A Parable of Security, Stagnation, Seduction, Survival - Part 2 — Denny Kenaston

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Dependability Before God

Amen. May the Lord be able to depend on us. We shall not. At the same time, we cannot. Too much hinges on our not failing. We shall not fail. God promises us that. That's His responsibility. But we cannot fail.

And that's our responsibility. Too much hinges. Oh, may the Lord be able to depend on you and I. Depend on you and I to lift up His name and do our part in this generation. May He be able to depend on us.

To know that we will do what is right no matter the cost. To be dependable. That God can know. I can count on this generation of young people. I can depend on them to be faithful. I can depend on them to lift up my name.

I can depend on them to make the right choices. I can depend on them to be one of those who raises up a standard against the incoming floods of worldliness and materialism and all the things that seek to obliterate God's testimony in this world.

May God be able to say, I can depend on these young people. There's a lot of you here. I can hardly see your faces all the way there to the back. And if God could find us sitting in this building to be true.

If He could depend on us. If He could find us to be the brave and true ones. There would be a difference in this world. Oh, that God could find us brave and true. That sounds like a Christian marching song to me.

Well, we want to thank the Lord this morning for the opportunity to be here. Thank you for giving us this opportunity to share with you this morning. It's fast. I have to say it's too fast. We didn't know a week ago that we would be coming back.

And a week later we're here and in the midst of such a large group of people and asked to share here. And I'm overwhelmed. And yes, I have to admit, I'm nervous. It seems like a huge group of people to try to address compared to my normal circle of 30 people under a tree somewhere.

And yet this is what God has asked us to do. And we're grateful to be here with you. We want to look together at what God wants to say to us. I want to thank all of you for giving us the chance to come back.

To do what we feel is right and necessary for my wife's health. And I thank you for helping us in bringing us back so that we can meet those medical needs here. And God has a purpose in it. We're not exactly sure what all those purposes are.

But I'm very sure that this morning is part of those purposes. And we want to discover those purposes together. Let's bow our heads. Father, thank you this Sunday morning for the opportunity that we have to sit and sing with hundreds and hundreds of fellow believers.

People who know you. People who've been washed in the blood of Jesus. People whose lives have been changed by your power. People who desire with us to lift up and exalt your name. It's a wonderful thing, Father, for our own voice to be lost in the swell of hundreds of other voices.

Over a thousand voices lifting up their voices to praise your name. It's wonderful to be lost in that swell. We thank you for that this morning. We know, God, that heaven will be so many multiple times more than what we could know this morning.

And, Lord, we do look forward with longing. At the same time, with comfort towards that day. And we will be with you in heaven. Surrounded by hundreds of thousands and millions of millions of people. All wanting to lift you up.

Thank you for that comfort. But, Lord, we're not in heaven yet. We're here on this earth. God, this is Sunday of Bible School. You know, Lord, there's a song service this afternoon. And there's singing tonight.

And yet, Lord, we know that this morning you have a plan. We know, Lord, that this morning there are still challenges that you want to give us from your word. We know, God, that there are still sins that you want to point out in our lives.

There are still young people in whom your purposes for this week have not been fulfilled. And, Lord, it's right for us to rejoice this morning. But it's also right for us to plead with you and plead with them.

Yet one more time. God, fulfill your destiny in the lives of each person that sits in this room this morning. You have a reason why we are here. Yes, it's Sunday morning. It's church day, Father. But we are here not of our own choice.

We are here because you have something you want to do in our lives. Father, please do it. We open our hearts before you. Individually and corporately, Lord, we open our hearts that you will speak to us.

Now, Lord, please do speak to us. We are many here. May we not be lost in the crowd when you come to speak to us today. But speak individually into our hearts by your Spirit what we need to hear. If encouragement, encouragement.

If warning, warning. If correction, then correction, Lord. Give us what we need and help us to obey you today. May no one be left out, Father, from receiving from you this week. We thank you in Jesus' name.

