MY FRIENDS, “IS THE GROUND STABLE BENEATH YOUR FEET”

Nov. 6, 2014

MY FRIENDS, “IS THE GROUND STABLE BENEATH YOUR FEET”

President Obama, ask the country “is the ground stable beneath your feet” Let’s focus today on Numbers 16 “Now it came to pass, as he finished speaking all these words, that the ground split apart under them, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households and all the men with Korah,…….

Then all Israel who were around them fled at their cry, for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us up also!” My friends let’s focus on Numbers 16. You have what we call these days an attempted coup, they had a real problem with the leadership which was Moses and Aron.

consistent with this, they were willing to change the leadership “by whatever means necessary” so the leaders of this coup are Korah, Dathan, Abiram “together with some of the sons of Israel, two hundred and fifty leaders of the congregation, chosen in the assembly, men of renown.”

And this is what they told Moses “You have gone far enough, for all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the Lord is in their midst; so why do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the Lord?”

My friends if you go back to Numbers 13-14 these are the same “men of renown”, who did not speak up for the lord when 12 spies except Caleb and Joshua whose faith was based on what they had seen from God each day of their life.

They knew the Power of God because they had spent time with God and friends that is the key to our faith spending time with God and knowing who God is and what He will do for us in each situation of our life.

Christ tells us in Matt 17:20 (NKJV) if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you.” So you have ten spies, with no idea who parted the the red sea, they also spend no time with God.

“We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.”….and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature….we were like grasshoppers….” “So all the congregation [even Korah, Dathan, Abiram and 250 leaders and men of renown.] lifted up their voices and cried……. against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them,…..”if only we had died in this wilderness!

Well my friends God gave them what they ask for, Because they were not rejecting Moses they were rejecting God “all these men [and women] who have seen My glory and the signs which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have put Me to the test now these ten times, and have not heeded My voice, they certainly shall not see the land of which I swore to their fathers, nor shall any of those who rejected Me see it.”

My friends we choose to reject God, in spite of all God has done for us. This journey to the “Promise Land” is not going to be easy Christ even tells us Himself in Matt. 16:24 (NKJV) “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.

But first “is the ground stable beneath your feet” is you faith built on a firm foundation in God’s Word and Spirit? Are you allowing self to die daily as the Spirit transforms your character into the image of God?

These are questions you must ask yourself daily and if you fall short in some areas, then with a passion you must seek God’s presence as you ask “what must I do to be saved,” and become fully covered in the blood of Christ.

Remember my friends if you have the Faith of a mustard seed “nothing will be impossible to you.” And most importantly Salvation and life eternal will not be impossible if you have faith.

In addition, once “the ground is stable beneath our feet” then we must do whatever it takes, to finish the work of God that He has set before us as we take the good news of his return to a world that has lost its spiritual compass, as the ground falls beneath their feet.

So my friends today. Stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY