Preaching Goes Viral

Transcript of God and Pestilance

Analogies to Mythic Narratives

This is the children of Israel that he gave all these warnings to. Now I want to go to numbers, chapter 14, turn over one chapter to numbers. I mean one book to numbers, chapter 14. Okay, I'm going to set this up for you. Y'all remember when God delivered the children of Israel out of Egypt, land by the pillars of the cloud pill, the fire part of the red sea, they go across every one of them crossed that cross, that red sea, right? And God said, I'm giving you a land flowing with milk and honey, but there's giants in that land. And I want you to go and possess it. He said, I'll drive out the inhabitants of the land, but for you I'll fight your battles. Moses said, well, let's go on in and possess it. And all the people said, Nope. They said, let us send fives over there. And most said, all right, let's send some spots. So they sent some spies over there and I think it was, I can't remember. I think it was 12 of one from every tribe. And they came back and they're given the report to the people and they say, there's giants in the land. We can't go down there. He says, we were, we saw all of them. And they said in our sight, we were as grasshoppers to them. And they said, and in their side also we were like grasshoppers. Now let's pick it up.

2022-12-16

Paul Blair

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