Amen. It's a little difficult to know, as Brother Mo said, what do you preach. And I don't have the benefit of having heard all that you've heard. So I don't even know exactly what has been spoken to you this week.

But it's challenging when you're at the very end of a week to know what to say. Because in some ways, everything has been said. But in other ways, you still desire to touch all the points all over again.

Because you want to encourage those who are not yet encouraged. And there are some here who still have yet to say yes. Yes, Lord, in whatever area it is that God brought you here to this Bible school for.

God wanted to achieve something in your lives. And some of you are still waiting. God is still waiting for some of you. Some of you are still holding out. And so when you get before the Lord on a morning like this and you say, Lord, what do we say to these young people?

So many emotions go through my heart. Because some of you have gotten right with God this week. Some of you have been born again this week. Some of you have just had your heart strengthened and encouraged this week.

And to you, we want to bless you. We want to encourage you. We want to build you up. We want to prepare you to go home and live it in the more difficult environment of your home. Bible school is wonderful, but it's not your home.

None of you held a job this week. None of you had any family conflicts this week. You were here, singing, praying, hearing sermons. And that's wonderful, but you have to go home. So to some of you this morning, we want to encourage you.

We desire more than anything else that you go home with what you need to live out what God has done in your hearts this week. At the same time, as I already said, some of you still need to be warned. Some of you, there's still a flippancy in your heart relating to God and what He wanted to do in your life this week.

And when we meditate upon that, the emotion overwhelms us. With a desire to warn you. With a desire to yet plead with you. To take seriously this week and all the things that God has tried to say into your life.

You are responsible. Whether you like it or not, you are responsible. God has made you responsible. The wonderful Bible teaching and preaching that you have heard makes you responsible. So I desire to plead and warn some of you this morning.

And then there are some of you who have not only not taken it seriously, but there are some who have, at the peril of your own soul, at the peril of your own soul, have resisted God's Spirit speaking into your life.

And I desire to give some words to you also. There's a lot of us here. So I'm praying that God will direct the part of the message which is for you to your heart. That God will speak exactly what you need into your heart.

And if you don't need a particular part of the message, then you can pray for those who do. But I do believe that the verses and scriptures that God has given to me can challenge some of you, can bless others and encourage others and still, if possible, throw out the net for one more draw.

We do desire to do that this morning. You have an opportunity at the end of this message to respond to God's Spirit speaking into your life yet one more time. You have the opportunity, if you've been holding out, to finally lay down your guns and surrender.

You have the opportunity, if you've been resisting God's Spirit, to join those who have been submitting to God's Spirit. If you're still holding nothing to take home from this Bible school, you have the opportunity to take something home at the end of this message.

So I pray that God will speak exactly into your life what you need. Let's turn to the book of Numbers. The book of Numbers, chapter 22. I was realizing this morning that almost all of the messages that I've preached here in the States, which is not all that many, but the messages that I've preached here in the States, almost all of them have come from the New Testament.

And I think there's good reason for that. But at the same time, I think the Lord would like to speak to our hearts this morning from the book of Numbers. And I'm trusting that as we open His Word, He will meet our needs.

Security, Stagnation, Seduction, and Survival

If I was to give a title to this this morning, it's a little long, but this is the title I would give. A parable of security, stagnation, seduction, and survival. I'll repeat those. Those words are a little long.

A parable of security, stagnation, seduction, and survival. We would like to look this morning at the story of the people of Israel, the king of Moab, Balak, and Balaam, and all the things that surround this period in Israel's history on their way into the Promised Land.

A parable of security, stagnation, seduction, and survival. We'd like to look at all four of these stages this morning as we look at the people of Israel and this time period in their history. I'm going to read rather rapidly chapter 22 of Numbers.

Please bear with me on this. I think it is important. And then we'll skip around a little bit more for the rest of the story. Numbers chapter 22. And the children of Israel sat forward and pitched in the plains of Moab on this side Jordan by Jericho.

And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites. And Moab was sore afraid of the people because they were many. And Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel. And Moab said unto the elders of Midian, Now shall this company lick up all that are around about us as the ox licketh up the grass of the field.

