1. Welcome to Pine Grove Church of Christ

2. Listening to Balaam’s Responses
Pine Grove Church of Christ – 06/27/10

3. Listening to Balaam’s Responses
Matthew 23:1-3 – “Therefore whatever they tell you to observe, that observe and do, but do not do according to their works; for they say, and do not do”

4. Listening to Balaam’s Responses
Applications

5. Balaam’s Responses Numbers 22:1-18 –
(18)“Though Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go beyond the word of the Lord my God, to do less or more”

6. Balaam’s Responses Numbers 22:35-38 –
(38) “The word that God puts in my mouth, that I must speak”
Numbers 23:8 – “How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? And how shall I denounce whom the Lord has not denounced?”

7. Balaam’s Responses
Numbers 23:11-12 – “Must I not take heed to speak what the Lord has put in my mouth?”
Numbers 23:20 – “Behold, I have received a command to bless; He has blessed, and I cannot reverse it”

8. Balaam’s Responses
Numbers 23:25-26 – “Did I not tell you, saying ‘All that the Lord speaks, that I must do?”
Numbers 24:10-13 –
(13) “If Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go beyond the word of the Lord, to do good or bad of my own will”
(13) “What the Lord says, that I must speak”

9. Listening to Balaam’s Responses
Applications

10. Applications When we speak, it must be as the oracles of God.
I Peter 4:11 – “If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God”
Revelations 22:18-19 –
(18) “If anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book”
(19) “If anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the Book of Life”

11. Applications We must put our trust in what God has given us.
II Timothy 3:16-17 – “All scripture is given… that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work”
II Peter 1:3 – “His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness”
Hebrews 2:1 – “we must give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard, lest we drift away”

12. Applications Whatever we speak & do, it must be of faith.
Hebrews 11:6 – “without faith it is impossible to please Him (God)”
Romans 14:23 – “whatever is not from faith is sin”
Romans 10:17 – “So then faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God”

13. Applications We must not go beyond what is written.
I Corinthians 4:6 – “that you may learn in us not to think beyond what is written”
II John 9 – “Whoever transgresses and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God”
Going beyond is turning to a different gospel
Galatians 1:6-9 – “if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed”

14. Applications If it is not from God, it must be from Men.
Matthew 21:25 – “Where was it from? From heaven or from men?”
Matthew 15:8-9 – “in vain they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.”

15. Conclusion
Numbers 24:13 – “If Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go beyond the word of the Lord, to do good or bad of my own will. What the Lord says, that I must speak”
Proverbs 23:23 – “Buy the truth, and do not sell it, also wisdom and instruction and understanding”

16. Welcome to Pine Grove Church of Christ