And the LORD spoke unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,
"Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan; Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images and quite pluck down all their high places: And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it.
And ye shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families: and to the more ye shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer ye shall give the less inheritance: every man's inheritance shall be in the place where his lot falleth; according to the tribes of your fathers ye shall inherit.
But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell. Moreover it shall come to pass, that I shall do unto you, as I thought to do unto them."
-Numbers 33:50-56
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Like the Children of Israel, we were once wandering in the wilderness of Sin, but we are come to the land of promise -- let us therefore enter in with boldness and drive out EVERY inhabitant...leave none, lest they be pricks in our eyes and thorns in our sides; lest God do to us what He thinks to do to those who fill up their sins alway, in their forsaking His commands.
I will stand up and declare unto you all, as Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh did, that we ought to "go up at once and possess it, for we are well able to overcome it." I will tell you how the land - the life promised to us "is an exceeding good land. If the LORD delight in us [and He does, hallelujah!], then He will bring us into this land and give it us, a land which floweth with milk and honey. Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not."
Will you go with me to possess the land in righteousness, or will you turn back and say "it is too hard for us, the nature of the people is too strong for us"? Will you drive every inhabitant out and live in the good land of rest, or will you go in only half-heartedly and leave them to torment you and be your downfall?
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"Will you go with me to possess the land in righteousness, or will you turn back and say 'it is too hard for us, the nature of the people is too strong for us'?"
The "nature of the people" can be too strong for us, but PTL that all we need to do to remedy that is be on His side - because He's infinities stronger than our enemies. =D
I specifically used the term "the nature of the people" because of those who maintain that our sinful nature impedes God from giving us utter and complete victory.
Yes, if we attempt to change ourselves, we will utterly be driven back (just as the Children of Israel were), because the Lord is not with us. But if we side with the Lord, how can any enemy or scheme succeed? They cannot, for He is the Lord, and there is none other -- no one is able to defy Him and live.
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