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Good morning! Welcome again to morning devotions as we just walk through the
Scriptures together this year.
I'm going to do something different today.
Instead of talking about any of the passages today, and they are phenomenal passages to read,
I want us to return to something from yesterday because
I just haven't gotten it out of my insides yet.
The thought is this: when good ideas go bad.
In the book of Deuteronomy chapter 1,
Moses is telling the story, and he adds a detail that's
not listed in any place else in Scripture,
"Then all of you came to me and said, 'Let us send men
ahead to spy on to land for us
and bring back a report (now notice what they were to bring back a report about)
about the route we are to take and the towns we will come to.'
The idea seemed good to me so I selected twelve of you, one men from each of the tribes."
Now, it's fascinating to me that what started out as a good idea, what started
out in faith, with no rebellion, went bad so quickly.
Now, when Mary made her statement of faith when the angel said that
"You'll be with child,"
she simply said, "What route should I take?" She said,
"How shall this be?"
These men were not manifesting unbelief, they were simply doing like Mary.
How shall this be? What route shall we take?
Now, brothers and sisters when God tells us to do something
it is not unbelief to try to figure out how to do it.
It is not unbelief to use your brain that God gave you and try
to choose a route to take, try to make a plan that's not unbelief.
Unbelief is saying, "I'm not going to do it." Unbelief is saying, "I can't do it."
Faith is saying, "How do I do it?"
"How shall this be?"
Now, here's the thought brothers and sisters,
when God speaks to you to do something it is faith
to sit down and try to figure out how to do it. 0:02:03.790,0:02:06.160 But good ideas go bad
when you forget, I'm only supposed to figure out how to do it.
I'm not supposed to question whether or not I should do it.
Good ideas go bad when people forget the purpose of the idea.
These twelve spies, ten of them, forgot their purpose.
And when they came back rather than report on a route,
they give their opinions
on whether it was an acheivable goal or not.
Brothers and sisters, good ideas go bad
when they deviate from the intended purpose
Faith turns to unbelief, when rather than asking the questions how
we start deciding whether it can be done.