And Balak the son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at that time. He sent messengers therefore unto Balaam the son of Beor to Pithor which is by the river of the land of the children of his people. To call him saying, Behold there is a people come out from Egypt.

Behold they cover the face of the earth and they abide over against me. Come now therefore I pray thee curse me this people for they are too mighty for me. Peradventure I shall prevail that we may smite them and that I may drive them out of the land.

For I know that he whom thou blessest is blessed and he whom thou cursest is cursed. And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hands. And they came unto Balaam and spake unto him the words of Balak.

And he said unto them, Lodge here this night and I will bring you word again as the Lord shall speak unto me. And the princes of Moab abode with Balaam. And God came unto Balaam and said, What men are these with thee?

And Balaam said unto God, Balak the son of Zippor king of Moab has sent unto me saying, Behold there is a people come out of Egypt which covereth the face of the earth. Come now curse me then. Peradventure I shall be able to overcome them and drive them out.

And God said unto Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them. Thou shalt not curse the people for they are blessed. Thou shalt not curse the people for they are blessed. And Balaam rose up in the morning and said unto the princes of Balak, Get ye into your land for the Lord refuses to give me leave to go with you.

The princes of Moab rose up and they went unto Balak and said, Balaam refuses to come with us. And Balak sent yet again princes more and more honorable than they. And they came to Balaam and said unto him, Thus saith Balak the son of Zippor, Let nothing I pray thee hinder thee from coming unto me for I will promote thee unto very great honor.

And I will do whatsoever thou sayest unto me. Come thou therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people. And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the Lord my God to do less or more.

Now therefore I pray you, tarry ye also here this night that I may know what the Lord will say unto me more. And God came unto Balaam at night and said unto him, If the men come to call thee, rise up and go with them.

But yet the word which I shall say unto thee, that shalt thou do. And Balaam rose up in the morning and saddled his ass and went with the princes of Moab. And God's anger was kindled because he went. I think it's pretty clear from looking at this story that it was not God's will for Balaam to go.

But because God knew that Balaam was going to go, Balaam wanted to go. The rest of the story bears it out that Balaam actually, though he said he wasn't interested in the riches of the king, he was. He really wanted to go.

It's kind of like a child. Can I please? Can I please? Can I please? Okay, have it. And God finally said, Go, but don't say anything that I tell you not to say. So he gets up to obey God. Not really obeying God, but going because God knew he was going to go.

And God said, Okay, go, but don't say anything that I don't tell you to say. But God's anger is kindled. Verse 22,. And God's anger was kindled because he went. And the angel of the Lord stood in the way for an adversary against him.

Now he was riding upon his ass, and two servants were with him. And the ass saw the angel of the Lord standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand. And the ass turned aside out of the way and went into the field.

And Balaam smote the ass to turn her into the way. But the angel of the Lord stood in a path of the vineyards, a wall being on this side and a wall being on that side. And when the ass saw the angel of the Lord, she thrust herself onto the wall and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall.

And he smote her again. There are very, very few things which can color the eyes of one of God's servants with such definitiveness as money can. Here's the servant of God somehow, a man who was known to be able to know the future, a man who was supposedly able to contact God by some means and know what was going to happen.

And yet, something had colored his eyes. Something had clouded his vision. Something had produced such cobwebs in his perception that a donkey was more perceptive than he was. Yes? Something had colored his perceptions until a donkey was more spiritually perceptive than he was.

Balaam's just riding along on the donkey. And the donkey says, there's an angel in the way with a drawn sword. And he turns aside. And Balaam hits the donkey and says, what are you doing? He gets back up on the path.

And Balaam doesn't see anything. He's colored by money. Few things can color the eyes of God's servant like money can. So he's beating the donkey. Verse 26,. And the angel of the Lord went further and stood in a narrow place where there was no way to turn, either to the right or to the left.

