In Touch, the teaching ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley.

Next on In Touch, experiencing a faith failure.

One of the most important gifts in your life is a gift of faith.

Now we take it for granted some time, but the truth is

we live by faith every day. Some people have more faith than others, and yet faith is a vital

part of our life. When you have a faith failure in your life, you suffer the consequences. When I think about all the passages

of Scripture in the Bible, especially in the Old Testament, and I think about those that are so

practical in description, so beautifully illustrated, and yet so tragic when it comes to the

failure of faith, this passage of Scripture is it.

So turn in the Bible, if you will, to Numbers, Chapter 13.

The children of Israel have left Egypt through the Red Sea out into the wilderness on their

way to Canaan in the Promised promised land which God had promised Israel.

And so what happens here is an awesome example and a powerful lesson about what happens when

people lose their faith. That is, and this is the title of the message, experiencing a faith failure.

And so I want to define what a faith failure is. A faith failure is the failure to express faith

to trust God when confronted with a challenge, a trial, or temptation.

When we're challenged to trust him, we're confronted with some challenge in life, some trial,

or some temptation.

And our text is a perfect example of this.

And what I want you to notice in this passage here, we've been in Exodus all its time.

We're going to jump all the way to Numbers. The 13th chapter of Numbers starting with verse 1 says,

then the Lord spoke to Moses, say, send out for yourself men so that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I'm going

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