27:31) “but
immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying, Be of good cheer, it is I be not afraid.
And Peter answered Him and said, Lord, if it be You, bid me come to You on the
water. And He said, Come, and when Peter was come down out of the ship, he
walked on the water to go to Jesus. But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was
afraid, and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord save me. And immediately
Jesus stretched forth His hand, and caught him, and said to him, O you of little faith,
where fore did you doubt”?
You see that doubt, contaminates your faith, remember what James says (James 1:
6-8) “but let him ask in faith, nothing wavering, for he that wavers is like a wave of
the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall
receive any thing of the Lord. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways”.
Jesus tells us “if you can believe, all things are possible to him, that believes”.
Jesus also said to many, your faith has made you whole.
And He tells the centurion in (Matthew 8:13) “and Jesus said to the centurion, go
your way, and as you have believed, so be it done to you. And his servant was
healed in the self same hour”.
Jesus said that he who hears His words and does them is a wise man (Matthew 7:
24-27) “therefore, whosoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will
liken him to a wise man, which built his house upon a rock. And the rain descended
and the flood came, and the wind blew and beat upon that house, and it fell not for
it was founded upon a rock. And every one that hears these sayings of Mine, and
does them nor, shall be likened to a foolish man, which built his house upon the
sand. And the rain descended, and the flood came, and the winds blew, and beat
upon that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it”.
Sermon by: Harriet Bond
Date: January 1, 2010
Israel limited God (Psalms 78:40-42) “how often did they provoke Him in the
wilderness, and grieve Him in the desert. Yea, they turned back and tempted God,
and limited the Holy One of Israel. They remembered not His hand, nor the day
when He delivered them from the enemy”.
God told the Israelites that He had given them the land, but as ten of the spies
came back with a evil report, saying that they couldn’t take the land, because of the
giants (Numbers 13:31-33) “but the men that went up with him said, we be not able
to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we. And they brought up an
evil report of the land which they had searched to the children of Israel, saying.
The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eats up the
inhabitants thereof, and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great statute.
And 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”; and they
caused all of Israel to mumble and cry for fear (Numbers 14:1-4) “and all the
congregation lifted up their voice, and cried, and the people wept that night. And
all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, and the whole
congregation said to them, would God that we had died in the land of Egypt or
would God we had died in this wilderness. And wherefore has the Lord Yahweh
brought us to this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should
be a pray? Were it not better for us to return into Egypt? And they said one to
another, let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt”; and they wanted to
stone Joshua and Caleb who were trying to get them to go in and possess the
land. God was angry with them, and said “as truly as I live says the Lord Yahweh,
as you have spoken in My ears, so will I do to you” (Numbers 14:28).
The people in Jesus’ hometown could not receive because of doubt (Mark 6:1-6)
“and He went out from there, and came into His own country, and His disciples
follow Him. And when the Sabbath day was come, He began to teach in the
synagogue and many hearing Him were astonished, saying from where has this
man, these things? And what wisdom is this which is given to Him, that even such
mighty works are wrought by His hands? Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary,
the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? And they were offended
at Him. But Jesus said to them, a prophet is not without honor, but in His own
country, and among His own kin, and in His own house. And He could there do no
mighty work, save that He laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them”.
Many people are doing the same thing today, because they don’t trust God, to
believe that what He says will come to pass in their lives.
Now, some even start out well, but become afraid; lets look as when Peter walked
on the water; Peter saw Jesus walking on the water (Matthew 14:27:31) “but
immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying, Be of good cheer, it is I be not afraid.
And Peter answered Him and said, Lord, if it be You, bid me come to You on the
water. And He said, Come, and when Peter was come down out of the ship, he
walked on the water to go to Jesus. But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was
afraid, and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord save me. And immediately
Jesus stretched forth His hand, and caught him, and said to him, O you of little faith,
where fore did you doubt”?
You see that doubt, contaminates your faith, remember what James says (James 1:
6-8) “but let him ask in faith, nothing wavering, for he that wavers is like a wave of
the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall
receive any thing of the Lord. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways”.
Jesus tells us “if you can believe, all things are possible to him, that believes”.
Jesus also said to many, your faith has made you whole.
And He tells the centurion in (Matthew 8:13) “and Jesus said to the centurion, go
your way, and as you have believed, so be it done to you. And his servant was
healed in the self same hour”.
Jesus said that he who hears His words and does them is a wise man (Matthew 7:
24-27) “therefore, whosoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will
liken him to a wise man, which built his house upon a rock. And the rain descended
and the flood came, and the wind blew and beat upon that house, and it fell not for
it was founded upon a rock. And every one that hears these sayings of Mine, and
does them nor, shall be likened to a foolish man, which built his house upon the
sand. And the rain descended, and the flood came, and the winds blew, and beat
upon that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it”.
Sermon by: Harriet Bond
Date: January 1, 2010