When the ass saw the angel of the Lord, she fell down under Balaam. And Balaam's anger was kindled and he smote the ass with a staff. And the Lord opened the mouth of the ass. May God keep us all from being in such a place of spiritual mist over our eyes that we're less perceptive than a donkey.

And not only that, but God has to speak through an animal to communicate something to us. And God opened the mouth of the ass and she said unto Balaam, what have I done unto thee that thou hast smitten me these three times?

And Balaam said unto the ass, Be careful of being in a place where God has to speak to you through an animal and you feel the need to respond back to the animal. I'm not sure what is a more stranger. The fact that he didn't see the angel, or the fact that the donkey saw the angel, or the fact that the donkey spoke, or the fact that Balaam decided to argue with the donkey.

He sort of fell off the donkey with the shock that God had opened the mouth of an animal to get through to his servant who wouldn't listen to him. I'm not sure what's more strange. Here's Balaam arguing with the donkey.

Like as if it's normal. And Balaam, verse 29. And Balaam said unto the ass, because thou hast mocked me, I would, there were a sword in my hand, for now would I kill thee. And the ass said unto Balaam, am not I thine ass upon which thou hast ridden ever since I was thine unto this day?

Was I ever wont to do so unto thee? And he said, nay. Then the Lord opened the eyes. Then the Lord opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the Lord standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand.

And he bowed down his head and fell flat on his face. And the angel of the Lord said unto him, wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times? Behold, I went out to withstand thee, because thy way is perverse before me.

And the ass saw me and turned away from me these three times. Unless she had turned from me, surely now also I had slain thee and saved her alive. Again, I feel like I have to point out the irony of these things.

This is not really the thrust of the message, but the irony that when God is choosing which of His servants to keep alive, He would kill His servant and let the animal alive. That's what He said. You are so spiritually blind, Balaam, that I would have killed you and let the donkey live.

Because the donkey I'm able to use, but you I'm not able to use. Verse 34,. And Balaam said unto the angel of the Lord, I have sinned, for I knew not that thou stoodest in the way against me. Now therefore, if it displeased thee, I will get thee back again.

Not. He said those words, but he didn't really mean them. And the angel of the Lord said unto Balaam, Go with the men, but only the word that I shall speak unto thee, that thou shalt speak. So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.

And when Balaak heard that Balaam was come, he went out to meet him unto a city of Moab, which is in the border of Arnon, which is in the utmost coast. And Balaak said unto Balaam, Did I not earnestly send unto thee to call thee?

Wherefore, camest thou not unto me? Am I not able indeed to promote thee to honor? And Balaam said unto Balaak, Lo, I am come unto thee. Have I now any power at all to say anything? The word that God putteth in my mouth, that shall I speak.

And Balaam went with Balaak, and they came unto Kirjath-huzath. And Balaak offered oxen and sheep and sent to Balaam and to the princes that were with him. And it came to pass on the morrow that Balaak told Balaam and brought him up into the high places of Baal, that thence he might see the utmost part of the people.

Not a very good place to see spiritual things in the high places of Baal. But that's where Balaak brought Balaam. I said we want to look at a parable with four main points. Security, stagnation, seduction, and survival.

I would like us to look first at security. And I want us to call Balaam this morning, the honest witch doctor. The honest witch doctor. Now you may have a problem with me using the word witch doctor to apply to someone who God has said is His servant, and He has said that He'll say only the words of God and He goes on to do what Balaak did not want Him to do.

But I do believe that the term applies. I do not believe that Balaam was honestly a true servant of God. Later on in the New Testament it refers to him as a soothsayer, and that's very, very related to a witch doctor.

But Balaam was, though he was a witch doctor, he was an honest witch doctor. Most witch doctors are not honest. I live in a land with witch doctors. I have many of them in every village that I minister in.

Most witch doctors are not honest. They are in a league with the devil, but they're also in a league with money. And so they say what you want them to say. Or they say something that will influence you to bring a sheep or a goat or a chicken or a cow even, to give to them to solve the problem for you.

