2. God Is Not A Man
Numbers 23:19

3. The Text And Its Setting
Israel encounters Balak, king of the Moabites (Num. 22:4)
Balak has an idea
He chooses not to fight against Israel
He hires Balaam to curse Israel (Num. 22:5-8)
Balak’s mistake was underestimating God
His plans, vis a vis Balaam, were thwarted again and again
Balaam, finally, did realize Balak’s futility
God cannot be bought off or used (Num. 23:19)

4. It is the timeless lesson of Isaiah 55:8-9
It is not just a lesson for Balak and Balaam
This is a lesson that we need to learn as well

5. Examples Adam and Eve thought they could hide from God (Gen. 3:8)
“You thought that I was altogether like you” (Psa. 50:21b)
The whole premise of idolatry is to make God like man (Acts 17:29)

6. Proof Offered By Forgiveness
Man differs from God
Man wants in on vengeance and judgment (Heb. 10:30)
Man has a problem with forgiving
Man wants to keep sins “dangling before him”
Of others (Matt. 18:21-22)
Of his own (Psa. 51:3)
God “remembers no more” and casts sin “behind His back” (Isa. 38:17)
We make God like us when we say, “God cannot forgive me”
Only God could bring forgiveness (2 Cor. 9:15)