Part 5 | Vision Sunday 2025
From Numbers 13
God is and where there’s , there’s .
📖 Proverbs 29:18 ESV Where there is no prophetic vision the people cast off restraint, but blessed is he who keeps the law.
📖 Proverbs 29:18 MSG If people can’t see what God is doing, they stumble all over themselves; But when they attend to what he reveals, they are most blessed.
Three things that happen in the cycle of :
1. God
2. God
3. God
Three agents by which God His Church:
1.
2.
3.
📖 Numbers 13:1–2 ESV The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the people of Israel. From each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, every one a chief among them.”
1. They get .
📖 Numbers 13:21–25 ESV So they went up and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, near Lebo-hamath. 22 They went up into the Negeb and came to Hebron. Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, were there. (Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.) 23 And they came to the Valley of Eshcol and cut down from there a branch with a single cluster of grapes, and they carried it on a pole between two of them; they also brought some pomegranates and figs. 24 That place was called the Valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster that the people of Israel cut down from there. 25 At the end of forty days they returned from spying out the land.
I don’t need to know God is to me, I only need to that God is .
📖 Deuteronomy 1:21–23 ESV ‘See, the Lord your God has set the land before you. Go up, take possession, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has told you. Do not fear or be dismayed.’ 22 Then all of you came near me and said, ‘Let us send men before us, that they may explore the land for us and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up and the cities into which we shall come.’ 23 The thing seemed good to me, and I took twelve men from you, one man from each tribe.
2. They their .
📖 Numbers 13:27 ESV And they told him, “We came to the land to which you sent us. It flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.”
📖 Numbers 13:2 ESV “Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the people of Israel…”
📖 Numbers 13:28-33 ESV “However, the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. And besides, we saw the descendants of Anak there. 29 The Amalekites dwell in the land of the Negeb. The Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the hill country. And the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and along the Jordan.” 30But 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.” 32 So they brought to the people of Israel a bad report of the land that they had spied out, saying, “The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people that we saw in it are of great height. 33 And there we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim), and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.”
📖 Genesis 6:4 ESV The Nephilim were on the earth in those days…
📖 Genesis 7:21 ESV And all flesh died that moved on the earth, birds, livestock, beasts, all swarming creatures that swarm on the earth, and all mankind.
When you start God, you start .
📖 Numbers 13:29 ESV The Amalekites dwell in the land of the Negeb.
📖 Exodus 17:14 ESV Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write this as a memorial in a book and recite it in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”
3. They didn’t embrace the , , or .
Pursuing God-given requires to endure the , , and to follow Jesus.
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