So Balaam was a witch doctor. But he was an honest witch doctor. He actually spoke what he saw in the spirit world. A witch doctor is someone who connects with the spirit world. And we always view it in a negative sense, because it's going through satanic powers.

But here was a man who had powers to see the future. And yet, though influenced by money, he did say what he saw. He was an honest witch doctor. We know the story. We're not going to read the next two chapters as they go through their sacrifices.

But on three occasions, the next three days, it sounds like, Balak gets up in the morning and finds Balaam and brings him up to the top of a mountain somewhere and shows him Israel, camped like grasshoppers in the valley.

Balak says to Balaam, I'm going to confuse these, I'm sorry, but if I do, just know which one I mean. Balak says to Balaam, Curse these people. They eat up everything in front of them. They've been victorious time after time after time.

The chapters before talk about the exploits of the children of Israel. Balak says to Balaam, Curse these people for me. Because I know that the people that you curse, they're cursed. And the people that you bless are blessed.

And it's interesting that Balak would use those words, because he was not the first one to use those words. That's not an original proverb with King Balak. God has been using that all the way back into the book of Genesis.

Those who you bless will be blessed. Those who you curse will be cursed. And God had made that promise down through history to His people. And now Balak takes that proverb and uses it to Balaam and says, I know, the person that you curse will be cursed.

The people that you bless will be blessed. Now, curse these people. You see them? Just filling the valley. Just crawling. And everything they walk over top of, they eat. Curse them here for me. And Balaam, three times in a row, asked Balak to make sacrifices.

And they built altars and they slaughtered six cows and six sheep. Each altar, one cow, one sheep. Seven altars. And at the end of that, Balaam went to go and hear the voice of God. And we don't really need to determine whether this was God's voice or Satan's voice or whatever, because when we understand what is happening in the spirit world, it really doesn't matter.

It's just the fact that Balaam was honest enough to say what was really happening in the spirit world. So whether he actually was really in contact with God through the right means or not, that's not the point this morning.

The point is that he saw the future and he said honestly what he saw. I would like us to read the blessing slash curses that Balaam pronounced on the children of Israel. The first one is in chapter 23, verse 7 -10.

The sacrifices have been made. Seven cows, seven sheep. Balak stands there wringing his hands, waiting, wondering what is Balaam going to come back and say. And Balaam's standing over there, looking out over the children of Israel and praying or whatever he was doing, thinking.

And Balak is there waiting, wondering what kind of a curse Balaam is going to pronounce upon the children of Israel. And you can imagine he was on edge. And, verse 7,. And he took up his parable and said, Balak, the king of Moab, hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse me, Jacob, and come, defy Israel.

How shall I curse whom God hath not cursed? How shall I curse whom God hath not cursed? And how shall I defy whom the Lord hath not defied? For from the tops of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him.

Lo, the people shall dwell alone and shall not be reckoned among the nations. Who can count the dust of Jacob and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his.

We'll stop reading there. We'll jump right to the next one. The same thing happens over again. They make seven more altars and sacrifices. And in verse 18, Balaam continues. Chapter 23, verse 18. And he took up his parable and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear.

Hearken unto me, thou son of Zippor. God is not a man that he should lie, neither the son of man that he should repent. Hath he said, and shall he not do it? Or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?

Behold, I have received commandment to bless, and he hath blessed, and I cannot reverse it. He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel. The Lord his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them.

God brought them out of Egypt. He hath, as it were, the strength of a unicorn. Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob,. Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel.

According to this time, it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel,. What hath God wrought? Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion and lift up himself as a young lion. He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey and drink the blood of the slain.

One more. Turn over to chapter 24 in verse 3. Balak is getting desperate. He takes him to different places. He says, well, maybe if I take you over to this mountain, God will give you the authority to curse these people, or maybe I'm allowing you to see too many of them, and you're afraid, because you're seeing millions of people spread out in the valley, and you're afraid to curse them.

