Part 3 | James Bond No Time to Die, the Mission of Life
SERIES THEME: The entertainment world mesmerizes us and continues to influence us in ways we see and do not see, both for good and for bad. Join us as we talk about some of todays most popular shows and influential characters in Binge Worthy. While we may all disagree with the content of these options, we can speak both to the reality of the human condition they express and how God’s Word interacts with the people on screen who we often see in ourselves.
From Numbers 14
📖 Numbers 14:20-24 (ESV) 20 The Lord replied, “I have forgiven them, as you asked. 21 Nevertheless, as surely as I live and as surely as the glory of the Lord fills the whole earth, 22 not one of those who saw my glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness but who disobeyed me and tested me ten times— 23 not one of them will ever see the land I promised on oath to their ancestors. No one who has treated me with contempt will ever see it. 24 But because my servant Caleb has a different spirit and follows me wholeheartedly, I will bring him into the land he went to, and his descendants will inherit it.
My Mission is to with my .
We Need a Caleb like Spirit in order to fulfill our mission.
Traits of a Caleb Spirit:
1. the Lord not your .
📖 Numbers 13:30-33 (ESV) 30 But Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, “Let us go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it.” 31 Then the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are.”
Traits of a Caleb Spirit:
2. Don’t at what God brought you , at what God is bringing you .
📖 Numbers 14:2 (ESV) And all the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would that we had died in this wilderness!
FinTraits of a Caleb Spirit:
3. When life doesn’t turn out how it to, you trust God has you where he .
📖 Numbers 14:28-30 (ESV) 28 Say to them, ‘As I live, declares the Lord, what you have said in my hearing I will do to you: 29 your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness, and of all your number, listed in the census from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against me, 30 not one shall come into the land where I swore that I would make you dwell, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.
Traits of a Caleb Spirit:
4. Always God’s .
📖 Joshua 14:6-9 (ESV) 6 Then the people of Judah came to Joshua at Gilgal. And Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the Lord said to Moses the man of God in Kadesh-barnea concerning you and me. 7 I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and I brought him word again as it was in my heart. 8 But my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; yet I wholly followed the Lord my God. 9 And Moses swore on that day, saying, ‘Surely the land on which your foot has trodden shall be an inheritance for you and your children forever, because you have wholly followed the Lord my God.’
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