#600 – Choose Faith over Fear (Numbers 14:9)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 1 April 2019

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We are prone to be anxious and afraid. The exhortation of Scripture is to take God at His Word. Lord, help us to trust in You. Replace our fear with faith. Explore more content from Radical.

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0:00.0	Pray the Word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net.
0:05.8	Numbers chapter 14, verse 9.
0:09.2	Only do not rebel against the Lord.
0:13.0	And do not fear the people of the land, for they are bred for us.
0:18.4	Their protection is removed from them, and the Lord is with us. Do not fear them.
0:26.6	These words come from Caleb and Joshua, who had gone with the spies into the promised land.
0:35.2	When they came back, all the other spies were saying, this land is, it's beautiful,
0:41.1	it's wonderful, it's awesome, but the people in the land are too much for us. We can't take this land.
0:49.8	This land that God had promised them. This is one of the seminal moments in all the Old Testament
0:58.5	that the rest of Scripture points back to because in the face of God's promised land,
1:06.6	God's promised blessing before them, the people of God chose fear over faith.
1:17.0	They chose not to trust God.
1:22.3	They chose to fear man instead.
1:25.6	And the reality is every single one of us in our lives is tempted to do the same
1:33.3	over and over and over again. God has promised blessing to us in obedience to his word. And yet we are so often afraid. Whenever we have taken spiritual
1:52.6	surveys here at McLean Bible Church in greater Washington, D.C., and asked people what they
1:59.4	struggle with in their faith,
2:02.6	fear is always at the top of the list.
2:06.9	Always.
2:08.3	We are so tempted to fear so many things.
2:13.2	We fear the unknown.
2:16.1	We fear the rejection of men and women. We fear so many different things.
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