Well, let me take you over here to this mountain, where you can see just a portion of them. It seems that Balak had forgotten that God said you can't even number a quarter of them. But he took him to a place where he wouldn't be able to see the whole size of their numbers.

This is the last words of his curses slash blessings on the children of Israel. Verse 3 of chapter 24. And he took up his parable and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said,.

He hath said which heard the words of God, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open. How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel, as the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the riverside, as the trees of lign aloes which the Lord hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters.

He shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed shall be in many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted. God brought him forth out of Egypt. He hath, as it were, the strength of a unicorn.

He shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows. He couched. He lay down as a lion, and as a great lion. Who shall stir him up? Blessed is he that blessed thee, and cursed is he that cursed thee.

Those are the three blessings. The curses that Balak sought turned into blessings. And those are the three blessings that Balaam pronounced upon the people of Israel from high up in the mountains, looking over their great encampment.

And let's see Balak's response, because Balak is the one asking for the curses here. Chapter 23, verse 10. And Balak said unto Balaam, What hast thou done unto me? What hast thou done unto me? I took thee to curse mine enemies, and behold, thou hast blessed them all together.

What have you done to me? You just imagine the frustration of Balak. What have you done to me? I called you to curse these people. He hung on through the whole blessing, thinking maybe at the very end, Balaam would say something terrible.

And it's all blessing. He says, I called you to curse these people, and you've just pronounced blessings, all together blessings upon them. The next one. Chapter 23, verse 25. And Balak said unto Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.

If you can't curse them, please don't bless them. I'm already afraid of them. They're already too great for me. They're already a formidable enemy. Please, if you're not going to curse them, just be quiet.

Please don't bless them. And the last one. Chapter 24, verse 10 and 11. And Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he smote his hands together. And Balak said unto Balaam, I called thee to curse mine enemies, and behold, thou hast altogether blessed them these three times.

Therefore now flee thou to thy place. I thought to promote thee unto great honor, but lo, the Lord hath kept thee back from honor. Security. The first point of our parable here. The security of God's blessing.

I think it's pretty clear to you if you think through this at all, that Balak is a type of Satan desiring to curse God's people. And let's look at what was happening here. The whole reason why Balak asked for Balaam to come and curse the people of Israel is that the people of Israel traveled to the plains of Moab.

They've been slaughtering kings one after another. The kings of the Canaanites were falling in front of them like dominoes. The last one was Og, king of Basham. Sihon, king of the Amorites. God's people were making advances into the territory that God had promised to them.

God's people were making advances into the land of Canaan. Getting closer and closer and closer. So God's people were making an advance. And it was that advance which threatened Balak. It was the advance of God's people which threatened Balak.

This morning, if you are advancing, you are a threat to Satan. If you have made an advance this week, you are a new threat to Satan. If you have gone through your life and maybe some area of sin in your life or an area in which you were not being honest with God, and by God's grace you have dealt with that issue, and you have taken a step forward, you are a threat to Satan.

Just like Israel was a threat to Balak. Here are these people and they came into this valley. He's up in the mountains. They came into this valley and just filled it up. An advancing army. Satan will always consider the advance of God's people to be a threat.

If you are advancing this week, you are a threat to Satan. Maybe that doesn't sound too good to you. Maybe you are not sure you want to threaten Satan. But I hope as we go on with this parable, you will see that being a threat to Satan is not necessarily the same as being threatened by Satan.

But you are a threat to Satan. If you have advanced this week in any area of your life into the land that God promised to you, and I hope you have. I hope all of you have moved into Canaan. I hope all of you have taken and staked out some new territory and said, I want this mountain and I will have it, as Caleb said.

But if you've moved forward in your life this week, know that Balak is up in the mountains watching. Know that Satan is up in the mountains watching with horror. Oh no! She's taken this area of her life which has always been one of my dwelling places, this area of weakness where I've always known I can get her here.

She's coming in and staking that place for God. Horrors! You can know if you've advanced in any area this week that Balak, the old devil, is up there in the mountains and he's watching. Oh no! He's going to take over that land?