But the men who had gone up with him replied, “We cannot go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are!”But the men who went up with him said, “We aren’t able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.”But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.But the men that went up with him said, We are not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.
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… All right. Verse 30. Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, let us go up at once and take possession for we are well able to overcome it. But the men who had gone up with him said, we are not able to go up against the people. They are stronger than we. They gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land, which they had spied out saying the land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants. And all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature. There we saw the giants, the descendants of Anak, who came from the giants. And we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight. Let's take that for a moment. We're going to read a little bit more out of chapter 14. Thank you. it's interesting what the 10 spies, I'm gonna use that figuratively, as the voices of caution that will keep you from your destiny. …
… who return from the assignment share a majority report that speaks of the land flowing with milk and honey, but they focus on the problems and the threats. Now, let me stop here parenthetically. They say that it's flowing with milk and honey. That in order for you to get some milk, you got to do some work. In order to get some honey, you will be stung. But yet, they are focused on the problems and not the possibility. They state, even though God has called us to etch out a space, we look like grasshoppers. We saw from a distance the people who were living there. We don't look like we have enough power. I don't think we can live next to them. But then there is another person, only one, a minority report. Caleb offers a different stance. He says we can find a home and live in this new space. But I must offer this, Reverend Rice. There is a complication that must be acknowledged that is not resolved. …
… awesome when we go there. And then the spies open their mouths and they say, we can't go up against the people because they are stronger than we are. So that's a kind of a bummer of a report. You know, 10 of the 12 spies come back and they say, we just can't do it. These people are really strong. And then a numbers records, they started a rumor about the land that they had explored. telling the Israelites, the land that we crossed over to explore is a land that devours its residents. All the people we saw in it are huge men. We saw there were, there are the Nephilim, the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim. So Nephilim were giants. This was a sort of a mythical race of people who were giants. We saw the giants in the land. And then comes this line, we saw ourselves as grasshoppers. And that's how we appeared to them as well. The land devours its people, its inhabitants? …