Dedicated To The Men of God Who Preach the Word of God As It
Is To Men As They Are
"Preach The Word"
"Grapes, Giants & Grasshoppers"
Text: Numbers 13:23, 32-33a, 33b
I. Grapes Showed Their Faith Possession From The Lord (23)
A. The Eschol Brook (23a) "And they came unto the brook of
Eshcol,..."
B. The Enormous Branch (23b)
"...and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of
grapes, and
they bare it between two upon a staff;..."
C. The Evidenced Bounty (23c)
"...and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the
figs."
II. Giants Showed Their Fleshly Problems In The Land (32-33a)
A. The Evil Report Of The Land (32a-32b)
1. About The Inhumanity In The Land (32a)
"And they brought up an evil report of the land which
they had searched
unto the children of Israel, saying, The land,
through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants
thereof;..."
2. About The Individuals In The Land (32b)
"...and all the people that we saw in it are men of a
great stature."
B. The Evil Residents In The Land (33a)
"And there we saw the giants, the sons of
Anak, which come of the
giants:..."
III. Grasshoppers Showed The False Perceptions Of
Their Lives (33b-33c)
A. Notice How They Generally Perceived Themselves (33b)
"...and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers,..."
B. Notice How The Giants Perceived Them (33c) "...and so we were in their sight."
SERMON BY LARRY WOOD
