Are You Measuring Giants Or Weighing Grapes? Sunday, February 22, 2015 Wayne Hartsgrove

13 Then He said to Abram: “Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years. 14 And also the nation whom they serve I will judge; afterward they shall come out with great possessions. Genesis 15:13-14 (NKJV)

13 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 33 There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.” Numbers 13:1, 33 (NKJV)

17 and I have said I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey.”’ Exodus 3:17 (NKJV)

10 “So it shall be, when the Lord your God brings you into the land of which He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give you large and beautiful cities which you did not build, Deuteronomy 6:10 (NKJV)

11 houses full of all good things, which you did not fill, hewn-out wells which you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant—when you have eaten and are full— Deuteronomy 6:11 (NKJV)

12 then beware, lest you forget the Lord who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. 13 You shall fear the Lord your God and serve Him, and shall take oaths in His name. Deuteronomy 6:12-13 (NKJV)

Questions & Answers

Nevertheless in modern language means but.

These 10 spies were measuring giants rather than weighing grapes.

Grapes speak of the promises, provisions and blessings of God.

Giants speak of the adversaries to the promises of God.

Giants are employed by the devil to steal the promises of God from our lives.

Once you have tasted the grapes, giants don’t matter anymore; giants are just something you and I have to deal with to get to the grapes, the blessings of God.

Don’t let the giants stop you from eating the grapes, especially when they are growing on your own property.

You are not trespassing, the giants are!

The devil won’t give up without a fight.

The grapes are our reward for standing on the Word of God.

STOP MEASURING GIANTS AND START WEIGHING THE GRAPES

Start Weighing the Grapes!