Walking by Faith Not by Sight | John Cook

So when these scouts began to step into the land and they took their journey, they didn't know where they were going. They didn't know what they'd encounter, but they went in with God's past faithfulness behind them and his trustworthy promises in front of them. That was enough to lead them in. So the first thing to notice about what it means to walk by faith is that when you choose to walk by faith, you're not walking blindly. God doesn't operate that way. [01:03:14] (26 seconds)  #WalkByFaith

Now unlike the chargers, God does not ask us to trust him blindly. He invites us to believe him based on two reliable things that he's already given to us, his past faithfulness and his promises. His past faithfulness and his promises. And I want you to recognize in our account here today, the nation of Israel, including each of those 12 scouts, had both of these things in their favor. Let's look first at his past faithfulness. Every person standing on the border of the promised land had a personally experienced God's faithfulness. [00:58:51] (35 seconds)  #TrustGodsTrackRecord

Faith allows us to see what God is doing in our lives. Faith is what gives us a bigger perspective of everything that's happening around us. And in that sense, faith literally changes what we see. [01:06:29] (15 seconds)  #FaithChangesPerspective

This was his testimony to the nation of Israel as he was getting ready to leave the scene. You know what? If you're listening to the sound of my voice this morning, if you're on the radio, if you're watching online and you're a follower of Jesus Christ, these will be some of the last words you too will utter before you leave this earth. You will look back on your life, and I promise you will say, God has been faithful to me. Not one promise that he made has he failed to fulfill. He always keeps his promises because that's who he is. [01:02:44] (30 seconds)  #FaithfulThroughLife

So, you know, all these promises he'd given to the Israelites were trustworthy because God himself is trustworthy. You know, every promise is really only as good as the promisor. So, for example, if I were to write a check for $1,000,000 and give it to one of you this morning, don't worry. I'm not gonna do that. But if I were to do that and if I if you were the lucky person that I gave that check to, I would not recommend that you scurry out of here and head to a bank and try to cash it today. That's not gonna get you very far. That won't change your bank balance that much. But, you know, when God makes a promise, you can take it to the bank because he keeps every promise that he makes. [01:01:28] (39 seconds)  #PromisesYouCanBankOn

Well, far less known and understood is that God has also given us spiritual senses that correspond to each of these five physical senses. And it's through these spiritual senses that we actually develop an awareness of God, and we encounter the spiritual world around us. We we discover the things he's doing in our life through our spiritual senses. And, again, there's these are referenced all over scripture. I just wanna point out one of them today. King David highlighted two of these for us in Psalm 34 verse eight. I put this in your notes. Let's read it together. [01:04:20] (32 seconds)  #SpiritualSenses

Over the past fifteen months, think of what they had witnessed. They saw his awesome power through the 10 I'm sorry. The the 12 plagues or the 10 plagues that forced pharaoh to set them free. They then watched God open a path through the Red Sea, and they crossed over on dry ground while the walls caved in and devoured the Egyptian army. God revealed his presence to them in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night every day for fifteen months. And finally, he provided fresh water to them from a rock, and he provided special food from heaven every day. [00:59:25] (34 seconds)  #GodsMiracles