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Sound of Liberty
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Taking
Only What Belongs To Us, And Leaving The Rest Alone
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S I N G A P O R E
Brother Ben teaching barefooted to comply
with their custom at Richard Gan's Fellowship
In Singapore
Message Transcribed and Edited From Audio Tape
#668-B
September 14, 1997
Delivered by Ben Howard
What we do is we feed the sheep. God didn't
say, “Fight goats,” He said, “Feed sheep.”
Meddle not with them. Meddle not with Esau.
Esau is not going to get your land, and one thing is
for sure,
you're not going to get his.
May God bless you as you read,
Ben Howard
Let's start in the Old Testament in the Book of
Deuteronomy. Now we haven't come to bring you a new
message or a new revelation, we just come to put our
shoulder to the wheel with your pastor, Brother Gan.
We are all trying to go the same direction, and if
there is a little place here and there that we might
not be eye to eye on, God will lead us on how to
take care of those things that need taken care of.
We are the Bride, and are to speak the same thing
concerning God's Word. He is able to do exceedingly
abundantly above all that we could ask or even
think. He is a great God, and I am glad to serve
Him in this position of leadership, to bring the
Bride together in this last day.
All right, in the Book of Deuteronomy we will
start in chapter one. I want to take a little
thought and title it, “Taking ONLY What Belongs To
Us, and Leaving The Rest Alone,” - to know what to
take and know what to leave alone. God has given us
some things, and there are some solid promises
behind those things that He has given us. Then there
are some things that are not promised to us
specifically and we are not going to try to take
those things, but we do want to take what God has
given to us. Now He has given us a New Testament
Ministry, a New Testament Church, a New Testament
Gospel, and He gives (us) the Bride a message; He
gives the Bride a five-fold ministry, with Apostolic
leadership to lead her to perfection. Before
reading, let's just bow our heads in prayer.
Heavenly Father, we just thank you for your goodness
and mercy upon us. We thank you for this
opportunity to bear witness of your Word once again,
and God, we just thank you for giving us a safe
journey over, and blessing us, and giving us rest,
and for helping us to be able to stand here. Now,
God, we pray as you anoint us to minister your Word
that you will also anoint the people to receive.
Give each one ears to hear, Father, and we will be
careful to praise you, in Jesus' wonderful name.
Amen.
Again, I want to thank your Pastor, Brother
Richard Gan and the Saints of Singapore for asking
me to visit and speak with you here in this great
country of Singapore.
Now in Deuteronomy 1:21, what Moses is referring
to is where God sent the children of Israel up to
possess the land, but they didn't possess it the
first time they tried. So he is telling them what
happened there and why, and we will pick the story
up in verse 21. Deuteronomy 1:21-25--“Behold, the
Lord thy God hath set the land before thee: go up
and possess it, as the Lord God of thy fathers hath
said unto thee; fear not, neither be discouraged.
(He's telling them of a promise that God gave them
originally.) And ye came near unto me every one of
you, and said, We will send men before us, and they
shall search us out the land, and bring us word
again by what way we must go up, and into what
cities we shall come. And the saying pleased me
well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe:
(Moses is telling them what he said, and they agreed
with it, but this is forty years later and they're
about to go take it again.) And they turned and
went up into the mountain, and came unto the valley
of Eshcol, and searched it out. And they took of
the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it
down unto us, and brought us word again, and said,
It is a good land which the Lord our God doth give
us.” I want you to notice, there's no disagreement
on that. “It is a good land that the Lord our God
giveth us.” And I think there's no disagreement with
that among any of us. God has given us some good
promises, hasn't He? He promised to wash us by the
water of the Word. He promised to build us up into
the perfect stature of the man Christ Jesus. He
promised to do exceedingly abundantly above anything
we could ask or even think according to His riches
in glory. He gives us so many good promises. So,
Moses is telling there what the children of Israel
said. They admitted that it was a good land, and
when the 12 spies went up, they brought back fruit.
Then there was a hindrance, and the children of
Israel didn't go up. We will read about that, and
we'll see how God dwelt with them.
Verse 26-40—“Notwithstanding ye would not go up,
but rebelled against the commandment of the Lord
your God: And ye murmured in your tents, and said,
Because the Lord hated us, he that brought us forth
out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the
hand of the Amorites, to destroy us. Whither shall
we go up? Our brethren have discouraged our heart,
saying, The people is greater and taller than we;
the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and
moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims
there. Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be
afraid of them. The Lord your God which goeth
before you, he shall fight for you, according to all
that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes; And
in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the
Lord thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son,
in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this
place. Yet in this thing ye did not believe the
Lord your God, Who went in the way before you, to
search you out a place to pitch your tents in, in
fire by night, to shew you by what way ye should go,
and in a cloud by day. (God led them by a cloud by
day and a pillar of fire by night. His presence was
ever with them.) And the Lord heard the voice of
your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying,
Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil
generation see that good land, which I sware to give
unto your fathers, Save Caleb the son of Jephunneth;
he shall see it, and to him will I give the land
that he hath trodden upon, and to his children,
because he hath wholly followed the Lord. Also the
Lord was angry with me (Moses) for your sakes,
saying, Thou also shalt not go in thither. But
Joshua the son of Nun, which standeth before thee,
he shall go in thither: encourage him: for he shall
cause Israel to inherit it. Moreover your little
ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your
children, which in that day had no knowledge between
good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto
them will I give it, and they shall possess it. But
as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the
wilderness by the way of the Red sea.”
Now I want you to notice here, when they failed
to go up he said, “Turn ye, and take your journey
into the wilderness.” And they wandered for forty
years in the wilderness, until that generation
passed away, but there is a generation that is to
possess the land.
Now the same thing has happened in the church
ages. They've gone through the wilderness for seven
church ages, but here in the last days the promise
of God, the promise that was made to the fathers, is
confirmed and made real to the children. The
children of Israel said, “We brought our children
out here and they will die in the wilderness.” But
God said, “The children you said would fall in the
wilderness and be a prey, will go in and possess the
land.” See, after the wilderness journey they
possessed the land, and God has a land for us to
possess. Now let's do it again and right this time,
as the wife of Christ.
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